Things that confuse/annoy you

[MarcoM]

My noisy colleague . Damnit! Why does he always talk so loud on the phone.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

This doesn't confuse me so much as it annoys me: People that 'move the goalpost' in arguments, I hate it when people do this. Whether it's on the internet or in the real world. It does nothing in a discussion, but waste time.

 

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I get a lot of similar messages in my inbox on my e-mail too.

 

[Johnny1996]

Stores that have an app or membership card that has discounted prices as a benefit, but only put the app users or members price on the price tag. You don't know how much you're paying for something until its rung up at the register.

Rite Aid is like this and apparently Hobby Lobby is as well. In the case of Hobby Lobby, a 1:24 scale M2 diecast is just over $30 without their app when the same diecasts sell for $20 literally everywhere else that sells them.

 

[W3H5]

Stores that have an app or membership card that has discounted prices as a benefit, but only put the app users or members price on the price tag. You don't know how much you're paying for something until its rung up at the register.

Rite Aid is like this and apparently Hobby Lobby is as well. In the case of Hobby Lobby, a 1:24 scale M2 diecast is just over $30 without their app when the same diecasts sell for $20 literally everywhere else that sells them.

I’ve never seen that before.

In fact, it would stress me out trying to work out how much tax to pay on an item in the States as everwhere else it seems to be included in the price tag. That would seriously confuse and annoy me no end.

 

[MatskiMonk]

People.

Life.

 

[W3H5]

People.

Life.

Tell me something new

 

[TexRex]

In the case of Hobby Lobby, a 1:24 scale M2 diecast is just over $30 without their app when the same diecasts sell for $20 literally everywhere else that sells them.

I wonder if any of that markup can be attributed to the smuggling of religious artifacts and/or resulting fines and lawsuits.

 

[kikie]

People.

Life.

Confusion or annoyance?

 

[MatskiMonk]

Confusion or annoyance?

Both in both cases!

 

[zzz_pt]

Annoying:

When some people (theists in particular) bring up fallacious arguments or falsehoods over and over and over and over just because they can't deal with the idea of being wrong, ever.

 

[kikie]

Annoying:

When some people (theists in particular) bring up fallacious arguments or falsehoods over and over and over and over just because they can't deal with the idea of being wrong, ever.

Sounds like flat eathers as well.

 

[Slapped]

Girlfriend Logic

It's absolutely peeing down outside, the GF grabs an umbrella to go out. "Oh" she says, "This ones still wet from yesterday", and then grabs a dry one and heads off.

Wait, what?

 

[kikie]

Girlfriend Logic

It's absolutely peeing down outside, the GF grabs an umbrella to go out. "Oh" she says, "This ones still wet from yesterday", and then grabs a dry one and heads off.

Wait, what?

Not only female logic but also neighbour moron logic. A neighbour is not the brightest mind in the world (I respect that and I'm not laughing with him because he is what he is and was born that way but his reasoning, in this case, is very funny) and some years ago he was caught walking around in the rain lifting up his bicycle. When somebody asked him why he was doing that, he said that the tires of his bicycle were getting wet.



My confusion is about the English language. Sometimes I hear people say (on TV); "I'm going to hospital" and sometimes "I'm going to the hospital".
Isn't the latter the correct one?

 

[W3H5]

My confusion is about the English language. Sometimes I hear people say (on TV); "I'm going to hospital" and sometimes "I'm going to the hospital".
Isn't the latter the correct one?

Both are used and both would be considered acceptable in day to day English. Don’t worry about it too much unless you’re writing to somebody important.

 

[Slapped]

My confusion is about the English language. Sometimes I hear people say (on TV); "I'm going to hospital" and sometimes "I'm going to the hospital".
Isn't the latter the correct one?

Not necessarily, it depends on context, but as @W3HS has said they can be used interchangeably.

The difference is a bit subtle, but is essentially as follows

I'm going to hospital - This implies that you're in need of medical treatment, and that you're going to a hospital. Where that hospital is is unknown, and possibly when you're going is also unknown, you just know that you have to go to hospital

I'm going to the hospital - This implies that you're going to the local hospital, and that when you are going is probably pretty soon, probably right away. You may or may not be in need of medical treatment, you might just be visiting somebody.

