What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[Fbolt]

People who incorrectly end a sentance with at.

Where is it at? Where are you at? Here is a summary of where we are at?

The "at" is completely arbitrary and unnecessary.

I used to say that all the time. Where did you park the car (at)?

 

[dshans]

I bet you love hearing "twelve o'clock in the afternoon."

GRRRRRRRRRR! Begone, swine!

Just for you, IrishBeanCounter:

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[NDFANnSouthWest]

People on the cell phone while driving. Shut the FuKC up and drive.

People that don't use "" properly...
"i love quotes". <--incorrect
"i love quotes." <--correct

 

[dshans]

People that don't use "" properly...
"i love quotes". <--incorrect
"i love quotes." <--correct

Holy sweet baby bejeezus, another picky-***, written word structural freak!

Is there a Grammar Hammer Phi Slamma Jamma frat on the horizon??

 

[Irishnuke]

People who don't keep their commitments, whether its a LOI or a birthday party or just hanging out. If you make a commitment, keep it (barring illness, death, etc.)

 

[UmphreakDomer]

The end of football and baseball seasons.

Non-japanese sushi chef's.

Padded bras.

Men that fix their hair to look messy.

My wife's giant key chain with 3 keys and a bunch of crap stuck on it.

Jo Koy on "Chinese People" - YouTube

 

[UmphreakDomer]

Holy sweet baby bejeezus, another picky-***, written word structural freak!

Is there a Grammar Hammer Phi Slamma Jamma frat on the horizon??

quick test--no googling!

what is the exception to this rule of quotations and punctuation?

 

[Bogtrotter07]

People who break their commitments, then expect those they made them with, to bend over backwards to let them out. Oh, yeah and third parties who try to get up all in the biz and just serve to obfuscate the whole situation with their mistruths.

 

[dshans]

... what is the exception to this rule of quotations and punctuation?

Without googling (or leafing through Strunk & White's "Elements of Style") there's no way I could give a technical, correct and definitive answer.

My syntactic Spidey sense is that if the word, words or phrase that warrant quotation marks, whatever the reason, are subordinate or separate within the construct of the sentence, punctuation would be placed outside of the closing quotation mark.

Just a guess guised in high-toned gibberish. I stand by the "I know it when I see it" argument.

 

[WestCoast]

Posted by UmphreakDomer

quick test--no googling!

what is the exception to this rule of quotations and punctuation?

Oooohh oooh, I know. It's when you are doing the finger air quotes!

Cha-ching. Another gold star for me.

 

[NDBoiler]

When people use the "it's not you, it's me" routine

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[rikkitikki08]

What really grinds my gears is when a prospect commits to a certain university and then uses the location and distance from family as an excuse to be able to go to another university who in which most likely were speaking to him the entire time behind the back of the original committed university........too soon?

 

[ThePiombino]

What really grinds my gears is when a prospect commits to a certain university and then uses the location and distance from family as an excuse to be able to go to another university who in which most likely were speaking to him the entire time behind the back of the original committed university........too soon?

Now you're just being ridiculous. That shits doesn't happen in real life...

 

[UmphreakDomer]

Without googling (or leafing through Strunk & White's "Elements of Style") there's no way I could give a technical, correct and definitive answer.

My syntactic Spidey sense is that if the word, words or phrase that warrant quotation marks, whatever the reason, are subordinate or separate within the construct of the sentence, punctuation would be placed outside of the closing quotation mark.

Just a guess guised in high-toned gibberish. I stand by the "I know it when I see it" argument.

my good sir, if a single letter or number appear in quotes, it is acceptable to place the punctuation of period or comma on the outside of said quote.

 

[UmphreakDomer]

What really grinds my gears is when a prospect commits to a certain university and then uses the location and distance from family as an excuse to be able to go to another university who in which most likely were speaking to him the entire time behind the back of the original committed university........too soon?

nope. my man bogs had this joke a couple hours ago on the previous page.

 

[ThePiombino]

nope. my man bogs had this joke a couple hours ago on the previous page.

Understandable- Bogs is just white noise to a lot of people on here lately.

 

[NDFANnSouthWest]

my good sir, if a single letter or number appear in quotes, it is acceptable to place the punctuation of period or comma on the outside of said quote.

