Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

Keep going Ledge. No reason. Do you online bank? Use the same username everywhere? Good good...

my password is the last 6 digits of my SS# everywhere, if I can use it. otherwise it's my first dog and the last 4 digits of my first phone number.

xp fyi this is just for work pc, my online passwords are reasonably secure. feel free to pop over to my desk and hack in tho...

I have a mental system for cycling between passwords within a certain theme and with corresponding numerals, it just strikes me as a lot of fuss over some emails etc.

- when you mention the first star wars film and some spod disingenuously does this whole 'you mean "the phantom menace"? no? oh then you mean "a new hope" which is actually number four!! you should say what you mean'

all star wars films are shit anyway so

SB

Right so I want to listen to Demon Days but somehow iTunes has suddenly decided that 'All Alone' is track 1, so now I have to start at track 2 and remember to flip back to 'All Alone' at the right time. Yes I know I can make a custom playlist, yes I have done that.

I know winamp has/had a bug where it chucks track 1 at the end if you load up an album the wrong way ,but I think itunes should just read ther ID3 tags. Maybe theyre misnumbered?

maybe YOU'RE misnumbered

(i am irrationally angry, u see)

I don't know how this one even happened seeing as it's been in iTunes and on this iPod for like 85 years, anyway.

Also I get all ia about (a) the whole iName thing Apple has got going on and (b) people who refer to their iGoods like they're people (but I think I have already been ia about those two things itt so)

maybe it's the "album artist" field being a douche like it always is. if one track has that field filled and the rest don't, it can freak out. or if that one track doesn't have it and the rest do. anyway fuck itunes.

maybe YOU'RE misnumbered

LOL.

Yes, actually yes, I think it's happened with other stuff before in fact. I'm pretty sure Apple changed the way it sorts that stuff recently. Cheers.

Can't check it until I get home but hey, at least there's on-the-go playlists rite? <3 apple

Fuggit, while I'm here, I am ia about the fact that iPads (a) have a shit screen resolution (b) have only 256 Mb RAM (my PHONE has double that ffs). I need an iPad for tertiary wotsits and will not pay money for old tech.

itunes is a pile of shit, imo. You can't just queue up a song while you play like you can in winamp. which is like 99% of how I play shit.

I need an iPad for

oh the buggery you do

You can't just queue up a song while you play like you can in winamp

itunes dj playlist? (used to be party shuffle) u can right-click and add tracks to it.

Don't want to derail the thread too much BUT I'm of two minds with iTunes. I really like its general design and utility, but it's become of a bit of a catch-all monster app and is now full of weird bugs and inconsistent UI. Needs a complete overhaul.

One thing that bothers the hell out of me with Apple stuff is that you can't step an inch outside Apple's boundaries. If you want to do everything the way you're told to you're fine, but the second you need to do something that's not prescribed you're suddenly pushing shit uphill. Drives me mental.

xxp jim I actually do and it actually has to be an iPad, annoying but hey wotrugonnado.

really?! why are they mandating that? i would tell them to foad

They're not mandating it. There's an app which doesn't exist on any other tablet or OS that I've already bought for the iPhone ($60-odd) and needs the bigger screen to be properly useful. I could go without it but the iPhone version basically transformed my learning so.

You cant use a netbook/laptop?

oh ok.

Writing directly on a touch screen is a world away from scribbling blindly on a track pad.

drag

i <3 ios so

ponce

j/k

pfft

when you're leaving a building to go somewhere with people, and instead of just getting in your cars and heading over, people start long-assed convos with keys in hand for 20-30 minutes first. YOU CAN RESUME THE CONVERSATION WHEREVER YOU'RE GOING.

bonus points for when as a result of standing and talking for 20-30 minutes, one or more people decide they're 'too tired' to go after all.

fwiw those people probably never wanted to go to the second location, but didn't want to immediately end the conversation so they precipitated the 20 minute linger

evil, evil tactic

This week's Modern Family was ace *** SPOILERS *** Jay didn't like a couple of people he was talking to *** SPOILERS *** so he told them to their faces *** SPOILERS *** all very nicely and politely *** SPOILERS ***

