Annoying Things That Should Be Banned in 2016 (add yours here)

[GreatGazoo]

1. Saying "in spite" when you mean "despite"

2. Local news telling people that all the snow falling for the last 12 hours means there is a lot of snow on the roads, and

3. Telling people not to drive or leave the house if they don't need to.

4. YouTube video titles that promise a (verbal) "smackdown" but deliver only the standard bickering.

5. Discover Card commercials using the phrase "awesome sauce."

6. People who use the phrase "awesome sauce."

6a. Any actual sauces, which are in fact awesome, should not be banned.

7. FaceBook GIFS that claim to be from Kurt Vonnegut Jr. yet are deficient in grammar and way too sunny and trite to be Vonnegut.

8. Claiming that Mark Zuckerberg is going to give away ANYTHING free to ANYONE or fund a charity.

[oldandhappy]

1. congress

[clarice]

2. Hey ...wait a minute....

Sauciers always get a bad rap.....they are just like any other people..but they like to make sauces.
The very few radical Saucsiers , make it hard on the peaceful ones. They are not trying to convert you to their saucy
ways. They only want to be left alone to make their Bearnaise and raspberry cremes.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

34. I dunno, Chef may have been a game-changer

[IMG][/IMG]

[clarice]

42. " A TIGER.....a f%$ing TIGER !!!! lol

[Sanity Claws]

3. Putting anything about the Kardashians on the news page

I am so sick of hearing about hearing about them. If stuff about them was confined to the entertainment pages, I could avoid them but instead I see them on the alleged news sections of papers.

[MH1]

43. Putting anything about the Kardashians anywhere. nt.

[smirkymonkey]

144. Yes, I long for the day where I never hear anything about any of them anywhere.

I don't even tune in to entertainment news, yet they are absolutely everywhere!

[lame54]

4. Top 8 lists

[pinboy3niner]

23. :)

In spite of the naysayers, at the end of the day that is awesome sauce.

--Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

[GreatGazoo]

31. LOL

[malthaussen]

95. Incomplete quote.

Should be "... at the end of the day that is awesome sauce going forward."

-- Mal

[ashling]

126. Your citation is incomplete

just saying

and, by the way, the aphorism "just saying" should die

[IDemo]

35. And "Ten Things You Need to Know About XYZ" lists

[laundry_queen]

153. and #blah will REALLY shock you!

but not really.

[BlueJazz]

5. Most of the Click-Bait. OH MY GOD! THE MOST AMAZING THING EVER!!

"You won't believe what drivers in (Insert state here) are doing!!" (changing insurance agents)
"The camera-man didn't know he would see her do this!! (bend over some--big deal)"
"Find out ANYTHING about ANYBODY!! (find out a few obvious things for 20 bucks...like their age..maybe)

[GreatGazoo]

9. "Everything seemed normal until THIS happened..."

Weather dot com is the worst for those.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. One weird, old trick.....

To get rid of wrinkles, "kill" belly fat, etc. etc.

[BlueJazz]

21. They used to advertise this pill here (in Florida), that was call "The Fat Burner II"

"Burns the fat while you sleep"!!
"Eat everything you want, The Fat Burner (II) will burn it up!!

"I lost 22 lbs in 3 weeks!!

We used to laugh at the ads...looked like they were made on a dime-store camera.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

107. Lolol!

And there are people who fall for it.....ok, once is excusable, but after that, no!

[NJCher]

68. I also hate this part

when they add: "#8 will surprise you!"

Oh, and can we add "weird trick" to this list of loathsome click bait practices.


Cher

[kentauros]

6. There's probably a "Snowstorm Bingo" card out there somewhere,

like we have for hurricanes. And if there isn't, use this one as a guide to make your own

[Manifestor_of_Light]

137. This is great for Houstonians!

I probably saw this years ago in the Houston Press.

I remember the tiny Shern-Min Chow on Channel 13 standing on the rocks at the Galveston Seawall and getting nearly blown away. She was definitely not an "anchor".

[kentauros]

138. I think she became more famous for that than her reporting ability

And here's the video:

[KentuckyWoman]

7. My ban list

Fox news

Poke asses who won't vacate the left lane

Poke asses who deliberately change their speed to make sure no one can get around their poke ass

Robo answering systems for businesses......... HIRE A DANG PERSON !!

Those sound systems for cars strong enough to vibrate the whole neighborhood.

Kids on my lawn.

