i've given up on large currencies looking normal again in my lifetime
― balls, Monday, 10 March 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
The Samsung Galaxy s4. Is there anything about this overrated lump of plastic that doesn't suck?
― wank-bond-villain-looking villain, (dog latin), Monday, 10 March 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
It plays FLAC. When it feels like it.
― wank-bond-villain-looking villain, (dog latin), Monday, 10 March 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
Or coins.
If you asked me what's on the back of the 2014 penny, I'd have no answer for you.
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOtPXDyKjA
..in any movie, stop it already.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 12:28 (ten years ago) link
No, I am not going to watch "Between to Ferns". Watching this guy with a beard act awkward is not funny to me. I saw enough Space Ghost Coast to Coast when I was a teen, and this stuff is just a pale ripoff.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
I dig the humor and watched it. My contribution to this thread though is listening to my co-workers, fellow members of the liberal media, guffawing and chortling through the whole thing.
They were using headphones and were at different points in the video, so the it was like 17 minutes of silence broken up by hee-hee's every eight seconds. Pretty much what I expect someone with a paranoia hallucination disorder to go through daily.
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:19 (ten years ago) link
The start of DST is maybe my favorite recurring event of every year. I can't think of another -- no holiday or anything -- that even comes close.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
People who say you're being "negative" when you cite an objective fact about the poor chances of something working out.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link
so not gonna happen
― kinder, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
I think I have IA'd about this before but it's so irrationally infuriating it needs a reprise:
sections of freeway that get scraped and new lanes are marked out perfunctorily and then they are just left that way for years without ever being resurfaced or even repainted
I am looking at YOU hwy 50 between Sac + Folsom
I hate the noise the tires make on the weird scraped surface, I hate the way the grading makes the steering drift weirdly, I hate that when the sun is in my eyes I can't tell what fucking lane I'm in and if there's one thing I *want* my fucking taxes to pay for it's goddamn roads goddammit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 March 2014 02:38 (ten years ago) link
hell it's not even irrationallly infuriating, it's just straightup infuriating
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 March 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
not irrational (not important, either) but the thing in internet headline writing where it goes basically "some weird person on the internet did some weird thing and you want to see it!" h8 h8 h8. i know these things have to be clickbaity and a lot of that genre of usually-fandom-related-arts-and-crafts shit is "person does thing because they are able to", but a good deal of the time there's quality or purpose or substance there, often the person behind it will come out and say "this is what i was trying to do w/this" and this might even be reflected in the tiny blurb preceding the link or embed, but those titles set up the discourse so everyone goes into it like "oh man, what wacky shit's the internet come up with today!" and someone inevitably has to chime in with "well actually, this is pretty [_____]"
most of it is just me being really sick of all the "someone knitted game of thrones characters into breaking bad leslie knope butthole dan chihuly pageclicks pageclicks pageclicks" shit that is 100% annoying and that mindset creeping into all aspects of everything i am also a snob i guess
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
otm. It's basically crowd-sourced advertising, exploiting fans for free labor/promotion/etc
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:48 (ten years ago) link
ppl who speed down a merge lane like it's a new freebie lane that no-one's using & and then bail out at the last minute ASSHOLES I HATE THEM
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:49 (ten years ago) link
You mean people who use a merge lane for all of its length and then merge when the lane ends?
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 04:05 (ten years ago) link
yes
but that sounds less annoying
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 04:08 (ten years ago) link
People who make apopleptic comments on top ten ______ lists like "how could you possibly include x and not y!"
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 04:15 (ten years ago) link
thatlol.org which is a facebook spam site that lures you in to look at a photo to see what is wrong with it, then hits you with dialogue boxes when you go to look including one that allows it to post to your feed as though it is you. I don't know how to stop it sending things out now. It was stupid of me to ok a not fully read dialogue box obviously if that is what triggered this. But can't see how to undo it since it is posting under my name. I complained to Facebook staff some weeks ago but its been ignored and now I'm getting messages about Justin Bieber etc spammed out on my feed as though they have my byline. Very annoying.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:45 (ten years ago) link
The 300 and rising number of people at work who are replying to a global mailing list telling everyone "stop replying to this email please"
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
and really, it doesn't matter how you word your email YOU ARE STILL ADDING TO THE PROBLEM!!
