Irrational hatreds

rjsterry

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Actually, can I add people who pull others up on relatively meaningless grammatical errors to my list? They come between nose-touching and people with big, foam heads.

teehee :oops:

deptfordmarmoset

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Agent57 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

diffuse the situation

This isn't an irrational hatred, but it's another one of my pet peeves.

What is?

Diffuse/defuse, at a guess.

I thought the saying was in reference to pressure?

Rather than a fuse...

Not so, defuse as in to render harmless/less tense.

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000273.htm

Sure, the accepted expression is ''defuse the situation'' but ''diffuse the situation'' also makes sense in most usages. So, in an accidental roundabout way, it's not actually wrong - it's just not the standardised version.

Agent57

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

Sure, the accepted expression is ''defuse the situation'' but ''diffuse the situation'' also makes sense in most usages.

Defuse the situation by diffusing the tension.

il_principe

Hybrids.

greg66_tri_v2.0

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Actually, can I add people who pull others up on relatively meaningless grammatical errors to my list? They come between nose-touching and people with big, foam heads.

People who claim that grammatical errors are meaningless. :twisted:

jonginge

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crosswords I can't complete (most of them).

tailwindhome

TV programmes with title which is a play on the main characters name such as 'A Touch of Frost'

lost_in_thought

CiB wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Oh god, fog lights, they're another one. Oh, and made-up American words, like 'burglarized'. What's wrong with 'burgled'?

You know what the Yanks say LiT. There's no noun that can't be verbed.

<off now>

lost_in_thought

I've thought of another Americanism that I hate to irrational levels!

It's 'I could care less'.

No, Americans, no, what you mean is 'I couldn't care less'. 'I could care less' means 'I care really quite a bit', whereas what you tend to use it to mean is 'I don't care very much at all'.

You pillocks.

greg66_tri_v2.0

But shurely that's a rational hatred?

(I only say that because I was about to add "Using "like" as verbal punctuation, and as a do-it-all verb", and then realised that my hatred of that was wholly rational).

Zombie_donkey

Carol Vorderman

Eastenders

Tomasz Schafernaker

Joggers with iPods

beegee

Journalism. To take the very first story I looked at it this evening from the good old bbc (irony btw).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11809457

Why use the word 'huge' - because it attracts readers, not because it is correct. And then they reproduce the stuff from a press pack - presumably - becase they say that

For comparison, the largest commercial satellite ever launched was the seven-tonne Terrestar-1 telecoms spacecraft.

But they haven't mentioned the weight of the newly launched satellite.

Do journalists do anything other than cut and paste ? I thought the idea of journalism was to do all the investigation and analysis so that I don't have to.

bisiklet yariscisi

I fecking hate commercial radio stations with a passion. At work I'm subjected to eight hours a day of mind-numbing Capital, Magic or Heart Radio depending on the choice of the cretin in the office who controls the tuner.

Please help me.

Do I:

A. Invest in a personal DAB/MP3 player (even though they're banned at my work) and reacquaint myself with a world of music and thought that doesn't revolve around the X-Factor.

or

B. Disembowel the w@nker controlling the radio?

Help!

EKE_38BPM

I'd go with 'B'

I used to work at Ministry of Sound and all day, all week, all year they would play banging techno and house in the offices from ministry of sound radio.

That is fine when you are clubbing, but when you are trying to speak to a supplier on the phone it really got on my nerves. I used to bring massive headphones in to listen to radio 4 online and do most of my business online! Good thing I worked in the internet department and could get away with not speaking to people.

alitodd

1. People who say "him and me". Its "He and I", dammit!

2. People who say "Scotch". We're people - not breadcrumbed eggs or whisky!

3. Supermarket trolleys. Why, oh why will they not go in a straight line?!

4. Your Mum jokes. Immature, people.

5. Labour. Except that's rational...

tx14

Gypsum_Fantastic wrote:

Pandas - I f*cking hate pandas

picky eaters they are!

deptfordmarmoset

That thing opera singers do with their voices that says ''I can drown out a perfectly decent orchestra.''

