Official Friday Silliness Thread ~ Click here to be added or taken off the list ~ Oh, another one of my pet peeves is not being able to post to the OFST today, as I'm leaving for vacation and will be on the road driving to TX... so have fun without me!!! WHAT ARE YOUR PET PEEVES?
Good morning and happy Friday!
1. “Lose” is how to spell the word that means “to misplace”. It is not spelled “loose”.
2. Do not start a story with the word, “So...”
3. There is no such word as “heighth” The word is “height” and it ends with a “t” sound, not a “th”.
4. Do not add two spaces after each sentence when composing type on the computer. That was a rule for typewriters. It does not apply to documents typed on the computer.
5. Do not use text messaging abbreviations in email such as “How R U?”, unless you want to give people the impression that you are an adolescent with an attitude.
6. The word for the electricity from the sky is spelled “lightning” not “lightening”.
7. “Asked” ends with the “D” sound and “Asks” ends with the “S” sound. Neither one ends with the “K” sound. No, I am not talking about people who pronounce it “axe”. That is another topic entirely.
The roads are filled with dehydrated idiots!!!!!
You want idiots? Just add water. Water in any form!
It could be solid, like ice, snow, hail (this is the worst).
It could be liquid, like rain, drizzle, or just puddles on the road.
It could be gaseous, like fog (idiots will NOT slow down when they cannot see).
I was driving back to Norfolk from DC Monday, running along with traffic in the fast lane (I refuse to say how fast I was going as it would violate my 5th amendment rights) when a few drops of rain hits my windshield and the traffic slows to 40 MPH immediately!!!!
DEHYDRATED IDIOTS!!!!!! JUST ADD WATER!!!!!
pet peeve = a recentment you have had so long you made a friend of it
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There's a pet peeve in here somewhere....
My pet peeve are FReepers who click “post” twice causing a duplicate reply.
Man, what’s wrong with those morons.
My pet peeve are FReepers who click “post” twice causing a duplicate reply.
Man, what’s wrong with those morons.
Sorry, but if you're going slower that the other traffic in the fast lane -- even if you ARE 10 mph over the limit, you are an obstruction, and one of my pet peeves.
The way I put is, "Drivers who ust the fast lane, and don't notice that all the cars in front of them are getting farther and farther away, and all the cars behind them are bunching up and having to find a way around them."
The basic principle is, "slower traffic keep right." If you are going slower than the traffic in your lane, move one lane to the right and get out of their way.
Post Turtle
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year-old California rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.
Eventually the topic got around to Nancy Pelosi and her elevation to speaker of the house. The old racher said, “Well, ya know, Nancy is a post turtle.”
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘post turtle’ was. The old rancher said, “When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a post turtle.”
The old man saw a puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he continued to explain.
“You know he didn’t get there by himself, he doesn’t belong there, he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there, and you just want to help the dumb SOB get down.”
For my part, you can add: Drivers who clog the car pool lane and drive slower than the traffic in the other lanes.
People who abuse the language and don't even know it.
TV has dumbed down the people to where they don't even question things like this:
the comment may of been in bad taste
Excuse me?
"may of" ???
I believe that WATCHing TV and doing LITTLE reading leads folks to such abuse.
This person has heard the term may've (a contraction of "may have") and just typed the words without realizing they don't make sense.
It occurs more often with "would've" and "could've", but it's the same cause, I bet.
< /rant >
Do you know the confusion one could cause naming their pet "Peeve"
