# Little things that bug you **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187 "2015-04-21T14:10:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/21 "2015-04-21T19:01:56Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Hey, is it just me, or is your no-judgment policy totally judgemental to lunks? Absolutely. There’s an ad out there, probably on Youtube, of a PF employee giving somebody a tour of the facilities. The guy getting the tour is a _huge_ bodybuilder, carrying a gallon jug full of protein water, all oiled up. He’s being played as big, slow, and kind of dumb… his only line, which he repeats like “I am Groot” is “I pick things up and put them down.” At the end of the commercial, the guy giving him the tour ditches him in an alley by telling him this door here leads to the sauna or something, and basically locks him out of the building. The bodybuilder has done absolutely nothing wrong except be in fantastic shape. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/22 "2015-04-21T19:13:20Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Besides, in my experience, gyms are pretty much judgement-free by default. Unlike in middle school, adults just. don’t. _care_. what the next guy over is doing at the gym. People are too busy minding their own damned business. Which surprised me when I started going to one, although in hindsight I realize that it shouldn’t have. Yeah, no, some gyms they do judge you. - If you’re an attractive women, expect plenty of “help” on the machines. - On the other hand, if you’re a fatso, expect plenty of people also helping, except that they will then proceed to tell you how you’re doing it all wrong. - Just try using some of the free weights when the aforementioned huge lunks are all standing around blocking access to them, going “HURK! HURK! HURK!” with much unnecessary loudness. Watch how eager they are to let you go by. And then they DROP the weights CLANG! cause they’re so MANFUL! But apparently too weak to put any of the weights back because they leave them all over the place. I have learned to join “family friendly” gyms. Not because I like kids or anything, quite the contrary, but they are generally easy-going and more helpful than judge-y. > [@](#): > > I’d say most adults. While I haven’t been to a gym in years, I’ve had strangers on the street insult me because of my weight. I get it when I am biking and they are in the car! Ok yes I am fat but I AM RIDING MY BIKE while you are sitting in your comfortable car. Jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/23 "2015-04-21T19:19:25Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > The protocal… > > realize the protocal is so you can, at a glance, tell if you have all the required ingredients, or use it as a shopping list. But I just highlight the ingredients in red and achieve the same thing. > > I realize it’s a very small thing, but it bugs me. (If I give someone a copy of one of my recipes, upon their request, I often hear back that they like how I have it laid out, very convenient!) ProtoCOL! And I for one prefer the usual way. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/24 "2015-04-21T19:21:55Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Holy crap I have been spelling it the British way all my life and never even noticed. I came in here all fired up ready to argue with you but it turns out you’re right. :eek: They _did_ invent the language. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/25 "2015-04-21T19:23:49Z")
> [@Teach-me-not](#): > > That said, I have warmed to _combo_, no doubt thanks to years of being asked if I would like to make that a combo. I guess in time, I will come to accept _repro_ and _preso_ as well. Well, good for you. I have yet to accept ‘Crimbo’ for Christmas ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/26 "2015-04-21T19:24:03Z")
So, we’re, what, Edison to England’s Tesla? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/27 "2015-04-21T19:26:43Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > They _did_ invent the language. :dubious: Even if it could be argued that the “Brits” and not the people who came before them (Anglo-Saxons? I dunno) invented the language, so? There was a revolution, son! ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/28 "2015-04-21T19:33:34Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Roadside memorials are frankly, gross. Sure, let’s honor and commemorate the place your loved one was brutally and gruesomely killed. And if that wasn’t enough, let’s leave it there, year after year, looking worse and worse, rusting away, making a mess. > > Yeah I’m a curmudgeon. :mad: Those started out back in the 1970s as a way of calling attention to dangerous intersections of curves that needed to be modified. When a space started to rack up a high body count, and really needed a light instead of a two-way stop sign, or needed to be modified for better visibility, people would put up memorials to show how many people had been killed or seriously injured because some bureaucrats wouldn’t spend the money to save lives. As soon as the protest was successful, the memorials came down. Somehow, some people got the idea that everyone, even drunks who drove into a 100-year-old tree, or drag racers who caused head-on collisions deserved memorials. And not for a week, but in perpetuity. I keep thinking if I started manufacturing a weather-proof Teddy bear for roadside memorials, I could make a good buck. > [@Diceman](#): > > The impression I get from their commercials is that they’re a gym for people who aren’t fitness nuts. That’s what the “lunks” are supposed to be. > > I’ve always spelled _judgement_ with the _e_ too. I don’t remember ever seeing “judgment,” frankly. I don’t think that’s as common as the OP thinks. [Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055031/?ref_=nv_sr_1). ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/29 "2015-04-21T19:46:22Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Even if it could be argued that the “Brits” and not the people who came before them (Anglo-Saxons? I dunno) invented the language, so? There was a revolution, son! The Anglo-Saxons were not somehow “replaced” by today’s Brits. The Anglo-Saxons are still around. We’re them. Or, well, part them. Or, well, some of us are. (Or, rather, at least some of you guys are. I’m more Viking. Or at least that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.) ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/30 "2015-04-21T19:58:06Z")
