45 Of The Pettiest Beliefs People In This Online Group Would Stand By, No Matter What

Some years ago a woman on the train was discussing her vaginal yeast infection with someone on the phone. Why would you think that's a good idea?

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.

Upvoted for the 'fight me' comment. No fight. Just bow of respect

Does anyone think otherwise?

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.

Corrected it "I will die on this hill over and over until my assembled corpse's make it into a slightly bigger hill."

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."

Also, bloody well use the Oxford comma, ffs!

Or writing "of" instead of "have"... "He should of said so..." Or saying "aks" instead of "ask" ...etc...

No problem here, I don't have any chicken's.

'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???

This! I'm coming to die with you on that hill. Why do people do that?

You mean like monster's

Corpse should be singular (unless you have two?).

word's possessive When did anywayS become correct? Anyway, is correct.

Adding an 's' or 'es' depending on the root word pluralizes the word. Not all words are pluralized however. Some function as both singular and plural. Using an apostrophe indicates possession. I guess they don't teach grammar and punctuation anymore in schools?

Did they finish their sentence? 14 chicken's...what? Feathers? Beaks? Feet?

Unless you're Dutch

In Dutch it actually does: when a word ends on a vowel we use a apostroph plus an s to make it plural. So when Dutch people learn English, it's a bit confusing that the 's means something entirely different than in Dutch.

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...

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

I remember the AAAA https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/oct/08/newspapers-dailymail#:~:text=The%20late%20Keith%20Waterhouse%20founded,an%20apostrophe%20wherever%20it%20alights%22.

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/ :-)

IF it could change the meaning of the word from plural noun to a verb or whatever then wrote the word in block caps and lower case 's' eg 'PEPPERs'

Likewise with the unnecessary use of quotation marks.

monster's /s

*passes out in grammar*

What about and acronym? Since the letter "s" is not part of the acronym I separate it with an apostrophe.

This is absolutely NOT PETTY! Birds have been found to be picking up cigarette butts & trying to feed them to their young, or using them as nesting material.

How about we stop spitting on cakes in general?

Could've.

Not if you have cats.... 🐈

This is the one that bugs me the most.

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.

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.

or smacking your mouth when eating ..makes me want to physically throttle someone .....

I walked away from a job because my arrogant supervisor would never leave me alone. Calling and texting all hours..never got time away from the job.

Just like the elevator!

I will refuse to move and will be the one who walks right into the middle of the flock .

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...

In Sweden there is a fine if you hug the left lane. Only problem iis that there is no one to enforce trafic laws.

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.

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.

I used piqued once in a conversation with a co-worker. Mind you, she had a college degree & I don't, but the woman had no idea what that word means! I had to rephrase my remark to "it caught my interest" before she understood.

It should be very simple, if it was alive and is now dead, it is meat, eating it means you are not vegetarian. no buts ands or ifs.