Yeah, tobacco companies hiring researchers to conduct biased, unscientific studies to conclude cigarette are a-ok to smoke and breathe in second hand, which has long been determined a detriment to people's health.. I can't think of a reason someone might want to bash the tobacco industry.

I've already linked to three specific articles earlier on, so the burden of proof is not upon me to keep citing for those who came late to the debate and didn't read the topic.

I'd go on about cars once again but I'm not really into repeating myself.

Big one for me is how people say 'Twenty twelve' instead of 'Two thousand and twelve'. Why? Did we say 'Twenty eight' instead of 'two thousand and eight'?

It really pisses me off and I think it actually takes longer to say than 'two thousand and twelve'. Everyone on TV here says it.

Its easier and shorter to say twenty twelve. It makes sense compared to twenty nine or twenty eight, since these are missing a zero when you say it.
For 2006 etc I usually just say 'oh six', though I jump between twenty twelve and two thousand and twelve depending.

I think it's more awkward to say 'twenty twelve' because I've spent half my life saying two thousand before the year.

I guess it's where you're from, I myself would rather say two thousand and twelve than twenty twelve. A thing that relates to how we say time that annoys me a little is how some people have two sets of twelve's in their days but not twenty four hours. So the clock is twice "1" and twice "2" and twice "3"... and so on rather than it just being 1 at one part of the day and 13 on the other, and 2 on another part of the day and 14 on the other and so forth. Now perhaps this wouldn't be as annoying if people didn't insist on using the initials for two Latin words rather than two English words. P.M. for Post Meridiem (note how meridiem even gets a red underscore on this site) and A.M. for Ante Meridiem. What's wrong with "Before noon" & "After noon" or "Before midnight" & "After midnight"?

Also even if it is all very basic it makes keeping time harder. It's a lot easier to see that I'm working for 5 hours if I work from 10 to 15, than if I'm working from 10 to 3. 15 - 10 = 5, 3 - 10 = -7?

When you have 24 hours and not two sets of 12 hours it's also easy to just say "it's 12:19" and there is no question about if it's 19 minutes past noon or midnight, it's past noon and if it was past midnight it would be 00:19.

I think you're being picknicky about your time, it's pretty easy to tell the time, whether or not its in 12 hour or 24, once you've initially learnt how to tell time.

License and licence - I've been using the American spelling for years and only now have I noticed when I'm doing this asignment that needs to be in 100% perfect English or I fail

Yeah, I'm getting fed up with hearing it, too, especially as it's yet another buzzword that's so often randomly injected into conversations for no other purpose than sounding hip with the times, daddio.

I'm still not seeing how cloud computing is fundamentally different to '80s technology like VaxClusters and other loosely-coupled systems anyway. (edit: sorry for my own use of jargon, it's just me objecting to something old being sold as something new, or at least of things seeming to be that way.)

Well this thread is the "little things" that annoy you. Hehe.

I asked a friend of mine why cloud computing is so necessary, since he likes it a lot for his job (school district-wide computer tech who builds computers and works on networks for multiple schools in different cities), and he went on a long spiel about it, but I just pretended to pay attention and assumed it was a good reason since he tends not to waste his time on useless crap.

- Forgetting the title of the thread

Being annoyed. I want to be like Drew Barrymore -- blissfully oblivious, and peppy. I just can't be. Damn you, Drew Barrymore! /shakefist

If you'd think people texting in lectures is distracting, just try paying attention to your professor when a guy a few rows before you is watching tentacle hentai on his giant laptop.

Inconsiderate smokers piss me off as well, not because of health reasons but because of the [censored] stench. Even the more considerate smokers often annoy the hell out of me, because they often still smell even when they're not actually smoking. This morning I was in the train, when this lady got in who had been smoking outside. I had to go to another wagon to escape and get some clean air.

People who dont know how to use spoiler tags. Especialy with big spolers and words that catch your eye e.g murdered
I have a [censored] memory, but I stll remember those things. Must forget!

I called 1990 nineteen-ninety, not nineteen hundred and ninety. Why should the 2000s be any different?

Cats.(Dogs Ftw)

I didn't know we went to the same school.

I'm a perfect person, so when people aren't as good as I am, I get angry.

If the symptoms persist, you should have that looked at by your local physician..

I'm pretty sure the surgical procedure is called a frontal lobotomy, or bottle in front of me..

both work.

So you called the year 'twenty eight' instead of 'two thousand and 8'?

No. I call 1903 "nineteen-o-three" usually. 1910 changes to "nineteen-ten". 2008 is two thousand and eight - or twenty-o-eight, but once it reached 2010, much like 1910, it becomes, "twenty-ten."

But heck, if you want to call 2021 year two thousand and twenty one, go ahead. It's just an unnecessary mouthful. If you live to see 2101 you can call it the year two thousand one hundred and one, though I have no idea why you'd want to do that.

Are you that guy?

It worked for me.

Another annoyance, one that *just now* happened:

Saying "oh" when you mean "zero":

Seven-oh-eight (708). Stop. Those are all digits, m'kay? There are no letters in a phone number or zip code. A 0 is not an O. End of story. Don't say "seven-oh-eight." It's "seven-zero-eight. Zero. ZERO!

edit: aargh!

Some of these pet peeves are very tempting...

Do you call James Bond agent zero-zero seven?