Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[matticus]

A growing number of people using the phrase "we did amazing". Just another Americanism which will no doubt sound normal in time, but when you first start hearing it, it sounds weird and un-grammatical

That's because it IS un-grammatical!

 

[mustang1]

When your feet get stuck while putting on trousers. Blxxdy heck thats annoying. I keep thinking this time i can do it but it never happens! Grrrrr.

 

[Electric_Andy]

That's because it IS un-grammatical!

sorry I meant non-ingrammarly

 

[DaveReading]

It IS un-grammatical.

Except when it's said by your child about what they did at school today, along with "we did writing" and "we did reading".

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Except when it's said by your child about what they did at school today, along with "we did writing" and "we did reading".

If you don‘t correct them, how do you expect your kids to get a job on Countdown?

 

[matticus]

If you don‘t correct them, how do you expect your kids to get a job on Countdown?

<pedant> Given that the game-show in question only deals in single words, I cannot see how grammar would be relevant.

Amazing would be a valid word, as would reading or writing.

But pedantry would outscore them all.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

<pedant> Given that the game-show in question only deals in single words, I cannot see how grammar would be relevant.

Amazing would be a valid word, as would reading or writing.

But pedantry would outscore them all.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

When your feet get stuck while putting on trousers. Blxxdy heck thats annoying. I keep thinking this time i can do it but it never happens! Grrrrr.

Have you tried putting each one down a separate leg?

 

[oldwheels]

People who refer to the floor rather than the ground. A floor is constructed mostly indoors but the ground outside is not a floor.

 

[MontyVeda]

the amount of button presses i have to do in order to set the alarm on my garmin watch thing, but more than that, the same amount of button presses i have to do in order to check that I've set the alarm, which is 8 presses on three different buttons. Why didn't they think of putting a 🔔 icon on the clock face when the fecking alarm is set?

 

[MontyVeda]

People who refer to the floor rather than the ground. A floor is constructed mostly indoors but the ground outside is not a floor.

what about the ground floor?

 

[oldwheels]

what about the ground floor?

Now you are just trying to confuse me.

 

[figbat]

what about the ground floor?

Which is the first floor in many other countries.

 

[classic33]

Which is the first floor in many other countries.

There's a block of flats nearby, where the ground floor is in the basement. This places the ground floor on the first floor.

 

[MontyVeda]

that reminds me... pedants again... can't recall who but someone claiming that basement and cellar are not synonymous