OT- Pet Peeves (no pun intended)Craigs List Fur Baby listing and GRAMMER
Our sweet old, BEST humungous dog ever in the entire world, had to be put to sleep this past spring. She was the patriarch of our animals.
She was a true loyal friend, gentle and kind to all. I am going start crying just thinking of her pain and suffering. I just wanted her to get better holding out great hope----She could not.
Anyway, I am on a quest to a fur baby entirely of MY own.
As I pan thru Craig's list PETS just now my eye balls wanted to pop out of my head. The post started with:
ME AND MY HUSBAND ...
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I almost sent a message back to this women. Ma'am, please for the love of God, correct your first sentence to read in part, My husband and I
Me and MY HUSBAND is not grammatically correct.
Signed GOOD LUCK
I can NOT stand hearing or reading ME and MY HUSBAND. Or, ME and MY what ever.
OR,--- I'm gonna put HIM on child support is another peeve of mine. You cant put someone ON child support.
OK peeve over.
What are YOUR pet peeves?
Friends don't let friends end
Friends don't let friends end sentences in prepositions... :o
Grammar... * I'll learn you
Grammar...
* I'll learn you how.
WTF??
* Inability to differentiate between to/too/two, they're/their/there, etc.
*Improper use of *I*...
Fred gave the cookies to my husband and I.
Oh, no, Fred f**king did NOT. If you had no husband would you say "Fred gave the cookies to I"? No, you facking would NOT.
Crappy drivers:
* Drivers who don't know how to use turn signals (who turns it on when they start turning???)
* Slow drivers in the left lane.
* Those who drive waaaaaay under the speed limit (tractors don't count)
* People who cannot navigate a bloody roundabout.
You YIELD to cars already IN the roundabout.
While IN the roundabout, you have the right of way. You do NOT freaking STOP.
Noisy chewers
* Gum snappers (I want to shove it up their nostrils)
* People crunching chips like a jackhammer
* Open-mouth chewers :sick:
I need a soothing cup of tea.
I don't know if you know
I don't know if you know this, but I speak 3 languages every day. English is my mother tongue, but I get confused more and more these days. My spelling is getting more phonetic (so more likely to make who's/whose, their/they're/there type of errors. Ugh.
"Leren" is Dutch for "to learn." And for "to teach." And for "leather," lol.
"Lenen" is Dutch for "to borrow." And for "to lend."
"Apprendre" is French for "to learn", but sometimes "enseigner" ("to teach") is used instead.
Anyway, my point was that maybe some people make errors in English that seem 'correct' in their native tongue. I know there are hilarious books out there about how odd Dutch sounds if you just translate it, because it is so heavily idiomatic. That plus the grammar leads to a lot of strange sentences. "I thank you from the bottom of my heart and my wife's bottom too." Or, "I was so surprised my pants almost fell down." "That car is another cookie."
Moe, believe me when I say
Moe, believe me when I say that these folks speak only English. Poorly spoken, but English.
LOL Bloody roundabout. We in
LOL Bloody roundabout. We in Jersey call them circles. We also have jug handles. If you want to make a left you have to use the jug handle to the right.
Bahahahahaha - agreed. Along
Bahahahahaha - agreed.
Along with loose/lose, where/we're etc.
Ugh.
patience and license are both
patience and license are both discussed in the plural "in these here parts". as in "at that point my patience were gone because i had to wait so long at the DMV because my license were expired."
drives me insane.
OMG........TUFF Noggies, I
OMG........TUFF Noggies, I would have that "you MUST be kidding me" look on my face.
I am rolling......POOR
I am rolling......POOR EVIL3
GUM snapper cracker's and foot sliders. You know people who cant pick their feet UP when the take a step. They just sliiiiideeee their feet. THAT makes my head spin in a 360'
People who speed thru parking lots, slam on their brakes as their passengers appear to catapult out of their seats, get out of their cars and walk like they do NOT have 1oz of energy. They walk so slow, jam UP traffic. BIG problem in the south.
I am from the North. YOU DO NOT walk slow crossing a street/parking lot or you will be struck down.
Jaywalkers. The ones who
Jaywalkers. The ones who believe that, because they're moseying across the road - but NOT in a crosswalk - the entire world should yield to their pokey arses.
All of the above and to
All of the above
and to add: It is not "I could care less" it's "I COULDN'T care less". That is a biggy to me.
Classy, I've heard people say
Classy, I've heard people say "I couldn't not care less". No sh!t.
steplifesmells, Agree with
steplifesmells, Agree with you about elderly, handicap.
OF course drivers should let them take their time.
trying.hard YESSSS, thank
trying.hard YESSSS, thank you. THANK YOU THANK YOU.
YES she was the matriarch
**good catch, since I am the one having a conniption about ones grammar...bahhhhh**
no harm, no foul.
People who stand at your desk
People who stand at your desk when you're on the d@mn phone. And stand there. And stand there. And stand there. Hellooooooo, pinhead!! Can you not see that I have this handset glued to my ear and am TALKING to someone else?? Does it LOOK like I'm doing nothing? Does it SOUND like I'm not busy? If you need something to do, kindly go take a p!$$ up a rope.
Uh-huh! If you need it done a
Uh-huh! If you need it done a specific way (especially when I don't know how to do it that way) do it your d@mn self.
Trolls and crews.
Trolls and crews.
Grammar errors do not really
Grammar errors do not really bother me. Only one. For the love of Pete people…learn how to use then and than properly.
But a bigger pet peeve is the people that do not get their dogs fixed. Especially Pit bull owners who breed these dogs over and over to other dogs or let them run loose and get preggers. Just go to your local shelter and see all of the dogs there. The other day our local shelter had almost 100 dogs in there. Over 60 percent were pitbulls and pit mixes. Makes me sick.
They are beautiful dogs but humans suck so bad that most of the pits end up with terrible lives. Yes there are exceptions to the rule but I almost wish the breed would go extinct so that human would stop abusing them so damn much.
Fruit, a judge told DH and BM
Fruit, a judge told DH and BM to work together (years after the divorce). I asked (in my sweet southern way) for him to explain exactly what a divorce meant?
Yep, all of those grammar
Yep, all of those grammar fubars.