Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[xbl0x180]

Biggest problem for me is that I don't want to intrude in peoples lives so I often shy away, rather than attempt to converse.

I should have asked some people if they wanted to join me in stargazing last night, but the one person who I was planning on coming said she was drinking and would text me later. So 11 o'clock rolls around with no message so I drove 15 miles to the top of the mountain to find 30 mph gusts like sand paper. I wound up getting drunk in my car and drove home. :/

I think the same way and have this same problem. I've said this before (here, in fact): You have to say and do the exact opposite of what you would normally do. You cannot change others, but you can change how you approach them. Think of it as a learning experience should you try again. In a way, it's like a shoot-'em-up - if you keep getting shot down by the same pattern, then you need to learn the pattern so you don't get blown up and 1CC the damn thing

[Ex-Cyber]

Web pages set up so that damn near every pixel of the layout is sensitive to clicks. Sometimes I just want to click somewhere to deselect text or make sure that the right box/frame has keyboard focus (e.g. for scrolling with arrow keys and Page Up/Down) and have to hunt for an empty space that doesn't double as some kind of button.

[njiska]

Web pages set up so that damn near every pixel of the layout is sensitive to clicks. Sometimes I just want to click somewhere to deselect text or make sure that the right box/frame has keyboard focus (e.g. for scrolling with arrow keys and Page Up/Down) and have to hunt for an empty space that doesn't double as some kind of button.

This aligns with my pet peeve about blog designers not paying attention when they link an image and making the whitespace on either side a linked area.

http://njiska.com/2010/12/a-message-to- ... ite-space/

[Skykid]

If there was only a thread for 'big' things that annoy the hell out of you...

WEB DEVELOPING

*puts gun to head*

[Esupanitix]

My computer cost $650 and yet it's slow as hell (Yes I do clean it)

Firefox has the near-inability to edit posts on shrinemaiden.org

Flaky friends.

Or maybe I should expand my circle of friends outside of the 10 people I talk to on a consistent basis.

This. Seriously, everyone that I'm associated with majorly irl is halfway a friend and halfway part of the crowd, which is detrimental to me, being that I'm kinda on the bottom end of the social chain.

[BPzeBanshee]

If there was only a thread for 'big' things that annoy the hell out of you...

WEB DEVELOPING

*puts gun to head*

How are you guys making webpages? Dreamweaver makes things easy in some spots, but in other areas it sucks compared to just hand-coding it. Did some hand-coding in Uni myself and Dreamweaver during Middle School.

[njiska]

How are you guys making webpages? Dreamweaver makes things easy in some spots, but in other areas it sucks compared to just hand-coding it. Did some hand-coding in Uni myself and Dreamweaver during Middle School.

Even when I use Dreamweaver I still code by hand. The colour coding is great, but generated code is so atrocious at times.

[Skykid]

If there was only a thread for 'big' things that annoy the hell out of you...

WEB DEVELOPING

*puts gun to head*

How are you guys making webpages? Dreamweaver makes things easy in some spots, but in other areas it sucks compared to just hand-coding it. Did some hand-coding in Uni myself and Dreamweaver during Middle School.

Not using DW. My situation is a bit different. It's a long story, don't want to talk about it.

*html/php/slits wrists*

[BPzeBanshee]

Ugggggh, PHP. Apparently that shit's complex. The only thing we unfortunately didn't cover at Uni. I feel for you, bro.

Even when I use Dreamweaver I still code by hand. The colour coding is great, but generated code is so atrocious at times.

Yeah, I gotta agree with you there. I had some trouble describing it before but there's something about writing your own code that really just 'clicks' with me. Probably the reason why I'm pro-GML as opposed to D&D in Game Maker.

To a thing that actually annoyed me: this. I'm not a fan of Sushi myself but burning down a building for shits and giggles or whatever reason just isn't cool. Unfortunately that's the way things seem to be going these days. I give it about another ten years before we end up like European country x where they lose a soccer match and the crowd set fires to everything within a 4km radius. At least we don't get that batshit yet.