Judgement is catching up with judgment. It’s just happening faster in British English than it is in American English. However, the traditional spelling for both countries is judgment. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/31 "2015-04-21T19:58:46Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > The Anglo-Saxons were not somehow “replaced” by today’s Brits. The Anglo-Saxons are still around. We’re them. Or, well, part them. Or, well, some of us are. (Or, rather, at least some of you guys are. I’m more Viking. Or at least that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.) This is an awesome post. I feel like it’s the Spanish Inquisition from Monty Python. Would you like to come in again? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/32 "2015-04-21T20:04:56Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > [Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055031/?ref_=nv_sr_1). In which William Shatner plays a security guy, and survives. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/33 "2015-04-21T20:20:37Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > This is an awesome post. I feel like it’s the Spanish Inquisition from Monty Python. Would you like to come in again? 😃 My chief weapon is factuality. Factuality, and the confidence to stand by my assertions. My \*two \*weapons are factuality, and the confidence to stand by my assertions. And the ability to fully think through my posts before submitting them. My \*three \*weapons are… …and an almost fanatical devotion to the [del]Pope[/del] Dope. (Yeah, that post didn’t turn out quite as confident as I thought it would when I started it.) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/34 "2015-04-21T20:23:07Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > The protocal for recipes makes me a little stabby, to be honest. Y’know a list of ingredients, in no particular order, with the amounts required, at the top. Like so: > > 1/2 cup butter > 1 cup sugar > 1 tsp oregano > > \ That’s certainly not the protocol I follow for writing down recipes. First I list the equipment that will be required; then the ingredients in the the order they’ll be used (which sometimes involves listing the same item twice, if you’re using different quantities at different stages); then the instructions. Got that from my brilliant aunt Gigi. ---
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/35 "2015-04-21T20:25:38Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Preheat oven to xx degrees, prep 2 cookie sheets It bugs me when the first step is to preheat the oven, then later in the instructions it tell you to chill the mixture in the fridge for awhile. So I turn the oven off at that point, since there is no reason to preheat so long. Electricity isn’t free damn it! ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/36 "2015-04-21T21:46:53Z")
“Cringe-worthy”; it’s cringe-inducing. Worthiness requires deliberation. Cringing is a reflex. To wit, ground pepper isn’t sneeze-worthy. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/37 "2015-04-21T22:29:42Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > The protocal for recipes makes me a little stabby, to be honest. Y’know a list of ingredients, in no particular order, with the amounts required, at the top. Like so: Proper recipes should be laid out with the baking temp and prep for pans (if needed) listed first. The ingredient list should be ordered by what is needed first to last, according to the instructions. The reason why instructions don’t include amounts (unless the same ingredient is used twice in different steps) is because it’s expected that you will measure out everything you will need ahead of time and have it ready to go when you get to the instructions (the French call this _mise-en-place_ and I believe they are also responsible for this order in recipes). It’s a good system if you prep your ingredients as expected, especially if you are making something that requires the addition of a number of ingredients quickly, such as a stir fry. If you are not finding this layout to be the case, I am wondering where your recipes are coming from. I can understand family recipes not following this format, but any cookbook or chef’s recipes from the Internet should be laid out this way. It makes \*me \*stabby when they aren’t! If I need to preheat the oven, I want that and the temp listed first so that can happen while I’m doing the rest. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/38 "2015-04-21T22:49:09Z")
Guy who instead of merging drive to the leg of the “Y” and try to shove their way in ahead of everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/39 "2015-04-21T22:51:46Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > “Cringe-worthy”; it’s cringe-inducing. > > **Worthiness requires deliberation.** Cringing is a reflex. To wit, ground pepper isn’t sneeze-worthy. **Emphasis added.** Highlighted portion is debatable. When someone is worthy of a sharp smack across the face, it’s not subject to deliberation; it’s instantaneously apparent. So “smack-worthy” is a viable formulation. Similarly, when something is worthy of a cringe, it’s cringe-worthy. Such as your highlighted assertion. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/40 "2015-04-21T23:13:37Z")
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