No, that’s the correct term. Many cats & dogs are fostered, which is a temp home. Once they are adopted that’s their forever home. We hope.
The phrase “The American people”. Usually uttered by politicians and/or pundits.
It’s cliche and makes who ever uses it sound like a tool or grandstander.
That’s why it’s only my pet peeve. But I’d assume a home is intended to be permanent unless specified as a temporary or foster home, and no one can be sure of the future anyway.
Mine might be shared by other professional cooks:
Distributors like Sysco, when assembling an order for a customer, print out an individual sticker for each and every case of product that is to be included in an order. They then do two consistent things with these stickers that drive me bonkers.
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Place the sticker directly on top of the preprinted words on the box that describe the contents, so you have to rely on what the sticker says rather than what the box says.
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Place the damned sticker upside down relative to the box’s default orientation.
So you put away the freight, particularly the frozen and dry stuff (produce in the refrigerator tends to come in fairly distinct box shapes, often open-topped, that are easy to identify), and a lot of these products are Sysco’s house brand stuff so the boxes are very similar in appearance, color-wise. And now, not only can you not tell at a glance which box contains what, because the stupid stickers are pasted over the name of the product, you have to turn your head over to read the tiny print on the upside-down stickers because, like any sane person, you put the boxes on the shelf right-side-up.
Yeah, I’m with you on this one. I always “forever home” sounded cutesy. Just say the animal is looking for a permanent home, or even better, “a home.” The permanent part is implied.
I also hate the term “fur kids.” Ugh, ugh, ugh.
Also people who call pitbulls “pibbles.”
I’ve only heard ‘fur babies’, but yeah. Pets aren’t children.
They still can be family members, though. At home we call them four-foots and sometimes, just to be mean, when were going out and the Hounds are crowding around the door, will say, “Awright. Anyone who wants to go for a ride, raise their thumb. No? Okay, 'bye.”
I’ve got a few pet peeves that would probably bother only a small number of people, but this one is just me because everyone else who has seen it thinks it’s not really a big deal.
I just got a new gaming PC about a month ago. The case is all lit up with LEDs, which I don’t mind really, except that when the power is turned off, the light on the CPU heatsink (liquid cooler, actually) pulses green. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it to turn off with the computer. I can turn off all of the lights with the lighting utility, but it still comes back on when I shut down. I disabled the lights in the BIOS and even then it still turns itself back on when I shut down the computer. At this point my only workaround is to flip the power switch on the back of the power supply whenever I’m done with the computer for the night.
But it sounds so much less painful when someone says “mauled by a pack of pibbles”.
Thanks. I’m twitching as I’m reading this. I especially love it when I’m trying to check ingredients for an allergy and the sticker is right over them.
Those standby lights are a menace. Worst one I had was a phone charger with a mega-bright, blue LED on it. Guaranteed to screw up your body clock, and most people keep their charger right next to the bed.
Can you cut the LED off or put blu-tack over it?
There’s your problem right there. Your typical gaming rig is the triumph of bling over performance, kind of like adding wingz to your Civic.
Thought of another…
A few of you mentioned the long recap of a show after coming back from a commercial break. That irritates me also. I noticed something similar to that this weekend. There is a bunch of half-hour veterinarian shows on Saturday mornings that I record to watch later. The intros show pretty much everything you’re going to see. Because they’re recorded I FF through the intros, otherwise it spoils the whole program.
Finally thought of one after running into (a variant of) it again recently: I hate when books (mostly genre fiction, but I’ve seen it in more literary books a few times) extensively feature characters planning something interesting, like going to a new place or building a device or pulling off a heist, then some sort of crisis happens to put a different plot in motion and they never actually DO the thing they talked about (or it winds up being glossed over).
It bugs me because the original plan usually strikes me as interesting world-building or character development that I’d like to see, but the replacement often winds up being a sequence of relatively by-the-numbers action sequences or just returning to a bit of status quo. It shows up in movies and TV, too, but it bugs me most in books because I feel like they’ll often devote a lot more time to selling me on how cool something will be before going in a different direction.
China Mieville’s Perdito Street Station was a major example for me. Without any real spoilers, I felt like the first half set up a handful of really interesting things that were mostly either abandoned or very briefly seen in the latter half.
In a similar light- if a plan is discussed and if the Protagonist makes a criticism, you can be SURE that the plan will fail exactly at that point.
And if there is a Prophecy in the early part of the book, you can be SURE it will come true, even in a non-magical world. Once I’d like to see some crazy person spout off some Prophecy and at the end someone say “But the Prophecy that old man declaimed- it was wrong?” And a reply “Yeah, well, thats just crazy old Bob, he’s always wrong>”
People who say words like “noo-cu-lur”, “Feb-yoo-ary” and “joo-lur-ee”.
People who have to clear their throat every five seconds. Continually and loudly. Why do they do that, and why don’t they stay home and stop bothering the public?
And twist themselves into pretzels in justifying their pronunciations as acceptably correct.
Or sometimes, they’re obscuring the preparation instructions. Not usually an issue, but in my variety of foodservice (conventions/banquets/events) it’s not unusual to have a particular item come up that I haven’t prepared in quite some time, and doggonit, I can’t remember the recommended baking temperature/time.