I do this, too. Misspelled words are bad, but I especially hate apostrophe abuse.
Unfortunately, this is mine as well. I understand that people make different choices than I do. I understand people value things differently, and maybe don’t want to have as much money set aside as makes me comfortable. But living beyond your means surrounded by luxury items - and then COMPLAINING about your lack of funds drives me up the wall.
“I can’t pay my rent…look at this cute Coach purse I just got on sale for 20% off” will send me into fits.
Related to this, people who don’t realize that luxury items are luxury items. No one NEEDS an iPhone. Or a really nice car. It doesn’t matter that you “deserve” that expensive vacation.
- People who judge a great TV show on the first few episodes. I love Firefly and Battlestar Galactica, and have encountered several people who said, “Well, I didn’t get it in the first 20 minutes,. so I quit.” Shame on you!"
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I like Firefly, but wrt Battlestar Galactica, I stopped watching it not because I didn’t get it but because the dialogue made me want to kill puppies. Seriously. Making up curse words and then using them incessantly to try to make your show simultaneously appear edgy and yet still Sci-Fi Channel safe is annoying. Either the writers are pussies or the network is. Or both. Either stop censoring or stop trying to beat censors.
I can manage miss-spellings but something about grammatical mistakes like the apostrophe when the mistake is harder work than the correct version get to me. It is easier to write pies than pie’s, so why go for the complicated one? In the same vein, there is only one case where a present verb takes an ending, so why is it o much commoner to make the mistake of ‘I goes, they goes’ than ‘he go’? Add to extraneous apostrophes, extraneous quotes in general. “Steak” “Pie” to me suggests something that is neither steak nor likely a pie (probably true but not intended to be!).
On a completely different scale, something that happens regularly on boards is the poster who will diss everything you say according to some peculiar logic of their own quite irrelevant to the point implying that you are a fool before contradicting themself to lecture you in a patronising fashion with what you said in the first place and they insisted was idiot-talk so long ago that they have now convinced everybody that you meant something entirely different. Usually these people are prime examples of all the ‘faults’ they accuse you of.
I have two at the moment, one whose response to saying that there is a lot of orchestral ‘classical’ music that I find just boring is to give a detailed description to ‘prove’ that I don’t know what classical music is, I have never heard it properly - anything except that of all the music I have heard under exactly the same conditions, most pre-20th century big orchestral sends me to sleep.
Another is laying down the law to me and several others that only ‘objective observation’ made by oneself should be taken as the basis for anything - except that this should never be confused with subjective interpretation leading to looking for scientific explanations for ‘non-scientific’ experiences like telepathy and the ‘superstitions’ relying on ‘fictitional beings’ of mystics - who for the most part were trying to describe their experiences in terms that depersonalised them away from ‘angels’ and ‘demons’ with a mind of their own.
I think Clint Eastwood said it best:
“Deserve ain’t got nothin’ to do with it.”
Try quoting him the next time you hear people spout that kid of crap.
- People who have multiple studs and rings in their lips or nose (multiple ones in their ears look odd, but I can resist being too judgemental there). Having one in your tongue is DISGUSTING:eek:
- People that use ect. rather than etc. I can’t explain why that misspelling grates on me so much more than many other ones, but it just does.
I was going to say almost the same thing. Last night I watched a documentary on body modification and I just can’t help judging people on some of the crazy shit they’ll do for what they see as enhancement.
I have a problem with ect. as well. Most misspellings don’t bother me, but a few grate on my nerves. Athiesm, arguement, tounge and ect. are the worst.
Misspelling judgmental didn’t irk me so much.
Also I hate when people complain about smilies.
That’s ok. Just don’t go transforming your head into a penis substitute.
I think I finally know what blue man group was/is really about.
But they’re using both hands to do a task, which hand is dominant doesn’t matter. It shouldn’t affect the lay-out, just do it the ‘right’ way!
Do you mention that you’re asthmatic?
