Comments on: My Pernicious Pet Peeves

By: Erika

Erika — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:33:46 +0000

-Winsome Lily, Seriously! And the colors are distracting, I can’t ever focus when I’m reading them! As for the pot thing…At a Barenaked ladies concert? Really? Bob Marley, I totally get it. But the Ladies…?

By: Winsome Lily

Winsome Lily — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:22:12 +0000

Those ridiculous emails with tons of different colored fonts and sizes drive me bonkers, even if they’re informal. We aren’t 5 years old!

And the pot thing…yes, yes and yes. I was at a Barenaked Ladies concert and someone was smoking some nearby. I was FURIOUS. I mean come ON…the Barenaked Ladies? And they can’t go 3 whole hours without it? I hate the smell.

By: Erika

Erika — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:43:48 +0000

-Claudia, Seriously! It’s not like these are hand-scribed missives from English nobles. More likely, they’re banal lunch meeting reminders that in no necessitate that kind of frouf.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:12:16 +0000

I’m not a fan of the font abuse either. Some of them are so ornate you can barely read them…which is completely unprofessional.

By: Erika

Erika — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:14:15 +0000

-Kami, Oooh, irregardless is a hilarious word. Sounds fancy, but is in reality about as fancy as a rhinestone-speckled pair of socks.

-Teija, Seriously! I’m far from convinced that marijuana will end civilization as we know it, but that doesn’t mean I want a contact high.

By: Teija

Teija — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:14:05 +0000

I agree with you about pot-smoking at concerts. I don’t have anything against those who do choose to smoke it at home, but I personally have never had the inclination to do it myself, and when people bring it to a public venue and force it on the people around them like that, it makes me really, really mad.

By: Kami

Kami — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:12:03 +0000

re: this “People who misuse words that sound similar but really aren’t” I’d like to add people who make up words that they think sound intelligent like irregardless, or mispronounce words like happen-chance instead of happenstance. Pretentious, I know. But God, it irks me.

By: Erika

Erika — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:03:58 +0000

-Tatiana, I love the little frowny face!! I agree times infinity about the chain letters and forwards. I don’t care if angels tap dance every time I forward the email, get it gone!

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:25:24 +0000

I am totally with you on the work email thing. Actually, most of the ways people use email casually annoy me… chain letters, stupid forwards, etc >:[

By: Erika

Erika — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:23:05 +0000

-Maria, Thank you! Common courtesy seems to be increasingly uncommon, unfortunately…

-Chibi Jeebs, Thank you, so glad you enjoyed!