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printing press pet peeve

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One of the most enjoyable things about doing this podcast is being privy to all sorts of fascinating foibles that lurk in the dusty crevices of our listeners’ personalities. Take a look into the seething mind of Chris from Milton Keynes, aged 37:

Answer me this: do you have any pet peeves, things that annoy you out of all proportion, almost to a ridiculous level whereby really you are giving too much of yourself getting annoyed about it but can’t help it.

For example: When a movie poster or ad uses printing block letterforms but has them ‘the right way round’ i.e. readable. Rather than reversed which would be correct. I get very annoyed.

An example is below. Gahhhh!

I thought some of my manifold pet peeves* were marginal, but well done, Chris! Of all the things in this world to be angry about, you have definitely found the most important one, bar none. The only reason why the government has been sending the nation on a ride on the economic log flume is to divert our attention from the real menace to society.

*An uncountable number of linguistic ones, smart shoes with jeans, decorative sprinkles of paprika around the edges of plates, and people chewing gum on television.

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5 Responses to “printing press pet peeve”

  1. Maddie's avatar Maddie Says:
    October 24, 2011 at 10:09 am | Reply

    I’m from Glasgow, and it really pisses me off when people say yous instead of the plural you!

  2. Saint Sam's avatar Saint Sam Says:
    October 7, 2011 at 1:27 pm | Reply

    Incorrect use of ‘their’, ‘there’ and ‘they’re’ really get my goat.

    And it really annoys me when people insist on speaking.

  3. Joi's avatar Joi Says:
    October 6, 2011 at 6:46 pm | Reply

    It really pisses me off when people can’t pronounce “pronunciation” and say “pronounce-ciation” instead. It also irks me when people are too stupid to use “you’re” and “your”, not to mention “their”, “there” and “they’re”. Why are people so fucking retarded?!?!

  4. Tom D's avatar Tom D Says:
    October 6, 2011 at 10:55 am | Reply

    I have a film poster pet hate all of my very own. It *really* fucks me off when the names of the actors across the top (or bottom) of the poster don’t correspond with the order that the actors themselves are standing in. GAH!

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