Nitpicking thread!

[blondeatlast]

Name your little annoyances. As a former English teacher, I have many, including some of which I'm frequently guilty.

You start, though . . .

:evilgrin:

[Name removed]

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[frogfromthenorth2]

2. To sum it up...they are in DEANIAL.... lol

[tnlefty]

3. Best done with a cup of vinegar to help loosen up the "glue" the little

varmints secure the nits to the hair shafts with. Use a fine-toothed comb and comb the vinegar very generously through the hair....

This isn't what you meant though.

[blondeatlast]

4. But one never knows when it will come in handy!

[tnlefty]

9. Aaaarrrggghhh - I ended a sentence with a preposition!!!

Shame, shame, shame.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. I just hate picking nits.

My little sister got head lice 3 times one year.

I hate picking nits.

[BlueJazz]

8. What do you call those little white things that.....

are in your head and bite?

[waterman]

6. People who just sit there when the light turns green

People who fly around the blind corner in a grocery store with their cart. People who can lift their entire arm and shoulder for a cell phone, but not even a finger for the blinker.

[hippiechick]

40. I like to make fun of people like that ...

'It's really a shame you spent $80,000 for that Mercedes and the turn signals don't even work ... '


:silly:

[blondeatlast]

43. HAH!

[lancdem]

7. People who can't differentiate between a subject and object

"between you and I" ughhhh!

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. Not being able to find something I JUST HAD IN MY HAND !!

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[trof]

11. Them Nit-Pickers

How 'bout them nit-pickers, ain't they funny?
Pickin' at a kitty cat, pickin' at a bunny.
Pickin' them teeny nits, pickin' them tiny.
Pick 'em off the front, and pick 'em off the hiney.

Them picky-nitty nit-pickers, what a buncha weezers.
Some use they fingernails, some use tweezers.
How to be a nit-picker?
It's purty slick.
Find yourself a buncha nits,
Haul off and pick.

[put out]

13. How bout them dog kickers?

Ain't they mean? Kickin at every dog they seen
Kickin them beagles, kickin them mutts,
Kickin them puppies poor little butts.

To be a dog-kicker, you don't need a ticket,
Find yourself a dog, haul off a kick it.

Don't kick me now. I don't kick dogs, but I am a very skilled nit-picker. How's my English.

[blondeatlast]

18. My dad use to sing me a song like that in the bathtub.

[trof]

42. "Them Poems" - Mason Williams

http://www.masonwilliams-online.com/


Mason was a writer and sometime performer on the Smothers' Brothers show. He had one hit record, a guitar instrumental he wrote called "Classical Gas".

He is also the author of many "Them Poems".
MooseGoosers, EweDoers, BeaverCleavers, LunchToters.
Some how, I am able to channel him and do a Them Poem on almost any subject.
;-)

[NightTrain]

12. PLEASE PREPAY BEFORE PUMPING GAS.

Well, you can't bloody well prepay *after* you've pumped it!

[Intelsucks]

16. And you get to stand in line twice! What a concept!

:hurts:

[Redleg]

14. People gabbing on cell phones while driving or walking in hallways.

Can't stand 'em.

[hippiechick]

15. Anal retentive middle aged men who blow dry their hair ...

after spending 20 minutes in the shower (using up all the hot water), slather themselves in body lotion, have their clothes and shoes spotless, ironed, shined and lined up in the closet ... who clean the motel room before the maid gets there ... and who have spent the entire night clinging to the opposite edge of a huge king sized bed, coccooned in the covers, facing the other direction even after having their brains screwed out by me.


:mad:

:hippie:

[blondeatlast]

19. That is one very large "nit," IMHO!

I take it that was the last time you saw said person?

[waterman]

21. That was one awfully funny post, hippiechick!!!

[waterman]

23. Doesn't even sound like the kind of guy a hippie chick would

hang out with. Waddup with that?

[hippiechick]

38. Scary thing is ... it all happened !!

It was the first AND last time I saw him.

