I get what you’re saying, but one exception would be The Who.
You’re not alone.
One of mine: the frenulum.
You know, that little ridge of skin that goes from the front of your teeth to inside your gum, ending up at the lip? HATE that thing. Can’t stop myself from chewing on it and worrying at it. It just annoys the fuck out of me on a constant basis.
Pretty sure that’s just me.
The phrase, “I could care less” :smack:
and when people confuse looser and loser
To those who design light rail transit cars: Just have the damn doors open automatically, will you? I’ve never yet and seen a train stop at a station without at least one person wanting to get on or off. Of the three LRT systems I have experienced first hand–the Sprinter (North SD County), L.A., AND S.F., only L.A.'s opens the doors by default.
Might there be some selection bias in your sample? You’re riding the rails at times when there will be at least one person for every stop.
No way,* tons* of people have those pet peeves.
I used to rail again and again about shaky cam in movies and TV shows (knowing full well it would pass sooner or later). It’s now been replaced by pan-cam, or pendulum cam, or something. It’s not new, I know, but it seems to be in every show. It’s where the camera makes a slow movement around the actor about halfway (not really a tracking shot, because the subject isn’t moving as in a walk and talk), then back again like a pendulum. The good part is it’s slow, and not frenetic. Worse though are the 360 degree shots.
I hate fads. (That statement is directed toward this particular post, but it also encompasses any and all other posts I could make in this thread.)
My neighbors back into their driveway. No reason for that to bug me, yet it does.
And people who say “try and” instead of “try to.”
This is slightly different but related, and in any event it’s been over for many years. There was a fairly short-lived trend in some nationally prominent print news organizations, sometime in the late 1970s or early 80s of capitalizing ANY job title before someone’s name in a news item. So it would be Bus Driver Joe Briggs in a story about a transit strike or Lead Engineer Bob Fitz in a story about a new aircraft in development. Or Garbage Collector Jason Williams, Stock Clerk Melissa Prince, Marketing Manager Mary D’Annunziato or Singer Whitney Houston.
But hey, I do have another pet peeve for this thread, addressed to the New Yorker: For the love of all that’s holy, nobody, but nobody else writes “venders” and “focussed”. Why can’t you write “vendors” and “focused” like everyone else? See that? My spellchecker is flagging your stupid misspellings.
That was Time magazine, specifically and idiosyncratically. Yes, it was annoying. Other writers called it Time-ese (“capitalized and article-less Homeric epithets”), and apparently Henry Luce started it back in the 1930s.
Hearing ‘How come?’ instead of ‘Why?’.
And pedestrians crossing the street like to be able to see who is wanting to turn. Use your blinkers.
Really? How come?
Of course, you could reply “Just like white man, through pecker”.
I laughed undefensibly hard at this 
My pet peeve…At the computer I mouse with my left hand. I don’t reconfigure the buttons though. Without fail, someone will point out that my buttons aren’t switched for left-hand. I know, I want it that way! If I wanted to fully descend into left-handed savagery I’d also go re-sew all of my shirt buttons.
It bothers me when I read or hear someone say “could care less” instead of “couldn’t care less”. I mean, just think about it.
Also, it bothers, no, positively makes me cringe, when someone clamps down on their fork or spoon with their teeth when eating then slides the metal utensil out of their clenched teeth.
I just can’t handle that metal sliding on teeth sound. It somehow hurts my teeth. Horrible.
Reading and agreeing with so many of these plus the ones I can come up with on my own has me feeling like a really cranky bastard :mad:
For some reason the use of the term “mom” when it’s used almost like a job title really grates on me. Like in a commercial where some lady will say “I’m A MOM . . .” or when the news anchor says “A Bay Area MOM”. Hey, I respect mothers, I loved my own mother, but to me "mom’ is what you call your own mother and not some royal title.
Another thing that unreasonably irritates me is when people refer to Disney World and / or the adjacent parks as just “Disney”, as in “we’re going to Disney this weekend”.
And, way more than a mere pet peeve - if misophonia is really a thing I have it in spades- but I find more and more American accents / dialects are really unpleasant. If I had my druthers, we’d all speak like the newscasters of old.
I’m a compulsive blinkerite. I figure the more info I can give other drivers about my next move, the better off we all are.
Bonus: I drive BMWs! Cue meme: https://goo.gl/images/RF7Vg9
I’m also at a CC and invite my students to call me by first name rather than “Dr.” The vast majority don’t and use professor or doctor.
My pet peeve are colleagues who flip out when a student calls them anything but their full honorific. Yeah, it’s cool if that’s what you want, but don’t call out a student in public. Gak.
I’m certain this is a Big General Peeve, but I’ll throw it in. Last night was commencement and, per usual, it was three hours of speechifying honoring the board of trustees, professors emeriti, community people who run Martin’s Stuff 'n Thangs Dollar Store, and a 1968 alumnus Who Done Good. The commencement speaker was the usual type of guy who runs the local Ford dealership and offers the usual carpe diems and “inspirational” quotes from his Google search. Then we’re told to hold applause while the graduates are hustled through the stage walk for their four whole seconds of recognition.
It always feels like the most important element – and the ONLY reason to be there – to honor our new grads, is an afterthought. Everything else is fucking self-congratulary dreck.
I share that one with you. “Mother” is not a job title, any more than “Dad”.
I am guilty of that myself. We often just say “DL” or “The parks”.
I have been an adjunct at two colleges. Calling a professor by first name is just about absolutely not done at one of them; even adult grad students call their professors with an honorific.
At the other it’s a little more relaxed, depends on the department; in my department instructors often are called by their first names, but it’s not absolute. I invite my students to do whatever they’re comfortable with. Some use Ulf, others don’t.
Leading to a nice little juxtaposition a couple of years ago when two students handed in (Printed-out!) papers before class. One had the following header:
Name of student
Name of course
Date
Dr. Unwashed
The other read
Name of student
Name of course
Date
Ulf
Got a kick out of that one.