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

I would kill those ppl

^^

Improvising is not an excuse for not learning the material.

It is also not just making shit up, always grinds my gears when ppl assume that about jazz and related.

hang on which one of you is saying improvisation isn't making shit up, i need to know who to be IA at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy-Y3HJNU_s

I should clarify what I said: improvisation isnt just making *any old random shit* up. Obviously there's a level of "winging it" involved though.

I got nothing against improv. I'm saying if you are lazy and never want to practice and when you do practice you only learn part of the material....then justify your sloth and inflate your ego by saying it's like "jazz" or "noise" or "avant-garde" rather than just you not wanting to put in an effort.

i think HDTV makes me IA, but i don't really understand anything about tv specs so i'm not sure if that's it

or it might be LCD tvs? the sports bar where i do trivia has tons of TVs and one big one in the middle, and i just look at it and wonder why anyone would pay so much money for that picture. everything about it is weird and looks like it was shot on a really hi-def camcorder. sort of nauseating. film trailers suddenly look like pizza hut commercials. everyone looks sweaty and the movement/panning is awkward and shaky. the background/foreground juxtaposition makes it look like a moving viewfinder.

please tell me this is not the future of television and people don't actually like it

everyone looks sweaty

I have definitely noticed this a lot, especially on news and sports. People look greasy.

what you guys are irrationally angry about is motion interpolation which is on by default on many tvs these days. It makes pretty much everything look like it was shot on video.

yeah they have a tv with that motion interpolation in the lobby of my office, it makes a of the older standard movies look HORRIBLE

thankfully our home tv is slightly older and doesn't have this. I don't think I want it, honestly.

Would interpolation be a factor in video shot a TV studio? Announcers and reporters look the greasiest to me.

Interpolation is likely the cause, but another factor may be that announcers and reporters - male and female - have been caking and greasing themselves up for 60 years. The first reflex once HDTV came along was to apply more cake and grease to hide any wanton liver spots. And of course, this made them look even worse.

So the irony that's coming to live local television with HD is the counter-instinct that less works better now than ever before.

Our TV has settings dumbed down for dummies that change this. They are labeled sports, movies, some other shit I can't remember. Sports is the one that makes everything look like how soap operas look.

Yeah I hate that motion interpolation thing to, so annoying. Glad our TV is just old enough not to have it.

Poetry. It is rare now that I read a poem that doesn't make my eyes roll. I use to be really into it as a kid and into my thirties but for a few years now, it makes me irrationally angry.

My best friend's husband wrote her poems when he was trying to impress her and she'd send them to me to read to see what I thought. Blehk, I decided then the most deplorable poetry is the kind men write to women in an attempt to impress and undress. I am still convinced, for the most part, that men write one poem and just keep recycling it with each new female. They've been married ten years and we still laugh about the "poetry".

THAT'S what it's called!!!! I always wondered why HDTV'S make everything look like it was shot on video. So awful, but still not as awful as idiots who don't care what aspect ratio setting their set is on and watch things stretched and then bitch about black bars on the side when you try to fix it.

Soap Opera Effect
The "video" look is a byproduct of the perceived increase in framerate due to the interpolation and is commonly referred to as the "Soap Opera Effect" after the way those shows looked, having been shot on cheaper 30 fps video instead of regular broadcast equipment or film.[16] Some complain that the effect ruins the theatrical look of cinematic movies.[10] Others appreciate motion interpolation as it reduces motion blur produced by camera pans and shaky cameras and thus yields better clarity of such images. For this reason, almost all manufacturers have built in an option to turn the feature off. The soap opera effect can also be known as "Judder adjustment" or "Judder Removal"[17] This "video look" is created deliberately by the VidFIRE technique to restore archive television programs that only survive as film telerecordings.[18]

still not as awful as idiots who don't care what aspect ratio setting their set is on and watch things stretched and then bitch about black bars on the side when you try to fix it.

Arg. Yes. Also, if the TV has a setting to turn off the soap opera effect, people should turn it off if they don't like it! This is like in the olden days when the default resolution setting for computer monitors was like 600 x 800 and people (without visual impairments) would use their computer like that without changing it.

well the only time i see it is at a bar. i'm worried that everyone else likes it. and then it'll slowly become standard.