All likenesses of Ted Cruz and the sound of his voice. Annoying as hell even without the lying ass message.

Aggressive drivers with the fish on the back of the car..... give up the fish you liar.

Cooking stinky food in an apartment complex unless you have a really good exhaust fan to funnel the stink outside.

Oh yeah, sound systems way too big for apartment living that vibrate the whole building no matter how low you think you are playing it.

Kids on my lawn (and their little dogs too)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. First of all...

1. Leaf blowers
2. Cars with their sound systems cranked up to cause more earthquakes than fracking
3. People who think it's cool to spit on the sidewalk
4. People who say "That's just your opinion" when confronted with facts
5. People who react to anything that is unfamiliar or difficult to understand with "That's boring"
6. People who can afford to travel but say, "Why should I go anywhere else when we have everything right here?"
7. People who are so racist that they will fearfully cross the street to avoid walking past random African-Americans/Muslims/Latinos
and will refuse to go downtown or to the Mall of America for the same reason
8. TV programs and movies that seem designed to lower people's IQs
9. Local news programs that consist of a report of a crime or fire, a thinly disguised commercial for their network's latest TV special, a weather report, and ten minutes of high school sports
10. People who can't disagree with someone on Facebook or DU without gratuitous and irrelevant insults

[hobbit709]

12. Your #8 applies to about 95% of such programming.

[arcane1]

28. And if we can't ban "hoverboards" let's at least call them something else.

I prefer "Douchebag Conveyance" but that's reflective of my own experiences with people who use them

[CTyankee]

134. I think I would ban the term "douchebag."

Folks here remember when it was taboo (still is for some of us) because of its sexist connotation. I think "asshole" is much better anyway...and both sexes possess them so let's use THAT...

[worstexever]

83. Broke people

People who can't afford to travel and say, "Why should I go anywhere else when we have everything right here?" Totally bogus excuse.

[Matariki]

10. Using the phrase "invest in" when talking about shoes or organizing products

or *anything* other than actual investments - which should hopefully increase in value and not simply wear out or need to be re-heeled.

Also, stickers on every piece of fruit and vegetable in the world.

[elias49]

11. Starting a declarative sentence with the word "So"...

drives me crazy. I hear it more and more.

[Hotler]

69. I so hate that word....

Since when did the word "So" become a unit of measure? I am so tired. I had to drive so far. There was so much snow.

[pinboy3niner]

70. Well, duh! Of course we see it a lot, because of all the...

...soing machines.

[Hotler]

72. Sweet!......

[Major Nikon]

13. Bieber

[justamama83]

14. That Peter Pan guy on the insurance commercial!

[lastlib]

17. And FLO!!! And the Gecko!

I am so F***ing SICK of those, I want to retch on them!

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

41. What they call a gecko is actually an anole.

At least in Houston, the geckos are tan and spotted and anoles are green like the ad.

[Codeine]

104. Back off Flo, man!

She's a goddess, I tell ya.

[lastlib]

105. So was Medusa, once..........

[OriginalGeek]

145. Do whatcha want with the lizard

but leave my precious Flo alone!

[truegrit44]

39. You beat me to it........

I was gonna say Geico and progressive insurance ads

[Art_from_Ark]

125. I'd rather watch Flo or the gecko

than those pharmaceutical commercials and their minute-long cure-is-worse-than-the-disease disclaimers.

[hollysmom]

76. and any of the GE ads - worked there know they hate women and old people,

don't need ads to reinforce that.

[japple]

15. "At the end of the day..."

People who "reach out" instead of asking a question.

[LiberalElite]

22. YES - when did

"reach out" become a thing? It's so touchy-feely to me.

[CTyankee]

54. and businesses and banks are now "reaching out" when it used to be reserved for

charitable causes. I find it rather strange.

[MH1]

44. People who "reach out" << would be near top of my list. nt.

[dixiegrrrrl]

51. And "leaning in" has worn out its welcome as a phrase. n/t

[lastlib]

16. Hopefully, we could.....

ban the beginning of ANY sentence with the word "HOPEFULLY"!!!!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

89. So, we could also ...

ban the beginning of ANY sentence with the word "SO"!!!11!

[lastlib]

90. Hopefully......

[rug]

18. Curmudgeons.

[red dog 1]

19. Donald Trump's face

I'm sick of seeing that asshole's face every day ,

Couldn't they use an R. Crumb cartoon of his face instead?