Also do you expect them to move away from you? 'Cos you people already made us have to stand outside, so don’t come outside and then complain we’re smoking near you. Go somewhere else. Of course it’s no justification for having smoke blown in your face, but still.
People who can not seem to answer a simple question, especially if it requires stating a preference. What would yiu like for dinner tonight “Oh I dunno” Does Italian sound good, “Oh, no.” does Thai sound good? “Oh, no.” ad nauseum. They can’t state a preference but shoot down every idea I come up with. then they get offended when I just go to dinner alone. (Muwahahaha!)
People wh are constantly looking for slights. They will create one out of the simplest act, as if everyone around them made every decision all day based upon whether they would like it. No, I don’t think John wore an orange shirt to insult your Irish heritage, he just happens to look good in orange!
Insecure people in general. I judge them way too harshly, I’m afraid, and lose patience almost immediately.
People who use their blackberries/Iphones etc in meetings as a substitute for taking notes using pen and fucking paper.
It looks rude, and I will never be convinced it’s a sufficient alternative.
You know my mother?
What if they are buying/seeing movies with an actress/actor in it because they consider that person to be a good actor/actress, and wish to admire their work?
Amen. I have friends like that, but I think it is more a lack of taste than buying a movie because they haven’t seen it. shrugs
Mmm, I was saying that as a left-handed person I might use a different hand for the same thing than a right-handed person would. If you just mean the layout of the table…I could be misremembering which hands I use for what you’re describing.
Yes, I did mention I was asthmatic. They asked, “Do you mind if I smoke in here?” and I informed them of my ailment. They said they didn’t care (Then why ask if I minded?) and blew smoke in my face. If someone is smoking and I don’t like the smoke, I tend to move away from it. This is fine to me. I prefer to remove myself than to ask the same of someone else. But it sounded like the person wanted to be polite and move away, only to suddenly change their mind. Perhaps I gave an unintended attitude. Either way, I judge them for their rudeness. Admittedly, it is not a surprising thing to be judgmental about.
I did not mean to be confrontational with you when I made note of left-handed people, I was poking fun where perhaps I shouldn’t have.
People who never read a book. Wouldn’t even consider it. Haven’t read a book since high school. And who don’t have ONE single book in their entire house, except maybe a cookbook you gave them for Christmas one year. (Actually, this is not a minor thing at all. Forget I said that).
People who loudly blat they NEVER watch TV. (Because they lead such intellectually stimulating, extremely busy and important lives? Really?)
People who once watched “Lost” and then stopped because they were unable to keep up. (So you can’t just enjoy the ride? You aren’t curious what happens to the characters or how it ends? No? Oh. You’re going to read about it when it’s over. )
People who let their dogs bark all night because it makes them “feel secure”. (Yeah, that 10 lb. watchdog is keeping the burglars away, all right.)
I do that. We obviously live in different areas (snow? what’s that?), but around here the sidewalks are cement while the roads are asphalt. Cement is harder than asphalt, and my knees suck, so I have been encouraged to walk on the road whenever possible, as opposed to the sidewalk.
My own list? People who constantly wax on about how wonderful some quite attainable thing is (“I’ve always wanted to travel/volunteer/get my degree”) but make nothing but excuses or accuse you of being insensitive if you dare to suggest that they do it.
People who put a long list of books in their Facebook profiles so it looks like they like to read, but it turns out that the only books on the list are the books they read in high school English classes. And Harry Potter. Branch out, people.
If you or your body/knees can tell the difference between asphalt and concrete you either weigh WAY too much or are walking WAY to fast.
Seriously.
I’ll admit a one percent chance of being off on this one, but I doubt it.
It wasn’t an idea I came up with on my own, my orthopedist told me to avoid concrete. Since then, I’ve read in several places the recommendation to avoid concrete because it’s too hard for your joints if you walk more than a mild distance.
Guess it’s the 1%.