Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[Marc]

This, and also the trend of suing because everything is someone's fault so you deserve money or some such shit. I was in a collision while on the bus lately, spooked the ahit out of me. Two days later there's a letter from fuck knows who asking me if I want to claim. For what exactly?

[drauch]

Threads in the "for sale" section that are just ebay auctions.

[Ex-Cyber]

The way Microsoft's push for Metro apps in Windows 8 smells of petty desperation rather than genuine leadership. They've even got Valve worried at this point.

[Despatche]

The only thing that "smells of petty desperation" is the ridiculous amount of clowns complaining about all of that in the first place.

[drauch]

Almost all of my favorite porn stars are retiring.

[MX7]

If I know I have to do something that day, even if it's an informal social thing in the early afternoon, I wake up at 6.30 without fail. I don't generally need much sleep when it comes down to it, but it's annoying when your body can't conform to SIMPLE CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS.

Olympics is really fucking me off at the moment. Helicopters flying everywhere, parades going down Oxford Street on the one day I actually need to go there, every single fucking advert having some tenuous Olympics reference. Also, the revolting little polish that the capital has received in order that the cameras don't accidentally pick up any mouldering council estates or heroin addicts eating their own sick. Brick lane's been paved over, they've put some big shiny bauble in Stratford station to distract people. All this subterfuge when the country is going into ecconomic meltdown, and rights are systematically being eradicated. And all this for a fucking GLORIFIED SPORTS DAY.

[blackoak]

Olympics is really fucking me off at the moment.

http://wsws.org/articles/2012/jul2012/olym-j27.shtml

to or to ...

[BIL]

Almost all of my favorite porn stars are retiring.

Oh, here's mine for the day: screaming toddlers on the bus... with dumb parents. I wish they'd just let the kid tire out instead of shitting all over my airspace with that bovine incantation: "Shurruuuup" ♫

[Ex-Cyber]

Oh, here's mine for the day: screaming toddlers on the bus... with dumb parents. I wish they'd just let the kid tire out instead of shitting all over my airspace with that bovine incantation: "Shurruuuup" ♫

Or the kid is bawling his eyes out and mom/dad has the brilliant idea of yelling at him to stop crying. Because that works.

[Ed Oscuro]

The only thing that "smells of petty desperation" is the ridiculous amount of clowns complaining about all of that in the first place.

Requested by the world:

- HIV drugs
- More food
- YAP (Yet Another Protocol)

• - INXS 2: ReMake My Video
  - another Zooming UI
  
  I dunno, I don't use the damn things. I suppose not having any hall of mirrors potential makes Metro all better, because it defaults to being more private (i.e. obscure) in appearance than even ZUI takeoffs.

[Ex-Cyber]

Software vendors silently replacing package files on their servers with different versions under the same filenames (unless it's meant to be something like a "latest version" link, obviously).

[Ed Oscuro]

One of the "product ads from external websites" that popped up on Amazon:
http://www.batteryjunction.com/duracell ... 00qty.html

What annoys me is that you can get a battery, like so:
CR123A (RL123A-1 from the back of the package, a Rayovac model, which mentions "10 year storage" on the back in small letters in a funny font, which makes it look like a product slogan; of course they don't mention things like continuous standard load or even nominal voltages and capacities. Plugging in RL123A-1 reveals it is just Rayovac's SKU and just gives you useless pages like this (maybe interesting if you're a retailer, bad if you need to decide which of the things to use).

The package states that it replaces DL123ABU, EL123APBP, K123LA, CR123A, CR123, and 123A.

That would be a hell of a lotta time spent hunting down battery product sheets and the like just to try to find specs on the batteries. Plugging "datasheet" into the keyword search provides some datasheets, on poorly designed and confusing websites that seem not to have the correct datasheets anyways. It would be a lot more useful for some battery links to show up in the Google results instead of page after page of Bob's Battery Wholesale, Inc. looking to sell me a hundred dozen counts of the battery, on pages that don't list all the battery specs.

To top it off, the old chips these things are powering probably soak up much more power than a new circuit would, too.

[njiska]

Mame Rom versioning. This is particularly a pain in the ass during STGT.

