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So, most people I know have a Pet Peeve. And they can literally be anything, and today I pose the question to the Inter-Metropol Population, what are your Pet Peeves.

Share your disgust for those things that really get on your nerves, and argue with others about theirs. Personally, my Pet Peeve is how people drop litter in a street where they can be seen doing it. Just the other day, someone bent down, put their Can of Coke on the floor and walked off. I had to pick it up and recycle it of course.

Hmmm.

- People who mix up your and you're.
- People who talk in txt spk.
- Fat people on the tube.
- Fat people who allow their young children to get fat.
- Loud children.

Mattarz wrote:Hmmm.

- People who mix up your and you're.
- People who talk in txt spk.
- Fat people on the tube.

For that, there's a line between acceptable and just annoying, as I will except a LOL & occasionally a Kl, but when they start talking like: WUU2, Yh I'm Gd, u? How r u? WTH, OMG, IDK - I just loose track of the conversation.

GMTV2009 wrote:

Mattarz wrote:Hmmm.

- People who mix up your and you're.
- People who talk in txt spk.
- Fat people on the tube.

For that, there's a line between acceptable and just annoying, as I will except a LOL & occasionally a Kl, but when they start talking like: WUU2, Yh I'm Gd, u? How r u? WTH, OMG, IDK - I just loose track of the conversation.

Yeah, exactly. The worst thing is when adults do it. I'm sick of seeing my auntie on Facebook saying "O lol jst wnt 2 dnce clas wiv andy". Grrr.

Mattarz wrote:People who mix up your and you're.

This. A thousand times this.

And the "two", "to" and "too", too.

Poor grammar is probably my pet hate.

Malpass93 wrote:

Mattarz wrote:People who mix up your and you're.

This. A thousand times this.

And the "two", "to" and "too", too.

Poor grammar is probably my pet hate.

Oh I do hate Grammatical Errors, and am constantly pointing out it's Whoever and I not Me and Whoever! In fact, there's a Facebook Group for that!

EDIT: Chatspeak is more acceptable with Children, even if it is wrong, but I agree that when someone's sixty they shouldn't be using smiley faces, hearts, Kl's and OMG's!

Another Peeve, when people miss out Capital Letters and full stops, so what they type looks like horrible drivel.

GMTV2009 wrote:

Malpass93 wrote:

Mattarz wrote:People who mix up your and you're.

This. A thousand times this.

And the "two", "to" and "too", too.

Poor grammar is probably my pet hate.

Oh I do hate Grammatical Errors, and am constantly pointing out it's Whoever and I not Me and Whoever! In fact, there's a Facebook Group for that!

Not forgetting "their", "there" and "they're" of course.

Malpass93 wrote:
Not forgetting "their", "there" and "they're" of course.

Of course, what we're discussing is why some kids are called posh posh, because they don't go:

Alrigh' bruv, init, ur mum.
Translation - Hello Friend, isn't it, pointless insult here

NB: I believe 'Your Mum' is an insult, as that's what the hooligans near me walk round calling.

When I initially saw the thread title, I assumed it was regarding peeves about pets. I note that it is not.

I have been documenting mine on the web since November 2000; please feel free to pick one.

GMTV2009 wrote: For that, there's a line between acceptable and just annoying, as I will except a LOL & occasionally a Kl, but when they start talking like: WUU2, Yh I'm Gd, u? How r u? WTH, OMG, IDK - I just loose track of the conversation.

While we're on confused homophones, did anyone spot except/accept?
(Sorry - couldn't resist!)

Mine? At present, car insurance. I resent having to pay twice the value of my car simply on the off-chance (which hasn't happened in eight years of driving) that I might crash into someone.

Before you ask about no-claims bonuses, as one of those years was spent in a taxi and three in classic cars, conventional companies simply don't want to know. They're all a cosy cartel keeping their prices as artificially inflated as they think they can get away with.

Council Tax is my second. The same principle applies - that of paying vastly inflated sums for next to nothing. Then again, it doesn't infuriate me quite so much now I'm no longer in a position to pay it. Still, I'll keep ranting on behalf of those that do.

On two cash machines at Belfast City Airport (on professionally produced signage):

"Ulster Bank wishes to advice you that these machines dispense Bank of England notes."