Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

[StatisticalOutlier]

43 minutes ago, Wiendish Fitch said:

In case anyone is wondering, I legitimately do not care what you call your meals: dinner, supper, happy-dappy yum yum time, I DON'T CARE!

You're a better person than I am.  I hate it when people say "supper" instead of "dinner."  It always seems like a conscious effort to be folksy. 

I think Sheriff Andy Taylor is the only person I don't mind doing it.

[Anela]

5 hours ago, Dimity said:

I'm in the same boat.  Kindle Unlimited is my weakness.  And there just seem to be so many titles on kindle that aren't available elsewhere for one reason or another. 

I have a free trial of kindle unlimited, that ends in a couple of weeks.  I haven’t been able to read much, and I need to get rid of Amazon. We hardly order through them, anymore, but we still have to pay off the Amazon card.  

Edited February 11 by Anela

[Browncoat]

I use dinner and supper interchangeably except when talking about Sunday dinner -- that's the meal right after church.  The evening meal on Sunday is supper.  Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners can be any time after noon.

[Caoimhe]

My peeve is that I’m no longer on the list of Amazon customers who get deals on Kindle Unlimited membership.

Edited February 11 by Caoimhe

[Ohiopirate02]

12 hours ago, Dimity said:

I'm in the same boat.  Kindle Unlimited is my weakness.  And there just seem to be so many titles on kindle that aren't available elsewhere for one reason or another. 

The reason is Amazon. There's a clause in the Kindle Unlimited contract that prohibits authors from making their books available elsewhere. This really only affects indie authors who do not have the support of a major publisher behind them.

[Dimity]

2 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

The reason is Amazon. There's a clause in the Kindle Unlimited contract that prohibits authors from making their books available elsewhere. This really only affects indie authors who do not have the support of a major publisher behind them.

This is true, but what really bothers me with what I see on Kindle Unlimited (and is helping me break my addiction) is how many publishers are taking books that are now in the public domain and selling them on Kindle.  Not even taking into consideration who should or should not benefit (that's a separate issue) many of these copies are very poorly done.  So yes, you may only be paying a few dollars but you are getting a really crappy product.

[oliviabenson]

18 hours ago, Wiendish Fitch said:

I don't get people who get randomly defensive. I once knew someone who referred to dinner as "supper" (I live in the South, regional thing, I guess), and she snottily said that that's what she chose to call it... even though I didn't say a damn word, and I don't think my expression betrayed a single thing. She apparently assumed I was judging her.
 

In case anyone is wondering, I legitimately do not care what you call your meals: dinner, supper, happy-dappy yum yum time, I DON'T CARE!

dindin drives me bonkers lol

I call mine dinner most of the time. supper occasionally.

[Browncoat]

When I had dogs, all their meals were breakfast.  No matter what time of day it was.

[PRgal]

2 hours ago, oliviabenson said:

dindin drives me bonkers lol

I call mine dinner most of the time. supper occasionally.

I (Toronto, born and bred with Hong Kong immigrant parents) say dinner (or "sik fan" (eat rice) in Cantonese.  That was dinner.  We called breakfast, "joe chaan" (early meal) and lunch was "ahn jow" (not sure how that would translate...ahn means "late" and maybe noon?).  My husband (Ottawa, with roots from Montreal's Yiddish/English speaking Jewish community) uses supper and dinner interchangeably.  

[fastiller]

In chronological order:

Gah!#1: check engine light; car knocking. Service appt Thur AM & they need to keep the car for days.

Gah!#2: cat limping. Was able to get an appt 1st thing tmw AM. Will need to Uber bc I'm afraid to use the car until it's been serviced.

It's gonna be an expensive week.

Edited February 12 by fastiller

[Dimity]

3 minutes ago, PRgal said:

My husband (Ottawa, with roots from Montreal's Yiddish/English speaking Jewish community) uses supper and dinner interchangeably.  

