You Know What Grinds My Gears?

Justthefacts · 10-15-2012, 03:05 PM

Immaturity

The Batlord · 10-15-2012, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by LuckyLovexoxoxxx

crazy "high class private school" snobs that always go on about public high school kids are gonna be failure. BULL****. When people dont move out of the way in the store when you are trying to get something. some should get slapped.

Well, I've always been sorta poor (at least lower middle class), but I went to a private military school and I had the opposite problem. ****ing townies always yelling **** up at our barracks (basically just a dorm). Then we would yell something back, and next thing you know, we'd get called to ****ing formation and one of the administrators would yell at us for it and tell us to "stop all the ****ing cussing!"

LuckyLovexoxoxxx · 10-15-2012, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Well, I've always been sorta poor (at least lower middle class), but I went to a private military school and I had the opposite problem. ****ing townies always yelling **** up at our barracks (basically just a dorm). Then we would yell something back, and next thing you know, we'd get called to ****ing formation and one of the administrators would yell at us for it and tell us to "stop all the ****ing cussing!"

yeahh it was because some of my friends that i had were stoners and they acted like it was a big deal

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 10-15-2012, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger ?

Shut up Urban!!

Too easy, waaaaaaaaaaaaay too easy.

Breath and count to 10......

... And relax

DO IT!

Bloozcrooz · 10-30-2012, 01:24 AM

Ugly people that are narcissistic.

Howard the Duck · 10-30-2012, 01:26 AM

bestiality

Engine · 10-30-2012, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Oh sorry, thought of one more: the usage of words beginning with h! Suddenly it's the thing to do to put "an" in front of a word like hotel, heritage, hospital. What is this? It's "a historic occasion", not "an historic occasion"!! When did this start? It's everywhere now. What's next? "An happy birthday to you"?

As this article says, the use of "an" versus "a" before a word beginning with H depends on which syllable of the H word is emphasized. And there is debate on that.

As for when it started? I'm not sure how it is in Jolly Old Ireland but public schools in the US were teaching the use of "an" before H words since at least the early-1980s in my experience. That is, it's not a sudden or even recent thing. I think it's the opposite.

Note that I said 1980s, not 1980's. I hate seeing needless possessive apostrophes in numeric dates. Why do otherwise intelligent people default to this? They wouldn't write Nineteen Eightie's.

**Janszoon** · 10-30-2012, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Engine

Note that I said 1980s, not 1980's. I hate seeing needless possessive apostrophes in numeric dates. Why do otherwise intelligent people default to this? They wouldn't write Nineteen Eightie's.

It's not a possessive apostrophe, it's the same kind of plural apostrophe that would be used if I were to say "there are a lot of e's in your post". But I do agree that decade names look better without it and as far as I can tell from a little googling, both ways are correct.

Rjinn · 10-30-2012, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg

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Originally Posted by Slow Groove

Immaturity

Expand in what sense?

As for me, labelling people kinda pisses me off. That's where stereotypes kind of begin. All becomes a bore really.

Name-calling does too. They're superiority statements, that's all.

The Batlord · 10-30-2012, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Slow Groove

Immaturity

I'm not picking on you at all, you're just reminding me of a pet peeve of mine. I hate the whole "maturity" myth. Maturity comes with experience, and yet every swinging dick in school and in their twenties who hasn't had **** happen in their life to give them any real maturity goes on about it. What they really mean is that some people aren't "properly" acclimating themselves to those rules that society creates to make people conform to some current norm (i.e. wearing the proper clothes, speaking in a certain manner, acting "age appropriate"). People who do this just bug me, cause they just seem like, by using the word "maturity", they're just trying to get other people to see them as an "adult", like when a little girl puts on her mother's makeup to look more "adult".