Something that makes you annoyed as hell when it really shouldn't, or something that makes you feel like a nerd for getting annoyed at it.

I'll start with a combination of the two: When people call chiptune music "bitcrunch"

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  • niph [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    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

    • blakeus12 [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 months ago

      that is a perfectly rational pet peeve, i hate it when people do that

    • nothx [any]
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      2 months ago

      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.

        • nothx [any]
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          2 months ago

          usually i run into that on mobile, pc browser im usually good with pihole and ublock origin.

          • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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            2 months ago

            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.

            • nothx [any]
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              2 months ago

              I’m a dirty iPhone user lol. I just choose to limit my YouTube consumption now.

              • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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                2 months ago

                thats unfortunate but if the consequence is less youtube in your life, all the better.

  • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • odmroz [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • odmroz [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Like even flirting. Don't make my cute DM flirt he doesn't want to do it. :(

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Heh, I made an Ace bard to shake stuff up and everyone (including an Ace guy in our group) was like, puzzled .

  • itappearsthat [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    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

    • blakeus12 [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 months ago

      lol me and your partner have that in common. "Band-aid," "Kleenex," and all others like it get under my skin.

          • keepcarrot [she/her]
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            2 months ago

            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

            • Dolores [love/loves]
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              2 months ago

              no way. hoover is a brand?? don't call a vaccuum hoover but ive heard hoover as a verb for sucking up. wack

              • keepcarrot [she/her]
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                2 months ago

                I think the one that peeves me a little is "D&D" for "RPG". Please play a different RPG

                • Politically_Normal_Work_Account [he/him, she/her]
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                  2 months ago

                  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

            • blakeus12 [he/him]
              hexagon
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              2 months ago

              Hoover for 'vacuum cleaner' is where i draw the line. that's pure fuckery

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        You aren't thinking big picture. When brand names just become product names, the brand name loses its power. Defile all brands!

      • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • TRexBear
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          2 months ago

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  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    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_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          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. thinkin-lenin

          I guess this is the benefit of not studying math lol.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    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.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 months ago

          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...

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            2 months ago

            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

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      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"

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 months ago

        Nope,

        https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air#:~:text=%3A%20outward%20appearance%20of%20a%20thing,an%20air%20of%20mystery

        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.

        • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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          2 months ago

          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)

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    2 months ago

    One that I don't think has come up here yet, but is often found in threads like this. Someone will be like "I really don't like X." Someone will then immediately reply to do X, and think they are very clever.

    Like, "I don't know why but I don't like when sentences end with a preposition." Someone will think themselves very clever and reply with like "Why? What's up?"

    I think because it's too obvious to be funny, and also just like very low grade cruel? Like they just told you they don't like the thing, why would you go out of your way to do it?

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      I think because it's too obvious to be funny, and also just like very low grade cruel? Like they just told you they don't like the thing, why would you go out of your way to do it?

      reason d'etre

      Firstly, it was to entertain myself, as an egoist. Now, tis an honor to get recognized as a pet peeve...


  • casskaydee [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    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

      • casskaydee [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        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)

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      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

  • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    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

    • InappropriateEmote [comrade/them, undecided]
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      2 months ago

      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:

      1. 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" dubois-finger-guns
      2. The sound someone might make when suddenly, unexpectedly experiencing pain but doesn't want to vocalize it. bolso-pain 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. cringe Or,
      3. 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. agni-pain It also sort of works with the "yikes" response to something: yikes-1 yikes-3

      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. shrug-outta-hecks

  • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    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

  • sawne128 [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    When people call chiptune music "bitcrunch"

    I've never heard that one, but what really annoys me is when people call chiptunes "keygen music". puzzled

    • blakeus12 [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 months ago

      i can't even tell if keygen is better or worse