Things People Say That Piss You Off

[TheModWolf]

When people say "for all intesive purposes". facepalm. The phrase is "for all intents and purposes", if you'd think about it for five seconds you'd realise that intents and purposes are fairly synonymous and that nobody has yet to define an intensive purpose. Sometimes I worry about our species.

 

[DJDarque]

People who say 'British' when they mean English. Like when someone calls me British when I'm actually English. If I was British, I would really be part English, Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh.

Spoiler: When people use this flag to represent England

Spoiler: When they really mean this

image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg

You must get annoyed a lot then. Both of those are pretty common mistakes people make when referring to England and the English, at least in my experience.

 

[Genericjim101]

Slippery slope arguments, text book liberals with an entirely weed based interest, people who say hanging out with friends is a hobby. Worst for last, people who see no problem in eating with their mouth open and then request I not be so uptight. : s

 

[Vault101]

"High school is the BEST time of your life!! EVAR!" jeasus what were you smoking at the time?

for some reason people lose their sense of perspective when it comes ot music (actually thats just youtube coments...go to any Video from an era ANY video and I will garuntee that they will ALL be lameting about how music was "better" at the time of the video, be it 60's 70's 80's 90's or early 2000's)

"get a life"...be more like you? more socially accepttible? no thanks

"humans are evil" no your just annoying

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Whenever someone has declared they've lost faith in humanity, I want to track down the person who said them, pick them up, have them look themselves in the mirror, then slap them across the face.

Would that include someone declaring they've given up on humanity?

 

[mrwoo6]

When people confuse Northern Ireland with the Republic of Irleand and then, when corrected claim there the same thing.

BARGHGGHNGGLLELALELAGHASGLE.

 

[JWRosser]

Good God too many things...

When people mix up "your" and "you're".
When people say "could of" instead of "could have".
When people mix up "brought" and "bought".
When people say "can't be asked" instead of "can't be arsed".
People who think Britain and England are the same thing.
People who overuse the word literally. Mainly, I find, females - or at least, a lot of my female friends do. "I literally died of laughter", "literally, I just thought, I want to kill him" NYARRGHHH

There are loads more but I can feel myself getting angry as I type...

 

[ZeroMachine]

A lot of things to be honest. I'm going to go with an oldie, but a goodie. Irony. Look it up people. Irony doesn't mean that it is funny. Look that person fell over...how ironic. No. No it isn't. I have a friend who is a teacher and they said on Facebook, "I'm going down to Wellington for a few days then flying to Sydney. How ironic." How the hell is that ironic? I do worry about our education system.

That's my rant.

Oh one more thing. I know it isn't literally being said, but people who type /thread really annoy me. I know it's stupid but the sheer arrogance to think that you are the supreme master of a thread annoys me. Especially if you do it to your own post.

/thread.

Now that there is proper irony, even if it was done on purpose

As for me? A couple things.

First and foremost, giving "because" as a reason. "Because" is not a reason. Everything has reason, even if it can't be easily explained. At the very least, come up with SOMETHING to say other than "because".

Second, though I've rarely heard it in person, thankfully, is "it's just sex". It is very, very, VERY rarely "just sex". Sex, even the most casual of sex, has so much potential baggage that it makes me sick when people treat it so lightly.

If you want to go for a quick hook up, fine, but don't deny that shit could go horribly wrong and don't act like you won't need to deal with the consequences.


EDIT:

I also hate it when people leave "to be" out of their usual speech. For example, I had to talk to a customer at my shop about his Dodge Caravan. It's making a clunking sound in the front end when going over bumps, which I diagnosed as being bad strut mounts. The conversation went like this:

Me: The clunking noise in the front end of your van is the strut mounts making noise. It's a common fail point on these vans. I also recommend that you replace the struts at the same time, since I have to take them off of the van and disassemble them anyway. (calm voice)

Him: How do you know that the strut mount need replaced? (calm voice)

Me: The mounts are making noise. I've seen it a million times in the 10 years I've been repairing cars. (calm voice)

Him: I don't think that they need replaced. I think you're just trying to take my money. (yelling at the top of his lungs)

