Pet Peeves

[Calderis he/him]

3 hours ago, StrikerEZ said:

Okay, but how do you guys pronounce caramel?

Both ways are correct. 

I tend to use car-mel

Care-a-mel just sounds pretentious. 

[Ammanas]

3 hours ago, StrikerEZ said:

Okay, but how do you guys pronounce caramel?

It must be a regional thing because in the south everytime it came up people always say care-a-mel.

[Ammanas]

3 hours ago, Nathrangking said:

Teachers or professors who make zero effort to tone down their insane expectations and standards, and yet talk to you as if you should like them for what they put you through.

I am curious if your experience has been that way in either of three circumstances: 1. Going to College. 2. You live outside the United States. 3. You attend a private school. 

Because it been my experience going through high school and even being a teacher the the instructors have given up providing education in junior high and high school u.s. state provided education. Teachers pretend to teach, students pretend to learn and everyone gets passed so they receive a useless High Scool diploma. Teachers are tired of fighting insane parents and being told by the principle they cannot fail anyone bc it looks bad for their numbers.

[Nathrangking he/him]

These experiences  resulted from my having to deal with college professors in the U.S.

[Draginon he/him]

8 hours ago, Orlok Tsubodai said:

As an Englishman, I've never heard it pronounced "Lane-kiss-ter". The pronunciation Wilson provided "Lan-cas-te(r)" is that which is used.

We must be exposed to different types of British English. The first way is also how I've heard every other instance of towns ending in caster being pronounced by brits. The second pronunciation is the way we say it in California but with the r pronounced.

@little wilson I agree with that wholeheartedly. It's weird how caffeine affects different people. I don't really get anything from it, I go more for the flavor of the drink like you, but my mom insists the caffeine in Coke helps her with headaches.

3 hours ago, StrikerEZ said:

Okay, but how do you guys pronounce caramel?

I pronounce it car-mal

[Sami she/her]

When it comes to pronunciation, one of my pet peeves is when my friends criticise me for pronouncing "h"without the sound "h" in it, and saying "z" as "zee", not "zed".

Then they dismiss it all as my being American (my family lived in US for 20 years, even though I've never been there ) I know that American's commonly pronounce "z" as "zee", but it still annoys me so bad.

[Draginon he/him]

How about when someone makes a complaint that has little or no logic behind it? Like my mom complains when my bedding smells but that's a normal thing when you've got sweat, dead skin and body odor sinking in while sleeping. Wish she could reveal her secret to not producing any natural waste while I'm sleeping.

 

1 hour ago, Sami said:

When it comes to pronunciation, one of my pet peeves is when my friends criticise me for pronouncing "h"without the sound "h" in it, and saying "z" as "zee", not "zed".

Then they dismiss it all as my being American (my family lived in US for 20 years, even though I've never been there ) I know that American's commonly pronounce "z" as "zee", but it still annoys me so bad.

I never understood the zed pronunciation since I hadn't heard z pronounced that way until I got the Doctor Who DVDs a few years back and the documentaries would mention Z Cars for contemporary shows.

[little wilson she/her]

4 hours ago, Draginon said:

I agree with that wholeheartedly. It's weird how caffeine affects different people. I don't really get anything from it, I go more for the flavor of the drink like you, but my mom insists the caffeine in Coke helps her with headaches.

I rarely drink pop/soda/carbonated beverages at all anymore. But generally the reason behind caffeine not being a stimulant to some people is due to some kind of attention disorder. I have ADD, and just about everyone I've talked to who caffeine doesn't work on like normal have either ADD and/or ADHD. Caffeine should wake people up. If it doesn't, there's something going on.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

3 hours ago, little wilson said:

I rarely drink pop/soda/carbonated beverages at all anymore. But generally the reason behind caffeine not being a stimulant to some people is due to some kind of attention disorder. I have ADD, and just about everyone I've talked to who caffeine doesn't work on like normal have either ADD and/or ADHD. Caffeine should wake people up. If it doesn't, there's something going on.

Caffeine does jack crem to me. I just like the taste of coffee xD

[Draginon he/him]

11 hours ago, little wilson said:

I rarely drink pop/soda/carbonated beverages at all anymore. But generally the reason behind caffeine not being a stimulant to some people is due to some kind of attention disorder. I have ADD, and just about everyone I've talked to who caffeine doesn't work on like normal have either ADD and/or ADHD. Caffeine should wake people up. If it doesn't, there's something going on.

That's the thing, I don't have a disorder. The only places I go for caffeine though is soda and tea, no coffee for me since I hate the taste. So how exactly does ADD and ADHD affect caffeine anyway?

[little wilson she/her]

That's not exactly the right question, but I know what you mean. Caffeine helps calm them down. The medications all have stimulants in them, and caffeine is sort of a poor man's drug for attention disorders.

If you don't have an attention disorder and caffeine doesn't do anything, odds are, your body has built up a tolerance to it and you need more for it to have an impact.

