Anonymous
12/13/2023 18:02
Subject: Re:What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:When we start Netflix my husband has to mimic the “Da-Dum” every single time.
I know this is probably super annoying but it made me laugh out loud.
Anonymous
12/13/2023 18:02
Subject: Re:What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:There's a whole slew of words that got picked up by dumb people or people trying to sound smarter than they are that are now infiltrating regular use.
"Gift" as a verb. It sounds SO stupid coming from a native speaker. Like how do you speak English as a first language and not know that verbs and nouns are different. Do you gift a gift? OMG my DH gifted me a gift of a gift card! Adult is headed that way too. "Yay for successfully adulting." This one at least is still a little tongue-in-cheek, but people will talk about gifting someone something with a perfectly straight face; I don't think they're trying to be silly. I think they honestly don't know how wrong and dumb it is.
And "comfortability." Especially since the pandemic. "We need to assess everyone's comfortability with indoor events." Do you mean... comfort?
Makes me think less of anyone who does it.
There's a mommy blogger in another thread who used the verb "momming" and she claims to be really smart.
Anonymous
12/13/2023 18:01
Subject: What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:My coworker who keeps responding to emails that have nothing to do with her.
Along this line, people who don't understand the difference between Reply and Reply All. I have enough emails I'm trying to get through before the end of the year. Stop clogging my inbox because you think everyone needs to receive your "Thanks" email.
Anonymous
12/13/2023 18:00
Subject: What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:here we pay 5 cents for crappy plastic bags from the store that rip on the way to the car. In Cali you pay 15 cents for a bag is extremely durable and last for a minimum of 120 uses. I brought them home with me from a trip a year ago and they are still going strong. Why can't we have nice things here?
Get some envirosax and you'll have your own bags everywhere you go!
Anonymous
12/13/2023 18:00
Subject: What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
The term pet peeve
Anonymous
12/13/2023 17:59
Subject: Re:What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:baby talk
littles
specials
puppy doggy
kitty cat
go potty at adults
all in my feels
inspo
deco
Taylor the witch Swift
Jason nasty hands Momoa
Can I add hubby and prego/preggers?
Anonymous
12/13/2023 17:57
Subject: What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:That I can't customize my desktop at work. I cannot delete excess icons I never use.
Having them there doesn't affect functionality.
Have you tried putting them all into one folder? That's what I did.
Anonymous
12/13/2023 17:56
Subject: What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:My spouse comes into rooms I'm sitting in and turns off the light, then leaves. He thinks the room is bright enough, but isn't actually using the room. Makes me crazy.
I would probably just walk around the house turning all the lights ON if my husband did this.
Anonymous
12/13/2023 17:55
Subject: What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
I'll start. Stanley water cups. I don't get paying $40 for a straw cup that you have to lug by the handle.
+1,000,000
My kid asked for one for Christmas and I said absolutely not. They are the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. I can't stand them, and I totally judge anyone who has one (I know this makes me a bad person but I can't stop).
Anonymous
12/13/2023 17:49
Subject: Re:What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There's a whole slew of words that got picked up by dumb people or people trying to sound smarter than they are that are now infiltrating regular use.
"Gift" as a verb. It sounds SO stupid coming from a native speaker. Like how do you speak English as a first language and not know that verbs and nouns are different. Do you gift a gift? OMG my DH gifted me a gift of a gift card! Adult is headed that way too. "Yay for successfully adulting." This one at least is still a little tongue-in-cheek, but people will talk about gifting someone something with a perfectly straight face; I don't think they're trying to be silly. I think they honestly don't know how wrong and dumb it is.
And "comfortability." Especially since the pandemic. "We need to assess everyone's comfortability with indoor events." Do you mean... comfort?
Makes me think less of anyone who does it.
These are my peeves, also. I would add "the dog likes to be pet.". And "she text me." I hate these with an irrational passion.
What is proper? Petted? That sounds worse somehow in my mind
The dog likes to get pet ?
