Things People Say That Piss You Off

[gokenshadow]

"I don't give a damn."

I don't know why, but that pisses me off when people say it.

 

[Sunrider]

Internet lingo. Especially "omg". I want to slap someone with a cow whenever I see "omg" or "omfg". Now I want to slap myself.

And as someone before me stated, "could of". How can anyone make this mistake without doing it on purpose?

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I didn't mention nor do I care that the person was American, which is funny on the matter as "American" can technically cover the whole North/South Continents, so you basically just shot yourself in the foot with that one for being "stingy" over something so stupidly small, in which you just mistook the name of one people for the people of 2 whole continents. Nice one.

At one point it existed though, did it not? So visiting the same place as to where it used to be...????? where is the wrong in that?

So, what would you have me call them? "A United States...ian"?

Yeah, "American". What other word is there? I suppose I could've said "A citizen of the United States of America" but that would've been ridiculous.

So in this case. "American" is the only word that really applies, as that's the term of someone from the USA.

I've also pointed out that just because it used to be Leningrad, you won't say you're going there. You go to St. Petersburgh.

there are many ways to go about it, US citizen, citizen of the US, someone from the US, etc..

would've been ridiculous? so is your point on the matter of someone saying they want to visit southern ireland.

If there weren't individual state names in the US, i would simply say "I want to visit the southern US this summer" , but since states are involved I can simpley say "I'm going to visit southern florida this fall", which I do hear people say quite often actually, so I don't really get the big idea of fretting over something that is geographically correct and once upon a time was historically correct with a double meaning on the word "Southern", one being used as a title and the other indicating a section of the Country they were visiting.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Pushing this topic further you repeatedly state that you are angered by people SAYING they're in Southern Ireland. But then ran with the capitalization argument. The problem is, verbally saying something can't be capitalized, so as you said previously, no, no you're NOT okay with people saying they're in southern Ireland because you can't tell the difference verbally.[/b]

Saying, typing, it's quite easy to tell what they mean by how they say it.

When someone who is not from Ireland says "I want to visit southern Ireland", they are quite obviously not saying "I want to visit the southern part of The Republic of Ireland.", they are clearly under the impression that the country is named Southern Ireland, which it is not.

It was named such for... I think it was about 17 months or so, in total. But I'm hardly going to say "I want to go to Stalingrad", no. I'd say "I'd like to go to Volgograd". Just like I wouldn't call St Petersburg "Leningrad", because that would be ignorance on my part, not just because they're no longer named Stalingrad or Leningrad, but because you'd have to be fucking stupid to not use the correct name for a place.

Ask the majority of Irish people, they will tell you it's not Southern Ireland, and they will DEFINITELY correct people who say it.

If I visit my old home, and go to my old bedroom where I grew up in, where am I?

I'm in my old Bedroom. Regardless of who currently owns the home; this significance of the place is based on my reasoning for entry. So if you visit St. Petersberg to visit Leningrad; you're visiting Leningrad.

this point also highly applies, I was just too lazy to sit and type it out.

 

[Zorak the Mantis]

I live in New Jersey, right on the ocean. It really grinds my gears when people call it "the shore"... lakes have shores, oceans have coasts.

 

[Para199x]

When people say less when they mean fewer, there's a difference. Also "and therefor" you don't need the and, they both serve the same function in the sentence, its like saying "and but."

Could you explain what you think the difference between less and fewer is that makes less not a replacement for fewer, I can understand not using fewer always for less but not the other way round, less means a lower quantity, fewer means a lower discrete quantity, continuous quantities include the discrete ones.

4.5 is less than 5 but is not fewer
4 is less than 5 and is fewer.

Also the difference between those examples is that although the and is redundant in and therefore, it is not contradictory is in and but.

 

[Ratlover]

Oh boy here we go.

1. People that can dish it out, but not take it.

2. People that are stupid, but think they are clever.

3. People that lie just for the hell of it.

4. People that like to kiss the boss's ass.

5. People that follow me around at a party because they are to afraid to mingle.

6. Girls that always want attention.

7. People that are always late to work and get out of it because they are charming.

8. People that borrow stuff without asking.

9. People that get really drunk and then decide to blame you for everything.

10. Strangers that walk up to me and start boring conversations (I hate talking about the weather)

 

[Shakomaru]

Possibly straying into a sensitive topic...

Spoiler

I know this doesn't really fit in with the tone of the thread, but it's on topic: I find it really, really annoying, frustrating, & even sad when people misuse the word "gay" to mean "stupid," "annoying," or as a just plain bad word.

Nowadays, people use "gay" in the EXACT same ways that the racist bigots used to use the N word. There's nothing you can really do about it, either. If you call them out for it, they just get all defensive, "I would NEVER use the N word! But, I'll say things are gay all I want! I'm not a bigot. That's gay! Stop being a pussy."

