[ SECRET POST #2596 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2596 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[The Croods]


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04.
[Elementary]


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[Final Fantasy XIII]


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06.
[SCP Foundation]


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07.
[Philip Seymour Hoffman]


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08.
[Twin Peaks]


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[Richard Armitage]


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[Reign]


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[The Hobbit]


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[Hunger Games]


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[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]


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[Teen Wolf]


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[Panic! at The Disco/Dallon Weekes]















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Comments

Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

As an example, here's two big peeves of mine that I'm 99.999% sure I don't share with anyone else:

1) When people put the word "baby" before a baby's name when talking about them ("Baby Caleb is getting so big!" or "I wasn't invited to Baby Nevaeh's christening.").

2) When people preface a calendar year beginning with "20" with the words "the year" ("My dad thinks that by the year 2040 gas prices will be $10."). Once in a great while I'll even hear people doing this when talking about years gone by (i.e. "My cousin's first child was born in the year 2006.")

What are yours?

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

Related to your #2, I am irrationally annoyed when people say 'two-thousand and fourteen' instead of 'twenty-fourteen'.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[ginainthekingsroad]

I find it difficult to say with the aughts, but I say both 20-14 and 2000-14 about evenly. The 20 way is "more" correct or at least consistent with past usage. You didn't say nineteen thousand and ninety-nine for 1999, did you?

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[lynx]

This has always felt so weird for me whenever I say a date in English :'D Spanish is the oposite, nobody would ever say "Diecinueve Noventaynueve" for 1999.

(I know what the right use is in English, ok. It just sounds weird to me, even after all these years.)

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[sarillia]

I don't know why this grates on my nerves and I have never come across anyone else who cares but

"the reason why..."

The why just seems really superfluous to me.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

Almost as frustrating as 'in my opinion'. I hate it so much when people say that. I know it's your opinion. If it were not, I assume you would not be telling me.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

When my cousins call me "Cousin -name-". Thankfully, only my triplet cousins do this, but I *really* don't like it.

When people misuse, [and to a much lesser extent misspell] "Y'all". It's a contraction of "You" and "All" - it can't be used for singular you! Hell, it's not even used to replace every *plural* you.

People saying "Whilst". I know it's a legit word, but for some reason it just sets my teeth on edge.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

People saying calvary when the word they should be using is cavalry. I get so fucking irrationally annoyed.

Here comes the calvary!

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[tabaqui]

HA! Yes. They are *two very different things*!!

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

I always got really frustrated when people didn't get a joke.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[fingalsanteater]

People who use those paper toilet seat protectors in clean bathrooms. In a really gross bathroom, that's okay (though, I prefer to hover if I'm worried about the cleanliness of the seat).

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

How do you know, do you follow people into there, you nasty creep?

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has this pet peeve, but throwing it out here anyways.

I really hate it when people stick random foreign words (often English) into conversations in my native language when there are perfectly good words in my native language that they can use. (The word "Nice" for example is something that gets tossed around a lot, to the point where I get irrationally annoyed when I see/hear it.) Also when people just randomly speak English for no reason really. Like when I was on the bus the other day and a group of boys spoke mostly English for the entire 30 minute ride. For no reason other than to speak English. And I've heard more and more young people do it, and it annoys me so much as these are often the same people that complain that my native language is so lame and English is so ~cool~. Blah!

tl;dr I hate it when people use random foreign words mixed up in my native language

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[tabaqui]

I mentioned this in a F!S post ages ago and some people got shirty about it. I had been watching a documentary on some kids in India who were involved in a project where they were making a map of their neighborhood (because it was blank on Google Maps), and then got involved in talking to the local officials to get more public water pumps, etc. And i noticed that a number of people in the documentary would use (seemingly) random English words that it would seem *for sure* there were Indian words for the same thing, and I wondered why that was.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[tabaqui]

I really hate when you have a roll of paper towels, or toilet paper, and someone tears off a bit and leaves the edge ragged. There's a perforation! Take that weird little triangular leftover off of there!

I also have to get all the bits left behind when you tear a page out of a spiral notebook.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

I hate stickers, and being forced to wear stickers. Even as a kid, something about them disgusted me. I still cringe whenever I am forced to wear a "Hello, my name is___" sticker, or even putting stickers on computers, furniture, etc. Yuck. I know, it's weird.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

I hate the dramatic pause that happens in some fiction when someone is speaking to a character right before addressing them by name. "It's nice to see you again... Robert." It's done in almost every anime and occasionally in other things too. Who really does that?

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

It's ridiculous and stupid, but I hate it when people don't observe "right side of the road" rules on a staircase. Like I have this idea in my head that if the staircase is divided, everyone should go up one side and down the other. If possible, I will actually go out of my way to avoid staircases where this "rule" (which no one cares about but me) is not being followed.

This doesn't bother me on sidewalks or staircases that don't have a divider in the middle.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

When people choose diet soda.

Ughhhh, choose water or soda. Don't half-ass it.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

Singers with weirdly affected pronunciation.

(Example: Loreena McKennitt, in "The Highwayman." She sings "Bass, the landlord's daughter," every time.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

Beard-stroking.

You laugh, but I can't fucking stand it. If I'm talking to someone who has a beard, and they start stroking it, I want to shout at them. It's batshit.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

People who try to start up a conversation and then leave uncomfortable silences. Like "Hey, [name]..."
........pause........
"...um..."
........pause........
"...okay..."
........pause........
"...so it's been about 3-4 minutes of near-silence since this conversation started and only now am I going to start talking to you."

I get that some people are shy or whatever but there's 2 guys at my work (one of whom is a manager) who do this ALL THE TIME.

When someone keeps referring to another person by their full name.

[(Anonymous)]

Unless, of course, they share their first name with someone else in the same general group and the group doesn't have a nicknames for them.

It's kind of a silly thing to be peeved about, it's not wrong or anything. It just seems to be distancing or a form of idolatry or both.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like that "baby" thing either. my mom does it all the time.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

1) People thinking they can just take my glasses off my face without asking.
2) People saying "fair enough"; it always makes me think there's an ideal rate of fairness there, but these people are deciding "Eh, halfway there is cool," and I know that's not what people mean but it bugs the HELL out of me.
3) And probably just because I am a sad lonely expat, but the complete lack of the voiced 's' sounds when people here speak English with me is RAGE inducing. (For the record, I am bilingual and always remind people that if they want to they CAN speak the local dialect with me but most people want to practice and ... then it's always "How'sss thinkss thesssse daysss?" it's like a snake-pit. I can deal with everything else- the general accent, vowel oddness, the th's being s or f or d or anything but th. So I have no idea why this one sound drives me 'round the twist.


ah hem. I clearly need help. Or therapy. Or to go home. :/