My Pet Peeve- birthday "chapters" whats yours

Sadly ‘could I get’ appears to be doing replaced with ‘I’m going to do’ e.g. I’m going to do the beef. Who knew that could get more annoying!

ive never heard that but my pet hate is living my best life. Or kid is devastated when they have lost something. No they are sad or angry. You are devastated after an actual disaster or a death

Mine is the pseudo American 'cool' speak as in.... a) Can I get a coffee? or b) Can I grab a coffee?
a) What's wrong with ' Can I have a coffee?' Using get means you are going to fetch it yourself.
b) Grab it and hopefully it will spill all over you and burn your bits.
Sorry, feeling waspish.

Describing something as 'triggering' to express a mild dislike/discomfort. Even worse when used to try to get out of a task they don't enjoy at work.

'Different to' also really irritates me when people say it, although I know a lot of people do. 'Different than' is even worse. I know these ones are me being pedantic though!

Similarly, people saying roof when they mean ceiling. Good grief.

I really loathe the following:

”Brilliant walk with ‘this one’ today” or “Could not be prouder of ‘this one’ today in her gymnastics exam.”

Ewww!

"You could of spoken to the manager."
Could HAVE. HAVE.

See also would of and should of.
HAVE and HAVE. Of makes no sense.

Again, seems thick. Sorry if I'm being rude but it looks and sounds stupid. If you write this way, stop it.

“I can’t even.”
Can’t even what?? Finish the fucking sentence.

"We went to London and seen a show."
No you SAW a show. SAW.

"We went to London and done a tour."
No you DID a tour. DID.

Seriously it makes people seem as thick as mince. Annoys me.

I know, it annoys me too

People who can't spell or punctuate or use grammar correctly. Especially "a lot" written as one word and "myself" and "yourself" when they mean me or you. Oh, and "free reign" for rein.

People who go around clutching their phones at all times like a toddler with a teddy.

People in clothes that don't quite cover their backsides.

People playing music out loud in public.

I will admit to having referred to one birthday as a level - but in my defense it was 42 and I cant resist a 80s band inspired pun.

It's the result of having a very low IQ.

Happened years ago when I went to Argentina, perfectly normal flight. I assumed it was cultural but was a bit of a surprise.

Adding the word ‘out’ to a perfectly correct sentence completely unnecessarily, eg, can I swap out the chips for bread? The baby was adopted out at birth.

So many, but definitely the following
My World
This One
Making Memories
I’ve had worse Mondays (or whatever, accompanied by a photo not at work)

Also, people who think their dog is somehow a child’s “auntie waggles”, or whatever. And anyone writing that a card is from the dog / cat / budgie / spider gets on my nerves.

Typically anyone who is a #girlboss does or says at least one of the above

Pregnancy announcements on social media.

I really don’t get it. Just tell your friends and family in person or via phone call or text. Why do you feel the need to think hundreds of strangers, acquaintances, ex-colleagues and people you went to school with care?

And even worse when someone then comments on the post “Omg hardest secret I’ve ever had to keep”.

I love babies, but just find it all nauseating.

I agree with the he’s and his. I give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they’re very Scottish, pronouncing “head” as “heed”.

Also using the word “think” to either describe the actual thing, or a detail of the thing that we would’ve thought without being told to think.

I was in the cinema the other day and someone clapped in the middle. The end would’ve been better but still weird and unnecessary

On the applauding the pilot thing, I've only ever witnessed that a couple of times and neither time was a "normal" flight. Do people really clap at the end of a normal flight? I'm in the US and flying is such an everyday thing that I can't imagine it here.

That was on a spoof Facebook reel a few months ago.

Oh no. For real.

That's me!
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Holy shit... this is sarcasm... right? 😬

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has never come across the chapters thing. I think it might be just in your circle, OP. Then again I'm not on Insta or Tik Tok.

I hate when people write loose instead of lose. They are two different words they are even pronounced differently! How can you mix them up?

Also, could of and would of instead of could have and would have. And, of course, the whole your/you're/yr and there/their/they're confusion. I have a family member with dyslexia, so I do know that for some people this is incredibly difficult. But that is no excuse for everyone else! We all went to school, didn't we?

Someone else mentioned the supposed compliment, "beautiful inside and out". I can't stand that. A picture of someone can be beautiful. They can objectively be a beautiful person. But that has nothing to do with the content of their character and is completely irrelevant.

I have started noticing the use of the word on.
Examples - I did it on accident or not sure what I am doing on Christmas..
It makes me want to punch them

Ah! Never thought about it like that, actually.