Yes, yes, yes!!!
Sorry, everyone who disagrees with elbows…Elbows is right and you are wrong.
It is what it is is stupid and meaningless. Of course it is what it is. What else could it be? Anyone who uses this phrase to mean “It can’t be changed so just deal with it” could just as easily use that phrase and it would have more meaning. People who say “It is what it is” just want to sound like they’re making a profound point when they’re really just being lazy and inarticulate.
Irrationally picky? Perhaps. But that phrase makes my eye twitch.
:mad:
Here: check this out xkcd: Kerning
Only bad people list songs as title-author rather than author-title.
I don’t like it when signs lie to me. I’ve been to restaurants where the menu has “homemade pie”; I always want to ask whose home it was made at. And the grocery store I used to go to had a sign on the way out that said “for your convenience, shopping carts will not work beyond the perimeter of the parking lot” (or something like that). Really? My convenience would let me take the cart wherever the hell I wanted. I’m sure the store doesn’t want them to be stolen, and it keeps prices down, but don’t lie to me about it.
Sorry, everyone who disagrees with elbows…Elbows is right and you are wrong.
It is what it is is stupid and meaningless. Of course it is what it is. What else could it be? Anyone who uses this phrase to mean “It can’t be changed so just deal with it” could just as easily use that phrase and it would have more meaning. People who say “It is what it is” just want to sound like they’re making a profound point when they’re really just being lazy and inarticulate.
Irrationally picky? Perhaps. But that phrase makes my eye twitch.
:mad:
When I make an egg sandwich, the yolk has to be still runny but slightly set. If I overcook the yolk till it’s hard (or–god forbid–break the yolk)…well, I’ll still eat it but I’ll wish I could throw it out without feeling guilty. Runny yolks are okay, I guesssss, just as long as the whites are thoroughly cooked. Undercooked whites are inedible.
I’m really picky about clothes fabrics that are prints. I couldn’t even tell you what my taste in prints is, except that I don’t like most of what I see in stores. When it comes to shoes, particularly high heels, I only like shoes that look like they were designed in the 1920s-1940s – round toes and Cuban or louis heels and a certain look to the arch of the foot.
I have to sleep on my left side (and on the left side of the bed). The right side just feels…wrong.
Yes, French often calls for the speaker to not pronounce a bunch of the letters. However, “coup de grâce” really is “coo de grahsse”. “Coo de grah” would be something fat, not really what you’re looking for.
Wow. This is tops on my list. I see it all the time.
“The employee said they were going to tag the equipment.” (For example)
It drives me crazy.
Oh, and I hate the use of “that” where “who” should be used. Some random examples:
She was the only female that was on the team.
I’m the only person that thought of the correct answer.
No. NO! The correct usage is “who.”
Yes! I want only plain chips, especially with dips! My MIL will bring guacamole with Doritoes and Fritos and potato chips but not plain tortilla chips. She’ll buy an array of interesting (expensive!) dips at Whole Foods… and then serve with an array of flavored chips! Try this new spinach dip - with sour cream/onion chips. 
I don’t know how to describe these ,so I’ll put them into sentences.
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“Karen is driving me crazy. I just can’t with her.”
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“People are driving a lot of large cars anymore”
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“The lawn needs mowed” “The dishes need washed”
“That was Phil Collins and Genesis.”
“That was Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones.”
Writers – journalists in particular, of all people – who mix up stanch and staunch.
Alphabetized lists in which initial articles (i.e., “A” or “The”) are not disregarded. This is now nearly universal with movie title listings for theaters and cable channels, all because idiot programmers couldn’t be bothered to do it right.
Drives me nuts.
For some reason I’ve heard this one from a few different radio personalities- using ‘complacent’ when they meant ‘complicit’.
You’re broadcasting your stupidity to millions, dude.
Please to be explaining which way you consider correct.
I am very close to (but fortunately, not within punching distance, at the moment) a mid-westerner who uses both of these constructions.
I have, admittedly, grown rather fond of the latter. But #2 – what the fuck do you call that? I have never been able to explain exactly why it is nails on a chalkboard to me. It doesn’t make any sense!
Required link about the Alot. Seeing “alot” used to bother me, well, a lot, and since reading that it no longer does.
What does bother me is “alright.” I know it is accepted usage now. It will never, ever be accepted by me. (Double rage if it’s in fiction that is supposed to be a pastiche of something written before, oh, 1990.)
That might be a regionalism. I grew up one place and everyone said, “oh” and then I moved and everyone said “zero”. I moved after fourth grade and my fifth grade maths teacher* would bitch at me when ever I said “oh”. One time he made me stand out in the hallway because I deliberately said it several times in an answer just to annoy him.
*Yes I had a separate maths teacher than my regular teacher because I was smart.
Why buy knives? I can make my own better and cheaper.