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Noah Pinder

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To many of us certain situations can be the most aggregating injustices ever experienced. Yet our friends will tell us to calm down and ignore it.

An example. The sound of people chewing food. I hate it, I hate it with the fiery passion of a thousand supanova's. My friends don't seem to notice or care though.

What would be a giant Nit pick for you?
 

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Everyone looking at their phones at lunch/dinner. For fuck's sake you can unplug yourself for twenty minutes a day, can't you?
 

Mutant1988

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I prefer it to be called a pet peeve when it's especially annoying.

Pardon me for nitpicking.

Using correct language is a pet peeve of mine.

I'm kidding. You don't really have to change the title. :D

But yeah, that is in fact a bit of a pet peeve of mine. But 90% of the time when I correct someone, I do it with no ill intent. I just want people to be correctly understood and to correctly understand things themselves. It's good to learn things and it's good to know things.
 

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Grammar actually.
As far as I'm concerned, the phrase "Try and do X" is grammatically incorrect. You cannot try and do well. What does trying look like without a verb attached to it? Have you ever just tried. Tried nothing, but tried all the same?

No. That's not a phrase.
The correct phrase is "Try to do well." That makes sense. It gives try a direction, as it kinda' requires one to make sense. Simply trying and then doing well is a dumb phrase.

Whenever I hear someone say "Oh, I'll try and be there soon." I just sigh...

Also momentarily means for a moment not in a moment. Presently means in a moment.
 

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Fappy said:
Everyone looking at their phones at lunch/dinner. For fuck's sake you can unplug yourself for twenty minutes a day, can't you?
See, in that case it shows a lack of interest on the other party's behalf, which is just bad manners. When I'm with someone, watching a movie or something, and they quickly send out a text (that's not an emergency), that person obviously doesn't find my presence worth their attention, which comes across as an insult to me. I wouldn't call this a nitpick, I'd call it a large scale epidemic.
 

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I'm kind of surprised at the expectation people'll only have one. This world is chock full of aggravating nonsense; that most people tolerate with (at most) a grumble and a sneer doesn't make it any less aggravating.

One of my longstanding big ones is people misusing words in an attempt to sound more intelligent. The traditional offender here is "concept", said when people mean "idea", but don't want to use a word so commonplace ("conception" is the joining of male and female gametes; while an idea is an idea, a concept is a zygote), but of late it's been given a run for its money by abuse of the word "trailer", here used to refer to a movie, tv, etc. preview. Follow me closely here: a trailer trails something- that is, it comes after. Not before. After, like with the trailers attached to semis out on the highway. A preview, by contrast, comes before- you see it before you've have seen the thing it's a segment of; you have pre-viewed a piece of it. If you head to the movies (in the US, at least), before each preview, you'll see a little screen saying (emphasis mine) "the following preview has been approved for general audiences by the Motion Picture Association of America". If the MPAA can grasp it, it's not a complicated idea.
 

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I'd say it's certain specific grammar and punctuation errors errors. Like "it's" when it should be "its," "her and I" when it should be "he and me," and other things like that.
 

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People standing side-by-side on an escalator, instead of doing the FUCKING SENSIBLE thing and standing one behind the other, leaving a lane for us who're running a little late and need to climb the stairs instead of riding them.

Also people not turning their cellphones off at the movie theater. Or thinking that it's good enough to put them on vibrate, or silence them. You're still lighting up the room, ************.
 

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There's this other thing that bugs me.

People tend to say "Scientists just contradict themselves! Yesterday eggs were bad for you, and now it says they're good for you!"

When this happens, what actually happened is usually that one scientifically legitimate study showed that eggs increase the risk of heart attack, and another, equally legitimate, study showed that eggs improve your immune system. These studies do not contradict each other at all.

It's really just people being too stupid to understand that something can be good in one way AND bad in another way.
 

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My parent handing me a fruit before or after a meal! This can range from some grapes or even an apple or orange!

