Non-religious pet peeves

[Genericguy]

Also...

"I could care less". Only when used improperly, for example... "I could care less what you think". Well, so what your saying is you DO care what I think?

[Tank]

Also...

"I could care less". Only when used improperly, for example... "I could care less what you think". Well, so what your saying is you DO care what I think?

Ah! In the UK it's "I couldn't care less!" much more accurate.

[The Magic Pudding]

Ye the "I could care less what you think" thing doesn't make sense.
Maybe if it is supposed to imply something extra it'd be OK.
Something like "I could care less what you think but I'd have to have a lobotomy first."

[Genericguy]

Back to the "all of a sudden" thing... Is it possible to divide a "sudden"?

[Genericguy]

I was sitting on my couch, and then, 1/5th of a sudden I was asleep!

[Tank]

Back to the "all of a sudden" thing... Is it possible to divide a "sudden"?

Not if sudden means instantaneous. Does sudden have a duration?

[lomfs24]

Also...

"I could care less". Only when used improperly, for example... "I could care less what you think". Well, so what your saying is you DO care what I think?

Ah! In the UK it's "I couldn't care less!" much more accurate.

"I couldn't care less!" is how I have always learned it as well. However, I think Americans are lazy and slur the whole phrase together. So when it's written, it comes out that way. "I could care less".

No comment on the "all of a sudden" phrase. Because, all of a sudden I couldn't care less.

[Melmoth]

As a heavily biased person, I think...

[squidfetish]

Then might I add a few more pet peeves.

Phrases that make no sense. For example: "All of a sudden"... As apposed to part of a sudden? Maybe someone can help me out with this one?

I remember one of my English teachers would threaten us with death if we ever used that phrase.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

"It's neither here nor there."  Then where the hell is it?

"Every now and then."  This is supposed to mean "occasionally," but if you do something every now and then, you must be doing it all the time.

[Asmodean]

"It's neither here nor there."  Then where the hell is it?

This one depends on the sope of "here" and "there". Let us say "here" is a circle with radius of one meter on which I stand. Let's say "there" is the same size circle, but where you are at. Neither here nor there is then outside either circle.

Used metaphorically, it still boils down to the same thing - something being "somewhere else".

[carley]

my biggest pet peeve is when the cook time on the microwave is stopped early, but the time isn't cleared out. Also, when people use the term "avid reader".

[Ali]

I hate quotes and pictures in professional email signatures.  For example, one of the ladies in my company has a picture of a giraffe in her email signature.  Another one has a Jesus quote.  Neither one seems to have anything to do with anything.

[lomfs24]

my biggest pet peeve is when the cook time on the microwave is stopped early, but the time isn't cleared out. Also, when people use the term "avid reader".

Yeah the microwave thing bothers me too.

Just out of curiosity though. The avid reader thing? Is it just the phrase "avid reader" or is it anything with the word "avid" in it like, avid fisherman, avid biker, avid walker, etc...? And what bothers you about that phrase?

[Siz]

Why does my wife leave the bedclothe laundry until new years eve, so that when I go to bed pissed (drunk) and tired I'm left with a naked bed, and have to stumble through putting the duvet cover on by myself while she's undoing her make-up. Fuck, that's annoying!