I have to say, like, that I really have a few pet peeves, like. Why is it that people now cannot talk more than a few words without the word ‘like’ finding its insidious way into any conversation? Is it the dubious influence of, like, TV sitcoms/reality shows/celebrities? I fear the young of today are, like, being led astray by, like, social media influencers who can hardly string two words together without, like, saying ‘like’ whether they, like, like something or, like, don’t like it. All this liking is confusing to an old girl like me, like, who, like, tries, like, to only like a thing if she, like, actually likes it.
Here’s another, like. Why does everyone now talk in, like, acronyms? TBH, IDRC if u have a FOMO wen u, like, need to be surgically removed from yr, like, phone. I’m SMH at, like, yr inability to concentrate. YSK that IMHO mobile phones should be banned for under 16’s. DAE agree? HMU.
Here’s the last peeve, like. Why do teenage girls all look like they’ve been hit on the lips with, like, a shovel (like)? LOL.
What’s yr, like, pet peeves?
OAN…DFTBA! x
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That’s because they grew up with phone as appendages – short forms. acronyms, no knowing about real social interaction, and the list goes on. I was shocked last week when my 12 year old niece came over, I asked her what time it was, she told me she can’t read clocks, only digital. That is SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xx
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Can’t read a clock at the age of 12? I remember my mum spending ages teaching me, and I did the same for my own sons. It’s torture, but it’s part of parenting duties. x
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The young ones can only read digital. So sad. 😦 x
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But they can learn? x
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Yes! Arg. x
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My pet peeves, too! You are spot on, Stevie.
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Thanks Jennie.
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You’re welcome.
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This is to true and too funny
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Thanks!
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What a great post. I’ve been saying the same thing for a long time. Like had nothing to do with it. I also hate innit, at the end of a sentence and worst of all everyone says see you later, when there is no way they will be seeing each other later. More like tomorrow, next day or week, and that’s not later!
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Very true. My son always says ‘laters’, which annoys me as well.
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Yes! lol!
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One of my pet peeves are jeans on guys hanging so low that dudes have their butts hanging out for the world to see. In the same vein, who thinks that jeans with holes in 50% of the material is a good look? Apparently, lots of young people.
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Absolutely true! I want to reach out and pull their trousers up.
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I share some of those peeves! So much so I had a rant about them in an old post https://thebloggler81901823.wordpress.com/2022/10/01/celebrity-speak-and-millennial-mumbo-jumbo/
As for those botoxed fish lips….. Aarhh!
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Great post, Paul. I have really grown to hate these air-headed ‘celebrities’.
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They are often so smug and self important it’s disturbing. I can’t even laugh at them anymore.
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They’re ruining our young folks, who now all want to be celebrities. Girls aim for trout pouts and to walk about in their underwear. God, I’m old, but I don’t care.
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Its not just an age thing. My daughter agrees with me.
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Trout pouts.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/gender-identity/think-like-began-with-valley-girls-guess-again/
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Ah, can’t read it unless I sign in and receive unsolicited emails for evermore.
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This, like, goes back to like the 80s, guys. Know what I’m sayin’ guys? GUys, like hit subscribe guys and like give me a like, guys. AFT bullshit acronyms in txt, like, not bstn a nail typn sht yk what means btch yo. 🤣
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And the throwaways. Basically, actually, awesome, literally ARRRR
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I keep hearing one word quite often now… ‘random’.
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That’s been around at least 2 generations. My granddaughter yesterday – “Wow, Is that Nana in the park? No? Weird. Just some random old lady crushing it on the swing…”
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Often it’s not used in the right context.
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You’re right. Around my house for a while it seemed to be inserted in every sentence.
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Say what?
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Even news readers and intelligent people on TV and radio seem to be making words up by sticking DE on the front -a prefix. Trying to think of example but my mind has gone blank!
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Ooh, I can’t think of one either – let me know if you do.
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Are we all agreeing they’re intelligent or is that an assumption because they’re on TV? Hair like a conditioner ad and dentists’ pride teeth goes a lot further than literacy. Ever seen an ugly anchor or stringer or even intern? Chubby, yeah, but with a laser cut beard, diamond ear stud and expensive tie, or million dollar hair and teeth and never a shot lower than breasts up. Cherubic, I believe is the PC term for chubby on camera. De-paving is basically still happening in like the left two lanes of Park.
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No middle aged or elderly people with thinning hair or yellow teeth, just young lovelies.
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Even the few intelligent persons who appear make up words. Depaving – I like that.
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I can’t stand those botoxed lips and I don’t understand why girls do it. Horrible. As for teenage slang, we did it too. Haha! We used to say ‘cool’ about everything.
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The girls look so peculiar.
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I agree, they ruin their looks.
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Yes. Whatever will they look like when they’re older?
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I hate to think, Stevie
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Everything was either fab or square when I was at high school!
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Too far back for me to remember…
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Haha, yes, I have heard those terms.
