Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[neorichieb1971]

Its funny listening to a foreigner telling us how to speak and write English.

I always thought Americans spelled things in synch with the tongue because its easier to learn.

you'll be surprised how many UK'ers don't know what a comforter is though. Since we use the Francais version, la Duvet.

UK'ers use the word "hoovering" quite a lot. I got laughed at in the States and for the life of me I couldn't think of the correct terminology. Which is of course "Vacuuming".

[emphatic]

EDIT: Come to think of it, I have no idea what a "Garegga" is. Was that some kind of engrish mix up, or does this word hold any meaning whatsoever?

It's supposed to mean Garage, like in how gritty everything looks in the game.

[Zeron]

Its funny listening to a foreigner telling us how to speak and write English.

It's annoying when you make a little pronouncing mistake in english then you get the bla bla you suck at english, but then you hear the guy try to pronounce some name of a video game that happens to have for example a german,russian whatever name its so fucking bad that you just want to put glass shards into your ears. But then the excuse is of course that he only speaks english

[Leader Bee]

Its funny listening to a foreigner telling us how to speak and write English.

UK'ers use the word "hoovering" quite a lot. I got laughed at in the States and for the life of me I couldn't think of the correct terminology. Which is of course "Vacuuming".

Hoovering isn't the correct term wherever you go, although i use it myself too. "Hoover" is a brand name and back when Vacuum cleaners became affordable for the mass market this firm had a monopoly on them [Vacuum Cleaners]; Because it was such a well known brand people would "Hoover" things rather than vacuum.

[njiska]

Its funny listening to a foreigner telling us how to speak and write English.

I always thought Americans spelled things in synch with the tongue because its easier to learn.

you'll be surprised how many UK'ers don't know what a comforter is though. Since we use the Francais version, la Duvet.

UK'ers use the word "hoovering" quite a lot. I got laughed at in the States and for the life of me I couldn't think of the correct terminology. Which is of course "Vacuuming".

Make no mistake, i have no problem with Tyre, Kerb, or any of the other spellings. It's actually kind of fucked being a Canadian as half the language is derived from the British spelling and the other half is Americanized. It's the historical ignorance/arrogance in my previous example that grinds my gears and i have a lot of Brit friends so it comes up often.

It's quite funny you mention duvet and comforter as here they're generally seen as two different things here. A duvet is a duvet. A comforter is more like a puffy quilt and never covered.

What's really funny though it the huge difference in the meaning of fanny between the two cultures.

[neorichieb1971]

It gets confusing when talking about potato foods.

UK crisp = US chip
UK chips = US fries

I tell you what else bugs the hell out of me when I'm in the States, you ask for bacon and get a strip of burnt shriveled up meat. You don't get any of the Danish variety with that nice sizzling pinky stuff.

I also didn't understand why you call any meat "Sausage". Because in the UK a sausage is usually round like a penis. But in your country its more like a can of sausage (or something).

I liked the idea that you had free vending on the soda machines over there. But I didn't like the fact that it were watered down. People would still put 20 cubes of ice in it as well. Weird, people would buy the large cups with free vending.. I'm sure there is some logic behind that

[njiska]

I also didn't understand why you call any meat "Sausage". Because in the UK a sausage is usually round like a penis. But in your country its more like a can of sausage (or something).

Typically, at least in Canada, sausage is the phallic shaft and sausage meat is the filling. A lot of food places then to call Sausage patties just a sausage, but they're technically wrong and assholes.

[Elixir]

people who use this size font on this forum despite probably previewing their post

[Skykid]

When you discover a band or music act you're really into, find two great albums and then realise on the third that they've started to become experimental, trying new things that no-one really asked for and you're not really into, signalling that they'll never return to form and are on the way out.

[emphatic]

When you discover a band or music act you're really into, find two great albums and then realise on the third that they've started to become experimental, trying new things that no-one really asked for and you're not really into, signalling that they'll never return to form and are on the way out.

That's better than just growing old and BORING.

[mesh control]

When you discover a band or music act you're really into, find two great albums and then realise on the third that they've started to become experimental, trying new things that no-one really asked for and you're not really into, signalling that they'll never return to form and are on the way out.

