Finally a website for the nitpickers of the world, where you can keep track and score of a zillion things in the world. 
Who are you and what is your favourite subject/person/thing to nitpick about? 
MarkB
The misuse of the English language, especially by āsupposedlyā college educated people.
I ābrangā this with me???!!!
~Larry
The definition on the nitpick page is āA nitpick is a mistake, anomoly, or a small detail in a movie.ā Here are two from my boyhood-both from cowboy movies. In one a letter was to be sent via stagecoach. There was a closeup of the letter and it had a current stamp on it. In another, a bunch of āindiansā were hiding behind a small hill waiting for the cowboys, I guess. They raised their heads up to look over the hill. You could see the upper part of theri arms were bare and you could clearly see the vaccination marks on them.
Steve
I HATE the use of the word ātaskā as a verb. Other bizspeak is almost as bad, but that one makes me see red!
Re: the āverbingā of the language: Impact. Besides a noun, it is an adjective (impacted). When did it become a transitive verb? Whenever I hear or read about impacting such-and-so, I envision a collision or its outcome. But, as has been said before, usage ultimately determines meaning.
rant rant rant
I think I may fall into this catagory.
Anytime I watch a movie, if something is really wrong, particularly historically, I just canāt really really like itā¦(Braveheart) 
Newcular. That just about sums it up.
Robin
Double negatives. My brain goes through the old - X - = +.
Nit picking is always appropriate so long as one always conforms to the law of diminishing fleas. In other words, it is always appropriate up to the point where further scratching will do more damage to the flea carrier than to the fleas.
Oh BTW, my particular peeve is subtle mixed metaphors. 
OHHHHH IT MAKES ME ANGRY.
How about ājournalingā.
āHi what are you writing?ā
āIām journaling.ā
SOB. Iām angering at the thought.
In a second Iām coffeeing.
But I notice that people donāt get too upset about Microwaving.
I always thought it was to do with lice! when I was small we used to have a nit-nurse come and inspect our heads at school for nits the lice eggs.
edit - thinking on up here in the north she was known as a biddylady, so if she was auburn, whould that make her a redbiddy?
I donāt know if this is really a nitpick, but it grates & chafes when people ask for help without giving enough detail of the scenario, item, whatever.
Like: I have a violin, is it valuable?
Or: I want to start playing whistle, what do you suggest?
It takes all my powers of selfcontrol (which as some here can attest are not overly good) not to wind them up with a useless and potentailly dangerous answer.
Indeed!
From Websters:
Main Entry: 1nit
Pronunciation: 'nit
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu; akin to Old High German hniz nit, Greek konid-, konis
Date: before 12th century
: the egg of a louse or other parasitic insect; also : the insect itself when young
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Thus the picking of nits; focussing on minute but irritating details 
Correct, hence the remark about mixed metaphors. But seriously, the point of the principle of diminishing fleas applies to metaphorical nitpicking, even if it doesnāt apply to real nitpicking.
āThereās a twister coming, at least an F-4.ā (Twister)
Wrong on at least two points:
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This incident in the movie happened in 1968. The Fujita scale didnāt come into effect until 1971.
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The Fujita scale is used to rate tornado intensity by its damage, and therefore is applied after the fact.
Whenever I hear the term ānitpickingā, I always think of this bit of dialogue from one of my favorite movies, āThis is Spinal Tap.ā
INTERVIEWER: Letās talk about your reviews a little bitā¦regarding āIntravenus de Miloā: āThis tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth rate of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of
retarded sexuality and bad poetry.ā
NIGEL: Thatās nit picking.
Drivers with a car full of kids whose remedy for a tailgater is to slam on the brakes. Thereās some serious amount of rational thought being banked in those vehicles. And perhaps hearing someone, with otherwise intelligent points, using the word āaxedā when they mean āask.ā Iām happy to be asked, not too fired up about being axed. You?
Sometimes I get nitpicky about pronunciation. Example: bruschetta. It aināt a German word; please donāt pronounce it like one! But my family, knowing better, do anyway, and badly. Itās ābroo sket taā, not ābra sheddaā! Most arghsome to me. Then again, I could always get a life, I suppose.
Then thereās the French town of Ypres as pronounced by certain English-speaking individuals. āWipersā??? It smacks of contempt. After all, how hard is it to say āEeepkghhā? Sheesh.
Drivers with a car full of kids whose remedy for a tailgater is to slam on the brakes.
I do not do this. However, when tailgated I ALWAYS respond by setting my speed to EXACTLY the speed limit. No more, no less. Of course, this means I enrage the tailgater by my offense of not speeding. Sooner or later, it will get me killed in a road rage episode. But, I persist in this dangerous behavior because, my friends, I am born to be wild.
Dale
MarkB[/quote]
Drivers with a car full of kids whose remedy for a tailgater is to slam on the brakes.
I do not do this. However, when tailgated I ALWAYS respond by setting my speed to EXACTLY the speed limit. No more, no less. Of course, this means I enrage the tailgater by my offense of not speeding. Sooner or later, it will get me killed in a road rage episode. But, I persist in this dangerous behavior because, my friends, I am born to be wild.
Dale[/quote]
I move over so the guy can hurry on home and choke someone else.