Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[atheistgod1999]

I found out today from another kid in math class that I can download games onto my graphing calculator. Too bad that I have a color TI-84 and not a black-and-white one, because it's not backwards-compatible with the apps. Apps for the black-and-white ones include FPSs, side-scrollers, RPGs, and pretty much everything else. Apps for mine? Just a few 80's arcade games, and it doesn't seem like anyone is bothering to develop more!

That good enough, BIL?

[BIL]

Yes, topic can now officially resume. Remember, pacing yourself is key. ;3

[null1024]

Being broke. Yay for yearly bills all triggering almost at the same time!
which is admittedly my own fault, but I usually have more money around this part of the year

Sure, I'll get paid a week from now, and it's not like I'll go hungry [bought food and other necessities], but this is a whole week where I'm absolutely strapped for cash, I've got like $20 available for spending...

[lilmanjs]

People who cough a bunch, and then give a stupid reason to justify it. If your smoking causes you to cough for 5 minutes, maybe you should try and kick the habit before somebody knocks your ass out.

[soprano1]

The fact that starting today, and until December i will hear people saying "Oh, it's just x months until Christmas!"

[Mischief Maker]

The fact that starting today, and until December i will hear people saying "Oh, it's just x months until Christmas!"

Conservatives getting triggered by "Happy Holidays"

[Zerst]

Being broke. Yay for yearly bills all triggering almost at the same time!
which is admittedly my own fault, but I usually have more money around this part of the year

Sure, I'll get paid a week from now, and it's not like I'll go hungry [bought food and other necessities], but this is a whole week where I'm absolutely strapped for cash, I've got like $20 available for spending...

The fact that so much of our society is in this position, which is juxtaposed against the relentless imagery of frivolous overspending flooding social media that was previously isolated to celebrity tabloids but has somehow become the expectation for being a socially worthwhile human being.

[Skykid]

Ebay.

Ebay, Ebay, Ebay.

After I updated my address in China two days ago, they blocked the account based on suspected unauthorised activity. I called them to clarify I'm the only user and all activity is mine. They then ask me for the phone number on the account. I give it to them but tell them it's out of date by about a month.

Sorry sir, then we can't recover the account. IF EBAY CAN'T CALL YOU BACK ON THE PHONE NUMBER LISTED ON YOUR ACCOUNT, THEN THE ACCOUNT BLOCK IS PERMANENT, EVEN THOUGH WE BLOCKED IT FOR NO REASON.

I told him that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. "Nothing I can do sir".

"You will just need to open a new account."

I told him to forget it.

If anyone knows any way to circumvent this fucking idiocy, I'd love to hear it.

EDIT: Resolved this. Took all day and about £10 in Skype calls. Impressively none of the highly trained staff wanted to inform me that although the account is blocked for use I can still navigate a cryptic and out of date account system to trawl for my registration details and actually update the phone number there, and then request a callback for verification. Amazing that I talked with 6 people and had to figure that out on my own.

[Mischief Maker]

Bicyclists are assholes.

I'm taking my dog for his morning walk and we're at the corner parallel to a one-way street. We're facing traffic and I see no danger so we proceed. Suddenly a bicyclist going the wrong way down this one-way street blindsides me with a full speed left turn cutting us off in the crosswalk and nearly running over my dog.

The worst part was, for a split second I made eye-contact and he gave me a look that said, "What's your problem?"

What I would have given for a Scorpion hookshot in that moment.

[neorichieb1971]

2 things lately. I have a garage with a back door into the house. The garage has my arcade cabinets. I'm playing some games and someone comes in the garage and leaves the door open. Wouldn't bother me much except the wind turbulence makes it clang. After a while it gets on my nerves and I shut it. 10 minutes later, someone walks into the garage.......

Bloody itchy feet.. especially the top of your foot that sits under your shoe laces. You can't scratch it and its annoying as all hell.

[Durandal]

I'm not sure what's behind the thought process of 'enter a bus with a group of friends, have all of you sit behind me, talk loudly in a foreign language, and proceed to play loud music through phone speakers'. There is an unspoken rule here that public transit is meant to be a place of respite and quiet. You don't talk to anyone unless you have to, and you don't sit next to anyone unless all free spots are already taken. Thankfully I was going to get off at the next stop anyways.

Bicyclists are assholes.

I'm taking my dog for his morning walk and we're at the corner parallel to a one-way street. We're facing traffic and I see no danger so we proceed. Suddenly a bicyclist going the wrong way down this one-way street blindsides me with a full speed left turn cutting us off in the crosswalk and nearly running over my dog.

The worst part was, for a split second I made eye-contact and he gave me a look that said, "What's your problem?"

What I would have given for a Scorpion hookshot in that moment.

Man, it's almost as if everyone here hates bicyclists, as Dutchman I can't sympathize with this at all.

[Xyga]

Man, it's almost as if everyone here hates bicyclists, as Dutchman I can't sympathize with this at all.

Countries with a 'mass bicycing' transportation culture, with the proper infrastructures/networks and therefore the ease and manners, are few.
In most other countries bicyclist really are an annoyance, because the network is not adapted, but also because they think that being on a bicycle they're free from following any rules at all.

[emphatic]

I'm not sure what's behind the thought process of 'enter a bus with a group of friends, have all of you sit behind me, talk loudly in a foreign language, and proceed to play loud music through phone speakers'. There is an unspoken rule here that public transit is meant to be a place of respite and quiet. You don't talk to anyone unless you have to, and you don't sit next to anyone unless all free spots are already taken. Thankfully I was going to get off at the next stop anyways.

