Phrases/words you hate
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Of course. Brits love to be homo superior 
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Raeven0 said:
OMG how do you figure that's a BBC-exclusive thing? If it's a misuse, it's a very widespread misuse and as such has evolved into an accepted use, in the UK.
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Using "like" "uh" and "um" after ever sentence.
Reenactment of conversation with a "preppy" sort of girl the other day.
Her: "Like oh my god you would not believe what Krysta said yesterday! Um, she was like, "OH MY GAWD I love that shirt" and I was like "oh it's nice but I have better" and she said "Really? Like I really love that shirt, if you don't want it could I have it" and I was like "Uh, whateve"
Me: x.x
Another pet peeve of mine is the sentences that go on forever...and ever...and ever.
Reenactment of conversation with a "preppy" sort of girl the other day.
Her: "Like oh my god you would not believe what Krysta said yesterday! Um, she was like, "OH MY GAWD I love that shirt" and I was like "oh it's nice but I have better" and she said "Really? Like I really love that shirt, if you don't want it could I have it" and I was like "Uh, whateve"
Me: x.x
Another pet peeve of mine is the sentences that go on forever...and ever...and ever.
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Because I don't live in Europe and so my main exposure to their silly European antics is the BBCpomegranate said:
There's another thing I hate: the idea that a certain word or usage is somehow acceptable merely because it is popular.
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"But at the end of the day ..."
I don't know why but it annoys me.
I don't know why but it annoys me.
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Dog-- said:lol, I tend to say "like" every now and then
Words I hate:
Dick
Fag
Homo
Gay
All of these words are used to much and it pisses me off!
What a fag.
I hate "ummmm."
Mostly because I feel like I'm being talked down to...and I really...really hate that.
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Since this has devolved into a general annoyances thread, I'll file another entry.
Misuse of apostrophes, particularly when used to denote plurality, is one of the dumbest errors that almost everyone commits. If you have more than one CD, you have CDs, not CD's or CDs' or C'D''s or any other retarded spelling you morons come up with. Apostrophes are NEVER used to make a word plural. EVER.
Use of a plural pronoun to refer to a singular antecedent should be a capital offence. "Everyone" is singular, so a correct sentence might be "Everyone should get himself a drink." "Everybody" is also singular. "Each" is singular. Individuals are singular. Ergo: "Everybody here is a ******"; "Each of the cakes has icing on it"; "I snuck up behind Rae and stabbed him". "All" is plural, so "All of the cakes have icing on them" is acceptable.
No matter what the self-righteous feminist Nazis say, default gender in English when referring to an animal (implicitly, humans are included) is always, ALWAYS masculine. So: "The baby soiled his diaper"; "Our test subject lost 15 pounds of his fat after three days"; "The chemist discovered a cure for cancer when he mixed virgin pixie blood with human urine." The ONLY time feminine gender should be used is when it is certain that the antecedent is sexually female: "The leader of the Ladies' Trim Gym has a tattoo on her ankle."
Commas and semicolons have vastly disparate purposes. Don't mix them up. Furthermore, when beginning a list, the correct mark to use is the colon; it is NEVER acceptable to use a semicolon to mark the beginning of a list.
"B.C." does stand for "Before Christ", but "A.D." does not, as some proliferous morons proclaim, stand for "After Death" (if it did, we would have lost 33 years in there, you asinine dolts!). "A.D." means "Anno Domini", Latin for "in the year of our Lord".
"Affect" is a verb. "Effect" is almost always a noun, and refers to the effect that is wrought when something is affected. "Effect" can also be a verb meaning "to bring into existence", as the way misuse of my beautiful language effects blind, genocidal malice in my otherwise cold, apathetic heart.
"Find" and "look for" are different terms with completely different meanings.
Punctuation marks that are not part of the quoted text go outside the quotation marks. A good example is the names of poems or short stories: "I'm about to finish Poe's 'The Raven'." The reason for this is that there is NO period in the name of Poe's poem, and so it is senseless to stick a period within the very marks that are supposed to represent the bounds of the poem's name.
Misuse of apostrophes, particularly when used to denote plurality, is one of the dumbest errors that almost everyone commits. If you have more than one CD, you have CDs, not CD's or CDs' or C'D''s or any other retarded spelling you morons come up with. Apostrophes are NEVER used to make a word plural. EVER.
Use of a plural pronoun to refer to a singular antecedent should be a capital offence. "Everyone" is singular, so a correct sentence might be "Everyone should get himself a drink." "Everybody" is also singular. "Each" is singular. Individuals are singular. Ergo: "Everybody here is a ******"; "Each of the cakes has icing on it"; "I snuck up behind Rae and stabbed him". "All" is plural, so "All of the cakes have icing on them" is acceptable.
No matter what the self-righteous feminist Nazis say, default gender in English when referring to an animal (implicitly, humans are included) is always, ALWAYS masculine. So: "The baby soiled his diaper"; "Our test subject lost 15 pounds of his fat after three days"; "The chemist discovered a cure for cancer when he mixed virgin pixie blood with human urine." The ONLY time feminine gender should be used is when it is certain that the antecedent is sexually female: "The leader of the Ladies' Trim Gym has a tattoo on her ankle."
Commas and semicolons have vastly disparate purposes. Don't mix them up. Furthermore, when beginning a list, the correct mark to use is the colon; it is NEVER acceptable to use a semicolon to mark the beginning of a list.
"B.C." does stand for "Before Christ", but "A.D." does not, as some proliferous morons proclaim, stand for "After Death" (if it did, we would have lost 33 years in there, you asinine dolts!). "A.D." means "Anno Domini", Latin for "in the year of our Lord".
