Today my boss irked the shit outta me.

She used the word "semantics" all day. What she meant was details or logistics.

She was like "if the donors don't know the semantics of that blood drive..."

OK, so we don't know the meanings of the words at a blood drive? Being wrong is one thing, but being loud and worng is another. And that heifer used that damn word all day. I almost want to print out a definition and just leave it in her mail box.

It's not the first time.....

I was almost loud and wrong, edit
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oh yes, and please share your "loud and wrong" moments that you have experienced.


Oh and she says "ross - eh - ter". It's fucking roster!!!!!

my client isn't so loud, well actually once she was, when quizzing a printer, about "embosting" when she meant embossing

an ex-housemate once exclaimed happily how nice it would be to be able to play the autistic guitar like me

i had a boss who once tried to convince me the proper spelling of "curse" was "kurse", because she had spelled it that way on a sign and i had the gall to bring it to her attention.

i had a boss before that who had me type up a letter he drafted in which he used the word "irregardless". i tried telling him that wasn't a word, and he insisted it was, and i insisted it wasn't, and he finally said "i sign your checks, so it's a word". so i put "irregardless" in his damn letter.

Anxiety said:

what a dufus

ZombieKitten said:

autistic guitar??

Anxiety said:

He was very Loud and WRONG!

ZombieKitten said:

why is it that all the stories i can think of where someone was loud and wrong was where i was in an argument with an authority figure?

when i was a kid, i got into an argument with my stepmother because the news said a satellite had recently left our galaxy. i mentioned this to my stepmother and she got mad at me for trying to make her believe that galaxies are real. i was sent to my room until my dad got home and informed her that, yes, galaxies DO exist.

she made me spaghetti for dinner to apologize.

Anxiety said:

then, the cycle continues.

Anxiety said:

oh my god!!!

KatSkrizzle said:

I hope she meant acoustic otherwise she was reading a lot more into that inanimate object than I was

ZombieKitten said:

I bet you play a lovely autistic guitar.

its more a linguistic thing, but I always tell kids, if you want to get a job, you have to "ask" for an application, not "aks" for it.


That one drives me nuts!!!

Back when I was taking my aesthetics course and we got to the section on colour theory (for makeup) the instructor insisted that yellow was the opposite of blue.

bluesbaby said:

That shit's annoying.


I HATE when people say "would of" instead of "would have".

meow85 said:

apparently!

another friend of mine had been feeling very faint and tired, and my workmate said "you probably have what I have, BULIMIA!"
the room went quiet.
turns out she meant anaemia

There was a woman at the registration desk at the ER once. She asked me how to spell asthma. So I told her, "asthma". She said, "No, there's a "u" in there somewhere..."

So, she asked the lady next to me. The lady told her the same thing as I did.

Then she called someone and asked them how to spell asthma. She hung up the phone and said, "There HAS to be a "u" in there!"

I said, "What makes you think there is a "u" in there?"

She said, "Well, it's "azMUH!"

hokie said:

You'd think after she got 3 answers she'd accept it...

In Metro Detroit, there is a street called Lahser, it is pronounced LAW-SER but almost everybody and their mother pronounces it LASH-ER and they are all wrong.

Well, one New Year's Eve, before I met my husband, I was out on a date with a guy and we went to his sister's house who lived around the corner from Lahser. He'd been drinking so when we got ready to leave, I took his keys to drive. He told me to turn on LASH-ER. I politely pointed out that it's pronounced LAH-SER.

This moron yelled at me and told me...ME...that I was stupid! I hit the brakes, threw his drunk ass out of his own truck, I think it was one of those big Broncos that Ford used to make and drove myself home. When he showed up the next day to get it, he couldn't even face me. He had his sister come to the door to get the keys.

I bet his ass hasn't called anybody stupid since!

meow85 said:

It actually was pretty funny.

You'd think. It was so embarrassing for her.

meow85 said:

KatSkrizzle said:

Well, why didn't you? It is okay to correct the management...

hokie said:

What a dummy!!!

peb319 said:

Yeah, I laughed my ass off right there in class. Any kid who's watched Sesame Street could tell you blue and yellow are both primaries and so can't be opposites. And here this woman was telling us otherwise. I can only imagine one of her other students slathering yellow eyeshadow on some poor customer's eyelids to bring out the blue.

meow85 said:

Typing it out that way bugs me too. When they say it out loud, they're saying "would've" and don't realize it.

...and thats why yall make the big bucks.....

bluesbaby said:

Don't forget about when they need to go to the libary
to do their schoolwork

I just let the stupid people believe what they believe

"Never argue with a fool. People might not be able to tell the difference"

I getting irriated with people saying 'pacific' instead of 'specific'.

'I told the lady to be more pacific!'

hokie said:

you should have just told her the wrong spelling on purpose, that's what I would have done!