What Are Your Pet Peeves ?

[official soonet pu$$ycat]

Grammar isn't important until you're sitting there wondering why you're covered in urine.

[ssmarie]

which brings us back to .....

Grammar/Spelling: the difference between knowing your s h i t and knowing you're s h i t

[dreamer90]

People who aren't on time and lie like a rug... oh it drives me nuts!

[official soonet pu$$ycat]

Are you having a bad day?

[Peety]

People who think they know it all.

[MagicFingers]

People who say "you think you know everything" when they know nothing

[Peety]

People who say "you think you know everything" when they know nothing

Keep making the same stupid mistakes.

[IMHO]

People who keep this thread alive !!!!

[Ladywolf 1]

1. People who believe themselves to be above this thread or any other. 2. Since I just watched the C.T.V. News at 11:30, I again want to rant about Cindy -----, Alana ---- and another one tonight who's name I didn't hear "singing", the news in the other room...... Hey Craig, do you possibly have any pull with "these people"? If so, I'll buy the beer...!!!

[Super Gram]

IT SEEMS TO WORK FINE IN SOO MICHIGAN...but...someone at the works dept would have to do a little work to get this going.

I'm tired of people talking about the board of works dept. There is a traffic Dept that takes care of that and a man that is at the head of
it.

[Ladywolf 1]

I'm tired of people talking about the board of works dept. There is a traffic Dept that takes care of that and a man that is at the head of
it.

I was with you Gram, until you said that there was a "man" at the head of it. LOL.

[gouligann]

During a conversation, people who keep saying/questioning, almost after every sentence, over and over again "you know what I mean?" or saying YUP instead of yes.

People who say "yous" instead of you when talking to more than one person. "You" is both singular and plural~!

The MOST irritating misuse of a word IMO, is people saying "I seen" instead of "I saw". I notice that this seems to be a predominantly Goulais River "thing". Mountainveiw school either had/has crappy teachers, or the students were sick at home or sleeping during English classes.

[IMHO]

VALID POINTS GOULIGAN...BUT AS i GET OLDER i THINK...is any of what you say life threatening??? There is so much wrong in this world that a bit of bad grammar i can take.

[lynys]

Bad grammar makes you look uneducated.

There is no excuse for it.

[The Handyman]

Bad grammar makes you look uneducated.

There is no excuse for it.

Some of them will do much better once they graduate to grade four, .....

[MagicFingers]

Bad grammar makes you look uneducated.

There is no excuse for it.

Well sorta.....lol.....i use bad grammer and bad spelling when I make posts from my mobile as it is difficult to type on it and most the time it is a pain in the butt to go back and correct it until I get home and do it from the computer. Short hand on mobile is nice.

[SIMBA]

I hate typing anything on my phone...uggg

[gouligann]

As for bad spelling and grammar, it is better to make it a habit to do it as properly as you know how at all times. Using poor grammar or making common mistakes at spelling can become so ingrained that you eventually won't even realize that they're wrong. I try to be correct at both because I care... even though my English isn't perfect by any means. Some people say that I'm just being anal, but I guess I'm just old school.

My niece was a grade 8 valedictorian a while back. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't valedictorians top students? Anyways, I peeked over her shoulder while she was working on a project near the end of the year. One of the words jumped out at me from the paper she was writing on. Mastake? HUH? She explained that this was only her rough copy. What's that got to do with it? Mistake is just a basic word that IMO she should automatically have known how to spell without even thinking about it, and certainly not just writing it quickly and incorrectly because she was working on a rough copy. I just shook my head at her answer.

I imagine some older teachers (old school) must just cringe these days.

[lynys]

I am completely anal about grammar, and I am far from old. As I stated earlier, it makes the person look uneducated, and there is no excuse for it. I cannot stand trying to read someone's posts who does not know how to use punctuation, or to at least try and spell correctly. I almost always skip them.

[Ladywolf 1]

I guess the pet peeve that I want to bring up today is our railway crossings. Sometimes the rails are quite high at the crossings and even if you slow down, you get quite the "jolt" when you cross. Which brings me to my good news bad news story of today. I left the Doctors' building on East, went to Wellington, turned up Bruce. As I crossed the tracks on Bruce St., my rearview mirror fell off almost in my lap. What a weird feeling driving without that mirror. You almost feel paranoid cause you don't consciencely realize how often you actually look at it till it is not there. So I made my way up to Great Northern and continued North in that direction, looking for somewhere to pull in and get assistance. As I was crossing Second Line, I spotted the name of a bussiness, parked, went in carrying my mirror in hand. I spoke to the lady behind the counter, told her what had happened. She went to the back and was accompanied back by a young gentleman. He came with me back to my car, me carrying my mirror in hand. He got into my car, wiped off the old "glue" off of my windshield, cleaned off the back of my poor mirror. Took an adhesive out of his pocket and re-attached my mirror to its' proper spot on my windshield. After he held it for several minutes, he got out of my car and said, "you should be o.k. ma'am" and started back into the building. I started to follow him back inside, and he turned and gave me a "funny" look. I asked him, "any idea what I owe you". He stopped dead in his tracks and said "there is no charge ma'am, I sure hope you have a great day". All I want to say is thank you to that business and that really nice young man. Wish I could tell you where this was but...They were polite, very fast, some may even say "Speedy" assisting me.