One of my friends once drank half a Monster Energy drink in the middle of a long drive (1 can has 86mg of caffeine in it). When he got to his destination 2 hours later, at 2am, he couldn't sleep because of the caffeine in his system. He didn't fall asleep until around 5am.

Compare this to me, where one night, I drank 3 cans of Live Wire Mountain Dew (54mg per can), and then took a 200 mg caffeine pill before driving 45 minutes home (the pill was meant to help me focus on the road since it was 2am and I was tired. It was not meant to wake me up, since we knew it wouldn't). Promptly fell asleep, no problem. Woke up 3 hours later with horrible cramps (not due to caffeine) and in my groggy state, thought "oh, cramps. I'll take Midol." I took two. Midol has caffeine in it, though I can't remember how much (I think it's around 70 mg per pill though). Up to this point, my body had given me no indication of how much caffeine was running through it. About 30 minutes after taking the Midol, I woke up again with an uncomfortable tingling in my veins and my eyes wigging out, unable to focus. I'd overdosed hardcore and had to deal with the effects of a caffeine overdose combined with terrible cramps the rest of the day. Worst day of my life. But the caffeine wasn't what keep me awake. The overdose effects and the cramps were.

My friend: ~43mg of caffeine.

Me (before the Midol): ~362 mg of caffeine

He couldn't sleep. I could.

If you can ingest 300+mg of caffeine and it does virtually nothing to you (as in, you can still sleep just fine), yeah, there's definitely something going on in your brain. Because that should not be a thing.

[Sparkrunner he/him]

Just found out root beer has caffeine in it

[little wilson she/her]

2 minutes ago, Roadwalker said:

Just found out root beer has caffeine in it

Some brands do, some brands don't. I know Barqs has caffeine but A&W and Mug both don't.

[Sparkrunner he/him]

Yeah- Barqs is in almost all the restaurant soda dispenser thingymajiggers.

[little wilson she/her]

1 minute ago, Roadwalker said:

Yeah- Barqs is in almost all the restaurant soda dispenser thingymajiggers.

That's because it's a Coke product. If the restaurants go with Pepsi products, their root beer is fine. I grew up on A&W because my parents didn't like us having caffeine.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

When earbuds get all tangled up or when you're walking past something and the earbuds get caught up on it and fall out of your ears. 

[AngelEy3 he/him]

Barq's has bite. That's their slogan. To my knowledge it is the only commercial rootbeer to contain caffeine unless you start getting into specialty drinks. 

[Mestiv he/him]

And again I keep asking myself what is root beer? I wanna try it but we don't have it in Poland 

[StrikerEZ he/him]

17 minutes ago, Mestiv said:

And again I keep asking myself what is root beer? I wanna try it but we don't have it in Poland 

Hmm...I'm not sure how to explain it. It kind of has a vanilla taste to it (at least the good kind does), but it's basically just another one of those drinks like Coke or Dr. Pepper. Have you heard of cream soda?

[Sparkrunner he/him]

AWWW

Ya need ta fly over here! We got it in almost every restaurant! It's the soda of dreams!

[Steeldancer he/him]

Root beer is amazing. And it's born to go with pizza

[Draginon he/him]

@little wilson Guess I either have a tolerance to it or need a large amount. I don't know how much I regularly do, but I tend to do a soda at a restaurant or if I don't want one I do iced tea. I tend to drink a cup of tea (black, green and oolong are my picks) at night. I know when I was in middle and high school I drank a lot more soda than I do now since during those years I drank it at both lunch and dinner and sometimes consuming a couple in between meals.

 

To the root beer talk YEAH FOR ROOT BEER!!! It's so hard to find a restaurant that serves it so I love getting it when it's available. @Mestiv some people claim it's an acquired taste item, kind of like bitter foods and alcohol, so if you find it try it a few times give it more than a couple sips.

[Nathrangking he/him]

Mug root beer as is as I like to say the nectar of the gods (though here I guess the nectar of the shards)!!   

[Draginon he/him]

4 hours ago, Nathrangking said:

Mug root beer as is as I like to say the nectar of the gods (though here I guess the nectar of the shards)!!   

That's why Odium is killing the other Shards, they won't share their root beer!

Heres one that only happens when eating out. My mom is the pickiest eater out there. There could be one itty, bitty problem with her food and she'll refuse to eat it until the kitchen fixes it. She could ask for no pickles on her burger and she won't eat it if there are pickles on it. Heck she picks out half of all the lettuce in a salad (a salad meal, not those side salads) for absolutely no reason. Also she thinks the rest of the family is just as picky as her. For me, unless the food is completely wrong (ordering a burger but getting a chicken dish) or has something on it I don't like eating, I won't return it just for something that small. My dad and sister are mostly the same as me on that matter.

[Nathrangking he/him]

Hmm... that explains a lot. If only uncle andy and the others had given him more root beer how much trouble might have been avoided.