you know how there are some four lane roads, two in each direction, with no center turn lane? Where you make left turns from the left lane? Well, it bugs the shit out of me when I pull up to such an intersection, behind another car, at a red light, and they wait until after the light turns green to put on their left turn signal.
I swear to god it should be legal for me to… er… oh, I don’t know, do something I’d never actually do in real life.
A hyphen would be wrong and would look really weird. But I do agree that the spelling is wrong, and that alone would make me cancel my membership. …Yes, I am literally that much of a grammar Nazi.
Coming a bit late to this thread – I’m clear on the difference between these; but have some sympathy for those who are not. Everybody has a blind spot or two, of some kind; and this particular thing has perverse and confusing traits. The possessive is very frequently indicated by apostrophe plus s; but here, it isn’t, and the apostrophe-s serves another purpose.
This annoys me, especially when it begins a sentence and has a capital n (“Who is this Mr. Noone? What does he want?”). Also, for me, it has to be hyphenated (“no-one”). I’ll admit that this is a personal peeve, not fair or rational. It’s tied up with my having a big problem with Jane Austen. I accept in principle that – for all the very telling reasons which people give – she wrote wonderful stuff; but (not for want of trying) I find her work maddening and unreadable – have never got many pages into any of her novels. I even (fully knowing my foolishness and unfairness here) get annoyed with her – perfectly correct 200 years ago – use of English: for instance, her writing “some body” and “any body”. Makes me want to scream, “It’s ‘somebody’, you stupid Georgian biddy !” “No one” (without hyphen) thus registers with me as “Austen-speak”, and therefore off-pissing.
I fully agree that “doggie-dog world” is utterly wrong.
But speaking for the defense:
We already have legit phrases like “It’s a dog’s life” properly meaning a life of endless toil, second-class (at best) citizenship, unpalatable food, and sleeping outdoors in the rain. So a doggie-dog world is one where most people live dogs’ lives.
Either that or they’re just plain stupid.
Hmmm. You’re probably right. 
A hyphen would be correct. Hyphens connect multiword adjectives like “judgment-free”.
Fat-free ice cream
Thirty-year-old woman
Past-due library book
I won’t get behind cars in the left lane at a couple places in my town because of this.
Know what?
Guess what?
Damn, I hate when people start off a sentence with that. I’m not interested in a damn guessing game. Just tell me ok.
Assuming you mean “little” in the scheme of things, and not actual physical size:
Those dumb-ass fake trolleys you see in tourist areas, which are really just buses that run on diesel or gas, tarted up to look like San Francisco cable cars. It’s a good look on actual cable cars, but not elsewhere.
That and when there *is *a left turn lane they wait until they’re in the left turn lane to signal. My sister does that but you can’t tell her *anything *so I keep my mouth shut.
Damn, I hate when people end off a sentence with “ok”. It’s totally unnecessary and completely ungrammatical. 
You presumably already know this, because I find it hard to believe that someone wouldn’t, but for the benefit of any aliens listening: You’re not actually supposed to guess. You’re supposed to say “What?”, and then they tell you.
It’s just to initiate the conversation and get your attention. You can’t go running into a room and blurt out “I’m getting married!”, “My cat died!” or “My grandma has actually been a man this whole time!” without first having someone’s attention.
Or, well, you could, but that would get a whole lot more annoying than a “guess what?” now and then.
(Too late for edit: )
Just to be clear, though, they are allowed only the initial “guess what”. If they, instead of telling you, then proceed to go “No, really, guess!”, then you’re fully entitled to punch them in the face, because that is indeed the most mothercopulating annoying thing in the world.
I thought the answer was “You’re pregnant?”, no matter who is asking.
My current peeve: The apocalypse.
The word “apocalypse” means “revelation”. It doesn’t mean “the end of the world”. The biblical apocalypse just happens to be a revelation about the end of the world. If you mean the end times, just say “end times”.
And don’t give me semantic drift. It’s not that. It’s just someone getting something wrong because they didn’t speak Greek.
Now that this is cleared up, I trust that everyone in the world will get this right from now on. Thank you.
^ That’s an interesting apocalypse, thanks :).
Related: people who are in such a hurry that they practically run people over to get on the elevator before everyone has gotten off. There are RULES, people!
I’ve seen more commercials for the show. I vote for “just plain stupid” with a side of “vapid” and “shallow”.
I haven’t heard “doggie-dog world,” but in a similar vein, something that annoys me is “for all intensive purposes.” For all intents and purposes, that’s incorrect.
“Zombie end times” just doesn’t come trippingly off the tongue.
Re: an earlier issue someone mentioned about people who stop just beyond a door
I have a confession to make in this regard.
I, too, hate people who step just beyond some sort of choke point (elevator, escalator, hallway, whatever) and stop to chat/check a map/whatever. My dogs do that. One would assume that people are smarter than dogs. At least I’m always told so when I risk making comparisons between people and animals. So anyway, when in packs dogs tend to jostle each other and just shove through when they want to. They don’t mind it unless someone gets their toes stepped on. I’ve gotten into the habit of pushing my way through my little pack when they stop in a doorway, or gently pushing their little asses forward so I can come in (or out). The confession is that this habit is starting to break though when I encounter people doing the same thing in that I will push my way through while tossing an “excuse me” over my shoulder and continuing on without worrying about their reaction.
I know, in human society that’s rude. But darn it, so is blocking everyone else’s path!