Basically I wish we could all do that when people are standing around a car talking for 20 mins, 'I HAVE SOMEWHERE TO GO SO SHUT UP'

Apparently the Dutch do that sort of thing.

actually I'm pretty direct about it now, usually I just say "dunno what the hell y'all are doin, but I'm headed over". tonight though it was one particular person who was supposed to join me, then changed her mind after 30 mins, which now meant there was no point in me going as it was by myself.

not angry over it tho...just more 'ehh i wish you'd told me 30 mins ago'

I have some relatives who would never, ever tell you they need to be somewhere, and some who would good-naturedly say, "I really loved seeing you! I'm sorry I have to run, but Joanne is waiting for me...." in a casual way. Toss-up.

I use my rels as a reference because my NY friends are pretty much former or current ilxors and would just cut you off. ;)

ia when you post some breaking news on a thread (not here) and three posts later some thick twat posts EXACTLY THE SAME LINK and ponces about as though they were first with the news.

also ia @ people who big-note themselves, just as a general thing.

oh and people who refer to themselves in the third person.

what about people who answer questions by asking questions

A: "Did you like the movie?"
B: "Did I like it? Yes. Would I see it again? No."

and they always roll their eyes up towards the ceiling as if they're thinking REALLY CRITICALLY

xp oh god yes, along with people who say 'question' before asking a question.

I am full of ia today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFKU_hwj2o

Also: the way every sciencey article on Wikipedia is 100% written in sciencey terms like a god damned thesis. I don't want the freaking molecular details of this freaking drug, just tell me what it does in actual words ffs.

ikr just say whether it'll get me fuckt up damn

question: is estela full of ia today?
answer: no, she is not.
question: was she full of ia yesterday?
answer: no, she was not.
question: is that because estela has wonderful command of her emotions and wears the world like a loose garment?
answer: why, yes it is.

ia when you post some breaking news on a thread (not here) and three posts later some thick twat posts EXACTLY THE SAME LINK and ponces about as though they were first with the news.

This happens to me ALL THE TIME on ilx - I've actually said "what am I, invisible?" more than once before.

ia when you post some breaking news on a thread (not here) and three posts later some thick twat posts EXACTLY THE SAME LINK and ponces about as though they were first with the news.

back when I used to post on the Megadeth message board (which even for a bunch of metalheads had an idiot quotient off the charts), this dude came on one night overexcited that Megadeth had played some new unreleased (shitty) song live.

this other dude (with the unoriginal nickname Bl@keMustaine) insulted and harassed the guy and accused him of making it up for a day or two, then he went to a show and heard the same song live...came back to the thread and essentially took credit for breaking the news, and when other guy piped up, he said "fuck you you fuckign fuck, why on Earth should I have believed you that they played a new song when you had no proof".

oh god what a wanker.

Also when you ask for help on the internet and one person:

- doesn't read your question properly
- offers you stupid and completely inappropriate help that involves hours of potentially destructive work and isn't even related to your problem
- insists again and again that you try it 'just to see what happens'
- full-on gets the shits with you for refusing
- gets all entitled because she/he didn't HAVE to offer you help and you're just an ungrateful bastard, don't come crying to me again etc etc

when you post some breaking news on a thread (not here) and three posts later some thick twat posts EXACTLY THE SAME LINK and ponces about as though they were first with the news.

aw, man!

j/k sorry t

i dunno who I dislike more, people who ask for medical advice on Yahoo Answers, or people that answer it and have no real background in medicine.

I remember some idiot asking whether they could have sex when they had an enlarged spleen from mono (really, you turn to YAHOO ANSWERS for this), and this equally stupid lady remarking how this was the first time she'd heard of an enlarged spleen from mono (it actually happens in 50% of mono cases), and said they shouldn't have sex because she'd get reinfected with mono over and over (which is impossible).