What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Sprinkler Fitter]

... or when they say "300% more" instead of 200% more, for something that's 3x another. 300% more would be 4x.

I don't expect everyone to remember calculus, or Euler's identity, but 3rd grade math shouldn't be too much to ask.

That is 3rd grade math?

 

[bcp]

Third grader: " 'Percent' is what my mom puts on to smell good."



Bruce

 

[WinterDeere]

That is 3rd grade math?

I suppose I could be off a year, but that's my recollection. Point is, it's very basic arithmetic.

 

[BravoXray]

And then we have a person in government proclaiming to cut the prices of certain products by 500%, 1200%, 800%.
Meaningless drivel that the uninformed, math illiterate take as facts.

 

[Camofurever1]

That is 3rd grade math?

Ask a third grader now.............

 

[WinterDeere]

Ask a third grader now.............

Okay, I just asked my 7th grader, and she said she learned this in 5th grade. Sorry, I was off 2 years, but it doesn't change the underlying point!

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

I'm STILL getting Flat Earth things popping up on my phone and computer... From, you know... that one thread....

 

[Runner]

Here's a pet peeve from when I ran on the road a lot. I'd be running along, minding my own business, possibly setting a new personal best record for my run, battling the elements, fatigue, dehydration, heat stroke, etc., and people would roll up to me in a car and expect me to stop what I was doing and give them directions to QukTrip or whatever.

I would just keep running and ignore them unless they were going my way, then I would talk if they rolled along next to me. I would just tell them I was not familiar with the area and didn't know.

Some people would get mad, thinking my sole purpose for being out there was to give them directions.

 

[RandyT]

Some people would get mad, thinking my sole purpose for being out there was to give them directions.

You mean it wasn't. Sarcasm intended.

 

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