Doesn’t mean you have to use the word rescue. Like the thread title says “Pet Peeves Only You Have”
And indeed it is. 
a PET peeve.
But maybe you have a point about adopting a pet from the Pound, is that really a “rescue”? I think you could call it that, but I can see the other side also.
OK, the posts complaining about wooden paddles being used as spoons for ice cream is going to elicit a second peeve of mine.
I can’t stand getting a fork with misaligned tines. Of course, this happens most frequently in restaurants, but I have the same reaction when I eat at somebody’s house. Before I use a fork, I examine it from the front and sides to make sure all the tines (usually four) are properly aligned. If need be, I bend the offending tines with my fingers, check it again, and then keep at it until I’m happy. If a tine is just too bent to fix, I request a replacement fork. I would guess that I have to fix my fork(s) about 50% of the time. I even have a small pair of pliers on my pocket knife and will employ those, if needed.
My wife thinks this is hilarious to watch, but her eyes bulged a bit the first time she saw me do this. I can’t stand drawing a fork out of my mouth and feeling a snaggle-tooth tine against my lips. It gives me shivers up my back.
I freely admit it’s irrational (and has faded over the years), but it’s kind of like wearing a belt with suspenders. The lane is dedicated to turning; I don’t need you to blink, too.
Same here.
I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one–it seems that we are both leaving a trail of properly aligned forks in our wake as we travel through life.
I don’t think my wife has ever paid attention to my realignment efforts.
Lately, I see more people using “y’all” in their Facebook and other internet posts. Like this:
Y’all I just can’t get out of bed this morning!
Y’all need to see my son play guitar!
I know it is a common usage, but I swear I’m seeing it used in a slightly different way I can not explain. I’ll screenshot something if I see it.
Even smaller minority here, I don’t like using “adopt” to refer to buying a dog or cat. I’ve adopted two children and it bugs me. I hold no ill will to anyone who uses the term, but I am “pet peeved” by it. I irrationally hold the view that adopt should be exclusive to children, not animals.
Here are two recent examples of “y’all” I found.
Note: I am also sometimes seeing “y’all” and then they skip the verb. Like, instead of “Y’all are driving me nuts today”, I’m seeing “Y’all driving me nuts today!”
I know, it’s just me. But it bothers me.
Unless I’m mistaken, that’s how the British say it on their newscasts. They also do it in sports (or sport, as I would imagine they call it over there) when referring to a soccer (to them, football) team, as in “Manchester United were…”, that sort of thing.
Here’s a pet peeve ONLY I have: sometimes I get a call from a spoofed number on my cell phone. It’s ALWAYS a telemarketing robocaller. While it would be nice to have god-like omniscience and omnipotence that would give me the ability to vaporize the equipment using only my mind to focus the pure destructive power of my hatred, I do not possess such qualities.
That really grinds my gears, and I’m confident that I am the only person who feels this way.
They had a spare “s” hanging around after they did that so they thought, that word “math” looks lonely over there…
Sounds like an Ebonics version. In which case you are a horrible, close-minded, awful racist for not embracing it whole-heartedly as a valid dialect variant. (Guess what is a pet peeve of mine?)
Thing is, it isn’t ebonics. I know!! And now you mention it, I work with some people who speak like that(with the y’all like I said) and it does not bother me at all.
Maybe, on a subconcious level, what is bothering me is that the facebook posters I’m talking about do not speak this way, have not been culturally influenced enough to speak this way, and are almost using the “ebonics y’all” thing in a very fake/funny way.
:sigh:
I’m basically saying these are white people trying to sound black. I hadn’t thought of it this way until now, but I think there might be something there.
Ah dunno, maybes ah’ll axe y’all.
Not ebonics, that’s just colloquial Southern. I say that all the time in casual speech. I count most FB interactions as casual speech.
Yes, I thought southern to. None of the people I’m talking about are Southern, though.
The whole thing seems like a recent imitation, not genuine.
I was trying to be pretty specific that “Y’all” does not bother me at all. It’s a very Southern, common, and not-annoying thing.
I have two:
The redundancy of $/dollars: “I paid $25 dollars for a brand new Rolls-Royce Camargue.” Either will work. Not both. And there’s no excuse for it in professionally written news articles.
Beginning sentences with “So”-- done often on this very board. I realize it’s a verbal placeholder, like “Umm,” or “Well,” and I mention it for this thread. It doesn’t mean it’s not annoying. But it too will eventually pass.
Just the other day I texted a group with:
So there.
Actually you do. I have been cautioned by a traffic cop for not having my turn signals on while in a left turn only lane. It wasn’t the reason he pulled me over, but he threw it in.
Dennis
The feel of wood on my tongue instantly gags me. Fortunately the little Haagen Dazs individual cups have a plastic spoon. I won’t use a wooden cooking spoon to taste the food either. I love stirring with them but they affect the flavor of the food as well as feel horrible on the lips. Metal or plastic spoons are for tasting.
Dennis
I’m unable to order ice cream without asking for a taste of two or three flavors first.
(shout out to The Bent Spoon, where they let me try Lavender Marscapone and Basil Berry… yum).
Luckily, I’ve only encountered plastic spoons in the past few years. Hmmm, decades, actually.
I don’t remember licking a wooden one since the Eisenhower Administration.
(which is true of prosthetic legs, as well…)