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

Well, I read the 'goofs' and the only one that seems to qualify is "Sparks" gets played, but the album is on side 4 on the player whereas the song is on side 1.

Weird, I never noticed that. One thing that maybe isn't so much of a goof as just creative license is that it segues into the Live At Leeds version of "Sparks," which wasn't released until 1995. As incidental music, it makes sense/works, but then "Lester Bangs" takes it off the turntable at the radio station.

jvc, I have been wondering about the popcorn lady in your office. How's that situation coming along?

OK, Very unimportant thing that can make me IA..

When in a film or TV show, someone plays a record with a visible label and the song that plays definitely was not issued on that label. It happens less often these days but there's a definite one at the beginning of "One Day".

I knew I had gone too far when, watching an episode of Torchwood (I know) someone was holding up a Faber & Faber edition of Emily Dickinson and reading off the ISBN, which started with 019, which means it would have to be an Oxford Uni Press book, and I both noticed this and was deeply annoyed

Well, you've inspired me to go off and learn about ISBN. That's neat!

Why wouldn't they read the ISBN off the book they were holding?

(Note I didn't say ISBN Number, so bonus point to me)

My nerdy guess: the ISBN they used was from an Oxford anthology of poetry containing Emily Dickinson, which is what the screenwriter had to hand, rather than the complete works the props people actually provided

Rustic, I aim to please!

Yeah, but as I say: Are actors so dedicated to their craft that they read out the ISBN that they have learned from the script, rather than the prop they have in their hand?

(Genuine question, not being rhet)

jvc, I have been wondering about the popcorn lady in your office. How's that situation coming along?

Its been good, but mostly because she's been travelling a lot lately for work, so she's barely in the office.

- mediocre indie rock albums being classified as 'Jazz' in Gracenote/iTunes

Not gonna lie, this is hilarious.

Yeah, but as I say: Are actors so dedicated to their craft that they read out the ISBN that they have learned from the script, rather than the prop they have in their hand?

Apparently so. And indeed, who knew that it would be Torchwood that demonstrated this dedication. I've checked, and the ISBN quoted was The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, from where the scriptwriter presumably nicked the bits of Emily Dickinson used in the plot. See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887099/goofs for more!

when people describe a movie as being a "vehicle" for a certain actor/actress

what about the phrase "movie event of the year"?

IA whenever i go to slashfilm hoping to read some semi-competent-sounding film news and reading this: "This weekend can be simply described in two words: Arrested Development. News of a possible fourth season of the brilliant comedic sitcom,"

it's not really that difficult to find people who can report news and also write in a way that doesn't make me want to kill them. slashfilm has never succeeded, but they're still better than every other film news blog i've ever read.

comedic sitcom

COMEDIC SITCOM

One I read yesterday - "non human animals". Where the hell did this come from?

non literate writers

Humans are animals. When people say 'animals' they are usually excluding humans. Thus to make it clearer they say 'non-human animals'.

Yeh, I always think twice when referring to about non-human creatures as "animals," but "non-human animals" sounds a little too awkward.

ia: the paucity of classic-era simpsons episodes available for streaming.

Yeah "non-human animals" is a fairly common term of art in some contexts

I realise its to clarify "as opposed to humans who are also animals" but surely common parlance means this goes without saying. I agree with Jesse, its just clumsy.

http://www.hyped2death.com/animaliner.html

ia: the paucity of classic-era simpsons episodes available for streaming.

― gorillex (get bent), Monday, October 3, 2011 8:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

oh! actually noticing that there's a simpsons rerun playing on TV, thinking, "well there's a 50% chance..." and then it's never, ever a first-half ep. ever.

Just buy the damn DVDs! Theyre up to S13.

Unfortunately there are now more bad episodes of The Simpsons than good so the chances of getting a classic one are less than 50/50.

- sportsdirect.com gift cards cannot be redeemed at sportsdirect.com

I mean seriously wtf

ha what

"Gift cards cannot be redeemed online"

My son wanted a new skateboard and two people gave him gift cards for his birthday to pay for it - the skateboard isn't available in store and the vouchers are useless online.