[2naSalit]

52. HAHAHAHA!!!!

Whenever I see that asshole's face I am certain I am looking at his asshole... I mean, considering what comes out of it.

[red dog 1]

58. Yes!

[Generic Brad]

24. The word "literally"

That was the most over used word of 2015. It rankles me even further because it was also the most mis-used word of 2015.

[arcane1]

27. Mis-used so much that now it officially has both definitions in some dictionaries.

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/according_to_the_dictionary_literally_now_also_means_figuratively_newscred/

[Joe Shlabotnik]

36. I use "literally"

quite often. But I think before I say it, so as not to confuse with figuratively, or metaphorically etc. The misuse of the word 'Ironically' gets me.

[lastlib]

49. So you use it literally. Good!

(couldn't let that one slide.......)

[Boomerproud]

25. This is a great thread and I agree with all the posters so far and will ad

(Whatever) went VIRAL. I am so sick of that word.

[arcane1]

26. Using "ask" and "spend" as nouns.

I only just started hearing these at work a little over a year ago and I'm ready to jump out a window!

[MH1]

45. If we're going to include stuff used at work

I would have a very long list.

Maybe just ban work?

[arcane1]

46. Agreed! :)

[malthaussen]

96. Haven't seen those.

Sounds grim. Examples?

-- Mal

[arcane1]

100. I had the misfortune of hearing them both in the same sentence:

"We need to figure out ways to build up more spend, so that we can meet any unexpected asks that come up."

[malthaussen]

102. That conveys no meaning at all.

You have my deepest empathy.

-- Mal

[pinboy3niner]

29. "Efforting" by news anchors, as in "We're efforting to get more information on that."

[My Good Babushka]

48. Oh, I haven't heard that!

I hate it. No. I wish it weren't happening.

[3catwoman3]

61. I haven't heard it either.

I hope I don't. Reading it was bad enough.

[a la izquierda]

79. I live in a land of stupid manners of speaking...

and I've not heard that one. Jesus.
In WV, people will say/write: This needs done. The dog needs out. The car needs washed. My students do this constantly in their papers. College students. Sigh.
Makes me cringe.

[pinboy3niner]

86. "The buzzard needs rung"

That's a construction that was encountered here recently, lol. What was meant was that the door buzzer needed to be pressed for entry to the building. Because it didn't come out that way, we were able to have a lot of fun with it in a thread that became an instant DU classic.

'Efforting' has been around longer than I thought, and even has an entry at Urban Dictionary. Other references to its use include one citing a tweet from an MSNBC reporter on 9/11 who was "efforting more info now".

[a la izquierda]

87. I saw that one. It put me over the edge of hysterics.

Your puns kill me, but that whole thread was like a weird sketch comedy!

[malthaussen]

97. Pittsburgh, also.

"The carpet needs swept." But that's not new, it's been dialect for decades.

-- Mal

[Inkfreak]

30. Prefacing anything with "I'm sorry, but..."

It just drives me nuts. Who the fuck apologizes before saying something. And I'm sorry, but nine outta ten times it's something stupid.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

37. As a Canadian we get labelled as being over-polite,

And I think part of that is because we often say "I'm sorry, but...". Whenever my friends apologize for things that are completely out of their control I always tell them: "Stop apologizing!"

[OriginalGeek]

146. Are Canadian drivers trained to not hit pedestrians?

I was stuck behind a car with Canadian plates the other day on a city street and I swear to dog they stopped in the middle of the road 40 times for people crossing the street and sometimes for people just walking along the sidewalk and not even making any motion towards crossing. They'd slow down and wait for people still half a block from the crossing point.

Took me 30 minutes to go a mile and it was a no passing zone so I had to wait.

And fume.

In my mind I was screaming "IF YOU DON'T EFFING MOVE YOUR ASSES I WILL RUN OVER THE NEXT PEOPLE YOU DON'T JUST TO SPITE YOU!"


I'm usually more charitable than that but I really really had to pee.

[Initech]

32. That "I wish I could be like the cool kids" song.

Every time I hear it I want to punch the speaker out.

[Initech]

33. The 800 million music streaming services that are out there.

Sorry Apple, Google, Tune In Radio, Amazon, Radio.com, Pandora.... I'm not subscribing any of this crap to get the same content as when I actually buy the albums.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

38. Online subscriptions in general.

Nope ain't doing it. I still remember when the internet was wild and free, and firmly believe it should remain that way. Sorry you can't have my clicks or data as long as I can always find an alternative.

