Overreliance on GPS/mobile navigation apps, and people who insist on going with what the apps say against common sense.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
I lack all common sense when driving, so the GPS easily exceeds my level of knowledge.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
targeted ads that keep showing you things you have looked at (and sometimes things you have already ordered) for days afterwards -- "NO I DO NOT WANT THAT BUTT-UGLY "MODERN" WALNUT DRESSER WITH BRIGHT ORANGE AND RED DRAWERS THAT I HAPPENED TO LOOK AT THE AD FOR!"
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
My watch catching painfully on my wrist hairs. Some days this seems to happen every 30 minutes, and then it won't happen for a week.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Still have never used GPS in a car. Guess I'm one of those drivers who knows where he's going before he starts driving there.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
That's why I don't wear watches or bracelets on a stretchy band.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
I have such a horrible sense of direction, if I could get a GPS device implanted in my brain I would do it in a heartbeat. That's about 90% of the reason I'm not as horrified by "Google Glass" as I probably should be. I just imagine a HUD telling me where to go and it reduces my baseline anxiety level by like half.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
websites that offer to remember your login and password, that you log into daily, that never remember your login and password EVER
and of course it's the one with the 10+ digit special character password that for the life of me I can never remember on my own anyway
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
My grocery store's website does that: "Want us to remember your information? Is this your personal computer? Check the box now!"
Next time I go there, my username's waiting for me, but I still have to fill out the password part. "OH, you meant remember SOME of my information, I see..."
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
God forbid Russian hackers sneak in and add a bunch of coupons to my card that I don't need.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
that's an issue with yr browser + cookies, not the websites
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
But if I cleared my cookies, wouldn't ALL the information disappear?
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
even if it's only that site & my browser remembers all my other passwords?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
My fucking school's web services force you to change your password every 8 weeks. Even worse:
- When your password expires, you get no notice except "Invalid user account information"
- The school makes you maintain accounts on 3 different systems, with different user names
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
nuh-VAH-da is what my brain's going to go with each and every time.There's a Nevada County in my state that's pronounced nuh-VAY-da. I was doomed from the beginning.
There's a Nevada County in my state that's pronounced nuh-VAY-da. I was doomed from the beginning.
Which way is the state pronounced? I have only ever heard the first pronunciation.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link
"Viking"
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmUf9FDUOTk
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
Who knew! Thanks J!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
Ok - I hate when you either invite someone to do something, either directly, or an open invite and they try to change your plans.
Example:
"Alberthalomew and I are going to Arnold's Roasted Figs and Sports Bar tonight to watch the Dolphins game. Any takers?"
'Would you guys consider maybe going to Uncle Anthony's Table Leavins instead? It's closer to where I live.'
NO, BECAUSE WE ALREADY MADE OUR PLANS AND ARE ANNOUNCING THEM, NOT SOLICITING IDEAS.
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
OT to the motherfucking M!!!!!
― schwantz, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
word
those people are jerks and need to cut it the fuck out
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 November 2013 00:12 (ten years ago) link
lol nevada is pronounced the canadian way?
i'm sure this is mentioned somewhere in the previous 2100 posts, but i hate when machines use the first person, eg the atm that says 'i'm getting your money now!'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 November 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
sorry i only eat table leavins!
― single white hairball (harbl), Thursday, 14 November 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
We say "ne-vah-da" up here iirc, I would transcribe video pronunciation as "Neva(h)-da"
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:23 (ten years ago) link
how do you say 'pasta' and 'mazda'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:26 (ten years ago) link
The way they're spelled :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:27 (ten years ago) link
I don't know enough about describing language to do so accurately but pasta/Mazda do have similarities to Nevada imo
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:32 (ten years ago) link
exactly!
i think most americans say (not quite, but more or less) posta and mozda and nevoda
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:39 (ten years ago) link
I bet people in the countries of England or Scotland or Manchester couldn't even tell you how you're supposed to pronounce Nevada.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:43 (ten years ago) link
darragh how do you englishes pronounce things
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:46 (ten years ago) link
What? "nevoda" (or "ne-vah-da") is rare, IME. I think most Americans pronounce it the right way: with the a in "va" pronounced as it is in "apple."
Also, it's Colora(as in "apple")do, not GD "Colorahdo."
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:51 (ten years ago) link
I say ne-vah-da.
― Jeff, Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:53 (ten years ago) link
never contradict me in front of the canadians, je55e
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:53 (ten years ago) link
at least not until darragh kicks my ass
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:54 (ten years ago) link
And Oh-re-gun, not gone. And Missouro and Ioway.
xp lol
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:54 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I'm slow, but was "posta" and "nevoda" a joke?
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
nehada
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 November 2013 05:03 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPoGI3J3_Qc
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 14 November 2013 05:06 (ten years ago) link
knee vay der
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 November 2013 05:13 (ten years ago) link
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 14 November 2013 06:08 (ten years ago) link
It makes me a little IA that the "correct" pronunciation of Spanish-named states is the non-Spanish pronunciation
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 November 2013 06:47 (ten years ago) link
In British Columbia, Canada, the first a in Nevada is a short a: http://www.abcfastphonics.com/vowel-letters/vowel-e.html
Living in Los Angeles, I've noticed a lot of people pronounce it like Ne-VAW-daw. Can't be bothered to write in IPA.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 14 November 2013 07:13 (ten years ago) link
Oh, oops: http://www.abcfastphonics.com/vowel-letters/vowel-a.html
― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 14 November 2013 07:14 (ten years ago) link
I do not know a single person that pronounces it this way!
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 November 2013 12:27 (ten years ago) link
colorado
― single white hairball (harbl), Thursday, 14 November 2013 13:12 (ten years ago) link
In a country that has towns named Ver-SAILS, KAY-row, and Buh-GO-duh, "Nuh-VAD-uh" is not our worst offense.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Thursday, 14 November 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link
I think the Ne-vahhh-da/Ne-vad-uh divide is regional. I knew no one who said it like the latter until I lived out west.
I used to live in Colorado and IME most people pronounced it with the -ahhh sound. I lived in Boulder, though, which is all transplanted Californians and east coasters anyway so grain of salt. Sahhhhhlt.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 14 November 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
I don't know if I could live in a nation of Peggy Hills talking about seeing the skies in Nuevo Meh Hee Ko.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
Shocking myself every time I hang my coat up at work.
― Jeff, Thursday, 14 November 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
The Spanish pronunciation of Nevada and Colorado isn't the same as either American pronunciation.
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link