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The word is "peeve" as in minor vexation. Not a major problem or a catastrophic illness or having kids you can't support. Just a little day to day irritation. You know, kinda like a newbie that comes in here and wants to take us to school by threatening to leave the forum.

usta bee stillbeeman, before that Beemanbeme. Damn techies.
Kinda of ironic the spelling police critic's some one, when their own signature line starts with usta bee. Just saying u-no, kinda like stone thrower's living in glass houses. Oh and I shoot boolits, just my little tribute to the great folks over at cast boolits.

Boolits isn't a display of poor spelling, it's a contrived display of ignorance. Or a pitiful attempt at being kewl.

Why would it be an attempt of being cool? Such as usta or kewl. Mister spell checker,chill out and smile. Everyone has their quirks, it's what's make the world work.I am done some people just can give it and not take it.

Tight arsed shooters ,especially here in Australia some of them are the biggest ,scabs ,jews whatever you want to call them ,they want everything for nothing ! unless they are cheating you or thieving from you, they dont want to buy it ,they complain ''oh yeah but i can get one cheaper at blah blah blahs'' [then why dont you f..king buy it from him idiot ?].They want you to pay the freight for them ,plus ammo, dies,'' errrr what else do i get with it ??? is there any cleaning gear ? what about projectiles ? i spose its got shit wood on it has it ? my wife says your asking too much for it '' .Then you will see the same gun you sold them six months later for sale at some ridiculous inflated price ! on the net . Yeah i just go to work so i can give you a 40 year old rifle thats still brand New so a F...kwit like you can get it for half price Fuckoff!

I enjoy finding out what the pet peeves of anal retentives, fuss budgets, Prunella Purepants, are, then I csn needle them.
My most favorite is upon parting is the tell them to have a great day..........unless they made other plans.

Jim

Repair shops that call their mechanics "technicians."

safe dings

One of my annoyances (can’t spell pete preevises) is being in Dallas/Ft. Worth/Austin/Houston and seeing folks running down the highway with their one ton, four wheel (can’t spell 4 either) drive pickups with Ranch Hand bumpers front and rear, forty two thousand pound power take off winch with 400 feet (nope can’t spell fut) of cables, headache rack with two dozen KC lights, windows darken out, buckmaster sticker all over the back window, running on 48X16X24 Giant Monster Gumbo Grabber/Slingers and the truck looks like it just came off the show room floor. I live in a very rural farming/ranching community and these ranchers and farmers don’t have all that stuff and they are “OFF ROAD” every day.
Then I think about Boyz and their Toyz…..

take the above truck and put a handicapped permit on it. Then I do get steamed. Especially when the driver gets out and its some lard ass with a cig hanging out of his mouth.

I forgot to add that. I got sideswiped while was typing. There is a kid who lives in town north of us where my wife and I go the grocery store. Exact kind of truck, it has handicapped plates on it and I have inquired about this twice. He is fine, it is for his grandparents but instead of a tag hanging from the rear view, he has the plates. I have called Barney Fife on him twice because he parks in the handicapped when he has been by himself. Get this, he carries a little step stool so his grandparents can get in and out of his truck.

IMO, if someone that is not handicapped uses the vechicle and parks in a priviledged slot, the car ought to be towed.

I do agree,one case I remember was over 20 years ago. I was stopping at the CVS too pick something up and guy pulls into the handicap with a neck brace on. Looks in the mirror, takes off the brace and jerks his head around to see if he was followed then went inside. I was young amd did not think over it much to later, pissed me off.

You know who you are: Gunsmithing pet peeves

whiners mostly, like 90% of the ones who responded here.

As we used to say in the Army; "you got three hots and a cot and free ammunition, quit whining..."

Rich

The long-range shooting crazes or crazies and the shows promoting it.

Posts which compare mule deer management to whitetails and expect the same result.

Guns which have been hunted, but have no scratches/dings.

Little League baseball coaches who think they are really baseball coaches.