[astral]

141. well, I love the thing you hate.

I just learned Live365, the worlds best internet radio, is going to throw in the towel due to increased royalty costs. the times are changing, and I love having good streaming music instead of buying albums and was a paying customer for it. I am so sad to lose this.

back to on topic:

'at first blush'

[bigwillq]

40. The Trashdashians (nt)

[My Good Babushka]

47. I still want "reference" to stop being used as a verb.

Now I hear people are commentating instead of commenting.
No.

[3catwoman3]

63. And turning "I" into a possessive.

The first time I heard someone say "John and I's vacation," I felt my eyes bug out.

And I have seen "mentee" in dictionary.com, for someone who is being guided by a mentor, but it just looks and sounds wrong.

[Drahthaardogs]

50. There is no such a things as a BIS-CAH-TEE

It is BIS-COAT-TEE, if you want to Americanize the word, then say "cookie" because that is what it means.

Also, same goes for RI-CAH-TA, Nope. It is REE-COAT-TAH, again, if you wan to Americanize it, call it "re-cooked cheese" because that is what it means.

[Goblinmonger]

110. Do we have to roll our "R" on that, too?

[Drahthaardogs]

112. Really?

You have that much trouble with a long "o" vs. a Short "o".

And on edit, italians don't really roll the rrr's; they do just a tiny bit. A trilled r is more of a spanish thing. I think I am begining to understand.

[Goblinmonger]

113. No I don't.

And I sing in a chamber choir so I'm very familiar with Italian vowel pronunciation. And our director refers to it as a "flipped" r.

My point is that, yes, we should probably be aware of the pronunciation, but, really, we aren't going to pronounce it the way they do. We are still butchering it. Do I know that the "n" in jalapeno is "ny"? Yes. Do I pronounce it that way? No. Because the rest of my vowel pronunciation on that word probably sucks, too.

[Drahthaardogs]

114. In the southwest they pronounce the tildoned n.

Try Colorado or New Mexixo. They say it right. But still, its ri coat ta. Ri cah ta sounds stupid to anyone who grew up with a basic interaction with Italian Americans.

Oh, and its Co lo Ra do as a native speaking. Only easterners call it Co lo rawdo.
We can faux pas not fox paws. Why is this so hard for some people. They want to Saxonize everything.

Almost forgot. R is a constanant not a vowel.

[Goblinmonger]

115. I'm aware R is a "constanant" (sic)

You were talking about vowel pronunciation. I used the "r" to make a point about how far we need to take this. We aren't pronouncing it like the italians do. We never will. Even if we use the vowel you want. Hey, go ahead and fight the fight if you want.

Sure it's faux pas. Do you think you are really saying it in a way that a native French speaker would say "Nailed it!"? No.

[Drahthaardogs]

118. Again,

You don't need an italain accent. Just say the long o. There is no such thing as a BIS CAHHH TEEE. Its stupid, atupid, stupid. Why does this offend you so? Show a little respect for a culture NOT your own and try to say it more correctly instead of insisting YOUR WAY is the REAl America n way to say it. It's not an American word. You can't Americanize it.

You can pronounce Sean Shawn can't you?

[Goblinmonger]

122. I get what you are saying. I really do.

But it just feels like you are being overly...something. I want to say pedantic, but that is a lot more negative connotation than I want to bring.

How about this? When I was in Madrid and I heard multiple people pronounce "twitter" as "tweeter," should I have told them that was "stupid, stupid, stupid" and that they shouldn't Spanish-ize that word? Or should I have just realized that "i" is always pronounced "ee" in Spanish and understand that that pronunciation makes sense for them? I chose the later. And would do the same over and over again. What about in my classes? What if an EL student pronounces Huck Finn "Huck Feenn"? Should I go out of my way to make that a big deal and tell them the "real" way it's pronounced?

[Drahthaardogs]

123. Italian cuisine is popular enough

it is just people being lazy. When they say "marscapone" instead of "masARpone" it doesn't really bother me. Saying "BruSHeta" instead of "Brusketa" doesn't either.

But when you fucking name your bakery "Biscotti" and mispronounce it one tv... SHEESH. Iron chefs mispronounce the word. It is just being lazy.

