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Post by nancy on May 11, 2005 1:51:06 GMT -5
It annoys me that my friends and I are so disorganized and thus are still doing homework at 2 am in the morning, 4 hours before waking up, 6 hours before it is due... oh, and people who think they're all that annoy me as well...
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Post by hermoine on May 11, 2005 2:04:10 GMT -5
Ohhh...something else which annoys me. Ever since I started writing on TD, writing on other websites ensued, and so I started writing in English more often. This I suppose affected the way I talk, and I often find myself expressing myself in English. Now, if you're in my school, or practically anywhere, if you start speaking in Maltese-English, that's bad, because you get these groups, who think they're all high and mighty because they can speak in English, making up new words, and making a real fool of themselves.
What I do is perhaps start talking in Maltese, then realise I can't say what I mean to, so I switch to English, or French if I don't want to be understood. If you do that around here, people will think you're snob, and are just as equal as those who speak a mixture of Maltese-English. And I'm not!
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Post by nancy on May 11, 2005 2:34:48 GMT -5
lol! I so know what you mean! I have, luckily, learned not to mix my languages, but sometimes when I don't sleep much, (like today's one of those days) the next day I'm like all mixed up. In spanish I'd say I have my cables mixed up. So tomorrow I'm gonna be like : Hola wie ghet es dir? What time est-ce que tu t'avez endormi yesterday? all... like that. Not so much, but you gte the idea. =P
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Post by KoNeko on May 11, 2005 3:08:42 GMT -5
Haha! I do that too, but with a horrible English/French/Cantonese idiolect I made up. It's kind of like, in certain languages there are certain expressions and words that other languages don't use, so you just sort of... import them.
What else annoys me? Well, drivers who indicate for like a milisecond before turning. Especially if I'm stuck behind them at an intersection! Is it SO hard to put your blinkers on earlier people?! Think road safety! My sister once hit the car in front of her because they were at a red light and then the guy in front decided to turn left without indicating and she drove into the back of him. And then he said it was entirely her fault when he should have also abided by the road rules himself!!
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Post by hermoine on May 11, 2005 3:30:54 GMT -5
Yeah that's really annoying. Unfortunately though, here in Malta at least, if you're the person who bumped into someone from behind, even if the person in front of you stopped suddenly for no reason at all, it's your fault.
Seriously, what if that person wants to make a new bumper, and brakes on purpose so that someone will bump into him and pay for it?
What really annoys me too, is the fact how here the roads are terrible, and now, because there's going to be this whole Commonwealth thing, they're closing all the roads, causing traffic jams all over the place, it takes you half an hour to get to a place when it only used to take a quarter of an hour, and it causes havoc on monday morning.
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Post by KoNeko on May 11, 2005 19:41:05 GMT -5
What's the whole commonwealth thing?
In Australia if you rear end someone it's your fault unless you can prove some fault on their part that contributed to the accident (e.g. they stopped suddenly and without good reason or whatever). But usually the person in the back will wear most of the cost.
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Post by hermoine on May 12, 2005 7:38:44 GMT -5
See, there's going to be a meeting for all Commonwealth member countries, and Malta will be hosting it. And of course, as Head of the Commonwealth, the British Queen will be coming, and you can't expect the Queen to pass in our terribly pot-holed roads now can you?
Although my dad says that since the Italians contributed to the road refurbishments financially, they're speeding things up, because I think Italian President Chiampi is coming too.
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Post by Lianne on May 12, 2005 10:54:20 GMT -5
Well herm if it helps i don't think that you are a snob. And im jealous that you can speak all these languages!
My dad is fluent in french and i can teven say anything
EDIT
OOh Ko i only joined liek a month after you i thought you've been here since it was that cinema board?
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Post by Nie on May 14, 2005 8:03:27 GMT -5
People that can't make themselves available for a 4 hour shift at work even though you've done 6 days at work this week and have covered goodness knows how many shifts for them really really annoy me. I spent all day tryng to fill a shift I couldn't work because someone's father called and said he wasn't going to let her do the shift we'd organised her to do because he wanted her to do her homework.
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Post by hermoine on May 15, 2005 7:24:06 GMT -5
Well herm if it helps i don't think that you are a snob. And im jealous that you can speak all these languages!
Thanks Li! I just love languages, especially while I'm reading something, and at one point one of the characters starts speaking in a different language! 'Cause I get really annoyed when I'm reading something like Sherlock Holmes and I don't understand what he's saying in German. Grrr.... ((Totally random, but I seem to be in an inventing-names-mood. Mind if I start calling you Lina? I've already got Healthy-Will. But it's ok if you don't want to. )
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Post by Lianne on May 15, 2005 9:21:10 GMT -5
Alex has a crazy aunt named Lina lol but sure its fine
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Post by Me on May 15, 2005 23:13:17 GMT -5
Pet peeves, man do I have a lot of them.