[Op Intensify]

I give it about another ten years before we end up like European country x where they lose a soccer match and the crowd set fires to everything within a 4km radius. At least we don't get that batshit yet.

Boston and Vancouver are no strangers to sports riots, though.

[BPzeBanshee]

I give it about another ten years before we end up like European country x where they lose a soccer match and the crowd set fires to everything within a 4km radius. At least we don't get that batshit yet.

Boston and Vancouver are no strangers to sports riots, though.

I've yet to have heard of sports riots in any of those places on the world news. Does it happen often where you live?

[njiska]

I give it about another ten years before we end up like European country x where they lose a soccer match and the crowd set fires to everything within a 4km radius. At least we don't get that batshit yet.

Boston and Vancouver are no strangers to sports riots, though.

I've yet to have heard of sports riots in any of those places on the world news. Does it happen often where you live?

2011 Stanely Cup Finals. Vancouver lost to Boston. City was riotous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Vanco ... y_Cup_riot

[BIL]

Game music albums that insist on playing sound effects and/or speech over the music, as if I'm listening to a soundtrack album for anything but the soundtrack. Older Akumajou Dracula and Double Dragon albums can be especially bad at this.

[BPzeBanshee]

And now I'm trying to find a computer shop in the local area that has the parts I want only to find that none of them work on Sundays. I realise I'm impatient but AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

[moh]

i had completely forgotten about that shit that happened in vancouver

i always found soccer riots in europe really confusing.. is it worth killing someone because a guy from their country can kick a ball better than a guy from your country can? D:

[njiska]

i always found soccer riots in europe really confusing.. is it worth killing someone because a guy from their country can kick a ball better than a guy from your country can? D:

Is it worth killing somebody because they didn't grow their beard in accordance with your beliefs about religious tenants?*

People are passionate about the strangest things and they get a bit crazy/violent.

*This was an actual threat made against a Bangladeshi friend of mine in Dhaka. A fanatical Islamist stopped him on the side of the road, threatened him with a knife and demanded he go home, shave off his beard and then grow it correctly.

[moh]

i always found soccer riots in europe really confusing.. is it worth killing someone because a guy from their country can kick a ball better than a guy from your country can? D:

Is it worth killing somebody because they didn't grow their beard in accordance with your beliefs about religious tenants?*

People are passionate about the strangest things and they get a bit crazy/violent.

*This was an actual threat made against a Bangladeshi friend of mine in Dhaka. A fanatical Islamist stopped him on the side of the road, threatened him with a knife and demanded he go home, shave off his beard and then grow it correctly.

I myself am muslim, and it really upsets me when people do things like that..
it's extremism that makes us look crazy. Its hard to convince people that we're not all terrorists, so i keep my religion to myself.

[brentsg]

When my A/C breaks in the middle of a heat wave..

[rancor]

..so i keep my religion to myself.

That's fantastic advice for anyone, really.

[Op Intensify]

That's fantastic advice for anyone, really.

Too bad it directly goes against the tenets of certain sects and religions that explicitly encourage or require believers to seek converts. Jehovah's Witnesses being the most obvious example.

I'm glad I was raised by atheist parents.

[moh]

That's fantastic advice for anyone, really.

Too bad it directly goes against the tenets of certain sects and religions that explicitly encourage or require believers to seek converts. Jehovah's Witnesses being the most obvious example.

I'm glad I was raised by atheist parents.

its a shame that sometimes atheists can be just as "in your face" as religious people.

i say we all just believe in our own shit, and stay out of other people's business.

if only it were so simple..

[njiska]

its a shame that sometimes atheists can be just as "in your face" as religious people.

i say we all just believe in our own shit, and stay out of other people's business.

if only it were so simple..

This is why I'm not a fan of Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens. What a bunch of preachy assholes. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with having beliefs, or even being proud and celebrating them, just so long as you don't use them to fuck with other people's lives.

[O. Van Bruce]

..so i keep my religion to myself.

That's fantastic advice for anyone, really.

Does japanese really despise christianism that much? Most of the references I receive through manga and anime are quite negative...