The dog likes being pet - that must be it right
Anonymous
12/13/2023 17:49
Subject: Re:What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There's a whole slew of words that got picked up by dumb people or people trying to sound smarter than they are that are now infiltrating regular use.
"Gift" as a verb. It sounds SO stupid coming from a native speaker. Like how do you speak English as a first language and not know that verbs and nouns are different. Do you gift a gift? OMG my DH gifted me a gift of a gift card! Adult is headed that way too. "Yay for successfully adulting." This one at least is still a little tongue-in-cheek, but people will talk about gifting someone something with a perfectly straight face; I don't think they're trying to be silly. I think they honestly don't know how wrong and dumb it is.
And "comfortability." Especially since the pandemic. "We need to assess everyone's comfortability with indoor events." Do you mean... comfort?
Makes me think less of anyone who does it.
These are my peeves, also. I would add "the dog likes to be pet.". And "she text me." I hate these with an irrational passion.
What is proper? Petted? That sounds worse somehow in my mind
The dog likes to get pet ?
Anonymous
12/13/2023 17:47
Subject: Re:What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:There's a whole slew of words that got picked up by dumb people or people trying to sound smarter than they are that are now infiltrating regular use.
"Gift" as a verb. It sounds SO stupid coming from a native speaker. Like how do you speak English as a first language and not know that verbs and nouns are different. Do you gift a gift? OMG my DH gifted me a gift of a gift card! Adult is headed that way too. "Yay for successfully adulting." This one at least is still a little tongue-in-cheek, but people will talk about gifting someone something with a perfectly straight face; I don't think they're trying to be silly. I think they honestly don't know how wrong and dumb it is.
And "comfortability." Especially since the pandemic. "We need to assess everyone's comfortability with indoor events." Do you mean... comfort?
Makes me think less of anyone who does it.
These are my peeves, also. I would add "the dog likes to be pet.". And "she text me." I hate these with an irrational passion.
Anonymous
12/13/2023 17:41
Subject: What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
My boss had me do a report, and when I sent it to her, she asked me to change 2 things, so I swapped them. She sent it out. She then requested that I saw them back, fine no prob. Then she sent it out and said the last one had a "typo", like *i* was the one to F it up. Why not just say modification or change? Why try to make the person making the report look bad? Ugh. I generally like her too.
Anonymous
12/13/2023 17:40
Subject: Re:What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There's a whole slew of words that got picked up by dumb people or people trying to sound smarter than they are that are now infiltrating regular use.
"Gift" as a verb. It sounds SO stupid coming from a native speaker. Like how do you speak English as a first language and not know that verbs and nouns are different. Do you gift a gift? OMG my DH gifted me a gift of a gift card! Adult is headed that way too. "Yay for successfully adulting." This one at least is still a little tongue-in-cheek, but people will talk about gifting someone something with a perfectly straight face; I don't think they're trying to be silly. I think they honestly don't know how wrong and dumb it is.
And "comfortability." Especially since the pandemic. "We need to assess everyone's comfortability with indoor events." Do you mean... comfort?
Makes me think less of anyone who does it.
Add "prideful" to this list.
It's slowly replacing "proud" and it drives me crazy
Healthful
I think this can be distinct from healthy. Like a person can be healthy, but a food is healthful as in it gives good health. It can also be healthy, though. I'm kind of torn about this one.
Anonymous
12/13/2023 17:40
Subject: Re:What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?
Anonymous wrote:My pet peeve is how many educated people in my company use the word myself incorrectly. Such as when you're done writing your review send it to John and myself. No it is send it to John and me.
I don't know who started this trend, but it has got to stop.
There are 2 people in my company who constantly mock people who do this (to each other). But they also don't use proper grammar and it cracks me up. One is always emailing from his phone with the worst autocorrects, and you want to make fun of a "myself"? C'mon dude.
That wasnt meant to be my pet peeve of the thread, but I guess it is haha.