"By now it should have been clear. Multiple emails have been sent requesting the same thing "please don't reply to all". Hope it's simple enough english to understand."
This is my favourite so far though
"Merci de stopper ce massacreCela nous empeche de travailler correctement !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
(it was a world wide email btw)
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 12:02 (ten years ago) link
one guy using font size 72 to emphasize his point
"For anyone else who is replying can you reply to the sender only and not to the entire mailing list?"
yes, he replied to all as well
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 12:06 (ten years ago) link
(you get the idea)
Feel like I'm in the fucking twilight zone.
350 now
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 12:09 (ten years ago) link
lol
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link
My dad "resents" that I disagree that Split Enz're more musical than the Rolling Stones
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 12:32 (ten years ago) link
Xpost create rule, file to trash
― Jeff, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 12:59 (ten years ago) link
When I get into work in the morning, the cleaning people from the night before always push my trash can WAAAAAY back under my desk and I have to pull it out, every fucking morning. Costing me a valuable 2 seconds every single day.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 13:18 (ten years ago) link
I'm going to glue it to the fucking floor.
You should be thankful you don't have to work as a cleaning person
― waterbabies (waterface), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
It's a hard job.
― waterbabies (waterface), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 13:24 (ten years ago) link
You could leave a note asking them not to move it
Overly effectively targeted advertising -- the thing where the stuff you just looked at keeps popping up for days in ads on sites -- "Hey what's up, I'm that jacket from Steven Alan you looked at a few minutes ago, remember me?" "Hey, it's me! Jacket again, how's it going?" "Hey, it's Jacket, haven't heard from you in a minute!" "Hey, Jacket here, can we still get dinner some time?"
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
What's really fun is when you're shopping for someone else and then your computer is plastered with those items you were looking for during the next month.
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
also when they recommend something based on what you've just bought when what you bought was an expensive item that you'd only ever need one of, like a tv.
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
"The hemorrhoid cream was for my aging father, damnit, and I already bought a six-month supply!"
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
I just find something even more invasive about that kind of advertising. It's bad enough to just have ads plastered everywhere, but it's easier to block out when it's for something you don't care about. This is more like constant nagging.
ebay keeps trying to get me to buy things I already own because I used ebay to gauge their value
― two bunny rabbits on mushrooms singing Proclaimers songs (onimo), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
I get a ton of hair loss ads on my Facebook for some reason. I'm guessing because FB knows I'm in my late 30s? FWIW I am not (yet) losing my hair.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
The enduring popularity and ubiquity of Robert Indiana's "Love" -- it's ugly, vapid, pointless, unremarkable in every conceivable way. That "painter of light" guy's popularity is like 10x more conceivable to me than this.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that one's always struck me as if someone made a statue of the Keep Calm poster and planted in a major metropolitan park somewhere.
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
re the targeted ads, Amazon's always trying to flog me 17 different editions of public domain books I already bought from them. Bought one Madame Bovary? You must want all the rest, too.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
A new one for me is: "Watch strangers kiss for the first time!" "Watch strangers hug for the first time!"
Yeah, watch me throw my computer out the window the first time.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 23:18 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAnjUhQvGi0
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 23:51 (ten years ago) link
Aaron Alexis and Edward Snowden had Federal security clearances. Yet because my new employer put in my name as "Julie" instead of "Julia," my clearance for a non-sensitive position has been held up for 3 weeks and counting. WAY TO LIVE DOWN THE STEREOTYPES ABOUT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES!
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Thursday, 20 March 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
This is just sad. I was shopping around, comparing prices and then moved on to actual work and stuff....
http://i.imgur.com/L8rWZaI.png
... like three days ago.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 March 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
listen buddy
here's how it works.I send a proof.you make changes.i send back a revised version.rinse-repeat for however many revisions you need til we get to the right place.sowhen you say LOOKS GREAT!we're done. you have broken the cycle, we have now completed our dance and I get to change partners.
that's when I send you the final copy, which you know becuase it says FINAL
we DON'T then spend another hour updating more artwork with sporadic emails starting 'hey...'
STOP IT RIGHT NOW OR I WILL WALK UP TO YOUR DESK AND TASE YOU
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
Do it. Tase him. Do it.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110317044305/beavisandbutthead/images/4/49/Beavis_uh-huh.jpg
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
I'm going up there right now
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
I will contribute to your legal defense fund.
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link