Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

I had a bowl of cereal. My actual dinner was like 7 hours ago.

Whichever Excel programmer decided that a number in parentheses e.g. (4) should automatically be converted to -4. I don't know which countries or professions denote negative numbers with brackets but I've never seen such a thing anywhere else and it makes my job more irritating on a daily basis.

I don't know which countries or professions denote negative numbers with brackets

accountancy in ireland, for a start

Oh, wikipedia says it's a bookkeeping thing. S'pose bookkeeping is more or less what spreadsheets were originally designed for, and my job, err, isn't, it's just a convenient way of exchanging tabular data.

So maybe I should stop hating, or start hating how it became the only way you could reasonably expect Joe Unknown Coworker to view or type in 2-dimensional data instead.

Bah.

(xpost, sorry to bookkeepers and accountants everywhere)

Would also like to nominate whichever Excel programmer decided that text qualified data in a CSV doc that happens to contain only digits should be imported as numbers not text, e.g. a phone number with a leading zero you fucking bastards.

look, can we just call excel a disgusting savage? i'm down for that tbh.

Aww, Excel is awesome. It's Word you should be hating.

I am pretty much on board with calling the entire Microsoft Office application suite a disgusting savage and a cockfarmer

nah i have word nailed down at this stage, or tbh am inculculated into it's evil influence.

excel is no doubt fantastic, but the bits that don't work are sooo frustrating. it needs a once-over by an outside agency to make it more user friendly imo

Happy with calling Excel a disgusting savage. I feel like I've begun to nail it down, but still other people send me Excel files, and they haven't done all the magic incantations you need to to make it not think it's cleverer than what you typed in, and my heart sinks.

Excel is a bastard about not formatting cells as text even when you think you've told it to. Given up on naming any files .csv because then it doesn't even ask you what the data is, just thinks it knows best. Even if you load them via some VBA code which sets all the damned formatting options.

(I lost several hours to being confused by this last month. Renamed the input file to .txt and suddenly it worked.)

I treat excel with caution, and don't trust it, but tbh as long as you don't overstep the bounds of what you know, it's pretty amazing for the simple & repetitive stuff I need it for.

"of course you didn't know this and you are also probably american and have no real concept of driving fast. "

Note to tpp: get the fuck out of the fast lane and you wont get killed. Also, get to a dentist.

yeah i'm sure.

I'm basically cool with Excel, despite the formatting annoyances and the fact that casual oversights can result in mighty fuckups (who hasn't forgotten to sort their print areas and accidentally printed a modest spreadsheet over 200 pages?). Word is definitely the devil tho, no piece of software goes more out of its way to make things hard for you.

like i said i've been brought up using only word and it kinda does it all for me at this stage.

access is kinda great too, as a fairly untaxing office worker type user.

oh man. Access *shudder*

brits who correct you if you use 'americanisms'

at least u acknowledge that they're correct

people who yell from their cars that they can fix the dent in my bumper, leave me the fuck alone.

the once a year bike commuter jerk who locked up sideways in our overcrowded bikeracks, thereby taking up 5 spots.

ok that's a bit lol though

better than the person who parked sideways across the five disabled car spaces at our local A&E ward last friday and stayed there for two hours.

cos i mean trump that one

agreed. he triple locked the bike. he left his arkel panniers on the bike. srsly wtf.

hired three bikes for the day on sat, was instructed to leave the bikes locked to a lamppost at the end of the trail, helmets, rain gears etc underneath with the keys to be left in the panniers.

Surveyor guy at work who turned on his laser measurement gadget and started waving it around at eye height while I was stood right in front of him (and no, he hadn't asked me to get out of the way or anything). I guess I'd know about it if it had done any damage, right?

Rand Paul, for being an ignorant toad
http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/201008/rand-paul-kentucky-senate-republican-campaign?printable=true

Rand Paul and I are trying to remember why Harlan, Kentucky, might be famous. That's where Paul is driving me, on a coiling back road through the low green mountains of the state's southeastern corner, in his big black GMC Yukon festooned with RON PAUL 2008 and RAND PAUL 2010 stickers. Something about Harlan has lodged itself in my brain the way a shard of barbecue gets stuck in one's teeth, and I've asked Paul for help. "I don't know," he says in an elusive accent that's not quite southern and not quite not-southern. The town of Hazard is nearby, he notes: "It's famous for, like, The Dukes of Hazzard."

jfc

Paul believes mountaintop removal just needs a little rebranding. "I think they should name it something better," he says. "The top ends up flatter, but we're not talking about Mount Everest. We're talking about these little knobby hills that are everywhere out here. And I've seen the reclaimed lands. One of them is 800 acres, with a sports complex on it, elk roaming, covered in grass." Most people, he continues, "would say the land is of enhanced value, because now you can build on it."

he is truly a disgusting savage

The woman I saw today that was at least 7 months pregnant and was smoking a cigarette.

-me

I just poured capn crunch on my oatmeal

bein too harsh on yrself and oatmeal both

people who go to predominantly black nations and take pictures of running black children

I have probably savaged them before, but...

People who send every single email message as HIGH IMPORTANCE! regardless of how important or urgent it is: DISGUSTING SAVAGES

ugh yes

and add people who send mails about losing their car keys to the entire staff list, although there are 8 offices on it.

but that may be a litle me-specific

Can we have a short discussion about people who text message during movies?

Like why it's not socially acceptable for me to punch them in the back of the head and go, "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!"

They're probably not even texting.

They're probably TWEETING. #spoilers

And you know, this only happens when I see like Pirahna 3D or Sherlock Holmes or Avatar and not when I see The Secret In Their Eyes or Moon or the Metropolis remaster.

Like if I'm going to see a movie, it can't be any dumber than The White Ribbon if I don't want some dipshit's cellphone screen strobing at me in the dark 20 times?

i think it IS socially acceptable for u to donkey punch them

just been donkey punched while watching piranha 3D wtf is up w/kids these days
5 minutes ago from twitterific

is this fake?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bb4_1283184704

^don't watch if animal cruelty upsets you obv

Looked real to me. WTF is wrong with people?

aw wtf

ppl who try to get on the train before letting people off

People who go to meetings or to take a shit or whatever, and leave their phones on their desks, which then proceed to go off with the most irritating loud ringtone.

morrissey

lady sitting next to me at the food court your kid has obviously crapped his pants plz go change him or sit somewhere else an stop harshing my food buzz tbh