Pet-Peeve Thread 4: More peeve than you can handle.

When I find a thread filled with insightful discussion and all I can add is "Yeah, I read/saw this. It was fun."

True, it's no one's fault other than my own, but it still irks me.
 
Grocer Man said:
When I find a thread filled with insightful discussion and all I can add is "Yeah, I read/saw this. It was fun."

True, it's no one's fault other than my own, but it still irks me.
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It's the same for me sometimes, but I still go through with it 'cause I'm a post whore.
 
I've gotten into the habit of reading music reviews and analyzing how they're written, to try and refine my stuff at Opinz. There's one word that seems to appear in every other music review I read and it's actually really starting to piss me off:

Woozy.

Every song is "woozy" or a "woozy" mix of something and something else. It's everywhere. I think I've seen it used multiple times in single reviews. And sometimes they'll throw in "boozy". Sometimes, both.

The worst part is that I don't even know exactly what it means. It's supposed to mean sort of swaying, intoxicated. But I hear it used to describe music that I've heard that would definitely not be described using those terms, or in what would seem to be completely the wrong context. Like, either all these writers don't actually know what the word means or there's some sort of strange, alternate definition of the word for music critics that I'm not aware of.

And I hate the way it sounds too. It's a distractingly strange word that never seems to fit quite right in any sentence.

I'm so sick of seeing that ****ing word that I've sworn I will never use it in a review. DOWN WITH WOOZY.
 
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moonmaster said:
I've gotten into the habit of reading music reviews and analyzing how they're written, to try and refine my stuff at Opinz. There's one word that seems to appear in every other music review I read and it's actually really starting to piss me off:

Woozy.

Every song is "woozy" or a "woozy" mix of something and something else. It's everywhere. I think I've seen it used multiple times in single reviews. And sometimes they'll throw in "boozy". Sometimes, both.

The worst part is that I don't even know exactly what it means. It's supposed to mean sort of swaying, intoxicated. But I hear it used to describe music that I've heard that would definitely not be described using those terms, or in what would seem to be completely the wrong context. Like, either all these writers don't actually know what the word means or there's some sort of strange, alternate definition of the word for music critics that I'm not aware of.

And I hate the way it sounds too. It's a distractingly strange word that never seems to fit quite right in any sentence.

I'm so sick of seeing that ****ing word that I've sworn I will never use it in a review. DOWN WITH WOOZY.
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That is weird. I don't know that I've ever read a review containing the word "woozy".

But now I am sure that I will see it everywhere.

"Woozy" is how one feels after getting hit in the head. It cannot be used to describe music.
 
moonmaster said:
I've gotten into the habit of reading music reviews and analyzing how they're written, to try and refine my stuff at Opinz. There's one word that seems to appear in every other music review I read and it's actually really starting to piss me off:

Woozy.

Every song is "woozy" or a "woozy" mix of something and something else. It's everywhere. I think I've seen it used multiple times in single reviews. And sometimes they'll throw in "boozy". Sometimes, both.

The worst part is that I don't even know exactly what it means. It's supposed to mean sort of swaying, intoxicated. But I hear it used to describe music that I've heard that would definitely not be described using those terms, or in what would seem to be completely the wrong context. Like, either all these writers don't actually know what the word means or there's some sort of strange, alternate definition of the word for music critics that I'm not aware of.

And I hate the way it sounds too. It's a distractingly strange word that never seems to fit quite right in any sentence.

I'm so sick of seeing that ****ing word that I've sworn I will never use it in a review. DOWN WITH WOOZY.
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"Crazy" > "Woozy"

Let me illustrate:

*Does an impersonation of Rolling Stone's Ben Fong-Torres, which TOTALLY works because I'm Asian too*

"Craazy!!"
 
My roommate. Good God is he annoying. This year I'm living with 4 roommates two of whom are my friends one who is quite and keeps to himself, but the other one jesus christ. This guy talks, and can't shut up, but not only that he has not concept of social engagement, he can not for the life of him pick up on everybody's subtle gesture of "shut the **** up". Take last Wednesday for example. There's on tv with cable in the house so I have to watch 24 and Lost with him and the quiet guy. A commercial comes on for a movie with some british guy and stands up doing some lame *** impersonation saying "I'm a young Hugh Grant dur de durr" For a full ****ing minute. I'm ignoring him cause that's what you do with an overactive child, but he can't even comprehend that. He just keeps doing it until the show came back on. And I;ve mention this before but In Lost when
Jinn was revealed alive
he pulls his shirt over his head, waves it while running around the room screaming, keep in mind he's fat. I wanted to gouge my eyes out and rip off my ears.

