Conversational pet peeves

[Hygro]

Not sure I can hang with most of you guys

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Not sure I can hang with most of you guys

I can't stand it when people say that

 

[NickyJ]

1. Interrupting me.
2. Improper use of the word "like."
3. Profanity.
4. Use of racial slurs and other bigoted terms.
5. Not looking me in the eye during the conversation.

I, like, think that, like, racial slurs, like, and, like, bigoted, like, terms, like, are basically, like, profanity... Like.

Oh, and I, like, think that using, like, "like", like, too often is, like, annoying.

Err, and err, I, err, think saying, errrr, to many times, err, like David Axelrod, err, is very errrrrrr annoying.

"You know, it's pretty warm today. You won't need that jacket."

I am capable of determining that for myself. It's like saying, "this is how I feel, so you should too."

Yeah, that does annoy me.

 

[Artifis]

As a Grammer Nazi, I always mentally correct someone when they say something wrong. If I did it in real life of course, I'd have everyone hating me.

I also dislike it when I say something and just get ignored.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

I've learned that the best way to stop interrupters is to continue talking like they're not talking. Maybe a slight elevation in volume.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I'm never particularly bothered by grammar or such, as long as I understand what the other person is saying. However, if anyone declares they 'could care less' about a subject they dislike, then I get a bit grumpy. It's 'couldn't care less'. It just doesn't make sense otherwise.

Spoiler :

David Mitchell explains it a bit.

Link to video.

 

[Verarde]

On the same page as Valka and Nicky.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I also hate it how when they can't understand me (speech impediments sometimes make me extremely incomprehensible and I don't notice) people stare at me funny. If you don't understand me, just say so, don't stare at me like I'm an alien or something.

 

[Catharsis]

"You know, it's pretty warm today. You won't need that jacket."

I am capable of determining that for myself. It's like saying, "this is how I feel, so you should too."

For starters, this one.

I also don't like it when people laugh at their own jokes. Actually, a clarification: I don't mind people messing up a joke or funny anecdote or whatever by laughing, because that's perfectly understandable: they wouldn't be telling the joke if they didn't find it funny themselves. What I dislike is that person getting to the end of the joke and then leaning forward and pointedly exclaiming, "Ha ha ha ha ha!" as if leading the other participants in a chuckle-along. People will probably laugh even at an unfunny joke, out of politeness: there's no need to coerce them like that.

 

[illram]

Everyone to some extent bores everyone else. Someone might think they are the most interesting person in the universe but in fact, they have probably bored or turned off many people in polite conversation. Very few people are genuinely 100% charismatic and likeable at all times and in any conversation, even the most banal.

Part of engaging in small-talk is a mutual agreement to grin and bear it in the hopes that at some point some interesting discussion is found and perhaps a better relationship is formed. No one has to talk to anyone else if they don't want. I hate small talk too but sometimes it is necessary and once in a while, you crack through the outer shell of someone and they become a little more interesting. I am not a fantastic small talker but I have to do it sometimes. It is better than sitting there twiddling your thumbs.

Although now I guess we can all just stare at our smart phones and pretend we are doing something much more interesting when really we are just avoiding social contact...

 

[KMRblue1027]

When people who I don't want to talk to start talking to me.

This 100%

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

When I'm talking or telling a story to someone, they get distracted and stop listening to me, or they're not even listening to me in the first place, and divert their eyes elsewhere, like to a phone or something.

Also, when *anything* interrupts the conversation. *Anything.*

 

[Antilogic]

People who have a smug look on their face like they know the answer to what your talking about, only to not have the answer, and feel like a donkey after.

When they are a [to keep the autocensor happy, a baboon's backside] to me, that is my only real pet peeve. Of course, I have had to keep from rolling my eyes in philosophy class when this one girl begins every statement (that she pretends is a question) with "As a Catholic woman, I know that ........."

When people interrupt me.

When people use the redundant "why not" argument when speaking.

1. Interrupting me.
2. Improper use of the word "like."
3. Excessive use of Profanity.
4. Use of racial slurs and other bigoted terms.

Using the awesome multiquote feature, I have selected a few that sum up my pet peeves. Although I'm fine with a little profanity, just not every other word.

 

[Phrossack]

-Excessive swearing.

-Excessive use of a hesitation word.

-Mispronouncing "especially" as "ekspecially", "nuclear" as "nucular", and "escape" as "ekscape".

-Use of the word "irregardless".

-Raising your pitch at the end of a statement.

-Saying "I could care less".

 

[Antilogic]

-Mispronouncing "especially" as "ekspecially", "nuclear" as "nucular", and "escape" as "ekscape".

-Use of the word "irregardless".

-Raising your pitch at the end of a statement.

Now, like, may I axe you a question? Like, irregardless, would you hit such a person?

The raising pitch makes everything sound like a question, and it usually isn't.

 

[Supr49er]

I hate being preached to.

 

[NickyJ]

I hate being preached to.

From up here on my soapbox, I'm gonna preach to you about how you should like being preached to.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

"at the end of the day..."

Business Bingo, such as "thinking outside the box", etc.

Lack of vocabulary, everything is "sick" these days, at least have 2 words to describe something.

 

[uppi]

I hate when people have made their point (and I would like to respond), but they keep talking and talking and talking and going in circles and making that point again to then start another round of the same thing.

Conversation should be more than just one speaker talking.

 

[squall78]

Business Bingo, such as "thinking outside the box", etc.

argh buzzwords. phrases used by people who are trying to be "hip" and cool.

i hate people who don't stop their conversation at all, and leave no pauses to indicate feedback. These people can literally talk talk talk and bridge every conversation. You should go talk to a wall.