I'm from the Maritimes but grew up in Montreal and this is true for me as well.  My Maritime relatives use dinner for what we call lunch and use the term lunch for a mid to late evening snack.  Not sure if that's common or just them 😃.

[PRgal]

6 minutes ago, Dimity said:

I'm from the Maritimes but grew up in Montreal and this is true for me as well.  My Maritime relatives use dinner for what we call lunch and use the term lunch for a mid to late evening snack.  Not sure if that's common or just them 😃.

I thought it was an old timey thing.  I recall reading a book when I was little that referenced a Guide camp in the late 1910s/early 20s where lunch was referred to as "dinner."  I don't remember if it was a Canadian or a British book.

[Dimity]

4 minutes ago, PRgal said:

I thought it was an old timey thing. 

I think it's partly that and also a holdover from the Brits.  Newfoundland was a British colony until 1949 after all and much of Nova Scotia and the other Maritime provinces were settled by UELs (among other British stock) so it makes sense that certain British terms caught hold. 

Basically though I think most Canadians use terms that are sometimes British, sometimes American and sometimes something else entirely too of course! but Brit and US do tend to predominate.

Edited February 12 by Dimity

[StatisticalOutlier]

2 hours ago, Browncoat said:

When I had dogs, all their meals were breakfast.

Do you use the term "dog's breakfast"?  I didn't hear it until I was about 30 but I use it whenever I can. 

[PRgal]

24 minutes ago, Dimity said:

I think it's partly that and also a holdover from the Brits.  Newfoundland was a British colony until 1949 after all and much of Nova Scotia and the other Maritime provinces were settled by UELs (among other British stock) so it makes sense that certain British terms caught hold. 

Basically though I think most Canadians use terms that are sometimes British, sometimes American and sometimes something else entirely too of course! but Brit and US do tend to predominate.

And I was today years old when I found out that Newfoundlanders drove like the British until a couple of years before they became part of Canada! 
 

https://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/driving-on-the-left/

[Is Everyone Gone]

It's the winter so my peeve is Ugg feet. Basically, I love wearing my Uggs because they're comfy and cozy but they also make my feet smell hideous.

[Browncoat]

10 hours ago, StatisticalOutlier said:

Do you use the term "dog's breakfast"?  I didn't hear it until I was about 30 but I use it whenever I can. 

I never have, though it isn't an unfamiliar term.  Can't remember where or when I've heard (or more likely read) it.  

 

[Browncoat]

Peeve of the day:  Ice storms.  Especially ice storms that come immediately on the heels of four inches of snow and two inches of sleet.  I just heard a large tree limb break off, and it appears that the limb missed my car by a fraction of an inch.   I won't know for sure until I can get out, move the limb, and clean off my car.  The limb is also blocking my driveway.  Remember a couple of weeks ago when I said I'd rather have all snow than ice?  That still holds!  Places not too far north of me got more than a foot of snow, but I'd take that over this stupid ice any day.

Related peeve -- the ice is so bad that it's blocking my satellite TV signal, either directly by coating the dish, or indirectly by bending tree limbs such that they are between the dish and the satellite.  Work is closed again today, and the only TV I have is local stations!  Talk shows and soap operas.  Ugh.

[nokat]

After what Browncoat wrote, I feel bad for writing this, but have a minor peeve. I'm kind of watching an american game show. I know it's just human nature, but I'm thinking just take the $5,000 and stop. The carrot of more money keeps people going. Also, if you win big, you still have to pay taxes. That expensive car you won, will cost you a lot.

[Browncoat]

48 minutes ago, nokat said:

After what Browncoat wrote, I feel bad for writing this, but have a minor peeve. I'm kind of watching an american game show. I know it's just human nature, but I'm thinking just take the $5,000 and stop. The carrot of more money keeps people going. Also, if you win big, you still have to pay taxes. That expensive car you won, will cost you a lot.