As I said it's subtle, they're pretty much interchangeable, and quite frankly no native english speaker will ever pick up on the use of one over the other.

Edit - after giving this a bit more thought I've updated the explanations

 

[TexRex]

Girlfriend Logic

It's absolutely peeing down outside, the GF grabs an umbrella to go out. "Oh" she says, "This ones still wet from yesterday", and then grabs a dry one and heads off.

Wait, what?

Don't you know that dry umbrellas are more likely to stay dry (and thereby keep their user dry)? Kind of like how damp sponges are more absorbant absorbent than dry ones.

Edit: It occurs to me that the comment regarding a dry umbrella's effectiveness may be construed as factual, and while it might be (I doubt it), it was offered in jest.

 

[Slapped]

Don't you know that dry umbrellas are more likely to stay dry (and thereby keep their user dry)? Kind of like how damp sponges are more absorbant than dry ones.

Coming from Texas i'm surprised that you're actually familiar with umbrellas

 

[TexRex]

Coming from Texas i'm surprised that you're actually familiar with umbrellas

Overcast today with rain forecast tomorrow and t-storms Wednesday. So there...

 

[Wolfe]

@kikie @Slapped -- I have never heard anyone say "going to hospital" who isn't from the UK or from another country and learned English English. Saying it that way would generally be perceived as grammatically incomplete in the United States. So part of it is dialect.

 

[kikie]

@kikie @Slapped -- I have never heard anyone say "going to hospital" who isn't from the UK or from another country and learned English English. Saying it that way would generally be perceived as grammatically incomplete in the United States. So part of it is dialect.

I heard it on an American TV show about morbidly obese people who are operated by Nowzaradan. And yesterday on a UK TV show "Ambulance".

 

[Johnny1996]

Honestly as a native English speaker, the English language confuses me quite a bit sometimes.

 

[W3H5]

Honestly as a native English speaker, the English language confuses me quite a bit sometimes.

As a teacher of English as a second language I really do understand how difficult English is. I’ve been teaching and improving my English for over a decade but still make plenty of mistakes.

 

[Johnny1996]

As a teacher of English as a second language I really do understand how difficult English is. I’ve been teaching and improving my English for over a decade but still make plenty of mistakes.

When I was in high school I had a friend originally from Mexico. He took French as his required second language language course, and said when he was taking ESL classes the teachers told him that English was a lot more confusing than it was hard. My friend also said that he struggled a lot with English, even more so than French which was always said to be one of the hardest languages to learn.

 

[kikie]

Honestly as a native English speaker, the English language confuses me quite a bit sometimes.

So you understand how I must feel.

Luckily I'm good at Dutch and my local Flemish accent, which sounds awful to be honest.

 

[Slapped]

@kikie @Slapped -- I have never heard anyone say "going to hospital" who isn't from the UK or from another country and learned English English. Saying it that way would generally be perceived as grammatically incomplete in the United States. So part of it is dialect.

Well I’m from the UK, so therefore it’s my reference of correct English, so in my opinion, and most other brits opinions, every other English speaking country speaks a dialect thereof. Except the Aussies, I just love how they took the English language and made it their own. Straaalien I think it’s called - it’s bloody beautiful.

 

[TheNuvolari]

"Reality" shows and their consequences.

I can't believe that somebody wins a Reality show and he/she is automatically gonna be an extremely famous actor or presenter of one of the most popular shows on the TV.

I would like to be an actor someday (ambition level is too high) and it's so frustrating to think about that after the high school I'll still have to learn acting up to 6 years. Meanwhile a dumbass comes from a reality show with only a primary school and he/she is suddenly an actor without learning in the actor school.

Also, there was a person who comitted a suicide because a dumbass who came from a reality show took her job.

Just my daily rant.

 

[W3H5]

Probably has been said before but women confuse/ annoy me.

That’s it. Just women.

 

[W3H5]

One of the estate gardeners is watering a neighbour’s lawn. It rained all night and the ground is still soaked and the sun has been behind clouds all morning. What a waste of resources and energy.

 

[DesertPenguin]

And you can actually hurt the lawn by drowning it...