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

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Don't you dare call him an incompetent architect!

That is actually my friend!

"My friend, the incompetent architect"

he was the greatest architect of all time.

And here I dreamt I was an architect...

Love songs.

I completely get the real-architect certification thing (my father is one, he has the education, authority with the federal governing body etc etc and he HATES people who are not correctly certified using the term), but the fact remains that 'software architect' and 'systems architect' are real and recognised terms now. It's yet another shitty and unoriginal thing about the IT industry that doesn't need to exist but there you go.

A few years ago the company I was with made us all call ourselves 'support engineers'. I refused.

oh I would too

\m/

makes it sound like you manufacture bras or trusses or something, lol

but the fact remains that 'software architect' and 'systems architect' are real and recognised terms now. It's yet another shitty and unoriginal thing about the IT industry that doesn't need to exist but there you go.

Yeah, I get it, just don't like it. As I hinted at before, the biggest frustration with this was when I was unemployed and sifting through job sites and realizing that zero of the 4,321 hits I got for "architect" had anything to do with the designing of buildings.

Oh, I don't like it either. Sorry if I gave you the wrong impression.

Well, there's your problem, no one is actually hiring real architects!

Too true.

Chucking retronyms into this thing. 'Architect' is a good example of that: in that post a few minutes ago I almost used the term 'building architect' to describe an architect. Just disgusting.

As in, you know, this thing applies so strongly to some new object or function in my world that I feel the need to append something to the correct and original term to distinguish it, e.g. 'snail mail', 'paper book'.

Landscape architect is not an unknown phrase, though.

It's more people appending stuff to the original use of a word to distinguish it from new applications of the term.

I suppose that I get the problem actual architects have with the term software architect, but the term makes perfect sense for what a software architect actually does and it would be kind of stupid to invent a new word just to not irrationally anger some architects.

I mean "architecture" has been used for stuff other than buildings for a long time now.

Grr my friends and their taking everything seriously is giving me the shits today. I post on FB "lol look at this hovel and how much they want for it!". The lol to me was how hovelly the place was and that they'd rent it out in that state.

What do I get? I swathe of "well you will choose to live where you do and in a house" comments and "you should move to X suburb where you live sucks!". YES LIKE THAT WAS MY CONCERN YOU PO FACED FUXX.

kick em in the nuts

Peter in montreal OTM. Computer architecture has been a thing for as long as I can remember (mid 70s).

As in, you know, this thing applies so strongly to some new object or function in my world that I feel the need to append something to the correct and original term to distinguish it, e.g. 'snail mail', 'paper book'.

― Head goes goes goes (Schlafsack),

Nowadays if you don't specify, you'll get a martini made with vodka.

That cannot be so.

It happens. I had to have a bartender dump a shot of of vodka in the sink when I asked for a martini and he went for the vodka so fast I didn't have time to correct him (I thought at first he might be making a previously-ordered drink for someone else).

Note this was at an art gallery opening, so the guy wasn't likely a professional. Still.

I can maybe imagine that so many people ASK for vodka martinis now that some bar dudes might just be on autopilot yeah.

Once at the bar of a crepe restaurant my friend went up and asked for a gin and tonic. The bint behind the bar looked at him in puzzlement and said "how d'yer make one of those, then?"

Last year I ordered a pint at the PoW, the bloke had nfi what I was talking about.

A schooner I can understand but a pint? LOL.

Jayzus what the hell is the world coming to

Pee in a pot glass.

shit in a schooner

NO STOP ARGH

Poop in a pot glass

cock in a cocktail glass

through a glass dorkly

Snot in a snifter

phlegm in a flute

need vyv holding up glass full of spit now. Cannot find on GIS.

My job title includes the word "Engineer" - I work with SQL Server databases. I don't like it either, but there it is.

Just dicked my cigarette onto my leg, while wearing stockings. Now have small burn hole in my tights >:|

Also, ow.

the girl who went missing in bristol at christmas seemed to alternate between architect and landscape architect in the news reports. annoyed me.

this morning along with my receipt and my fiver change i got an ocado voucher and a voucher for 50% off some book richard and judy are hawking on their cable tv show ('Room' by emma donoghue). these things will hang around in my pocket for 3 months before i throw them out.

I have an uninspected review copy of that kicking around the flat.

Recession has made me 100 per cent better at coupon and voucher redemption. However the Pizza Express two-entrees-for-£12 voucher just may go unused.

Which brings me to: if it's called a 'meal' or 'main meal' in the voucher, it's probably not something I would classify as 'food'. Food that I deem worthy of eating, that is.

So there are three of us in the lift (there are seven lifts in this building, they come every three seconds) and the door's about to close and one complete basket case forces the door open and like six billion people get in and press every button.

Just dicked my cigarette onto my leg, while wearing stockings.

so I guess it's safe to assume that "dicked" doesn't mean what I think it means

fwiw I live up the road from trayce and I still don't know what it means

with Trayce god only knows what it means...it could be our worst fears realized, lol (<3 u trayce hee hee)

I knew I'd get wtf comments. Its def an aus phrase and possibly only a bogan one - means the lit, glowing-ash part falls off and lands on something in a burny chunk.

I have no effing idea where the phrase comes from.