Pet peeves that others may find odd.

[ThishittyLimeCat]

I have so many that I think I should be on an island on my own.

1. People on Tipping Point who don't say please.
2. Describing someone eating as she polished off/ he demolished/devoured...
3. Hun overload, you ok Hun, thanks Hun...
4. Ordering food and drink. Can I get? Probably not from there 😫.
5. People who have to compete with your illness. I had glandular fever I was so ill. Well I had glandular fever twice and I nearly died.
6. Two words I want to kill people when I hear them, one starts with t and means dehydration. But they don't just say it once, they keep saying it without getting a drink.

The second means dinner but used by posh people and elderly, starts with a s.

Everything.

Right after the dog we’d had for 14.5 years had to be PTS, a colleague said, ‘Well, you can always get another….’ As if I’d had my iPad nicked or something. 😰🤬

Deep cleaning - in the context of housework.
You either clean something or you don't, there is nothing deep about it.
Also agree on the incorrect use of reflexive pronouns and the misuse of participles, as well as the incorrect construction and use of past tenses, but that is me being a particularly pedantic former EFL teacher.

But there’s no other word for supper - it’s not always a dinner and it certainly doesn’t involve tea. What do you say instead?

Many people, it seems, will find it odd that I actually hate swear words. They are often regarded as just part of a joke for some reason, which I don’t get.

Nothing, its a pointless word that doesn't need substituting imo.

I had cereal (for supper)
Come round later, i'll make supper pasta.
etc

When I was growing up, supper or tea was the meal you had early evening.

I might ask somebody what they're having for their supper.

I don't get the hatred for it

One of mine is people who take offence at things that don't apply to them.

For me, supper is the snack you have in the evening, such as cocoa and a digestive, or cheese and biscuits. It’s after the main evening meal, a light snack.,

In Ne Scotland it still goes like this for many.
Breakfast
Dinner
Supper.

Yep. Lunch was a word we never used.

That was a really mean comment. Do you enjoy being mean? Try being a parent of a teen with significant ASN, and NO-ONE gets it unless they live it. Adults/ other teens smirking or sniggering when he behaves unusually (perhaps clapping) but looks perfectly NT, is a wound that gapes for both him & me.

I didn't say I'm offended, I'm saying there's often another reason why people can do irritating things.

If I was equally mean I'd say ODFOD, but I'm not, so I won't. I hope your day is more pleasant than your comment.

@Puffalicious If that's what he does so be it he isn't harming anyone.
I see a young man on the bus he has learning difficulties and has a carer.
He says hello to everyone and asks how are you.
Cue the eye rolling and tutting..there's no need for it.

Thank you for being lovely here & on the bus. It can actually be even more difficult as my DS looks & behaves neuro-typically, but isn't, so people snigger & comment. I'm mostly Teflon, but sometimes it gets to me, or if I'm told I'm 'taking offence' over nothing.🙄

When my partner sneezes or blows his nose. It’s SO loud and I get unreasonably annoyed by it.

Yes! Deep cleaning is a term that used to be reserved for the likes of operating theatres. I don’t know what happened to ‘a thorough clean’, or a word I use when guests are descending to stay - ‘a blitz’.

My OH providing his own running commentary and advice to the players while watching football on TV.

I've tried telling him that there are commentators who provide this service but to no avail 🙄

They're usually ex Rangers ,Celtic for SPL matches and nae worth listening too.

Grown adults calling their parents Mummy and Daddy.

Stephaneee on Chateau DIY..
Mummeee
Gerreee.

They're usually ex Rangers ,Celtic for SPL matches and nae worth listening too.

True and described by OH as "fuds" which I think is an excellent word.

However, although Scottish he has no interest in Scottish football but it seems the English commentators are also ex players and not worth listening to either.

Trope.
It’s used repeatedly in some areas of Mumsnet and it just annoys me. It’s such an ugly word and there are so many more attractive synonyms you could use.
I have a visual memory and processing system so words trigger images in my brain. Trope conjures up an image of a short, stumpy women in tweeds, wearing glasses and sensible shoes.

As a child my DF encouraged us to read extensively, one of his challenges was to pick a word from the diction every day and incorporate it into conversation at the dinner table. We would often end up in hysterics when we misused words. It was a great way to extend our vocabulary.

We were also early readers and often pronounced words phonetically before modern phonetics were taught.

I still find some words confusing, “Miniseries” is a constant problem I read it as min-eye- seris every time. To me it sounds like a part of a church like the catacombs.

Trope.
It’s used repeatedly in some areas of Mumsnet and it just annoys me. It’s such an ugly word and there are so many more attractive synonyms you could use.
I have a visual memory and processing system so words trigger images in my brain. Trope conjures up an image of a short, stumpy women in tweeds, wearing glasses and sensible shoes.

As a child my DF encouraged us to read extensively, one of his challenges was to pick a word from the diction every day and incorporate it into conversation at the dinner table. We would often end up in hysterics when we misused words. It was a great way to extend our vocabulary.

We were also early readers and often pronounced words phonetically before modern phonetics were taught.

I still find some words confusing, “Miniseries” is a constant problem I read it as min-eye- seris every time. To me it sounds like a part of a church like the catacombs.

People apologising that their pristine home is ‘such a mess’. You bloody well know it isn’t, and if it was why not tidy it up before I arrive?

And people saying they are exhausted ‘running around after the baby’. Babies don’t move. They are, most anyway, pretty boring. They certainly don’t require you to run anywhere.

People who say for e.g. 'I'm going pub or I'm going gym' rather than I'm going to to the pub or to the gym'. Very annoying.