Pet Peeves
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Quote: DRichI still make Rice-a-Roni for a side dish.
Nothing wrong with a little Rice-a-Roni. It’s just rice with a pre-measured spice blend.
Sure, you can do better and customize making a rice dish yourself, but Rice-a-Roni is fine. You know, maybe your main course requires a lot of attention, so you don’t have a lot of time to spend on the side.
Quote: billryanWe didn't have it as a side dish. It was dinner, and the leftovers were lunch. Believe me, there were a lot of leftovers.
Oh, yes. I meant now. Rice a Roni was definitely sometimes the dinner growing up. Maybe some canned peas or something with it and bread.
1. Low scoring soccer games.
2. Baseball players constantly spitting.
3. Kids imitating baseball players constantly spitting.
Quote: tuttigymI hear that response from virtually everyone under the age of 30. They don't know "you're welcome." Apparently it isn't taught anymore. It goes along with "my bad" another pet peeve of mine, which is said instead of "I am sorry" or "I apologize." All of those "new" phrases are part of the "cancel culture" to eliminate humility and/or true remorse.
I do not hear that at all. I guess that is suppose to be even more "cool" somehow.
tuttigym
"No problem" is pretty close to the french "de rien", "it is nothing".
"My bad" is pretty close to the latin "mea culpa".
Quill pens and handwritten letters have largely fallen out of favor over the last century, too.
The future is now.
Quote: Dieter"No problem" is pretty close to the french "de rien", "it is nothing".
"My bad" is pretty close to the latin "mea culpa".
Quill pens and handwritten letters have largely fallen out of favor over the last century, too.
The future is now.
Quill pens are out because PETA would harass users. So you do not personally write short warm notes on special occasion cards and then sign them? Handwritten or printed notes and letters are not "out" or "old fashioned," they convey special sentiments -- mostly good, but sometimes bad.
Remember these are "Pet Peeves." There are NO right or wrong answers.
tuttigym
2.) Talking politics in sportsbook.
3.) Stranger tells me their bets, wins, losses, and why without me asking.
4.) A biggie. Someone giving me a play by play of what I just saw....on every single play or pitch. Hey, put a liplock on it buddy.
5.) Reacting to a basket as though his team just won the NBA title. It's the middle of the season and the score is 4-2.😝
6.) Always, always, always getting a table adjacent to the biggest nut case in the casino. The one night I thought "wow, a normal night"? The guy losses his bet and pulls out a stuffed animal in his coat. Then proceeds to chew out the little thing for allowing letting him make the bet. 😨
I seriously considered getting this bike horn which produces 120db mounted on my car roof, facing left. It's for those people who lock their car into the far left lane while faster traffic keeps passing on the right. Right when I finally get parallel to their window -- Eeeeeeeep!!!! (it's shriller than a normal car horn)
BTW, where can I buy one of those?
tuttigym
Quote: tuttigymQuill pens are out because PETA would harass users. So you do not personally write short warm notes on special occasion cards and then sign them? Handwritten or printed notes and letters are not "out" or "old fashioned," they convey special sentiments -- mostly good, but sometimes bad.
Remember these are "Pet Peeves." There are NO right or wrong answers.
tuttigym
Quill pens are out because it's easier for the average joe to buy a plastic inkpen for a dime than to pluck a goose and whittle a nib.
Plus, of course, the sexual harassment aspect of pigtails and inkwells.
Cursive script is falling out of popularity since a writing method that was explicitly designed to minimize damage to your feather pen's nib isn't nearly as relevant in these modern days of the 10 cent plastic inkpen.
As for handwritten letters... they may still be used at times of occasion, but not so commonly for routine correspondence. Few of us are writing a letter every week, when several times as many would have been quite common 150 years ago.
edit: tpyo correction
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Huge pet peeve.
Quote: tuttigymPeople wearing baseball caps with the bill in the back.
BTW, where can I buy one of those?
tuttigym
You should have just stopped at people wearing baseball caps. I can excuse it if you are actually playing baseball, otherwise you are a douche.
Quote: tuttigymQuill pens are out because PETA would harass users. So you do not personally write short warm notes on special occasion cards and then sign them? Handwritten or printed notes and letters are not "out" or "old fashioned," they convey special sentiments -- mostly good, but sometimes bad.
Remember these are "Pet Peeves." There are NO right or wrong answers.
tuttigym
Not if anyone wants any hope of knowing what it says, I don't. I've only met one person who can reliably read my handwriting.
Usually, if I must write something on paper for someone else, I just print it in all caps. It's your only chance of deciphering my scrawl.
Except, it's not scrawl because I'm not hurrying. I'm doing it slowly, but it's still illegible. My hand refuses to listen to what my brain wants it to do.
It is grammatically incorrect. You are not more than one person.
Quote: Mission146Not if anyone wants any hope of knowing what it says, I don't. I've only met one person who can reliably read my handwriting.
Usually, if I must write something on paper for someone else, I just print it in all caps. It's your only chance of deciphering my scrawl.
Except, it's not scrawl because I'm not hurrying. I'm doing it slowly, but it's still illegible. My hand refuses to listen to what my brain wants it to do.
My father who has a masters degree in education never learned how to write in cursive. He prints everything.
Quote: DRichMy father who has a masters degree in education never learned how to write in cursive. He prints everything.
