Pet Peeves, Or What Annoyed You Today?

[Danster]

Today's pet-peeve.... and I've had this one for a few years now, ever since it became way too common in online discourse.

I can't stand it when people qualify their comments with "As a" or "As an," as if it somehow lends more legitimacy or weight to their opinion. Its so infuriating. Its like saying "I'm am expert," when we all know that experts don't tell you they are experts, they show you with their knowledge and as a result you can see their expertise.

"As a sane person," I find this phenomenon infuriating. hehe!

I have to create "user stories" for work for software development projects, we're constantly having to us "As a.....I would like.....So that....".

The words haunt me.

My pet peeve today is with my Dad. He came round a couple of days ago and had a bottle of Scotch, a Laphroig that I didn't recognise. He told me he'd won it in a raffle but would let me have it and that "it's a really expensive one". I opened it tonight and it's pretty rank. I Googled it and it's not expensive at all; in fact, it's one of the cheapest Laphroig make. I don't mind that, I'm grateful for any gift, but I didn't like how he made out it was a really expensive one which got my hopes up. I was looking forward to opening it all day and then I took a sip and it's genuinely probably the worst single malt I've ever tried. And I only tend to try the cheap ones too!