Things that annoy you to no end.

My mother's whole family did it as their parents were from Chicago in the 1930's. The swallowing of Ts is a worse offense.

My father and my grandfather were both sticklers for proper grammar and pronunciation. It was annoying as a kid but as I get older I find it is actually a great thing to teach children to speak and pronounce words correctly.

Because they are really tall, speak a weird language, and make strange cheese (though the gouda makers can be spared).

Spelling, OTOH...

Besides, there are these things known as dialects. "Correct" has many definitions, not just yours.

People who go crazy over a slight ding or scratch in their car as though they were gutshot.

Get a clue people. It is a car, not a kidney. -Dayton 3

I won't go crazy because nothing I touch goes "undinged" for very long. But if I had a really nice car and had a lot of time and money sunk into it, I would probably be very upset if somebody messed it up through their own negligence or stupidity.

How many languages do you know?

This will come in handy when people that annoy you" comes around:

Something not enough people around here seem to realize.

Naggers?

I'm not taking that bait! I don't want to be known as the guy who said "nagger" on the internet. Granted I wouldn't be the only one, but still........

Garamet puts Rs in her words and thst is why she is so angry.

Things that annoy me? Let's just say "humanity" and call it good.

You can say it once and it's okay.

(A) She is not angry. She is laughing at someone who presumes to correct other people while not knowing the difference between “stickler” and “sticker”

(B) No one from NYC puts extra “Rs” in their words. Any true linguistic stickler would know that

Except I do, Garamet. It got changed by spell checker, which I have now turned off, but you know that.

I still haven't figured out how to make it just underline misspelled words though.

Are you going to be gracing our presence more now that you've been discharged from Metropolitan State Hospital?

What I call Boyle's law of people waiting for the elevator. It's where they instinctively spread out to fill the entire volume of space in front of the elevator doors so that those of us who want to go past the elevators in order to take the stairs are like, "Excuse me... Pardon me, please, it's important... Fezzik, please?"

"EVERYBODY MOVE!"

That is annoying. Also, people wanting to get on the elevator standing RIGHT in front of the door so unloading cannot happen until you tell some idiot to get out of the way.

FUCKING MOVE!! Also works.

Take the stairs.

We used to have that problem on the subways here -- people wanting to get on would crowd the doors, preventing people from getting off. It was total stupidity, since this usually meant there would be no room for boarding passengers. Anyway, people are stupid and act against their self interest. Then the MBTA had the idea for an ad campaign calling for courtesy while people disembark. Shockingly, it actually worked!

There, that's the only bit you actually needed.

Bad knees. One flight of steps is ok. 2 is pushing it, but still did for many years longer than others wouldn't. 3 flights I'd have to stop half way up. anything more forget about it.

Facebook posts like, "Need prayers...Why God? WHYYYYYY????" with no further info, and then all the resulting posts that say "prayers".

They aren't praying. They're just typing the word, "prayers".

Fucking stupid.

Good news, but what disturbs me......is the fact that there should be a need for an ad campaign in the first place! Just like around here - they keep informing everyone that they need to use their headlights when it's dark/raining.

I like how people flipped shit over the pic of the dog with ham slices over their eyes once they realized there was nothing wrong with him and someone duped them I the name of Jesus.

Ah, so that was your act of teenage rebellion.

Yeah, that is totally it.