My all-time pet peeve, which five years ago was responsible for at least three road rage episodes in middle Tennessee, is drivers who do not understand the concept of the left lane being the passing lane.
YOU DO NOT SIT ON THE LEFT LANE UNLESS YOU ARE OVERTAKING ANOTHER VEHICLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1AS SOON AS YOU ARE FINISHED PASSING, YOU GET BACK OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Their are too many nucular stastistics irregardless, you know. Where you at everyone? I pacifically don't have time to look for all you indignant people. I know this has been done before, I seen it before I axed about conversating. Just plain couth, you know. Your right, it don't matter because I'll either learn you or borrow you some.
Last time I checked, that wasn't an actual word. And I'm the first to admit that I've used it a few times.
Biggest pet peeve would be a tie b/t people getting on the elevator before I can exit, and people at Wal-Mart who stand in the middle of the entrance digging in their purse. Why can't they move over?? Mike Straka has a column on foxnews.com. It talks about people who are oblivious to their surroundings. He calls them Obliviots. He calls the Wal-Mart folks Wal-Martians.
If you want a real laugh sometime, go to Wal-Mart and hang out by the entrance like your waiting for someone. Count the people that go in via the "Exit" doors and exit via the "Entrance" doors. Unbelievable!!!
[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 05-09-05 AT 03:07PM (CST)[/font][br][br]I'll combine the pet peeve and the initial subject of this thread!
My step-son will graduate next year from highschool, knowing little more than he did when he entered. He decided in the 6th grade that he didn't need to complete his work. The school district, refused to "fail" him and placed him in the next grade as a special-ed student. He has been moved along in this fashion, much to our dispair. His IEP (special requirements) provides that as long as he spells a word phonetically, it counts. He is not required to complete major projects or papers to earn credit, he just has to "try".
He's not stupid or disabled in anyway. He can do the work, he just learned WAY too early that he didn't have to. Sadly, this seems to be a trend. Schools are afraid to fail students that are failing. And I understand, but it's not teaching our children anything.
Everytime I meet with his teachers, I am thankful that I did not become a teacher. I would have been fired many times over!
DeniseE: If you had been a teacher you would undoubtedly made a difference in the lives of many children! The teachers I know who have "fought the system" have come out on top, but sadly too many take the path of least resistance.
No, integration is simply being placed among or into the relevant pool. Assimilating is a response to that. Sort of like integrating a Jersey Yankee into the population of Arizona, knowing she will not properly assimilate.
Would you like to be in-processed instead? I must admit that I have to catch myself every time I do an orientation. I always want to "in-process" them. Too much Army training!
We here in mid-Missouri get our employees "orientated," or so I've heard way too many times. I think part of that process is to document that we "conversated" on certain required subjects, items and topics...
Orientated reminds me of one of my many word pet peeves: preventative. Spellcheck doesn't have a problem with it though.
Also, spelling "yeah" but pronouncing it "yay". My dictionary disagrees with me, but it's WRONG, I tell you! Proper spellings of the word pronounced "yay", as far as I'm concerned, are; yea, ye, and yay.
The use of the phrase "terrible bad", as in "That's not so terrible bad" also annoys me greatly.
Other pet peeves that I don't think have been mentioned: Writing "complimentary" when meaning "complementary," and pronouncing the word "illegal" as "ee-legal." Maybe it's a Southern or a Texas thang, as in "It's ee-legal for y'all not to give us two 15-minute breaks a day."
And last but not least: Saying that someone did a "360-degree turnaround" or a "complete 360" when they mean a 180. #-o
Well, I'm writing a script for a movie, in which the following line appears, "I tell ya Newton, he got his ass whupped terrible bad. Ain't no way he's coming out of that hospital in time for Lukie's funeral. Move on down the pall bearer list."
Generally not too many things upset me including poor usage of English grammar even though I am an English Literature graduate. I just pass the omission off as ignorance or illiteracy or a combination of the two.
Anyway, what does peeve me is freeway drivers who believe that a yield sign means merge! I will not and completely refuse to move over to some yahoo who thinks he can come flying out into highway traffic as if no one else was on the road! xx( Let him hit me.....it's time for a new car anyway....maybe that Lexus I was considering. x:-/
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"I'll learn you."
"I'll borrow you some."
WHAT?!
Driving: people who honk in traffic jams. No one can move. Honking is not going to help.
YOU DO NOT SIT ON THE LEFT LANE UNLESS YOU ARE OVERTAKING ANOTHER VEHICLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1AS SOON AS YOU ARE FINISHED PASSING, YOU GET BACK OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xx(
Whew! I feel much better!
x:-)
Why hasn't nobody said 'youse guys'? Maybe it's sacred, like a cow.
"Keep in mind..."
Both expressions are extremely OVER USED!!!
As in: that's a whole nother story...
Last time I checked, that wasn't an actual word.
And I'm the first to admit that I've used it a few times.
Biggest pet peeve would be a tie b/t people getting on the elevator before I can exit, and people at Wal-Mart who stand in the middle of the entrance digging in their purse. Why can't they move over?? Mike Straka has a column on foxnews.com. It talks about people who are oblivious to their surroundings. He calls them Obliviots. He calls the Wal-Mart folks Wal-Martians.
Cheryl C.
I like the "obliviots", I can relate.
My step-son will graduate next year from highschool, knowing little more than he did when he entered. He decided in the 6th grade that he didn't need to complete his work. The school district, refused to "fail" him and placed him in the next grade as a special-ed student. He has been moved along in this fashion, much to our dispair. His IEP (special requirements) provides that as long as he spells a word phonetically, it counts. He is not required to complete major projects or papers to earn credit, he just has to "try".
He's not stupid or disabled in anyway. He can do the work, he just learned WAY too early that he didn't have to. Sadly, this seems to be a trend. Schools are afraid to fail students that are failing. And I understand, but it's not teaching our children anything.
Everytime I meet with his teachers, I am thankful that I did not become a teacher. I would have been fired many times over!
Linda
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#1 thing a consultant shouldn't say: "I could tell you the answer right now, but we're committed to a three month project..." #-o
They change the name to make it sound like they came up with a new idea.
>onboarded when assimilated.
Frankly, I would rather be onboarded than offed.
x:D
-Abby
Also, spelling "yeah" but pronouncing it "yay". My dictionary disagrees with me, but it's WRONG, I tell you! Proper spellings of the word pronounced "yay", as far as I'm concerned, are; yea, ye, and yay.
The use of the phrase "terrible bad", as in "That's not so terrible bad" also annoys me greatly.
x:-)
Other pet peeves that I don't think have been mentioned: Writing "complimentary" when meaning "complementary," and pronouncing the word "illegal" as "ee-legal." Maybe it's a Southern or a Texas thang, as in "It's ee-legal for y'all not to give us two 15-minute breaks a day."
And last but not least: Saying that someone did a "360-degree turnaround" or a "complete 360" when they mean a 180. #-o
Anyway, what does peeve me is freeway drivers who believe that a yield sign means merge! I will not and completely refuse to move over to some yahoo who thinks he can come flying out into highway traffic as if no one else was on the road! xx( Let him hit me.....it's time for a new car anyway....maybe that Lexus I was considering. x:-/