What are your pet peeves?
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People who pay loads of money to have flower beds put in, and then never maintain them, or pay someone to maintain them. They are under the impression that it will look good forever.
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Permalink Reply by Maggie on -
Stupid teachers really piss me of.
I recall one particular teacher who said that you get sunburnt on top of mountains because you are closer to the sun. Honestly I think I have better general knowledge than most of my teachers.
My primary school science teacher was particularly daft. We were playing 20 questions, so far we knew that the thing was big, old, could be seen outside the window and in the atmosphere. (don't ask me why a somebody asked if it was in the atmosphere if we could see it outside the window there's a pretty good chance it was.) I put up my hand and guessed it was the hills.
"What did I just say Maggie it's in the atmosphere how could it be the hills?" she said.
"Umm... Well the hills aren't in space are they?" but she didn't let me say that she just ignored me. It turned out the answer was the sky... Umm... I thought the sky was the atmosphere...
Oh and another time, during "Question Time" I wanted to see if she knew the answer so I asked her why the sky was blue.
"It reflects the ocean" She replied with confidence.
I put up my hand again to correct her and she asked,
"Maggie is it a question?"
And I replied,
"No but-"
"Then don't put your hand up" she interrupted.
Sadly my peers don't know any better so now a whole class of kids think the sky is blue because it reflects the ocean and another whole class thinks you get sunburnt on top of mountains because they are closer to the sun.
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Permalink Reply by damian on
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This reminds me of a substitute teacher who couldn't pronounce my name when calling out names each morning. She couldn't say
Damian using 3 syllables, and said damon every time. I corrected her every time too. The look i got from her is burned in my memory.
Another pet peeve is not being able to sleep until one hour before i have to wake up.
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Permalink Reply by Maggie on
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Yesss they never listen to you when you try to correct them especially when you have to do it a lot!
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Permalink Reply by Sandra Stott on -
:O and she's a teacher?! That's worse than my son's grade 2 teacher, wrote him a note telling him "your a good kid" instead of "you're". And she was suppose to be the reading coach as well!
BTW, did she ever tell you the grass was green because the sky is blue, and the sun is yellow, and yellow + blue = green?
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Permalink Reply by Ann on -
I have one specific pet peeve: when people mistype Snow White in my native language, Estonian. The correct spelling is Lumivalgeke, literally: Little Snow White. I don't know why, but people tend to write and say Lumivalguke (grrr!) instead. Seems like a small mistake, just one letter, but it actually changes the meaning of the word completely. The latter version translates as Little Snow Protein. Duh!!! What kind of princess name is that?
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Permalink Reply by Richard Wilson on -
I can feel your pain.
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Permalink Reply by Sandra Stott on
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I have two. The worst one is when people don't use whole words when they type, or on advertisements. (do u no how 2 spell?) The other one is the use of double negatives. (it don't make no sense!)
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Permalink Reply by disbelief on
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Hip hop/r and b music, "reality tv", people who misuse the word ironic or irony, to name but a few...
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Permalink Reply by TNT666 on -
funny that, my musical pet peeves are country music, rock, heavy metal, easy listening, pop!!! A ha ha ha
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Permalink Reply by Sandra Stott on
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I totally hate "reality" tv, I quit watching it the second year. It's not a peeve, though.
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