FFS I liked to keep my stomach empty before I had lunch or that my stomach is still bloody full after dinner!

No I'm not some brat and I'm aware of the whole 5 fruits per day but I want to choose when I have my bloody fruits dammit not the when they give it to me!!!
 

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I'm not sure if it's a nitpick so much as a thing so aggravating that it's turning into a irrational dislike...

But people who don't use their turn signals or use them improperly.

If you're one of these people...Fuck you.

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.

I cannot even begin to explain how much it pisses me off. And I see it every. Single. Goddamn. Time I'm driving. It's like people here have no idea how turn signals work or something.

 

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I assumed this was video game related so I am gonna talk about that one first:
Inaccurate firearm animations

I have been playing video games for so long I am very aware of how most of the modern/common firearms used in games operate, at least when it comes to basic reloading and chambering rounds in guns.

Because games have taught me this extremely unnecessary information, I really hate when games blatantly screw up gun reload animations. Fortunately games have become a lot better at this, and now it usually comes down to me being notably impressed when a developer takes the effort to properly model the reload. That said, an insane amount of games still screw up how handguns work, when you reload a semi-automatic pistol without having emptied the magazine, the slide on the handgun doesn't magically slide back upon ejecting the magazine. The slide only locks back when the gun is out of bullets, this allows you to reload and chamber the next round without having to pull the slide back manually, which is sometimes pretty hard.

What makes this extra annoying (to me), is that it would be less work to just never have the gun lock it's slide back. Some pistols do not automatically lock the slide back upon using the last round, plus most of the time, players reload their guns before they are entirely out of bullets, and the slide should only lock back if every round in the gun has been expelled.

That said, huge bonus points when games do get the animations right and have two reload animations based on whether or not the gun is dry when being reloaded. And an extra point if the game actually includes the extra round when reloading a gun that hasn't expended all of its shot. One weird example is Payday 2, which has separate reload animations for their weapons, but doesn't reward the extra round. I assume this has to do with balancing, especially since some weapons have very limited magazines to balance out their power (like the heavy sniper, takes 2-3 shots to kill the strongest enemy, adding the extra round would let you kill 3 bulldozers without having to reload).

My real life nit pick is a lot less interesting, I hate cellphones and people who use them while I am trying to talk to them. People who use phones at dinner tables are annoying but what really pisses me off is when people stop to take phone calls during a conversation, the entire point of a cell phone is being able to make calls at any time, it is not imperative that you answer the every phone call when it happens, people can wait. If they are in an emergency, they should call emergency services.
 

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1. When people use decimate to describe some utter annihilation of something, when it actually means roughly "to reduce by a factor of 10"

2. Religious types that try to tell me that atheism is a religion.

3. People who come into our office for help, and get offended that they actually have to wait in line, instead of being helped immediately, because they dragged their fucking heels, and waited until the last minute with some issue. Sorry, your lack of planning and forethought doesn't equal an emergency on my part.

4. Religious people who try to say that if I'm an atheist, I shouldn't get upset about religious stuff, because I don't believe in any of it anyway. If you guys weren't trying to make your religious hoohah into laws that apply to all of us, I wouldn't give a shit. If you want to believe in the tooth fairy, knock yourself out. But the day you start trying to make it law that everyone has to donate a tooth every year, because Toothists believe this is what their god wants, and you must do this even if you don't believe, then yeah I got a fucking issue with your imaginary bullshit.


The first two probably qualify as nitpicks, the last two are more melding into the "this just fucking annoys me" territory. The two are frequently interchangeable in my book though.
 
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Recusant said:
I'm kind of surprised at the expectation people'll only have one. This world is chock full of aggravating nonsense; that most people tolerate with (at most) a grumble and a sneer doesn't make it any less aggravating.

