[Archived] Pet Peeves.

[AlanK]

People who type " your " when they actually mean " you`re ".

[mellison24]

People who don't vote and then complain about the results.

[rebelmswar]

That mysterious hole near the middle of bic pens.

<------ That emoticon

[RovertheHill]

I like this - been doing the rounds and apparently it's from a QPR fan forum somewhere. Simply brilliant!

I take more pleasure in seeing Chelsea lose than I do in seeing QPR win at the moment.

I sat through so many matches when we were absolute dogs**t under the likes of Ray Harford and with people like Paul Bruce, Matthew Brazier and Mark Perry in the squad and I never felt like this.

The club isn't ours anymore but more so than that - football is just properly gash these days.

I mean really gash.

football generally.

I hate nearly everything about it these days....

I hate the Prem and the myth that it is exciting this year. Man City breaking into the top four isn't exciting. They spent loads of money. It's no more exciting that Nameless C*** getting to number 1 in the charts after winning the X-Factor.

I hate the myth of Arsene's kids. Buying some French kid when he's 17, playing him in the League Cup and then selling him when he's 20 after about 3 appearances in the league is NOTHING SPECIAL.

I hate hearing about Liverpool/Man Utd's debt but nothing ever happening about it. A club needs to go to the wall for the money thing to change but it doesn't happen. Why the **** are Charlton, Leeds and Southampton still in business?

I hate Frank Lampard's stupid f'ing face. I hate that Joe Cole's tongue is never in his mouth, the downsy spacker. I hate John Terry being England captain when he's CLEARLY AN OAF.

I hate the England team.

I hate young exciting wingers who have nothing but pace. Tony Scully had nothing but pace.

I hate the FA Cup. There may be little shocks like last night but for the most part you know who's going to win it. Unless a team throws away all their financial security to win it a la Pompey.

I hate Harry f'ing Redknapp. And Jamie Redknapp. And Louise Redknapp. And the Wii.

I hate James Nesbitt, Eammon Holmes and f***ing everyone.

I hate Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer.

I hate Garth Crooks.

I hate Garth Brooks for that matter.

I hate Sky Sports.

I hate that when a lower league player beats 10 players and chips the keeper it doesn't matter but if Rooney scores from more than 20 yards it's amazing.

I hate that everything football related has to have 'Club Foot' playing behind it.

I hate that female sports journos are now mandatory.

I hate Mark Lawrensen for not coming out. 'I do like a big man at the back'. I bet you do.

I hate any advert that portrays football to be about anything other than pain and disappointment.

I hate any advert that mentions pies at football.

I hate Lee Hughes and the fact that he makes a living from the game. I hate Marlon King and any team that signs him when he gets out. I hate that it'll probably be us.

I hate Phil Brown.

I hate 'well the ball is a lot lighter now and will cause goalkeepers real problems this summer' before EVERY F'ING TOURNAMENT.

I hate that Kieron Dyer earned more in the time I took to write this post than I'll earn this month.

I hate Adrian Durham, Ian Wright and Alan Brazil.

I hate Gazza. Either die or shut up. Stop f'ing lingering.

I hate hearing about Hillsborough more than I hear about Heysel or Bradford.

I hate that a comeback from 4-0 down at half time (TWICE) means nothing because we aren't f'ing scouse.

I hate Leeds.

I hate Roy Keane.

I hate grown men wearing football shirts of their team whilst shopping on a saturday when their team is playing at home.

I hate that I don't hate Roy Hodgson.

I hate Jermaine Beckford and any player who has neck tattoos.

I hate songs being inappropriately taken as club anthems and then sung in a manly way. 'I'm forever blowing bubbles....'. Gaylords.

I hate Danny Dyer and anyone he's ever interviewed.

I hate the book 'Cass' by Cass Pennant. It is honestly the stupidest thing I've ever read. Chapter 1: Millwall. 'Yeah we took 50 to Millwall. They had 1000 in their mob but we ran 'em up and down the street'. Chapter 2: Liverpool. 'Yeah we took 50 to Liverpool. They had 2000 in their mob but we ran 'em up and down the street'. Fk me... Jade Goody's autobiography is probably better. Even her non-ghost written one.

I hate that all good youngsters end their careers at Spurs before they start.

[Blue n White Rover]

Nelson and Pederson!!

[Hughesy]

Showboating footballers - They deserve a good kicking for it!

[dopper69]

Nelson and Pederson!!

I hate it when people spell players names wrong. Especially when they have a combined total of 10 years playing for us.

I hate it when people spell players names wrong. Especially when they have a combined total of 10 years playing for us.

I hate people who correct others spelling mistakes

[Blue n White Rover]

I hate it when people spell players names wrong. Especially when they have a combined total of 10 years playing for us.

Hence why I put it here deliberately

[bazza]

I love that QPR fan's list of hates, especially where he hates "not hating Roy Hodgson". That must be the best compliment ever paid to someone else's manager.

I hate people in the media who do not give football clubs their full and correct names. We are Blackburn ROVERS, not Blackburn.

Derby is a place; Derby County is a football club.

Only James Alexander Gordon and (occasionally) Alan Green get it right.

[tcj_jones]

People who respond 'Look.' before giving their answer to a question, whether during an interview or in every day life. It smacks of being hugely arrogant and self-involved.

