Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[trap15]

Oh no, $5/month! My god! I have to buy a slightly cheaper lunch one day this month! The horror! If only I didn't have to play games online!

[brentsg]

Yeah if you can't pony up $5/mo then Sony probably doesn't want you. They've made PS+ a great value this gen.

[Ed Oscuro]

"Pub gamers" have gotten me to pretty much completely abandon multiplayer online. $5 is not excessive at all - thank goodness for low bandwidth costs - but it is nice just to keep the fucking kids and assholes in line, or off the system entirely.

[Lord Satori]

It's only $5? Well I suppose it isn't all that bad, then.

[rapoon]

Indeed. Actually, I have to wonder why nobody seems to make RCA female to stereo headphone adapters. If you think you've found one, it's probably just a y-splitter cable (which will just increase the amplitude of the sound and give you just left channel audio).

rca (stereo) to mono input (1/4", 3.5mm) will output to the left channel only if stereo headphones are being used. unless the manufacturer specifically states "stereo XXXX" input" etc, it's safe to presume it's mono.

[JAPJAC]

People that say "Right?" with raised intonation after every question.

People that say "PIN number".

British Islanders that now say "Package" instead of "Jiffy Bag" or "Parcel".

People that think Ireland is a country.

People that say "Pick-ups".

People that say "Shmups".

People that use that don't understand "___" and '___' usage.

People that contribute nothing but are the first to try and mock even though they clearly aren't reem themselves.

[antron]

^wow, that's some petty shit to get annoyed over.

Concerning Ireland, so someone stealing part of their island wasn't enough? Now the rest of the country must forfeit its historical name, and forever be known as the "Republic of Ireland"? Get real, no one is going to say that shit. Tell anyone you are heading to Ireland and they know exactly where you are going, and it ain't in the UK.

lol: google maps Ireland

[Nana]

Things that annoy me:

*When somebody shits everywhere but the toilet on a public restroom. On the other hand, I'm thankful I don't have to clean toilets for money anymore.

*Persimmons...?

[Skykid]

People that contribute nothing but are the first to try and mock even though they clearly aren't reem themselves.

I just want you all to know that I'm on my best behaviour and therefore struggling with every bone in my body not to type a simple one-line passive aggressive vitriolic response to any of JJ's posts.

But damn, if this isn't the greatest test of willpower I've ever encountered.

[antron]

reem?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=reem

oh, makes sense now.

[Jon]

reem?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=reem

oh, makes sense now.

[Ed Oscuro]

reem?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=reem

oh, makes sense now.

LOL. Thread can just close on this high note.

Sorry JAPJAC.

[JAPJAC]

Ireland is not a country still, it's the 2nd largest island after Great Britain (which also isn't a country) in the British Isles. Hence The Emerald Isles as opposed to the Emerald Country. Learn that. English is an official language of The Republic of Ireland, lol.

Reem was used way before TOWIE and Joey Essex were born. In my day it was used by barrow boys done good as slang for cream-as in the best of the best. Learn that.

Joey Essex has more skirt, more mates, his own business, re-kindled a slang word and probably has a bob or two, everything more than most computer game fans glued to their Internet connection. Therefore, I hate him and I don't even know him. Grow up.

Cheers.

+ People that base their knowledge from a Google search over real life experience/knowledge.

[trap15]

[antron]

English is an official language of The Republic of Ireland, lol.

but not the official first language. That is Irish, and in that language the country is officially known as Éire, which translates in English to Ireland. They are free to call themselves whatever they want, even if that name is already used for the larger landmass they are on. Actually, I did learn something, Republic of Ireland is the official description of the country, in English. It's all right there in their constitution. Read that.

[JAPJAC]

And in your Google maps it was called Ireland (incorrectly) in English as opposed to Eire in Irish whilst at the same time omitting the countries of Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. Nice.

Reply in Irish and I would be impressed. These Republic of Irishman speak this language of Irish whilst wearing the Englishman's national costume (the suit)? The dignity. LMFAO.

The French don't call it the English Channel and the Argentinians don't call it The Falklands. The English say they are going to Europe on holiday. It's just how these people think, just refuse to out of pure childish spite even though it's universally incorrect.

[antron]

Well, we sure don't say "Republic of Irishman" in the states. I doubt folks do in England either. If they do it is surely out of spite themselves; as I suspect you do it.

the google maps link is in the English service , and I guess it just separates sovereign nations.

[Rob]

+ People that base their knowledge from a Google search over real life experience/knowledge.

Note that this is an international forum. Even if we're all communicating in English, we're not all from your neighborhood. I've never seen anyone else here or anywhere cram so much incomprehensible local gibberish into their posts.

[Ed Oscuro]

Eire go brach!

[Skykid]

+ People that base their knowledge from a Google search over real life experience/knowledge.

Note that this is an international forum. Even if we're all communicating in English, we're not all from your neighborhood. I've never seen anyone else here or anywhere cram so much incomprehensible local gibberish into their posts.