This sounds like every pre-My War era-Black Flag fan.

[Zeron]

I hate albums where there is this one amazing song but the rest is just generic guttertrash

[mesh control]

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=36516

[Blackbird]

That post CD medium - Modern era of game soundtracks where everything had to be "cinematic", "epic", or "symphonic", but just ended up sounding really boring and uninspired. PS1 was especially guilty of this, but things have gotten better lately.

[Obiwanshinobi]

That post CD medium - Modern era of game soundtracks where everything had to be "cinematic", "epic", or "symphonic", but just ended up sounding really boring and uninspired. PS1 was especially guilty of this, but things have gotten better lately.

How come the PSX - which probably had more good soundtracks than all console games released on CDs for earlier systems - was especially guilty of this? It's a shame video game music had lost its unique flavour indeed, but picking on that particular system is petty. What N64 games did to save chiptunes? PSX at least had The Adventure of Little Ralph where you could choose between chiptunes and pre-recorded tracks, as well as a couple of exceptionally good re-arranged soundtracks for coin-op games (Capcom Generations 3).
I don't think much of massively hyped FF OSTs, but those aren't even representative of Square standards at the time, let alone the whole PlayStation library.

[Ex-Cyber]

Microwave ovens that tell you they're done with a 5-second-long series of loud beeps, and don't stop beeping when you open the door.

[neorichieb1971]

I hate beeps. The other day someone called me on my 50 mile journey home from work and I had to listen to that beeping for 1 hour (you can't stop on the motorway).

I don't know if this has been changed, but using MS movie maker creates an audio track the PS3 doesn't recognize. It worked before, now it doesn't. So its a case of if it isn't broke, don't fix it. I found a silly workaround. Upload to youtube (which I do anyway) and re-download it

[zaphod]

One side says that it's the woman's fault for dressing sexy. They are wrong.

The other side says that dressing sexy attracts rapists is a complete myth, and woman have every right to dress as sexy as they want and expect not to be raped ever. Also wrong.

Imagine that a nice car was parked in a bad neighborhood and was stolen. And then car thief apologists (or people that are jealous of nice cars or don`t like them for whatever reason) come out and say "what did the owner expect when they bought such a nice car?"

While it`s true that having a nice car and dressing in a way that attracts attention may be risk factors for car theft and rape respectively, it doesn`t make those crimes any less illegal. Also, the "bad neighborhood" risk factor is probably a much greater one in both cases, so I don`t think "always driving a junk car" or "always dressing modestly" are effective solutions for either problem.

If women who dressed sexy complained about being hit on that would be a different story, but a person should be able to have the expectation of not getting raped no matter what they are wearing. If not that is a serious failure of society.

I have never said that it shouldn't be illegal. Any more then stealing a car is illegal.

But the analogy doesn't hold.

Lets say you parked your nice car in a bad neighborhood, left the keys in the ignition, and placed a sign that says "Please do not steal me" on the car. What do you think is going to happen to the car? It's going to get stolen.

Similarly, if a woman is going to dress in a way that suggests that she is advertising for sex, and use body language suggesting she wants sex, and then doesn't let anybody have sex with her, it's going to get someone mad sooner or later. It's possible to wear clothes like that, and carry yourself in a manner that won't attract attention from the wrong people. But if you go "neener neener neener, I'm sexy and you can't sleep with me" can you really expect for nothing to happen no matter how often you do it?

It's not the clothes, it's the behavior. It's just that that behavior attracts much less attention without the clothes to go with it.

[Siren2011]

A reoccurring noise (like some dude banging a hammer against a nail at the house next door) when you're sleeping. Honestly, it makes me want to light kittens on fire.

[ED-057]

Lets say you parked your nice car in a bad neighborhood, left the keys in the ignition, and placed a sign that says "Please do not steal me" on the car. What do you think is going to happen to the car?

I dunno, smells like a trap to me...

