Bad corny jokes... You know, kind of like those of the Indy_guy_77 flavor?
It drives me nuts when people say they "could care less."
Could care less is a big one for me.
When peple correct grammer and speling on other peoples posts on forums for gods sake i am not in english class in a school and I am not payin ya to be my personal secretarie Did you get the point of my post, good then i got my point across dont try to make this an english classes.
A foreign word is a foreign word. Do you pronounce Jagermeister with an English hard "j"? It's not like these are uncommon words. The majority of people I've met pronounce jalapeno as it should be or close to it. The few who don't are, well, less than intelligent. In a few decades maybe it will be absorbed like those other loan words, but for the time being you're saying it in a fairly goofy fashion.I hate when people insist that foreign words be pronounced in the foreign way. English has been polluted with words from 20 or so different languages. I feel no need to learn all of those "proper" pronunciations. We speak English here, get over it.
Have you gentlemen seen this thread?
An English class seems like a good idea. Might want to rethink that.
When its been a BAD day and you have used every ounce of energy to make it home without causing severe bodily harm to another human being...only to be met at the front door by a husband and/or child just ready to poke the grizzly with a sharp stick! The words "give me a minute to get in the house and kick my shoes off" mean NOTHING to them.
I feel I'm wound too tight when my kid does something minor and I react too hard. Rest of the over reactions don't really bother me too much.
Except when people don't rep me. That makes me so !!!
STUPID People.
The other driving pet peeve are tailgaters. In NASCAR, Indy Car and F1, it is called drafting. You aren't going to get much of a draft off someone running 55 mph. Back off, Jack! You're wearing the paint off my back bumper!
The other driving pet peeve are tailgaters. In NASCAR, Indy Car and F1, it is called drafting. You aren't going to get much of a draft off someone running 55 mph. Back off, Jack! You're wearing the paint off my back bumper!
The US television show Mythbusters (Discovery Channel), in their June 6, 2007, episode, drove a Dodge Magnum station wagon at 55 mph (89 km/h) behind a Freightliner tractor trailer and measured the station wagon's fuel economy. As they got closer their results ranged from a baseline (no truck) figure of 32 to 35.5 mpg-US (7.4 to 6.63 L/100 km, a 11% greater distance covered per unit volume of fuel or a 10% reduction in fuel consumption) at 100 feet (30 m), and then progressively up to 44.5 mpg-US (5.29 L/100 km, a 39% greater distance covered per unit volume of fuel or a 28% reduction in fuel consumption) at 10 feet (3 m), as a result of decreased drag consequent of drafting. However, the show's hosts had serious safety concerns about drafting behind tractor trailers which prompted them to advise against using the technique.[34]
People screwing with their little electronic devices instead of talking/ paying attention to the conversation you are attempting to have with them!!!!!!!!!!
ESPECIALLY KIDS!!
Bob
When people get on me for my stance on never using both adjectival suffixes (-ic and -al) in the same word, especially when adverbializing the word with the -ly suffix.