Non-religious pet peeves

[rawrdog822]

Campers in Call of Duty

[Beachdragon]

It bothers me when people use Eager and Anxious interchangeably.    Actually, a lot of people don't even use the word eager at all.  

Lately it has really bothered me when people pronounce such words as Satin, Curtain, Martin and the like as Sa-in, Cur-an, Mar-in.
I can't stand it.  Important gets mangled too.  It is not Impor-en.  It is not Impordent.  Ack!

[Alexander]

Having to clean my glasses all the time. Seriously, why do they get dirty so quickly?

[Extropian]

PC fanatics who seize any opportunity to emphasise their PC-ness.
Such as discovering that the personal pronoun SHE is an outrage against the feminine half of Earth's population.
It is expressed in such abominations as, "Her and her husband went to the movies."
Tony Jones in his program Q&A with the Australian Broadcasting Corp has been guilty of this a number of times. A journalist, no less! Someone whose most important tool of trade is the English language!

In the less rarified atmosphere of the man or woman in the street, we find our ears assaulted by equally appalling outrages.
Most recently, in a group I'm a member of I encounted "In regards to..............." This awful expression has been perpetrated by our parliamentarians for decades.

There are two words generally interchangeable in the above phrase. REGARD and RESPECT. They are properly used in the following way............

WITH REGARD TO...........    or    IN RESPECT OF...........  It will be noted that neither word is a plural.
 
Although heard on fewer accasions these days, one still encounters that unutterably stupid double negative. IRREGARDLESS.

Finally, it seems that for most people these days, number and quantity mean the same thing. This probably arises from the vagary of the English language where LESS in volume and FEWER in number differentiate in the reduction of something but only one word, MORE, covers both volume and number in the increase of something.

Neverthless! I still grimace when I hear from people who should know better that, "There are LESS people going to the movies these days."  instead of FEWER people.

Properly; "Are people drinking MORE milk or LESS milk these days?"
              "Are people buying MORE or FEWER cars these days?"

Americans are beginning to grate on my nerves just a little with their incongruous method of comparing sizes of things.
E.g. "The moon is five times smaller than Earth." [the actual size is immaterial].
       When the notion of size comparison is much better expressed as. "The moon is one fifth the size of Earth."

        From the Scientific American on line [I think] I read this indefensible accumulation of HAD. "For Mars to have icy poles, it would have had to have had expanses of water............ [or something like that]. How about, "There must have been......."?    

Extropian

[Alexander]

People who say "that's so gay" to mean something negative.

[Cecilie]

Having to clean my glasses all the time. Seriously, why do they get dirty so quickly?

I completely agree with this.

[The Magic Pudding]

Having to clean my glasses all the time. Seriously, why do they get dirty so quickly?

Well one thing you can do is be cautious around people with heavily moisturised or oily faces.

[kelltrill]

When I ask someone online where they're from and they respond with an abbreviation, such as AL or FL. I might not immediately know what they're talking about but I immediately know they're just another arrogant American assuming everyone online is from America or knows the abbreviation of every state in America, whether we're from there or not (although I'm not saying that all Americans are arrogant, naturally).
Do you know what I mean when I say I'm from CT, PE, EL, JB, or WP? ....Thought so.

[Tank]

Having to clean my glasses all the time. Seriously, why do they get dirty so quickly?

They touch your face. I used to get this problem then went to a slightly smaller lens and it is quite noticeable how much cleaner they stay.

[ForTheLoveOfAll]

Campers in Call of Duty

And in World of Warcraft.

[MariaEvri]

another pet peeve I thought of is in documentaries
when they use the word "designed" instead of "evolved" and when they say "theory" instead of "hypothesis"

edit: I guess.. you can say that's a bit religious?

[Alexander]

Having to clean my glasses all the time. Seriously, why do they get dirty so quickly?

They touch your face. I used to get this problem then went to a slightly smaller lens and it is quite noticeable how much cleaner they stay.

Yeah, that might be it. I have got pretty big lenses...

[hismikeness]

Also... and I don't know why, but when two people (usually a couple) sit on the same side of a booth in a restaurant, it bugs the shit out of me.

[Tank]

Having to clean my glasses all the time. Seriously, why do they get dirty so quickly?

They touch your face. I used to get this problem then went to a slightly smaller lens and it is quite noticeable how much cleaner they stay.

Yeah, that might be it. I have got pretty big lenses...

Try a smaller style next time, you may well be pleased with the result  

[terranus]

Campers in Call of Duty

Holy crap you have no idea. I get so pissed off at these people. And the one's who cheat and use the care-package glitch.