Don't feel bad.  I managed to drag the giant limb out of my driveway (new peeve -- pine sap on my clothes.  Not sure how I'm going to get that out.), and found a channel where I watched a couple of episodes of Sanford and Son and Good Times.  Man, those do not hold up at all.  JJ's boss says, "I am not giving that promotion to a Black."  

I'm watching The Price is Right now.

[supposebly]

I lived in Toronto for 13 years. I always heard dinner for evening meal, so that's what I adopted.

However, here in Saskatchewan, at least people from her prefer supper. I haven't adopted that yet. 11 years now.

In case someone would like to brush up on their Canadianisms: I got 10/20 with simply guessing about 5:

https://magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ideas/culture-society/canadian-words-quiz/

 

Edited February 12 by supposebly

[Browncoat]

32 minutes ago, supposebly said:

I lived in Toronto for 13 years. I always heard dinner for evening meal, so that's what I adopted.

However, here in Saskatchewan, at least people from her prefer supper. I haven't adopted that yet. 11 years now.

In case someone would like to brush up on their Canadianisms: I got 10/20 with simply guessing about 5:

https://magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ideas/culture-society/canadian-words-quiz/

 

I managed to correctly guess 13.  And most of them were straight-up guesses (some were slightly educated guesses).

[Mindthinkr]

I did so badly I don’t even want to post my score. Since I’m amongst all of you I will. I only got 4/20 correct. 

[Dimity]

15 out of 20 but I'd say only about 10 were ones I actually knew, the others were guesses.  Some I had absolutely never heard before.

[PRgal]

Some of these are so regional that I didn't even pass that quiz!

[nokat]

2 hours ago, supposebly said:

I lived in Toronto for 13 years. I always heard dinner for evening meal, so that's what I adopted.

However, here in Saskatchewan, at least people from her prefer supper. I haven't adopted that yet. 11 years now.

In case someone would like to brush up on their Canadianisms: I got 10/20 with simply guessing about 5:

https://magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ideas/culture-society/canadian-words-quiz/

 

I was north enough to be kissing cousins with Canada, but Ontario. I got the first question right, and decided to stop.

[nokat]

13 minutes ago, nokat said:

I was north enough to be kissing cousins with Canada. I got the first question right, and decided to stop.

 

[StatisticalOutlier]

Another data point:  On MeTV last night, Jed Clampett said "supper."  He also was duped into buying the Hollywood Bowl, Griffith Park, and the freeway that connects them.

[Browncoat]

Another bloody tree limb fell, just missing the front of my car!  I dragged it out of the driveway, and moved my car.

A third limb has fallen on the phone wire in front of my house.  Not the wire that comes to the house, but the main wire.  It's sagging badly, but isn't broken.  Yet.

I seriously hate, detest, and despise ice storms.

[Quof]

2 hours ago, Dimity said:

15 out of 20 but I'd say only about 10 were ones I actually knew, the others were guesses.  Some I had absolutely never heard before.

16.

Does that make me the top Canuck on Primetimer?

For the record, everyone in my small town called the evening meal "supper".  When I went to a Big City University, I started saying "dinner" and have never reverted. 

[Absolom]

5 hours ago, Browncoat said:

 I managed to drag the giant limb out of my driveway (new peeve -- pine sap on my clothes.  Not sure how I'm going to get that out.),

You could try rubbing alcohol.  You let it sit awhile then rub with a microfiber cloth.  Some people use WD-40.  Depending on the fabric, I've used bug and tar remover for cars with good effect.  It takes sap off cars very well.  If this is going to be ongoing, cut holes in a large garbage bag and wear it as a smock when moving the limbs.  

As for the dinner/supper thing, I always hated lunch called dinner and supper for the evening meal.  I had a very "country" relative as a young child and they used the dinner at noon and supper at night and it always sounded wrong to me.  For me supper is a lighter meal served at evening parties as is becoming more common with the really long wedding receptions a few people hold. On to the Canada quiz.

[fastiller]

Through mostly guessing: 14.

