What a fresh breath of air it is to chat with mature, direct, honest women!!! :I LOVE this thread!

Raebear, u r one klassy ladie!

The aholic thing bugs me not because of the seriousness of alcoholism, it's put on any and everything: shoe-aholic, shopaholic,foodaholic,wildebeestaholic....

It reminds me of something that annoys me almost to the point of physical irritation. Every political scandal is coined some term ending with 'Gate'. Watergate was called that because Watergate is/was the name of the hotel. I get that. But Monica-gate? Zippergate? Ugh!

I also don't reffer to my breasts as perky. Perky reminds me of Katie Couric: smily, bubbly, happy. Maybe it's a mood issue but my breasts don't feel that way

With all these peeves, readers may think I'm a curmudgeon through and through, that I yell at neighborhood children to get off my lawn and don't give out treats on halloween. I'm not nearly as picky or constantly annoyed as this thread may lead someone to believe.

It's just that when reading through other people's posts and also thinking about it through out the day, it causes me to think of other things that kind of grate on my nerves.

There's a lot of stuff I do that probably would annnoy other people.There's stuff I do that annoys me sometimes.

I think it's really cool and says a lot about 3FC chicks ( and roosters ) that we can vent and discuss things--peeves or otherwise-- with out getting upset or hurt. We all respect eachother, and smilies are just another way to communicate that. On other boards, ,how long do you think this thread would last?

I cannot think of another board where so many people with different opinions and experiences can post without arguing or attacking!

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that we are trying to lose weight so we have more patience I don't know, but I am proud of being a part of it!

I belong to two other boards, one of which is currently discussing pet peeves. That bunch is totally different! I think the post has been hijacked two or three times--but that's they way a lot of the threads get over there! It's actually funny.

Since so many of us have been around here for a while, we know our "personalities" a little and know who can take a little light hearted ribbing, right? On that same board, this is also true, but a newer member took offense to one person's ribbing of another poster. A third party actually had to step in and explain that it was all done in fun and no one had hurt feelings.

The other board, you really have to be careful what you say and to whom it is said. I've had people jump all over me for my response to someone's question. I don't go back there very often.

OOOH, it really bugs me when people say "jump all over...."

That has happened to me online as well as really passive-aggressive things like people just being catty and junior high school like in approaches to postings and responses.

Oh and ignoring PM's is another thing that happens (falls under passive-aggressive behavior though, doesn't it? ).

Hey! This would be a good place for an "online pet peeve" thread!!

This thread has been a great read!

My biggest online pet peeves are signatures with a million animated gifs in them. And, yes, some are guilty of it here. If the images are from an outside site I'll just block that site and they don't show up. But, if they're being hosted by the site in question, I will scroll right past that person's comment so it's off the page as soon as possible. Sorry, it's just my thing.

Here's a little relevant story:

I work for a staffing firm. The other day a prospective talent wrote an email to the president of our company pointing out an "error" in his biography. Well, Mr. I'm-such-a-great-proofreader-hire-me-hire-me-hire-me, you were wrong! I went to five different sources (all in print, not just random websites, and all very reputable), and all five gave me the same punctuation rule. We have a great proofreader/copywriter on staff and I don't appreciate you attempting to make her look bad to further your little career.

I read his email (it was forwarded to me), and he was so smug. Grrr!


Oh, here's one I'm seriously guilty of, overusing quotes and parentheses. I used to use them sparingly, but now I throw them all over the place. My apologies to the assembled.

On the one board, everyone likes photos in their signatures--big photos, collages and even slide shows. I've noticed that the way that site is set up, if the same person posts several times on the same thread, their signature only shows up on the first post on each page. It sure makes a lot of sense!

And they're pet peeves. Personal, annoying ... mildly annoying mostly. Nobody is going to get sent to a concentration camp in Siberia for having sloppy grammar. Well, maybe if they use no capitals and no punctuation.

This is sort of a peeve, but maybe it's a common thing in American English that (surprisingly) hasn't made it here.

I've seen a phrase used both here and on other sites that I go to that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. It's "could care less". By the context it seems to be able to be reworded as meaning "I don't care". Surely in that case "couldn't care less" is a much better phrase to use? "Could care less" doesn't seem to make a lot of sense if I'm reading the context correctly.

If I'm misinterpreting the phrase here, what does it actually mean? I'm not intending to cause any offence here, and please accept my apologies if you are offended; I'm just not sure what it means.

"confused in Christchurch"
AKA Nicole.

I think it's supposed to be "I couldn't care less" and it means that you don't care at all about something. By saying "I could care less" implies that you do care to some extent. "I couldn't care less" means you don't have any caring at all for the topic at hand. That's how I interpret it, anyway. And actually, I think I've even said "I could care less" when I meant "I couldn't care less".

I believe you are correct. It should be "couldn't care less." However, I have to admit, this is one phrase that I always blurt out wrong! My Mom has tried to correct me, but I just can't get it straight. I'm still working on the "lay, lie, laid" thing, too!