Pet peeve thread?

[Norm K]

Originally Posted by masraum

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

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

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[masraum]

Originally Posted by svandamme

I have a colleague from uk calling me regulary, and i know it's him by voice, but I'll go "Who's caling please" just on principle.
I find it just rude to call me to come ask me for help and not even have the manners to say who you are.

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?"

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by masraum

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

Next sound would be "click"...

[Baz]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

People that leave a message and think it's okay to say their name as fast as they can and their phone number even faster. I just delete it.

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

Enunciation is from the Latin word enuntiationem, meaning “declaration.” Enunciation is more than pronouncing words clearly; it’s expressing them well, too.

People who mumble or speak too quickly have poor enunciation: it's hard to understand them, because their words slur together.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by Norm K

Words that are mispronounced or misused so often, and by so many, that the mispronunciation and misuse become accepted.

Feb-u-ary: no longer considered a mispronunciation of February

Using floundered when the proper word is - or at least used to be - foundered.

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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.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by URY914

Here's one I saw today..............

I work at the largest hospital in Jax. We have a children's hospital also. It's a big, busy confusing place.

Why to some people allow their 2 year old child to walk on their own through the lobby and corridors? They are not in a stroller or holding them or even holding their hand. The 2 year hold is just allowed to walk/stop/sit down where ever they like. Yet the parent or grandparent yells at the kid to "hurry up and come on". I see this being done by the same group of people almost everyday.

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....)

[Norm K]

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

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[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by peteremsley

electric soap dispensers that do nothing when you wave your hands under them, and squirt when you finally just give up - right in the bottom of the basin.

Every


Single


Solitary


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I

Run

Into


I hate them.

[Bill Douglas]

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.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Norm K

Words that are mispronounced or misused so often, and by so many, that the mispronunciation and misuse become accepted.

Feb-u-ary: no longer considered a mispronunciation of February

Using floundered when the proper word is - or at least used to be - foundered.

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words and phrases - yes.

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

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

People that leave their wipers sticking in the air while parked because it might snow.
I want to run around and snap them off.

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

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by masraum

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

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?

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by masraum

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

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.

[wdfifteen]

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!"

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

words and phrases - yes.

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Nucular
...

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.

[Norm K]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

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.

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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[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Baz

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....)

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.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by mjohnson

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.

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

[Por_sha911]

Sometimes, I ask them to remove speakerphone but they just say "OK, is this better?" but are still on speaker - NO, please remove speakerphone. Then they talk a little louder. NO, please remove me from speakerphone.
Elderly will claim they can't hear without it but when push comes to shove, they can hear just fine.

Then there are customers who can barely speak English worth a darn but when I apologize and politely ask them to repeat themselves they get irate and say "What's the matter with you? Don't you understand English. It takes a lot of self-control to not say "absolutely but you ain't speaking it"

I wish my company had an option for "If you speak Spanish, press 3 to be disconnected and please call back when you can speak English."

[RKDinOKC]

Was at a store. A boy was sitting in a lawn chair that was on display just swinging his legs. The Dad, in line in front of me yelled at the kid to get off the chair and come to him. No response. The Dad then yelled, I'm going to count to 10, then started counting getting angrier with each number. Again no response, until the Dad got to 9, then the kid hopped out of the chair and came over. I asked the Dad what would have happened if he said he was going to count to 2? He told me not to tell him how to raise his kids. Told him I was never given any sort of time to respond. When my Dad told me to do something if I didn't respond immediately I got in trouble.