List your pet peeves

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Originally Posted by Cundalini

In England it`s " You know what I mean?" at the end of every other sentence! It really gets on my tits!

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...unless you add "nudge nudge wink wink say n'more"
...then it's cool

Nasty cashiers who lick their fingers to open bags and scratch themselves before bagging your shit! Actually, any finger lickin' good muthaf.... who thinks it's ok to lick their fingers while in a business environment! AGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Guys with long toe/finger nails.

Anything with Miley Cyrus(j/k).

People with horrible gym etiquette that sit on equipment so they can talk on the phone when it's obvious someone is waiting to use it for its original intention.

people who either refuse or dont know how to use punctuation and capitalization when theyre writing something they dont seem to realize that although their thoughts are clear to them when theyre writing it is irritating to try to read things without punctuation because everything just becomes one big long runon sentence that takes twice as long to read because you have to keep backing up and figure out where the ends of the sentences are supposed to be punctuation is for the reader not the writer

I agree maxpower but we must take into consideration that English is not the first language for many of the members of this board.

This is my pet peeve.

People who think this sort of picture is funny

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Originally Posted by rbiller

I agree maxpower but we must take into consideration that English is not the first language for many of the members of this board.

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as a born and bred new yorker, i pride myself on speakin propa american. fuck the queen's language. she ain't no fuckin' queen of mine.

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Originally Posted by rbiller

I agree maxpower but we must take into consideration that English is not the first language for many of the members of this board.

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I'm not even talking about non-English speakers. I'm referring to people who speak English. Their grammar is correct, but they just can't be bothered to punctuate. Don't be so lazy...is it really that difficult?

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Originally Posted by maxpower

I'm not even talking about non-English speakers. I'm referring to people who speak English. Their grammar is correct, but they just can't be bothered to punctuate. Don't be so lazy...is it really that difficult?

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on an informal site such as this, grammar, punctuation and overall etiquette are not as important as you might want it to be

it is not a matter of being lazy...it is the nature of a society continually debasing communication to its lowest and most mobile and truncated form

at some point, there will be a renaissance of formal communication and the tools required to do so will be celebrated but fear not, for today, this board will not be its cause nor will it benefit from its inception

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Originally Posted by RallyCola

on an informal site such as this, grammar, punctuation and overall etiquette are not as important as you might want it to be

it is not a matter of being lazy...it is the nature of a society continually debasing communication to its lowest and most mobile and truncated form

at some point, there will be a renaissance of formal communication and the tools required to do so will be celebrated but fear not, for today, this board will not be its cause nor will it benefit from its inception

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You're right, and it's not the board or anyone in particular that I have the peeve against, but the general trend of that being an accepted way to wrrite. I also think it's weird that cursive handwriting is no longer being taught in many elementary schools. Just a generational thing, I guess.