Of course at the top would have to be grammar. It seems like vowels aren't as important as they used to be since apparently you can now write without them. I don't text message much, and when I do I actually write everything out. I'm a dork.
I swear, some people cannot go for an hour without text messaging. My lab partner in my anatomy class is always sending text messages. She'll stop in the middle of a lab to send a text message. I really think that she could decide where to go to lunch when she meets her friends after class in person.
The their/there/they're things annoys me too. I think after a certain point I can't forgive people for mixing them up.
Now personally I'm a careless typist. For the most part my spelling is fine, but I don't pay much attention to my typing anymore so my words come out misspelled. When people print things out though and there are misspelled words it just plain frustrating. It's not hard to use spell check, you just press F7.
Cell phones are a pain too. I know that they're handy in emergencies, but do you really need to have a phone conversation in a public restroom?
Of course there are the typical pet peeves associated with driving. My biggest one would have to be driver who don't signal. It takes a second to do.
I also have a strong dislike for people who stand in the middle of crowded hallways to have a conversation.
Finally would have to be my family. I like them all very much, but I just don't like to be interrupted while I'm reading.
Maybe I should just relax a bit.
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Post by hermoine on May 16, 2005 8:08:10 GMT -5
I've found a new pet peeve!
So yesterday I went to this food and drink fair, and we started going round the halls. I hate fairs, so raise yourselves..... We saw the cooking machinery first which was good, but then we entered the halls where you can buy food. And that's when I went and . We went to the first sellers, and my was asking about the products, which is the real reason to go to this stuff(I'm not saying that this is good because my mum did it, but, because that's what everyone should do), and I notice this woman, grabbing 2 biscuits in her hand, while the saleswomen were busy tending to other customers. Now there's nothing wrong with taking the biscuits on the plate, because they were for free, but what annoyed was that this woman was taking them, without asking about the product at all.
It's like you're saying, "I'd like to take a biscuit right now." And notice the plate. "Oh look! Free biscuits! I'll just take some while nobody's noticing."
That nerved me up. Especially when after a few minutes she came back and took some more. Seriously with the rate at which all the food on the plates was being taken, I wonder if the sellers actually do make a profit out of these things.
And then we went next to an icecream seller, and they were giving away free ice creams. Sure, it's promotion it's good to do that. And of course the people were acting as if they have never seen an ice cream, and lunged at the sellers. Now this was a diet ice cream, so most people don't find it to their liking exactly. So, most of the people who took this ice cream where grumbling about it being to hard to eat with a plastic teaspoon, and that it didn't taste good. I call that a waste of perfectly good food(because of course, all those who said they didn't like it, ended up throwing it away), and I couldn't help not thinking how stupid of the ice cream sellers it was to give the audience that type of icecream. I mean, if nobody has ever tasted the company's ice creams before, and you give them a type of icecream which is only targeted to a certain type of people, how do you expect them to like it, and to buy your products in future? That's complete bad promotion! Meh...
So I spent a whole hour, naming myself "The Ribell of Society" watching people snatching food as if they've never seen it before, and looking pretty much disgusted at them all. I know this may seem exxagerated, and I don't care if nobody in that stupid fair thought the same way I did. I'm just happy I was not acting like a piggy-eyed Dudley.
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Calantha
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Post by Calantha on May 19, 2005 15:21:53 GMT -5
My newest pet peeve: Gluttony.
Why do you need one large bag (which is refillable) of popcorn (which has lots of oil and salt, yum!) then add lots of butter (not actually butter but butter flavored topping oil) and then put on EXTRA salt?! Oh wait, but if that won't clog your arteries enough, you get candy (2 boxes because one just isn't enough) and then a large soda. Or better yet, to make yourself feel better, you get a large diet soda! *sneers* Gluttons.
And then they complain because you didn't fill the popcorn up enough or give them enough butter. I'm sorry, but maybe you should consider moderation in your life! Gah! And get this, the company tells us to upsale so they get the larger sizes...uuuhhhhh, you wonder why you're gaining weight?! Look at what and how much you're eating America!
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Sarah
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Post by Sarah on May 21, 2005 23:49:06 GMT -5
Yeah, there's this saying that i received in an email...(ooh! I also hate chain-emails!!!) "Only in America can you go to a drive-in, order a Big Mac, Large Fries, and a Diet Coke." (for those who don't know, a big mac is a really big hamburger that is loaded with calories and such... ) About the languages...I can only speak phrases in French, German, and Spanish. And that's about it. the only other thing i'm fluent in besides English is American Sign Language. And that's because it's one of my classes. Thanks for the grammar lesson, Sphi.
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