People who use "irregardless" when they could just use "regardless".

;) :D

Don't think for a moment that Bob didn't know exactly what he was doing there.

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What's about 10x worse is when someone calls you, if you answer "hello" they follow up with "who is this?"

Almost universally growing up, folks answered the phone with "hello" unless it's a business where there's more to it, name of the business, name of the person answering, etc.... I was always taught, when you call someone, and they say "hello" you follow up with something very close to "Hi, this is Steve Masraum calling. May I speak to Bob?". I was also taught when they say "hello" you never follow up with "who is this?"

Next sound would be "click"...

Yes....a big pet peeve of mine. What do they think is going on....a contest to talk as fast as possible? :confused:

Yup.

Back in my corporate days our regional manager put out a voice mail about an upcoming hurricane......said "The blunt of the storm..." - instead of "brunt".

Oh man......we were rolling on the floor laughing about that one. :D

Lazy and/or ignorant parents.

Just like stupid driving....you never see anything in the news as a public service announcement about how to properly raise a child. (not as sexy as a police chase down the Interstate or an accident that tied up I-4 or some kind of robbery....) :rolleyes:

^^^ The "Ron-o-matic'?

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What really pisses me off is when someone starts talking over the top of me. A long time friend of mine is married to an alpha b1tch who just cuts me off mid sentence to say something completely irrelevant to what the discussion is.

I had a tenant (who was a school teacher) that used to ask me a question, then cut me off mid sentence firing multi choice answers at me.

When my GF starts doing this, usually in a heated discussion, I say to her "No speak, not a word..., not a word for 60 seconds... You OK with that?" That usually gets the point across.

words and phrases - yes.

Libary
Febuary
Nucular
"Besides the question"
"Begs the question"

Why are you so violently upset over someone else's wipers? Step away from the steroids there pal. :rolleyes:

It's kind of fun to toss that one in front of some of my colleagues that absolutely go nuts when they hear it. No matter what's happening around us - they fully lock in to that one word. Nothing can happen until they explain to everyone how wrong it is.

It's how we separate the "less well spoken" from the "meeting derailer"...

Now, how about that whole affect and effect thing?

I refuse to answer the question. I will usually say "you called me, who are you looking for?"

Pet Peeve:
People who use a speaker phone that sounds like crap but expect me to understand everything they mumble. Double bonus points if they have the TV blaring in the room or kids screaming.

I thought of this thread today as I pulled up to a 4 way stop sign. The guy to my left and I arrived a bit before me, but he didn't stop, he came almost to a stop and then slowly rolled forward. I didn't know if he was going to stop or not. "Make a decision man! Stop or don't stop, I don't care, just do something definite so I'll know how to respond!"

I'm in Los Alamos and am deeply embedded in that world. Based on that bunch of stuff we did in the 1940's, I claim the free use of "nucular". It's always useful and, I think, it brings a bit of whimsy to the whole "weapons of mass destruction" thing.

This rankles me enough that even if the caller is coming through 5x5 I tell them I can't understand them and keep telling them until they give up and pick up.

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Yep -ignorant with children or dogs.
My DIL follows the "Parenting by Screaming All the Time " school of child rearing. Her kids are loud and disobedient, when she screams at them for being loud, she sounds a lot like them. They only respond to increasingly elevated levels of yelling and threats. Discipline is a matter of who can scream and yell the loudest.

She is the same with her dogs. When they bark she starts yelling at them to stop. The dogs just think she's joining in on the general noise making and bark even more.

Whether it's dogs or kids, she never gets it that doing more of what you want them to stop doing just encourages them to keep at it.

That's a subject that needs more whimsy. People are so serious about the prospect of nuclear annihilation.