Ain't nothing but a bunch of dicks. My guess is that they're actively trying to provoke you, as they know they outnumber you if it gets heated. Fucking pricks.

[neorichieb1971]

Don't go see Disney movies at the cinema then. When I watched John Carter at the cinema I nearly turned into the Hulk and would have thrown the kids into the screen

[lilmanjs]

Man, it's almost as if everyone here hates bicyclists, as Dutchman I can't sympathize with this at all.

Countries with a 'mass bicycing' transportation culture, with the proper infrastructures/networks and therefore the ease and manners, are few.
In most other countries bicyclist really are an annoyance, because the network is not adapted, but also because they think that being on a bicycle they're free from following any rules at all.

That's the truth about it. I may be one of the few who follow the rules, but hell, I've seen people ride through red lights at big intersections! Or the ride at night with no lights and in dark clothes. But yea, most just do whatever the hell they want in most cases. I guess I'm lucky I live in a town that is trying to be more bike friendly with more bike lanes and such. They've even widened some streets for the bike lanes. But most bicyclists at least here in the US think they own the road and that's where you get the pissed off drivers who think they own the road and bikes should be off completely and/or run their asses over for the hell of it.

[Squire Grooktook]

Friend is playing a game with fairly high quality sprite art (Dawn of Sorrow) in an emulator.

Uses said emulator to put a shitty fucking smoothing filter over everything. Claims it "makes the game look like Odin Sphere".

Spoiler

"trust me it looks great on my monitor"

Spoiler

[Sumez]

Retron 5 is a major offender of this kind of stuff. With the huge revived interest in "retro games" nowadays, I'm seeing a lot of new communities pop up, especially around Facebook. And at least 95% of the people there play their games in 16:9 using the worst of the worst butter filters, desperately trying to hide the fact that there was ever such a thing as a square pixel.

[Xyga]

^ On that topic I laughed my ass off when MAME after years of bitching that people request options that supposedly 'break accuracy', have accepted to include craptons of those butter filters just like that.

[Blinge]

Smear that vaseline boys..

[atheistgod1999]

With the huge revived interest in "retro games" nowadays, I'm seeing a lot of new communities pop up, especially around Facebook. And at least 95% of the people there play their games in 16:9 using the worst of the worst butter filters, desperately trying to hide the fact that there was ever such a thing as a square pixel.

^+(1*10^999999999999999999999999999999)

[emphatic]

When you click on an embedded Youtube video on a site and it doesn't play because it was published with the option to not be played on certain devices or embedded on other websites. Then you can't find it on Youtube because, why?

[atheistgod1999]

Ebay won't work for me anymore for some unknown reason (technical support was no help), and PayPal discontinued the MasterCard part of it for the student accounts. I don't want to have my parents sign for me to get a debit card with a checking account at a bank, so looks like I'm not getting any new retro games until November next year

[BrianC]

Ebay.

Ebay, Ebay, Ebay.

After I updated my address in China two days ago, they blocked the account based on suspected unauthorised activity. I called them to clarify I'm the only user and all activity is mine. They then ask me for the phone number on the account. I give it to them but tell them it's out of date by about a month.

Sorry sir, then we can't recover the account. IF EBAY CAN'T CALL YOU BACK ON THE PHONE NUMBER LISTED ON YOUR ACCOUNT, THEN THE ACCOUNT BLOCK IS PERMANENT, EVEN THOUGH WE BLOCKED IT FOR NO REASON.

I told him that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. "Nothing I can do sir".

"You will just need to open a new account."

I told him to forget it.

If anyone knows any way to circumvent this fucking idiocy, I'd love to hear it.

EDIT: Resolved this. Took all day and about £10 in Skype calls. Impressively none of the highly trained staff wanted to inform me that although the account is blocked for use I can still navigate a cryptic and out of date account system to trawl for my registration details and actually update the phone number there, and then request a callback for verification. Amazing that I talked with 6 people and had to figure that out on my own.

I went through a similar thing with GameStop over an eShop code that didn't show up on my account after I updated my address. Thankfully, I was able to get the code over the phone through customer service (and I had to look up the Gamestop's facebook page just to find the number). Gamestop's website is also one of those pages that makes finding how to contact them harder than it should be.

[Ed Oscuro]

The almost complete lack of coverage of Joseph Mann.

Also, there's a skyscraper in San Francisco which is about ready to fall over...

[Despatche]

Constantly getting hit with that "the more things change the more they stay the same" thing, especially over the last week.

[PuToTyra]

Flies.

[neorichieb1971]

Back to winter hours again and people dazzling you with high beam lights.

I also hate driving east or west with the sun in my eyes.

[ED-057]

webpages that look like this

Игорь. В бывшем п рофессиональны&jcy

Because we didn't already have enough character encoding schemes in the world, idiots had to invent yet another one (and this time with only 5+ bytes per character, yay!)

I'm not sure which is worse: this, or seeing this mojibake all over a page which has nothing but English text because the author thought some cyrillic letters were more fashionable than the latin ones.

[Lord Satori]

Somewhat related:

I hate it when a webpage fails to load properly and it's just basic text and blue links on a white background shoved to the left side of the screen.

[emphatic]

When you eat something with a spoon and there's something clinging to it like it's about to fall off, so you wiggle the spoon to make it fall of but it doesn't. Until you gently lift it off the table towards your mouth - BAM, big splash.