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

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.

I don't understand the problem with the Raiser's Edge issue. Wouldn't the solution be to do the export and then manipulate the data from there (ie putting in whatever summarization you needed, maybe prettying up the presentation, etc)?

Haha, OK. Fair enough. I used to play bass in a classic rock covers band called Razor's Edge. It ended when I killed everyone else in the band in a spree shooting. (Not really, but boy do I wish.)

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.

― that's not funny. (unperson), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:16 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalin

Yeah, this is irrational. If you're going to use slang terms like "dude" then I don't think there's anything wrong with appropriating it in the same way as some people might say it. There's a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek going on here anyway; the writer's aware of the stylistic twist.

Dan, that's what I ended up doing, but it took me a while of fuming and trying other methods before I came up with that solution.

Did you play AC/DC, Phil?

Amazingly, no.

We played jammy instrumentals under Somerset Maugham readings.

When roommates leave passive-aggressive notes addressed to everyone in the apartment (all three of us) like we live in a fucking office building.

Jenny.

What?

- when you try on a pair of shoes that are slightly too big, and they don't have the next size down in stock, and the shop assistant ALWAYS ALWAYS says "yeah but you can just wear in-soles"

I HATE IN-SOLES

People on messageboards about TV shows that say shit like "just ignore the plotholes and stop nitpicking, it's still a really good show, just enjoy it for what it is" - FFS, A REALLY GOOD SHOW WOULDN'T HAVE MASSIVE FUCKING PLOTHOLES IN IT (also, um, you're on a messageboard about the show, where the fuck else are people meant to dissect the plot?)

You should try our Doctor Who threads some time...

The phrase/joek: "'I see,' said the blind man."

Perhaps you prefer the extended dance remix of that phrase my father always used: '"I see,' said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw."

And that ain't awl.

My family heritage is in the " 'I see,' said the blind man to his deaf wife, who wasn't really listening anyway" camp.

"I see, said the blind man who could not speak."

"'Icy', said the blind man when asked what the weather was like."

Thank you, everybody.

Another variation I heard once: "'I see,' said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw, see-saw."

motherfucker.

Blame this poem, which has been around in some form or another since the 19th century:

One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
drew their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise
and ran to save the two dead boys.
If you don't believe this lie is true,
ask the blind man, he saw it, too.

My brother's (very horrible) mother-in-law says "I see said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw," all the time. My brother discovered that it vexed her when he changed it to "I see said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and chainsaw," so that has been how part of my family says it for a while.

Oh man, my uncle used to always make it even more terrible by adding a whole section. "I see said the blind man as he pissed into the wind, 'it's all coming back to me now'".