I'm the only person I've ever met who cares about this, so it's the epitome of a pet peeve.

I know "fyoosha" is the only pronunciation recognised in dictionaries. But it's wrong!

It presumably comes from someone at some point misreading "chs" as "sch" which would be pronounced "sh" in German. But the letters are in the other order, "chs" should sound like "ks". If you're ok with "fyoosha" you're not in a position to criticise anyone for pronouncing "ask" as "aks"!

Fuchsia is named after someone called Leonhart Fuchs. It's common in botany to name plants after someone's surname + "ia", e.g.

- Anders Dahl + "ia" = dahlia

- Pierre Magnol + "ia" = magnolia

The German name Fuchs rhymes with "books", so Fuchsia should rhyme with "books-ia". It's meant to honour a man called Fuchs, not Fyoosh.

"I hateeee when people do that!" The E is silent. The vowel you are extending is the A. Consider "I haaaate when people do that!" In English, multiple Es create a long E pronounciation, i.e. HAY-tee.

"I'm homeee!" vs. "I'm hooome!" HOME-ee

"That truck is bigggg" vs. "biiiig!"

Etc.

I was raised in the US and Mexican-Americans get so much hate in Mexico for "wanting to be American so bad"

You cannot say anything good about the country because "why are you defending the gringos? you think you're American too?"

Like wtf, yes? I am American? why is this concept so hard to understand in Mexico?

As an animal lover and a veterinarian who has worked with animals ranging from fish to elephants.

Animals are just as evil as we are. Nature is brutal, greedy, rapey, and constantly torturing others for their own benefit.

Also they don’t just kill for food. Dogs absolutely love squeaky toys because that’s the sound of rodents dying.

The only reason humans are destroying the world is that we are more powerful than any animal and nobody can stop us except for natural forces like volcanoes and earthquakes. We broke the game and we are basically running on cheat codes. The balance is broken because nobody can keep us in check.

Any other animal would have done the same if they were put in our position. The only reason they don’t, is because they can’t.

The only reason nature seems peaceful, balanced, and harmonious from the outside is because all the death and destruction is hidden away and recycled back into the ecosystem. The entire system of evolution relies on the weak being culled and only leaving the strong. Cancer and chronic diseases are not a problem in nature because they just get killed by a predator, then a younger animal replaces them. The illusion of health and harmony is built on blood.

Wild animals constantly live in PTSD, prey animals literally die when they are too stressed.

Only domesticated animals live such blissful lives.

If humans didn’t exist, another species would eventually dominate the world and commit the same crimes. Some animals are better than others, for example bonobos would be less violent than chimps, but in general the world is a violent and a cruel place where the weak is eaten alive, females are raped, babies are basically chicken nuggets, and anything you do to promote your self-interest is good.

The only difference is that humans feel guilt, although some don’t.

I love animals for what they are. Yet it’s still our responsibility to protect them and the ecosystem.

I hateeee when people (specifically Americans, but then again I’ve only gotten this response from Americans) give me this response to me saying “chai tea.”

I would like to clarify that yes, I understand chai MEANS tea in many other languages. However, in the English language, we already have a word for tea, so therefore chai refers to the specific type. This is pretty obvious to me and I don’t think I should need to explain it. I think most people understand this, YET some people still feel the need to respond with this “fun fact” every time someone says it. At this point I think everyone who’s ever been on the internet has heard this phrase repeated to death, so I promise you don’t need to give me this whole spiel every time “chai tea” is said.

TL;DR: chai has its own meaning as a specific tea in the US at the very least, and I believe it’s the same for other majority English speaking countries (correct me if I’m wrong.) Saying Chai tea is fine.

ON A SIMILAR NOTE:

Let me preface this: I’m a barista, I do not care at all if you say latte or caffe latte. I won’t police your language. HOWEVER, there is a certain subset of people (smaller than the chai tea people but still present nonetheless) who get snobby about people who say “latte” instead of caffe latte. Again these people are usually American, not Italian; the Italians are fine lol.

Yes, latte = milk in Italy, but in English we have a word for milk!!! Do not get mad at me for saying latte because it has its own meaning here. In Italian you have to specify caffe latte because again, latte is just milk, but there’s no reason to do that in English and you are an obnoxious snob for trying to “correct” anyone who says latte, at least in America. In Italy that’s fair game, but I’ve seen this happen one too many times.