I love orchestral music and choral music, but I can't go to sleep listening to Radio 3 because at some point in the middle of the night someone's going to schedule some portamental warbleretta blasting out the aria from hell that will ruin my night's sleep.

Oh, and football teams with vertically-striped jerseys...or that wear blue.

Agent57

alitodd wrote:

1. People who say "him and me". Its "He and I", dammit!

That depends upon the context, surely. "He and I are going to work." "They gave them to him and me."

jonginge

alitodd wrote:

1. People who say "him and me". Its "He and I", dammit!

http://www.betterwritingskills.com/tip-w026.html
*walks away whistling nonchalantly*

Edit: what Agent57 said, innit

HebdenBiker

Cyclists. They weave all over the road, jump red lights and don't pay road tax.

mkirby

one i developed about an hour ago reviewing documents.

People who insist that there should be 2 spaces after every full stop.

rjsterry

mkirby wrote:

one i developed about an hour ago reviewing documents.

People who insist that there should be 2 spaces after every full stop.

A left over from when people used typewriters, when people were taught to leave a double space after full stops, I think. Word processing has made it unnecessary, but old habits die hard.

Sc00bs

I always double space after a full stop. In fact I've just double-double spaced purely to annoy those who dislike it.

mwahahaa

edit* Curse you autocorrect software!

Wallace1492

Those small, overnight travel bags with wheels, the really small ones that have ridiculously long, triple telescopic handles and are the size of a shoe box.... why in the name of sweet jesus don't you just carry the bleeding thing, instead of letting the tiny wheels grate along, annoying the bejesus out of me.....

Jay dubbleU

tx14 wrote:

Gypsum_Fantastic wrote:

Pandas - I f*cking hate pandas

picky eaters they are!

Don't worry - they're an evolutionary dead end - never understood why the World Wildlife Fund picked an animal for their logo that was so obviously heading for extinction

CiB

There's a bloke who posts on Another Site, Who Capitalises Just About Every Word In Each Sentence And Then Randomly doesn't for Some Reason. Hard to read or what?

Today's:

People who plod along with a line of traffic behind, doing well below the speed limit. Safe? Probably. Annoying? Yep.

The BBC, for providing HD but interpreting HD as Higher Def, not High Def. It really isn't good enough, especially for an organisation that used to be the best, the industry leader.

Slugs. Did I already say slugs?

Undignified mastication. See also chewing gum.

rjsterry

Wallace1492 wrote:

Those small, overnight travel bags with wheels, the really small ones that have ridiculously long, triple telescopic handles and are the size of a shoe box.... why in the name of sweet jesus don't you just carry the bleeding thing, instead of letting the tiny wheels grate along, annoying the bejesus out of me.....

Oooooooh, this! I've come this close <holds thumb and forefinger very close together> to hoofing one of those things across the floor after it had been dragged over my feet for the third time.

dvdfoz

Light phasing, particularly between Westferry DLR to up ramp to Westferry circus. No matter what speed I ride, if I'm caught at the first, the second will always turn red when I'm 3 yds away.

Not tucking shirts into trousers.

Hyping the ashes as an England victory, just setting up for an epic fall.

Sewinman

Are there many rational hatreds? To actually *hate* something is very strong. I imagine Cambodians hated Pol Pot, so it would seem a bit spurious in comparison to rationally hate a spelling error.

99.9% of hatred must be irrational.

I strongly dislike Q1, the programme. I know it is good, but I don't like that smug intelligentsia feel it has and I have to turn it off.

DonDaddyD

Teenagers other than family members who are teenagers. Can't stand them, they take everything for granted and they think they know everything. And they're up to no good.

People who approach me in the street either to ask me for money or give a leaflet or something.

People who cough while they are sitting next to me.

Not being able to find the remote control.

Shop assistants in shops who ask me if I need any help. "NO! If I need help I'll ask for it!"

Never having a shop assistant near by when you need help.

Queues, I hate them. I hate people who don't queue just as much.

Computer games I cannot complete.

Wobbly bike riders.

Other peoples farts.

Tapas.

People who stare at me while I'm eating.