Hearing people eat, chew, or swallow anything. One teacher I work with brings something crunchy for lunch every day, and it just about makes me vomit. Hearing people breathe. Feet. Stockinged or not. Bones. Any food with bones in it. I actually speed through the skeletal system in one day because I absolutely cannot stand handling even fake bones. The thought of the marrow...ok, enough... Doing the dishes. It just angers me that the sink will be clean, then one meal, and bam... I'm sure there are more, let me think on it...
- dishes on the kitchen counter - the word "moist" - being late for anything - hearing people breathe or chew - re-heated ground beef - clutter
-The apostrophe USED to DEATH, esp by teachers who should know better! e.g. Dear Parent's, the Smith's. I've always wondered though about using the following for classes; the Four's, Pre-K's, Three's. Are they used correctly? -Two faced people. Someone @ work is all over the Management people; "Oh! You look so beautiful! Look @ that face! Don't you think so?" She was asking me while hugging the Director and pinching her face like a little girl. I was thinking, "What the heck was that all about?" A day later the same teacher was saying all this negative stuff about her and the Management team! She does the same thing with people that I see her snug up to, laughing while whispering something in their ears. I don't get it! When she talks about other people, I DO MY BEST to NOT say anything negative. I just say, "Oh! I didn't know that." Sometimes I just make some kind of noise to let her know that I am listening. I am taking too long in this case to tell her, "You are a two faced person!" Hubby is surprised that I haven't said anything to her yet. She's shared a lot about her personal life with me, so I feel sorry for her & have been listening & haven't been blunt.:help: Maybe she's never been confronted with the fact that she is a two faced person. -Teachers who call kids BAD! The negative things that they do are labeled BAD, not the children. -People who think they NEED to have the last word!:| -Those who copy your ideas and try to pass it off as theirs. I had a friend in College who took one of my poems, gave it to her boyfriend and made it sound like she wrote it. She didn't even tell me abt it. I found the card she wrote him later and just laughed abt it. -People who try to influence me in a negative way. I usually just tell them in their faces how I feel abt what they are doing. -Cashiers who ask, "Out of $10?", or whatever amount you give them. I usually smart mouth them, "No! It's $100!" Don't they see the dang money and just do the transaction? They don't need to waste anymore time, 'cause I need to get going! I have places to be @ and people to meet.:mellow: Rebel1 -
Just a quickie to make you all cringe...I am friend's on FB with a sort of friend of mine who apostrophe's everything she write's that end's with an 's'. Including word's that just happen to end with 's'. Like name's-Jone's, town's-Hasting's, and random word's-pet's. She also uses three commas instead of periods when using an ellipse,,,
As annoying as this is, when I used to work at a shop we were told to say the amount so the customer couldn't say after the transaction that they had given a larger note and been short-changed.
Yes!!! Only with me, it's pulling away from the drive through only to find cheese on my Big Mac. I hate cheese. Anything to do with chalkboards. One of my darlings was writing on one today with chalk, and I thought I was going to black out. It seems to get worse every year. It is a law here, and yet-everyone still does it. Including the governor's wife. Driving behind a car and smelling the cigarette smoke that is coming in through my vent....ooooooh! WHY do I have to suffer?? When my fabulously uplifting Christian radio stations (yes, two of them) BOTH loose their signal about 10 minutes from my school and I have to choose between downer NPR (ANOTHER story about world doom and gloom??) or usually-not-funny bantering DJs on the rock station.
Actually, I'm guilty of that. I always say "out of 20" when I give a bill to a cashier. It's a carryover from my waitressing days. I want to ensure that the cashier knows exactly how much money I gave her, and it's easy to get distracted. The two seconds is worth saving any disagreement over whether it was a 20 or a 10. How about the entitlement mentality? It makes me crazy. Once you become an adult, no one owes you a grade, a job, a vacation, a college education, a roof over your head, or anything else. Stop complaining and use the brains God gave you and figure a way to get the stuff you want. But stop asking me or anyone else to give it to you!!! And I hate "text talk." I don't text, but I can appreciate that it's appropriate when texting. But anywhere else, nope!! (Sorry, folks, it makes me crazy here too!!!) Use the WORD please! Posts full of "pls" and "ur" make me cringe.
I hate when people say things like "8 a.m. in the morning". I always want to say, "As opposed to 8 a.m. at night???" Also when people add an "s" to "somewhere" or "anywhere". For example, "I guess I'll have to look somewheres else for that". or "You won't find that anywheres else". Would you use an apostrophe in that situtation?? I assume they mean they are looking multiple places...
