People that claim the language is evolving in order to cover up their grammatical errors.

People that claim the language is evolving in order to cover up their grammatical errors.

 

That bothers me too! :/

The absence of an Oxford comma.

My pet peeve of the day, people that want to criticize me for not wearing green for St. Patrick's day. People, I have an Irish accent and am an Irish citizen (Dual Citizenship). If you can't tell I'm proud to be Irish without looking at what I'm wearing on the 17th of March, than you aren't paying attention and I don't think my clothes today are going to make much of a difference.

St. Patrick's Day sort of annoys me...such a stereotypical depiction of the Irish.

 

I guess St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo are probably the most insulting of the holidays.

Every ethnic holiday will become insulting because every holiday in the United States is just an excuse to get wasted.

I'd rank Oktoberfest among those too.

Nothing tops becoming a "Greek" at a fratenity or sorority for insulting to those of the real ethnicity. I'm Greek, and it doesn't involve paying people to become my friend. *runs*

St. Patrick's Day sort of annoys me...such a stereotypical depiction of the Irish.

 

I guess St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo are probably the most insulting of the holidays.

Isn't St. Patrick's Day actually a solemn, dignified occasion in Ireland? Seriously. I understand there's not all of the drunken carousing there, like here; and no singing of hokey songs like "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" or "Danny Boy"--(which I like, but it's actually an Irish/American song. The Eva Cassidy version--which, come to think of it, I believe I posted last year--is absolutely beautiful--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=852gverKRPo&hl=en_US&fs=1&)

^actually "Danny Boy" was written by an Englishman (Wikipedia), but is considered the "unofficial signature song" of Irish Americans...

St. Patrick's Day sort of annoys me...such a stereotypical depiction of the Irish.

 

I guess St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo are probably the most insulting of the holidays.

Isn't St. Patrick's Day actually a solemn, dignified occasion in Ireland? Seriously. I understand there's not all of the drunken carousing there, like here; and no singing of hokey songs like "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" or "Danny Boy"--(which I like, but it's actually an Irish/American song. The Eva Cassidy version--which, come to think of it, I believe I posted last year--is absolutely beautiful--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=852gverKRPo&hl=en_US&fs=1&)

From what I've heard, in Dublin they've started turning it into a bigger party the last few years because so many tourists were going over to visit and expecting a big party. Most people outside of Dublin don't celebrate the day in any way at all, or even consider it a holiday.

I'm Greek, and it doesn't involve paying people to become my friend. *runs*

 

No need to run.  I think that comment is funny!  :D 

 

 

I'd rank Oktoberfest among those too.

 

Oktoberfest is a real celebration in Germany, and they do drink beer.  I wouldn't think that would be an insulting holiday or event.  I believe the reason Cincinnati has a big Oktoberfest celebration is because several waves of German immigrants settled in Cincy.

St. Patrick's Day sort of annoys me...such a stereotypical depiction of the Irish.

 

I guess St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo are probably the most insulting of the holidays.

Isn't St. Patrick's Day actually a solemn, dignified occasion in Ireland? Seriously. I understand there's not all of the drunken carousing there, like here; and no singing of hokey songs like "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" or "Danny Boy"--(which I like, but it's actually an Irish/American song. The Eva Cassidy version--which, come to think of it, I believe I posted last year--is absolutely beautiful--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=852gverKRPo&hl=en_US&fs=1&)

 

I have never been to Ireland...it's one of my main goals...but i've heard the same thing...maybe not that it's solemn, but that it's a patron saint's feast day and is treated as such...it's a religious holiday.

 

I have also heard that they've been "americaning" it up a bit...parades and some stuff like that.

 

My other pet peeve that stems from St. Patrick's Day...Green beer.  Ugh...

 

I do love McDonald's shamrock shakes though...those are awesome.

St. Patrick's Day sort of annoys me...such a stereotypical depiction of the Irish.

 

I guess St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo are probably the most insulting of the holidays.

 

We celebrate Christmas with presents, Easter with Candy and Eggs, $th of July with Fireworks etc.  All holidays have their traditions, and St. Patricks day happens to be Corned Beef and Beer. 

St. Patrick's Day sort of annoys me...such a stereotypical depiction of the Irish.

 

I guess St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo are probably the most insulting of the holidays.

Isn't St. Patrick's Day actually a solemn, dignified occasion in Ireland? Seriously. I understand there's not all of the drunken carousing there, like here; and no singing of hokey songs like "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" or "Danny Boy"--(which I like, but it's actually an Irish/American song. The Eva Cassidy version--which, come to think of it, I believe I posted last year--is absolutely beautiful--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=852gverKRPo&hl=en_US&fs=1&)

 

I have never been to Ireland...it's one of my main goals...but i've heard the same thing...maybe not that it's solemn, but that it's a patron saint's feast day and is treated as such...it's a religious holiday.