Players / club officials etc repeating 'Football Club' over and over and over again. 'This is a football club, and when spending this football club's money it is done in the interests of the football club. As for player X, well he is a member of the football club and, while he's a member of the football club, he will remain an important part of the football club'.

[Rover Down Under]

- People who recommend a film or TV program then proceed to tell you exactly what happens in it.

- People who "don't want to get involved" when they're asked to make a stand for something, did you pu$$ies study 20th Century history?

- People who describe and regard obesity as a 'disease' as if it is something they have caught and could never have prevented or do anything about. They then expect the Government to cough up for their insulin, lap banding, heart op etc. while claiming disability benefits cos they're too fat to get out of bed and go to work.

- People who describe themselves as a "fan" of Man U / Liverpool / Arsenal etc. when they never go to games and have probably never stepped foot in a stadium. You FOLLOW those teams, you are NOT A FAN (as I always tell them)

- That tough, thick plastic casing I dub "impenaplastic" that they case mostly electronic equipment in. You need a very good pair of scissors to get in it then you cut your hands to shreds as you try to get into the packaging. Eventually 20 minutes later, as you finally prize the packaging apart the product gets flung across the room and hits the wall, or the cat.

[jim mk2]

I hate it when people spell players names wrong.

I hate people who correct others spelling mistakes

My old English teacher would say it is more correct to write, "I hate it when people spell players names wrongly".

[brian_gallagher85]

- That tough, thick plastic casing I dub "impenaplastic" that they case mostly electronic equipment in. You need a very good pair of scissors to get in it then you cut your hands to shreds as you try to get into the packaging. Eventually 20 minutes later, as you finally prize the packaging apart the product gets flung across the room and hits the wall, or the cat.

I bloody hate the stuff, it's impossible to get it open without slitting your wrists

[adopted scouser]

My old English teacher would say it is more correct to write, "I hate it when people spell players names wrongly".

What about the missing apostrophe ?

[mellison24]

The gits who insist one breathing helium from a balloon at parties. I'll say 'Yeh, you did it last time and the time before that! It's boring now.' and they'll get up on stage, request a song from the DJ and murder it! Thanks for killing the fun (although it CAN be funny if done with the consumption of a dozen pints).

[bazza]

My old English teacher would say it is more correct to write, "I hate it when people spell players names wrongly".

Better check with Wen Y Hu, Jim. It may be the case that you can use either "wrong" or "wrongly".

[colin]

People who get to the top of an escalator and then immediately stop and have a look around.

People who get on the bus and then spend 5 minutes rummaging around their bags looking for money for their fare.

People who are getting served at the bar and then decide to retro ask all their mates what they want to drink. Especially when the last one wants a Guinness.

People in cars who think that everyone else wants to hear the crappy music that they are playing on their noise systems.

People in supermarkets who don't realise that parking their fecking trolley across the aisle between the shelves doesn't really help anyone.

That's enough for now

[adopted scouser]

Customers who talk to you like you're shyte because they are the customer, and the customer's always right, even when they're not, and all you want to do is pull them around the floor by their nostrils.

Third or fourth generation unemployed with no work ethic, where living on benefits is a choice, not a safety net.

'Parents' who eff and jeff at toddlers

Anyone with poor personal hygiene, smelling of plss these days is not an option

Newsreaders who say uh inbetween every word (think it's when someone's talking in their ear)

Religion - all of it. Why do you need an imaginary friend ? Where was Jesus when Haiti killed thousands ?

Over reaction - someone draws a farkin cartoon of a bearded bloke with a bomb in his jockstrap and they want to burn buildings to the ground

The fact that when you are carrying shopping, the key to the door is always in the other pocket

NOT PEEVED at the idiot who divorced one of my ex's a few years back, who found me on facebook and who I'm meeting in the Malthouse farm Whittle le Woods tomorrow night

err - tonight

[American]

My old English teacher would say it is more correct to write, "I hate it when people spell players names wrongly".

People who put the end full stop outside of the quote (learned this from a proofreader I worked with and has annoyed me since).

People who use loose to mean the opposite of win.

[tcj_jones]

People who put the end full stop outside of the quote (learned this from a proofreader I worked with and has annoyed me since).

I'm not sure why he told you that, because he's wrong...

[whittle blue]

That dreadful woo-woo-woo noise people make instead of cheering.

Shirt makers who put labels inside the collar made from sandpaper.

Management speak with their "challanges" and "added value" and "low hanging fruit" and all the rest of these ###### words.

Roadside memorials (topical at the moment).

Ringpull lids on tins of fish - you know the one's - just as the lid breaks away, it flicks tomato sauce everywhere.

[tcj_jones]

Oh yeah, that is SO annoying when they put massive, really uncomfortable labels in clothes. Then, when you try to cut them out, you make a hole in your top!

[mellison24]

Salesmen who describe all the excellent features of a product, telling you it's waterproof, bulletproof etc etc ....then they ask if you want the extended warranty.

[American]

I'm not sure why he told you that, because he's wrong...

Nope:

http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp

[tcj_jones]

Hmmm that's strange. Maybe it's an English / American thing.

The vast majority of the academic work that I read quotes in this way: 'this is a quotation'. If a question is being quoted or the quote contains an exclamation mark, for example, then this would go inside the quotation marks.

This is the way I have been taught and the way I have read for a number of years now and I've never been pulled up on it. In fact, my lecturers also publish their work this way.