I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
When people pronounce “debut” as “day-boo”
Or dee-boo or even better, debit. “oh I love Taylor Swift’s debit album!” bruh what
For me it’s all american pronunciation of french words. Feels like butchering xP
I wonder, depending upon when a word was borrowed and sound changes in both languages, if any sound closer to their middle/old french counterparts
My favorite French borrowings are gentle, genteel and jaunty. All borrowed from gentil (kind, pleasant, nice), but at different times (13th century, late 16th, and 17th, respectively).
The French word is from Latin gentilis, meaning “of the Roman clan.” English borrowed that from Latin as gentile.
So we have 4 English words, all from the same Latin origin. Of them, genteel is probably closest to the Old French pronunciation (but the vowels are still a little bit different).
niche… I hate hearing nitch when it’s neesh
People who do not backup their laptops or phones, then come complaint to me when they are unable to to access and get a photo when the device dies.
“What’s the cloud? I don’t want anything in the cloud! I don’t want to make an account!” then “oh no how can I get my pictures my phone doesn’t turn on”
Huge crossover with people who ask “can you help me with this computer thing” then demand “just do it for me!” and never learn to do it on their own.
When people let their phones ring endlessly. For God’s sake - either answer it or mute it, don’t just ignore it!
I was at a symphony concert where the guest performer was Yo-Yo Ma. And up in the cheap seats where I was, phones went off no less than FOUR TIMES during his performance.
It sure seemed like three of them were the same phone, but there were at least two different phones that went off.
How on earth do you not silence your phone going into a concert? And if you forgot to, how do you not silence your phone when someone else’s goes off? And most importantly, how do you not silence your own phone if it goes off?
During the applause the same person’s phone went off again and I just started laughing.
I later said Dvorak was remarkably far ahead of his time to write a piece for “solo cello, orchestra, and iPhone.”
This infuriates me to no end. I dont understand how these people live. Every few seconds is another notification. If its a Snapchat notification its even worse and I dont know why.
FOMO is a bad beast
I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
Schizophrenic people are very likely to do this. I work in mental health and this was mentioned in our training. At my location maybe 1/3-1/2 of folks wore one or more puffy jackets all summer long.
That’s really interesting. Is it known why? Do they not feel overheated or something?
Interesting, is that a comfort thing? Like wearing headphones everywhere with nothing playing in them?
It’s not clear why. It could be an issue with being able to accurately perceive your own temperature, it could be a comfort thing, it could be that they’re more likely to want important possessions to be harder to steal.
So either medical, emotional or social. 🤷
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Had a lot of teens walking around with the puffy jackets or hoodies on and ski masks over this past summer. Don’t think we have that many schizophrenic people around here.
I hate dish towels hanging on kitchen drawers. Do people just like picking up the towel every time you need a fork?
I hate dish towels, period. I only use disposable. I think that’s less eco unfriendly than driving so as a person who will never drive I don’t see the problem.
EDIT: WROTE MORE INSTEAD OF LESS LMAO YEAH LET ME DO SOMETHING WORSE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT LOL I mean I don’t drive so I shouldn’t be as eco unfriendly with paper dishes and plastic cutlery also I don’t use a dishwasher
The concernedly rising sightings of “could of” and “should of”. And it’s always the native English speakers. It irks me every time I see it. Why are you making such an obvious mistake? The sentence doesn’t even sound coherent. How about you speak the sentence aloud and see how wrong it sounds?
But spoken it’s fine. It’s could’ve.
It’s when that gets written as “could of” that it becomes an abomination…
I have definitely heard “could /should of” by native speakers more than once.
What do you mean you’ve heard “could of”? Of course you would have heard that. That’s literally how it’s pronounced. It’s just not spelled out that way, as the above person noted. People end up erroneously writing it like that because that’s how you say it out loud.
Do you pronounce “could’ve” in a way that doesn’t sound like “could of”??? Curious to know what that would sound like.
“could have”?
Yes, but both “could have” and “could’ve” are correct, but also spoken differently, which is why I’m confused.
