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More meme!
Jul. 22nd, 2008 01:58 amCan't sleep. Panic attack will eat me. In the meantime, have a Pet Peeves meme.
1. Grammatical pet peeve: spelling errors outside of l33t/lol speak. I can forgive an occasional swapping of i and e (cause that except after c crap is more of a guideline than a rule) or a clear typo, but there are some people that are just freaking LAZY about it. This does occasionally include me.
2. Household pet peeve: Putting the toilet paper roll on the rack the wrong way. OVER not UNDER.
3. Arts & Entertainment pet peeve: I am rather infamous for getting seriously irritated about inaccuracies having to do with New York minutia in movies and tv. We all know my rage about any shot of the Empire State Building in Independence Day (IT'S ON A CORNER NOT FACING A STREET!), but little known ones are the passing redbird 7 train in the beginning Spiderman (THEY DON'T WHISTLE LIKE FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVES!), or the chase scene/fight on the elevated train sequence in Spiderman 2 (THERE ARE NO ELS IN MANHATTAN AND HAVEN'T BEEN SINCE THE 1950s! CLEARLY SPIDEY AND DOC OCK OPENED A WORMHOLE IN THE SPACE TIME CONTINUUM AND HAD THEIR EPIC BATTLE IN CHICAGO!) or on Buffy during a flashback sequence with Spike set in the seventies on a subway train (WRONG SIGNAGE/COLORS ON DOORS AND ROUTE ROLLSIGNS). Yeah, that last one no one else on Gods green earth would have noticed but me, but I'm a subway nerd.
Also. HATE it in movies when they depict a steaming teapot as whistling when there no whistle mechanism to be seen. I don't know, stuff like that just says that the writers/producers/foley editors were really sloppy in the research department, or thought no one would notice/care.
4. Liturgical pet peeve: I don't go to church enough for it to annoy me, but I could say some choice things about sweetness and white light, faeries and Magick, Wicca-good-and-love-the-earth-and-women-power-and-I'll-be-over-here brand of Paganism and the insistence that anything outside of that narrow spectrum is BAD and will get you SPANKED by the UNIVERSE if you even THINK about it. Here, pat the bunny and chant with us instead? Here, how about I take that athame and give that lovely fluffy bunny with the improbable Celtic name a few extra nostrils... *fume*
5. Wild card: I mentioned in the last meme that hearing people chew drives me absolutely bonkers. Like seriously, if I jump up and leave the room suddenly, either with a flimsy excuse or without saying anything at all, check if someone's eating. Then check if they were doing it with their mouths open. I don't know something about the range and breadth of squishy noises made by the human mouth in the midst of mastication, just.... OOOOG. No. Double fail if slurping is also involved - that shit'll drive me to homicide.
Bonus: Things that I do that become other people's pet peeves?: I'm lazy and I procrastinate and I forget things. Makes me really popular sometimes. :P
1. Grammatical pet peeve: spelling errors outside of l33t/lol speak. I can forgive an occasional swapping of i and e (cause that except after c crap is more of a guideline than a rule) or a clear typo, but there are some people that are just freaking LAZY about it. This does occasionally include me.
2. Household pet peeve: Putting the toilet paper roll on the rack the wrong way. OVER not UNDER.
3. Arts & Entertainment pet peeve: I am rather infamous for getting seriously irritated about inaccuracies having to do with New York minutia in movies and tv. We all know my rage about any shot of the Empire State Building in Independence Day (IT'S ON A CORNER NOT FACING A STREET!), but little known ones are the passing redbird 7 train in the beginning Spiderman (THEY DON'T WHISTLE LIKE FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVES!), or the chase scene/fight on the elevated train sequence in Spiderman 2 (THERE ARE NO ELS IN MANHATTAN AND HAVEN'T BEEN SINCE THE 1950s! CLEARLY SPIDEY AND DOC OCK OPENED A WORMHOLE IN THE SPACE TIME CONTINUUM AND HAD THEIR EPIC BATTLE IN CHICAGO!) or on Buffy during a flashback sequence with Spike set in the seventies on a subway train (WRONG SIGNAGE/COLORS ON DOORS AND ROUTE ROLLSIGNS). Yeah, that last one no one else on Gods green earth would have noticed but me, but I'm a subway nerd.
Also. HATE it in movies when they depict a steaming teapot as whistling when there no whistle mechanism to be seen. I don't know, stuff like that just says that the writers/producers/foley editors were really sloppy in the research department, or thought no one would notice/care.
4. Liturgical pet peeve: I don't go to church enough for it to annoy me, but I could say some choice things about sweetness and white light, faeries and Magick, Wicca-good-and-love-the-earth-and-women-power-and-I'll-be-over-here brand of Paganism and the insistence that anything outside of that narrow spectrum is BAD and will get you SPANKED by the UNIVERSE if you even THINK about it. Here, pat the bunny and chant with us instead? Here, how about I take that athame and give that lovely fluffy bunny with the improbable Celtic name a few extra nostrils... *fume*
5. Wild card: I mentioned in the last meme that hearing people chew drives me absolutely bonkers. Like seriously, if I jump up and leave the room suddenly, either with a flimsy excuse or without saying anything at all, check if someone's eating. Then check if they were doing it with their mouths open. I don't know something about the range and breadth of squishy noises made by the human mouth in the midst of mastication, just.... OOOOG. No. Double fail if slurping is also involved - that shit'll drive me to homicide.
Bonus: Things that I do that become other people's pet peeves?: I'm lazy and I procrastinate and I forget things. Makes me really popular sometimes. :P
