Pet Peeves a new volume:

by **Slowhand** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 22:12:31

that actually does annoy me. escalators usually aren't wide enough for people to be comfortably standing side by side passing each other no matter what side you're standing on without bumping into each other. why in such a rush. stop and smell the roses.

by **The Dude** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 22:15:12

sometimes you just need to get to spencer's before it closes

by **Bill McNeal** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 22:24:57

That fake dog shit isn't going to place itsef under your wife's pillow.

by **slugsrbad** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 09:57:30

it was frustrating as all hell in DC trying to catch the metro when it didn't sync up well with the school shuttle.

by **Grotewold** » Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:40:56

Imprecise use of our glorious L.A. graem

by **WheelsFellOff** » Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:41:37

Grotewold wrote:Imprecise use of our glorious L.A. graem

really

by **Phred** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:38:09

"these ones"

as in when 2 people are looking at a spreadsheet and one person references a column of numbers and says, "Where did these ones come from?"

by **Bucky** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:18:27

I just pointed at a spreadsheet today and said that. So what?

BTW, here's the cell I was pointing at.

1111111111111111

by **TomatoPie** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:51:38

Slowhand wrote:that actually does annoy me. escalators usually aren't wide enough for people to be comfortably standing side by side passing each other no matter what side you're standing on without bumping into each other. why in such a rush. stop and smell the roses.

I dunno - why do your feet stop working when on an escalator or a moving sidewalk as in airports? Especially an adult in good health without kids in tow. Keep movin fatty

by **TomatoPie** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:52:34

Luzinski's Gut wrote:People who walk through a door and immediately stop, jamming up everyone behind them

Worse yet - idiots who disembark an escalator and stop, with the ensuing pileup behind them.

by **pacino** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:53:50

Slowhand wrote:
Roger Dorn wrote:People who stay stationary on the left side of an escalator. The right is for standing still and the left is for walking up you numb nut.

Use the stairs, hero.

just saw this...legit LOL

by **Philly the Kid** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 21:58:55

Have I heard correctly, that "literally" has been added to the dictionary in it's more recent use as a colloquialism ?

by **kruker** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 22:21:32

communists

by **pacino** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 22:38:30

people who complain about 3D movies when they had an option not to go 3D

by **phatj** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 10:05:37

Philly the Kid wrote:Have I heard correctly, that "literally" has been added to the dictionary in it's more recent use as a colloquialism ?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/literally?s=t

by **Bucky** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 10:59:38

I disagree that the word 'neither distorts or changes the meaning' (or whatever they say). The problem with the misuse of 'literally' is that there is no single synonym that can be used in its place, so the meaning needs to be kept pure to avoid ambiguity.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 13:03:06

Is it really any different than what's happened with words like bad or dope?

by **SK790** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 19:07:37

there are a lot of synonyms for those words.

by **phatj** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 21:14:58

There's a synonym for literally too.

by **Phan In Phlorida** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 05:20:26

Bucky wrote:I disagree that the word 'neither distorts or changes the meaning' (or whatever they say). The problem with the misuse of 'literally' is that there is no single synonym that can be used in its place, so the meaning needs to be kept pure to avoid ambiguity.

My theory (and I'm sticking to it)... "literally" was originally misconstrued with "legitimately" since they both start with the letter "L", and it stuck.

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