Me: Well, if that's the way you feel I'll be more than happy to put the wheels back on your van and put it back outside and you can live with the noise. Makes no difference to me. My car's not going to make clunking noises on the way home. (calm voice, scowl)

Him: You're very rude. You shouldn't treat customers like that. (yelling)

Me: I'm not paid to talk to customers at all. I'm paid to turn a wrench. You asked me what was wrong with your van, I told you and you didn't like my answer. Now, I'm going to go back into the shop and get back to work. (low, angry voice)

Even ignoring that man's atrocious grammar, you deserve a medal for that XD

 

[KingofallCosmos]

"Well, that's just your opinion"

No *****, it's my argument, so unless you refute it it's the universal truth.

LOL!!!!!!!

When people say LOL, that annoys me. Especially when said out loud, as if it were a monosyllabic word.

Also, increasingly whilst online, people who confuse 'loose' and 'lose'.

It actually is a monosyllabic word in dutch, meaning fun... not to say I don't agree.

Possibly straying into a sensitive topic...

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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."

That's a tough one, people will always use terms like that. I don't particularly like it when people use the word "autism" for stupid because of personal experience. Yet I do use other terms which may affect others (cancer is a very popular swear word in Holland).

 

[Kieros]

"Wherefore is *person*".

Just because it starts with where does not mean that you can use it as where. Bonus annoyance points if they use "art thou" instead of is.

 

[AlAaraaf74]

Possibly straying into a sensitive topic...

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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."

That's exactly what I was going to say.

 

[Nulmas]

The usual "You should turn off your brain and have fun."

I'm not having fun when my brain's turned off, you morons. In fact, what's happening is that YOUR brains are being distracted by all the pretty lights and therefore you can't be bothered to make a proper argument in your favor.


That and the typical rouge/rogue typo. Even the Wikipedia pages for rouge and rogue ask you if you're sure you don't mean the other.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Whenever someone has declared they've lost faith in humanity, I want to track down the person who said them, pick them up, have them look themselves in the mirror, then slap them across the face.

Would that include someone declaring they've given up on humanity?

They're basically the same statement, just some words have been changed.

 

[Theo Rob]

when people say "where will it end?".
It just pisses me off. Just because something bad or something you don't like happens does not mean the worse is always yet to come.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

"Well, that's just your opinion"

No *****, it's my argument, so unless you refute it it's the universal truth.

Yeah... well that's just like, your opinion, man.

OT: I really hate when people say 'innit'. It's a completely redundant phrase when used in the context of slang, as it is, and very irritating when tacked on the end of random sentences. I always dislike when people use swear words as punctuation. Fuck is not a full stop.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

OT:

EDIT: People who think "Alot" is an English word. It isn't

Spoiler: Alot

Spoiler: used like this

OT: "Could care less", "could of" etc. It's the small things that annoy me the most.

you silly *****, you ninja'd the hell out of my alot pictures! especially when it involves quoting sand..


OT: When people use "ghetto speak"

Here I'll go to facebook and swab some examples up real quick.

*searches*

"Goin 2 da banck, boutz to puttin dat paper down up in der, get muny get paiD$$#$%$%$%$%!"


then it gets even worse when they actually use all symbols possible with "ghetto speak", it becomes something you have to decipher at that point.

 

[fusion_cell]

"You like computers! Could you take a look at this?"
or
"While you're here, we've been having problems with...."

I get it all the time from family and friends. At christmas they always have everything waiting for as soon as I get there (except their damn windows CD)

And because I like comics and all things geeky I always get some rubbish 'gadget' gifts like keyboard hoovers or WiFi T-shirts.

 

[Sojoez]

It doesn't apply in English I think, but in Dutch there is this saying that goes kinda like this. "Thats for you a question and for me a know."
If someone gives me that answer after a question I will rage. because basically they are saying that they know the answer to your question but wont tell you because they are either too elitist or too bored to tell you.

Such arrogance!!!! *slap*

 

[DazBurger]

When people call people from England British instead of English. I hate that.

Spoiler: Also, when people use this flag to represent England

Spoiler: When they really mean this

Its used because Brit's are ashamed of how much they ripped it of the Danish flag.

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