 

[ebk57]

I got 10.  I definitely knew 2 and guessed the rest.  And I've only been to Canada 3 times in my life.  Although, if it wasn't so cold, I'd move there in a heartbeat at this point.

[EtheltoTillie]

2 hours ago, Absolom said:

You could try rubbing alcohol.  You let it sit awhile then rub with a microfiber cloth.  Some people use WD-40.  Depending on the fabric, I've used bug and tar remover for cars with good effect.  It takes sap off cars very well.  If this is going to be ongoing, cut holes in a large garbage bag and wear it as a smock when moving the limbs.  

 

You may need good old turpentine.  Turpentine is pine based.  I used it years ago to get some pine sap off a backyard table. 

[Browncoat]

12 minutes ago, EtheltoTillie said:

You may need good old turpentine.  Turpentine is pine based.  I used it years ago to get some pine sap off a backyard table. 

I ended up using Isopropanol and plain cotton squares, and it seems to have worked.  I rubbed it on all the places I could find, then tossed my jeans in the wash.  I also rubbed the isopropanol on the pine sap that was in my hair, and it definitely got that out.  

[Suzn]

I got 7 of 20 right with mostly guesses, some slightly educated guesses.  One that surprised me was the game Fox and Geese.  This is a game I played as a child in Kansas!  It was definitively the same game as described.

[annzeepark914]

I'm proud to say I got 10 right! 🎉 Some I guessed, others were a strong hunch. I've been ready to move to the Great White North ever since Nov. 5th. MrP914 keeps telling me that Canada doesn't want retirees moving up there.  

[Browncoat]

Today's peeve is a continuation of the ice storm hate.  I lost so many more tree limbs overnight as the freezing rain continued at least until midnight.  I feel fortunate that my electricity only blipped briefly -- just enough that I had to reset the stove and microwave clocks -- as I could hear transformers blowing during the night.  But I am glad I moved my car!  Two smallish limbs fell where my car had been.  It's currently above freezing, and meant to be "mild" today (low 50sF), so hopefully some of this nasty ice will melt before the wind picks up later.

[Anela]

I was hoping to go to a bookstore opening yesterday afternoon, but we had icy storms, too. I didn’t want to chance it.  

I was hoping to go to Amish country, to a seed store, to get some seeds on Friday, but we’re supposed to keep getting bad weather. More snow coming, so I don’t know I that’s happening, either.  

[Browncoat]

OMG.  A giant limb just ripped the power line off the side of my house.  I don't know how, but I do still have electricity.  This has gone from peeved to scary.

[annzeepark914]

1 hour ago, Browncoat said:

OMG.  A giant limb just ripped the power line off the side of my house.  I don't know how, but I do still have electricity.  This has gone from peeved to scary.

Are there any big trees with limbs that could crash through the roof? I hope the power company can get to your house asap! 

[PRgal]

Schools around here are closed today due to the storm.  And many have PA Days tomorrow too.  So combined with being the Family Day long weekend, many kids are getting an EXTRA LONG WEEKEND!!!  A lot of parents are working from home today, but that doesn't mean that last minute childcare isn't needed.....I feel badly for them.  My son is with his grandparents for the day while I'm doing virtual parent teacher conferences with his teachers.  He has a one day long camp tomorrow!!!! :) 

[Browncoat]

1 hour ago, annzeepark914 said:

Are there any big trees with limbs that could crash through the roof? I hope the power company can get to your house asap! 

No, I think the house is fine.  And unfortunately, there are so many people without power at all that my single little house will be way way down on the priority list.

[ABay]

14/20. I've been too far from the border for too long.

Dinner, supper same thing.

[StatisticalOutlier]

Dogs in stores.

I was going into Walmart the other day to get automatic transmission fluid (which they ended up not even having) and there was a guy walking in with a giant sheepdog by his side.  ::eyeroll::

Then I saw him in the store, pushing a shopping cart with the sheepdog in it. 

