kbobam Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 You posted some great marbles elsewhere a little while ago. Thanks for that, too, but what I'm most grateful for is your opening line: "Here're my larger ones." This is great! I can't remember the last time I read or heard someone make a contraction of this sort properly! (Everyone can stop reading now, unless you want to hear me bitch and moan.) Why has 99% of the population started saying "here's" and "there's" when they's (joke) talking about more than one thing? "They's" wasn't really a joke. Makes just as much sense, so I'm sure it'll catch on soon! Here are = Here're There are = There're You wouldn't bring some paperwork to your boss and say "Here is the documents you wanted." So you can't say "Here's the documents" either. Dammit! Thanks for listening. I have a few more pet-peeves, but will save them for later. ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 I'm peeved when someone refers to a human as a pet's owner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted February 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Well done! A pet pet peeve! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kbobam Posted February 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Here're two more pet peeves. I think I can do these pretty quickly and without being too obnoxious. Double-doors! Like most businesses have. When the blank did the entire world start automatically using the left-hand door to enter or exit a place? This is, to quote Led Zeppelin, going 'in through the out door'. It never used to happen. A very strange phenomenon to me. Last, the pet-peeve that totally makes me go more nuts than I already am. There's no good reason for my violent reaction to this, but I just can't help it. (What, me neurotic?) Modern televisions come in varying degrees of 'wide-screenness'. But regardless of the relative proportions of any given TV, more people than not have their sets set up to stretch the picture to fit the screen. This makes the picture look ridiculous. Why would anyone want to do this? Is it really so awful to have a few inches of black space at the sides? Personally, I literally get nauseous trying to watch a stretched picture. I think this is similar to the way your brain would make it very clear to you that something was 'very wrong' if you suddenly started 'seeing double'. Below is a shot of how a television picture would look if your set was adjusted to correctly show everything the way it was recorded. Below that is a shot of how most of you are watching your TV. Good God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 When the screen is like that the Dancing With the Stars dancers look like they have very wide hips. Kinda makes me feel better somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted February 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Oh fine! Be humorous about something that causes me great mental anguish! (Okay, that was pretty funny!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stacyw Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 I'm with you in the peeve dept. KBob. Yesterday, I heard a NY newscaster say that a car "slided" down the road. Of course, the next thing I heard was my husband saying " Why are you yelling at the tv.. again" ? Another one that drives me crazy is when people say "The person that........" A person is a "who" not a "that". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted February 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Although I'm not fond of violent acts, I understood and enjoyed the story (don't know if it's true) of Elvis actually 'killing' his TV at one point. ( : Like the who/that distinction. Never thought of that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Most of the shows I watch are recorded and played in HD wide format. MyTV automatically keeps the other type framed similarly to what you show as proper. And I agree I can't even watch a TV with the ridiculously stretched out picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted February 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Thanks. I definitely like the slightly wider way things are filmed these days, as opposed to the old 4/3 scale. I can't remember the name of the wide-screen technique Hollywood did for a while way back when. Personally, I thought it was a little too much. But at least everything was 'in proportion'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 cinemascope and Jason and the Argonauts was a Cinemascope spectacular as was Jason and the Golden Fleece if I remember correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted February 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Thanks again. 'Cinemascope' sounds right. It wasn't a 'bad' process. But it always looked to me like the action at the edges (if any) was 'forced' and unnecessary. The more conservative wide-screen of today does a much better job overall. As long as people don't 'stretch' it! ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffy Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 I hate it when fox has nfl football them there guys put the scoreboard up in the left hand corner...its not even in the picture and too small to see...plus 2 or 3 lines of information scrolling underneath...when they put the participants on there and they are introducing themselves like "ima Player ....museum state"....its just filler.....those talkin heads could read the lineup....I think people would enjoy the games ..in stadium sounds...and you tellin youre couch mate...wow.nice run...in stead of joe jock sayin blah blah blah...when I was at penn state...blah,blah ,blah....all the action is there...you could read the score board public address guy and the refs...same as baseball, drives me nutz.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stacyw Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Amen to that Duffy! My husband told me if we got an HD TV I would be able to see it. (He doesn't watch football, he just wanted HD and was tired of my complaining.) Well, we got it and I STILL can't see it. And don't get me going on those cartoon robots that dance across the screen during the game. I want my football unadulterared dammit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted February 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 They're putting all this computer-style crap on TV now. It makes me want to barf. I couldn't believe it this past holiday season when the networks expected us to watch 'classic' Christmas movies with the addition of animated Santas advertising other shows at the bottom of the screen. Totally sickening. Thanks for the "dammit", Stacy! I used that expression recently and wondered if it would make sense. As you may know, (although you look way too young!) It was used in the 50's and maybe earlier by proper publications as a 'censor-appropriate' alternative to spelling it out properly. I'm particularly thinking of old 'New Yorker' magazine cartoons. Including one of my all time favorites, where a person like you is also yelling at the television. He's apparently watching a commercial, and the caption is: "A quart is a quart, dammit! It can't be a 'big jumbo quart'!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stacyw Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Of course the extreme version is "dammit to hell". In one of her books, the late Elizabeth Zimmerman, recounted a story of moving in to a new home in middle America the 50's and how her children were making their first tentative steps to meet the neighbor's children. Trying to make conversation (and no doubt impress the others), one of her kids blurted out "my Mom says "dammit to hell" ". Wide-eyed, the neighbor child replied " my Mom says "dammit to hell" too!". Henceforth they were lifetime frineds. Back then, cussing, even in it's most watered-down form, had some shock value. I can remember when one of my Grandmothers, in a fit of rage, tearfully called my Grandfather a "nincompoop". The room went silent. It was the closest thing to a curse that I had ever heard cross her lips. Although, being a child, I thought the word was hilarious, I could tell from everyone's reaction that this was no time to laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted February 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Ha! And a few more after that! Two different situations that are hilarious 'later', and on multiple levels! ...poop. Heehee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m!b$ Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 One of my pet peeves is people mixing up the use of "affect" and "effect". If I'm not mistaken, affect is a verb and effect is a noun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 In common usage, yes. However, "affect" can be both verb and noun. As can "effect". One can effect change. And then one can experience the effects. One person's mood can affect another's. And people exhibit affect when they experience emotion. .... or sumthin' like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m!b$ Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Well, I just saw two instances of those two words being misused on this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Hopefully our peeves won't get in the way of us enjoying a topic. ... I think of this often when I post pictures with lolspeak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'llhavethat1 Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Affect and effect are commonly done rong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 It grates me people call the aventurine found on machine made marbles Lutz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 It grates me people call the aventurine found on machine made marbles Lutz. It grates me that people call the aventurine found on German cane-cut marbles Lutz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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