What Grinds Your Gears Reloaded...Again

[Job]

People in general grind my gears.

[CJSchneider]

Originally Posted by Sniper

The lack of ability to properly pluralize words?

[Sniper]

Accidentally clicking enter before finishing a rep comment. :D

[The Unseen]

Originally Posted by wogitalia

I'm sorry that I have to completely disagree with you, even your examples are different, double negatives are a way of saying something, using the wrong ******* word is not the same as that, not even comparable. It doesn't matter what language you talk about, if you say the wrong word you look stupid. You don't call a blue car a red car because you feel like it because it is wrong, it's exactly the same as dominant and dominate, they are different things, use them correctly.

In general I agree with you, but I can't extend "breaking" the rules of English to using words that are entirely wrong and mean something different.

1) I also gave the example of ain't, which would be a wrong word choice according to prescriptive English.

2) A blue car vs. red car the same thing as dominant vs. dominate? What the what? My entire point is that (and I think this will suffice as a response to dabears' post) the prescriptive rules of English actually go beyond the ideal of having an ideal language for communication - they make rules just to make rules. Red and blue are entirely different words. A prescriptive rule for English distinguish red and blue doesn't exist because there's no such dialect that doesn't make the difference/confuses the difference. If you accidentally say "blue" when you meant "red," that's a legit mistake, because no dialect, no matter how divergent from prescriptive English it is, would consider that to be correct. In this case, saying "red" for "blue" would just be a slip of the tongue. People do stuff like that all the time. We don't need prescriptive English to tell us that.

I can't really argue about how badly you view people who say dominate for dominant. I just don't think it's a big deal. The other point of my post was that we know what that person means, so no harm no foul, I say. I don't think you're an idiot for saying it that way.

[DeepThreat]

I hate people who add apostrophes every time they pluralize a word. Annoys me to no end.

[Boston]

Mercury Morris. Honestly, nobody gives a **** about your perfect season anymore.

[prock]

Originally Posted by Boston

Mercury Morris. Honestly, nobody gives a **** about your perfect season anymore.

just watched that **** too. ******* hate that guy. congratulations, you did something cool 40 years ago.

[wogitalia]

Red and blue are entirely different words.

My point exactly. In fact, they are closer to being the same thing than dominant and dominate are. At least red and blue are used the same. Dominate and dominant are completely different and don't even sound the same, that's what really irks me, it's not a there/their/they're thing, it's an I'm to ignorant or stupid to use the right word thing, which is why it grinds my gears. Ditto for loose/lose which is probably an even more common online result.

Funny thing is, I have never heard anyone make either of those mistakes when speaking the language, only when writing. If you would say it right, why type it wrong other than because you are an idiot? It's like even like typing "u" instead of you or "l33t" instead elite, it's just pure ********, which is why it irks me so much, there is no logical or good reason, outside of stupidity, to do it.

[Splat]

Originally Posted by Boston

Mercury Morris. Honestly, nobody gives a **** about your perfect season anymore.

He wasn't even that good of a player.

[ccB]

Saving a game over top a game I didn't not want to save over top of >.<

[kalbears13]

When you send your team's IM basketball team as the "Blue Ballers" and you check your schedule the day before the game and your team's name is just "Ballers".

[CJSchneider]

The dick-sniffer young punk who works at the gym who turns the whirlpool off at 8:30 despite the fact that the gym closes at 10:00.

[Job]

I hate it that whenever there's a poker game on a TV show, the main protagonist always wins every single hand, always knows exactly what every other player has, and never gets raped by the river.

Grammar question for teacher CJ (or anyone else) : "Every other player" or "every other players"? I'm going with singular, but can't be sure.

[MetSox17]

Originally Posted by Job

I hate it that whenever there's a poker game on a TV show, the main protagonist always wins every single hand, always knows exactly what every other player has, and never gets raped by the river.

Lol, THIISSSSS.

And he always slow rolls you too. And for some reason, they ALWAYS have a royal flush. The hand that has odds of 1:649,740. Such BS.

[Job]

Originally Posted by MetSox17

Lol, THIISSSSS.

And he always slow rolls you too. And for some reason, they ALWAYS have a royal flush. The hand that has odds of 1:649,740. Such BS.

Actually the odds aren't THAT small, it's 1:649,739.

[General Zod]

Originally Posted by Boston

Mercury Morris. Honestly, nobody gives a **** about your perfect season anymore.

Oh so much THIS.

Shula, and all of ya too, please just **** already.

[General Zod]

Originally Posted by Job

I hate it that whenever there's a poker game on a TV show, the main protagonist always wins every single hand, always knows exactly what every other player has, and never gets raped by the river.

Aye, and when I get on a crap streak and get nothing but rags, when it doesnt seem like Ive taken down anything in about a week, I think of this.

[CC.SD]

I wonder if Mercury had a twinge of suicidal thought when the Colts decided to just take a crap on perfection. I mean here is something the guy has obviously based his whole life around, and it was shown to be absolutely worthless to Peyton's boys. They literally sent it away for no reason. Pretty funny

[General Zod]

Originally Posted by CC.SD

I wonder if Mercury had a twinge of suicidal thought when the Colts decided to just take a crap on perfection. I mean here is something the guy has obviously based his whole life around, and it was shown to be absolutely worthless to Peyton's boys. They literally sent it away for no reason. Pretty funny

it is funny...

but I think he is to stupid really, he probably just wrote another rap song about it or something.

[prock]

Originally Posted by Job

I hate it that whenever there's a poker game on a TV show, the main protagonist always wins every single hand, always knows exactly what every other player has, and never gets raped by the river.

Grammar question for teacher CJ (or anyone else) : "Every other player" or "every other players"? I'm going with singular, but can't be sure.

You are correct, sir. It would be the singular in that situation.

[CJSchneider]

Originally Posted by Job

I hate it that whenever there's a poker game on a TV show, the main protagonist always wins every single hand, always knows exactly what every other player has, and never gets raped by the river.

Grammar question for teacher CJ (or anyone else) : "Every other player" or "every other players"? I'm going with singular, but can't be sure.

Give me the rest of the sentence.

[Grizzlegom]

Apple products are starting to piss me off. why would i ever need an iPad? i have a laptop, i have a smart phone, i can already do pretty much all that crap. and on that note, all the stupid apple lovers that cant stop sucking Steve Jobs' dick. they need to get over it, every Apple product is not god-like and isnt the greatest invention ever.

also, for people who enjoy my feelings, i present this:

[FuzzyGopher]

When you take a dump, then get in the shower and get all clean. Then as soon as you get out of the shower you have to **** again. Pisses me of so ****** much, I don't want to walk around all day with swamp ass.

[Job]

Originally Posted by CJSchneider

Give me the rest of the sentence.

Apply it to the situation just above in the same post.

[Addict]

what grinds my gears is people asking me 'how are you' and not bothering to stand around long enough for me to answer.