Misuse of the English language. In particular the current use (due primarily by the media) of the term decimate; I.E. 'the troops were decimated',etc.The correct term would be devastated or other terms equaling mass destruction.The term decimate was designed by the Romans that when an opposing force would not surrender + once finally beaten the Romans would take 1 man out of 10 + put to the sword (or other means of execution).Point being is that the term decimate in the Latin means a reduction by 10%.

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Misuse of the English language. In particular the current use (due primarily by the media) of the term decimate; I.E. 'the troops were decimated',etc.The correct term would be devastated or other terms equaling mass destruction.The term decimate was designed by the Romans that when an opposing force would not surrender + once finally beaten the Romans would take 1 man out of 10 + put to the sword (or other means of execution).Point being is that the term decimate in the Latin means a reduction by 10%.

Of course, that is not misuse of the English language. Since we are not Romans, and since the modern ENGLISH definition is to "kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of or to ddrastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something)" then the examples you cited were absolutely correct English.

People that always complain about those of us who like to shoot long range.

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Misuse of the English language.

"Broke" as in "It's broke."
"Where're you at?" instead of "Where are you?"

OK, I have one...
In any used vehicle section, the term "tranny" I know I won't go there....... r in w.

I agree Gato,forgive my phrase structure.If we are picking nits,then one must remember damn near all of our language comes from a latin/greek base.I have no problem with misspelling but I do with ignorance.This is just a case in point of my pet peeve. "The ignorance of the American people".

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I agree Gato,forgive my phrase structure.If we are picking nits,then one must remember damn near all of our language comes from a latin/greek base.I have no problem with misspelling but I do with ignorance.This is just a case in point of my pet peeve. "The ignorance of the American people".

All too right, and way too many of them vote.

BTW, my nit pick for the day......I am amazed and regusted at how many people on the net can't spell "lose, loser", etc. All too often they put an extra "o" in the word and it becomes "loose, looser".

They will vote again this year as well.Point made for all concerned,I hope.

My pet peeve: Anything East of Manitoba.

Regards,

Carpediem4570

Really??!!
Jeez. Growing up in Winnipeg, I recall great fishing in gorgeous northern Ontario.

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BTW, my nit pick for the day......I am amazed and regusted at how many people on the net can't spell "lose, loser", etc. All too often they put an extra "o" in the word and it becomes "loose, looser".[/QUOTE]

You find the same things in newspaper articles, magazines, and even books. It is often people's utter reliance on 'puters:

I have a spelling checker.
It came with my PC.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it.
I'm sure your please too no.
Its letter perfect, in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

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You find the same things in newspaper articles, magazines, and even books. It is often people's utter reliance on 'puters:

I have a spelling checker.
It came with my PC.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it.
I'm sure your please too no.
Its letter perfect, in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

Grate poem!

......causes me to wonder........[(though spelling errors catch my eye and my (forgive me) judgementality)] (is that an acceptable expression??) .....how important or not are spelling errors. Certainly consistency in language should be expected, if only because "standards" ought to be set and maintained. They are useful. But, it seems that "mis"spellings are constantly becoming standardised, either officially by inclusion in a revised dictionary, or by prolonged use. Is this "bad"??.....or is it part of an evolutionary process?? I dunno. Somebody out there in AR-land tell me, please.....BECAUSE IT PISSES ME OFF!!!!

IMO, it is evolutionary. When I was a kid, using the word "ain't" could get you drawn and quartered at the least. Now it's in the dictionary. To someone my age, especially if you had a 7th grade english teacher like Mrs Allen, the words and construction can really grate on your ears. But, you hear supposedly educated people using the idioms and who can really argue with the elocution of a mega millionaire sports figure that can't read or write, or a rock star that has trouble focusing his eyes?

For what it's worth dept.In the early 70's Walter Cronkite (uncle walter,et al) said the word "febuary" instead of "february".The Sxxxt hit the fan but the general concensious was that that if a word is in common usage,then it becomes valid.Thanks Uncle Walter + the ranks of the illiterate, thanks,"you idiots in congress wherever your lair is,to allow this to happen.