Er, before you start apologising, I'm from the UK and can clarify that the following is indeed the most accurate description of the slang word 'reem' I've ever encountered in writing:

"Reem

This word means; I'm a total dick that watches a shit program and then insists on quoting things from it in my own life. (often this isn't its literal meaning and just something the user is intending to imply)
Joe: That girl is so reem."

Although Essex has long suffered a reputation for being populated by a throng of thickos, the image was further driven underfoot in a recent popular 'reality' TV series (use that word with a pinch of salt) that followed the lives of a bunch of uneducated imbeciles who are just a few shades shy of mentally retarded. Of course being television made for people of the same IQ as its protagonists, it's proven popular with Britain's increasing number of morons (it's a phenomenon, and it's happening.)

It's rather unfair to people who live in Essex who actually have brains - I'm sure there are several - to be in some way represented by a show with less intelligence than an episode of Sesame Street, but thems the breaks when it comes to exploitative televisual entrepreneurs.

So yes, use the word reem and you're effectively notifying Britain that you're part of the dumb shit club, and proud.

None of this is directed at JAPJAC directly of course, as that would be inflammatory.

[trap15]

the image was further driven underfoot in a recent popular 'reality' TV series (use that word with a pinch of salt) that followed the lives of a bunch of uneducated imbeciles who are just a few shades shy of mentally retarded. Of course being television made for people of the same IQ as its protagonists, it's proven popular with Britain's increasing number of morons (it's a phenomenon, and it's happening.)

Sounds 100% like Jersey Shore.

[Skykid]

the image was further driven underfoot in a recent popular 'reality' TV series (use that word with a pinch of salt) that followed the lives of a bunch of uneducated imbeciles who are just a few shades shy of mentally retarded. Of course being television made for people of the same IQ as its protagonists, it's proven popular with Britain's increasing number of morons (it's a phenomenon, and it's happening.)

Sounds 100% like Jersey Shore.

That, and its bedfellows, is exactly what it's based on. A show about idiots being idiots, made for idiots. The apocalypse has begun, and it's so reem.

[drauch]

Things that annoy me:

English speakers only gatherings in Japan.
People on shmups forums that hate people that say "shmups."
Finger pointing in pictures.
Forums that only one person posts in.
Capcom Power System CHANGERs and the lead authorities on the subject.
People that say "learn that."
People that won't stop digging their own graves.

[Skykid]

People that use that don't understand "___" and '___' usage.

Honestly, in a completely non-combative way, I'd like you to explain the usage of single and double quotation marks, because I'm sure you're using them incorrectly in several of your posts.

'Best' Maid Cafe in Akihabara

'Best' does not require single quotation marks in the fashion that you have used it here, since it's a self-descriptor. An example of when you might put it into single quotes is if you were highlighting the word independently of the rest of the sentence. For example, as I've done at the beginning of this paragraph.

We always wanted to go to the ''The Backstreet Boys one" from their video years ago but I just found out that it just closed in January of this year! Gutted.

Is "The Backstreet Boys one" a direct quote? As in, you've taken it from someone else's mouth and therefore issued it as a quote? If not, this shouldn't be in quotation marks. I have a feeling you were going for: The 'Backstreet Boys' one, which, because in relation to some kind of street phraseology, and a pop group, would only demand single quotes instead.

Somewhere that does all the cliche "Welcome home master" and Janken games etc.

Again, as this is not an actual quote, nor related to a fictitious quote (as in, describing the words of a fictitious character anecdotally), but a phrase generally used by maids in cafes, single quotations would have sufficed.

Basically a 'Disneyfied' Maid Cafe experience would be the best.

This seems correct, a creative phrase highlighted by single quotes, although it's actually not necessary in the conversational format of a forum (and may not be necessary in other formats either.) For example: "I loved the fucking shit out of Snoopy until they went and Disneyfied the mangy mongrel."

'Best' Space Capsule Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

Refer to the above.


AFAIK this is how single/double quotes are used, but if anyone knows otherwise please feel free to chime in and correct me.
Although this facet of punctuation is versatile (occasionally complicated) and can be used in numerous ways, there are several rules you appear to have broken in your recent usage.

[rancor]

Following the lead of the previous two posts, can we just say JAPJAC?

[JAPJAC]

Ugly people.

People that stalk other computer game message board posters on-line.

People that can remember other computer game message board posters usernames.

People that can quote other computer gamer message board posters from up to 10 years ago or more.

People that are jel of others on-line because they are not reem themselves.

People that allow others on-line to give them the satisfaction every single time.

Accents.

Poor people.

The Internet.

[Ed Oscuro]

You know, it rather looks like you laid some bait, and then started accusing people of stalking you for going after them easy pickins'

[ancestral-knowledge]

Wow, JAPJAC you are amazing.

[trap15]

How many times can I post toolbox.png in one week!?

I'll avoid actually posting it again because it's huge, but goddamn this post should have it.

[CIT]

I'd like to see JAPJAC visit a pub in Dublin wearing only his chav baseball cap and St. George's cross briefs (which he no doubt owns) and talk about whether Ireland is a real country.

Now that's a reality show I'd watch!