Yesterday I'm at Dollar Tree, which is where I buy shelf-stable milk.  I hate going to dollar stores because they're always ratty and it makes me mad that people who shop at dollar stores are treated that way.  But this one was unbelievable--extremely well organized, clean, brightly lit.  Only one screaming child.

You would never have guessed it was a dollar store.  So I spent some time in there and ended up getting like 10 items instead of my usual two.

Miraculously, there was no line behind the one guy who was being checked out.  But it was too good to last--checkout was rather slow because the checker could use only one hand...because she was cradling a dog with her other arm.

[Absolom]

You've met the dogs are people, too, crowd!! It can get beyond irritating at times although I don't mind in the proper venue.

I used to take Mom's dog shopping - to Petsmart where pets are generally welcome. They usually gave him a dog biscuit when we checked out. 

[Anela]

I don't mind seeing dogs in carts, as long as they aren't being any trouble. 

We can't take our dog into PetSmart, because he's reactive. He's fine once he adjusts to another dog being around, but it would be too over-stimulating for him. So, he waits in the van. 

[StatisticalOutlier]

Well, my dogs-in-stores problem will probably go away on its own.  I broke a riveted snap on a pair of shorts and need to replace the half that broke.  I figured I'll take the shorts to Joann to see if they have a snap that matches the remaining half of the snap.  

We're in Tucson right now and there are only two stores in the entire town.  And when searching for locations, I ran across a news story published today, as it happens, saying Joann is closing 500 of its 850 stores nationwide.  Jesus.

I've held a grudge against Joann ever since it turned into a "crafting" place, but...whatever--it's the only game in town.  At least they still had a small nod to sewing, with some fabric that isn't used to make a quilt, and lots of colors of thread, and interfacing you can feel before buying, and things like snaps.  Try matching a spool of thread to a piece of fabric online, or finding a snap that will actually mate with an existing half. 

And the thing is, "we" brought this on ourselves.  The masses voted with their wallets and their apparent unlimited willingness to dig through massive amounts of non-information on the internet about any product.  And we're not going to get a do-over because none of these stores are going to come back.  It's like when Walmart ran all the little stores out, but on a much bigger scale.

 

[Bastet]

2 minutes ago, StatisticalOutlier said:

I've held a grudge against Joann ever since it turned into a "crafting" place,

Same!  I still miss Cloth World, but Joann was a decent replacement for a while, but then it became so heavily weighted towards crafting that those of us trying to sew found a rapidly dwindling inventory to choose from.

[Angeltoes]

1 hour ago, Absolom said:

You've met the dogs are people, too, crowd!!

My mother was in the "a dog is a dog" crowd.  In the 1950s our family lived in my mother's small town where you knew everybody or were related to them.  Our family had a hound dog named Bingo who roamed all over town every day and came home when he got hungry or when he felt like it (like a bad husband).  My mother's cousin-in-law, Jean, had a poodle that was treated like royalty (we shall call the poodle Fifi).  Jean and her husband couldn't have biological children and adopted three kids a few years later.  But at this time all of Jean's maternal instincts were showered on Fifi.

Jean called my mother one day screaming,"Do you know what your dog did?  DO...YOU...KNOW?!"  My mother did not know but she was intrigued.  She often got calls like that about my brother but never about BIngo.  Turns out Bingo had gotten into Jean's backyard and...ahem...had his way with Fifi. 

Of course Fifi got pregnant.  The day the puppies were born my mother got out a Congratulations card and an inkpad.  She put Bingo's paw on the inkpad, stamped the inside of the card with it and wrote,"With love from Daddy" and sent it over to Jean's.  Jean saw no humor and didn't speak to my mother for a month.

I heard this story 30 years later when they were sitting on a porch swing together laughing hysterically.  After raising three kids Jean realized somewhere along the line that a knocked-up dog isn't that big of a deal.  My mother got a big smirk on her face when Jean said,"You know, I still have that card somewhere."