New "Pet Peeves" About This Page:

[Teresa]

Time to vent those things that others do that just grate on you!

Mine:

The latest is when people say something like: "It happened at 9AM in the morning." or "I'll see you tomorrow at 7PM at night"

Ummm - they're both Latin - AM means before noon, and PM means after noon - it's redundent to stay the time and period of day!

Usually this doesn't bother me too much, but I've heard NEWS Casters and people in the public eye say it quite frequently lately.

Also on the redundent scale;

ATM Machine (it's an Automatic Teller MACHINE! - not an automatic teller machine machine!)

[smilechaser]

ok, gotta jump on this one. I am a nurse. I hate it when I ask someone in report how a patient is doing and they tell me 'they don't have a temprature'. (they mean fever) If they don't have a temprature they are DEAD!

[simbarel]

This happened to me this weekend when someone called before they came to visit:

Person: Do you want me to bring you something to drink or something to eat?
Me: Not really, I'm fine.
P: Are you sure?
M: Yeah, I'm fine, don't bother.
P: Well, I just ate so I'm not hungry but I wanted to make sure that you were all set.
M: Yup, just fine.
P: Are you sure?
M: Mm hmm.
P: I can bring you over something, I don't mind, you just need to tell me what.
M: Honestly, P, I'm all set.
P: Well, do you want me to bring you a surprise?
M: [exhausted] Sure, bring a surprise.
P: Well, what kind of surprise do you want me to bring?
M: Honestly, nothing is coming to my mind, I need nothing.
P: Well, if your brother was here I'd ask him, but....
[couldn't hear rest of sentence because I threw the phone into the couch and pounded my feet into the floor, DH starts yelling that no one who is making me that upset is going to come over, picked phone back up]
P: Oh, DH is doesn't like people over, does he?
M: No, it's fine, just come.

This was all while the Person had an unbearable case of laryngitis. Basically, it peeves me when people don't listen to me. Later when she was here she'd ask what I needed for the baby. When I told her, it wasn't the list that SHE wanted and kept making other suggestions.

[Ms_Butterfly]

Originally Posted by smilechaser

ok, gotta jump on this one. I am a nurse. I hate it when I ask someone in report how a patient is doing and they tell me 'they don't have a temprature'. (they mean fever) If they don't have a temprature they are DEAD!

Actually, even dead ppl have a temperature. Everything has a temperature!

[snoozin]

OK; here's speech pet peeves for me:
newcular (nuclear)
realitor (realtor)

I love Condalesa Rice, but the fact that nearly every other word is "uh" drives me nuts! She's incredibly intelligent, but needs to learn to present her ideas better.

uh, um, y'know, etc.

[simbarel]

This one's kind of gross, but when people say "dialated" when they mean "dilated."

[graygables]

Originally Posted by snoozin

OK; here's speech pet peeves for me:
newcular (nuclear)
realitor (realtor)

Those get me, too! That and leaving the 'ly' off of adverbs. "He did really bad", "Badly, it's an adverb modifying how he did". Two more: "Can I...?", "I don't know, are you physically capable of...?" and "Can I ask you a question?", "Yes, and now you MAY ask me another." Sorry, it's that college grammar class I took from Mrs. Colonel Klink that put me over the English teacher edge...

also:
joolery (jewelry)
epuhcot (epcot)

[mrsmac2001]

Illinois is not Illinoise.

[JaimeandChad]

Originally Posted by mrsmac2001

Illinois is not Illinoise.

That is mine, people who do not pronounce correctly.

[Belle of Ohio]

Right now my pet peeves both come from my boss. We just had the end of our fiscal year and he continually calls it physical year. The other one from him is when he says pacific instead of specific. He spells it that way too. I get notes all the time that says I need the pacific information on that. Drives me nuts!!

[saremca]

My SIL says "one at THE time" when she really means "one at A time". Drives me crazy, but I don't say anything.

[RogerRabbit]

Originally Posted by mrsmac2001

Illinois is not Illinoise.

Are you sure!!

Because I live in Missouree not Missourah!! This totally depends what side of the state you are on. At one time one of the people running for Governor had two commericals, one for each side of the state.

Michael

[Disney_Scarlett]

Oh gosh, I could probably go on forever...

I had a boss once that used the phrase "touch base" all the time. Except that he would say it "touch bases." As in, "I just wanted to touch bases with you..." I didn't think much about him using the plural of base (maybe he hit a double? ) but I noticed he used it in emails a lot too and spelled it like "touch basis." I then realized that he had no idea it was a baseball metaphor. Everytime I'd read, "I'm trying to touch basis with John and..." I would cringe. He also used the word "past" incorrectly, as in, "I'm sorry to report that Ricky's mother past away." Of course, grammar mistakes in general get on my nerves.

I also can't stand it when people feel the need to tell you, unprompted, that you look tired. It's just another way of saying you look like poo. In college, there was this one cafeteria worker that, every day, when he'd see me, he'd be like, "You look tired! Around the eyes!" And I'd be like, "Nope! Feelin' good! Just woke up from a 4-hour nap!" But he kept saying it, until I finally lost my cool and ended up yelling at him, "STOP SAYING THAT. THIS IS JUST HOW I LOOK. IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER, OKAY? I'VE ACCEPTED THAT AND SO SHOULD YOU."

Lastly (well for this post ), and I'm sure this has been previously discussed here, I hate it when people try to convince me that Disney in an evil corporation and they only care about making a profit. While I don't think they are any more "evil" than any other corporation, I'm okay with them wanting to make money. That's sort of the point of the business, and I don't think they've ever tried to pass themselves off as a charity or non-profit, ya know? Just a couple of weeks ago, this lady in my office went on and on how it was SO WRONG that they market to children. I was like, yeah, just like Kellogg's and Nabisco and Tyco and Flintstone Vitamins and Ford and a zillion other companies, right?

This guy I knew in college wrote a huge paper all about how Disney is an evil corporation. I read it and he was like, "What do you think?" I said, "Yep, sounds about right." He's like, "So you don't like Disney anymore?" "Nope, I still do." He didn't get it. I said, "They're a business, they provide a product and a service that I happily fork over money for. It's not like it's essential - if I don't have the money to buy something from them, besides being sad, it's okay. Why don't you write a paper about prescription drug companies or something, ya know?"

I'll stop there. You're welcome.

[RobinKay6573]

Here in Michigan it seem everyone adds an "s" on the end of store names. Look at the sign people...it is Meijer and Kroger NOT Meijers and Krogers.

My mother also walks out of the room when you are asking her a question or are in mid sentance. I only see her twice a year so it isn't that big a deal (but it still drives me nuts!)

[SouthernBelle]

My boss also says "physcial" instead of "fiscal" he says "stchuff" instead of stuff
I have people that write "$ One Million Dollars" which reads as One Million dollars dollars

People who tell me I have been to Disney World too many times, this really irks me, I did not know I was only allotted a certain number of times or I am asked "why would you go there???" when you can go to the beach???? well I live at the beach and I do go to the beach every weekend......

ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH