for an ad-free Fetcheveryone experience!

What really grinds your gears?

1 lurker | 185 watchers

Carpathius May 2015 9:25pm, 20 May 2015 6,606 posts	Quote Pin Carpathius Were you sitting in my lecture yesterday CStar? It never used to annoy me so much; I think it's become more common - people seem to be under the impression that it's correct.
CStar May 2015 10:05pm, 20 May 2015 4,645 posts	Quote Pin CStar It's not. It's just pseudo-pretentious Estate agents and recruitment consultants use it a lot - nuff said!
Carpathius May 2015 10:51pm, 20 May 2015 6,610 posts	Quote Pin Carpathius The Lenor advert. WTF is a "laundry expert" and how the hell can little scent balls be "feisty"?
Poochie May 2015 6:29am, 21 May 2015 159 posts	Quote Pin Poochie "It is what it is" started to get on my thrupennies when my boss started saying it every other sentence. Now hear it everywhere! Aarrgghh
McGoohan May 2015 7:23am, 21 May 2015 15,821 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan "We are where we are"
Hills of Death (HOD) May 2015 7:44am, 21 May 2015 30,676 posts	Quote Pin Hills of Death (HOD) I knew this guy that used the word bugbear when he discovered it in his 30s !! To everything so it was out of context prick
z1000jeff May 2015 10:18am, 21 May 2015 2,228 posts	Quote Pin z1000jeff There is so much that drives me mental about Facebook that it's probably a thread of its own. e.g. I got Pocahontas ... What Disney princess are you ? I got badger hair brush ... What shaving accoutrement are you ? I got Y-shaped piece of larch ... What stick are you ? etc. 95% or people can't name a city that doesn't have an 'A' in its name. Can you ? Yet still I can't bring myself to delete my profile. It's like I have some kind of masochistic illness.
XB May 2015 10:28am, 21 May 2015 3,172 posts	Quote Pin XB I agree, z1000. And the ones that say something like "and what happened next will really blow your mind". I've never clicked one and I don't feel empty inside.
.B. May 2015 10:29am, 21 May 2015 16,523 posts	Quote Pin .B. To add to FB. Worthy message that ends "most people won't share this to support x worthy thing, will you" (implicit "you callous, heartless, creature)?
ChrisThePuma May 2015 1:29pm, 21 May 2015 3,184 posts	Quote Pin ChrisThePuma What really winds me up, especially on here, are the people who lay into other people for their bad use of the English language. Not everyone has had the good fortune to have a good education, let alone getting a higher education qualification. I myself am not 100% sure when or not I can use "myself" and come to that I also struggle with the apostrophe sometimes. If asked to write examples of a sentence in "Passive, active, subjective, objective, reflexive" i would not have a clue, and don't get me started on nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and all the other grammatical types. There I feel better now that that is off my chest. Do carry on...