Mine is people using are instead of our. I hear this all the time from social media, news reporters, and I see in in writing. Instead of our, they use are as if they forgot the word our exists.
Mine is
tillinstead of’tilto meanuntilandain “two times a year” instead ofper. I still say “two times a year” myself but when writing it looks so unprofessional and I always notice it in news publications.What bugs me most is whether ‘biannual’ means twice per year or every second year.
It means both which is setup to confuse everyone it seems.
“are” is a perfectly valid pronunciation of “our” I think, at least in some accents. Writing it as “are”, on the other hand does feel wrong.
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Accents exist, you know.
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What is the correct pronunciation of our?
It’s commonly pronounced the same way as “hour.”
Ow-er. Ow, as in ouch.
The words “shoppe” and “towne”.
Oh, and “olde”.
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People at work wants me to do something and using phrasing, like “can we check this?” , “we must do xy quickly”. What do you mean WE? If you want me to do something personally just fucking say it MF! It makes my blood boil.
My dad used to do this shit all the time. He would be like “let’s clean the house” but what he really meant was “You clean the house.”
Nurse we
AI being pumped into everything. It drives me absolutely nuts that every fucking thing has to have AI. Now you can buy a laptop that uses AI to write an email, just so the receiver can use AI to summarise it. We’re going to start using computers to develop enormous amounts of crap before we finally realise that putting the effort into writing, reading, drawing, designing etc. is actually worthwhile. Don’t get me wrong, I see several use cases for AI where it’s very good, and studied genetic algorithms at uni (i.e. software that can rewrite itself given feedback on its output), but what is being pushed on us now will just encourage laziness and ultimately be a detriment to humans in general.
people thinking vaccines are bad rather than the main reason lifespan rose so much in the modern age.
That every store wants you to sign up and have you give them your details.
When I bought a shirt in a department store a couple of years ago and the guy wanted me to give him my email address “to save paper” (yeah right), rather than give me a receipt. It was like we were having a stand off for a while there. I just want to buy a shirt not sign up for ongoing spam!My favorite thing to do is I have a secondary domain name that is setup with a catch all email address mailbox. So when they ask for a email i just give them nameofstoresux@domain.com and when they say i need a real email address I say it’s real. The look on their face when my phone buzzes with the recept is priceless. Then promptly back hole that address
I don’t even bother going that far. I just have a [words]receipts@[domain].com and use it for all of those e-receipts, accounts that make you sign up at checkout, known spam generators.
If I need to search for a receipt for any reason, I have it there. But none of it clogs up my real email
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I use the domain for other things it’s not just for this purpose just an added perk.
Fascism.
For me that is much more than a pet peeve.
Here’s a pet peeve: people who “both sides” the entire American political spectrum because they are SO uninformed that everything looks the same to them.
Here’s another: people who “both sides” the entire American political spectrum because taking a position is more difficult than saying “bah I’m above the whole shit show.”
It’s really got my goat, I’ll say that.
News articles that use slam and other internet clickbait title terminology.
When restaurants have booth seating where you can feel the person in the booth behind you moving around in their seat.
It’s infuriating are schools aren’t doing a better job.
Is our children learning?
It drives me nuts that people frequently leave out the words “to be” when talking. For example, they will say something like, “the car needs washed.” No, either the car needs to be washed, or it needs washing.
It needs warshing.
Midwestern usa maybe
Big in PA also
If so, it’s propagating. I live in the NW USA and have been noticing it for years.
People putting out buckets of candy for Halloween instead of handing it out at the door. No more social interaction or tradition. Just grab free candy and go.
I don’t mind this when it’s families that are out trick-or-treating with their own kids. If you’re home and you do it, that’s weird
As a psychology nerd:
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the lack of understanding and empathy for others (even when their opinions are different or “wrong”
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The lack of understanding of how behavior is driven and encouraged to change.
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The comfort level with looking at something very complex and assuming you know it deeply in moments (referring to short form video “teaching” psychology and mental health stuff)
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The overall disconnect between the physical medicine community and the psychological/mental health communities (i.e. mental health is a huge driver in cancer, autoimmune, and other diseases)
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I could go on. Learning more is my passion but damn it’s so depressing when I begin to understand something and see the abounding ignorance on it
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Nails. Like the kind you hammer in. I hate them. They always come out and you have to hammer them in again eventually. Screws are the way to go.
I bought this skittles set for the kids to have a competition at a kids birthday party. The pins and ball are reasonable quality but the staples holding the box together fell apart the second we tried to pack it away.
