Question of the Day | 10/14/2008 12:00 am
What do people always say to you that drives you crazy?
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“At this point in time”…I truly grow weary with the cliches, sports analogies, political doublespeak…..”At the end of the day” makes me come up out of the chair to yell at the TV….”IT’S DARK”…..dark…dark…..I don’t pretend to be the grammarian I would aspire to be….careless and lazy sometimes, but I really enjoy finding the proper way of spelling/speaking/writing….
I learn a lot from all of you….
Glad to see that all my pet peeves are well represented….This could be a long thread….
“Having said that” is the one cliche that really makes me want to get up and Bitch slap the speaker back into their mother’s womb.
Ane Palinisms “You betcha” etc. make me want to hurl my breakie.
Wine W, we are definitely on the same page today. “Having said that or that said” drives me up a wall for some reason and Palanisms, the person and the words make my skin crawl. Yikes!!! And, earlier you said that people are dismissive and always think you are strong and need nothing. That is the story of my life.
I hate it when there’s someone I don’t agree with, and they try to manipulate me into changing my mind. Especially if it’s by giving me a compliment that’s really a put down (if I still don’t agree with them). Like saying: “you who are such a clever one, how odd that you don’t understand this”, or “you’re such an intellectual, how come you haven’t picked up on this?!? etc…
Sayings like that makes me crazy, because then there’s no real discussion anymore, but something more similar to a personal attack…
Ine
I know someone like that. I can always tell when the manipulation is coming. There is a slow complimentary lead, like someone coming up and asking for a dance, then they walk you out on the floor and pull a bait and switch and you end up flat on the floor.
The speech that drives me crazy, anything that insults my intelligence. People who ask questions with motive, to tell you how you should think. And the all time winner, drunk people who go into the repeat mode and they have no off button!
“That’s impossible.” “You can’t do that.” “Never gonna happen.” Usually, that response comes when my ideas are going to involve some work or sacrifice. I’ve done what people have told me I couldn’t do most of my life, so it’s really irritating…especially in creative meetings…when naysayers blurt out discouragement before even considering the benefits of the idea.
Grammar-wise, the confusion of “less” and “fewer”…less marbles, less votes, less people….makes me flinch.
Ms Dee
I have a friend who teaches art to Jr. Hi kids. There are only two words (besides swearing) that are not allowed in her room “I Can’t”. If they say it she catches them on it and helps them discover how they can.
Sunblock…
Taking care of my hair……
waiting for these elections to be over….
Christmas presents…
“Ya think?” This one has been used to abusive levels.
“Going forward” Corporatespeak for, “let’s not talk about what happened”
Oh, and whenever white middleclass suburban teenagers talk ghetto. SO ANNOYING.
“Are you okay?” from people who really don’t want to know. “Whatever!” Makes me want to slap people who say it, and if I use it myself its because I’m dangling at the end of my rope and trying not to strangle someone…!! “I don’t care.” When, clearly, they do. Oh I could go on and on. Like another poster said, one of my major peeves is people who finish my sentences for me. I have one friend who does this through any conversation! You’re talking to her and its like she is on some game show and is going to get a prize for filling in the next word you’re going to say. Aiyeeee!!!!
JB, I hadn’t thought of this until you mentioned it. My mother does that “I don’t care” bit from time to time.
One Thanksgiving we were driving from San Francisco to Carmel and before we got to the divide in the freeway where you go right and down the coast route or stay left and take the highway most of the way down, I asked, “Would you prefer to drive on the coast route or down the highway, which is perhaps 15 minutes faster.”
“I don’t care.” She responded. OK, I thought….I’ll go down the highway (when 95% of the time I take the coast) and we’ll be there sooner and it’s so beautiful in the fall. And we were going to dinner at Pebble Beach Lodge and would be by the water then entire time anyway.
So I stayed on the highway and she looked at the turn-off and sighed, dramatically. Sheesh!
And now it’s fall again in Northern California and so gorgeous.
Oh, like Frannie Em - I too live in a mantribe! They MUST think my breasts are tracking devices…when they ask where something is and I say I don’t know, they look at me like…”How is THAT possible??” I’d still like to know which one of them left their socks in the refrigerator, but no one is talking…
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