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Things That Rightfully or Not Bug Me
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Phil
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Aug 07, 2010 01:43PM
I didn't bother looking at what it was. I tend to avoid the sample tables unless they have cheese.
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Caffeine would be the spelling, correct?*edit* (oh that's for Phil, part 2 of his comment)
I actually like that on this forum's intro page there is a note about "your" and "you're".There have been numerous times when I've seen someone make a post saying, "your an idiot", and they are completely serious.
Was my period placed wrong in the first sentence? I wouldn't think so, since there wasn't technically a quoted phrase.
Hopefully no one names comma splices as their annoyance. I am the queen of comma splices. You can blame a teacher in elementary school for wrongly telling me that you must put a comma into a sentence any time there is a pause. I have never been able to break that habit.
Thank you very much, Bunny. Heidi -- your turn?
Wouldn't that only be if you were using an actual quote though, and not using quotations to emphasize something?Example :
He said, "get to the bedroom."
vs.
Yes, I said that I like "red ones", not "blue ones".
I'm so confuzzled.
Because that was just an example of someone acting pissy and using quotes for emphasis instead of using their caps lock key....and OH NO...you can't confuse me more.
The word get in "get to the the bedroom" should be lower case, right? I have always been corrected about capitalizing the first word in the quotation. Unless it's a proper noun, the word isn't supposed to be capitalized.
Did this rule change too? I just had to check a few books and they all had a lower case letter for the first word.
My head hurts now.
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Doni wrote: "Thank you very much, Bunny. Heidi -- your turn?"
My turn for what? Things that bug me and shouldn't?
Hmmm... I get pissy about phony, insincere laughter and talk. A few weeks ago, this gal asked me in a really annoying sing song "HOW are yoooouuuu, Heidi?" And I told her I felt miserable and wanted to go home early. Her response to me - she giggled and trilled as though she didn't hear a word I said. I want to stomp on her toes when she does that. I can't, though. I work with her. And apparently people appreciate kindness (even if it's fake) more than efficiency. THAT bugs me, and it shouldn't.
Heidi wrote: "My turn for what? Things that bug me and shouldn't?Hmmm... I get pissy about phony, insincere laughter and talk. A few weeks ago..."
All very interesting. But no, I actually wanted you to enlarge on why the word "hate" gets under your skin. The word itself?
Doni wrote: "But no, I actually wanted you to enlarge on why the word "hate" gets under your skin. The word itself?"You can read about it here (message 28). If you'd like me to expand on it, I will.
Misha wrote: "They only go inside for Americans. British punctuation leaves periods on the outside of quotations, I believe. So for Gail (being an Aussie) or our Canadian members who use the British spelling/punctuation system, it is correct to put the period on the outside...."
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
::big hug::
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
::big hug::
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You, and The New Yorker. I have never seen so many commas in one sentence before in my entire life. (As in that magazine.)
I've never heard it referred to as a splice, though.
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Fiona Apple uses the word "gal" in one of her songs...now it's gonna bug me until I remember which.I really hate it when people talk on their cell phones in check out lines.
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No!! ;)"
***writhes***
What bugs me is when people are bothered by small, insignificant things.
I'm bugged by book reviews on Amazon that are 2 or 1 star and then when you read them, the reviewers are actually complaining about the seller or the Kindle delivery or something else that has nothing to do with the actual book.
BunWat wrote: "George walked down to the lake to go fishing, Mary drove his car to Memphis.Why are these two not just two separate sentences?"
They are. You've just combined them to illustrate a point. :)
I ended up learning more today than I had planned on. My quota is full for the rest of the month.
Why do I now have a terrible mental image in my head of Jaws as this ruler-cracking teacher?It's ok. I really don't mind learning. It's all a front. Gotta maintain the street cred you know?
Heidi wrote: "Doni wrote: "But no, I actually wanted you to enlarge on why the word "hate" gets under your skin. The word itself?"You can read about it here (message 28). If you'd like me to expand on it, I ..."
Actually, I wouldn't mind if you did, although your post already convinced me. We really don't think carefully enough about the words we use, and that one does have a lot of (negative) power. Great point, thanks!
Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight?
The word, hate, itself and any hateful words were banned in my home. To this day, I will NEVER forget the time, when at 4 years old, I whined to my parents that I hated a kid in my class at daycare because he was mean to me. My dad scared the bejesus out of me - he told me I could say I "don't like" or "I'm not particularly fond of" (try saying that as an adult and imagine the effort of saying it for a child) but I need to think really, REALLY strong and hard about the word "hate" because it has strong connotations.
Then he asked me if I felt like the world would be a better place without this kid in my class. I considered it. Naturally... Then he went into the consequences of "hate." He told me about hating another person or even a living creature and what it can lead to. He told me about what happened at Little Rock's Central High School... and about segregation and civil rights.
His older brother didn't get to graduate high school because the governor closed down the high school after the Central High School integration. He described the scene when the nine kids were escorted to the school by the National Guard. And the crowds were spewing hate and hateful words at them. They were volatile. And they weren't considering the consequence of their words. He told me that the kids in his class called him "Nigger Lover" and he was ostracized because he and my uncle and my grandparents were sympathizers. He told me about the hanging tree that was on an isolated dirt road in a small town near my great-grandparents' farm... and why it had the name it had.
