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45 Of The Pettiest Beliefs People In This Online Group Would Stand By, No Matter What
Our planet is home to billions of people with unique quirks and traits – and every single one of us holds different opinions.
Is eating breakfast for dinner acceptable? How essential is a college education? Is social media creating a toxic culture or helping us stay connected? Is Shrek the best-animated movie ever? The list could go on and on, but you get the gist.
Some might argue that being overly opinionated is somewhat frowned upon – however, everybody perceives life in their own way. Distinct opinions foster debate – and debate is great, as you get the opportunity to view the world through someone else's eyes:
“What is the smallest, pettiest hill you'll still die on?” – this web user turned to one of Reddit’s most thought-provoking communities, wondering what seemingly unimportant beliefs people are willing to defend, no matter what it costs them. The thread has managed to receive over 14K upvotes in just a matter of days, as well as 14.5K worth of comments and intriguing examples.
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No one wants to hear your phone conversations in public. NO ONE.
Beyonce is overhyped
I agree. Don't understand the big deal about this over over over produced woman. She's made a few danceable numbers, but that's the extent of it in my book.
If today is Monday, then the upcoming Saturday is considered “this Saturday” not “next Saturday”. “Next” would be two Saturdays from now.
Fight me.
It’s common courtesy to wait for someone to come off the elevator before entering.
Put your goddamn shopping cart/trolley in the corral
Yes, don't be a bum. Don't be lazy. Don't say it's someone else's job. Just do the considerate thing and put the damn cart back.
Adding 's at the end of a word does not make it plural.
I've seen it in ads. I've seen it on signs. I've even seen it on a flyer someone wrote advertising their services as a writer.
People walk around like it's normal! Out in the street! Saying that they have 14 chicken's! Like monsters!
I will die on this hill over and over until my assembled corpses make it into a slightly bigger hill.
Corrected it "I will die on this hill over and over until my assembled corpse's make it into a slightly bigger hill."
Nate, actually the OP was right....it's corpses. The apostrophe denotes possession. Unless you're being sarcastic.
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See the book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss. Has a panda on the cover. Based on this story: A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots & leaves."
The best one I ever saw was on a board outside a pub in Cornwall, "our menu chang'es every day"
Took me 5 yrs to figure out cent sign on modern keyboard!
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Or writing "of" instead of "have"... "He should of said so..." Or saying "aks" instead of "ask" ...etc...
It irks me to know there's a "should of" hill people are dying on.
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I also HATE it when they don't put an s after the apostrophe when possessively talking about someone whose name happens to end in an s already.
Uh, is that wrong? Did I learn wrong or am I just confused?!?
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Apostrophes denote possessions (the woman's pen) or contractions (it's = it is). Apostrophes are not salt. Don't (do not) just try sprinkling them in everywhere!
And even MORE annoying, is people who put an ‘s after an acronym or abbreviation thinking that’s a plural! If it’s an SOP, standard operating procedure, then the plural is NOT SOP’s its SOPs!!!
's at the end means ownership. s at the end means pluralization (for most English word forms).
In English it already looks ridiculous but what disturbs me more is that this trend can be found in other languages as well. I know people who add a 's to plural words in f**ing German. I mean.... just why???
So many lessons about grammar are no longer taught at primary school. And don’t get me started about the mess people make using mobiles and tablets because they don’t know how to use the keyboard properly. No full stops or commas makes things so hard to understand.
On the flip side, if a word ends in 's' and is NOT plural, you do add 's to make it possessive. Chris's house. Minneapolis's city council. But I've seen in printed news articles people just are terrified of adding 's after an 's'. It's a very simple rule I learned in grade school. Makes me want to smack any editor that lets that slide by.
word's possessive When did anywayS become correct? Anyway, is correct.
The exception is names with an S at the end, like Stevens (last name). If the entire family is involved you could write, 'The Stevens' are coming for dinner'.
Did they finish their sentence? 14 chicken's...what? Feathers? Beaks? Feet?
's is possessive, except in the instance of abbreviating it is. That is the only time it isn't a possessive.
In Houston, TX, there's a store near I-45 that apparently services "pools, spa's, decks." The only reason I can think of for "pools" and "decks" to be pluralized correctly, but "spa's" somehow has an apostrophe, is that whoever made the sign apparently thinks that you don't need an apostrophe after a consonant (L in "pool," K in "deck"), but you need one after a vowel (A in "spa"), no matter what. Um, no.
