Which misconseption annoys you more?

[Axelhander]

What gets on my nerves more is when Americans don't know that the laws vary from state to state.

Its your own fucking country. Learn about it a little. You're the reason that the rest of the world hates us.

What annoys me: when it's always someone else's fault.

 

[dex-dex]

That canadians say about "aboot" I have been all over Canada and I have never heard a Canadian say "aboot"

THANK YOU!
there is nothing more annoying then when I go to the states and one idiot asks why I am not saying about as aboot.

 

[dex-dex]

DAMN YOU GLITCHES!!!!!

 

[DanDeFool]

I'm not innocent of this though, as a kid I used to think Russia and Germany was the same Country.

Well, depending on when you were a kid, you might be forgiven for being half-right. After all, post-WWII, half of Germany (East Germany) and Russia were both part of the USSR.

duuuuuude, are you serious? east germany was never part of the ussr. never. ever. didn't even border it. it was a state of the warsaw pact, but that's like saying that france was part of the u.s., since they both are in the nato.

that made me cringe..

Well, I guess that's another annoying misconception to add to the thread.

Bummer. I thought I was knowledgeable... but I guess not.

 

[Alex Tollitt]

what makes me annoyed is when Americans say British instead of English when Britain consists of England, Wales, Scotland and northen Ireland.

 

[Ledbetter]

I personally hate it when someone thinks that lactose intolerant people are only in danger of milk, and not all dairy products. Or when people slap you on the back when your coughing, it doesn't help, dang it, just makes you cough more or messes you up a bit.

 

[TheShogun]

Things which irks me the most is the Eurovision voting, darn eastern bloc!

 

[Seagoon]

English stereotypes.... nuff said....

 

[TheShogun]

Maybe they wish to avoid offending a scot, welsh or a northern irish by calling them "english".

 

[conflictofinterests]

The mis-conception that all tablet PC's are called iPads. Just because Apple popularised them with clever marketing doesn't mean that entire category of devices gets called by it. It's a tablet, I have a Motorola Xoom, it's a tablet. They were first introduced by MS in 2002, and many more conceptual devices for the form factor were done decades beforehand. So no, it's not a f****ng iPad, it's a tablet.

PS - The iPad 2 is a nice device, i have nothing against them, but i get riled by this misconception so much.

This happened with the iPod too, don't you remember? Apple is composed of marketing gods.

 

[BigHairyMarty]

That canadians say about "aboot" I have been all over Canada and I have never heard a Canadian say "aboot"

That stereotype actually makes it sound like people get Canadians confused with Scottish people.

 

[marcooos]

I find it more annoying when British people call the European mainland just 'Europe', as if they aren't part of it. Sure they may be an island but that really doesn't make them any less European.

Thats because we really do not want to be associated with Europe... well the EU at least anyway

 

[conflictofinterests]

How about the misconception that the United States invented slavery, imperialism, and all the world's evils and the rest of the world is on this ultra-pure, moral high ground. That annoys me the most.

That was mostly Rome, if I recall correctly, and it seems that the bastard children of the dominant world power have been inheriting the world ever since.

 

[conflictofinterests]

I don't feel like adding a poll, just starting a discussion.

Anyhow, which misconception annoys you more, the fact that some people think Europe is all one big country or the that some people think or don't realize laws vary state to state in America?

Both get on my nerves when I am having a discussion where those are relevant. And they are somewhat connected and usually are in conversations about why are Americans/Europeans like this or that.

I'll give you two: that carbon dioxide causes global warming (it doesn't, it's actually responsible for the carbonation of the earth's oceans which is the real threat to the global climate and also the reason why many scientists are preferring the term "climate chaos").

The second is that daddy long legs are the deadliest spider in the world; but their fangs are too small to stick through your skin. This is just absolutely false. They're not even technically spiders, partly because they have no fangs! Therefore, they have no venom. therefore they have no poison. Therefore, they cannot be the most poison spiders!

Daddy long legs actually chase down their prey, like an eight legged tiger, and contain a type of jaws but THEY DON'T HAVE FANGS.

I'm sure I'll get someone spewing hatred at me for my global warming comment (but hey, at least I'm not saying the concept doesn't exist?), but I typically get more rude and vulgar reactions from my daddy long leg peeve than anything else.

Do they have a video somewhere on how daddy long legs hunt? I am quite interested now.

 

[michiehoward]

Trying living with the misconceptions about Canada.

Its always cold.
We are polite.
We always add "eh" at the end of our sentences whether its a question or not.
We all have he same postal code. (thats a new one I just heard the other day)
That the queen rules our country. Or that we have a president.
That we have one or two major cities.

As for the original misconception quoted, their both dumb.

 

[conflictofinterests]

what makes me annoyed is when Americans say British instead of English when Britain consists of England, Wales, Scotland and northen Ireland.

Wut?

No seriously, please explain to me the context of this peeve. Were they talking about accents, or where something was from, what?

 

[SuperNova221]

I find it more annoying when British people call the European mainland just 'Europe', as if they aren't part of it. Sure they may be an island but that really doesn't make them any less European.

It's not something to worry/be annoyed about. We hate everyone.

 

[conflictofinterests]

Trying living with the misconceptions about Canada.

Its always cold.
We are polite.
We always add "eh" at the end of our sentences whether its a question or not.
We all have he same postal code. (thats a new one I just heard the other day)
That the queen rules our country. Or that we have a president.
That we have one or two major cities.

As for the original misconception quoted, their both dumb.

Reminded me of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwtB1zkSNTY