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Needless to say, everything our parents did or wore was square!
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Yes, now we’re the ones who are square. What goes around comes around.
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I’m sure it was. My mom was always very hip. She still is.
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I have just remembered what we used to call each other back at school in the 70s, and I can’t repeat it as it really isn’t very PC these days!
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Haha! I’ll bet
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Bad, bitchin’, cool, hot, suave, stylin’… eeeek!
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I don’t think it is those things though. I personally think it looks fake and very ugly.
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Ugly yes, for sure.
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No no, I was leaning on teenage slang. Botox is one thing. The duck lips, fillers, 14 pounds of eyelashes are a big yuk. But I’ve never been a fan of excessive makeup, like when a person’s face down to their jaw line is on shade and their neck is another.
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I don’t wear a lot of make up. I don’t like to look like a porcelain doll. Some ladies do wear a lot though and in South Africa they are called Poppies which means dollies.
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I was never allowed to wear it. I prefer the natural look anyway.
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It all looks so unnatural.
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I have lots. 😁
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Such as?
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Well WordPress now because I just wrote out a whole paragraph of peeves and pressed send and “poof!” gone…
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Oh no!
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Working in TV, I’ve always tried to stop my Talent from starting a sentence with “Now…” as in, “Now, police say they have…” it’s a starter word that allows them to find a pitch and tone before reading the important words, but it’s NEVER in the script!
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And starting a sentence with ‘So’ ….
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So, is that like another peeve, or what? The news is at it’s worst in the banners and talent trying to find the logical string of who, what where. So, like soooo many people in Dallas get shot in like the driveway, parking garage, police say…
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Yeah another peeve apart from ‘so’… the word ‘unprecedented’. Everything that’s happening now seems to be ‘unprecedented’.
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Now you have mentioned Now it is true and I will be listening out.
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I’ve started unsubscribing from Substacks that contain an F-bomb in the subject line and/or the first line. (I’m not seeing this on WordPress.) If the writer doesn’t have enough respect for readers to refrain from sending obscenities into their mailboxes, I have no interest in what this person has to say.
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The f-bomb seems to be a normal part of conversation now. That’s why I prefer looking at older films. Some modern films seem only to consist of horrible men shouting and swearing all the time.
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Women are swearing in modern films and TV shows too.
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I just think it shows a lack of vocabulary on the part of the writer. I would have been walloped into next week if I’d sworn at home as a kid.
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Most of the f-bombs I hear in movies are gratuitous to the point of pulling me out of the story. They quickly become tedious, too.
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They do indeed.
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Tell it to Oxford https://www.amazon.com/cks-Sake-Swearing-Shocking-Rude/dp/0190665068
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If I were still in grad school, I would probably read the book as relevant to the craft and conventions of writing fiction and poetry.
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My wife’s an English professor and that’s how I got it🤣
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Ah, that explains it!
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These days, Stevie, I find the most comfort and peace in nature. I’d rather talk to the ravens than deal with crazy stuff. Fortunately, most of my neighbors are similar to me. We avoid politics and talk about the little creatures we see or the weather changes or health. My pet peeve — ignorance displayed as knowledge — which is manifest these days on the news. And that is why I abstain from watching/listening to it. And your first peeve, “like”, is usually partnered with my pet peeve. 😊
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Nature, silence, and the ability to think my own thoughts in peace. I do keep up with the news though.
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My pet peeve is people who complain about every little thing. Unfortunately these are often old people and they drive me crazy.
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Princess Anne has the right motto – ‘Never complain and never explain’.
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I like that!
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I’m old, but I mainly only complain about the weather! 👴
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All the above and people who cannot pick their dog poo up 🤗: https://the-bee-writes.com/2024/06/01/pet-peeve-alarm-%e2%9a%a0%ef%b8%8f-pet-peeve-alarm-and-bad-language-alarm-too-%f0%9f%98%b1/
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Yes indeed, and dogs off leads who run up to people barking and growling.
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I agree. Even though my pet peeve are more the owners saying:” don’t worry he/she doesn’t do anything” 🤪
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As they try and take a lump out of your leg!
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I’m with you! I’ve written a few rants about this topic myself.
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Ah, I shall be back for those 😁
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Lip-plumping and botox facial treatments are turning young women and girls into what appears to be a different species. As for saying ‘like’ all the time, you can blame pop stars, so-called ‘celebrities’, and social media.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Young girls’ faces are being ruined. Botox is a toxin that can have serious side effects. I know I sound old-fashioned, but what’s wrong with the natural look?
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My twin step-daughters are 34 years old, and both having treatments like these. I can only see its main cause as peer-pressure, which is also applicable to the tattoo craze on young women.
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Oh yes, tattoos. Not a good look at all.
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No one believes they’ll ever get old…
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Tattoos don’t look good on old saggy skin, but as you say, youngsters will never get as old as us!
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