I just got invited to a meeting for a time zone that doesn’t exist this time of year. In the US EST does not stand for Eastern time, it stands for Eastern Standard Time (~November-~March), EST is not an active time zone, it is EDT Eastern Daylight Time. Its a pointless thing, most people probably don’t notice, but its wrong.
Fake internet points to anyone who knows why DB-9 bothers me.
Edit: corrected a missing n in an eastern
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When you have a dispenser (liquid soap, sanitizer gel, shampoo, etc.) and it’s almost empty, so the damn bottle gets knocked over from the slightest nudge. Makes me so irrationally mad.
For a bit the stuff inside will keep the COG low enough that its somewhat stable, but at some point it just stops being worth it. It also seems to last forever.
My partner leaves his drink bottle near the sink, empty or mostly empty.
I accidentally knock that fucker over at least twice a day. I move it to a different part of the kitchen where it’s very unlikely to get accidentally knocked, he knows the spot so it’s not like I’ve hidden it or inconvenienced him.
But he puts it back next to the fucking sink and I knock it over and it makes so much fucking noise and scares the dog and I have to stop what I’m doing to go pick it up, just in case it does have a bit of water in it and creates a slip hazard, and it’s going to be the reason I suffocate him in his sleep.
Many things annoy me…
Slow walking people.
Twats on electric scooters weaving through traffic.
Drivers not using their indicators.
These are just a few things.
Sometimes I’m tempted to just stand in the middle of a roundabout with a sign that says “use your blinkers you fuckin morons” but then I remember I like being in one piece. Even worse are the people that signal going into a roundabout but not while they’re exiting. Yes, you have literally no other option but to enter the roundabout, better signal to let people know I’m gonna enter it. There’s 4 exits and people waiting to enter lol fuck you have fun guessing where I’m gonna exit.
My slow pace is still faster than slow walkers.
Where I am, the scooters are not supposed to be on normal sidewalks, and seem annoyed your using the sidewalk.
IF YOU USED YOUR SIGNAL WE WOULD HAVE BOTH GONE FASTER!
The left lane is for passing, I really don’t care how fast or slow you are going, if your not passing somebody GET OVER!
anyway, you might have struck a few nerves.
Where I am, the scooters are not supposed to be on normal sidewalks, and seem annoyed your using the sidewalk.
Yes, same here in the UK, i dont budge when im walking on the pavement, and i walk in the middle, sometimes when the pavement becomes narrow, it forces them to slow right down.
I just don’t make an effort to move farther over.
Pavement is one of the more interesting words for British vs American English. British pavement == American sidewalk. In American English, I don’t see pavement in common use, but its more of the general material that a road is made out of, or maybe hard surface, when not specifying a specific. “They just put some new pavement down”. Anyway, I just think its one of the more interesting (and potentially confusing) British to American translations.
Certain mispronunciations, such as when someone mispronounces “escape” as “excape,” “moot” as “mute,” “etcetera” as “excetera,” and finally “supposedly” as “supposably.”
I live somewhere that all of this is common language. It drives me fucking crazy.
Supposably gets me. I’m also unnecessarily annoyed by “besides the point” and “anyways”.
seeing “whoa” as “woah” has never sat right with me
What about “Whoah”?
I had to walk out of work after that
Same… except the other way round.
so how do we proceed amicably? It just seems like a spelling that isn’t family-friendly or wholesome. I don’t know where it came from or why, but it makes me uncomfortable
so how do we proceed amicably?
We can’t. This calls for violence.
I 2nd mowing grass, my dad called lawns green cancer and I agree
The “open” in “OpenAI”, I know about the origins but currently…
There’s a place by me called Ranch Pizza and they do not have ranch pizzas. They have pizzas. They have ranch. They do not have pizza with a ranch base however.
I mean, that doesn’t sound like they lying though.
I feel like if you’re calling yourself Ranch Pizza, you’re beholden to having it on the menu. They aren’t called Ranch and Pizza after all.
Its a ranch, they have pizza. Sounds appropriate. I would expect a “ranch pizza” on the menu to be a house special, not ranch flavor.
They aren’t ranch themed. It’s just called Ranch Pizza. Here’s their Insta. Not a cowboy hat in sight.
I read your original comment as they have “a ranch”. yea, whats ups with the name. Missed opportunities all around.
I mean maybe Bill Microsoft and Thomas Nintendo’s good buddy John Ranch started the place idk, but even then it would irk me on a deeply spiritual level.
People typing “ahahahah” instead of “hahahaha”.
Some people actually do start their actual, in-person laugh with an “a.” Are you saying what’s natural is somehow wrong?
I’ve never heard anyone laughing in a way that could be written down as “ahahah”. Do you have any example?
Laughing is, as far as I can tell, multiple “Ha!” as in “suprise!” there’s a clear exhalation before the a sound.
I think Jimmy Carr’s laugh does. Check it out, it’s worth the watch.
I’ve heard people exclaim, “Ahaha” or so before. It’s not rare but it’s not like it’s never occurred.
I don’t know about others, but to me they are both appropriate ways to express laughter, just two different kinds. I would use ahah for schadenfreude.
Not pronouncing the “h” in “herb”. Or the “l” in “solder”.
Also, two spaces after a full stop. I thought we stopped doing that in the '90s. And the Internet had killed it off, because HTML just won’t display more than one space. But more recently, some platforms have started actually showing multiple spaces again. It just looks so damn wrong.
Oh, and one that occurred to me as a result of writing that previous paragraph. When people write “90’s” to refer to the decade of the '90s. Misuse of apostrophes in general, but particularly when it’s after a number, acronym, or letter. Mind your Ps and Qs, not P’s and Q’s.
Not pronouncing the “h” in “herb”.
Well, that’s normal in the US to omit.
Or the “l” in “solder”.
People do that?!
Both are the standard American English pronunciations. For solder, the o is more of an ah sound so sahder.
Wait till you hear buoy 🤣
Quay confuses me.
“t” in mortgage
Pointless? The most pointless thing that aggravates me?
Mowing grass.
It’s not solving the problem. At all.
It annoys me more when other people care.
Its a pointless thing
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But no, it’s not a pointless thing. Because people will say that something occurs in one particular time zone, and I’ll convert it under that assumption. Only for them to then turn around and blame me for being an hour late because they said standard time when they meant daylight time. Time communications should always be done in UTC first, with other time zones giving as optional extras, specified in terms of their UTC offset explicitly, alongside their name.
The important thing is the time gets communicated, and in the US outside states that don’t observe daylight saving time, I just assume the vernacular time for that zone.
Changing the clock every daylight savings time.
Its Daylight Saving (no s) Time. And I am firmly on the side of standard time year round; I’m a morning person.
Same.
Complaint about misuse of time zone identifiers. I truly love you. Keep doing what you do. We need you.
everything. EVERYTHING!
People who say no to something instead of no thank you. Someone offered my CW a tart one day and she said “no I don’t like those” instead of just “no thanks”. Why not just the extra half step to be polite?
People can be pushy if you don’t decline clearly. Especially when it comes to food. Cultural background is also highly significant with this one.
