Love Zhaoying Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Pet Peeve: when you think you're going to warm your chilly bones over a nice dumpster fire thread, but the dumpster is empty! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persephone Emerald Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 1 minute ago, Love Zhaoying said: Pet Peeve: when you think you're going to warm your chilly bones over a nice dumpster fire thread, but the dumpster is empty! The trash collection truck came early today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persephone Emerald Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) Having my internet connection keep going off & on while I'm trying to respond and post. It feels like somebody out there doesn't want me to be online today. 😟 I'm gonna post some husky pictures to make me happy. Huskies are good at cheering people up. Edited June 22, 2022 by Persephone Emerald 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rat Luv Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said: Me waking up 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 16 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said: Having my internet connection keep going off & on while I'm trying to respond and post. It feels like somebody out there doesn't want me to be online today. 😟 I'm gonna post some husky pictures to make me happy. Huskies are good at cheering people up. Yeah, my huskers kept me busy today! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 These guys who post things clearly not respecting women, and women's issues. Did their mothers not spank them enough? Or perhaps spanked them too much? That "traditional value" of "respect" didn't quite take! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) Pet Peeve: When you realize someone who complained about US holidays uses the world "whilst". "Whilst" is not used in U.S. English, "while" is used. Conclusion: A resident of the UK complains about US holidays for attention. Edited June 22, 2022 by Love Zhaoying 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee Pancake Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: Pet Peeve: When you realize someone who complained about US holidays uses the world "whilst". "Whilst" is not used in U.S. English, "while" is used. Conclusion: A resident of the UK complains about US holidays for attention. Or maybe someone who picked it up talking to a Brit or reading British literature. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Just now, Coffee Pancake said: Or maybe someone who picked it up talking to a Brit or reading British literature. Fancy! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 11 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: Fancy! If it's an American using whilst, I'd say pretentious and not fancy. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 6 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said: If it's an American using whilst, I'd say pretentious and not fancy. "Fancy" is my "snark" for "pretentious" or a synonym. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystina Ferraris Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 7 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said: If it's an American using whilst, I'd say pretentious and not fancy. I was about to say just that. "Whilst" is also rarely used here in Ireland nowadays, except by our CEO, who uses it along with a fake public school British accent to sound pretentious and obnoxious sophisticated and intelligent 😆 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy Huntsman Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 40 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: Pet Peeve: When you realize someone who complained about US holidays uses the world "whilst". "Whilst" is not used in U.S. English, "while" is used. Conclusion: A resident of the UK complains about US holidays for attention. I dafed people from the UK for a bit. I picked up their mannerisms and speech. I am from Canada. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahKB7 Koskinen Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) Peeve: Foreign tourists (especially Americans) who call all bodies of water "the ocean", even if the said body of water is nowhere near the legally defined international boundaries of an actual ocean. These bodies of water include seas, channels, beaches, straits, harbours, estuaries, lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, reservoirs and puddles - none of which are "oceans". Edited June 22, 2022 by SarahKB7 Koskinen 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 2 minutes ago, SarahKB7 Koskinen said: Peeve: Foreign tourists (especially Americans) who call all bodies of water "the ocean", even if the said body of water is nowhere near the legally defined international boundaries of an actual ocean. These bodies of water include seas, channels, beaches, straits, lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, reservoirs and puddles. That's an odd one. Where do they do this? I have never heard anyone refer to a pond, lake, stream, reservoir, puddle ... as an ocean. As far as I am aware, there are only the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern (sometimes Antarctic) Oceans, with the Atlantic and Pacific often each divided in two (to form the North and South Atlantic and the North and South Pacific) -- sometimes also referred to as the Seven Seas. I can't recall anyone referring to anything else as an ocean, except metaphorically, of course. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Love Zhaoying said: Pet Peeve: When you realize someone who complained about US holidays uses the world "whilst". "Whilst" is not used in U.S. English, "while" is used. Conclusion: A resident of the UK complains about US holidays for attention. They may have been someone from the U.S. that was in the middle of watching the Crown series and picked up some habits.. hehehehe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 9 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said: They may have been someone from the U.S. that was in the middle of watching the Crown series and picked up some habits.. hehehehe Or, an immigrant to the US from the UK! (Do they use "ex-pats" too, or just the US?) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahKB7 Koskinen Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) No, we say "traitor". 😜 Edited June 22, 2022 by SarahKB7 Koskinen 1 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Mistwalker Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Love Zhaoying said: Pet Peeve: When you realize someone who complained about US holidays uses the world "whilst". "Whilst" is not used in U.S. English, "while" is used. Conclusion: A resident of the UK complains about US holidays for attention. I've never been off the NA continent, and I occasionally use whilst and whist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, Silent Mistwalker said: I've never been off the NA continent, and I occasionally use whilst and whist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Do you by chance participate in "Renaissance Festivals" or similar activities, such as SCA? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 17 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: Or, an immigrant to the US from the UK! (Do they use "ex-pats" too, or just the US?) Now I'm curious if there is a thread I missed.. hehehe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orwar Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 10 minutes ago, Silent Mistwalker said: I've never been off the NA continent, and I occasionally use whilst and whist. But can you whistle? Or whittle? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMe Jewell Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Love Zhaoying said: Pet Peeve: When you realize someone who complained about US holidays uses the world "whilst". "Whilst" is not used in U.S. English, "while" is used. Conclusion: A resident of the UK complains about US holidays for attention. Or a Brit that has moved to the US. I know a few of those. ETA: I now see from later posts that this thought has already occurred to you. Edited June 22, 2022 by LittleMe Jewell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna Bliss Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Yeah moving to America you'd be called an expat by many: https://www.expatnetwork.com/moving-to-america/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna Bliss Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 I can't help it, when anybody uses 'whilst' I think they're being snobby at first. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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