It's weird, usually the look inside of the print version is better than the look inside of the kindle version.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 11:48 (ten years ago) link
- LoveFilm disconnecting me every time I watch anything meaning I have to sign in again to watch anything else.
- when you attempt to return to a session marker in Skate 3 and it plays the "I acknowledge your pressing of the return to marker button" noise then doesn't return you because it wants you to hold the button down a split second longer. I get IA about this about 3 times a minute when attempting challenges as I can't train myself out of releasing the button when I hear the noise.
- sun lounger reserving on Mediterranean holidays
- my work Internet connection inexplicably dropping for 10-15 minutes every day.
― Kind regards, (onimo), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link
Front parking lot is closed for repair at daycare so everyone's gotta use the back lot. Fine. Guess what. Everyone uses that one anyway because no one likes to drag their kids around in the street.
But for some really damn strange reason, daycare hired four security guys wearing yellow vests "to direct traffic". Listen, busters. I know how to park in a goddamm parking lot. Everyone else does too. I don't need any 22-year-old acting like he's directing airplanes into the gate. One guy tried to get me to go up to the front of the lot to park in the space with the freaking utility pole taking up half of it and looked all put out when I pulled into one of the spaces further from the door without a pole. My kids can WALK and so can you, you punk, right off this lot.
One guy did the slow, slow gesture at me because I was going 10 mph. Another guy could not wrap his head around the fact that he needed to close the door so that my son with his borderline autistic behavior (I don't know where he gets it) can push the button on the intercom like he does each day. WE DON'T NEED YOU WEIRD PEOPLE HANGING OUT BEHIND THE DAYCARE ACTING LIKE WE PARENTS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE TIP IS BACK HERE.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
I couldnt post to Facebook using the word screwed. Started first sentence with it & couldn't get phone to post. Changed that then went back to ask if the word was censored. Couldn't post that til I removed the 'e's. Bit overboard innit?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
ugh PP that would drive me insane
parking at the Coliseum for Raiders games tailgates has been a nightmare for the last few years -- not only has the parking cost gone up every year, and the actual space you have to tailgate shrinks by like a fucking foot every year, the parking lot attendants get progressively dumber and less able to understand that most of us come here ALL THE FUCKING TIME and know how to park. I don't mind if it's just a couple of dudes pointing the general way they want you to enter the lot, but when you have a cluster of like 5 attendants standing together each waving you in a different direction and NONE of them are paying even the slightest attention to where anyone else is parking, it's just like, why the fuck are you here.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
Legitimate complaints, I wholly support you in your opinion.
But the day that an Oakland Raiders tailgate is nice and orderly with nary a detail that doesn't lift the blood pressure a little, that's the day the Raiders become as exciting as a Golden State Warriors tailgate.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
good point
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
we stopped tailgating in the mainlot anyway -- BART parking lot way less full, lots more space, and everyone's way more chill. And it's like half the price to park.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
I just always assumed parking was horrible and those people weren't really in costume.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
acronyms that don't stand for the thing they're supposed to stand for, e.g. england and wales cricket board (ecb)
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
it's dickish and lazy and it needs to stop
The worst one, for all sorts of reasons, is one whose office we drive past a lot - SPELD: the Specific Learning Difficulties Association
http://www.spelfabet.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Speld_sa_training.jpg
these are, no joke, the people who help dyslexics
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 25 July 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
I am guilty lol-ing so hard right now.
― it itches like a porky pine sitting on your dick (Phil D.), Thursday, 25 July 2013 00:52 (ten years ago) link
that is amazing
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 25 July 2013 01:33 (ten years ago) link
Hurting are you happy to have your name on here? Maybe it's nbd but I just noticed you included it in the Twin Peaks page reply and couldn't recall you ever posting your irl name.
― bi goose aka the skein divider (qiqing), Thursday, 25 July 2013 01:48 (ten years ago) link
Totally just sent a friend request based on that info. Yippee-IA Motherf***ers.
― pplains, Thursday, 25 July 2013 01:57 (ten years ago) link
totally just discovered where hurting works based on that info #crepenotcrepe
― bi goose aka the skein divider (qiqing), Thursday, 25 July 2013 02:00 (ten years ago) link
if they had put a letter in there so that it made a word, they could at least say they had made a word
but it doesn't make a word, and there's no 'e' in specific
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 25 July 2013 02:11 (ten years ago) link
oh fuck, there's an 'e' in specific
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 25 July 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link
i need sleep
Dude was it ver therm like four in the morning this Saturday?
― pplains, Thursday, 25 July 2013 02:15 (ten years ago) link
Weirdest auto-correction, tbh, but you get where I'm coming from.
― pplains, Thursday, 25 July 2013 02:16 (ten years ago) link
i really don't
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 25 July 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
but i can't spell words so
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 25 July 2013 02:32 (ten years ago) link
HOW HOT IS AUGUST that's what I'm asking.
― pplains, Thursday, 25 July 2013 02:35 (ten years ago) link
having just come back to the office in four layers and a doctor who scarf I CAN'T RELIABLY ANSWER THAT QUESTION
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 25 July 2013 03:02 (ten years ago) link
the Priest doing the pre-game prayer
The fucking WHAT!? You have religious people PRAYING at sporting events? I knew america was god-crazy but thats mental. If you did that here you'd be beer-bottled out of the staduim in short order.
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Thursday, 25 July 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link
yep. There's been an 'invocation' before each live NFL game I've ever been to. I make sure to text lord belial during it.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 25 July 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link
'dear father, please let there be some awesome, violent hits and also please let Desean Jackson do something hella-fucking stupid, as is your will.'
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 25 July 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
― bi goose aka the skein divider (qiqing), Wednesday, July 24, 2013 9:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
argh, no, thx for heads up
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Thursday, 25 July 2013 03:38 (ten years ago) link
i have tried to live responsibly and make good choices but i hate hate HATE that i have arrived at a point, and more specifically a place, in my life where i have to pronounce the name Anthony with a soft 'th'
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 25 July 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
^^^
― ljubljana, Thursday, 25 July 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
Where were you before that you pronounced it otherwise?
― potatoes-in-law (Je55e), Thursday, 25 July 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
I have heard people on the east coast of These United States pronounce it like Ant-knee but I can't remember where exactly.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
Also maybe I made that up. I don't know.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
what does a hard "th" sound like?
― pplains, Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
want to be clear i am not insisting on a rightness/wrongness, which is why i chose this partic forum to get it off my chest
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
ANN ton knee
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
actually, there is a specific wrongness which is really only tangentially related which is saying roman fellow mark antony's name with a 'th', this is a thing i have actually heard, entirely rational anger there tho
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
hey if that's the way he wants it pronounced, who are you to argue with a guy playing a jack daniels bass.
― pplains, Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
In the 17th century, the letter "h" was inserted into the spelling on the mistaken belief that the name derived from the Greek word ανθος (anthos), meaning "flower".[4]
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
I've heard this on TV, and I think I recall Tony Soprano's wife calling him either "Ant-knee" or "An-to-knee."
― potatoes-in-law (Je55e), Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
nb: the k in knee is silent
― Aimless, Thursday, 25 July 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
you chose wrong pal
― j., Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
i don't understand but i am ok with that
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
NO YOU'RE NOT
― j., Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
my late brooklyn landlady's son is named ant-ny. he lives in it-ly
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 July 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
his favorite white stripes song is 'the hardest buh-un to buh-un'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 July 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
My wife's maiden name is Marr 'enn, like the comedian.
― pplains, Thursday, 25 July 2013 23:45 (ten years ago) link