There's a similar "trend" in German... Putting an apostrophe before the possessive "s" in store names could be justified, though it's absolutely not native to German (e.g. "Susi's Bistro" should be "Susis Bistro" in German). But mostly, I shudder every Christmas season, when the Christmas Market puts up signs about Family Day each Wednesday: "Mittwoch's Familientag"... Although it would be an adverb, "mittwochs", like "daily" or "weekly". It's like someone writing "dail'y fresh baked bread" or sth... I've been thinking about correcting it with spray paint for years...
i drive by a bar called bruce’s place , drive me crazy because “ bruce is place”.. wtf?,! they aren’t even trying to write things correctly anymore
Bruce's Place is correct. The apostrophe denotes possession, meaning the bar belongs to Bruce.
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The green-grocer's apostrophe. Does anyone remember the Apostrophe Abuse Society back in the old days of the interwebs? Good times.
Lol, as a non native English speaker, writing with autocorrect sometimes is very helpful, but I'm sure my writing is never 100% correct ;p
In German it‘s wrong to add an apostrophe to denote possession, YET THEY DO IT😫 Also plural s. It started after the wall came down in the early nineties. There‘s even a website collecting „Apostrophenkatastrophen“ (apostrophe catastrophies) http://www.apostrophitis.de/ :-)
Thank you a 100 times over! This is an annoying reminder of the decline in basic reading and learning skills. However, if one uses auto correct or intuitive suggestions, any word ending in s will be offered with an apostrophe.
What about and acronym? Since the letter "s" is not part of the acronym I separate it with an apostrophe.
When a kid has a birthday, only HE gets to blow out the candles! It INFURIATES me to my very soul when I see other kids try to blow them out. The only thing worse is when adults LET THEM.
I don't care how you pronounce them, but it's written "could/would/should/might HAVE", not "could of".
It’s “I couldn’t care less”
“I could care less” doesn’t even make sense.
Being late, making others wait, or any other method of wasting another’s time, is stealing the most valuable, non-retrievable, irreplaceable thing in their life.
THIS. As I’ve gotten older and watched the previous generation start to shuffle off this mortal coil, have beaten the big C in my late 20s and began to lose a few friends too early, I resolved that my time is the most valuable thing in my life. I semi-jokingly tell people that disrespect my or others’ time that I value it at a minimum of $60/hr. Stealing other peoples time is the worst. Not appreciating them when they gift you their time is entitled & inconsiderate.
It is possible to look at something on a grocery store shelf without blocking the whole aisle. Looking at you, shoppers in a certain Aldi this afternoon …
I’ll never forget this… once I was trying to pass a man and woman with their cart at the end of a very long aisle. They were in the very middle. I couldn’t go around on either side of them. I said, “Excuse me.” No one budged. I thought perhaps they didn’t hear me. I said it again a little louder. The man looked at me and went to move the cart, but the woman grabbed it and said to him, “When I’m done.” That’s when I became “done.” I walked over to their cart, shoving it aside and pointing to the man with her, I said, “He may have to wait until you’re ‘done,’ but I don’t! I’m ‘done’ being polite. Move it!” She stared at me dumbfounded, while he told her, “You deserved that.” She looked at him and said, “Shut up.” And I continued shopping.
Don't talk with your mouth full of food.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't want to see partially chewed food in your mouth.
or smacking your mouth when eating ..makes me want to physically throttle someone .....
When I have time approved off from work and something goes wrong, no it is not my responsibility to log back on and take care of it.
That you need to let people off the f*****g subway before you get on. My guy, you will get on - let me off first!
Big groups who won't make way on the sidewalk. If you wont move I will walk right into you.
I will refuse to move and will be the one who walks right into the middle of the flock .
Cologne (and perfume) should be discovered, not announced.
Stop weaponising that s**t by bathing in it.
Got a terrible migraine tonight, took a lot of medication so the headache was gone in the morning. I still felt like throwing up, but I did not want to stay home. In the hallway at work a woman walked in front of me who absolutely REEKED of sone terribly sweet perfume. That did not help with my already upset stomach...
Use the left lane for passing and then get back into the doggone right lane. Grew up in Germany where that's enforced on the Autobahn. American left lane hogs drive me nuts, especially when they go five miles under the speed limit. What's the friggin' point?
Bank of America charged me $2 for a miscellaneous charge, in 1997. I called to ask what it was for because there was no reason. The lady on the phone said, well, I can't tell you because it is miscellaneous. I asked her to then please reverse it and she refused.
I pulled all three of my accounts from them and moved them to a credit union and ever since, full stop refuse to have a damn thing with that company.
