This Really Annoys Me Pet Peeve Thread

[Hoppity]

The guy who parks in the spot you shoveled out clean to the curb.

 

[hagar]

Our daffodils and irises may well be ^%!&ed.

Hell, our daffodils have already come and gone and the irises half way up down here. Yet on the way home from work this evening I was driving through snow flurries and there's a freeze warning tonight.
Our pear tree is almost done flowering and our apple is starting to bud. I hope it doesn't damage them too much, or kill off too many pollinators.

 

[hio3791]

Is there light rail in Pittsburgh now? All I remember are busses and the monorail to the top of Mt. Washington. There were trolley rails on Grant and maybe somewhere in Oakland but no trolleys.

There's been one for as long as I know. The modern system has been around for over 30 yrs. It services downtown and south into the South Hills. In the last 5 years, the system was extended under the Allegheny River to the North Shore. So now we can ride it to Heinz Field and PNC Park.

 

[day_trippr]

Having been surrounded by NJ nitwits in a stalled-and-crawling GSP too many times to count, I wouldn't use NJ as a positive example for anything to do with driving...

Cheers!

 

[shelly_belly]

Left-hand exits

 

[day_trippr]

I'm with ya. The GSP in Jersey and I-84 through Connecticut are full of left exits and the locals are complete morons about getting up to speed before attempting to merge with the left-lane traffic.

The fun really gets going when there's a right exit a few hundred yards down stream.
I drive through those states with my head on a swivel...

Cheers!

 

[GrogNerd]

we avoid the GSP and Turnpike completely on our way to visit family in Morris County, NJ

come in thru PA (15 to 581 to I83 to I81 to I78 ) into NJ from the west

avoids all the arseholes on I95 and saves us $20 in tolls, round trip. all we have to pay is 75¢ to get out of NJ on the way home. for that, it only adds 15 minutes to the drive, disregarding traffic

also avoids Baltimore and Philly. so... gravy

 

[Stillraining]

People that use"prolly" for probably in their posts.

 

[CGVT]

People that use"prolly" for probably in their posts.

Or any other texting shorthand.

R U going 2 brew a stout?

Just stop.

 

[soccerdad]

R U going 2 brew a stout?

Prolly

 

[Steveruch]

we avoid the GSP and Turnpike completely on our way to visit family in Morris County, NJ
come in thru PA (15 to 581 to I83 to I81 to I78) into NJ from the west

Is that turnpike still poorly maintained? When I lived in Allentown and went anywhere on it I'd be cursing the potholes the entire trip.

 

[JonM]

I get why right hand exits are better, but there's a situation here in Milwaukee that makes it seem a little silly to me.

There's a major highway that goes from the western suburbs to the lakefront/downtown and it splits as it gets close to the lakefront. For decades, when you were going eastbound into downtown, when you'd reach the split, the north lanes of the eastbound highway split north with a left exit, the south lanes split south and the middle continued eastbound to the lake.

They recently changed it up to eliminate the left exit so now there's a remarkably elaborate system of ramps and tunnels, etc. It just made sense back when north lane went north, south lane went south.

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[GrogNerd]

Is that turnpike still poorly maintained? When I lived in Allentown and went anywhere on it I'd be cursing the potholes the entire trip.

No idea... been at least 15 years since I've been on it

 

[lschiavo]

Dropping "to be" from a sentence...

"The car needs washed"

 

[Schlenkerla]

Dropping "to be" from a sentence...

"The car needs washed"

I think the dropping of "to be", means immediately.

Think of the movie "Pulp Fiction" with brains splattered all over the car.

To me, "to be" implies it can wait.

 

[BikerMatt]

Faffing around for two days before getting one lousy item (bag of hops) into an envelope and to the mail.

Up to the mailman now will I be brewing this weekend or not. Makes me want to go fetch a backup bag from my LHBS. They don't have amarillo though so need to figure out an equivalent.

 

[CGVT]

Dropping "to be" from a sentence...

"The car needs washed"

Yep.

The needs washed construction consists of a form of the verb need (or want or like) followed by a passive participle. For example, in sentence (1), needs repaired is an example of this construction; it has needs as its form of need followed by repaired as its passive participle:

1) The car needs repaired.

In standard English, (1) would not be acceptable. Instead, repaired would either need to become an infinitive (a verb form with to), as in (2a), or a gerund (a verbal noun ending in -ing), as in (2b):

2) a. The car needs to be repaired.

b. The car needs repairing.

The most common verb associated with this construction is need. However, Murray and Simon (2002) show that want and like are sometimes possible as well, as in the following examples:

3) Cindy, this one [baby] just woke up and probably wants fed.

4) [The dog] sure does like petted.

This construction is also sometimes referred to as need + V-en (or need/want/like + V-en), where V stands for a verb, and -en indicates that the verb has a passive participle ending (this passive participle ending may be -en, as in ridden, or -ed, as in fixed).

 

[soccerdad]

Yeah, yeah .. but the damn car prolly still needs washed

 

[beernbourbon]

yeah, yeah .. But the damn car prolly still needs warshd

ftfy

 

[JonM]

Keg frig for sell, but needs fixed.

 

[flars]

Threads with cutsey titles. I don't look at threads that won't identify the subject.

 

[GrogNerd]

Also clickbait articles

"You won't believe what happened next!"

 

[flars]

Also clickbait articles

"You won't believe what happened next!"

I'm not going to read that!!!!!

 

[JonM]

Something something, and then THIS happened and jaws DROPPED!!

 

[Schlenkerla]

Fvcking, gawd damn plastic shower curtains.....

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Fvcking, gawd damn plastic shower curtains.....

And little bathtubs that you can't submerge everything below your neck at the same time, or turn around while standing & not touch anything.
Regards, GF.

 

[Schlenkerla]

And little bathtubs that you can't submerge everything below your neck at the same time, or turn around while standing & not touch anything.
Regards, GF.

Yeah - The plastic shower curtain seems to just pop out and stick to you. Its annoying to have to keep brushing it off of you. I almost ripped the thing down.

 

[GrogNerd]

my tub has sliding doors on it, with the track extending up about 2 inches above the actual tub

I'm always banging my toes on it & that **** hurts like a mofo

= annoying pet peeve

 

[BikerMatt]

Yeah - The plastic shower curtain seems to just pop out and stick to you. Its annoying to have to keep brushing it off of you. I almost ripped the thing down.

Venturi effect caused by rising warm air. Don't pull the curtain all the way to the wall at the far end, should fix it.

 

[GrogNerd]

Venturi effect caused by rising warm air. Don't pull the curtain all the way to the wall at the far end, should fix it.

science in the "this annoys me" thread

= annoying