a thread for ranting about minor annoyances

[RINO Tom]

I actually get really angry at people who chew their food like they're ing camels and talk with their mouth full.  Drives me off the wall.

Misophonia FTW.

[RINO Tom]

Situation: turning left at a green light with no arrow (i.e., you have to yield to oncoming traffic) and you are the second care in line.

When the POS in front of you sits comfortably at the line instead of getting out into the damn intersection so that you can make it through when the light turns yellow with them (and not be late, as is the case with me more often than not).  Am I a psycho Illinois driver at heart?  Sure.  But that is seriously so annoying, and it's not like moving up an extra five feet is reckless or out of your comfort zone or whatever else little bitch drivers use as excuses for why they drive like they're blind and scared ... it literally is just helping the person behind you out.

End rant.

[RINO Tom]

When people use the word "hung" to refer to someone who was executed with a noose rather than the correct "hanged."  Happens in movies ALL of the time.

Come on, people, pictures are hung and people are hanged!

[RINO Tom]

I am a firm disciple of what a man in the Carribean told me a long time ago when I was on vacation as a kid:

"Care-ih-BEE-in" refers to the actual sea/region.  It is used in the same context as America.

"Cuh-RIH-bee-in" refers to the fact that someone is from the region.  It is used in the same context as American.

Recently having returned from vacation there, my irrational annoyance with people pronouncing it the second way (after I have started the conversation off using the first pronunciation, effectively correcting me) is at a yearly high, haha.