Pet Peeves

Moonspring · Post by **Moonspring** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:59 pm

PolarisDiB wrote:Ahhh, pet peeves... off the top of my head:

1) "Do you work here?"

2) "Can you help me?" "I'm on break." "Oh.... can you help me anyway?"

3) Go in the RIGHT-SIDE door! Right-side! Right! I know it's an arbitrary designation, but foot traffic would be so much easier if people kept to the RIGHT like they're supposed to!

4) "You MUST read this book/watch this movie/listen to this CD."

5) "You think too much"

6) Honking horns.

--PolarisDiB

1. No, I don't. I don't know why, but anytime I am in a craft store, book store, or speciality clothing store people seem to think I work there.

2. If I know the answer, I might be able to, but like I said, I don't work here.

3. I so agree with that. But people open stores in pre-existing buildings and then want to put signs on the doors that are totally backwards from what most people are inclined to do. THis really confusses and annoys me.

4. Tellling me I 'have' to see a movie I've decided not to see for very valid reasons really irks me. I did not 'have' to see titanic. It doesn't matter how lovely the clothing and the sets are. I already know the ending, the ship sank. People died. I don't like the casting. Why do I want to watch actors I don't care for?

5. Yes, but when I do it anyway, I'm told I should have thought about it. When I go with the flow, it is just as disasterous as overthinking things. You can never do anything right for the people who say this.

Related to this is when I was told that I'm too smart. Or I know too many things. It intimidates men. I need to dumb myself down. What a minute, you're telling me this and you call yourself my friend? You ovbiously really don't know me that well. No woman should have to dumb herself down.

6. I drive a stick in a town were most people drive automatics. People start honking as soon as the light changes and I don't move fast enough for them. I have to take half a second to put the car in gear, thank you very much. It doesn't take that long. And honking when I'm about to make a right on red makes me stop and wait for the light to change to green.

In this catagory will go all the people who decide they need to make a right turn when they are in the far left lane. And a left turn from the far right. This happens all the time in Omaha. I don't get it.

Vampire · Post by **Vampire** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:42 pm

The books teachers make us read in school. They complain if a student so much as mispronounces the word â€œlibraryâ€

CodeBlower · Post by **CodeBlower** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:01 pm

Moonspring wrote:Related to this is when I was told that I'm too smart. Or I know too many things. It intimidates men. I need to dumb myself down. What a minute, you're telling me this and you call yourself my friend? You ovbiously really don't know me that well. No woman should have to dumb herself down.

With friends like that, who needs enimas?

Moonspring wrote:.. And honking when I'm about to make a right on red makes me stop and wait for the light to change to green.

Moonspring wrote:In this catagory will go all the people who decide they need to make a right turn when they are in the far left lane. And a left turn from the far right. This happens all the time in Omaha. I don't get it.

.. and people who sit in the left lane of traffic, with their left turn-signal on, when there's a perfectly-good turn-lane provided for them to get their sorry butt in if they really want to wait to turn ...

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:47 pm

Moon, you don't need to dumb yourself down. You simply need to find a smarter class of men. Me? I don't care what a guy looks like, as long as he's got a decent brain in his head and a sense of humor

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:12 pm

CodeBlower wrote:With friends like that, who needs enimas?

..enemas?

..enigmas?

..enemies?

lysdexia is on the loose.....

Post by **laurie** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:15 pm

It's an American pun, Voralfred: enemies/enimas, neither are much fun.

Greabo Girl · Post by **Greabo Girl** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:28 pm

voralfred wrote: lysdexia is on the loose.....

All together now: Ol' McDonald had a farm- I E I E A!

As for my pet peeve (and this is, mostly, aimed at Merkins)

BRITAIN /=/ ENGLAND!

Honestly, don't you all get taught geography?

BRITAIN is Wales, Scotland and England. It is not a country, it's an island.

Also, don't say "Those tea drinking Brits"- If you're gonna stereotype, do it right!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:32 pm

laurie wrote:It's an American pun, Voralfred: enemies/enimas, neither are much fun.

As I understand it, a pun needs two meanings (double-entendre)

I got the "enemy" all right, but what is the second meaning? I could not find "enima". Was "enema" intended here, or what?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:39 pm

Greabo Girl wrote:
BRITAIN /=/ ENGLAND!

...

BRITAIN is Wales, Scotland and England. It is not a country, it's an island.

Also, don't say "Those tea drinking Brits"- If you're gonna stereotype, do it right!

I know that the name of the country is the United Kingdom. But what is the proper name of the inhabitants? Not "the English", obviously, but it should not be "the British" either, because of Northern Ireland. "The United Kingdomish" does not sound too good...