"neener neener neener, I'm sexy and you can't sleep with me"

The problem with this is that it is likely a figment of a man`s imagination. A man can`t always judge accurately whether a woman is purposely leading him on, or if she even gives a crap what he thinks at all.

I remember reading about a study where college students did something like speed dating, and afterward the women were asked to report whether they had been flirting, and the men were asked to report whether they thought the women had been flirting. The finding was, that for every time a man said that a woman was flirting with him, 90% of the time the woman said that she wasn`t.

You are accepting that men will get these wrong ideas about a woman if she behaves a certain way, but then you are expecting women to know exactly how they can behave without giving men the wrong idea. That`s not fair.

[njiska]

You are accepting that men will get these wrong ideas about a woman if she behaves a certain way, but then you are expecting women to know exactly how they can behave without giving men the wrong idea. That`s not fair.

Not to make light of the conversation, but after reading that this was all i could think of. So how about a moment of levity in a serious conversation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4hNaFkbZYU

[doctorx0079]

You are accepting that men will get these wrong ideas about a woman if she behaves a certain way, but then you are expecting women to know exactly how they can behave without giving men the wrong idea. That`s not fair.

Not to make light of the conversation, but after reading that this was all i could think of. So how about a moment of levity in a serious conversation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4hNaFkbZYU

THAT WAS RETARDED BOSS

[Acid King]

Lets say you parked your nice car in a bad neighborhood, left the keys in the ignition, and placed a sign that says "Please do not steal me" on the car. What do you think is going to happen to the car? It's going to get stolen.

Similarly, if a woman is going to dress in a way that suggests that she is advertising for sex, and use body language suggesting she wants sex, and then doesn't let anybody have sex with her, it's going to get someone mad sooner or later. It's possible to wear clothes like that, and carry yourself in a manner that won't attract attention from the wrong people. But if you go "neener neener neener, I'm sexy and you can't sleep with me" can you really expect for nothing to happen no matter how often you do it?

It's not the clothes, it's the behavior. It's just that that behavior attracts much less attention without the clothes to go with it.

That analogy makes no sense. You change the cars environment and that's what makes it likely to be stolen. If you didn't put it an a bad neighborhood and made those changes to the car, instead parking in a nice suburb with no crime, the chance your car being stolen disappears. Show me something, anything, other than your theoretical explanations of how rapists think that suggests sexy dressed girls are more likely to be raped than those who dress plainly.

[emphatic]

That analogy makes no sense. You change the cars environment and that's what makes it likely to be stolen. If you didn't put it an a bad neighborhood and made those changes to the car, instead parking in a nice suburb with no crime, the chance your car being stolen disappears. Show me something, anything, other than your theoretical explanations of how rapists think that suggests sexy dressed girls are more likely to be raped than those who dress plainly.

In a nice neighborhood, it might still get keyed.

[Ex-Cyber]

Referring to 224/240/256-line analog RGB as "CGA". The actual CGA hardware only does 200 lines, and its RGB output is digital (5V TTL).

[Acid King]

That analogy makes no sense. You change the cars environment and that's what makes it likely to be stolen. If you didn't put it an a bad neighborhood and made those changes to the car, instead parking in a nice suburb with no crime, the chance your car being stolen disappears. Show me something, anything, other than your theoretical explanations of how rapists think that suggests sexy dressed girls are more likely to be raped than those who dress plainly.

In a nice neighborhood, it might still get keyed.

And the chances of that "might still" are somewhere between jack and shit unless there is some strange wave of vandalism, which again, would have nothing to do with the state of the car.

[Elixir]

肘？ｗ

Edit: Fuck, apparently it's 时, which is simplified Chinese for "time", and the first thing which came to mind was "時", which is Japanese for time. I was right.. in another language.

Captcha, do not like.

[brentsg]

Chocolate easter bunnies that are actually hollow inside.

[njiska]

The Management.

Doesn't matter the job, management always seems to be completely out of touch with it's employees. Today this is a major annoyance to me. Dilbert Principal, through and through.

[neorichieb1971]

Things are supposed to have filling that have almost none. Sausage rolls..

Also I noticed some brand of crisps put enough in there that you count them.