One of my longstanding big ones is people misusing words in an attempt to sound more intelligent. The traditional offender here is "concept", said when people mean "idea", but don't want to use a word so commonplace ("conception" is the joining of male and female gametes; while an idea is an idea, a concept is a zygote), but of late it's been given a run for its money by abuse of the word "trailer", here used to refer to a movie, tv, etc. preview. Follow me closely here: a trailer trails something- that is, it comes after. Not before. After, like with the trailers attached to semis out on the highway. A preview, by contrast, comes before- you see it before you've have seen the thing it's a segment of; you have pre-viewed a piece of it. If you head to the movies (in the US, at least), before each preview, you'll see a little screen saying (emphasis mine) "the following preview has been approved for general audiences by the Motion Picture Association of America". If the MPAA can grasp it, it's not a complicated idea.
One thing you seem to be forgetting is that language changes over time. Sure, the root word of 'trailer' means something that comes after, but it has become a commonplace term synonymous with preview, at least when referring to media.

As much as we might hate it (and believe me, I am a grammar and language nit picker myself), the fact is that the connotation of words and terms expand and contract. If 'literally' can literally mean 'figuratively', then we have to accept that the evolution of language will eventually leave us behind.
 

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Hypocrisy
Being told what to do by someone who has no right to tell me what to do
Being ordered to not use my phone during dinner (Sorry but you know, when you're being texted 13 messages in the space of a minute, something is wrong)
 

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"These kids" rant time.

Please and Thank you. When ever I go somewhere which provides a service, I hear too often from those younger than me, who just orders something with no please or thank you. It's not just kids but adults too.

"Give me number 5"
"Just gimme that drink"

Those I could remember off the top of my head but there are worse examples.

Goodbyes over the phone in movies. Hey writers, you do know the majority of people say "bye" at the end of a phone conversation, right?

The noise my father makes with his throat when he needs to spit. That noise and habit is just disgusting and he does it all the time on the daily. I am just glad I don't live with him but when I visit him and he does that, I cover my ears and think of the ocean. FUCK SAKES!!
 

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Atheists who try and tell me I believe in the tooth fairy. If you want to believe in nothing without following it to it's logical, (ir)rational conclusion that's your business but don't make up shit and then try and tell me that's what I'm doing.

I take responsibility for what I do and if you don't want to do the same and make up shit whenever it suits you to shift blame that's your problem. End of story.
 

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Bicycles on the road. They piss me off like nothing else. You can't afford a car, and need a form of cheap transportation? That's fine, I understand. But when I see this moron:
clogging traffic, and forcing cars to go around him? Yeah, fuck that guy.

My other biggest peive is when people say "you can't have your cake and eat it too." Why not? It's my cake, I have it, why can't I eat it? Is it so wrong to eat the cake that I have, that is mine? It's the other way around. You can't eat your cake and have it too. Whatever, I'll let harlan explain it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUYYfGkc5PQ
 

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Fox12 said:
My other biggest peive is when people say "you can't have your cake and eat it too." Why not? It's my cake, I have it, why can't I eat it? Is it so wrong to eat the cake that I have, that is mine? It's the other way around. You can't eat your cake and have it too. Whatever, I'll let harlan explain it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUYYfGkc5PQ
That's a bastardisation of the original phrase, which was generally reversed. Both make sense but the older version funnily enough parses better in modern English:

[you would] both eat your cake and have your cake.
 

rasta111

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Fox12 said:
My other biggest peive is when people say "you can't have your cake and eat it too." Why not? It's my cake, I have it, why can't I eat it? Is it so wrong to eat the cake that I have, that is mine? It's the other way around. You can't eat your cake and have it too. Whatever, I'll let harlan explain it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUYYfGkc5PQ
It makes no difference it's a simple concept: Having eaten your cake you no longer have it so why have it if you're not going to eat it? You can't unless you're saying cakes have some other magical purpose other than eating?

Maybe you could turn it into some kind of modern art exhibit. ;)