 

I have also heard that they've been "americaning" it up a bit...parades and some stuff like that.

 

My other pet peeve that stems from St. Patrick's Day...Green beer.  Ugh...

 

I do love McDonald's shamrock shakes though...those are awesome.

you forgot green bagels (or maybe they only do that in NY--lol)

We celebrate Christmas with presents, Easter with Candy and Eggs, $th of July with Fireworks etc. All holidays have their traditions, and St. Patricks day happens to be Corned Beef and Beer.

 

it's not the beer...because i like beer just fine...it's the fact that Irish = uncontrollable drunkenness to so many people...and anger and fighting.  It's a negative stereotype.  dancing leprechauns and lucky charms and all that crap.

 

It'd be like celebrating cinco de mayo by wearing sombreros and acting lazy and crap like that.  I think that'd get more negative attention than how St. Patrick's day is celebrated.

But people DO celebrate Cinco de Mayo by wearing sombreros.  What do you think the big lines at the Mexican restaurants are for on May 5th?  And I don't hear them complaining about the business, even though  most people don't even know what that holiday is about.  People eat mexican-american food on that day (it's not Mexican food) and drink margaritas and tequila, and people eat corned beef and drink beer on St Patty's, which is irish-american food - though they don't eat that in Ireland.  It's really the same thing. 

Corned beef is Irish.  They have a long tradition of corned beef.  The cabbage came later.

But people DO celebrate Cinco de Mayo by wearing sombreros. What do you think the big lines at the Mexican restaurants are for on May 5th? And I don't hear them complaining about the business, even though most people don't even know what that holiday is about. People eat mexican-american food on that day (it's not Mexican food) and drink margaritas and tequila, and people eat corned beef and drink beer on St Patty's, which is irish-american food - though they don't eat that in Ireland. It's really the same thing.

 

I agree...i said that the two were probably the worst in terms of terrible characterizations of nationalities.

Java...  I hate it.  And I'm in school for web design.  FML

Corned beef is Irish.  They have a long tradition of corned beef.  The cabbage came later.

 

I read different several places yesterday, here is one source I remember:

http://www.salon.com/food/francis_lam/2010/03/16/st_patricks_day_corned_beef_and_cabbage_irish

http://www.kitchenproject.com/ ... edBeef.htm

 

Why do they Call it "Corned" Beef?

 

The term “Corned” comes from putting meat in a large crock and covering

it with large rock-salt kernels of salt that were refered to as “corns of salt”

This preserved the meat. The term Corned has been in the Oxford English Dictionary

as early as 888 AD.

 

Irish Were the First Exporters of Corned Beef

Irish were the biggest exporters of Corned Beef till 1825.

The English were serving corned beef but also the Irish. In this day and age corned beef and cabbage is not very Irish, but corned beef is. The area of Cork, Ireland was a great producer of Corned Beef in the 1600’s until 1825. It was their chief export and sent all over the world, mostly in cans. The British army sustained on cans of Cork’s corned beef during the Napoleonic wars.

 

First There was Salted Beef

The practice of salting meat goes back probably to ancient times in cold areas when they found that meat didn't spoil if it made contact with enough salt.

 

What a conveinience for nomads or soldieres, who were constantly traveling on horse or foot.

 

Origin of the Word "Corn"

The term Corn is modified from an Old Germanic (P.Gmc) Word

Kurnam which meant small seed of anything. Since a kernel of rock

salt look like a wheat or oat kernel size it became known as a corn of salt.

Even the word Kernel comes from this word Kurnam. or Kurnilo which meant

the root of the seed.

 

The Mention of “Corned Beef”

goes back to an English Book by Richard Burton in 1621, Anatomy of Melancholy...Beef ..corned young of an ox.

Java...  I hate it.  And I'm in school for web design.  FML

 

Do you mean JavaScript?

^ No just Java.  JavaScript is kind of like a web-related variant of Java.  I still have to take two classes of it though because my college is heavy on the coding/programming aspect of web design.  It's good to learn Java first before you get into JavaScript.  Sherman probably knows a lot more than I do about both because I'm only in an intro class right now.

^Isn't Java essentially a universal open source coding system?  I really have no background on the matter but the subject is interesting considering how much time I spend online.

Well I guess it kind of is.  You need to get the compiler from sun microsystems, and since I got it for free through college, I'm not sure if it's free for all or not.  The API (all of the classes and other useful components) is available to all though.

