Pet Peeves - Get it off your chest!

[ChilwellWhite]

Mobile phones I hate them, no so much the phones but the folk using them. I don't want to know what you're having to eat, how your date went or what you're doing at the weekend.

[Davycc]

Said it before..... stupid cups in cafes that you couldn't put a pinkie finger through the handle never mind a forefinger.

[Sniffer]

The use of "pinkie" to denote the smallest finger on a hand.

[johnh]

Said it before..... stupid cups in cafes that you couldn't put a pinkie finger through the handle never mind a forefinger.

Davy, surely you wouldn't want to put your 'pinkie' finger through the handle anyway? I always imagined you holding your cup with your 'pinkie' finger sticking out and up.

[Another Northern Soul]

Just writing a post now reminded me of another pet peeve...
American English dictionary on websites and on my laptop, since I switched to Linux.

No there isn't a 'x' in every single word ending in 'ise'...And the rest of their nasty Americanizzzations!

It goes further than that I think, Frankie, as US Word adds in punctuation where it's not needed, such as semi-colons in place of full stops, and a comma after 'but' virtually every time. It's more than a pet peeve if you're writing official documentation etc etc

[Deleted User 728]

The use of "pinkie" to denote the smallest finger on a hand.

[zigzag]

Women in supermarkets who insist on packing up all their shopping before then getting their money/card out of their purse to pay for it, Ladies when the checkout operator tells you the total hand over your payment method there and then and whilst that payment is being processed you can carry on packing away your shopping (and dont get me started on when they then have to rummage around for every voucher that they possess)

[Deleted User 2747]

Just writing a post now reminded me of another pet peeve...
American English dictionary on websites and on my laptop, since I switched to Linux.

No there isn't a 'x' in every single word ending in 'ise'...And the rest of their nasty Americanizzzations!

Of course that should say 'z' in every single word ending in 'ise'...Again this reminds me now of another thing that drives me mad and that is my tendency to make stupid typos all the time.

[Deleted User 2747]

Just writing a post now reminded me of another pet peeve...
American English dictionary on websites and on my laptop, since I switched to Linux.

No there isn't a 'x' in every single word ending in 'ise'...And the rest of their nasty Americanizzzations!

It goes further than that I think, Frankie, as US Word adds in punctuation where it's not needed, such as semi-colons in place of full stops, and a comma after 'but' virtually every time. It's more than a pet peeve if you're writing official documentation etc etc

And the shortening of many words particularly like oriented instead of orientated.

[johnh]

Women in supermarkets who insist on packing up all their shopping before then getting their money/card out of their purse to pay for it, Ladies when the checkout operator tells you the total hand over your payment method there and then and whilst that payment is being processed you can carry on packing away your shopping (and dont get me started on when they then have to rummage around for every voucher that they possess)

And the women who wait until everything is done before rummaging in their bag for their purse, which always seems to take an age. Then, they insist on paying the exact amount in cash which results in further rummaging to find the exact coins. Then having failed to find the exact coins, they give coins that require change. The cashier gets the change and then the woman finds the exact coin and insists on taking the coin which required change back and hands over the 2p piece, or whatever. This further confuses things and adds further delay of several seconds. This has happened to me on a number of occasions. Its bad enough when you are next in the queue but sends me potty when I'm third or fourth!