Pet Peeves

[Eoin McLove]

Tote's.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The your/you're and there/their/they're mix ups are eternally infuriating, but nothing compared to misplaced apostrophes. Nobody's perfect obviously, but when you see it in journalism or even on professional websites, fucking hell...

Typos on news sites do really piss me off, misplaced apostrophes, spelling mistakes, but also mangled syntax from when one grammatical form has been edited into another leaving bits of both.

But yeah, when you start looking into the evolution of word meanings, there's some pretty surprising stuff that is probably part of all of our daily usage today but which is an "abuse" of the original meaning. A bit obscure maybe, but look up the "genuine" meaning of "begging the question", for example.

[Carnage]

But yeah, when you start looking into the evolution of word meanings, there's some pretty surprising stuff that is probably part of all of our daily usage today but which is an "abuse" of the original meaning. A bit obscure maybe, but look up the "genuine" meaning of "begging the question", for example.

Interesting one, I wasn't aware of that.

[Ducky]

If I ever develop high blood pressure it'll probably be traced back to the amount of people I see writing "would of".

[Cryptic Stench]

If you had of ignored that you're  blood pressure would of been ok.

[DeletedUsermNqGIiIuGy]

Yeezy's and people who act like they are the greatest things since sliced bread..

Ugly as fuck 'yokes' .. I'd sooner wear crocs!

[Pedrito]

There's no excuse for the likes of RTE when I see mistakes like this on a daily basis. Now, others may ask, what the hell I'm doing on the poxy site everyday in the first place reading about some uselsss American actress, but sometimes man is simply illogical and a glutton for punishment.

'To prepare for the roll, and to see if she could pull off doing the accent, she spent a day in Dublin where she says people asked her if she was a local'.

[Eoin McLove]

Must have been a brekkie roll.

[Caomhaoin]

The overuse of the adjectives 'amazing' and 'incredible'. Listening to Keith Wood on 'Off the Ball' the other day describe England's passing as 'incredibly excellent'. Surely 'excellent' would suffice.

The expression 'batshit crazy'. What the fuck does that even mean, fuck off.

[Cryptic Stench]

Away from journalism etc it's become my absolute pet peeve when someone can't get through an anecdote without using phrases like "I turned around to him and said" or "says he to me".

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Worn out formulas that have turned into affectations in general really, be they spoken or written, such as;

"Buy that man a pint!"
"You sir, xyz."
etc., etc.

[Eoin McLove]

Perennial car insurance peeve.  €771. Go fuck thyself,  AA.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Perennial car insurance peeve.  €771. Go fuck thyself,  AA.

Shop around pal, get at least 5 quotes elsewhere.
Mine is under €450 now after being sky-high there a few years ago.

[Pedrito]

Cost me 220 here in Spain recently...the insurance industry back home would boil your blood.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Cost me 220 here in Spain recently...the insurance industry back home would boil your blood.

Yeah, but compare your price to mine (€438) and compare the average wage in both countries and it's quite similar, no?