Pedants: What "Facts" Have Annoyed You Lately?

[NotQuiteCockney]

I keep going into a nice baker, which has sourdough breads, with a big sign saying they're "yeast free". They're not bloody well yeast free, they just don't have added yeast.

I'm also unduly annoyed by things that are chemical-free, when that expression just doesn't make any sense ...

Make me feel like less of a freak! Share your pedanty annoyances. (No greengrocer's apostrophe stories, please ...)

RNA-free gloves Mrs Badger?

The one that makes us roll our eyes is the " and now for the science " bit on some skincare advert.
Ooh, science. My pretty little head hurts already just hearing the word.

NQC . o O (Is MrsB considering an alternative career as a laboratory dominatrix, complete with shaved head?)

There's a sign on a nearby motorway exit that says

"Please use both lanes".

They don't mean this. They want people to use either lane. If everyone used both lanes then it would cause the jams the message is trying to prevent.

(DH is bored of me pointing this out all the time and now points it out himself).

Idris, I bet some people follow the sign properly!

Oh whenever I hear the TV ad that says "contains the unique ingredient 'Boswellox'" I actually want to throw something at the TV.

This thread is making me unreasonably happy that I almost never hear any adverts. (Don't listen to the radio very often, and when I watch TV, it's either stealavision or on the hard disk thing, so we skip all the adverts.)

Hmmm. Saw "Self Basting Turkeys" in sainsbury's today. I think NOT!!!!!!!!!

Although if they were I'd pay to see it... in fact can imagine the whole family drawn up in chairs staring fixedly through the window in the oven door...

Hmm, I could see that you could maybe train a turkey to baste itself while still alive, but surely that's not going to work for very long inside the oven ...

Freshly cut sandwiches

They could be 5 days old and growing mold but so long as you only cut them half an hour ago, that's OK then.

Or, indeed, once head and internal organs are removed...

Ah, I was pretending the turkey was being put in the oven intact. Dunno why, though.

Yes, Freshly Cut is weird. But the whole "sandwiches in a box" thing is weird to me, too ...

fresh soured cream

this is so funny, thanks for making me laugh before bed, I thought I was the only one like this! I'll have to think of an example and get back to you when I'm sober! I'm fussy on spellings on signs, if you go to the trouble to write a sign to display outside your shop, at least spell it write! ha ha see wot I did there?! potatoe and tomatoe being top of my hit list!

famous boo boo by Dan Quayle

you say potato, I say potatoe

packets of peanuts with a picture of nuts in a bowl with the phrase 'serving suggestion' underneath. Or 'May contain nuts'

"A source of milk goodness" written on packets of Milky Bar white chocolate buttons. Hmmm - let's not mention the sugar and fat content then...

Inappropriate Capitalisation.

FFS

Especially when it has clearly been done to add empahsis to the injustice bestowed upon the user.

As in "my Son was sent home from School this afternoon for peddling fruit shoots"

we do not capitalise all nouns in the English language. That's German. FFS work out which language you are speaking please.

oh and "half-commas" so you have to carry on reading for a long time without a breath.

and I know I'm going off at a tangent but lets fdace it uyou're all getting rat arsed at the meet up

Oh, 2ticks, I particularly hate Milkybar for the whole "milk" thing. Surely milk is better "source of milk".

I like the deranged "serving suggestions" you get on American cereals (or used to, anyway). A box of Sugary Crap (TM) would have a picture of a table covered in quinoa, sprouts, eggs, wholmeal toast, and, in the corner, a tiny bowl of Sugary Crap (TM). And it would say "Part of this nutritious breakfast"!

(I like using capitals for emphasis. It's a Very Good Idea. But I wouldn't get my kids to do it at this point.)

no that way is ok, thats pefectly conevetional, i can cope with that

its isolate capitalisation of nouns that winds me up

'at the end of the day'

it dumbs down everything the person says afterwards.

Poor Dan Quayle, still picked on after all this time over a spelling error.

I have trained my dds well - an advert came on the TV the other day which said that the product will work for "up to 8 hours".

Dd2 (aged 7) said to me in her best sarcastic tone "yeah, right, up to 8 hours - so that means it probably only works for 2 minutes, then doesn't it?"

That's my girl.