I had my debit card declined at a gas station on a pay day, when my check was auto-deposited. Bank of America was right next door, so I popped inside. The teller very loudly berated me, saying my account had a hold put on it because I’d been “depositing” checks I’d written… immediately taking cash out of my account, knowing the checks were no good. The bank was giving me the cash, assuming the checks would clear. And I’d amassed more than $4000 this way. And the bank was going to press charges. By then, every customer in the lobby was staring at me, like I was scum of the Earth. Thoroughly embarrassed, I told the clerk to check again. Check MY account again. To look for those supposed deposit/withdrawals. Her face said it all. And in a low voice, that no one else could hear, she said, “I’m sorry. There’s obviously a mistake.” Loudly, I repeated, “YOU SAY YOU’RE MISTAKEN? IT’S NOT ME DOING THESE THINGS?” I withdrew all my money. Closed my account. And will not do business with them.
Scrolling through TikTok/Reels/whatever with your volume up in public or semi-public places (transit, waiting room, restaurant).
I hate this behavior. And what's up with walking around with the phone on speaker having a conversation? NO ONE cares what you are saying. Just put the phone to your ear like a normal civilized person.
Fish is meat.
I had one friend who would not let it go and argued that it was not and it was ‘just fish’ so much that it became a running joke.
You “lose” a bet. You don’t “loose” a bet
I am so glad this is listed. It is my absolute number one pet peeve. Why is it so often wrong?!
Don’t wave me through the 4 way stop to “be nice”, just take your goddamn turn.
This, I dislike it when people give me the right of way when I don't have it. It confuses me and other road-users. I do not expect it, I expect I have to wait my turn, and then someone waves at me that I can go first, and I get confused and feel like I should hurry, and then if I go, I pay less attention to other stuff (like someone crossing the road next to me). There are exceptions - when it is really busy and you're on a side road, and there is no gap in sight to turn on the road as well. But not when there is no real need.
If you open the microwave before it's done clear the timer so the next person doesn't have to try figure out why it's not starting.
The meteorological phenomenon is "lightning", NOT "lightening"
When you're inside it's the floor, when you are outside it's the ground.
Saying “irregardless”, despite the fact it’s in the dictionary (albeit, as a “nonstandard”), makes you look and sound like a f*****g moron.
“Regardless” does the job. It means “without regard”. So adding the prefix “ir-“ is goddamned redundant.
Sidewalk and hallway traffic should move like road traffic. Stick to the side of the sidewalk or hallway based on the direction you are going. I will not move out of my way for you if you are walking on the wrong side.
It is a PIN, not a PIN number. PIN stands for personal identification number.
Just like it is an ATM, not an ATM machine.
Before placing a ziploc bag in the refrigerator or freezer, squeeze the air out of the bag. I don't know why my wife doesn't, and one day I'll have to make a choice.
Do not ask questions you know the answer to. "Are you crying?" no sharon I am just sweating through my eyes, that's why I look so upset.
An apology should be used when you are genuinely sorry, not as absolution; it should also not be expected to be forgiven, either.
Edit: As a Canadian, I'll concede that I do use "sorry" several times a day in the most seemingly mundane of situations, but trust me; I am sorry I am in your way.
Don't reach over and honk the horn while I am driving.
Stop the car and kick them out. A passenger road raging on 'your behalf' is stupid and dangerous.
The checkout at the store should read "10 items or **fewer**"
If the item is counted, use "fewer." If the item is measured, use "less."
So many people, movies and TV shows misuse the phrase “divide and conquer”.
It doesn’t mean “to split up and attack on multiple fronts”, which is a horrible idea for military strategy on the grand scale of armies.
It means to divide your enemy, and conquer them one by one.
Cereal then milk. What kind of heathen would do it the other way around.
I can't stand every movie/game title or band/artist name being acronymized these days. What the hell is TLAT? SWTROS? When you say BTS are you talking about the musical group or behind the scenes of something? Its like learning a new language.
The Oxford comma.
If the earth was flat why don’t they have penthouses on the borders
If the Earth was flat there would be nothing at the border/edges because cats would have pushed it all off
In the business of dangling someone with a rope around their neck until they die, it's "hanged," not "hung."
"Begs the question" does not mean "raises the question" or "brings up the question," even though it's recently been used that way often.
It's a specific term for a logical fallacy (basically, circular reasoning) -- because rather than arguing the question, you are begging that it be conceded. "You're begging the question," means you're using the point you're trying to prove as an argument to prove that very same point.
Edit: Folks, I get it. "Raises the question," is now a common usage, language is determined by use, it's not prescriptive, etc etc. Please, let me refer to you to the title of this thread and ask you why you didn't *expect* shallow pedantry. If we can still get pissed about 'irregardless', we can still be annoyed by this.
