-When someone calls your house, and the phone is for someone else, yet they won’t actually tell you. Instead, they’re too lazy to, so they just say “hey” expecting you to know who they are and who they want to talk to.
-PEOPLE WHO TYPE IN ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME.
-The get ripped in 5 minutes ads that you see everywhere.
-Fake driver sites..you know, when you’re looking for drivers for a piece of hardware that you have, new or old, and all you get is redirects to several different fake sites? What do these sites even exist for? Pissing people off I guess.

1) Evangelicals want the same things in life as the Taliban and Al Qaida have similar goals in life, and that is to force everyone to believe in their way of beliefs.

2) My major pet peeve is my brothers wife! She hates me and I hate her, and she has denied my any access to my 1.5 yr old nephew!

3) Stupid people trying to make intelligent decisions for everyone else! Perhaps we should take away there ability to create more stupid people!

When latest tech news, like subjects about Win7 or the best hardware as two examples, are video streamed instead of being in written format. It is just as interesting for a person with low bandwidths, but unusable.

Thirdly, people whining about my bad English spelling and grammar. This is by the way my fourth language and I would like to see these whiners write something in German or Afrikaans.

“Myself” is always wrong in a collective. People who say Jack and myself don’t know whether “I” or “me” is correct in the context, so they drop their 50-50 chance of being right for a 100-0 chance of being wrong. A better bet would be to relearn the use of subjective, objective and reflexive pronouns. “Jack and I went to the store.” “The bus carried Jack and me to the store.” “I hit myself on the head at the store.” If you can’t get these right, just stay home.

You don’t “step foot in a room,” you “set foot in a room.”

“Back in the day” is wrong. It’s “back in the old days.”

Further ranting available on request.

A pet peeve of mine is random noises people make when I’m trying to work. I’m in high school, and during some of my classes when I want to concentrate, someone either starts drumming on their desk, tapping their pen, or making mouth-popping noises. It annoys me to no end, even if I’m not working. Sometimes it’s worse than people talking in class.

A huge pet peeve I have is people spitting in public. If you build up too much saliva in your mouth, swallow it! But don’t go spitting in random places. IMO, it’s unsanitary and disgusting! We are not llamas! I sometimes get grossed out when people spit in public near me, like at bus stops, and especially in the hallways at school (I think it’s worse when people do it indoors).

Your is to possession because the word ends with “our” where as in You’re, the apostrophe takes place of the space, and the “A” in “You are”.

For, There, Their, and They’re, it was a little more difficult to come up with something, but I came up with this:

For There: If it’s not here, its there.
For Their: The “I” in the middle indicates me, therefore, this “their” refers to possession.
For They’re: the apostrophe take the place of space and the “A” in “They are”.

I hope this helps you all keep it all clear. It’s helped me keep them straight for a long time.

Your and you’re, as you note, are common.

Very few people know the differences among peek, peak and pique. (Or between among and between.)

And more than I would have guessed do not have a firm grasp of then and than.

But the one that most drives me around the bend is less and few or fewer. Every – and I do mean every – television commercial or food package that is meant to declare that the product is low calorie always – ALWAYS – says or prints “less calories” instead of “fewer calories.” Is there not a single person in advertising and marketing who passed grade school grammar?

Of course, there are many more, but these are my big-time complaints.

Thanks, Chris. Good to get all that off my chest.