"Should Have not Should Of" and other pet peeves in posts

Does anyone have any other pet peeves that aren't grammer or spelling related though?

You know, people do sometimes make mistakes not because they don't know what is the right version, but because, well, it's a mistake. Even I've been known to have a brain-fart and use the wrong they're/their/there, and I have a degree in English Lit and work in publishing!! People make all sorts of silly mistakes that they just don't notice at the time - that's why proof readers exist. Sometimes we publish articles that have been checked by 3 authors, a freelance proof reader and an editor, and mistakes still slip through. Blimey, I've even had to correct a misspelling of an author's own name recently - after the article had published!

In fact I'd say that the stupider the mistake is, the less likely you are to catch it in advance. I could tell you about some proper howlers!

It's sod's law, innit.

"Half time" ...it's an interval, unless you're at the Football!

Unless it's a pause. Pauses are designed to lull the unsuspecting audience member into thinking they have time for a trip to the loo, only to be told by FOH to sit back down and cross their legs for the next act.

To start, my post wasn't the initial one in this thread that sparked the discussion - the number of likes for that initial post and the number of responses agreeing with it make it pretty evident that it's not one person against the rest of the forum here.

Your tone is now getting aggressive and patronising, which I'm afraid to me doesn't help your cause.  I am trying to find a middle ground here that isn't going to offend anyone disproportionately, because whether you intend to or not you are offending those of us who dare to disagree with you as much as you seem to have been offended by some of the posts commenting that some people find incorrect grammar irritating.

I'm starting to feel as if some of those who think there is no need to be concerned at all about grammar (which is their right to think) are trying to push contrary opinions into the ground by sheer force and aggression.  That is as much lacking in consideration as any comment about poor grammar which doesn't take into account disabilities or linguistic backgrounds (which if you care to look back at my posting history in this thread I have specifically taken note of).  No-one is right or wrong here, everyone is entitled to think what they please about their grammar and others', particularly on a public forum such as this where there will be differences in expression and people are free to post what they wish, and I think some people need to remember that.  

It doesn't seem to me to be productive to say any more on this, as clearly there is little appetite for finding a middle ground, which is a shame.

That would be why I used the example of a press release, where mistakes matter, rather than a post-it note, where they don't.

I want to make it clear that I'm not referring to the sort of mistakes that everyone makes, where their concentration slips for a moment and they type the wrong thing. I do that all the time, and although I catch most of them a few slip through. I'm not talking about issues like dyslexia, where someone struggles with certain aspects of writing. I'm not talking about English as a foreign language. I'm talking about the sort of repeated errors that make it clear that someone simply doesn't care whether they're right or wrong.

People keep attacking what I'm saying as if I'm claiming that every error is inexcusable. I've never claimed that. What I'm railing against is the claim that every error must be excused: that if you don't know when to use "their" and when to use "there" then that's absolutely fine and you shouldn't be expected to know which is which. Nobody can avoid every mistake, but we should at least try.

Speaking of intervals did anyone ever see Oresteia at Trafalgar Studios? I know it was the aesthetic of the show but all intervals should be like that. Timed with the clock ticking down. When it hits zero the next act starts.

I think I've been to that show.

It was impressive how smoothly it worked as well, I don't remember any post-interval latecomers when I saw it.

No latecomers but a few who just hung around to the last second to sit or didn't take notice of the usher telling them when it was going to start again. Ending in a some what blind panic as the theatre went suddenly dark. It was brilliant to watch to be honest.

Guess what I am also from SE London, we type as we speak. 

Stuck because of a bomb alert, no trains from London Bridge, should of been home by now.