Stop putting the goddamned year stickers all over your license plates so I can’t even read the plate. The new one is supposed to go over the old one. And don’t tell me it’s so the police know you paid last year. I am the police and I don’t care that your plate was valid last year, I only need to know that it’s valid now. And don’t tell me it’s to help prevent thieves from stealing the sticker. If your sticker get’s stolen take your registration title to the DMV and just get another one. Now here’s you citation for obstructing your license plate, get the hell out of here.
People saying the name of a restaurant to represent food from that restaurant kinda bugs me. You ate food from Taco Bell. You didn’t eat Taco Bell. You didn’t eat an entire restaurant.
That’s just regular, everyday metonymy. The White House didn’t announce a decision on this or that, either. It was a probably the people working there. And I probably didn’t buy a new set of wheels. Most likely, I actually bought the whole car.
I mean, you’re allowed to be bugged by it. But it’s a perfectly normal way to use language.
MS Word will correct you if you spell it judgement (as I’ve been doing for the past 30-odd years). :mad::mad:
And when did we ditch the double letters before adding an ending to a word? I’m looking at you, travel! You used to be ***travelling ***but somewhere along the line, someone changed it to be traveling, which just looks stupid!
And don’t get me started on the slow death of the compound modifier. It should be “judgement-free” and I may have to take a Sharpie in to the local Planet Fitness.
*Disclaimer: I have on WE TV because I find the Law & Order marathons soothing background noise. *
There’s an ad on WE TV for some “reality” show that involves…hairdressers and bitchiness, I think. And one of the women who’s on the show is being showed to be feisty and declares, “It’s a doggie dog world out there.”
Agreed. The American spelling, taken too literally, in unpronounceable.
I had occasion, once upon a time, to read a book by a guy of the surname Ridgway. I assume it must be pronounced Ridj-way, but it doesn’t look like it.
Stop singing so loud to the radio when others are around! You don’t sound as good as you feel while singing. If I wanted to hear you sing I would have asked you to sing and wouldn’t have turned the radio on.
People changing the tone (and often volume) of their voice when speaking to me. What once was a normal, fairly well-spoken person suddenly turns into a deaf kindergarten teacher whose hearing aides need replacing.
Smokers who leave their bar seats to smoke outside for long periods of time, wasting bar seats that could be used for someone else.
Not being able to make a purchase anywhere anymore without producing a shoppers card or being asked to make a donation.
The one neighbor who, no matter what time of day, has someone coming or going from their house, next to the other neighbor who sits on their front porch smoking all day, watching and knowing whenever you come and go out of your house.
When someone other than my waiter/waitress delivers food to my table.
Putting in 2 hours worth of country music at the bar jukebox.
Just as tasteless IMHO is when schools plant a wrecked car in front of the school on Prom Week. Surely there’s more tasteful ways to get home the message of the ills of drunk driving to teens.
Road construction crews that dig a big hole in the middle of some city street, put up barricades around it, and then…leave it for 4 months with no work whatsoever being done on it or anywhere near it. WTMF is that about? :mad::mad:
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