Teachers who suggest that certain students will grow up to be strippers, drug dealers, homeless, or any other disparaging thing. Most of these I have heard from teachers of 4-7 year olds! People who don't even bother to use the spell check, no it won't catch principle for principal, but it catches lots of other mistakes I see. Laugh tracks - as if I was too dumb to know when to laugh When there is so much lettuce on a sandwich/hamburger that it is twice as thick as everything else and you can't even eat it. Foods: raw onions, brussel sprouts, meat on the bone (I know this is weird).
I can normally figure it out, but the teacher in me desperately wants to correct the spelling!!!! And I end up thinking of the poster in terms of a student, instead of a peer.
- smart ass drivers & those who drive wrecklessly because they can't wake up early enough to drive at a proper speed - the fact that I've had 1 of my checking accts for 16 yrs w/o any monthly fees, but will start to be charged a monthly fee! I'm definitely closing it! - okra, beets, lima beans, celery, peanuts/peanut butter - smug people - getting sick - the inevitable fact that ALL good things must come to an end eventually!
-When the words "your" and "you're" are used incorrectly -When people don't turn their headlights on when it's getting dark or it's raining -Pickles -People who always have to "1 up" you (If you say you have a cold, they have the flu. If you say you got a new shirt, they got a whole new wardrobe.) -Having a messy kitchen -Teachers who always seem to be in a foul mood or angry at their students. If you don't love what you're doing, find something else to do, please. -When you're about a week or 2 from a nice, long break and the days seem to crawl by! -People who are cruel to animals -Cherries -Being late (my husband is perpetually late, so we when we have to be somewhere at a certain time, things get interesting around our house) -Getting my shoes soaking wet -Long car trips
I'm OK with a long ride TO someplace great. It's the long ride home, after the vacation, that goes on forever!
Food that expired and I didn't realize it. I wanted to make waffles today and the bisquick expired a month ago.
-Misplacing things, like keys. -A biggie : people who disregard the most kind hearted, generous people simply because they are not making a big splash in life. I have a very young college friend who voiced her strong dislike of "text talk." Her texts are always proper. She instantly cured me of ever using text-eze!! I figure, if an 18-year-old can write properly, I can!
commas in the wrong place static cling mud when my computer at school is acting crazy and the tech guy gets an attitude with me about it CHILDREN who are disrespectful to their parents in parent-teacher conferences teachers who forget that kids are kids and that what they do in 5th grade doesn't determine the rest of their life teachers who don't do any outside duties (PTO events, fall festival volunteer to help with anything!!!) while the same teachers do almost everything neighbors who park on the curb and the mailman who don't deliver my mail because he says the car blocks easy access
I hate this, too. I always feel like I should say something to the student, but then I feel awkward about it since the parent is there and he/she should address it.
I've addressed it the next day: "Please don't EVER put me in a position where I have to hear you speak with such disrespect to your mom again!!!!!" Inevitably I get an apology.
Funny...I have addressed it right in front of the parent. It's my classroom. My mother's friends never hesitated to correct us.
