Things that irk you......

Sports Journalists Forum – Media, Newsroom & Reporting Talk

Help Support Sports Journalists Forum:

Chef2

Well-Known Member
Joined
Dec 28, 2009
Messages
20,558
Not really **** you off.......but just things that just get under your skin......

One of mine is hearing bad radio.
Oh my word.
Hearing some dude go crashing through the post, or worse, he tries to speed up his voice to go really really fast so he can hit the post.

Oh.....the next time I see a score of 53-71.........Ye Gods.
 
Misuse of the term meme
Mispronunciation of GIF

I just heard both on Kurt Vonneguys.
 
People who walk in crowds while looking down at their phones. At least once a week someone on a city street collides with me or has a near miss bc they're droning on their phone. This generation raised on iPhones is gonna be ****ed
 
Use of 'scuffling' to mean 'struggling:' He's really been scuffling at the plate.
 
Everyday/every day. The really frustrating thing is I used to see it only in non-journalists' writing and advertisements. Lately, I've seen several violations by journos WHO SHOULD ****ING KNOW BETTER.
 
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change.
Bad grammar, punctuation and sentence structure, especially on news and newspaper websites and other social media. Don't call yourself a journalist and write like a second-grader.

"... accident at the intersection of Interstate 0 and Main Street." There is no intersection there -- it's a freeway, with on and off ramps.

"a car collided with a tree ..." Oh yeah, how fast was the tree going? A collision means both objects were moving.

"the accident happened at about 8:30 p.m." Really? It happened at 8:30 p.m. or about 8:30 p.m., but not both.

"Smith received injuries to his head ..." "Receive" means to readily accept. You don't receive injuries -- you sustain them.

"The next game will be in Bumble**** Friday. Two proper nouns do not go back to back. If you just remember TIME, DATE and PLACE, in that order, you almost never need to use a preposition.

"on the mound" in a softball story. OK, that one more than irks me. There is no mound in softball. #threadjack
 
grinds+my+gears.png
 
"Good to know you". You don't know me, you ****head, we just met.

"For Sell". God, you're ignorant.

"I did it on accident". No, no, no, you did it by accident, you dipstick.
 
Must of or should of. There are people now who think it is correct and acceptable.
 
Getting an order from the Taco Bell drive thru and, instead of them asking what sauce you want, they just fill the bag with mild.
Who the **** gets mild sauce at Taco Bell?
 
Getting an order from the Taco Bell drive thru and, instead of them asking what sauce you want, they just fill the bag with mild.
Who the **** gets mild sauce at Taco Bell?
Who the **** plays the food snob with taco sauce?
 

Latest posts

Back
Top