Yes, Thank you. I also have a problem with our society's usage of the word rape. someone else said stuff about it, and I totally agree with them. I don't know anyone who has actually had stuff like that happen to them, but that doesn't mean I can't hate people who use the word lightly, without thinking about what it means. actually, I'm going to say I hate everyone who uses words because everyone else does, but they do not know what the words mean, and end up annoying people like me who care about things like that.

 

[Phoenix_XIII]

JRPG's suck.

I hate it when people say that because either they just hate rpg's or just won't take a nanosecond to actually sit through and play one. I mean, most people hate them because they think Final Fantasy shows what all of them are like. I love Final Fantasy, but it can't speak for most of the games in my library.

I also hate the arguments people put forth. "Hair styles are stupid and clothes are stupid and turn based combat is stupid."

You could say sports games are turn based because you can only do one fucking thing at a time. Also, turn based gameplay is made so you can strategically plan out your attacks. It's good planning. And also, hair styles and clothing styles have changed since the fucking 90's so you can quit with your argument that they're stupid. Also, people say they're based off of anime. Well, you search for an anime predating Resonance of Fate, Records of Agarest War, Infinate Undiscovery, and any other known jrpg that isn't Blue Dragon and make that argument.

But that's just my argument.

 

[Chefodeath]

Could of.
Aaaaaaaaaarrrrgh!! Raaaaaaaaaage!!
This pisses me off more than the existence of chavs! How in hell do people think that 'could of' is correct grammar?! It's 'could have' or 'could've'. 'Could of'?! Seriously?!

...Christ, I have some stupid friends

You know, I never noticed it before but now that you've brought it up, I'm sure I'll notice every time someone says it. Thanks...

Ot: I hate when people are talking about a speciality, they pronounce the word forte "for-tay" The actual pronunciation is fort.

 

[squeeble69]

When someone says that 'X is better then Y'. No. No it isn't; it's better THAN Y!!! A small thing, I know, but it always gets on my tits.

 

[Devornine]

Totes...

 

[fragmaster09]

if i'm talking about the UK i'll shorten Northern Ireland to Ireland, since everyone knows i'm not talking about the RoI...

and i shorten Republic of Ireland to RoI.

but what annoys me is:

"YOU'RE BRITISH?! OHMYGAWD HAHAHHAA!"
so i say "OH MY GAWD YOU'RE AMERICIIN? HAHAHAAAA!" to take the mickey out of them... that's one way =3

 

[Para199x]

When people tell you, you are going on about something as soon as they have lost an argument to avoid admitting it

 

[JPArbiter]

people who pronounce especially as though it is expecially. that makes the hairs on my asshole twitch.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

And on a topic; just because the UK owns the nothern half of Ireland, doesn't make any variety of name changes and such to make anything less then Southern Ireland. Frankly, it covers over the same territory.

From looking at this, I can perceive that your argument is just jingoism and national pride. It'd be like if someone told me I lived in Southern Canada. They're not wrong, they're not exactly right but they're not wrong.

His argument is that the Republic of Ireland =! southern Ireland, which is very much true. Northern Ireland constiutes 6 counties in the North of Ireland, not the Northern half of Ireland. The Republic of Ireland is in the north of Ireland, the Irish midlands and the south of Ireland, not southern Ireland only.

OT: England is not Britain. There is no British accent.

In addition, I hate it when people try and end an argument by saying everyone is entitled to an opinion. Ney fucking shit, Sherlock.

If anyone ever included 'In my opinion' in anything I rage a little inside too. By default it's your opinion, you don't need to say it every time you

 

[Devornine]

OH!!! And when people say ax instead of ask!

 

[alfawx]

The gosh darned apostrophe problem that 75% of people seem to have nowadays. PLURALS DO NOT REQUIRE APOSTROPHES PEOPLE. Example:

Friend: Oh my god, man, I've been playing so many game's this last week that it's just ridiculous.

Me: Game's what?

Friend: Huh?

Me: What, belonging to a game, have you been playing? You only use an apostrophe if you're using a possessive form.

Friend: Wait, what's the matter with my apostrophe's?

Me: NGAH!!!

 

[Romblen]

"What? You're not playing the game on some mod/most difficult mode available? You're not really playing the game then." Some of us enjoy playing the game on normal. I don't care if you play it on hard, why do you care if I play on normal?

Oh and, "Did your master Glenn Beck tell you to think that?" (or something along those lines) I'm a conservative who likes political forums, so I get this a lot. I've gotten to the point where that equals, "I just utterly and completely lost this argument, I'm going to use an exaggerated stereotype to try to hide that." I don't even like Glenn Beck. Conservatives have been around longer than Fox News or Glenn Beck.

 

[Nudu]

"It is what it is..."

Of cause it is what it is! That's what it is, you moron!