You don’t know where the Magikal Land O’ Cheeze is? For shame! XXXI
But those modifications aren’t always illegal and many times they aren’t. There are modification parameters the law allows.
When they put the stupid strike zone box on the screen for TV baseball games.
Arrggg! The ump will tell me if it’s a strike or not.
Oh, and the super large graphic that they put between the runner on first and the base that shows how far away he us.
But aren’t you interested in whether the ump is calling an accurate strike zone?
I mean, to be fair this IS how I use ‘please advise’. It’s sandwiched between ‘what do you think’ and ‘please explain’ which is flat out aggressive, rather than passive aggressive.
I tend to only use it when someone is being wilfully obtuse, though, so there’s that. Ethics rules tend to make lawyers a bit passive aggressive anyway as you can’t really tell other side they are being obtuse on purpose.
My pet peeve is calling me by my last name, thinking it’s my first name, in e-mail. I get that I have a last name that can be used as a first name, but my name is in three different places on my e-mail, sometimes four. Can you not?!? Argh!
One certainly ought to expect privacy for that.
Indeed!
What bugs me about the intrusive waiter phenomenon is when you and your dining companion(s) is/are clearly engrossed deeply in conversation, as shown by leaning forward, making intense eye contact, speaking quietly (possibly accompanied by drawing cryptic figures on napkins) and the waiter stands next to the table until you look up. And if you don’t look up, the waiter still stands there. Or interrupts.
And being touched by a server. I’m a pretty touch-y person myself (with friends who welcome it), but there’s something about a server resting their hand on my shoulder that squicks me out.
I didn’t know tomatoes had a grain. What do you mean?
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Don’t be a jerk. You make it clear here that you know you’re being offensive, and you double-down on it. Don’t.
And Calvary isn’t soldiers on horses.
What took you so long? Funny that in 3 pages nobody else on this thread objected.
Pet peeve: The words “idiot”, “imbecile” and “moron” are also proper terms for people with diminished mental capacities, yet are freequently peppered in threads without the reprisal the infamous “R” word gets.
No, the stuff made from sweetened milk is pronounced “dulce de leche”.
One of mine that I know isn’t unique, but must be pretty rare, is mangling of Latin plurals. A lot of people can’t seem to wrap their brains around the concept that the rules of Latin are consistent. Like, if a word ends in -us in the singular, then for the plural, you replace the -us with -i. So, for instance, “alumnus” turns into “alumni” (oh, and by the way, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Vassar don’t have any alumni; they have alumnae). And “radius” turns into “radii”. That doesn’t mean that Latin has a rule that “plurals end in -ii”; it’s still the same rule as always. The ending of “radii” is still just -i. The other i is part of the root. Words that don’t have an i at the end of the root don’t get a doubled i just because. And none of this applies to words that don’t end in -us to begin with; those use a different rule (thus, for instance, the plural of “penis” is “penes”, not “penii”, which would be the plural of “penius”, whatever that is).
And I get that a lot of people don’t want to learn the grammar rules for a half-dead ancient language, no matter how simple they are. That’s fine. If you don’t want to bother with the Latin rules, then just use the English ones. Someone (of either gender) who’s graduated from a school is an “alumn”, and a group of them are “alumns”. More than one penis are “penises”. We are speaking English, after all. Just, if you don’t know how to use the Latin rules correctly, then don’t use them at all.
This is my pet peeve too. You see it all over Facebook when someone passes and it grates my nerves.
I’ve always hated the phrase “touch base”. I don’t know why, it just irritates me.
I assume they mean being cut vertically vs horizontally. So, if you stand a tomato up so that the stem end is either on top or on the bottom, if you cut vertically vs horizontally, you get a different type of cut. I don’t know what is “right,” but I’ve typically cut vertically from this orientation.
Oh, I got one. “Grammar” spelled as “grammer.” Hasn’t happened in this thread, so far as I know, but it drives me crazy. That said, I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who has this peeve.
Here’s one, people who pronounce the “t” in “often”. Surprisingly, they don’t feel the need to do so with “listen” or “hasten”.
Also, people who pronounce “caramel” as “care-a-mel” rather than “car-mel” drive me nuts - very pretentious! 
I have to admit, I’ve become a lot less picky on language rules since I began reading World Wide Words. Most of our English rules come from 19th century people trying to force Latin rules onto a language that has evolved from many others. I have much more of a “live and let live” attitude now, realizing that the language evolves over time and just accepting it. I do miss the loss of irregular past tense words like “shone”, “ground”, “lit”, and “dove”, but now just accept that “shined”, “grinded”, “lighted”, and “dived” are likely going to win the day.
Oh, I got one that probably is a very limited peeve. Habanero pronounced or spelled as habañero. I keep yelling “there’s no enye in the word!”
I get skeeved at the feeling of soap bubbles creeping up the back of my forearms when I do dishes. I absolutely cannot stand it.
For this reason, I always add dish soap to the washing sink after I’ve filled it with the water, so it won’t make big pillowy mounds of bubbles.
If you chew on a rubber band in my presence, I am secretly wishing I could smash your face.
Wow. I would have bet 10 to 1 that it was an “ñ” in habanero and lost. Ignorance fought!
My peeve is that about 5 years ago some basketball analyst starting referring to the taller center and forward positions as just “bigs”. And now, they ALL do it ALL the time. They’ll say things like, “The Kansas bigs are getting all the loose rebounds today” or “Loyola has no answer for the Michigan bigs”. It’s almost ruined March Madness for me.
That per se is not extremely annoying to me, but it is annoying when they think that you’re the one who’s wrong to pronounce it without an enye.
That doesn’t bother me one way or another, but pronouncing schedule as “shed-ule” is like fingernails on a chalkboard for me. For some reason, it sounds hideous.