I've got so many vacation/plane travel things to add to this thread from my recent vacation

this first one isn't really innocuous, but when your flight is cancelled and you can only leave a day later than you should have and on top of that have to spend a couple of hours on the phone changing your hotel and car rental arrangements.

people flooding my minifeed with RIPs for a deceased celebrity.

it's like HE'S GONNA REST SO MUCH MORE PEACEFULLY NOW THX FOR POSTING

rly mainly stymied by why it's necessary, obvi see that [person] (here obvi Jobs) did some great things with their life, but does fb need to know that you, too, saw the CNN article?

I get it's annoying, but you chose to read their updates and not everyone will be seeing the same thing. Someone I'm friends with had a similar problem a while ago and posted a rant about how her feed was filled up with RIP posts and could everyone stop posting about it (which they probably would after the initial 'RIP' anyway). Hardly anyone in *my* feed had mentioned it, so I had this plus a few other blustering 'can we all just shut up about XYZ, I'm fed up of reading about it' posts filling up *my* feed.

I have to avoid Twitter on Saturday evenings UK time because every fucker is posting about X-Factor.

My friends are acting like fucking Gandhi died....but they're kinda twits about shit like this so it's to be expected. My big IA are the Jobs-ified Apple logos. ENOUGH ALREADY. Just waiting for a bloody "Tears in Heaven" photo montage to push me over the edge.

Didn't you hear how Jobs once defenestrated a box of Apple Newtons?

But they're fat free! ;_;

Here's a thing that drives me into a frothing rage, and which I am encountering more and more lately. A quote from today's review of the new DJ Shadow disc, on Pitchfork:

"After all, dude's on Verve, a label that certainly allows an artist the freedom to not give a shit about what the kids are into."

"The" dude. "That" dude. Not just "dude." It's one extra motherfucking word, and it will singlehandedly save you from sounding like a fucking drooling imbecile. You are a professional writer! Stop writing in a way that makes you seem stupider, just because you've heard rappers talk this way! Not only should writers who do this never get another assignment, the editors who let it pass should be fired, too.

what rappers say dude

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

grrrr when you're in Excel and you double-click and it takes you to the bottom of your 1500-row-long spreadsheet grrrrrrrr

when you're in excel and you accidentally erase the formula in your cell and have to c/p it from somewhere else.

There may be a good reason for it, but it bugs me when I'm in Excel and I try Ctrl+Shift+arrow key to select text by the word and it doesn't work like it does in most every other program. The thing is, that combo has no other function, so why can't it be used for selecting a word at a time??

Yeah, there are a few things in Excel where you wonder "why the hell doesn't this just work the same as in Word?"

I work with a database called Raiser's Edge. There's a Query function, which you use to ask questions of the database using a variety of criteria. And then there's a function called Export, which uses the data from your query to create an excel spreadsheet. However, Export does not have the same potential outputs as Query does. There are some outputs that Query has that Export doesn't have and vice-versa.

The database DOES allow me to export the results of the Query directly in the Query function, which is how I've been doing things ever since I started using it. However, last week someone asked me for a report with a an output that was available only in Export.

I ended up running exports from both the Query and the Export, then copying and pasting the data from one spreadsheet to the other, but I had doublecheck to make sure that they had both pulled on the same records.

I feel like I should just send this in an email to the company, but I'm angry about it (irrationally so, because I now know the solution) so it's going here.

I read the whole post carefully....

"The" dude. "That" dude. Not just "dude." It's one extra motherfucking word, and it will singlehandedly save you from sounding like a fucking drooling imbecile. You are a professional writer! Stop writing in a way that makes you seem stupider, just because you've heard rappers talk this way! Not only should writers who do this never get another assignment, the editors who let it pass should be fired, too.

It's called a colloquialism, dude.

It is absolutely absurd that Outlook does have multiple reminders or at least allow you to copy a whole event, both of which Google does. At work we do 1,2, and 3 week reminders and then daily ones for crucial deadlines, and it's a pain in the ass for a function that surely lots of people want!

Switch your office to Google Apps.

I work with a database called Raiser's Edge.

This makes me IA.

it's for fundraisers.