Pet Peeves

[michelle2677]

^^yes. love all of those job related ones. suprisingly, we deal with basically the same ones at my work. drives me crazy.

but my motto is "your failure to act in a timely manner is not my emergency"

but it'd be harder for me where you work though. It's not the pet's fault their owner didn't take care of them, ya know?

[David]

Originally Posted by michelle2677

trust me. you dont' know this woman. she'll never give up. that would just encourage her more. but i might try it to see what happens. thankfully i'm heading home tomorrow so i wont' have to worry about it for a while

Well, good luck!

btw. that's a pretty pic in your post but why are you posting pics from a health site??

I just do a Google search for "stormy clouds" or "beautiful clouds" (or sometimes "iridescent cloud" or "nacreous cloud"). Then I click the IMAGES button & I get all these stormy clouds & beautiful clouds from which to choose! Check this one out:



Speaking of grammar+usage pet peeves, I can't stand it when people mix up the following thorny pairs:

luxurious vs. luxuriant
gantlet vs. gauntlet
triumphant vs. triumphal

or when they use the phrase begging the question to mean leading to the (obvious) question

[bretonbanquet]

Originally Posted by Livia

There, their and they're.

Oh yes

[Sarah]

i hate it when nail polish chips off almost instantly.

[amber]

Originally Posted by Sarah

i hate it when nail polish chips off almost instantly.

I know, painting your nails a real color is practically like having kids. You have to watch them all the time, keep them out of danger, handle them gingerly. Oy! (she said jewishly).
My long affair with nailpolish is always tinged with sorrow. And I mean long affair as in, I painted my nails from 3 years old, and my mom loves to tell the story of how I was 1.5 and came into their room one morning with "perfect red crosses painted on your hands and feet, and said 'I got Auntie Carol's possossis! (nailpolish is possossis)." So, see, even at 1.5 I apparently equated nailpolish with both the wonder of Jesus, and the pain of Jesus. How I painted crosses on my hands and feet when I was 1.5 with a tiny nail brush when I can't draw at all to this day is anyone's guess.

Just saying I agree with your peeve, big time. It makes me usually just hang with clear or clear silver sparkle.
Another nailpolish pet peeve - trying to find the perfect purple is like picking out a fricking house.

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by David

Well, good luck!

I just do a Google search for "stormy clouds" or "beautiful clouds" (or sometimes "iridescent cloud" or "nacreous cloud"). Then I click the IMAGES button & I get all these stormy clouds & beautiful clouds from which to choose! Check this one out:



Speaking of grammar+usage pet peeves, I can't stand it when people mix up the following thorny pairs:

luxurious vs. luxuriant
gantlet vs. gauntlet
triumphant vs. triumphal

or when they use the phrase begging the question to mean leading to the (obvious) question

all i have to offer is this pic which i took the other day from the gulf. Plain ol' clouds pic, but I liked it



and who uses luxuriant etc?

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by amber

I know, painting your nails a real color is practically like having kids. You have to watch them all the time, keep them out of danger, handle them gingerly. Oy! (she said jewishly).
My long affair with nailpolish is always tinged with sorrow. And I mean long affair as in, I painted my nails from 3 years old, and my mom loves to tell the story of how I was 1.5 and came into their room one morning with "perfect red crosses painted on your hands and feet, and said 'I got Auntie Carol's possossis! (nailpolish is possossis)." So, see, even at 1.5 I apparently equated nailpolish with both the wonder of Jesus, and the pain of Jesus. How I painted crosses on my hands and feet when I was 1.5 with a tiny nail brush when I can't draw at all to this day is anyone's guess.

Just saying I agree with your peeve, big time. It makes me usually just hang with clear or clear silver sparkle.
Another nailpolish pet peeve - trying to find the perfect purple is like picking out a fricking house.

I found the perfect purple. Essie's 2005 Viva La Vespa. It's discontinued now, but I bought 2 bottles. I will be ****ing sad as hell when it's gone.

[David]

Originally Posted by michelle2677

all i have to offer is this pic which i took the other day from the gulf. Plain ol' clouds pic, but I liked it

Very nice cumulus, Michelle!

and who uses luxuriant etc?

Well, I sometimes do. Remember when J. Hillis Miller wrote the deconstruction example for the New York Times magazine around 1990? & in a short reference to Milton's Paradise Lost, he brought up Eve's "luxuriant locks"? That's really when I started to use it more frequently, or at least correctly.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by David

Very nice cumulus, Michelle!

Well, I sometimes do. Remember when J. Hillis Miller wrote the deconstruction example for the New York Times magazine around 1990? & in a short reference to Milton's Paradise Lost, he brought up Eve's "luxuriant locks"? That's really when I started to use it more frequently, or at least correctly.

Well I never thought about this before. Their meanings do overlap quite a bit. Where they diverge is that luxuriant means generous as in something is fruitful or abundant whereas luxurious more often connotes great expense.

[amber]

^^^ David, those pics inspire weeping, they're so beautiful.

Originally Posted by Sarah

I found the perfect purple. Essie's 2005 Viva La Vespa. It's discontinued now, but I bought 2 bottles. I will be ****ing sad as hell when it's gone.

You'll be even sadder when you are mysteriously burgled for one bottle by a "girl in black, chiffon style, with sparkly silver nails".
But that's the thing, one person's perfect purple is not the next person's. Not that I would ever burgle you to find out. "Ever" meaning, "maybe just once". But take heart, if I didn't like the purple, I would at least have the good grace to make fun of your bad nail taste, and try to resell the bottle. Hey, I'm no heathen...