In the words of Mitch Hedberg, “I did not learn my AA-BB-CCs. God god, dammit dammit.”
I hate any bus service that numbers its routes in order starting at 1 without any regard to geography or destination. Here I can easily see if a bus is going to Tumwater, north Olympia, west Olympia, Lacey, or Yelm just be looking at the tens digit, and know it’s going north as an express if it’s a three digit number. In Missoula? It’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 AND the bus schedule doesn’t provide separate maps for each route. In college, I sometimes walked several miles rather than bow to their sense of numbering.
Generally speaking, flour brands from/popular in the South are softer (lower in gluten) in their all-purpose style than all-purpose flours from Northern brands. So there’s a tiny bit of a point.
I’m bugged by the fact that the pinky finger is so much shorter than the rest of the fingers. It just seems like such a little pathetic runt. And that thumb! Boy, how stand-offish can you get that it’s off in it’s own joint like that, ignoring the rest of the fingers?
Why do they call it a “rest” room? How many people do you know who go in there to take a nap? If it were really a rest room, wouldn’t there be pillows and blankets or at least a cozy chair?
Back to the alphabet … it’s always bothered me that there are 26 letters, but there are only 24 hours in the day. How’s a brother supposed to keep shit like that straight? I say we kick out the letter’s C and X (we can work around those easy enough) and get things standardized.
That’s because six is afraid of seven after seven ate nine.
:D:D
“Alright.” Everyone who uses this contraction needs to be flogged immediately. Especially in a commercial or professional setting. It’s not a new way to spell “all right,” it’s idiocy.
I also get irrationally annoyed whenever someone doesn’t just KNOW something. Like, say I’m buying a bag of candy. I’m buying it for a friend of mine. I KNOW I’m buying it for a friend of mine. So when I bring it home and someone asks me “oh, is that for [purpose that is completely unrelated to what I’m actually using it for]?” outwardly I’ll say “oh, no, it’s for [actual purpose],” being all polite and calm about it. In my head, though, I’m going “arrrrgh, NO, you idiot. OBVIOUSLY that’s not what it’s for.” Then a second later I’m thinking “calm down, self, there’s no way they would’ve known that.” :smack:
A’ight.
See, but there, the apostrophe is clearly standing in for the elided “l r.” Not so with “alright.”
True 'nuff. Of course, “alright” isn’t a contraction, it’s a simple misspelling.
I’ve come to the conclusion that people know “all ready / already” and they apply the same “rule” to “all right”. While there’s a certain logic there, it’s still wrong. The problem, of course, is that “all ready” and “already” mean different things (all ready: “everything is prepared”; already: “what, you mean now?”), whereas “alright”, spelled like that, doesn’t mean anything essentially different from “all right”, thus there’s no reason for the alternate spelling/letter arrangement.
Why you little…!
Seriously, that I don’t mind so much, because the apostrophe indicates that people TALK like that. I don’t mind shortenings that indicate that someone is speaking a word rather than merely misspelling it. Like “ain’t” or “fo’c’s’le.” Those are indicative of the difference between the written and the spoken word, and are therefore interesting. “Alright” is merely wrong.
MR: See also: altogether.
The problem is just that there are plenty of other *all + word *constructions where it’s been shortened. *All right *is one of the few (the only?) where it hasn’t.
Some of my peeves have been mentioned already.
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[li]The low pants showing underwear thing. If you dress like that I automatically think you’re an idiot.[/li][li]Characters in MMO’s with names like GHKLD or IPWNYOO. I assume you’re 12 if you named a character like that.[/li][li]This is pecific to two MMOs, City of Heroes and Champions Online: Clones. I really hate clones. (People who despite the fact that the EULA in both games forbids it, they make characters like “Superman” or “Doctor Manhattan”). A lot of times they change the name using symbols or numbers, but it drives me nuts. It wouldn’t bug me as much but if you go to the game forumscfor those MMOs you’ll find these unimaginitive losers crying about how they got generic’d and the rules are bogus. [/li][li]I’ve said it before in the past, but people that spell ridiculous with an “e”. (rediculous). I’ll throw loose/lose and Choose/Chose in that mix. [/li][li]People that blare their car stereos. You know what I mean. I’ve bitched about it before. If you do that I automatically assume you’re an asshole.[/li][li]Office Drama. I don’t do it. I’ve made it clear to my coworkers and subordinates that I don’t tolerate it. I don’t care if you don’t like this person for whatever reason. We have a job to do, just do it. Leave the personal crap out of it. (I had to actually chastise another NCO about that when she didn’t want to help another NCO because she didn’t like her as a person. Geez, I thought we were all adults and I didn’t have to say “SGT A, I don’t freaking care. You need to do this so SGT “You-don’t-like” can accomplish the task before it, and I’m not asking you, I’m TELLING you to do it.”. I guess I could add in that I hate it when people make me be a hard ass.[/li][li]People that use the 15 items or less line with well over 15 items. I mean enough that you can’t even fake the whole “I had that many items” thing.[/li][/ul]
But then I’m kinda grumpy.
Alarm clocks must be set at 2 or 3 minutes away from whole, quarter, or half hour points. 6:02 am is ok. 6:30 is bad. 6:00 is very bad.
You see, this forces the alarm clock to think about the time you’ve given it, instead of letting it casually rely on habit, and lets it know that you really really mean business about getting up at 6:02 am. Otherwise, it may casually forget to ring at 6:00, since that’s such a common time to choose, and you probably weren’t very serious about waking up anyway.
It drives me nuts when the cheese touches the mayonnaise on a sandwich. Telling me that it all mixes together in your mouth/stomach anyway doesn’t help.
It drives me nuts that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
When people greet me by saying “What’s up?” or “How’s everything?” I lock up. IT’S TOO BROAD A QUESTION, I CAN’T ANSWER IT, DAMMIT!
I know! My husband swears it’s nuts, but something about mayo against cheese is just. . .slimy or something. Bleah! Here’s how my sandwiches go: bread (or toast), thin layer of mayo, ham or turkey, cheese, more ham or turkey, another slice of bread (or toast) with a thin layer of mayo. Therefore, mayo on the whole sandwich, none of it touching the cheese!
Reads as though mayonnaise is on the outside of the bread. Surely I am mistaken.
“Not much/not bad, you?”