People who send emails, etc, all in caps. DON'T YELL AT ME! I don't read the messages on here if they're in text code. Cutesy codes are for actual texting or pre-teen girls who use sparkly purple pens and dot their i's with flowers or smiley faces. People who smell like cigarette smoke. People who go through a drive-through with a complicated order, be it food or banking. People in the fast food line during rush hour, who have "special orders." People who bring dogs to trade shows, etc. I've seen old women with doggie purses, leaving a trail of dog pee behind them. I pity the poor dogs; it's their masters I loathe. Anyone over the age of four who doesn't seem to know how to put toilet paper on the holder or clothes IN the hamper. I hate, hate, hate the invisible person in my house who never returns scissors, tape, etc. to their proper place after using them. People who use "done" as a helping verb. Coffee. Tea. (I'm probably alone there!) Plagiarism so badly done, the icons and bullets are still on the paper. Students who say "Did I miss anything when I was absent?" and "Are we going to do anything in class today?" Cancun!!!!! Dirty hair. Loooong fingernails, esp. if they're painted. Click, click, click. . . . Reality shows. Most television. Movies, television, etc, that portray adultery, shackups, and premarital sex as norms. People who use the "F" word as every possible part of speech. (I'm not offended; I'm just tired of hearing it. Plus, it lowers the speaker's IQ by ten points with each individual use.) Liars. Cheaters. Excuse-makers. Enablers. People in bad situations who refuse to do anything about it. Doormats. Screamers. Smokers. Chewers. Whiners. (I'm NOT whining here! Heh.) I'm also disgusted when I see a shopping cart piled mountain-high with candy, ice cream, cake, cookies, frozen french fries, corndogs, etc, especially when the customer has children or is already plenty fat enough. Anyone not working for whatever reason who goes to a restaurant during rush hour, inconveniencing workers with limited minutes to get lunch. People who take a baby out in public dressed only in a diaper. Helicopter parents. Essays written in short, choppy sentences and lots of fragments. Women with huge purses who take up everybody's time at the checkout digging through them to find something. People who go through the "10 items or fewer" line with more than ten. Signs that say "Ten items or LESS." Dear Lord. Public misspellings. Children not taught or expected to sit still and behave in restaurants. People who must be entertained outwardly because they don't know how to keep themselves occupied inwardly. Humorless people. People with no imagination. Pompous people. And, if I may repeat myself, people so anal that they walk funny so the corncob won't fall out. It sounds as if I hate people in general, doesn't it! That's not quite true, however. I only hate people who don't behave properly.
It should be "ten or fewer." I have no idea why, but "ten or less" is like nails on a blackboard-- it's just wrong. (Sorry, I really did learn all that grammar in elementary school. But at this point, I do it by how things sound. It's normally an excellent guide for me.And Peter, who teaches English, just left for work.)
less in noncountable fewer is countable Ex. I have less stress than Alice because I have fewer things to worry about.
The need for websites to put everything as videos--so not nice for those with slow connections! In the time the thing loads, I could have been done reading. I also hate when articles are done as slideshow type things.
I agree with most of the things on Mamacita's list LOL I worked in a grocery store while in college and my biggest pet peeve was when people had 100 items in their carts on the Express line. I saw a cartoon in the newspaper once that showed a woman in the "10 items or fewer" line with a cart full of groceries. The man said, "She must either be a Math major who can't read or an English major who can't count". :lol:
Websites that automatically play music. Websites that make me sit through some inane introduction or video before allowing me to go on to what I really came to the site for. When I am having a veg out and watch TV day-one commercial comes on, there is a commercial on every channel. When I try to support my local grocery store, but I get home only to find mold on my produce, or growths on my meat (blech). I know the people well, and it is just embarassing to have to bring it up, so I usually just eat the cost (not the food!), and resign myself to shopping many miles away. Buying more than I planned to at the grocery store.
I'm going to pretty much go with everything Mamacita said (minus the coffee/tea) and add 2 more. When kids say someone cheated simply because they didn't win. Nuvaring commercials.
I can't believe I forgot this one . . . I HATE the Charmin commercials with the bears pooping in the woods. And their new slogan "Enjoy the go." GROSS!
What you noticed, Alice, is the distinction between count nouns - nouns that are counted, like cups or monkeys - and non-count nouns, like coffee or krill. (Another term for non-count nouns is mass nouns.) So you can have a few cups of coffee, but you don't have few coffees or few coffee, you have less coffee.
I like to watch a show on WE. I hate the commercials. There's the diarrhea lady (not making this up), Jamie Lee Curtis (aka intestinal flora), a lady who says, "This laundry product makes my life, like 1000x better!", and then, inexplicably, a porn commercial with young women dancing around eating desserts. W E I R D.
I hate it when I get confused about what day it actually is. I had today off (furlough day) and thought tonight was Sunday night. I went to church yesterday and watched soap operas today, so I don't know why I expect Desperate Housewives to be on tonight! And since I mentioned it, I hate furlough days. Although I do tend to get quite a bit done.
msmullen reminded me of this... When kids lose something, then try to say someone stole it. Like today, I was finishing up my grades, and 2 of my boys didn't have an assignment turned in from last week. I ask them, and they try to blame it on the sub, then try to tell me that someone must have stolen it from the stapled together pile of everyone else's paper. I just look at them, and point to their stys, I mean desks. Lo and behold, guess what they both found? I try not to say I hate any people, but I will say that I hate the behavior of parents who do not believe in their kids. I have one mom of a girl I coach who is convinced that her daughter is a no-talent fool. And she tells her as much. This girl is going to state with us this week, that's how much non-talent she has.
