I refuse to call Peking, China - Beijing.
I learned it as Peking in school. My favorite Chinese restaurant has been named Peking Palace for as long as I can remember. Good enough for them, good enough for me.
And don’t get me started on the whole Bombay/Mumbai crap. I’ve never heard of Mumbai Gin, have you?
Change is bad…Get off my lawn
This one really hits home for me. I’m an electrical tech; all the fucking time people call me to their machines and then complain the entire time "it can’t be that, it can’t be that, I’ve tried everything ". If you tried everything it would be working wouldn’t it? To make matters worse, the same people also assume that just because I’m sitting in front of a laptop I’m not doing anything, as though I can sense what the problem is. They seem to think I’ve decided to ignore their problem and surf the internet for a while. The bulk of the calls I get at work come from the same 10 or so people and they all do this.
Stop calling that American game “Football”
It isn’t football, we over here, play football. You play rugby with extra padding and silly helmets.
So there
Wait, Peking and Beijing are the same city? When did this happen, and why was I not informed?! My already shaky knowledge of Chinese geography is sinking lower by the minute.
Did you know that Constantinople is now called Istanbul?
Just askin’ 
To be fair, I think that in some parts of the world outside of the U.S., the American game is always referred to as “American football”, to avoid confusion with “real” football. I don’t know about the U.K., but I know that that’s the case in Latin America at least.
The problem is that, unlike with football (soccer), there is no succinct alternative term for “American football”. We can’t exactly call it “rugby”, because it’s not. I have no idea how our game wound up with that name, since obviously the foot makes contact with the ball FAR less than in real football, so I agree that it’s a little silly. But frankly, until real football commands equal importance in the collective consciousness as American football over here (which I would be all for, but I’m not holding my breath), to Americans, one of them will alway be “football” and one will always be “soccer”.
That’s nuts. I feel sorry for the staff at the restaurants that your frequent. If they close at 10 pm, that means that you need to leave by 10 pm, having concluded your business. Why would you even think about placing an order at 9:59 pm? Will you have completed your transaction in one minute?
If the restaurant wants me out the door at 10:00, then they need to make sure their signs and ads say “doors close at 10:00 - last seating at 9:00” to avoid confusion.
Why on Earth would you put a sign on the door saying you’re open until 10:00 if people can’t come in through the door after 9:00? Clearly, you’re not open, or you’d be letting customers in!