It's not pedantic. I am quite proud of my culture. We were not exactly greeted with open arms, called inferior and lynched, despite the fact were are one of the most glorious cultures and people ever to live.

It is right up there with saying eye-talian....or should I just suck that up too?

[Goblinmonger]

124. Well the bakery one is just stupid.

I'm just saying that when I'm at the local gas station and someone mispronounces "biscotti" I'm not going to correct them. But when they get reinforcement from people who should know better, that seems to be a bigger problem.

Hey, my grandparents came over on a boat from Czechoslovakia. You don't need to tell me about people butchering pronunciations.

[2naSalit]

53. I am sure that I will have to add to this...

The use of... "across the world" and "across the globe"...

Just goes to show that if you repeat something often enough it becomes a thing, in this case I am led to understand that the world and the globe are now flat.

[trueblue2007]

55. DONALD TRUMP should be banned. send him to the moon.

[pinboy3niner]

62. We're efforting that

[Paper Roses]

56. Two that annoy me:

'thus far'
and
'went missing'

Every day during the daily news reports, I hear these words.

Maybe it is just me but I thought it was:
'so far'
and
'is missing' or 'was missing' (if found)

Isn't it funny how certain things bug the heck out of us?

[LeftishBrit]

57. British tabloid writers, and drivers/cyclists who disregard pedestrian lights and crossings, would

come pretty high on my list.

Also almost any Christmas song composed since about 1950 and not by the Pogues!

[2naSalit]

59. Another that I hear on the news a lot is

someone "pleaded not guilty" I always heard, up until the past decade, that it was "plead not guilty" or "entered a plea of not guilty".

And the "tomb of the Unknowns" rather than "Tomb of the Unknown (soldier)" ...it's like deer or buffalo or antelope, there's no "s" for the plural, it's just the same word for singular and plural of the word(s).

And don't get me started on where to place an apostrophe in a word that ends in "s" in some fashion.

I mean...

[Jamaal510]

60. In no particular order:

-Spiders
-The excessive celebration rule in the NFL
-Sequels of Star Wars and Planet of the Apes
-Asthma
-People who smoke in public areas
-People who are on Tinder, but claim to not want hookups
-Illegal and loud fireworks
-Asking for taxpayer-funded sports stadiums

[lindysalsagal]

64. "Excuse me" for "get out of my way"

The toyota woman.

Pop-up ads.

Lying men.

Really cheap toilet paper

[tammywammy]

65. People who talk way too loud in a cubicle environment

And I specifically mean the 27 year old lady next to me that was never taught to use an "inside voice". She freaking yells over to other people two or three cubes away. I despise her.

[raccoon]

66. People repeating a word, attempting to intensify the meaning.

I've heard this on Modern Scholar CD's!

Examples of this:

I've done this for years and years and years...

It's very very very difficult to do such and such....


I wish people would quit it, quit it, quit it, quit it! LOL

[pinboy3niner]

67. That's just wrong, wrong, wrong!

[GreatGazoo]

74. That is similar to using "so" as an adjective

and using "sooooo" as the more emphatic version.

[malthaussen]

98. That's an old technique

Used at least since the KJ version for translations of Aramaic, in which repetition is a means of emphasis. As in "Vanity of vanities," or even "Stone her with stones."

-- Mal

[Hotler]

71. Cell phones.

people that talk and text while driving. People that talk to you on the phone while they are in the restroom doing their business.

[kairos12]

73. People saying no problem instead of your welcome.

[Throd]

82. Maybe they're just being honest?

[Out of Time Man]

84. I'd add...

..."No worries" to that as well.

[LNM]

109. That's the one that gets me.

You're a clerk, it's your job. It shouldn't be a problem to help me.

[JudyM]

117. Sunday drivers in the passing lane. Oblivious.

[laundry_queen]

154. I think that's regional

I've always said you're welcome or no problem, depending on how formal the situation was (I'm in Canada) and so did everyone else around me. It used to irritate my mom that all the Americans in her company would say, "Uh huh!" instead of "you're welcome" or "no problem". I had someone in the US (we are their client) do that to me the other day and I can see how it would seem rude - although she just said, "uh huh!" then hung up, no "good bye" either, so it was double rudeness. A few younger women at work say, "no worries" constantly and it drives me insane. I don't know why. It's no more rude than "no problem". I guess it's just what you are used to.

[Bertha Venation]

75. Local - even national - news using the word "deadly"

when clearly - clearly! - the proper word is "fatal."

