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bloomsday wrote:

i hate it when a guy calls me "buddy".
that is proper punctuation kthx.

Criminy, my English Teacher told me to keep the period inside the quotation mark.

keprydak wrote:

I hate people who make unnecessary amounts of noise. Like my roommate. Who can only slam doors, cabinets, the dishwasher, the microwave, break dishes and talk loudly on the phone when she knows I am sleeping or studying or any other time of the day.

My roommate does exactly this. What's more, (This drives me up the wall) he has this habit of doing things out in the living room, but it's like he so people-attention starved, he does this:
1. Gets up
2. Opens our room door
3. Looks in to see what I'm doing
4. Closes the door.
5. Goes back to the living room.

Drives me insane. Either come in or stay the smurf out. He does it 10-15 times a day.

He also showers 3-4 times a day, and we split the water bill.

I just hate people in general.  Spending a lot of time in NYC, that's not a good thing.

Slow walkers bother me.  Granted, I probably walk a bit quicker than the average Joe, but I get what I like to call "Sidewalk Rage" when I'm stuck behind these morons who crawl at a snail's pace, decide to stop randomly in the middle of a walking traffic area, etc.  And I'm not just talking about tourists.  The locals are just as, if not more guilty.

Also, when we have a train full of hundreds of people, all trying to get out from underground, why on Earth do people not WALK UP the escalators?  People hop on the thing, and then just freakin' stand there while a giant mass of people build up behind them.  Just treat the thing as a set of stairs that will get you up it quicker, people!  RA!

Plenty of other little things get my goat, but those are the ones that get me on a daily basis.

I like individuals, and hanging out in small groups, but I absolutely hate the "general public" and really try to avoid crowds.

Most of mine are driving related:

People who don't use their blinkers.
People who throw their cigarette butts out their car window.
People who pass me on the highway and then drive slower.

Or religious:

People who assume I am wrong because I am not Christian.
People who try to sell me on their religion.
People who are naïve enough to believe that their favored religious text is 100% right about everything.

Gurlugon wrote:

Pithecanthropus wrote:

People who throw their cigarette butts out their car window.

Yeah, I only did that when there were no cars to my left or behind me for a good distance.

That doesn't make it better or okay.  The issue is the fact that you were littering, not that your butt may have hit my car.

Gurlugon wrote:

I've given up smoking in the car now, though.

That's a good first step!

[aside] The building my business is in also has the local Sheet Metal Workers Union Training Center.  Several times a month they hold training sessions and probably around 30 or 40 guys show up.  Afterwards the parking lot is completely littered with cigarette butts -- literally hundreds of them.  I find that quite disgusting.  Why is it that cigarette smokers just don't notice that their butts are trash?  smurfing crush the thing out and put the butt in a garbage can. [/aside]

Gurlugon wrote:

jeff-o wrote:

I hate it when people park where they aren't allowed, as if they are special in some way.

This, and I hate it when people can't even aim for the general middle of an allotted space. Had some bozo parked crooked next to my car when I was starting out at college, with only an inch between the fronts of our cars. Had to get in from the passenger side, and I smacked the door of his car with my door a few times in some sort of reptilian-brain rage.

tl;dr: Learn to park, don't take up two spaces, and stay out of handicapped spots if you don't have a legit hanger.

Or just don't buy a car you can't park.

bloomsday wrote:

CeeJer53 wrote:

bloomsday wrote:

i hate it when a guy calls me "buddy".
that is proper punctuation kthx.

Criminy, my English Teacher told me to keep the period inside the quotation mark.

then your teacher is wrong.

American usage is for the comma or period to always go inside the quotation marks, British usage deems that the comma or period goes inside if it's part of the quotation and outside otherwise.

MacAddict4Life wrote:

bloomsday wrote:

CeeJer53 wrote:

Criminy, my English Teacher told me to keep the period inside the quotation mark.

then your teacher is wrong.

MLA as of when I was in high school and college said periods go inside quotation marks.

That's what I was taught in Canada.

matt wrote:

bratboy wrote:

Daniel wrote:

Well, if you think I'm a stereotype, that's your prerogative I suppose.  Though there are definitely a few people on this very forum I could name as far more in-line with the stereotypical el queero.

What is the "stereotype," in your opinion?  Don't we get enough of this "stereotype" nonsense from society at large without contributing to it ourselves?

I don't think he was referring to you.

Thanks matt, neither do I.  That doesn't change my opinion on the subject, however.

Pithecanthropus wrote:

People who throw their cigarette butts out their car window.

Not me. I LOVE it when people do this, especially in the dark when you can see the sparks fly all over the place when the butt hits the ground. MOST especially when driving in fire hazard areas.

When people say "aks" instead of "ask".

Not using a turn signal

People who stand in doorways or on stairway landings

People who rush into trains or elevators without waiting for people to exit

The phrase "back in the day"

Most usage of the term "old school" (90% of the time it is applied to something less than 5 years old)

anyone associated with American Idol

Anyone featured on a reality show about tattoo parlors

MacAddict4Life wrote:

bloomsday wrote:

CeeJer53 wrote:

Criminy, my English Teacher told me to keep the period inside the quotation mark.

then your teacher is wrong.

MLA as of when I was in high school and college said periods go inside quotation marks.

Only one punctuation mark(period, question mark, or exclamation point) goes at the end of a sentence.

If what you're quoting would normally have a punctuation mark, then you quote that punctuation mark. If said mark is a period and doesn't end the sentence, replace it with a comma.

Check your grammar sites guys, they all say the same thing:

In the United States, periods and commas go inside quotation marks regardless of logic.

Link.