Rudolph is not a core member of Santa's reindeer team. The song specifically says "then ONE foggy Christmas Eve... Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh TONIGHT."
why would Santa risk being noticed with a red light of a nose if he didn't need to? Rudolph is like the brights on your car, you only need them when you need to.
That was just the beginning. Rudolph was with them after that point every Christmas Eve, because Santa's no dummy. I don't need fog at night to put my headlights on. It just has to be dark. Then Rudolph and Clarice had kids and a couple of them had the same birth defect, so today Rudy Jr. is guiding the sleigh. Duh. rudolph-an...fca4ed.jpg 
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I apparently have a GIANT hill I would die upon, because I agree with 80% of these... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yep. I was banned for three completely inoffensive comments. I emailed them back and said that and they reversed the ban 😄
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it depends on where you are from. I'm from Australia and apparently we pronounce things incorrectly.
Load More Replies... Most are not petty. In fact, a lot of them are long lost basic courtesy or common sense
Why not? Dr Smith could be MD, DO, DDS, DVM or any other doctorate. You need to specify.
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My third-grade teacher insisted we say 'I am finished' instead of 'I am done'. Done being like the turkey in an oven.
This makes me insane on a daily basis: it is pronounced NU-CLE-A-R, not NU-CU-LER.
BROUGHT. so annoyed this wasn't included. i have heard soo many people say brang, then I'm 'petty' for correcting them.
If I actually worried about all this stuff I'd have a nervous breakdown.
My husband - bless him -- says "drownDing" instead of "drowning" and I lose my mind every time... on the inside, though. On the outside, I say "drowning", and move on.
Is he from upstate NY? I have a friend from there who does that and now I’m wondering if it’s a regional thing.
Load More Replies... Mine is this: Nitpicking people's grammar and word choices is classist and, in a lot of cases, racist. The purpose of language is to communicate, and if you understood what the person was trying to communicate, then they have used language effectively. You don't get extra points in heaven for strictly adhering arbitrary grammar rules.
The plural of "mine" is "ours". "Mines" is a noun meaning more than one excavation area.
I thought divide and conquer meant dividing your enemies and having them fight amongst themselves, so half your work if done for you.
My hill is, it's 'some/no/every/any' THING and NOT 'some/no/every/any' THINK. Are you listening, oh brother of mine?
I thought this was meant to be a list of PETTY things? I gave up reading as they were all things that are true but other people just ignore. The petty thing I was going to share was my sister's belief that the song goes 'ice, ice baby, baby' despite all evidence to the contrary but it seems this was not the place for things like that.
You don't need to use the word number after VIN. It's already Vehicle Identification Number.
Why can't anyone tell the difference between "lie" and "lay" anymore? I'm old enough to remember when even fairly uneducated people could maintain the difference. "LIE down" refers to placing your self in a horizontal position, as on a bed or couch. "I'm going to lie down for a nap." "LAY down" refers to placing something or someone else in a horizontal position. "I'm going to lay the baby down for a nap."
There ARE 5 reasons to buy a product, vote for a person, etc. Not there IS 5 reasons or whatever. I hear it in national commercials, in speeches by so-called educated people, even in an ad by the local cable company.
Australians do not go "thrifting" at the "thrift store". We go opshopping at the opshop (opshop, or Op Shop is short for opportunity shop)
The horse troops, those on western movies, are cavalry. Not calvary. Gads, I hate that!
It's okay to say something like "uuum" to fill a pause in your speech, but some people make this sound so long and loud, it's actually really annoying, especially if hey do it a lot. No need to moan like your teeth are being pulled before every sentence, keep it down.
this might be personal but i hate it when people say "book bag" instead of "backpack" when referring to backpacks
Anxious v. eager. If you are looking forward to something with excitement, you are eager. "I am eager to go to Disneyworld tomorrow." If you are looking forward to something with dread, you are anxious. "I am anxious to take the written exam tomorrow." 90% of the time I see "anxious" used when it should be "eager" and this is the hill I will die on until my corpse rots and makes it a slightly bigger hill.
It's not a car 'accident' there's 99.9% chance one party is to blame. It is a crash or incident. Don't walk or run in the bike lane when there's a sidewalk. Don't hold the door for someone who is 30 feet away. Don't leave your dog outside all day. Don't hold your phone in front of you on speaker phone, that doesn't make it "hands free". Don't block any part of the sidewalk with your car. Don't leave the tap running. Put a bucket in the shower while it is getting to the desired temperature. Am average shower running for 3 minutes is almost 5 gallons of water.
