Pet peeves...................

[k001k47]

1. Tubists

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[MaryAnn]

And, I think my top annoyance, especially considering the season, is that class of voters who congregrate in the extreme ends of their parties, tend have a disproportionate influence, and often leave us stuck with candidates that make one wish the ballot had "none of the above" as a choice.

I suspect this happens only because 100% of the candidates (at least speak as though they) crowd the non-descript "center".

bloke "There are no 'left' and 'right'. There is the 'United States Constitution', and (conversely) there is 'wrong'."

Unfortunately some of those people on the fringes of their parties get to nominate Supreme Court judges, and then the Constitution gets "interpreted" in ways the authors could never have imagined.

MA, who is in the "none of the above" voter category for almost all elections

[TubaRay]

Unfortunately some of those people on the fringes of their parties get to nominate Supreme Court judges, and then the Constitution gets "interpreted" in ways the authors could never have imagined.

Now that's the truth!!!!!

[adam0408]

People who actually believe Bud, Miller, and Coors products resemble beer and actually have body and flavor.

Well sir, it is beer, but beer for a purpose: To get drunk, especially when its free.


Here are some of mine:

Saxophonists (a specific group of them is making my life much less pleasant right now)

Text messaging (call me, darn it all, texting costs money!! HAVE YOU NOT FIGURED THAT OUT YET???)

Cell phones in general

Girls (I love women. Hate girls.)

Gas prices

NOT BEING ABLE TO FALL ASLEEP.

People who can't control their animals and think its cute when they jump all over and make nuisances of themselves.

Sticky valves

Poor quality steak. (its an effing rib eye. Why does it taste like shoe leather?)

People whose egos far outweigh their talent.

and along with that: People who love to tell you what to do when they only have a foggy idea of the right way of doing things.

EGGS THAT MAGICALLY TURN UP BROKEN AT HOME IN THE FRIDGE WHEN I CHECK THEM CAREFULLY AT THE STORE!!!!!

Criers.

Whiners.

Excuse makers.

Marching band kids. (if you knew, you would understand. Only some of them are bad.)

String players (concert masters) that play sheherazade during the tuning note.

Any noodling during the tuning note. This includes anything other than the actual note, because a lot of people don't have good enough ears to hear when the tuning note is out, so why would it be easier for them to hear the fourth or fifth??

Having the same conversation with the same person more than twice.

[Mojo workin']

Applying to six schools, getting in to my top choice on my second audition, and now having to deal with four other auditions that I don't really want to take.

You poor thing.

[Carroll]

Applying to six schools, getting in to my top choice on my second audition, and now having to deal with four other auditions that I don't really want to take.

You poor thing.

Call and cancel.

[windshieldbug]

1. Tubists

[UDELBR]

Possession is shown with an apostrophe, NOT pluralization!

Not always:

(1)a. Mind your p’s and q’s
(1)b. Mind your ps and qs

(2)a. T.V.’s, Ph.D.’s, etc.’s vs.
(2)b. T.V.s, Ph.D.s, etc.s

(3)a. The paper contains 70 the’s.
(3)b. The paper contains 70 thes.

The first of these examples is obviously preferable, and recommended by various style guides as well. Other examples:

Royal College of GP’s
1000’s of roll ends
We pay cash for your TV’s VCR’s Home Hifi
Copy your DVD’s
Don’ts / Do’s


Uncle "punctuation Nazi" Beer

[OldsRecording]

My personal linguistic pet peeve: it's. When people use "it's" when they mean "its" (as in: Put your horn back in it's case.)

[windshieldbug]

I have to say I disagree with MANY of your examples. While obtaining an english endorsement on my teaching certificate, this was discussed in one of the grammar usage sections to death. Much of what you've cited are colloquialisms and not accepted as proper usage in "scholarly" writing . I had one professor who was absolutely NUTS over this! A little too nuts, IMVHO... Peeve turned neurosis...

Wouldn't it be funny if he's also forgetting about contractions!?

[chipster55]

And here's another one: People, especially teenagers, who can't, like, speak, ya know, a complete, like, sentence without every other, like, word, being, ya know, like & ya know.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

[WakinAZ]

Here's a couple I've been meaning to post for a while now:

Community band section-mates who make the same mistakes every rehearsal, never practice, then, of course, make the same mistakes in the performance. Rinse, repeat.

Online businesses that do not answer email, or the phone when email is ignored...

[windshieldbug]

Community band section-mates who make the same mistakes every rehearsal, never practice, then, of course, make the same mistakes in the performance.

Perhaps you're just reading the music wrong!
(or playing in another universe... )

[UDELBR]

Community band section-mates who make the same mistakes every rehearsal, never practice, then, of course, make the same mistakes in the performance. Rinse, repeat.

Not all that different in the professional circuit either.

Hooray for tenure.

[windshieldbug]

when you people type in font this tiny, and then i have to copy and paste it into the address bar to see what it says...

Just try a quick "quote" and read it in the resulting reply box

[bububassboner]

1. When people write with a font size that is to small to read.

2. Brass players who assume they are far better than everyone else and treat their class mates like middle school players.

3. Drivers who don't stop for peds.

4. College kids who complain about how much college cost yet spend $200-$1,000 A MONTH on beer.

[TubaRay]

1. When people write with a font size that is to small to read.

Amen to this.

[TubaRay]

Panhandlers who stand on corners begging for handouts, claiming to be homeless, stranded, or jobless. Yet they have enough money to buy a magic marker to scribble their sign out and always seem to have money enough for cigarettes. The way I see it, if they've got money for cigarettes, they've got money enough to live at the same level of existence as I do.

Another "AMEN." I believe there is evidence to support what you are saying.

[tofu]

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