[Op Intensify]

This is why I'm not a fan of Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens. What a bunch of preachy assholes. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with having beliefs, or even being proud and celebrating them, just so long as you don't use them to fuck with other people's lives.

Of course, Christianity has fucked with far more people's lives than any other ideological force in history.

Does japanese really despise christianism that much? Most of the references I receive through manga and anime are quite negative...

Nah, most Japanese don't take any form of religion the least bit seriously. It's just that the Catholic Church (or equivalent) is a convenient plot device, and the "kill God" idea is cathartic and cool. The name Evangelion and the cross explosions don't mean shit other than that it looks important.

[rancor]

Does japanese really despise christianism that much? Most of the references I receive through manga and anime are quite negative...

No - Difficult to think of anything that Japanese universally "despise", other than Aum, crows, and earthquakes. I think religion is seen in the same vein as fashion or sports teams. Possibly even less serious.

[Skykid]

This is why I'm not a fan of Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens. What a bunch of preachy assholes.

Hitchens didn't preach to anyone. He was a journalist and an intellectual who was involved, usually by invitation, to share his views in debate, and did so with the same vigour as a Christian attempts to recruit passing strangers to their way of thinking.

Fairly equal, all things considered.

[xbl0x180]

..so i keep my religion to myself.

That's fantastic advice for anyone, really.

Does japanese really despise christianism that much? Most of the references I receive through manga and anime are quite negative...

You might mean animu of today 'cause, as a kid, I used to watch Superbook and The Flying House religiously every week

[njiska]

This is why I'm not a fan of Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens. What a bunch of preachy assholes.

Hitchens didn't preach to anyone. He was a journalist and an intellectual who was involved, usually by invitation, to share his views in debate, and did so with the same vigour as a Christian attempts to recruit passing strangers to their way of thinking.

Fairly equal, all things considered.

I believe the expression here is, "Two wrongs don't make a right". While Hitchens was by no means a loud mouthed asshole like Dawkins, I still found his works to be quite preachy and in the case of his writings, such as god is not Great, often unfocused and poorly constructed.

[Skykid]

I believe the expression here is, "Two wrongs don't make a right". While Hitchens was by no means a loud mouthed asshole like Dawkins, I still found his works to be quite preachy and in the case of his writings, such as god is not Great, often unfocused and poorly constructed.

I think you could criticise the writing of being over wordy and occasionally losing focus, but the depth of knowledge is a clincher for me. Someone with that vastness of education and with such ability to form bulletproof arguments deserves to be heard, even if you don't agree with the approach or the opinion.

Dawkins is a scientist and resolute in his opinions, which I don't have a problem with, I just think people tend to find him irritating as a character. He was good on South Park.

[njiska]

I believe the expression here is, "Two wrongs don't make a right". While Hitchens was by no means a loud mouthed asshole like Dawkins, I still found his works to be quite preachy and in the case of his writings, such as god is not Great, often unfocused and poorly constructed.

I think you could criticise the writing of being over wordy and occasionally losing focus, but the depth of knowledge is a clincher for me. Someone with that vastness of education and with such ability to form bulletproof arguments deserves to be heard, even if you don't agree with the approach or the opinion.

Dawkins is a scientist and resolute in his opinions, which I don't have a problem with, I just think people tend to find him irritating as a character. He was good on South Park.

Make no mistake, I'm not arguing our the legitimacy of their opinions, merely that Dawkins tends to take the, "Fuck you, believe what I believe" approach, which is no better than the very people he is rallying against. It's his lack of tolerance for people not wanting to even have the discussion that so offends me. With Hitchens this sentiment is less forward, but it's still there. And his arguements surrounding the affects of religion on society are far from bulletproof, often focusing on the extremes, rather than on the subtle influences inherent in any organised group (relgious or not).

Make no mistake, I am an atheist and not at all a fan of organized religions and their affects on parts of society. But I'm also sick and tired of the atheist crowd thinking everything would be better if we shelved the whole system and wanting to force that view on others. Religion is stupid, that's always been my opinion, but if you want to follow your beliefs I'm not going to stop you unless they directly impact me.