[Stormwatch]

Again the "thou/you"thing... people using "y'all" as singular and "all y'all" as a plural. That's THREE LAYERS of plural. Fuck! Maybe someday you'll have to say "all y'all of everyone in the collective of multiple youses" to mean a simple plural you.

[null1024]

Mame Rom versioning. This is particularly a pain in the ass during STGT.

This so much. It would be nice if MAME would just check the checksum of the ROMs you're using, check them against those of what game you're trying to load and just ask "this file is misnamed, would you like to rename it? y/n". Would make a lot of headaches go away.

Also, not-MAME emulators that don't look at checksums to determine which files are which in a set but stick to $insert_mame_version_here's naming [probably 0.112 or 0.85 or 0.62 or something], and more often than not, you end up needing a set with naming that's ages earlier than the current MAME. Gah.

[drauch]

*Was annoying, but I got it fixed with my smooth talking ebay skills.

[moh]

dishonest people.

its one thing for a little kid to lie. But adults who just can't tell the truth for whatever reason is one of the things I hate most. seriously, just grow the fuck up.

[Ex-Cyber]

ISP terms of service that ban protocols by name. As far as I'm concerned, it's like having a giant banner on your website reading "OUR SYSADMINS AND/OR LAWYERS ARE ALL EMBARRASSINGLY INCOMPETENT WANKERS".

Oh, no! Not the dreaded Internet Relay Chat! We can't handle such a demanding protocol! But Jabber is fine.

[Ed Oscuro]

Recently, lots of people have been looking for segueways to discuss the other issues that peak their interest, but just between you and me, they don't have anything interesting to talk about.

The word "segue" does not need to be followed by "way." It is a complete word. It is still pronounced the same as the idiot-moving device's name, however.

"Peaked" does not belong after the words "my interest was." "Piqued" might fit, but you should invent a better phrase than this hackneyed cliche will provide.

[Ex-Cyber]

just between you and me

Just between you and I. Irrespective of whether you're using you and/or I as object or subject, of course.

[xbl0x180]

just between you and me

Just between you and I. Irrespective of whether you're using you and/or I as object or subject, of course.

I think he used it correctly


Example:

This grammar Nazi discussion is between you and me.
That's between you and me.


You and I don't know the difference between "you and me" and "you and I."
I and you should learn the difference.

[evil_ash_xero]

My father.

[Ex-Cyber]

just between you and me

Just between you and I. Irrespective of whether you're using you and/or I as object or subject, of course.

I think he used it correctly

My father.

Yeah; I don't know what to say to this. My father and stepfather both have their weaknesses, and there were brief times that I hated them, but I have every reason to believe that they both wanted the best for me, even when they didn't understand where I was coming from (and even if I still don't fully understand where they're coming from). I don't know what it's like to have a full-blown failure for a father. I hope you don't either, after all.

[Ed Oscuro]

Is it correct to say "between God and I, because I am the same person as, and identical with, God?" I mean if I were speaking as Jesus. I guess that's not a very common scenario. Actually, Jesus would just go "grammar miracle, LOL"

[xbl0x180]

Just between you and I. Irrespective of whether you're using you and/or I as object or subject, of course.

I think he used it correctly

Irregardless of the joke going over my head, I sometimes get that mixed up - usually when talking

Hey, grammar Nazis, why is "I" capitalised?

[Ed Oscuro]

If you don't capitalize it, I won't feel threatened.

[undamned]

Irregardless

You realize that's the same as saying "regarding," right?
-ud

[Ex-Cyber]

Devices that completely refuse to work without being registered online.

(so glad I found that thread before tearing open the shrinkwrap)

[xbl0x180]

Irregardless

You realize that's the same as saying "regarding," right?
-ud

[blackoak]

wordpad in win7. I fucking despise the automatic spacing. WHEN I PRESS ENTER I JUST WANT TO GO ONE FUCKING SPACE, AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I have to press "shift+enter" for everything now, and then adjust the spacing on paragraphs after the fact. wordpad used to be simple and efficient. i sense deliberate clunkiness to nudge customers into the even more fucked up Word... as if.