TL;DR: latte = milk in Italian so specifying caffe latte is necessary in Italy. We already have a word for milk in English, and latte is widely understood at the correct term for the espresso based beverage, so do not correct someone who says latte with “you’re just saying milk/it’s caffe latte”

It's so annoying when you ask a question or mention something and someone launches into a detailed explanation you definitely don't need. Like when I ask if they've seen a specific movie and they start telling me the entire plot. I'm just looking for a yes or no. You don't need to give me a Wikipedia entry. Just assume I have some basic understanding.

Rowan Atkinson is alive. Anything you see saying otherwise today, is a hoax.

I opened my phone this morning, and the first SM notification I got was a grayscale picture of comedian Rowan Atkinson with the caption of his birth year to 2026, and the caption is a list of his accomplishments, and the very bottom of the caption... says happy birthday

I'm pretty sure the only reason this showed up in my notifications is because the picture and caption was click bait.

This nonsense is not funny! 😡

These people have family and friends too.

It's completely inconsiderate to spread fake unfounded death announcements about people, just for the clicks.

I know people do anything for clicks, but it's truly disgusting !

In my opinion fake death announcements is among the worst of the worst low hanging fruits to drive traffic to your channel.

In pasta.

It's such a hassle to remove them why are they there? I get it for shrimp cocktail but I'm not picking up this saucy shrimp with my fingers.

it always irritates me whenever i go to a grocery store (for some reason it’s always costco in my experience) and see a random item that obviously doesn’t belong on the shelf it’s on because someone changed their mind and was too lazy to put back the item where they found it

like are you so lazy to the point where you put the roast chicken in the damn juice aisle when the hot food area where you got the chicken is literally less than 20 feet away

When people use seconds as a measurement of time and really underestimate how long that is.

Someone said they got honked at when the light turned green and complained saying it had only been green for 10 seconds until they went.

Man I'd honk after 3 seconds. Ten seconds is such a long time in that situation.

How would a screaming baby at 3am solve anything? All you’re doing is bringing a child into a dysfunctional relationship, where they could end up being blamed for problems they never caused.

Maybe I’m just cursed with a naturally hostile resting face, but this makes me feel like I’m genuinely losing my mind.

I will be sitting on the couch or at my desk, minding my own business, completely neutral. Literally just thinking about what to make for dinner or staring into the void. And someone—usually a coworker or my roommate—will hit me with: "Are you okay? Are you mad at me?"

I always give a polite, normal response: "No, not at all, just tired/zoning out." But they never believe it. They stare at me with this suspicious squint and ask again ten minutes later: "Are you sure? You seem off." By the fourth time they ask, my patience is completely drained, so I finally snap and say, "I told you three times I’m fine, please drop it!"

And without fail, they hit me with that smug, vindicated look: "Aha! See? I knew you were pissed off teh whole time!"

No, you absolute clown. I was completely at peace until you spent forty minutes interrogating me into an existential rage. It’s like people manufacture an issue out of thin air just so they can be right about it.

Does anyone else deal with this or am I just radiating invisible hostility?

When people say “I’m lactose” instead of saying “I’m lactose intolerant”. Lactose is a sugar found in milk and dairy products. So by saying “I’m lactose” they’re saying “I’m sugar found in milk”. Just so annoying. Finish the sentence! It’s not hard.

You sound dumb.

I hate it when I’m having a conversation with someone, and mention a food I like. Usually just a meal I like to get at a restaurant or something on the go, and the other person immediately responds with something along the lines of “oh you like shrimp scampi? Well you’ve never had real shrimp scampi unless you’ve been to this restaurant that’s over 9 hours away by car. They have the best shrimp scampi, and they cook it a certain way that makes the shrimp and the pasta tasty.” In my mind I’m like ok? And? I didn’t say I like shrimp scampi for you to go on a rant and indirectly say that my favorite place to get shrimp scampi sucks because you don’t like my preference. I understand that people are passionate about food, because I am too, but there isn’t any need to directly or indirectly claim that a food sucks just because it isn’t from your favorite place, hometown, etc.

