Something that makes you annoyed as hell when it really shouldn’t, or something that makes you feel like a 
for getting annoyed at it.
I’ll start with a combination of the two: When people call chiptune music “bitcrunch”
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When people call chiptune music “bitcrunch”
I’ve never heard that one, but what really annoys me is when people call chiptunes “keygen music”.
i can’t even tell if keygen is better or worse
I hate it when people call sketches “skits”. Idk where this trend started but it feels like every time I see a clip from SNL or ITYSL, etc on Instagram or Tiktok there is some idiot in the comments saying “I love this skit”. It’s not a fucking skit! It’s not called “skit comedy”. Why does this make me so angry
In old slang, a hot sketch (simple sketch for short) was “amusing, ridiculous person” (1909). It turns up first in descriptions of stage entertainment, and a theatrical help-wanted ad from 1906 seeks “a good hot sketch team” for “all circus and vaudeville lines.”
Skit, 1820, “piece of light satire or caricature, lampoon,” from the earlier sense of “a satirical remark or reflection” (1727), which apparently is from an earlier still sense of “a light wench; a vain, frivolous, or wanton girl” (1570s, originally Scottish, now archaic).
retvrn to tradition
What’s the difference?
It’s hard to put into words other than a skit is something usually put together by people who aren’t professional comedians, for an audience of people they know (i.e. coworkers, students at a school, fellow summer campers, etc)
People who whistle. I consider myself a reasonably calm and understanding person, slow to anger. But something about people who whistle just sets me off instantly.
When people say that one thing is ‘exponentially greater’ than another thing, when there are only two points to compare.
Also, and, unfortunately, this applies to many, many people and their works, including academic and semi-academic ones, - not defining their terms. In particular, this applies to many philosophers in general, it seems, as well as Marx, Lenin (unless we count them among philosophers), etc.
On that note, if anybody is curious about what cases of that I could point to in works on socialist theory, I can oblige, especially if one would be able to help me by either citing sources of definitions for those terms, or showing how one could decipher what exactly an author meant.The trick is to use “exponentially greater” when referring to nebulous or generally immeasurable concepts. Since they’re impossible to quantify, it allows a term like that to imply a grand difference without really having any real details.
The issue is that something growing exponentially means that it is best approximated by something like f(x) = c_1*e(c_2*(x-x_0))+c_3, or, where appropriate, by something from the class O(ex) in the relevant topological base.
With just two points of comparison, you can claim any sort of growth. You can fit a polynomial growth there, just as you can fit an exponential one, just as you can fit factorial growth there. Saying that there is exponential growth when all we have are just two points is nonsensical if we go by what the relevant expressions mean in math.
I think you’re missing the increased utility that describing something as exponential has though. Compounding and increasing with greater intensity isn’t really an easy concept to explain. Sure you can’t "prove"that something is exponential with just two points of data, but the demonstration of those concepts within one word is highly useful and effective as an intensifier.
Although, the more I work through the term the more I can see why it could be frustrating.
I guess this is the benefit of not studying math lol.
I prefer to use orders of magnitude to avoid this probkem
I hate people that eat loudly/chew with mouth open. It’s disgusting.
When people laugh by sucking air in over the sides of their tongue. Or when anyone does that as a habit or tic. Or whenever anyone does that for any reason.
Things have gotten a lot worse for me as zoom meetings have become normalized and I hear people mouthbreathing all day
It’s always rich dudes doing that to sound more serious
When people laugh by sucking air in over the sides of their tongue.
I’m confused by this and am having trouble making a mental model of what you’re describing. Given the thread topic, I’ll go ahead and admit that it’s irking me just slightly that I can’t figure out what you mean!
I can kinda picture laughing by pushing air out along the sides of your tongue, but sucking in? Whaaaa?? The only things I can conjure up that seems like it might be what you’re talking about are:
- When someone makes clicking sounds that way, as is commonly done to call a horse. (
We don't have any horse emojis?! thought for sure we had at least a Canadian Mounty acab.) It can also be thrown in during regular speech to delay or break up speaking in a similar way to an “uhm” or “ehr” though its use is uncommon this way. Sometimes it can be done as an expression of like “I gotcha”
- The sound someone might make when suddenly, unexpectedly experiencing pain but doesn’t want to vocalize it.
This is the kind of sound that results from sharply sucking in air and it’s somewhat like a hiss but with the sides of the tongue giving it more of an audible edge than a typical hiss. It always goes along with facial wincing from the pain. 
Or, - A sound very similar to 2 that some people make that’s actually like an expression of empathy at someone else’s physical pain, again like an auditory wince or cringe, just usually not as sharp or intense.
It also sort of works with the “yikes” response to something: 
But those don’t seem to line up with what I think you actually mean since none of those could be mistaken for laughter. Well, maybe the horse-call one could, possibly. Do you know of any easily found videos or the like that would demonstrate? Not to trigger your peeve.
I know this is a lot to write on something so trivial, but hey I’m having fun with it.
Imagine your second point, but repetitive and in a laughing cadence.
