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Old 06-15-2007, 05:20 PM   #1
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Internet Pet Peeves :P

Not to take a "holier than thou" approach, but this really rubs me the wrong way:

1. Ridiculous, not Rediculous

Yours?
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Old 06-15-2007, 05:21 PM   #2
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Re: Internet Pet Peeves :P

People pointing out my spelling errors.
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Old 06-15-2007, 05:22 PM   #3
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Re: Internet Pet Peeves :P

The list in this thread captures many of mine.
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Old 06-15-2007, 05:28 PM   #4
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LOL

Nobody really "laughs" out loud. They should just have L for laugh.
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Old 06-15-2007, 05:28 PM   #5
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Re: Internet Pet Peeves :P

Chain mail!

People sending me email telling me to forward it to 10 other people or the world will come to an end.
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Old 06-15-2007, 05:29 PM   #6
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Re: Internet Pet Peeves :P

I sometimes laugh out loud ..... and pee a little bit. Hey! I'm old.
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Old 06-15-2007, 05:32 PM   #7
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Chain mail!

People sending me email telling me to forward it to 10 other people or the world will come to an end.
Totally...there should be a Snopes.com filter built into virus scanners.

-A national gas fillup day doesnt do anything (in fact, hurts the local owner)
-No emails can be tracked back to you to get you a certificate to buy Gap jeans or free Vista OS
-No, thats not a pitcure of (insert latest hurricane here) approaching...its various thunderheads from the plains.
-I know washington is full of crooks, but the email about all those crimes is not real...


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Old 06-15-2007, 05:38 PM   #8
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Re: Internet Pet Peeves :P

I'm calling for a moratorium on "not so much", "X say hi", "loves me some X" and "threw up in my mouth a little".
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Old 06-15-2007, 05:44 PM   #9
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{{{{{{{{{ Hug }}}}}}}}}}}

I don't want to hug you. I don't know you!
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Old 06-15-2007, 05:55 PM   #10
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Re: Internet Pet Peeves :P

I enjoy LOLCats, but I know they'll have a short shelf-life and I will find them annoying soon enough. In the mean time, I'm enjoying the spin the cartoonist Ape Lad has put on it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/...7600296941365/
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Old 06-15-2007, 06:25 PM   #11
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At some point everything on the internet has bugged me. But what really bugs me is how few really well-written non-fiction BOOKS are being written by very smart folks with a lot of stuff to say. I know I sound like a grandpa, but good lord, is it too much to ask that when writing a work of non-fiction, you make the work about the SUBJECT instead of YOURSELF? Man, that's the worst. I don't care about you; I care about your subject.
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Old 06-15-2007, 06:35 PM   #12
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Re: Internet Pet Peeves :P

things like this:

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don't make me ivestigate, copy and paste, it's not worth it.
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Old 06-15-2007, 07:18 PM   #13
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At some point everything on the internet has bugged me. But what really bugs me is how few really well-written non-fiction BOOKS are being written by very smart folks with a lot of stuff to say. I know I sound like a grandpa, but good lord, is it too much to ask that when writing a work of non-fiction, you make the work about the SUBJECT instead of YOURSELF? Man, that's the worst. I don't care about you; I care about your subject.
Por ejemplo
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Old 06-15-2007, 07:55 PM   #14
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I'll try not to derail the thread, but here are my examples, recent ones: The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nasim Taleb; Saxons, Vikings, and Celts by Brian Sykes.

Interesting subjects if you can avoid the constantly-intruding narrator.
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Old 06-15-2007, 08:19 PM   #15
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People who loudly and publicly proclaim that they are leaving a website because (insert reason here).
Ironically, most return (sometimes under a clone) - however, they have achieved their original intent in getting attention.
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