Pet Peeves:

 

-Not using turn signals

-Pushing the handicap button to open the door when you are perfectly capable of opening it yourself/going through the revolving door

-Jaywalkers (not sure how they did it but the Seattle area has it ingrained into it's population not to jaywalk)

-Pants around one's knees

^ No just Java.  JavaScript is kind of like a web-related variant of Java.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#JavaScript_and_Java

 

Java and C# are very similar, but if you're going to be a web designer, you'll likely be doing much more scripting (JavaScript) than server-side coding (Java/C#/PHP/etc.).  It is good to have a background in a strongly typed language like Java or C# before you get into a "messy" one like JavaScript or PHP, though.

 

Pet peeve?  When threads get off-topic.  *smacks self*

Mine:  People walking in the middle of the street as if they own it.  Yesterday on my street there was a woman walking with her child, who couldn't have been older than 4, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET.  WTF?!!

 

Excessive sagging of pants- OK... I'm 6'4, and it's sometimes hard to find pants in my size.  So depending on the type of jeans I'm wearing, I may sag them a little (with a shirt on to cover my drawers, of course).  But DAMMIT, I can't stand it when I see someone sagging his pants below his ass... especially if his shirt is already off. WTF?!!!

 

Ignorance- just plain and simple.  It comes in all shapes, sizes, and colors.  I find myself beginning to despise this more and more.

 

I am really getting to have a big pet peeve about the way women dress and look in Cleveland.  Seriously, does nobody have any pride in how they look at all? Yesterday I saw a woman who looked like this:

 

Long, professional/dressy skirt.

Nude/flesh colored pantyhose. Strike 1.

White socks and white tennis shoes.  Strike 2.

Oversized, sloppy denim jacket.  Strike 3.

With a big Winnie the Pooh picture on the back that said something like "Pooh is a friend that's always there."  Strike 4.

Cotton "scrunchy" in hair.  Strike 5.

No makeup, and she did NOT have the face for it, I can tell you.  Strike 5.

Unkempt hair with bad dye job and black roots, looked to be the texture of straw from all the dyeing.  Strike 6.

Big, flowery print shoulder bag.  Strike 7.

 

Seriously?  I just wanted to push her into traffic.

I get people walking through my street sometimes too...they're afraid that all the old ladies on our street are going to jump them, i think.

 

Hey, i'm with them...old lady stink is something that doesn't come out very easily...and old ladies are like jungle cats...very stealthy and shockingly quick.

Funny about the sagging pants. I was running at lunch the other day and these high school kids were walking home from lunch. I passed a kid who had such a big sag that he had to hold up the front of his waistband to walk and it struck me that men (boys) are finally suffering for fashion like women have for years.

I see men holding up their pants as they walk every day.  It's really funny to watch them when they're late for the bus and they're trying to run, but they have to take little itty bitty steps so as not to trip and fall, just like women have had to do for years in a pencil skirt for example.  Nice to see the shoe on the other foot.

I never had thought about it those terms before though. Must of have been the lack of oxygen to my brain.

 

Off I go to run. Hopefully I have another insightful thought today.

I see men holding up their pants as they walk every day. It's really funny to watch them when they're late for the bus and they're trying to run, but they have to take little itty bitty steps so as not to trip and fall, just like women have had to do for years in a pencil skirt for example. Nice to see the shoe on the other foot.

 

Or you can just come up with your own ideas of fashion and not follow the crowd.  I try to look nice, but I need to be comfortable.  If I'm not, I'm not wearing it.  Maybe I'm the male version of your previous post.  I don't really care.

Pet Peeves:

 

-Jaywalkers

 

don't tell that to NY'ers. Jaywalking is a civil right!

I see men holding up their pants as they walk every day. It's really funny to watch them when they're late for the bus and they're trying to run, but they have to take little itty bitty steps so as not to trip and fall, just like women have had to do for years in a pencil skirt for example. Nice to see the shoe on the other foot.

 

Or you can just come up with your own ideas of fashion and not follow the crowd. I try to look nice, but I need to be comfortable. If I'm not, I'm not wearing it. Maybe I'm the male version of your previous post. I don't really care.

 

It depends on where you work and what your job is.  Now that i'm not a secretary anymore, I'm able to wear more comfortable clothing, but most of my secretary jobs were executive assistants for very high end/upper management, and if you didn't wear appropriate clothing, you got talked to.  As recently as 5 years ago I was told I needed to "wear more professional clothing" to work.  Most women's suits and dressy business clothes are not built for comfort, I can tell you.

Grrr...People who have conversations over cubicle walls all day...

 

 

Grrr...People who have conversations over cubicle walls all day...

 

 

 

Ha ha. Serves you right for trying to get any work done on a sunny Friday, on the first weekend of the NCAA tournament. I've given up trying to call any of my customers right now. Nobody is in the office.

I took off for St. Pats day. So I am stuck here...No idea why people who probably have 5-weeks of vacation to burn a year are still here...

I have 4 weeks, but they are clock-watchers here.  Work-life balance means moving a cot into your office and sleeping at work so you can get more done.

