What is your pet peeve?

[sixtyandaquarter]

People threw crap at me once.
I told 'em to stop.  When they asked what I'd do first, cry home to my mommy or cry to the principal - thinking that all new kids in schools are wimps apparently, I broke his nose.
No one threw things at me ever since.

Pet peeve - people who think just because I'm new around a place, that I'm completely retarded and incapable of anything.  IRC is the exception as Shadow could testify I am completely retarded and incapable of anything there, but every where else at least is annoying!

 

[JimmyEatsWorlds]

Kinda stink but people who say F instead of TH

Just a little thing that annoys me

 

[Ellie]

You wouldn't like me then.

Only time I've failed something at school is at phonetics at like.... age 5. Frough that I learnt I couldn't pronounce my TH's. I didn't half frow a fit. Oh, I'm running out of TH puns now. Er... Drive Fru anybody?

One of my pet peeves is American pronounciations.

Yoghurt... How hard is it to say.

American pronounciation:

Yow - Gurt
(As in Row - Dirt)

English pronounciation:

Yog - Ut
(As in Frog - Butt)

 

[Cruelty]

when i was school we used to hit kids with those paper things when we knew they weren't going to do anything about it



btw wyatt loads of americans are annoyed by european words and pronunciations. we all fucking annoy each other.

 

[united washcloth express]

American cheese. WTF America?! Who chose that type of cheese to be represented by America? I'm sure we could have chosen Cheddar or maybe even Swiss.

RFID/VeriChips. The concept is stupid.

Well, Cheddar is from the Cheddar region of England(generally, unless it's Canadian Cheddar[best damn cheese in the world, especially Imperial cheddar]), and Swiss cheese is from Switzerland.

...And American 'cheese' is more properly referred to as plastic.

And why couldn't we just steal it? The priorities in this country. I swear >.>

 

[JimmyEatsWorlds]

Im sorry wyatt

I get annoyed at people saying MirANda, Instead Of MirINda

 

[Trek22]

One of my pet peeves is American pronounciations.

Yoghurt... How hard is it to say.

American pronounciation:

Yow - Gurt
(As in Row - Dirt)

English pronounciation:

Yog - Ut
(As in Frog - Butt)

I'm confused about what your saying...  http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yogurt

 

[united washcloth express]

The books that we are required to read in class in high school. All of them are pretty much soft core porn novels. Thousand Cranes was the only exception, as it was just porn with fetishes thrown in.

Also, the Ebonics used in these books makes them nearly impossible to read D:

 

[Grathea]

The books that we are required to read in class in high school. All of them are pretty much soft core porn novels. Thousand Cranes was the only exception, as it was just porn with fetishes thrown in.

Also, the Ebonics used in these books makes them nearly impossible to read D:

...Where do you go to school?

 

[united washcloth express]

Southern California :\

 

[Venetia]

Whaat, Zarikashi, I went to school like 10 miles from you and I never had to read that shit?

 

[united washcloth express]

You're lucky then. I still don't see why we have to read these books. What amazes me is that they've all gotten awards, yet none of them make any sense. Thousand Cranes was about a guy living his father's life when he didn't want to in Japan. Since his dad had mistresses, he ended up having sex with all of them. Keep in mind that he's about 19 and the mistresses are about 40. He also ends up having sex with one of the mistress's daughters. The mother of that mistress kills herself with sleeping pills because she's depressed, which causes her daughter to kill herself....

Stupid? Yes.

 

[Venetia]

Have you read The Scarlet Letter yet? Oh god I wanted to stab my eye out with a spork reading that book o_o. I don't remember much of what I read in high school, but I'll always remember that book for sucking so tremendously.

 

[Larynni]

...
What's a pet peeve?

 

[Calibre]

how about try google.

 

[Grathea]

...
What's a pet peeve?

Please be joking.


...You're not, are you.

 

[united washcloth express]

Fortunately, my English teacher at the time refused to read it. Something about her not wanting to go over that book and her not getting paid enough to reread it.

It really sucks that she got fired. Odd thing is that she married one of the seniors of the school. I walked in on them kissing in the classroom once. The senior was 18, so it isn't like I was required to tell the faculty. Odd that they were only the second lesbian couple at our school.

 

[Calibre]

Wyatt, that isn't even the english way of pronouncing yoghurt.  It's like dog-bert.  Not dog-butt.

It's also fucking annoying when people start a sentence but never 

 

[e]

Pet peeve : When people complain a good book sucked because they didn't understand it.

"I'll say, old bean, this Les Misérables is quite the bore."

Learn to see past beyond the first layer, idiots.

 

[Venetia]

My peeve is when people insult my intelligence.

I understood Scarlet Letter just fine. I thought the language was drivel, the pacing was terrible, and the dialogue thick as molasses and twice as slow. I said it sucked because it sucked, not because I didn't understand it. In fact, the moral and meaning behind it was solid, and it had some nice metaphors laid out, it was just presented in a terribly boring manner--which, admittedly, was the style back then, but I still have a hard time discerning why this was a "literary classic".

People are allowed to have opinions on shit. That's what makes them opinions. For example, I don't need to see into the beautiful metaphor of a painting to think that the painting is crap.

I never said I didn't respect Nathaniel Hawthorne, I just said that book stinks, IMHO.

(But I've never read Thousand Cranes, so I can't comment :wink