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Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
rawalice
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Date: February 13, 2012 01:01PM Like when you're stuff goes missing or is stolen. Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
Anonymous User
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Date: February 13, 2012 02:13PM Like when people use "you're" and "your" interchangeably. Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
eaglefly
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Date: February 13, 2012 04:41PM Being behind someone who is doing 5 mph under the speed limit.
Lets GO!!!!!!! Vinny Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
WheatgrassYogi
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Date: February 13, 2012 07:59PM When someone locks their car, and a 'beep' sounds...disturbing my peace......WY
P.S. Coco...that bothers me too. Re: Things you find irksome.
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Anonymous User
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Date: February 13, 2012 10:34PM The misuse of their, they're and there. *grits teeth*
WY car alarms tick me off. Nobody is going to call the police or even check to make sure that car is OK, all they're doing is cursing that alarm when it goes off any time of day or night. Very irritating. Very. Re: Things you find irksome.
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eaglefly
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Date: February 14, 2012 12:52AM I remember a car alarm that drove my neighborhood crazy for 3 days.
3 days until it got shut off!! Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
Tamukha
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Date: February 14, 2012 02:34AM 3 days of car alarm noise? I'm a reasonable girl, but I'd wanna set the car on fire after about a day . . . Re: Things you find irksome.
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Anonymous User
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Date: February 14, 2012 10:53PM Ok, it also bugs me when people type "loose" when they mean "lose". Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
eaglefly
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Date: February 15, 2012 02:51PM Yea,typos are annoying.
People cutting in front of you in line is another. Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: February 15, 2012 04:21PM Vinny, it's not a typo, LOL. A typo is when you hit a key by accident; these people don't know the difference between 'their' and 'there,' etc.
Coco, I know someone with a PhD who's (not WHOSE, people!) like this and so I have to remind myself that this has nothing to do with intelligence. It's like a learning disability where people cannot remember the rules of homonyms, etc. It really bothers me whenever I see it, but I do have to realize that there are plenty of areas in which I struggle. Re: Things you find irksome.
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Anonymous User
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Date: February 15, 2012 04:26PM Drives. Me. BONKERS!
Though I was tired the other day and typed whose instead of who's and then couldn't go back and correct it. That's another thing that makes me mental, not having the option to edit posts online. Come on now, that's not necessary. You know whose (whose!) fault that is here? Piotrek. Were you here when he went through the entire forum on a freak out and deleted Every Single post of his he could find? LOL, funny in retrospect but not so amazing at the time. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2012 04:28PM by coco. Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
rawalice
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Date: February 15, 2012 04:35PM I think it's annoying when your boyfriend/significant other wastes his money on expensive gadgetry like the Android Tablet or Ipods or the latest cell phone or whatever. Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
riverhousebill
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Date: February 15, 2012 06:22PM Having someone ride your butt because your just five miles an hr under the speed limit. I have a bumber sticker- I may be slow but Im ahead of you.
I like to drive a little slower than most and I pull over as soon as it done but thats just not fast enough for some. Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
riverhousebill
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Date: February 15, 2012 06:27PM Vinny, it's not a typo, LOL. A typo is when you hit a key by accident; these people don't know the difference between 'their' and 'there,' etc.
Thats me My spelling is bad as you know this, But I can do a great Harvard accent Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
flipperjan
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Date: February 15, 2012 10:35PM finding smelly socks on the sofa or anywhere else where the men in this house chose to leave them - again and again................ and again.............................and again.......................and again Re: Things you find irksome.
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Anonymous User
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Date: February 15, 2012 10:37PM Both of my kids do that, it's maddening!
More grammar, I do not like it when people say "I seen him on the way to the store." If you are a native speaker at least speak the ONE language you know well. I seen him. Seen. Grr. Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
eaglefly
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Date: February 15, 2012 11:02PM riverhouse
i wil have to make sure i dont drive behind you 
I like all the speed the law allows,and more. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2012 11:02PM by eaglefly. Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: February 15, 2012 11:51PM Coco, I have a minor in Linguistics (not always sure whether we have to capitalize that as a proper noun or not, LOL) and "I seen: correlates with socio-economic class. I wish I could have simply studied the area of Socio-linguistics; very fascinating stuff. Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: February 15, 2012 11:52PM I am seeing IT'S as a possessive in NEWSPAPERS! Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
Anonymous User
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Date: February 16, 2012 12:33AM That's not technically improper though... is it? Wait... it is. It's OK to use an apostrophe to denote possessives but not with 'it'. Oh Maude, I can't think straight about this right now. I'll look it up later. This is one of those things like typing 'a historical' instead of 'an historical'. I read that in books etc and it bugs me but then I think that maybe that's not really a rule, I just think it is.
Dude, now I'm all confused. I'm envious you studied Linguistics though, that sounds like fun to me. Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
Jgunn
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Date: February 16, 2012 05:01AM forum spamming
drivers in front of me with nobody in front of them and 20 cars lined up behind them while they pace with the car beside them ...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist  Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
flipperjan
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Date: February 16, 2012 10:41AM Who is this Maude? Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
Anonymous User
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Date: February 16, 2012 12:58PM Maude = G_d. Not something I use as an expletive or descriptive word  .
Peeve ~ the casual use of the word G_d, saying things are "retarded", calling people of colour "coloured", I can't believe anybody still says that! Movies based on books that SUCK so that everybody who hasn't read the book yet think it sucks too (Eat, Love, Pray for example. Never seen the film but the book was AWESOME and my sister won't read it, she's too embarrassed to be seen with it, lol). Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
WheatgrassYogi
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Date: February 16, 2012 11:12PM coco Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > ....... It's OK to use an apostrophe to denote possessives but not with 'it'. Yours...never takes an apostrophe either......WY Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
Anonymous User
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Date: February 16, 2012 11:23PM You know what they say about the English language being so hard to learn? That there are few rules and many exceptions. Like i before e except after c and certain words the list of which is too long to mention. LOL.
Yours Its Everything else is fair game, or are there more exceptions to that one? Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: February 17, 2012 01:01AM It's= IT + IS--that's it. IT'S a contraction! ITS is a possessive; same as 'theirs.' I can totally see why people get confused; if I wrote: "Coco's sweater..." it's a possessive and used the possessive mark (can that be called an apostrophe?).
Why would it be AN historic? I thought only H words that drop the actual H sound (an HOUR, for ex.) would qualify... Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
Tamukha
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Date: February 17, 2012 01:08AM Today on the local ethnic hall marquee:
"Famous Lenten Fish Friday's!" Friday's what? I thought. I never knew anyone this bad at spelling when I was a kid. They'd have been run out of town. What has gone so very, very wrong in the intervening years? Something in the water? I just don't know . . . Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
Anonymous User
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Date: February 17, 2012 01:09AM It's all words that begin with H but perhaps that's the British way. We are a colony after all...
Its Yours Theirs I have a book on this, I need a refresher. Effect, affect, lay, lie, laying, lying, dye, die, dying, dyeing, good grief. Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
eaglefly
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Date: February 24, 2012 01:40PM All that dam flashing and zooming and tilting on just about every tv show and commercial nowadays.
But I guess I shouldnt even have that stupid box (or these days,that stupid pancake) ON! Re: Things you find irksome.
Posted by:
Tamukha
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Date: February 24, 2012 02:57PM Vinny,
I was watching Masterpiece Theater on Sunday, and noticed suddenly how different it was from regular fare: it was people sitting around or standing around and talking, in a normal tone of voice, and with natural sounds in the background. It was strange to realize how calm my mind was watching that, as opposed to a show with loud sound effects and altered digital images! Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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