Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

Speaking of San Francisco, about 15 years ago I started hearing people refer to my city, Little Rock, as THE ROCK.

Makes me think of either Alcatraz or that wrestler guy. Please. We don't need to replace two syllables with one just for saving breath and we certainly don't need to macho up the capital city of the 27th largest state in the union.

Some people in Toronto call it "T dot." This is an abbrevation of an abbrevation (T.O.) :(

ugh

We have a new building at work called "Beaver Creek" that I am going to refer to as "the beav"

ha i was just wondering why chicago is nicknamed "chi town" with the "chi" mispronounced as "shy," then i realized if it were pronounced correctly it would essentially code as "shit town"

There is a park here in Sac called Goethe Park. Locals call it "Gatey" Park. wtf

We in the office saw an AP story the other day that abbreviated "Texas" to "Tex." and everyone here got irrationally angry.

"This has to be a mistake!" said my managing editor.

"ksass"

My dad refused to switch to 2 letter state abbreviations.

wwu abbrev tex 2, jooi?

My dad refused to switch to 2 letter state abbreviations.

They're really hard on non-Americans, like when Brits from London refer to their suburb as e.g. 'NW12' and you're like

What or who is "jooi?" Me?

Texas 2 letter abbrv = TX. I don't expect the rest of the world to know or comply.

just out of interest ffs keep up!

One of my favorite things is that there's a lake in North Idaho named lake Pend Oreille and a town on it named Ponderay. Like someone said "fuck this French shit, let's spell it phonetically"

Lol

I thought maybe you were calling me Jewy.

The ones that get me are all the Ms: MA, MD, MN, MI etc etc.

i only make jewy references around my non-jewy straight white dude friends but they are funny when i do

I really wish Louisiana weren't "LA"!

There's an office near me that calls itself EMC2, but my IA is fleeting and unravels quickly into sheer curiosity. Although I do go past it near as every day so there is also a frequent response of "Why? Why?".

Your Iowa is fleeting?

The two-lettter abbreviations are all post office terms. The Associated Press still uses Ark., Calif., Nev., Ohio, Fla., etc.

The rule is that the two non-contiguous states (Alaska and Hawaii) and the five-lettered-or-less states (Texas, Maine, Idaho, Iowa, Ohio) get spelled out.

Though I have seen some really old-fashioned uses of Cleveland, O.

there are issues regarding Alaska (AK) and Arkansas (AR)

and Alabama (AL) for that matter

and Arizona gets AR a lot even though it's AZ.

But mookie's right: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22Little+Rock,+Alaska%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Weird.

They are PO terms but most Americans use them. I think?

On Car Talk they always say Cambridge, MA, pronounced "mah."

Oops- Multi xp without warning

I would say Boston, Mass., but yeah. Pretty much the only time anyone uses one of these is filling out their billing information on Zappos.

Or their mailing address, anywhere? I dunno, I order a lot of stuff on the web but I end up writing my address a lot.

Well, and developing web apps with a lot of address stuff

I use two letter abbreviations or full name. Rarely/never in between.

i am irrationally angered by sites that spell out each state's name in the dropdown, because then i have to hit N multiple times (or type NEW Y, or worst of all use the mouse) rather than just typing NY

my fingers have only so many keystrokes in them

There is a park here in Sac called Goethe Park. Locals call it "Gatey" Park. wtf

I and countless other Chicagoans know how to pronounce Goethe from taking buses with stops along Goethe Street and hearing the CTA voice say "Gerrrteh."

i am irrationally angered by sites that spell out each state's name in the dropdown, because then i have to hit N multiple times (or type NEW Y, or worst of all use the mouse) rather than just typing NY

One of the advantages I have of living in one of the first four alphabetical states.

I send out maybe six pieces of mail a year. I use the PO abbreviations so not to fuck with my mailman's head.

I use the AP abbreviations at work in newswriting.

And anywhere else, the full name.

This may belong in the editors thread, but one of my pet peeves is when someone ends a sentence with a link and it looks like this.

As opposed to having it end like this.

yessss

+1

^^^

Are you guys talking about period placement?

no

Are you talking about making a whole bunch of words a link rather than just a couple?

I thought it was about the full stop tbh

Yeah, the period shouldn't be included in the hyperlink.

If the link is the whole sentence/paragraph I throw in the full stop, but otherwise I'm exactly as anal as you pp.

although I'm lazy on ilx, because I have to be anal everywhere else, all the time

The writers I work with just slather over the whole end of the sentence, period and all, thinking I guess that they don't have the time to daintily put the cursor between the final letter and period, hitting alt + shift + L to get what they want.

in some sentence structures the location of the link is debatable, i.e., on which words, but yeah a.a. otm

When paying by card and the cashier instead of handing the card back to you, just places it on the counter for you to pick up.

Or throws it on the floor.

website embedded audio players with no volume control.

― Nogood (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 5:44 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dammit. Two websites in a row this morning. At least I could TURN IT OFF on one of them, the other, where the HELL is the control!