Certain depts are like that here, but mine isn't. Said departments have gotten better with the departure (retirement) of their czar like VP.

 

BTW: I am just watching the clock....I have to wait for my carpool. The I-77 Northbound to the 'wood...

 

BBTW: I am out. Everybody enjoy the weekend....

I have 4 weeks, but they are clock-watchers here. Work-life balance means moving a cot into your office and sleeping at work so you can get more done.

 

Gah, they're like that here. I have a lot of old schoolers here, esp my manager. I've heard it a few times about how I'm out the door at 5. "Um, yeahhhh, I've noticed you don't stay late a lot. Oh, and we're putting cover pages on the TPS reports now. Greeeaaat"

 

Guess what, Chachi, I also get in here at 6:30 every morning, and work remotely from home after the kids are in bed. And the few times I've been here after 5, all I see are a bunch of gray hairs standing around talking to each other.

 

Bah! Corporations. I hate them all. And yet, I yearn to suckle at their teat.

 

 

We broke my manager when everybody working for him had come in from the outside when I started. I also think they started getting creative when they realized that we weren't getting yearly raises. Commute 90 miles a day and want to work from home one day a week no problem....

 

New pet peeve to vent about, I went to the bar to watch OU have it's ass handed to it by Tennesse and some guy (late 40's, early 50's boomer) was complaining because he went down to watch the Cavs game at a bar on W. 6th a few weeks ago on a thursday night in March, in the cold and there were maybe 50 people out, then proceeded to talk about how many people  used to come out for the frickin Parade of boats in the flats in the late 80's/early 90's. Perspective people!. Please!....how many people were bar hopping in the flats on a weeknight in the middle of winter.....

Bah! Corporations. I hate them all. And yet, I yearn to suckle at their teat.

 

You are a dirty dirty aren't you . Anything for money. I think it's because we look at are bosses and wonder what the F' do they do all day. Golf. Check. Meetings with underlings like me, while you nod off. Check.I aspire to a gig like that....

I took off for St. Pats day. So I am stuck here...No idea why people who probably have 5-weeks of vacation to burn a year are still here...

 

The first year that I reached 5 weeks' vacation entitlement (20 years) at GE, and insisted on using all of it (not all at once, just two weeks here, a week there, a few days here and there), my boss always tried to get me to change my plans at the last minute. I gave in and changed them a couple of times and then figured out his game and refused to play; from then on, I stuck to my dates.

 

I got written up for it on my evaluation; "Puts personal objectives ahead of team goals."

 

He jerked all of us around in every way he could think of. I'd already had about all I could take, and that put the finishing touches on it.

 

I started a job search, and early the next year I got a good offer. I tried to give my boss plenty of notice, but he kept putting me off when I tried to get a minute with him. So, I scheduled two weeks vacation, and when I left work on the Friday before my planned vacation, I dropped off my resignation on my boss's desk. He had already left the office for the day. I found out later that he had left the following Monday on a business trip and hadn't read my letter until he was on the plane. The best part was that the company had a hiring freeze, and he couldn't hire a replacement.

That makes me glad of my company policy.  If you are scheduled in "The calendar" which shows up in Outlook, they can't change your PTO.  It's in the system for good, unless you want to modify your vacation dates.

 

So this isn't really a pet peeve, but more of annoyance.

 

People who walk around downtown in pajamas.  Okay, I understand it's Saturday, 10:00 am and you ran out of your damn Cinnamon Toast Crunch.  Please walk to Walgreens with some decency.  This is MICHIGAN AVE AND OAK STREET not on your way to the college dining hall back in the day.  What do you think those Prada and Louis V folks are saying when you pass by in your penguin prints looking all like Christmas morning. 

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People who walk around downtown in pajamas.  Okay, I understand it's Saturday, 10:00 am and you ran out of your damn Cinnamon Toast Crunch.  Please walk to Walgreens with some decency.  This is MICHIGAN AVE AND OAK STREET not on your way to the college dining hall back in the day.  What do you think those Prada and Louis V folks are saying when you pass by in your penguin prints looking all like Christmas morning. 

My apologies if I've already posted this, but women dressing like whores in public. If you're not open for business, don't dress like it. If you are, there are neighborhoods where potential customers are looking for you!

 

All young women dress like whores now, I don't get it, and most that I see look at lot more whorish than the 3 in that picture.  I know I'm old, but I remember being that age and we didn't dress like whores.  I maybe wore tighter jeans than my mom would have liked, but rebellious dressing was wearing a shirt with a filthy saying or picture on it, not walking around with my ass cheeks hanging out. 

Yeah, that pic is nothing compared to many women I see walking around.  I definitely think it's the "MTV influence".  Girls/women see it so much on TV they start to think it's just normal to dress that way.