A deadly beltway accident.

A deadly house fire.

No. An asp is deadly. A charging gorilla is deadly.

An accident on the beltway in which someone was killed is a fatal beltway accident.

A house fire in which someone was killed is a fatal house fire.

And since I live within the broadcast range of one of the murder capitals of the nation, here's one for free:

Shootings resulting in death are not "deadly shootings." They are fatal shootings.

/rant

[malthaussen]

101. Well, while we're at it...

... let's outlaw the use of the word "tragedy" to mean something unfortunate, sad, or awful. Since properly speaking, a tragedy is something caused by a fatal flaw in the protagonist, and not simply outrageous fortune.

-- Mal

[Bertha Venation]

103. You must've read a little Shakespeare

[2naSalit]

77. Blaming stuff on the weather

like "several accidents on Route?? were blamed on the weather" when actually it was poor driving skills including making the decision to drive in it.

[IcyPeas]

78. Grumpy Cat

I love cats, but this image is getting very old and tiresome. It's been marketed to death. It's not cute anymore.

[likesmountains 52]

80. People saying "Thank Yowww" Is this a thing?

I have been noticing more than half of my patients saying "thank-you" as "Thank-yowww"...owww like in ouch.

[OxQQme]

81. My pet peeve

In-correctly aimed SuperBright headlights on oncoming vehicles.

[Initech]

85. The damn car company Christmas commercials!!

You know those ones where they show 1% families in these insanely fancy houses and then they get some uber fancy luxury car like a Lexus, BMW or Mercedes with a giant bow on them, while the announcer hawks said car company's "winter event"? I seriously hate those commercials and they should all be banned.

[femmocrat]

88. Wow, I was just about to post this! LOL

Now that Christmas is over, can we please ditch the holiday car commercials? I cannot stand one more!!!

[Initech]

91. Why do they call them "winter events"?

Does this mean that we have to buy tickets?

[catbyte]

92. The phrase "At the end of the day" should be banned.

[CBHagman]

93. Overuse of the word "like."

No, there is not a federal law mandating the insertion of that word into a single sentence at least once and preferably several times.

[LuckyLib]

106. This is mine. Interviewing for a job? The more "likes" you insert, the less chance

you will be hired. 45+ year-old woman in a restaurant loudly dropping "like" every 5th word in a sentence? Obnoxious . . . you are not 22: all the "likes" in the world won't get you there.

[CBHagman]

130. I fear the Like Brigade is coming to take over...

...judging by the young professionals whose conversations I overhear on mass transit.

[JesterCS]

94. The word BAE,

Irritates me

[malthaussen]

99. How about "very unique?"

Although that one's been around for awhile.

-- Mal

[Thor_MN]

108. Lists of things.

[LynneSin]

111. Ammosexuals

[madinmaryland]

120. You just won the thread!!

[GusBob]

116. yoga pants outside of the gym

please

[Oneironaut]

119. Naming winter storms

"Prank" videos

[ghostsinthemachine]

121. In store music, flat brim hats, classic rock radio, in public ciggie smokers

Man do I hate the music in any stores, but the worst offenders are the cheaper stores like the Dollar store etc. HORRIBLE> Wants me to never go there. I won't go to CVS due to this.

And flat brims? Well it's just stupid looking.

Classic Rock radio. SUCKS ASS>. community radio rules faces.

And ciggie smoking. C'mon right outside the door of every building ever? 20 feet ain't enough. 200 feet ain't enough. And I live in the rock community and people still smoke indoors (in Cali too!) or anywhere they feel like it. Hippies, smoking cigges. Shame on them.

[alarimer]

127. Using the word "helm" for direct.

As in a movie. Or worse, helmer, for director. That's not even a word!

I hate this so much; I know it's unreasonable. I know it's metaphoric. A helm is the part of a ship that is used for steering or the act of steering a ship.

Please stop it right now, all you internet culture reviewers.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

136. The verbification of America.

I agree about "helm" instead of direct.

I have also heard "lensed" instead of "was cinematographer on this picture".

The verb "to parent".

The verb "tasked" instead of "given the task of". The President uses this one a lot.

Weathermen who say "heading into the week" several times in one broadcast.

The adverb shortage, as in people who use a word that needs "ly" on the end.

Apostrophe abuse due to confusion about plurals and possessives.