Paper towel dispensers that are packed so full that no matter how hard you try to just pull one out, another thirty come falling behind it.

Yeah, I mean, it's pretty easy to turn off the motion interpolation.

zachlyon next time you're in a bar with the motion interpolation turned on (and I agree - I usually see the terrible stretched out images on HD TVs in bars, too) demand the remote and fix it for them.

My dad does the stretched out image on his TV so he can use the entire screen. Which definitely makes me irrationally angry.

I love that the thing that inspired this thread was a "where's george?" $1.00 bill

those black bars are shitty tho, someday there'll be a tv that just changes its size to accommodate the picture i spose

my inlaws have a hd tv and cable with hd channels, but always watch standard-def shows in square-o-vision

ugh

I still don't understand why channels insist on showing programs where "the following has been modified to fit your screen." Surely 4:3 screens are a shrinking minority by now.

Our (plasma) TV changes its aspect ratio automatically depending on if the digital channel/DVDs signal says its widescreen or not. Well, usually. Sometimes I have to prod it manually.

Cant say Ive noticed the harsh HD interpolation but our TV signals are diff here anyway being PAL. US TV always looked weird in Aus, really fuzzy and strange and blurred (lower res/FPS?). But I dont really know the technical reasons and I'm waiting for sic or someone in the biz to tell me I'm talking out of my bum :)

Yeah, US's NTSC was lower quality than PAL by quite a way, with many fewer lines/screen (we benefited from being behind the times and introing TV later)--not sure how this works these HDTV days, though.

I do notice a few annoying things w/the plasma. The contrast is a little washy on ours - no true black - and in very dark scenes, theres this weird movement-blur effect you see on the screen. Like, a smearing effect?

wait, sic's a proctologist?

that is but one of his many talents

tbf i asked specifically for the professional title, proctology is one field where you don't want to find yrself at the mercy of a talented amateur

genuine lol

Trayce are you talking abt digital compression (like the way blacks appear in a divx file)?

Also is it "trace" or "tray-see"?

Hah thats a funny thing to ask after all these yrs! (its "trace").

Its not artefacting really - though that also becomes VERY obvious on a 50in TV, I tell you (ugh why do the media just get lazy and blow up youtube clips on the damn news now?). Its this strange motion-blur smearing effeect but it is really only visible/annoying im a really dark scene.

I thought it was "trace" but someone told me they always thought it to be like "Tracy" and that kinda blew my mind (like finding out "Louis" is pronounced like "Louie")

old people who mention in general conversation how they're probably going to die soon. not like your grandpa in a serious convo, but this patron at work telling me she's not going to bother learning some new skill because she's 76 and she's probably only got 10 years left. quit feeling sorry for yourself, you already made it further than most people.

my step-grandmother does this all the time and i get annoyed at her too.

a) ppl who try to organise, say, a camping trip by sending out a group email with no joke, at least 10 date ranges to choose from. none of which fall anywhere near public holidays FOR WHICH CAMPING WAS DESIGNED. but it's more the vast number of dates to sift through that annoys me

b) ppl in the email group, notorious slackers/non decision-makers who respond to said email saying either "any time is good for me just let me know" or "I can go on these 4 dates let me know what you decide"

sometimes I hate my friends.

needless to say we should get this trip nailed down by...oooh December

ppl who step into the elevator, press the button for their floor, and then stand there as if guarding the buttons from any further use

this has surely been mentioned already, but searching 10k posts for it would make me ia

elevator use is almost 100% ia start to finish

pretty much anything that involves people lately just makes me reach for my flamethrower

The other day I had a long elevator IA post planned but I forgot it by the time I got to my office. It was about people who get on the elevator and say "Going up?" when there is an indicator light showing which way the elevator is headed.

Wait did I post this already? I can't even remember anymore.

This actually happened to me while reading your post while riding the elevator back from lunch a minute ago.

I said that this morning to someone in the elevator with me at my kids' daycare. We were in the lobby and there are only two floors. I thought I was hilar.

I have one coworker who is not able to ever ride an elevator in silence. She's lovely, quite pleasant to talk to normally but it's like the confined space makes her nervous so she will gab away about her lunch or her shoes or her hair or her jacket or whatever for the entire elevator ride (thankfully only 2 floors). I always want to hug her and say 'shhh it's okay, it's okay"