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

my wife would lose her head if it wasn't attached. oh wait, she did.

Murdered for trying to put a stop to ur unyielding affair with pissvag girl

HAHA!~

Okay not so "innocuous", but I don't want to start a thread just for this and not sure where else to post it. I'm irrationally angry that the dumb woman who becamse a viral video star after falling into a mall fountain while texting is going to sue the mall for not "coming to (her) aid". Fuck this country sometimes.

I'm guessing she is hoping for a huge payday out of this, because why in the hell else would you come forward to the media revealing yourself as the dumbass in a grainy security camera video?

that is incredibly lame and def makes me angry

Websites that have a "print" link that only activates the CTRL+P function of your browser, instead of taking you to a cleaned up page free of clutter where you can hit "Read It Later".

ugh I had to document a site like that recently. Two buttons, one said 'print' and the other said 'download PDF', but they did exactly the same thing. Spent the best part of half a day trying to explain that one.

We link PDFs on our website too and my question every time is "Who in the hell is downloading PDFs on the Internet?"

Lists of the top mortgage lenders, sure. But a freaking google map capture of where the new mall is going to be built?

I download PDFs from websites all the time - product brochures, cut sheets, spec sections.

ikr, ridiculous. Second only to restaurants with all-flash websites.

xp if it makes sense, fine, but too often it's just a map or a one-page information sheet that should just be in the browser.

But why not make those brochures and cut sheets just a part of a web page?

I don't get irrationally angry about the PDFs, I just don't get them.

Our company is big on digital editions too (for example) and they get a lot of hits. I just can't figure out what crazy person would rather mess with that than just going to this.

Well a lot of times I have to send these cut sheets and specs on to other people and I can't always depend on them having internet access at any given moment. Plus, you never know when a company is going to revamp their website and temporarily (or permanently) lose links to this information, so it pays to have a digital copy on our server.

I hear you, but on the other hand, I think Web-based media is just being lazy when they pull stuff like this.

(This is the publication I work for, and I think there's got to be a better way of displaying that information instead of with a downloadable PDF.)

that digital edition maxes out my processor even when i'm not zooming or dragging or anything. which in turn makes the fan come on and increases the background noise.

I'm not saying I disagree with you PP, just explaining why I end up dling so many PDFs.

Tech stuff is one thing, but like when a restaurant presents its menu in PDF form (though that's usually the least of a restaurant's website problems.)

It comes down to utility. If you're implementing PDFs because it makes sense to the user, all good. If you're doing it because you're lazy, gtfo.

Subject line of an email from one of our suppliers - this is an official email from marketing @ the 3rd biggest telco in the fscking country mind you.

"Reminder: Your Invited to the AAPT Frontier Launch Breakfast – Melbourne"

&U^&^$%^$

There was an uncomfortable thread on serial killers/rape on this other message board I used to post on years ago, and one of the posters indicated that there was a "stigmata" associated with rape victims.

@Trayce that shit drives me insane. When I got promoted 4 years ago, I was introduced to the client by one of the account managers in an email that had about 20 typos/misspellings.

HOW DO THESE PEOPLE EARN SUCH MONEY I ASK U

This drives my rage every day.

I mean FUCK. Whenever someone wants to handball/escalate to me suddenly Im "the provisioning manager" but do I get a managers salary? Do I fuck.

My boss gets me to proof read proposals etc occasionally, and I think he's always a little dismayed when it comes back with red pen all over it. "But I spellchecked it!" Yes but eyes work too.

i've also heard co-workers telling callers they can't give them "account pacific information"

xxpost

account pacific! Dear lord in hades.

Pretty sure I sailed on the Account Pacific once.

xxpost yea you know seriously fuck spellcheck, I mean it's a useful tool to catch small things you missed but shouldn't be all you do in reviewing your work, God, I revise/rewrite my shit over and over. I only really started using it because I knew they used it to audit my work and I wanted to make sure it wasn't going to show a false-positive grammatical error (as spell/grammar check in Word is known to do).

Too many people live and die by it -- this one former co-worker of mine was putting together a presentation on using appropriate punctuation in our summaries and spell/grammar check incorrectly told him to add an apostrophe to the title, so he did, even though he said it looked funny to him. So there we are, watching a presentation titled "Summary's" telling us how we need to use proper grammar in our work.

wtf

oh oh oh oh while we're doing ia things the following makes me ia:

Fragment (consider revising)

how the FUCK is that supposed to help me

i guess you could say it drives you fragmental

it's telling you to consider revising your career.

fragmental as anythink

Fragment (consider revising) sounds liek a brian eno song

Word also struggles with subject-verb agreement with it comes to the singular/plural. It always tries to get me to switch to something that's wrong.

haha I think I will consider advice from MS WOrd as oblique strategies now
v good way to handle them
Brian Eno is Clippy
xp

Hahahaha!

I liked that Obs Strat I had the other day that said "Do the dishes" :|

Somebody better than me pls make a Brian Eno word clippy !

'It looks like you're trying to find a cohesive rhythm in one of my songs!'

It looks like you're trying to write a document:

- Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable
- Use cliches
- Repetition is a form of change

(was inspired to get the obliq strats app)

Can never read about sentence fragments without thinking of

http://www.accesswave.ca/~rclancey/linguo-dead-grammar.gif

"It looks like you're trying to reform Roxy Music."

t looks like you're trying to write a document:

- Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable
- Use cliches
- Repetition is a form of change

LOL

It looks like you're trying to collaborate with Robert Fripp! How do you wish to delineate the apprentice/journeyman/master metaphor?

- the apprentice acquires skill
- the craftsman acquires sensitivity
- the master acquires vision
- the genius attains freedom
- the apprentice is noisy
- the craftsman shapes sound
- the master shapes silence
- the genius is silent
- the apprentice practices the craft of craft
- the craftsman practices the art of craft
- the master practices the craft of art
- the genius is artless

Fuck why dont I have photoshop at work grrr

paint dot net trayce!