things that annoy

[Slime]

the other thread is things that you think annoy you "more than they should", so i need a thread for things that annoy me for good reason

[Slime]

people saying something is "a thing"

"so yeah... thats a thing."

this headline "Space Pirates and Zombies 2 is officially a thing"

[Pizza The Hut]

what's wrong with that

[Bown]

What's wrong with "Bitch about shit thread"

[Dungeon Snake]

Originally Posted by Pizza The Hut

what's wrong with that

it kind of annoys me too but probably not as much as chris lohr. basically it communicates nothing and the grammar is poor. it sounds like something a valley girl would say

[Dominator Dan]

Originally Posted by Rattlesnake

it kind of annoys me too but probably not as much as chris lohr.

hahaha i read this as "it annoys me but chris lohr annoys me more"

[Slime]

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[Slime]

thing that annoys me about me:

every time i post a long post, i realize that i wrote "just" too many times. i regularly ctrl-F "just" and delete/re-write them. i just did it for that last post (originally it had 3 justs, brought it down to 2). i don't know why i write "just" so much

[Dungeon Snake]

yeah i write "just" alot too, and it bothers me. i usually use it in humorous situations, like "he just sweeps all the tax returns off the table and lights them on fire with a zippo" but i think it's sort of a lazy way to communicate something. i use "like" and "sort of" or "kinda" and "alot" too but those don't really bother me as much because they're just part of my idiosyncratic speech pattern

[Bown]

Yeah I find myself doing it all the time too, then when I look back every second sentence has the word 'just' in it. I wonder if there's a reason that word is so prominent in our dialects

[Nixon]

Originally Posted by Lohr

shit, i didn't realize that was a thing since i never check CoW (not on purpose, i just forget that forum is a thing)

did you just do it yourself

[OmniromX]

[Dominator Dan]

i find the same with THOUGH

[Phil Williamson]

Originally Posted by Lohr

people saying something is "a thing"

"so yeah... thats a thing."

this headline "Space Pirates and Zombies 2 is officially a thing"

along the same lines - "because [noun]." like "because reasons" or "because science."

I say "basically" too much when I'm explaining things and annoy myself. I don't think I do it when I'm typing though.

[Bobby Swisha]

none of the things in this thread annoy me

except the fact that "you" is absent from the title

[Roadkill Dave]

re: using just too much, I have the same problem with actually and really.

And when I'm public speaking I overuse 'obviously' and I worry that I spojnd patronising

Edit: typing on a tablet, too. What the fuck is spojnd

[Slime]

Originally Posted by Nickson

did you just do it yourself

Originally Posted by Phil Williamson

along the same lines - "because [noun]." like "because reasons" or "because science."

YES, that is another main one that annoys me. and if we were to go more toward all reddit annoyances, all the "for science!" shit

i feel kinda bad pointing out stuff like "so", "because ___", "that happened" and "is a thing" because some people think i'll be judging you every time you use these phrases. that's not how it is, "so" can be used fine, "that happened" can be used fine. its when these are used to the point of meme status, with people using them rather than just writing in english how they naturally would, that it gets annoying

[Slime]

it annoys me that in american english, we put punctuation inside the quotation marks, even if it is not what the speaker said. for example,

Do you think it is dumb that Billy said, "I wanna be lean and mean?"

I refuse to write this way, its terrible

[Dominator Dan]

http://www.grammar-monster.com/lesso...n_or_out .htm

i dunno man looks like that's what you should be doing anyway

[Slime]

oh nice. but there are other cases where the american version is dumb. i didn't realize that wasn't one of them though.

like

"I’ll go," she said.

[Roadkill Dave]

got another one, when I bump or accidentally walk into someone on the street, say 'sorry' automatically and they fucking sigh to themselves or look annoyed.
YOU WEREN'T LOOKING WHERE YOU WERE GOING EITHER CUNT, WE'RE EQUALLY RESPONSIBLE

[Roadkill Dave]

and generally people walking slowly in front of me in tight spaces

seriously, the pace I see some people walk at it's a wonder they manage to get anywhere

[Nixon]

when people claim they have OCD when they don't

[Roadkill Dave]

i'm up at 2am i'm such an insomniac

[Phil Williamson]

Originally Posted by Roadkill Dave

got another one, when I bump or accidentally walk into someone on the street, say 'sorry' automatically and they fucking sigh to themselves or look annoyed.
YOU WEREN'T LOOKING WHERE YOU WERE GOING EITHER CUNT, WE'RE EQUALLY RESPONSIBLE

haha geez, I thought you were gonna say "...and they say sorry too even though it was me who bumped into them." I don't think I've EVER had anyone do this. English people are dicks.