To HATE it when people use am instead of I'm?

[Itsonme]

I absolutely cannot stand this!

For example when people say 'am so excited'

It's appalling English and bugs the utter crap out of me!

"I love Mumsnet. Everyone gets their knickers in such a twist! "

M'lud, I respectfully refer the OP to her, um, OP...

Why OP, every time a collection of posters explain why your theories are incorrect, do you go all Kevin the teenager on their arses?Why post in AIBU (and only AIBU by the look of it) if you don't want opinions. Or indeed facts.

It does me good, Tippy

Vision's gone a bit blurry now, though. I'd better give it a rest. I can see both nearly full moons.

Ow.

X-posted, obv.

Am very sorry.

IM off to find something more stimulating to fill my time - x-factor will do

Did you not have time for the apostrophe there?

Habbibu . I typed that myself and then deleted it.
I need to stop arguing with people who will not understand. It puts years on me.

at the OP lashing out like a sulky teen after having started out all Lynne Truss

Just scrolled down to add that by using 'am' people at least avoid missing or misusing the apostrophe and saw the OP's final post!!

Ladies, if you cannot see that I'm being more than a little facetious, then I think you need to stop taking mumsnet so seriously!

X-factor is definitely more stimulating.

Did you start this thread for your own "stimulation"? How odd.

You sure didn't start it to listen to a reasoned argument.

This reminds me of the "you've got another think coming" thread a while back.

It was heaving with people getting waaaaaay up on their high horses about "think" being wrong, and then refusing (despite endless patient explanations) to accept that in fact they were the ones who had it wrong. The kind of thread you love to hate -- it went on for ages (unlike this, I hope)

No I really do hate it. It was just amusing to see you all getting so frustrated and wound up about something I simply don't like. Have fun correcting all the other posters who dare to mention anything that may annoy them.

Oh how I wish I could be so clever.

Goodnight ladies, X-factor has started.

If that other thread went something like this:
OP: I'm right
MN: No, you're wrong and this is why
OP: Well you're all a bunch of stupid heads
OP: And anyway it was a joke. God, don't you get irony? God.

then you are right Dirty Martini

It wasn't a joke, I hate it. It then amused me to see you all getting so frustrated at trying to explain it, when I'm clearly an idiot because I dislike something

Actually it was a wee bit more light-hearted, less defensiveness, more cheerful name-calling and shouting, IIRC. There were whole teams of people on each side of the fence. Unlike here, where it's the OP standing alone loudly repeating how little she cares, and posting three times about X-factor, but still, mysteriously, coming back

In seriousness, itsonme - you said it was appalling English, and that's not true. Of course it's reasonable to dislike something - I hate the word "boobs", for example, but that doesn't make it wrong because I don't like it. Doesn't make me stupid not to like it either.

Nobody said you were an idiot for disliking something - the name calling was on your side. Everyone was saying that you were wrong in describing it as an incorrect abbreviation and appalling english in your OP.

Then you said you were being facetious and that we were taking it too seriously. That would be the joke part.

Do you make some kind of a hobby out of wilfully misunderstanding?

Xpost there. Op, honey , you're not an idiot for disliking it. Nobody would say such a thing. You're an idiot for banging on about it being appalling English and officially wrong, rather than just saying "OK, it may not be technically wrong but I still hate it".

I hate lots of words and usages that are technically fine. Nothing wrong with them. I just hate 'em. So I do know where you were coming from.

Let me assure you, we are not the ones who are wound up ... we are teasing you. Just to be extra clear

I really would like to ban the word "boobs", though. It's the aubergine of the lexicon.

And oh God, I just realised this is AIBU!

Er, YABU

Habbibu

It's so tempting to call you Habbiboobs now, but I won't.

Just how I like it DirtyMartini ;)

Enjoy, continuing to discuss me and my post, I'm so pleased that I have contributed to such a fulfilling Sunday evening for you all. I bet it's a bit dull when you trawl through the posts here for hours on end without having anyone to 'correct' and with no way of feeling superior (even if the person who you are feeling superior to is grinning from ear to ear at the silliness of it all)

Ahh, X-factor