One big one missing: When you have to give a phone number, bank, credit card etc. over the phone the reciver should repeat the numbers back. Same with complicated spelling
I have to disagree on the numbers except phone number. If you're calling a bank, you will be asked securoty questions to ensure it's you. If there's a mix-up with numbers, the representative will let you know. That person that you're speaking to is likely highly proficient with 10 key
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I apparently have a GIANT hill I would die upon, because I agree with 80% of these... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yep. I was banned for three completely inoffensive comments. I emailed them back and said that and they reversed the ban 😄
Load More Replies... it depends on where you are from. I'm from Australia and apparently we pronounce things incorrectly.
Load More Replies... Most are not petty. In fact, a lot of them are long lost basic courtesy or common sense
Why not? Dr Smith could be MD, DO, DDS, DVM or any other doctorate. You need to specify.
Load More Replies... My third-grade teacher insisted we say 'I am finished' instead of 'I am done'. Done being like the turkey in an oven.
This makes me insane on a daily basis: it is pronounced NU-CLE-A-R, not NU-CU-LER.
BROUGHT. so annoyed this wasn't included. i have heard soo many people say brang, then I'm 'petty' for correcting them.
If I actually worried about all this stuff I'd have a nervous breakdown.
My husband - bless him -- says "drownDing" instead of "drowning" and I lose my mind every time... on the inside, though. On the outside, I say "drowning", and move on.
Is he from upstate NY? I have a friend from there who does that and now I’m wondering if it’s a regional thing.
Load More Replies... Mine is this: Nitpicking people's grammar and word choices is classist and, in a lot of cases, racist. The purpose of language is to communicate, and if you understood what the person was trying to communicate, then they have used language effectively. You don't get extra points in heaven for strictly adhering arbitrary grammar rules.
The plural of "mine" is "ours". "Mines" is a noun meaning more than one excavation area.
I thought divide and conquer meant dividing your enemies and having them fight amongst themselves, so half your work if done for you.
My hill is, it's 'some/no/every/any' THING and NOT 'some/no/every/any' THINK. Are you listening, oh brother of mine?
I thought this was meant to be a list of PETTY things? I gave up reading as they were all things that are true but other people just ignore. The petty thing I was going to share was my sister's belief that the song goes 'ice, ice baby, baby' despite all evidence to the contrary but it seems this was not the place for things like that.
You don't need to use the word number after VIN. It's already Vehicle Identification Number.
Why can't anyone tell the difference between "lie" and "lay" anymore? I'm old enough to remember when even fairly uneducated people could maintain the difference. "LIE down" refers to placing your self in a horizontal position, as on a bed or couch. "I'm going to lie down for a nap." "LAY down" refers to placing something or someone else in a horizontal position. "I'm going to lay the baby down for a nap."
There ARE 5 reasons to buy a product, vote for a person, etc. Not there IS 5 reasons or whatever. I hear it in national commercials, in speeches by so-called educated people, even in an ad by the local cable company.
Australians do not go "thrifting" at the "thrift store". We go opshopping at the opshop (opshop, or Op Shop is short for opportunity shop)
The horse troops, those on western movies, are cavalry. Not calvary. Gads, I hate that!
It's okay to say something like "uuum" to fill a pause in your speech, but some people make this sound so long and loud, it's actually really annoying, especially if hey do it a lot. No need to moan like your teeth are being pulled before every sentence, keep it down.
this might be personal but i hate it when people say "book bag" instead of "backpack" when referring to backpacks
Anxious v. eager. If you are looking forward to something with excitement, you are eager. "I am eager to go to Disneyworld tomorrow." If you are looking forward to something with dread, you are anxious. "I am anxious to take the written exam tomorrow." 90% of the time I see "anxious" used when it should be "eager" and this is the hill I will die on until my corpse rots and makes it a slightly bigger hill.
It's not a car 'accident' there's 99.9% chance one party is to blame. It is a crash or incident. Don't walk or run in the bike lane when there's a sidewalk. Don't hold the door for someone who is 30 feet away. Don't leave your dog outside all day. Don't hold your phone in front of you on speaker phone, that doesn't make it "hands free". Don't block any part of the sidewalk with your car. Don't leave the tap running. Put a bucket in the shower while it is getting to the desired temperature. Am average shower running for 3 minutes is almost 5 gallons of water.
One big one missing: When you have to give a phone number, bank, credit card etc. over the phone the reciver should repeat the numbers back. Same with complicated spelling
I have to disagree on the numbers except phone number. If you're calling a bank, you will be asked securoty questions to ensure it's you. If there's a mix-up with numbers, the representative will let you know. That person that you're speaking to is likely highly proficient with 10 key
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