Also his room is right next to mine and when this guy uses a headset for a game he scream obscenities as loud as he can. Most of which is either an insulting term for gay, and term for penis, and an act involving the two. And I can here as clear as day, and he'll do it for at least 20 minutes straight. Also this guy leaves the lamest passive aggressive notes. It's one thing to leave a note suggesting something should be done like "Hey house needs to be clean before the break, here's a suggested list to spread the tasks that everyone can agree with" he leave notes like the one I just found "This place is a ****hole CLEAN". And there are to points that makes this incredibly rude note unbearable. One, The place isn't that dirty, there are a few plates in the sink that have been there awhile and the trash is about full, that's it. Everyone else is perfectly content without leaving stupid unnecessary and insulting notes like that. And the second thing is, the acceptable note I mention earlier is one that actually happened, everyone did their fair share EXCEPT this guy who had his MOM do it for him.

I seriously ****ing hate this guy
 
People who don't understand how alternative energy works.

Hydrogen, with our current tech, is not a fuel source. It is a cleaner, more efficient way of storing energy, which must still be generated through other means.

All our food is grown with artificial nitrogen created using fossil fuels. Ethanol and biofuels are made with petroleum.

Every single alternative energy source has severe problems. Probably none of them could ever come close to replacing fossil fuels. That's why we should use more than one.
 
TwilightEL said:
People who don't understand how alternative energy works.

Hydrogen, with our current tech, is not a fuel source. It is a cleaner, more efficient way of storing energy, which must still be generated through other means.

All our food is grown with artificial nitrogen created using fossil fuels. Ethanol and biofuels are made with petroleum.

Every single alternative energy source has severe problems. Probably none of them could ever come close to replacing fossil fuels. That's why we should use more than one.
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Exactly.

My related pet-peeve is greenwashing and other forms of environmental tokenism. Like OMG I BOUGHT A REUSABLE GREEN BAGZ, IMMA SAVING PLANET LOL.

One time, I saw this promo at the mall that said, "Buy a re-usable bag from Ayala Malls and you can get major discounts on your shopping while saving the planet!"

Which is patently stupid. It's basically saying that they'll reward your green-ness by encouraging you in the kind of reckless consumerist activity that is behind many of our environmental problems in the first place.
 
My peeve as of today is people who feel the need to the quotation finger gesture in a sentence. We have a new guy at work and ALL day he was saying stuff like
Got to love this "spring" weather
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Or were talking about the new day the earth stood still, a girl in my work said "I want to see it as keanu reeves is a great actor" new guy -
Yeah "actor"
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I swear he must have done it 10-20 times today. Makes me want to break his fingers then go
"sorry"
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Once I can excuse, twice your starting to push it. More times and your officially in nobhead territory.


Note the quote on his responses was because having " in the middle of a dialog sentence e.g "Yeah "actor"" looks weird.
 
Why do with quotes what you can do with caps.

As in, "Hey guys, don't you know Daniel Day-Lewis is A Serious Actor who only does Very Serious Films."
 
ourchair said:
Why do with quotes what you can do with caps.

As in, "Hey guys, don't you know Daniel Day-Lewis is A Serious Actor who only does Very Serious Films."
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Because it's me. My grammar sucks so much it's like if Ultimates 3 and the Catwoman movie had a baby who grew up to suck so much his parents were disappointed in him. Seriously.

You post "Hey guys, don't you know Daniel Day-Lewis is A Serious Actor who only does Very Serious Films." and people would think "Ah... I see what ourchair did there, sneaky."

I post "Hey guys, don't you know Daniel Day-Lewis is A Serious Actor who only does Very Serious Films." and people would think ":roll: Mole still can't grasp the basic grammar skills that 8 year olds have mastered. Dumb bastard."


That's why!
 
Actually, your grammar has significantly improved over the past few years.

And some of us have noticed and have stopped giving you **** about it.
 
McCheese said:
Actually, your grammar has significantly improved over the past few years.

And some of us have noticed and have stopped giving you **** about it.
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Thank you. I just posted that as a Semi-joke. It seemed better than "Because I didn't think of it :oops:" :lol:
 
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