Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[JSR]

And the phrase is not transitional? The examples listed below the previous rule are all devoid of adverbs.

[kryss]

Just know that if you TRANSITION my BINS I'll TRANSITION your FACE.

[endo]

And the phrase is not transitional? The examples listed below the previous rule are all devoid of adverbs.

You've lost me. Is what phrase transitional? The two clauses aren't linked by a transitional phrase or an adverb; rather they are linked by a simple conjunction. No semicolon is required.
I've bored myself now.

[endo]

This was a double post at first, but why not add one more to the grammar misery?

People who confuse 'bought' with 'brought'. WTF? Sometimes it's a simple typo but there are various offenders who make the same mistake every time. Again, WTF?

[randombs]

People who say (or write), 'no pun intended' when they haven't made a pun.

So is it better this way:

People who say (or write) 'no pun intended' when they haven't made a pun.

I thought you put the comma because we usually put a comma before some speech, like:

She turned to me and said, "yo' grammar is awesome, yo"

Yeah, probably why he asked if it was misused; as the comma has no function in its position.

I'm confused about the semicolon here, too. I'm frightened of semicolons so rarely use them, but if I had to, I'd have written it like this:

probably why he asked if it was misused; the comma has no function in its position.

or

probably why he asked if it was misused, as the comma has no function in its position.

I need to brush up

[dataDave]

f**k tha po-leece.

[randombs]

You speld 'da' wrong;

[dataDave]

Oh! We're actually treading close to a HUGE irk of mine that re-surfaced after watching some LoL commentaries over lunch.

American kids who can't pronounce English names or words properly. Some champions in LoL seem to have verbally challenging names:

Warwick - They like to pronounce it "War Wick". Like the ****ing wick of a candle that's only to be burnt during wartime. Even worse is that the shorthand form of referring to this champion in-game is abbreviated to "WW".
Elise - "Ellis"
Yorick - "Jorrick"

I always try to correct these idiots in the comments but I get shot down.

[J0e Musashi]

People who confuse 'bought' with 'brought'. WTF? Sometimes it's a simple typo but there are various offenders who make the same mistake every time. Again, WTF?

I often feel the need to ingest vast amounts of cocaine, and go around to Shozuki's house to see him right about this matter.

[endo]

Genuine lol

Oi! Did you change the typo one as well? Thought I'd imagined it!

[Colin]

The thing is, no matter how many times you tell people about this, they continue to do it. There's no excuse for it once youve been corrected.

[charlesr]

I have defeated the gramma nazis with my higher admin rights. Spot their mistakes (inserted by me)

[J0e Musashi]

It's ingest, not injest!!!

You will be bought to justice Rodmell.

[J0e Musashi]

Oi! Did you change the typo one as well? Thought I'd imagined it!

Que? What are you trying to b(r)ing to my attention?

[endo]

I'm confused about the semicolon here, too. I'm frightened of semicolons so rarely use them, but if I had to, I'd have written it like this:

probably why he asked if it was misused; the comma has no function in its position.

or

probably why he asked if it was misused, as the comma has no function in its position.

I need to brush up

Yeah, you've basically got it right.

Semicolons can be tricky to use correctly and they're often not necessary anyway, particularly on forums and the like.

Alex, I wasn't having a pop at you. I was simply pointing out the immutable rule of the internet that anyone pointing out a grammar mistake online is doomed to include one in their response.

I speak several languages but would I go on the French or Italian, say, equivalent of Bordersdown and try to debate the finer points of punctuation with the natives? Would I buggery.
Besides, your English is considerably better than a fair portion of the native speakers on here (cf. the 'brought' vs 'bought' thing, and particularly 'have' vs 'of' as an auxiliary verb) so I take my hat off to you