I can also apply this to a more universal food like pizza. Personally, I like a thick crust pizza. Something like a Sicilian or a Detroit style. But every time I bring that up to anyone who likes NY style, all of the sudden I’ve never had good pizza, despite the fact that I have visited NYC multiple times trying about 10 different pizza shops, of which I only seriously liked about 3.

This is just something that is a bit annoying, but I’m wondering if anyone shares the same sentiment as me.

I came out of town to visit a friend in their hometown at a restaurant they wanted to go to and they were 40 minutes late after I’d woken up early to make the earliest train (took 3 hours) just to get there, I call them to ask where they are and they’re giggling on the phone, not even an apology. What could possibly be funny about you being late to somewhere that’s twenty minutes away from you?
I wish I could say this was the only experience I’ve had with late people, safe to say I mostly do everything alone now
And don’t get me started on people who say “I’m always late to everything” like it’s an inevitable occurrence. So disrespectful

It grinds my gears to no end when people do that.

For example I saw a comment on tiktok: "why did they generally start roasting him". What do you mean generally started? It makes no sense, right??

There is a YouTuber I stopped watching completely because he NEVER uses the word "genuinely" and it GENUINELY upsets me hearing him say "generally" for every instance. Its like "there their and they're" all over again

A fat person could post on the Internet doing whatever and the comments would be a whole lot of insults regarding to their weight. But these fuckers would say "I care about your health! You're not healthy"

First, you're not a doctor. Second, did they ask for your opinion on their health? Third, why do people do this? I guarantee you if you actually stood in front of a fat person you wouldn't say that. People have so much balls when they're on the Internet, but when it comes to the real world, they're too afraid to even order a second ketchup packet.

No normal person looks at a fat person that thinks "oh my God that ugly beluga whale they're gonna die tomorrow" like what?

Notice how most of these people are faceless profiles? I feel like an order for you to comment on somebody else's body, you would need to have perfect everything. 10/10 attractiveness, a lot of money in your bank account, perfect body, perfect nails, perfect house, perfect everything. Other than that, you don't have the right to comment on somebody else's body

edit: while we're at it, why do fat people get such a bad rep for being "unhealthy" but no one cares about smokers and drinkers? I would say having black lungs from smoking Newports every day or having a shriveled up liver from drinking beer every day is arguably worse than being slightly overweight

No respect whatsoever, people will do absolutely anything for a few sympathy likes on social media

Why? Just why? I understand if the intention was that you forgot and did it as a courtesy last minute, but it’s too late now.

Too many people assume I am good with computers and can fix their stuff simply because I know how to find solutions on Google. That is all I can do, I have no idea how any of the hardware or software works and have no interest in it whatsoever, unlike what people seem to think. I just want the thing to work.

The S stands for Standard Time. If we're not on Standard Time, then don't tell me a meeting is at 2pm EST, when it's actually at 2pm EDT.

“My 17 year old son has a bedtime of 8:00. Everything he does on his phone is monitored by me. I don’t let him out of the house without me present. I don’t let him watch TV, and if I do, he gets 30 minutes a day and that’s it. I make him do chores around the house 24/7 and he has no social life. So why doesn’t he like me? Am I failing as a parent?”

Seriously? Are you fucking for real?

I'll preface this by saying that I take my cart all the way back to the cart return/staging area. I know it's silly to expect people to actually return the cart (though not leaving it blocking a parking spot would be nice).

I'm talking about the carts that get left blocking the walkway only six feet from their "home". People roll the cart just outside the door, grab their bags and leave the cart.

Then, I've watched people walk around a cart blocking the way to remove another one from the return area. Once, while in the café, I watched more than a dozen people walk around an cart to grab another one. Until a seven year old girl stopped her mom and pointed to the one right there, Mom actually had to stop and consider before deciding that her daughter had a point.

I'll actually wait for someone to unload at their car and take their cart, either to use or return. If I see a cart, specifically one blocking a parking space, I'll grab it and use or return it.

Maybe its just me, but I can't stand when i see someone walking their dog and they're only concerned with their phone. When i used to walk my dog it was "us going for a walk together" not staring at my phone while my dog pulls and pulls and directs us, poops, and then going home. I could understand being in a phone conversation or something but to just be scrolling instead of watching/interacting with the dog just annoys me. It screams "these walks are such a chore/ a drag"... Let me do it then. ill walk them and well have a grand ol' time.