I didn't like what I was hearing. He wasn't telling me fairy tales. He was telling me about something real that happened to real people.
Have you ever visited Little Rock's Central High School? I have... on many occasions. I've brought friends there to visit, and will share the story of what happened as the Little Rock Nine were escorted into the school as we walk up the sidewalk and climb the stairs to the front doors of the school. It moves me to tears every time and pulls me into a reverent place because as a kid, it was only a story about something that happened in another place to some people I didn't know. Actually being there... walking the same walk they did - it makes it real.
He didn't leave the lesson at that. He went on to talk about compassion and empathy towards another person or living creature. He talked with me about love and treating the word "love" with reverence as well so as to not dissolve its intent.
The lesson's stayed with me. This is why I can't use the word lightly. On the very, VERY rare occasion, I'll use it. I can assure you, I've thought long and hard about it before I use it, though... is it something I really, REALLY mean to use? Sorry, but the negative connotations of that singular word don't leave me indifferent towards it. I don't expect everyone to feel the same about it as I do. I doubt others had that lesson at an early age like I did. But I do think it's something to consider.
Great story Heidi. Words matter. Have you seen the movie "Ruby Bridges"? It was always a favorite at our house when the girls were small. One of my proudest moments was in fourth grade, my Emma dressed up as Ruby for her class wax museum. I fixed her a little straw hat with black braids attached underneath. She looked as darling as aany little white girl could.
here's something that bugs me but shouldn't: when people just answer my text with a k. as in okay. which could be typed as ok which is only one more letter than k. is this really saving you a substantial amount of time? would even typing out the whole okay throw your busy schedule (pronounced shhhedule) entirely off kilter? if you are too busy to type out ok instead of just k you are too busy to be answering my stupid texts anyway. besides, i just told you i would meet you are the ballpark. i really didn't need your confirmation. k?
Kevin, the only time I write k is when I'm in the car and I want my daughter to know I am on my way to wherever she needs to be picked up from.... I know You should never text and drive, figure it is safer to type one letter than several. I also hate text-speak in general.
totally gotcha. that is a good idea. i am just trying to not let little things like that bug me that really do not matter in the whole scheme of things anyway
BunWat wrote: "Tee hee, Phil. Tis true. But instead of that dumb comma ya coulda had... George walked down to the lake to go fishing because Mary drove his car to Memphis. He contemplated his revenge while ..."
or a ; between the two sentences.
That cartoon reminds me that I dislike it when people text or play with their smartphones when they should be interacting with the people in front of them. Instead they are on facebook or foursquare or twitter, or texting.
Also, I water the garden every day. And the outdoor potted plants. Yesterday a roommate who is moving out decided to repot her outdoor plants, which I have been watering all spring and summer.She commented on how nicely they're coming along without watering!!!
This is why we never got our chickens. I would be the only one looking after them.
Y'know, these are petty gripes, but I'm not sure they shouldn't bother me. It's ok if they bother me, dammit.
It is so annoying Sarah Pi to do little things for others and have them go unnoticed and unappreciated. Once in a while I think my family believes magic fairies do their laundry and match up their clean socks.
Texting it's self bugs me, and i know it shouldn't. I think if you have a phone use it as it was intended to be used. By talking to someone. IMO phones were made for talking. Whoever come up with texting should have to take 50 lashings.People not listening. It bugs me batshit when i say something to someone and they take it down the line, and by the time it gets back to me it's gotten all mixed up. All because they didn't LISTEN. I know you hear me, but did you listen? No would be the answer 85 percent of the time.
Lori wrote: "People not listening. It bugs me batshit when i say something to someone and they take it down the line, and by the time it gets back to me it's gotten all mixed up. All because they didn't LISTEN. I know you hear me, but did you listen?"
What?
What?
I see your lips moving, but I don't know what you just said.
It doesn't bug me to hear this. It just amuses me - my friend, Jen, was trying to cheer me up last week and she said she's been on this kick lately where her response to EVERYTHING is "In. Yo. FACE!!!" And it works. It's totally had me laughing all week. I just cracked myself up as I was correcting some data we'd collected and told the data "In. Yo. FACE!" My office mate has been laughing at me all day today, too.In. Yo. FACE!
People that ring my doorbell more than once.If I didn't answer it after the first ring, a second one isn't going to help. I can see you Mr. Salesperson through the door and just don't want to open it for you.
If the door isn't bad enough, they call on the phone 50 times after you said "no thank you". I said no more then once i'm not going to change my mind next week. I got so now i just click the phone on then off. You would think they'd get the message, but no. And why? Because they didn't listen when i said 'NO THANK YOU!!!!
This shouldn't bug me but...We got a note with our paper this morning introducing our new carrier. Her name is Nicole and the letter is very nice, but there are so many misspellings that I cringe to read it.
There are hundreds of reasons that could explain poor spelling, but none of them take away the little twinge I feel when reading her note.
I agree I am totally irritated by unwelcome phone calls and especially those who come to my door without an invite! Ring-a-ding-ling away I am not opening up! :) Stacia and I will be peering back through the window right at you :) *wiggle of the fingers kind of wave and a sh*t eaten grin*And yes, I know it shouldn't bother me, the people usually mean well, are doing their job and are most likely stopping by for a good, maybe even needful reason . . . but it still totally bugs me~
Exactly, it should not bug me so bad, like you say it's their job, but it does. Because they didn't listen.
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