Pet Peeves

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Welcome to Pet Peeves, where the little things that annoy you are welcome.

Ever notice the thousands of posts and comments out there that just grind your gears? You always want to say something about how much whatever it is sucks, and you hate it. But, then you're going off topic and get people mad at you.

Well, don't do that. Come here instead! Tell us about your pet peeve!

Rules are simple

1: Do not link to comments or posts elsewhere. This ain't power tripping bastards, we aren't here to judge users or mods, we're here to vent a little spleen about the minor annoyances of life.

2: IF screen shots are used, they must have any and all user names obscured fully, and any community names as well. Like already said, this isn't about going after anyone or anywhere in specific, it's about us having a peeve.

3: Wheaton's law is in effect. Don't be a dick. It ain't cool, and it won't be allowed to stay up. Fair warning ahead of time, mods make the call as to what is and isn't dickish. Complaining about it won't get you anywhere. If it's a misunderstanding, so be it, but the dickish comment will still be gone because if one person reads it as dickish, more probably would too. So go back and rewrite whatever it was.

4: If it isn't obvious, bigotry is inherently dickish. Doesn't matter if it's blatant or dog whistles, don't do it, you'll get immediately banned.

5: Cursing is absolutely allowed, but not cursing at people. Motherfuckers may well be annoying, but when you specify an individual as a motherfucker, that's not likely to end in a friendly way. You dig, motherfuckers?

Post guidelines

Try to remember that any pet peeve you have is likely something other beings do with no ill intent. So try to keep it about you, not them. Explain why it annoys you, rather than just ranting about other people, there's already communities for that kind of thing.

Example: Turn signals being left on. Annoying as hell, because now you don't know if they're really signaling to turn, if it's something they didn't know they did, etc, so now you have to pay extra attention instead of focusing on your own driving and navigation.

Don't just complain about how stupid the people must be, how inconsiderate. Keep the focus on the inconvenience itself.

Feel free to refer folks here when they go off topic about their peeves, that's part of why we're here :)

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When you are n years old, it isn't your nth year! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago by FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to c/Petpeeves@sh.itjust.works

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It drives me crazy so many people can't get such a simple thing right. My nephew is almost 2 years old. This is his second year of life (I'm not counting time in the womb). When he was less than a year old, it was his first year.

Yet so frigging often, everyone keeps saying their current age is the year they're in. No, your 30th birthday isn't the start of your 30th year, it's the end. It's so distracting when this comes up in a fantasy series where we're supposed to accept that prophecies are infallible. In the show Once Upon A Time, the Blue Fairy says Emma will come break the curse in her 28th year. NO, the year she is 28 years old isn't her 28th year, it's her 29th year! That's what it means to be n years old, n years have passed since you were born! There is a Disney Channel movie about a boy supposedly turning into a mermaid in his 13th year, but it's his 14th year. The mistake is so prominent THE FUCKING TITLE OF THE MOVIE IS WRONG!

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a reason computers start counting from zero.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

actually they start counting from whatever the programmer wanted them to. could be INT_MIN, for example.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You've never programmed bare metal (i.e. assembly), have you?

ETA: just because you can simulate that in higher level languages doesn't mean that's what's actually going on at the hardware level.

[–] t4r1n@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

It's the same concept as what century it is. It's the year 2025, so we're in the 21st century. This still confuses a lot of people, so I have to explain how the 1st century was up until the year 100, not 200.