The Pit's First Pet Peeve Thread

[deacdiggler]

When you state an opinion and someone else goes “correct”. Like somehow they are the end all validators of what’s right and wrong. Drives me insane.

this is correct

 

[Grabs Turds Bare]

this is correct

TITCR

 

[Biff Tannen]

When you state an opinion and someone else goes “correct”. Like somehow they are the end all validators of what’s right and wrong. Drives me insane.

It bothers you when people agree with you ?

 

[DistrictDeacon]

It bothers you when people agree with you ?

It happens so infrequently it really throw his day off.

 

[deacdiggler]

People that send four emails back to back, when they could of easily sent one.

people who unintentionally Brasky phrases up

 

[DeaconCav06]

people who unintentionally Brasky phrases up

Members of my wife’s family use “supposably”

 

[BarcaDeac]

piggybacking on that, when people think it's pretentious to point out basic grammatical things any educated person should know. examples include:

there/their/they're
its/it's
your/you're
have/of
affect/effect

 

[qcdeac]

Members of my wife’s family use “supposably”

I have a neighbor that does this. Older guy in his 60s, and too nice of a guy to correct. It feels like he says it every 30th word though, which makes me wonder if it's intentional.

 

[deacdiggler]

I have a neighbor that does this. Older guy in his 60s, and too nice of a guy to correct. It feels like he says it every 30th word though, which makes me wonder if it's intentional.

For all intensive purposes he’s fine

 

[DeaconCav06]

piggybacking on that, when people think it's pretentious to point out basic grammatical things any educated person should know. examples include:

there/their/they're
its/it's
your/you're
have/of
affect/effect

“Well you know how those college boys are. Never worked for a thing in their life.”

 

[scooter84]

Seemingly educated, intelligent people that call those golf-course-marauding birds Canadian geese. I have to try so hard not to correct them.

 

[ImTheCaptain]

Seemingly educated, intelligent people that call those golf-course-marauding birds Canadian geese. I have to try so hard not to correct them.

i mean, they could be from Canada

 

[wfudkn]

Canada geese, not Canadian geese

 

[ImTheCaptain]

yeah but they could also hail from canada

 

[ImTheCaptain]

Canadian Canada Geese

 

[deaconson]

I'm gonna need birdman to weigh in.

 

[deacdiggler]

canadian geese fly to america to have their babies, thus creating american canadian geese. trump will fix this

 

[ImTheCaptain]

canadian geese fly to america to have their babies, thus creating american canadian geese. trump will fix this

*only trump can fix this

 

[tigerswood]

I say Canadian Geese. Canada geese sounds weird to me. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever heard someone call them that out loud. Would be like saying France fries instead of French fries.

 

[forensicdeac]

Freedom Fries