People who don't use verbs that inflect. Those are verbs that change internally. They just put "ed" on the end of the present tense verb. I heard a designer on a show say that they "grinded" the finish off a chandelier. GRRR!!

People who don't know about helper verbs like have, has and had. "I seen and I done" irritate me and tell me I am hearing a real hick. They can't say "I saw" and "I did" or "I have done". Even worse is "I done did". Or double negatives. "I don't want none." "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" notwithstanding.


"All right" is two words. "Alright" is not a word.

"I was, like" instead of "I thought that".

As Lewis Black says, "WHY should I keep up with the Kardashians?"

When there are two children, the older child referred to as the oldest. It should be "older" as a comparative as there are two items, not three items, in which case you would have a superlative.

And I am no English major!!!

People who talk on the phone and drive at the same time.

"Y'know what I'm sayin'?" ACCKKK!

Utterly unintelligible words in movies that have background music covering up the dialogue. I have to watch movies with subtitles to catch what is going on, and I have excellent hearing.

[47of74]

128. People who don't know what that G-D stick on the left side of their steering wheel is for.

[bigwillq]

129. Adele, Taylor Swift (nt)

[Orrex]

131. "Reaction" videos on YouTube

I don't need to see some random asshole's "reaction" to the latest trailer or game or Fail clip or whatever, because I'm some random asshole, and why should I care about some other random asshole's opinion more than my own?

[pinboy3niner]

139. My reaction to "reaction" videos...

Made you look.

[jmowreader]

132. "Why you're doing (insert name of thing) wrong" webpages

Under the laws of mercantile, once I have made full payment for a legal, tangible object I may do anything that doesn't violate the law with that object. Therefore, if I want to put ketchup on a hot dog, I'm putting ketchup on the bastard.

[hunter]

133. Fax machines.

Automated call systems used for telemarketing or debt collection.

Adobe Flash plugins.

Microsoft document formats.

Cable and Satellite television program "packaging."

[OriginalGeek]

147. I am in complete agreement re: fax machines

Buncha Flintstones pieces of shit if ya ask me.

[July]

135. "Begging the question" does NOT equal "raising the question."

It is a phrase representing a logical fallacy that means, essentially, you are asserting as proved something you have not proved. Please google "begging the question," if that is not clear.

Secondly, " led" is the past tense of the verb "lead."

Sorry, that's what throws me around the bend.

[Byronic]

140. "Could care less"

When they clearly mean that they "could not care less." Oddly infuriating to me.

[Initech]

142. Kidz Bop

Ok, first of all, you're not cute when you intentionally misspell the word kids with a z, got it? And second, this bullshit isn't marketed to kids, it's marketed to the parents who don't want their kids to do that dangerous thing called "thinking for themselves".

[Ivan Kaputski]

143. Lawyer ads on tv.

[Mendocino]

148. Wolf Blitzer

Burger King ads with the King mascot. I want to crack him over the head with a club, but he's probably full of some sort of BK pod people like in the Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Old rich RW politicians wearing Carhart or camo, hunting and driving pickups to show how down to earth they are.

Autotune

Any music played during the 7th inning stretch other than Take Me Out to the Ballgame.

Movies based on comic books.

Litterbugs, includes those that think the world is their ashtray.

Kanye West anywhere near an awards show or for that matter, awards shows at all.

Sweet Home Alabama, Stairway to Heaven and Highway to Hell

Coal Rollers, I had someone pull this on me last summer. I gave them the universal symbol for being #1, and while they were hanging their head out the window to thank me, they ran a stop sign right in front of a cop.

[IBEWVET]

149. Do you want to come with? or borrow me ten dollars

[sakabatou]

150. People who don't use their turn signals

[Initech]

151. The Patriots' air horn

[phylny]

152. Internet crap that starts with:

"She added _____ to _____ and you'll never guess what happened next!" or any sentence that starts with "She" or "He" and then tells us what wonderful thing happened next or how they couldn't believe it.

Pharmaceutical commercials that mention a side effect as "a fatal event." That cracks us up every time. I want to shake the hand of the person who thought that up. It's almost as good as that drug that caused, "Oily discharge and an inability to control bowel movements" or something like that.

[niyad]

155. pukes, fundies, bundys, and all people with less than two arcing brain cells.

[Grantuspeace]

156. Single ply toilet paper. n/t

[pinboy3niner]

157. "Square the circle." All the pundits and interviewers seem to be using it now.

As in you said this and he said that, can you square the circle?