Only think I write in cursive is my signature.
ie: angie varona and Bella Thorne
Quote: Mission146They/them. I'm not going to say in what context.
It is grammatically incorrect. You are not more than one person.
"They" has been used to refer to a person of unspecified gender for a long time, long before it was ever used as a self-identifier. Seems grammatically OK to me.
Quote: jmills
"They" has been used to refer to a person of unspecified gender for a long time, long before it was ever used as a self-identifier. Seems grammatically OK to me.
Him/Her, "That person," "The individual," there are a lot of more grammatically correct solutions.
bet his finger is exhausted for thanking everyone for every post. :)Quote: mosesMission 146 having to serve as a carrier pigeon. I bet your arms are exhausted.😉 Im kidding.
Or is that a way to keep track of what you've read? (genius idea if it is)
Or the micro skirt?
Quote: MrVWhy oh why did the fashion gods do away with the mini skirt?
Or the micro skirt?
Probably because many women aren't wearing underwear anymore.
Quote: tuttigym...Kids imitating baseball players constantly spitting.
If only it were just kids.
Quote: Mission146Him/Her, "That person," "The individual," there are a lot of more grammatically correct solutions.
But also more awkward. "They" is simpler and more elegant.
However, I have it on good authority that it is considered the height of good manners now on meeting someone to let them know right away 'what your pronouns are' with this same crowd.
* witnessed this from a young lady who was considered fairly well brought up
Quote: odiousgambitJust to show how notions of propriety change, our youth today pay little attention to what we considered language too foul to use in 'mixed company', as we used to say. One of them might drop the F-bomb right in front of their grandmother* for example
However, I have it on good authority that it is considered the height of good manners now on meeting someone to let them know right away 'what your pronouns are' with this same crowd.
* witnessed this from a young lady who was considered fairly well brought up
Very relevant news broadcast from when women were first allowed in Australian Bars.
https://youtu.be/MBhpdXvkoIE
Quote: odiousgambit
However, I have it on good authority that it is considered the height of good manners now on meeting someone to let them know right away 'what your pronouns are' with this same crowd.
* witnessed this from a young lady who was considered fairly well brought up
Ehhh I don’t know about that, at least in the US. I took a few college classes online with the young folk last year when things were slow and I’d say less than 20% of the people did so in their introductions, naturally disproportionate amount of the time when the preferred pronoun was not their biological gender they would inform you of that before so you can avoid offending the individual with your assumption.
It is an almost automatic identifier of political party to do so, which could make an initial meeting of pre-judging or adversarial for no good reason is some cases rather than being good manners imo.
I kind of like it.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/amazeballs
Quote: tuttigymPet Peeve: Everything "amazing."
Agreed. The recent trend towards hyperbole as norm is irksome.
Quote: vegasPeople that say "Oh My God" after everything. I was watching a youtube video today and the person said oh my God maybe 10 times.
This morning, I noticed for the first time a line in an episode of Futurama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfellas). Bender exclaimed, "Oh my God! Are you God?"
Quote: KeeneoneWhat about "amazeballs"?
I kind of like it.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/amazeballs
Never saw or heard that word before. The link citation taught me something new. Thank you. However, I do not believe I will insert that word into my vocabulary.
tuttigym
I am sure somewhere in these thread pages mention has been made of "political correctness." IMHO it is destroying free speech and our language. Some have said that language must change with the times, and we must be forward in our linguistic approaches. Sorry, much of what we are asked to say, write, and read are steps backward.
"unauthorized immigrant" Really??
tuttigym
Quote: tuttigymPet Peeve:
I am sure somewhere in these thread pages mention has been made of "political correctness." IMHO it is destroying free speech and our language. Some have said that language must change with the times, and we must be forward in our linguistic approaches. Sorry, much of what we are asked to say, write, and read are steps backward.
"unauthorized immigrant" Really??
tuttigym
Is there a part of the no politics rule you don't understand and need clarification on?
Quote: billryanIs there a part of the no politics rule you don't understand and need clarification on?
That is not politics; it is redefining the law; it is a way of creating status where none exists. There was discussion about "pronouns" and "gender." Is that political? The thread on "masking" is part science and part political as one reads through the various posts. Should those two approaches, which are relevant, be segregated? The debate is fascinating and good reading and educational.
tuttigym
Yesterday while on a walk I heard what sounded like a teen age girl talking loudly, not yelling, and about every fifth word was the "F-word."
My impression was that she was talking to one or both of her parents.
Seems the "F-word" has morphed from a swear word to a word of emphasis.
Heck, when I was a kid I was told never to say it, as saying the "F-word" was a mortal sin.
How things change.
Quote: rxwineDon't get me wrong, we do have free speech here. It just sometimes comes with a free 3 days off from posting!!! At no extra charge.
We are free to discuss anything our hosts allows. This is their place and they are free to set barriers. I don't allow anyone to curse at my dining room table and would shut down anyone in my living room who tried to start a discussion that upsets others there. The First amendment doesn't apply here anymore than the Second tells me I have to allow you to bring guns into my house.
Was getting gas, and noticed someone had written in magic marker “mute” with an arrow pointing towards the second black square on the right next to the screen. Below that, someone else wrote “bless you!”. So, I pressed it, and ‘gas station TV’ shut the hell up.