I had a wicked crush on him 20 years ago & we bumped into each other a few months back, started talking & agreed to meet in Chicago last weekend to have some fun ... and, well, for all the reasons I stated in my post ... I couldn't get outta there fast enough.

:( So much for anyone who tells you that 'first love' is perfect and can last forever.


:hippie:

[TXlib]

30. hee hee

You sound like a lot of fun!

[TrogL]

17. It's "its"

[blondeatlast]

20. That is one of mine of which I am frequently guilty.

[DS1]

22. My favorite nitpick of all time, overuse of apostrophe's

Like that!

[waterman]

24. Doh'

[fudge stripe cookays]

46. Being a Writer...

and an editor, I can definitely empathize! Nothing makes me pop blood vessels faster!

Oi!

[PVnRT]

25. Misuse of "you're" and "your"

and misspellings like "congradulations" and such on signs. Drives me nuts.

[Endangered Specie]

26. Using non realistic numbers like zillion and bajillion...

Also people who confuse mass and weight, also velocity and accelaration.

(Im a bit of a science buff)

Those really makes me cringe.

[PVnRT]

27. Even worse, confusing velocity and speed

Speed is a scalar, dammit! Velocity is a vector! Get it straight!

[waterman]

29. That is freakin' hilarious!

[Endangered Specie]

31. i forgot about that one, thx also...

People who think there is no gravity in orbit.

And their are som many others, cant think of anymore at the moment.

[TXlib]

32. As a former physics teacher

I can say I share that annoyance.

I'd spend several lectures trying to explain to my students how the SPEED of an object can be increasing, while its VELOCITY is decreasing. (i.e. - an object that is falling, when up is the positive direction.)

Also, I tried to break them of the use of the word deceleration; I would tell them to purge that word from their vocabulary while in my class, and replace it with the phrase 'acceleration directed opposite the velocity'.

[Endangered Specie]

36. I always got along well with physics prof's...

Great sense of humor, and a fine understanding on how the world works (or doesn't). That, and they always gave me A's ;-)

One good saying:

"Physics is not a democracy" - Whenever someone said "I think..." or a majority of the class voted for the wrong answer.

[TXlib]

28. Your ellipsis include spaces

As an english teacher, you should know ellipsis have no spaces: ... rather than . . .

</kidding>

[blondeatlast]

45. Subject to debate; let me see if I can find a source.

[gator_in_Ontario]

33. Joke

A southern girl and a hoity toity type are sitting next to each other on an airplane. The southern girl asks, "Where ya from?"
the stuck-up woman answers, "Where I am from, we NEVAH end a sentence with a prepositon!" The southern girl waits a moment...then asks, "Where ya from, bitch?"

[Endangered Specie]

34. Between a flashing arrow, chimes and a service call light...

People who ask "is this going up/down".

Up arrow means going up, Down means going down. And if their aren't any arrows: One chime means going up, two for down. Also, If the call button you pushed turned off, that means the car is for you!
This is really irritating when these are people who have been riding elevators alot (like a dorm).

Speaking of elevators...

People who close the damn door too fast.

Boys who push for or get on floor six (the all girl floor) with a shit-eatin' grin on their face.

[kiahzero]

41. You have elevators in your dorms?

Lucky SOB... Then again, I'm only on the second floor this year, so I can't complain too much.

[PVnRT]

35. ...and another thing: "loose" instead of "lose"

GAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Iris]

37. "between you and I"

followed closely by the pompous misues of "myself"!

[alwynsw]

39. Butchering language in general

annoys me. I'm not referring to regional dialects, slang, or accents. I'm referring to lazy speech and writing.

[blockhead]

44. DU'ers

who keep spelling moron "moran". makes you wonder.

[bleedingheart]

47. Incompetent people who get promoted

[arwalden]

48. Kewl instead of cool. 4u instead of "for you". Peeps instead of "People"

I could go on...