- When someone makes clicking sounds that way, as is commonly done to call a horse. (
Mispronuniciations, my mom says ‘excape’, my former boss called arugula ‘aroo-gyoo-la’. A lot of language stuff actually, I have a current co-worker that pronounces feta like ‘féta’ and he sounds otherwise like a TV American accent. I notice when people’s semtence structure is wack. And the biggest one for me is people misusing words or using words wrong, if I could correct them and it be taken well and listened to, it’d be great, I could flex a bit. Non native speakers get a pass, that doesn’t bother me. I’m a big giant nerd about language and try to speak with some precision and poetry, and have a tendency to ransack the dictionary without sounding like I’m putting on a air. It’s one of those things where it came to me easy and I’m good at it and a tiny part of me still can’t understand why this stuff doesn’t come as easy to others.
putting on a air
I think the more correct way to phrase this idiom would be “putting on airs”
Anyway I have the same response but the problem with the English language is that most conventionally accepted pronunciations are “wrong”
Nope,
And colloquial English isn’t considered wrong and if it’s a common misproniniation then it’s just a pronunciation. That’s how language works, but one individual who clings onto pronouncing something wrong is different.
Meriam Webster, gross
Anyway, you’ll see with that usage it should have been “without putting on an air of pretension” or something like that
If you read slightly further down the page, you’ll see
an artificial or affected manner put on airs
Which is explained further here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put_on_airs (NATOpedia, also gross)
Mispronuniciations,
Hope to make you cringe (linguistically), if I meet you in real life…
My biggest beef is with word misuse or people using words they don’t understand the meaning of. Pronunciation is easily the most forgivable, sometimes you’ve only read the word. People using five dollar words wrong to seem smart really grinds my gears when they constantly invert the subject and object of a sentence. Like if they want to say a customer is substituting olives for onions as an example they’ll always send it as sub onions for olives, it’s easy to figure out cause one ingredient is standard and the other isn’t but don’t do that while using language you vaguely really from high school.
Like if they want to say a customer is substituting olives for onions as an example they’ll always send it as sub onions for olives
Ok I see what you mean… that’s confusing to say the least…
I’ve learned it’s backwards and can intuit it based on knowing what goes on things normally but it’s hard for new people
haha this is very relatable
American pronunciation
Epic for epoch? Nitch for niche? Maddening
There’s no objective reason to hate it but I do
That’s legitimately awful you’re right
Anyway and anyways
My pedantic ass teacher back in the day made fun of a student for incorrect grammar and then said “anyways” which is technically wrong
don’t really have one but my partner hates when people call it “instapot” instead of “instant pot” anyway I just accuse them of being a brand integrity cop
lol me and your partner have that in common. “Band-aid,” “Kleenex,” and all others like it get under my skin.
You aren’t thinking big picture. When brand names just become product names, the brand name loses its power. Defile all brands!
Medical adhesive tape?
bandage
Here, that would mean long strips that you wrap around something. Bandaids are the little ones with the sticky bit.
No one says Kleenex for tissue here though. Or hoover for vacuum cleaner.
Tupperware gets used for multi-use food safe box with a lid.
Trying to think of others, nothing feels quite as extreme as South USs “coke” for fizzy sweet drink
no way. hoover is a brand?? don’t call a vaccuum hoover but ive heard hoover as a verb for sucking up. wack
I think the one that peeves me a little is “D&D” for “RPG”. Please play a different RPG
oh that won’t necessarily fix anything. my friends also refer to our call of cthulhu and paranoia games as “playing dnd” - it really has started to mean any rpg in the same way that “photoshop” just means any photo editing
Hoover for ‘vacuum cleaner’ is where i draw the line. that’s pure fuckery
See but asking for a bandaid implies more information. I ask for a bandaid and you know it’s not too serious, but asking for a bandage may be a paper cut or it may be a large laceration. I think this one is useful.
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what’s with the instapot hate?
Not sure if this counts as a pet peeve but I can’t stand it when people want me to watch YouTube videos with them. Send me the link I’ll watch it later, don’t use up my socialising time for that shit
that is a perfectly rational pet peeve, i hate it when people do that
I hate when people send me YouTube videos in general. I’m rarely in a position to watch them without it annoying people around me. Also, I don’t pay google money so I end up getting screamed at to buy the next treat before I miss out.
get adblockers on your browser. feels like using premium internet.
usually i run into that on mobile, pc browser im usually good with pihole and ublock origin.
the firefox and ublock combo works on android too. paired with backgroundvideofix you can watch videos on it.
if you prefer an app, yt revanced or newpipe can adblock too.
I’m a dirty iPhone user lol. I just choose to limit my YouTube consumption now.
thats unfortunate but if the consequence is less youtube in your life, all the better.
“meal”, “cake”, and “milk”. Absolutely hate hearing these words out loud, for no particular reason.
People… that is all.
People who chew with their mouth open. I’m likely a tad irrational on that one. But anybody who makes a habit of popping their gum several times a minute should likely face some form of severe corporal punishment. That one is not irrational of me.
What does “popping their gum” mean?
When people are chewing gum and they click and pop the gum in their mouth as loudly as possible. It’s gross, annoying, and distracting.
those are valid pet peeves.
When people get too sexual while playing DnD. I don’t care if ur a bard, if u try to push my beautiful autistic DM into describing ur fantasy I’ll kill you in ur sleep.
Like even flirting. Don’t make my cute DM flirt he doesn’t want to do it. :(
Heh, I made an Ace bard to shake stuff up and everyone (including an Ace guy in our group) was like,
.Was almost gonna play DnD but then found out the group essentially used it to write smut together. So essentially they’d spend the night role playing characters flirting with and fucking each other. Feels like they should probably just fuck each other.
If they aren’t I’m not sure if I understand the point. That seems extremely uncomfortable.
I didn’t either and it did.
My current rpg (playing Fate and not D&D, but still) has two clear rules from session 0: No foregrounded sex, no foregrounded gore. I also did a “And let’s move on” when one of the players was trying to flirt his way into a bar.
It’s been working pretty well so far.
