Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

[The Mad Monk]

People who cite one incident of poor behaviour as an indication of the end of civilised society.

"A driver did xxx the other day. What is the world coming to?"

[popeyewhite]

Killer2005 said:

Selfish fking parents in restaurants. Can't be bothered to look after their child properly, so iPhone on full volume it is.

tts.

While we're on restaurant behaviour:

Women who shriek when they've had a glass or two of vino -

I get you're having fun, we were until you stopped us being able to hear each other.

[Triumph Trollomite]

popeyewhite said:

While we're on restaurant behaviour:

Women who shriek when they've had a glass or two of vino -

I get you're having fun, we were until you stopped us being able to hear each other.

Sigh, it's why I dread picking her up from the girls nights

[DoubleD]

Triumph Trollomite said:

popeyewhite said:

While we're on restaurant behaviour:

Women who shriek when they've had a glass or two of vino -

I get you're having fun, we were until you stopped us being able to hear each other.

Sigh, it's why I dread picking her up from the girls nights

Thats what taxis are for.

[cuprabob]

DoubleD said:

Triumph Trollomite said:

popeyewhite said:

While we're on restaurant behaviour:

Women who shriek when they've had a glass or two of vino -

I get you're having fun, we were until you stopped us being able to hear each other.

Sigh, it's why I dread picking her up from the girls nights

Thats what taxis are for.

Frank, is that you?

[Olas]

Your/you’re/yore
Their/there/they’re
To/too/two


possessives & plurals

Edited by Olas on Sunday 26th January 12:12

[Triumph Trollomite]

DoubleD said:

Triumph Trollomite said:

popeyewhite said:

While we're on restaurant behaviour:

Women who shriek when they've had a glass or two of vino -

I get you're having fun, we were until you stopped us being able to hear each other.

Sigh, it's why I dread picking her up from the girls nights

Thats what taxis are for.

In a small cotswold village, its collect, walk home, repeatedly saying "indoor voice" and hope no one is disturbed.

Everyone is disturbed when the sick starts

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Olas said:

Your/you’re/yore
Their/there/they’re
To/too/two

People who are too stupid to differentiate between the above.

People who are too stupid to tell between possessives from plurals

And, also, people who think that "it's" is possessive due to the apostrophe when it is in fact a contraction of "it is" and the possessive is "its".

English is weird.

Edit: Oh, and whilst we're at it, "loose/lose".

[gareth_r]

^^^^^^

I've noticed a new one recently - being/been.

This example is from an eBay listing, "...due to the jacket been of excellent quality leather.".

[Clockwork Cupcake]

gareth_r said:

^^^^^^

I've noticed a new one recently - being/been.

This example is from an eBay listing, "...due to the jacket been of excellent quality leather.".

I think that the illiterate tend to write phonetically, which is why we get a lot of things like this these days.

[cuprabob]

gareth_r said:

^^^^^^

I've noticed a new one recently - being/been.

This example is from an eBay listing, "...due to the jacket been of excellent quality leather.".

Brought / bought is another that seems to have become common in recent years

[MartG]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Olas said:

Your/you’re/yore
Their/there/they’re
To/too/two

People who are too stupid to differentiate between the above.

People who are too stupid to tell between possessives from plurals

And, also, people who think that "it's" is possessive due to the apostrophe when it is in fact a contraction of "it is" and the possessive is "its".

English is weird.

Edit: Oh, and whilst we're at it, "loose/lose".

No-one ever gets phase/faze right

[Clockwork Cupcake]

I think that with all these words, what happens is people write something phonetically, then autocorrect has a stab at choosing the correct word, and people just accept the recommendation as they don't know the correct spelling or usage.

In some ways it reminds me of maths. I'm of the age where calculators had become commonplace, and the whole idea that you had to know mental arithmetic was being challenged. My maths teacher taught us "first approximation" as a useful skill in a calculator world.
In other words, the ability to work out where you roughly expect the answer to be. So if you were expecting an answer of "50-ish" and it comes out as 43 then that's probably right, but if it comes out as 430 then you probably miskeyed.
Or, in retail terms, knowing that if you pay for something that costs less than £5 with a £10 note, then your change should include a £5 note (or the equivalent in coins).

By the same extension, you don't really need to remember exactly how a word is spelt these days, but you ought to have a good enough idea to be able to detect when autocorrect gives you the wrong word.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Sunday 26th January 13:44

[mikal83]

The amount of adverts that have birth instead of berth. (Caravans motorhomes etc).

[Clockwork Cupcake]

mikal83 said:

The amount of adverts that have birth instead of berth. (Caravans motorhomes etc).

Although it is possible to give birth in a berth.

[ChrisnChris]

Amount/number

[MartG]

Websites which use light coloured text on a dark background, thus leaving an intrusive after-image on your retina

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Motoring-related one today.

Sat at the traffic lights in light rain / drizzle, with the automatic wipers giving a lazy flick every so often because that's all that is needed, and the car in front has their wipers flapping away on maximum speed.

[mko9]

Johnspex said:

Cotty said:

Frank7 said:

Me neither, and when I asked others if they’d heard anyone ever say it, I was greeted with, “Say what, gear 3? You’re kidding surely, who’d say that?
Personally, the only move I ever make with a gear lever, shift, call it what you will, is from P through R and N to D, seems more civilised to me.
All that faff with first to second, then into third, leading to fourth, fifth, maybe sixth is for people who have time to waste or want to show off their dexterity.

Nice fishing attempt but not sure you will receive any bites.

I'll bite but just because it's pseudo yank Frank7. It's 'nor me', not 'me neither'. unless of course you have this burning desire to sound like anEnglishman trying to sound American.

Speaking as an actual yank, it is 3rd gear.

[nonsequitur]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Motoring-related one today.

Sat at the traffic lights in light rain / drizzle, with the automatic wipers giving a lazy flick every so often because that's all that is needed, and the car in front has their wipers flapping away on maximum speed.

Removing pigeon poo? Only max will shift that s**t.