Bluefish......when you're fishing for stripers.

Poor spelling does annoy me somewhat , but nowhere near as much as reading someones entire post and finding not one full stop , comma , or other common-usage form of punctuation mark.
Most usually a product of a younger person , and often found in company of "text-speak" spelling...

Wy ya'll trien to learn peepil rite inglish?

wasting 7 minutes of time reading this thread when I could of been looking at porn

I mean seriously, I'd of been done already

Well my biggest PP is the excuse of I am looking for a rifle for a small scrawny kid as an excuse to use under powered calibers for big game hunting.
I was the second smallest boy in my class and I started hunting with a sporterized .303 Enfield. Brass buttplate and all. Did it kick? Hell yes but that was all we had for me to use. So even in the summer I practiced with a coat on and got used to it. Fact is it really wasn't any worse than a single shot 20 gauge. My second year hunting I had saved my money and bought a Winchester 94 in 30-30. You know the old ones without a crossbolt safety. No one was ever accidentally shot while I put the thing on half cock or unloaded it either. My senior year in high school at a whopping 110 pounds I moved up to a 30-06. So all these threads looking to decide if a .243 with a 60 grain bullet will kick more than a .223 with a 60 grain bullet so Jr. don't get his shoulder bruised kills me. If Jr. is that big of a wimp let him sit in the house with mommy! She can teach him to knit! We coddle today's youth way to much! And I don't want to hear about recoil teaching them to flinch and not shoot well. Get a rifle that fits them. Set them on the bench proper and give them a pad if needed. Hearing protection, safety glass's and they will do fine. Teach them the proper way to shoot. All the guys who shoot the big bores for Africa talk about learning how to handle guns that bring tears to most men's eyes or how you can get used to the big magnums without a brake then we don't want a kid to feel any recoil. Come on!

Rant Over!

Don,I remember when I first fired my major thumper.I was young.That was under the tutalage of Major Mike Maistrelli.He taught me to shoot skeet + birds.I also learned at a tender age that recoil is a state of mind. The key my friend is to use your breathe control(for starters).Forget recoil;it only exists in your mind.That does not mean don't snug it up;a man would be a fool to not do so.

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... If Jr. is that big of a wimp let him sit in the house with mommy! She can teach him to knit! We coddle today's youth way to much! ...

Rant Over!

Umm... Donald, I don't think mommy is in the house knitting. Maybe Jr should go shooting with her. Lol.

Norman and Gato,

I agree wholeheartedly. The ignorance of the American people/liberals is my pet peeve. It's pretty much the same thing.

What has become a big time pp. Have you noticed that the US medal winners put their hands over their hearts and even sing along with the anthem. Makes you feel good. My PP is anytime Obama is faced with the flag of the United States, he grabs his crotch.
Not too surprising, I guess, since he has admitted that he and his wife have been to several flag burnings.

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Originally posted by Donald Nelson:
... If Jr. is that big of a wimp let him sit in the house with mommy! She can teach him to knit! We coddle today's youth way to much! ...

Rant Over!

Umm... Donald, I don't think mommy is in the house knitting. Maybe Jr should go shooting with her. Lol.

Well many mommy's are including my wife. Sometimes I wish she would go shooting with me but seldom ever wish she wanted to hunt. That is my time. I was disappointed my daughter never took up shooting or hunting.

The two spellings which really bite my butt are "Muzzle break" and "Gold Metal Match". The original producers of that stuff, Federal Cartridge Company, were making and selling "Gold MEDAL match ammo. As in capable of winning a Gold Medal, or itself being of Gold Medal quality.

People that refer to themselves as (Mommy) or (Daddy) of their dog. I have not yet to hear of a human giving birth to a German Shepherd.

People that take all day to make a right turn into a parking lot etc. You do not have to stop to turn into a parking lot you can keep rolling as you are doing this.

As was already mentioned the whole Winny, Leupy, Remmy etc.