Example please....

 

[rikkitikki08]

nope. my man bogs had this joke a couple hours ago on the previous page.

Whateves...bogs can kick rocks

 

[NDBoiler]

wrong thread

 

[dshans]

Another thing that puts an itch in my britches: " ----- was taped/filmed/recorded before a live studio audience."

Are dead studio audiences a regular thing?

 

[UmphreakDomer]

Example please....

~The buried treasure was marked on the map with a large "X".

~The only grade that will satisfy her is an "A".

~On this scale, the highest ranking is a "1", not a "10".

 

[UmphreakDomer]

Another thing that puts an itch in my britches: " ----- was taped/filmed/recorded before a live studio audience."

Are dead studio audiences a regular thing?

i'm not sure anything left on tv is still in front of a "live studio audience." besides reality and game shows.

 

[Ultimate Penn St. Hater]

Another thing that puts an itch in my britches: " ----- was taped/filmed/recorded before a live studio audience."

Are dead studio audiences a regular thing?

I really despise laugh tracks. I don't need the show to tell me what's funny. "Everybody Loves Raymond" is the worst. The laugh tracks are constant, but the show isn't that funny (in my opinion).

 

[IrishinTN]

That an airline can change your flight without warning back six hours meaning you'll miss almost the entire first day of your expensive second honeymoon.

I hate you, American Airlines.

 

[Black Irish]

Another thing that puts an itch in my britches: " ----- was taped/filmed/recorded before a live studio audience."

Are dead studio audiences a regular thing?

I'm sure the Japanese have a game show like that.

 

[dshans]

Not knowing (or really giving a sh¡t) about just how all the digital "guts" of the IE forum work, it has irked me at times when I've neglected to officially "log off" when I finally succumbed to Morpheus and the IE-bot concludes that my "last viewed" time was based on the the time I next opened the browser I use for IE, not when I actually "visited" IE.

It matters not one whit that I was following a link connected to a story from The NYT, Washington Post or other such "left leaning shame stream media" before I cranked up IE, my
"last viewed" was reset. Sorry to say, IE is not my top priority. slogging through the "Front Page." trying to remember when I actually checked in and what I might care to read is a pain.

Initially I thought that turning off my computer was all that was necessary. Not true. I try to be a good IE internet Borg but the last vestige of humanity left in my non-collective self perception.

Some may tie this to Snowden and other such things.

 

[dshans]

There's more:

There are are times when IE summarily "signs me off" when I've (apparently) taken too much time reading a linked article or composing a response. What's it gonna be – "I'm signed on, regardless of when I shut down my computer and then later use a particular browser" or" You're signed on only as we'll allow."

I bring this up now because I was signed on to IE when a strange storm cell swept through Minneapolis Friday evening. The power went out. A HUGE tree in my back yard took it on the chin. Most of the tree and the trii-level tree-house-in-continuous-progress. I was without power for a little over two days and internet access for three. To my surprise and chagrin, IE has me "logged in" for three hours since since my service was restored tonight.

 

[no.1IrishFan]

Not knowing (or really giving a sh¡t) about just how all the digital "guts" of the IE forum work, it has irked me at times when I've neglected to officially "log off" when I finally succumbed to Morpheus and the IE-bot concludes that my "last viewed" time was based on the the time I next opened the browser I use for IE, not when I actually "visited" IE.

It matters not one whit that I was following a link connected to a story from The NYT, Washington Post or other such "left leaning shame stream media" before I cranked up IE, my
"last viewed" was reset. Sorry to say, IE is not my top priority. slogging through the "Front Page." trying to remember when I actually checked in and what I might care to read is a pain.

Initially I thought that turning off my computer was all that was necessary. Not true. I try to be a good IE internet Borg but the last vestige of humanity left in my non-collective self perception.

Some may tie this to Snowden and other such things.

Hate to be a d!ck, but I'm counting a minimum of 4 grammaticle errors in this post.

 

[NDinFL]

Hate to be a d!ck, but I'm counting a minimum of 4 grammaticle errors in this post.

Says the guy who spelled "stiffler" with one F

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Oh, boy, you guys really know how to have fun. I think I will go back to kicking rocks.