I personally hate it when people get weird about the word ‘hate’ and try to use the word ‘despise’ instead.
I loathe that.
That’s abhorrent.
It’s anathema to me
Bowling.
More like bow-ring! Get it, boring, hahaha, ha… I’ll get my coat.
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Myself
I also choose this person
Audio messages, I hate them with a passion. Sometimes I just refuse to listen to them. Can’t search them for info, and why tf do you assume I can just stop my day to listen to this shit I don’t have my goddamn headphones connected all the time, and I’m not about to put the phone to my ear for a full 5 minutes and no talk looking like a goddamn weirdo.
I had a boss who would send audio messages constantly. I’d be having a conversation with him, he’d get a text message on his phone, stop talking to me to mess with this phone, do a voice recording, mess it up cause he’d whisper it so others wouldn’t hear him (we still totally could), repeat it, rinse and repeat until he got it right, send it, then would ask me what we were talking about.
I’m convinced people who use voice messages have no situational awareness and are potentially psychopaths
Someone does this in a group chat I’m in, it drives me crazy.
I used to be in a group chat of just voice notes.
I’m not a hater but I understand the sentiment. I only exchange audio with very few people I feel comfortable with we both want to listen to our shit for that long, and I never expect a quick reply.
Randoms or new acquaintances sending audios without asking permission first usually annoy me.
I’ll make one exception for audio messages: the other person being in a situation where they cannot easily type the message, but it’s not an emergency. Hands full, driving, inclement weather, etc. I take it as an implicit “this message is important, but not drop-everything-else critical.”
I just ignore them completely. They don’t exist for me. Depending who it is, I can say “I didn’t have time to listen to it but next time if you text/message I can probably get back to it faster.”
It’s so inconsiderate too. If you want to use your voice then use voice-to-text and send a text message.
put the phone to my ear
Clearly you would look more normal if you blast it on the speaker while holding the phone in front of you, like everyone else. /s
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Newspapers who use the word “ouster” but as a noun, not a verb.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ouster
“With Torres conspicuously absent from City Council and committee meetings and events in District 3, the mood quickly changed from offering Torres due process to calling for his ouster as many residents and organizations felt Torres was in no position to effectively represent his constituents.”
—Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024“Niccol’s surprise hiring in August — announced alongside Narasimhan’s ouster — was greeted with widespread praise from the Club and Wall Street, with Starbucks market capitalization soaring by $21 billion in a single day, to nearly $109 billion.”
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024“The news of Hinton’s award comes weeks away from the first anniversary of Altman’s brief, stunning and ultimately unsuccessful ouster—as well as the second anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT at the end of November 2022.”
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024“That experience was in the back of my mind when reading about the struggles at CVS Health, which owns Aetna, and the ouster of CEO Karen Lynch last week.”
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024As opposed to:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oust
Ouster - One who ousts.
Ah, clearly the world is your ouster.
That’s ugly
Yeah, I also can’t stand it when words are used to convey meanings they’ve had for roughly five hundred years.
That have fallen out of use then come back nonsensically.
Newspapers also loved using “gantlet” instead of “gauntlet” for a time as well.
Nobody fucking says “run the gantlet”.
The fact that middle-click is used for pasting in Linux
I was about to switch all my windows machines to Linux but then you had to tell me this…
That reminds me of the time I didn’t know that “select - middle click” and “ctrl+c - ctrl+v” are entirely separate clipboards in Linux.
So I was implementing a password manager for the very first time.
For every single account I had, I created a new password within the password manager, and copied it with ctrl+c
Then I went to “change password” in the online account and pasted the “new password” in with middle-click.
For. Every. Single. Account.
The next day I couldn’t log into anything and of course had no idea what string I had replaced all my passwords with.Getting back into my main e-mail account was a bitch, cause I had set it up with my home phone number and address in the year 2004, never updated that info, and moved 11 times since then.
Greeting people or goodbye’s. Please don’t touch me, unless you are my child or pet. I was hoping the new covid habits of not shaking hands or hugging would become permanent, but it’s back again. And i still have this reflex of shaking hands, instead of keeping my hands in my pocket.
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