"Affect" is a verb. "Effect" is almost always a noun, and refers to the effect that is wrought when something is affected. "Effect" can also be a verb meaning "to bring into existence", as the way misuse of my beautiful language effects blind, genocidal malice in my otherwise cold, apathetic heart.
"Find" and "look for" are different terms with completely different meanings.
Punctuation marks that are not part of the quoted text go outside the quotation marks. A good example is the names of poems or short stories: "I'm about to finish Poe's 'The Raven'." The reason for this is that there is NO period in the name of Poe's poem, and so it is senseless to stick a period within the very marks that are supposed to represent the bounds of the poem's name.
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I've never heard that in my life.
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el Chi said:As opposed to y'all in the States - unadulterated paragons of humility
It's called a joke :|
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I simply loath, detest, abhor, despise and hate the word "trousers"
It's just so stupid. Whenever you say it, you sound all old-timey, like "Hey Billy, go put on your trousers"
Billy: "NO!"
You could just as easily say pants, and it would have less sylablles, and you wouldn't sound like a someone from the 1800's. Or you could say pantaloons, and sound all awesome and fancy. Or possibly even leggings, but that wouldn't be as cool. And, depending on what the person in question is wearing, you could say jeans, knickers, pantalettes, underwear, georgepants, sweatpants, breeches, jodhpurs and/or hakama(s). As long as you don't use the word trousers, it's cool. So, using the word trousers would be completely redundant, because you have your pick of all these fine synonyms, and you don't have to sound retarded by saying "Trousers". Just think, if you saw some hot girl and you said "hey, nice trousers" she'd probably smack you, pepper spray you, and kick you in the crotch, simultaneously. Now imagine if you said "Hey baby, nice hakamas", or "Hey baby, nice jodhpurs". She'd probably sechs you right there, right then. Or if you're going in for a job interview, and you said to the interviewer-person "Wow, those are some great trousers" he would shoot you, because he dosen't want anybody that sounds like a friggin three-hundred-year-old working for his company. BUT! if you said "Hey, those are some great sweatpants", he'd hire you in half a nanosecond. HALF A NANOSECOND! That's a pretty short period of time. So, what's it going to be?? Sound like an old geezer by saying "trousers" or using one of the awesome aforementioned alternatives? Writhing on the ground in intense agony after being groin-kicked by a hot chick, or sechsing that same chick?? Getting shot for sounding retarded, or getting a million-dollar salary job by not using the word trousers? Whats it gonna be? Huh? huh? You decide. You decide. I mean, there have been conclusive scientific studies that have shown that saying the word trousers reduces your IQ by 2 points every time you say it. These are conclusive scientific studies I'm talking about here! By scientists! With labcoats!! People in labcoats don't lie! Notice how I 'labcoats' instead of 'trousers'. See how easy it is?? Heck, i just lost about 20 IQ points by bringing you this vital information. In conclusion, the people that invented pants were incredible geniuses, and every time you say the word 'trousers' you are dishonoring these brilliant, brilliant people times a jillion.So don't say trousers. For the sake of Billy, the hawt girl, the job-interviewer person,and all the wonderous intellectuals that brought us pants, don't say the word trousers. Please. Do what is right. Do not say it. At all. Ever. In eternity. Thank you.
It's just so stupid. Whenever you say it, you sound all old-timey, like "Hey Billy, go put on your trousers"
Billy: "NO!"
You could just as easily say pants, and it would have less sylablles, and you wouldn't sound like a someone from the 1800's. Or you could say pantaloons, and sound all awesome and fancy. Or possibly even leggings, but that wouldn't be as cool. And, depending on what the person in question is wearing, you could say jeans, knickers, pantalettes, underwear, georgepants, sweatpants, breeches, jodhpurs and/or hakama(s). As long as you don't use the word trousers, it's cool. So, using the word trousers would be completely redundant, because you have your pick of all these fine synonyms, and you don't have to sound retarded by saying "Trousers". Just think, if you saw some hot girl and you said "hey, nice trousers" she'd probably smack you, pepper spray you, and kick you in the crotch, simultaneously. Now imagine if you said "Hey baby, nice hakamas", or "Hey baby, nice jodhpurs". She'd probably sechs you right there, right then. Or if you're going in for a job interview, and you said to the interviewer-person "Wow, those are some great trousers" he would shoot you, because he dosen't want anybody that sounds like a friggin three-hundred-year-old working for his company. BUT! if you said "Hey, those are some great sweatpants", he'd hire you in half a nanosecond. HALF A NANOSECOND! That's a pretty short period of time. So, what's it going to be?? Sound like an old geezer by saying "trousers" or using one of the awesome aforementioned alternatives? Writhing on the ground in intense agony after being groin-kicked by a hot chick, or sechsing that same chick?? Getting shot for sounding retarded, or getting a million-dollar salary job by not using the word trousers? Whats it gonna be? Huh? huh? You decide. You decide. I mean, there have been conclusive scientific studies that have shown that saying the word trousers reduces your IQ by 2 points every time you say it. These are conclusive scientific studies I'm talking about here! By scientists! With labcoats!! People in labcoats don't lie! Notice how I 'labcoats' instead of 'trousers'. See how easy it is?? Heck, i just lost about 20 IQ points by bringing you this vital information. In conclusion, the people that invented pants were incredible geniuses, and every time you say the word 'trousers' you are dishonoring these brilliant, brilliant people times a jillion.So don't say trousers. For the sake of Billy, the hawt girl, the job-interviewer person,and all the wonderous intellectuals that brought us pants, don't say the word trousers. Please. Do what is right. Do not say it. At all. Ever. In eternity. Thank you.
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Raziaar said:No offense, but many of those words are much lamer than trousers
Pantaloons and knickers for starters... they're as old as trousers.
I didn't even know the word pantaloons existed in English, it's so remarkably similar to the word "pantaloni" in Romanian.
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