Greabo Girl · Post by **Greabo Girl** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:47 pm

Lol, the UK is a country, yes, but it contains four constituent countries. Therefore you're called English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish, depending on where you're from in the UK.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:49 pm

Laurie.... it's an ENEMA... I'm ashamed

Greabo Girl · Post by **Greabo Girl** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:54 pm

tollbaby wrote:Laurie.... it's an ENEMA... I'm ashamed

Ah *contented sigh* It's been too long since laurie was *WHAP* for a spelling mistake.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:55 pm

always happy to amuse the young

silly girl

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:57 pm

Greabo Girl wrote:Lol, the UK is a country, yes, but it contains four constituent countries. Therefore you're called English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish, depending on where you're from in the UK.

If you are citizen of France, you have french citizenship; you can have german citizenship or japanese citizenship, etc; but you cannot have "english citizenship", nor scottish, etc. these are not sovereign states. Of course you can be "a citizen of the UK", but what if I insist on the turn of phrase "(adjective) citizenship"?

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:59 pm

you can have British citizenship, which technically encompases Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England. Ireland proper is not a part of the UK (GG, did I get that? it's Ireland that's the odd man out, right?)

Greabo Girl · Post by **Greabo Girl** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:04 pm

Either Ireland or Northern Ireland, I think it is. Might be both, actually, as Northern Ireland'd always require a different citizenship, right?

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:05 pm

no, Chris is telling me that the UK is England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. Ireland is separate, so you can have Irish citizenship (for Ireland) or British citizenship for the other four.

Greabo Girl · Post by **Greabo Girl** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:10 pm

Oh yeah... (I was thinking it was Northern Ireland that was independent of the UK instead of Ireland

...

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:27 pm

So people who live in Northern Ireland and thus are UK citizens, have "british citizenship" though they live in a different island than Great Britain? Well, it is true for the Manx (Mannish? I mean, those who live in the Isle of Man) and also the inhabitants of Jersey, Guernesey, Aldernay, etc., but all these islands are very small. The name of the sovereign state, as far as I know, is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" so having "british" as the official name of the citizens is a bit strange.

Post by **laurie** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:32 pm

tollbaby wrote:Laurie.... it's an ENEMA... I'm ashamed

OUCH!!!

Greabo Girl wrote:Ah *contented sigh* It's been too long since laurie was *WHAP* for a spelling mistake.

Thank God it's been even longer since I had to have an enema.

Kilgore Trout · Post by **Kilgore Trout** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:37 pm

Greabo Girl wrote:
BRITAIN /=/ ENGLAND!

Honestly, don't you all get taught geography?

You're right, of course. But has it occurred to you it's largely your fault?

When they hit our shores, Scotsmen seldom call themselves British, preferring to be Scots, Welsh countrymen seldom call themselves British, claiming to be Welsh, but English often call themselves British as well as English. Is it any wonder we poor colonists get confused and use the two interchangeably?

It's not unusual for minorities to prefer the local name, while the majority or plurality lays claim to the whole kit and caboodle. By the same token:

AMERICA /=/ UNITED STATES!

"Honestly, don't you all get taught geography?" We're talking about two whole continents and a central connecting region, and you're worried about being mistaken for an island?

This is largely our fault over here, I'll admit, but we get plenty of help from the rest of the world.

Now, if you really want a lively discussion, try telling people who can rightly call themselves Celts.

Post by **laurie** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:16 am

Kilgore Trout wrote:Now, if you really want a lively discussion, try telling people who can rightly call themselves Celts.

That's easy, KT - everybody but the Scandinavians and the Chinese.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:28 am

laurie wrote:
Kilgore Trout wrote:Now, if you really want a lively discussion, try telling people who can rightly call themselves Celts.

That's easy, KT - everybody but the Scandinavians and the Chinese.

My co-worker, who is Greek, almost threw me through the window (without opening it first!) when I asked him whether he considered himself a Celt.
So you can add "the Greeks" to your list, too!

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:12 am

I'm of Celt descent, and proudly so

Although one quarter of my family tree is from Pictou, which i think was Norman and not Celt.... (I think.... dunno, I haven't learned much French history)

Post by **laurie** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:55 pm

voralfred wrote:My co-worker, who is Greek, almost threw me through the window (without opening it first!) when I asked him whether he considered himself a Celt.
So you can add "the Greeks" to your list, too!

He must be southern Greek, because the northern Greeks, along with most of the Balkan nationalities, definitely have Celtic ancesters. That area of Europe (the Balkan countries) has some of the earliest Celt settlements discovered so far.