This one, at least, is natural. The longer stuff is being made, the more there is of the old stuff. Google has to try and counter this. But those websites that don’t include a date don’t make it easy.
Now, when it happens on YouTube, I think it’s more because it only matters with some type of videos, and Google isn’t too good at knowing the difference.
And I hope someone coming in to explain (but not justify) one of your peeves isn’t also one of your peeves!
In my mind, those are different words. “woah” is what people like Keanu Reeves say. It’s kinda a dumb sounding incredulousness. “Whoa” is what you say when you want someone to stop. I think it’s an eye dialect thing.
It’s the same word - it comes from pulling your horse short out of surprise.
“Whoa, whoa, hold your horses, there - WHAT did you just say?”
OK this is really dumb and irrational but when I am surfing porn and I see a naked model sitting or laying on a pool table, it pisses me off.
I want to yell “get your ass off the pool table!”
“Thanking you.”
God, I hate that turn of phrase…
People who don’t clean up after themselves.
People who don’t clean up after themselves because they figure that if I cleaned up after them once, that means I’ll always clean up after them.
Thanking you in advance!
Grrr…stab! stab! stab!
People who use “stabby” irritate me. It’s childish and sounds like a coinage from a 1970s sitcom.
Riffing off of the list of misused words above, I, myself, want to hurl when anybody - nope, sorry - EVERYBODY - says that they’re nauseous when they are actually nauseated. It’s not that hard, folks: “nauseous” means "that which tends to produce nausea; “nauseated” is the sensation experienced. Simple cause and effect. Actually, I take it back - those who say it are, indeed, nauseous.
And re grocery stores: It physically hurts when I see the “10 items OR LESS” sign. Again, not hard at all: fewer for countable items; less for uncountable quantities.
I feel my life is wasted when I see that sign (English teacher)(duh).
Whole black peppercorns cost more per ounce before they grind them, than after. Same for a block of Parmesan cheese, that’s more expense if they don’t grate it. I can understand why fruit juice is cheaper per ounce then the fruit, but come on, peppercorns and hard cheese are not that hard to handle and keep fresh.
That’s archaic unfortunately. I used to think the same thing until I actually researched it for myself:
*nau·seous
/ˈnôSHəs,ˈnôzēəs/
adjective
affected with nausea; inclined to vomit.
“a rancid, cloying odor that made him nauseous”*
(The above per Google)
The modern replacement for the archaic meaning is “nauseating.”
Well. Hm. I’m a bit archaic myself. But I will fight “I feel nauseous” to the last ditch.
Sheldon Cooper, is that you? 
For me, it’s the drive home. They’re doing construction on the major highway in Orlando(ish) and they have a merge lane to get onto the highway from the side street.
The sign clearly states MERGE RIGHT. Being the good driver that I am, I get in the right lane and stay there. It is always backed up from people in the left lane who don’t realize until it’s too late that oops…this is a merge lane.
Then, to complicate matters further, in order to get to the exit onto the turnpike once I’m on the highway, I have to almost immediately merge left. Again, I do this as quickly as possible because there are always drivers who stay in the right lane until it comes time to merge. I have been almost sideswiped more than once by idiots who tear down the shoulder, then try to cram in.
In elementary school, we were taught the rule of No Cutting in Line. To me, this is the grown-up equivalent. :mad::mad::mad:
In many cases, I don’t think that they don’t realize what’s happening, but rather, they’re special snowflakes to whom mundane rules don’t apply! They have important things to do and places to go and waiting for an extra 12 seconds just won’t do!!! Surely you didn’t miss the aura of specialness that surrounds them???
Yeah, I agree with you, and I pity you having to drive in the Orlando area.
The word “stabby” makes me stabby.
At first I found it just a bit strange, but now it just gets tiresome. Not to mention that it sounds kind of violent (even though I am fully aware it’s meant in a joking manner and not a violent one.)
…yes, an unpopular opinion, I know.
Drives me crazy too. Despite the “Construction Ahead”, “Lane Ends”, “Merge Right” signs. And the Big Flashing sign with arrows and “Merge Right” these idiots don’t catch on until there is actually cones physically blocking there lane. Now that they are at a stop, traffic has to slow way down to let them in. If they had merged properly, traffic would only slightly slow.
I know that sometimes, it is best, and you are even directed to wait till the last moment to merge, but that’s rare with the situations I encounter.
I hate it when TV chefs/cooks say “soy” for “soy sauce.”
*“Now we’ll add some soy and some ginger.” *
You’re adding soy SAUCE, not soy! Are you too lazy to utter one extra syllable??
Totally with the “commercials on satellite radio” complaint for the first page. Though I suppose I should have the same complaint about cable TV.
And then, there are the idiots in the correct lane who cut over to the other lane, probably impatient with the back up, who then almost immediately slam on the brakes and have to get back into the correct lane. :smack: