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Things that shouldn't piss you off, but do. Things that shouldn't piss you off, but do.

06-03-2013 , 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Duerig
WTF DOES THAT EVEN MEAN
I don't know and i could care less
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06-04-2013 , 05:30 AM
Right but "don't worry about it" or "just fix it" etc are actual pieces of potentially useful advice.
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06-04-2013 , 06:48 AM
How is "just fix it" considered advice?
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06-04-2013 , 06:51 AM
School zones.

Ok, not all school zones, just one. I actually think schools zones are a good idea and my contempt for people that speed through them approaches what I have for drunk drivers. There's an elementary school a block over from my house. It's on a residential street and 80% of the kids walk to it. Cars are parked on the street and kids are all over the place. Slowing down to 10mph seems reasonable.

But, there's a school zone about 4 miles away on my way to work that pisses me off everyday. It's on a 4 lane divided highway. Two elementary schools (one k-2 and the other 3-5) are right across from each other. The speed limit drops from 55 down to 25. Sounds reasonable and the perfect place for a school zone, right? WRONG! No kids walk to school along this road. On one side there is a walking/bike path but no kids because there are no houses on that side of the road - it backs to a National Park. On the other side there is no sidewalk and no reason to walk there because all the houses are on the other side of the school and the kids are walking there. Both schools are set well back from the road and one is even behind a berm. In 16 years living here I have never - not once! - seen a kid come anywhere near the road. There is no danger!

Why shouldn't this piss me off? I figure that at the very most this adds about a minute to my drive. And more than likely even without the school zone I would hit a red light at the schools or the one a half-mile down the road and the school zone wouldn't really add anything.

But there's still no reason to slow down on that section of road and that pisses me off.
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06-04-2013 , 09:10 AM
Quick question. make it even quicker by not saying that.

so let me ask you this. I know somebody who says this 25 times per conversation
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06-04-2013 , 10:19 AM
I started saying quick question because I had a professor in college who was asian and didn't speak English all that well who would say that everytime he wanted the class to think about something, which was very frequently. So I started using it cause I thought it was hilarious, and now I can't stop.
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06-04-2013 , 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by that_pope
... would say that everytime he wanted the class to think about something ...
So he'd be like, "Blah blah blah lecture blah blah blah lecture lecture. Quick question," and then wait, without actually asking a question?

Last edited by Rei Ayanami; 06-04-2013 at 10:44 AM.
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06-04-2013 , 11:26 AM
No, he would start every point with "Quick Question....blah blah blah"
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06-05-2013 , 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by EvilSteve
When a message I agree with is presented in the most idiotic way imaginable. Example:

Internet banner ads in general infuriate me, probably way more than they should.

They reuse the same stock images all the time that have nothing to do with the ad. I'd say pretty much 90% of internet banner ads are either misleading to just flat out lies.

And they always appeal to the biggest morons on the planet, like 12 year olds who have never been on the internet before.

I don't know anyone of even marginal intelligence that clicks banner ads ever, so it makes sense that they would target the biggest morons on the planet to try to get clicks, still infuriates me though.
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06-05-2013 , 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe
I don't know and i could care less
I could not
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06-05-2013 , 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by I_AM_EVIL
I have these light switches in my kitchen. 1 is at the top of the stairs leading to my basement and the other is on the other side of the kitchen on the wall leading into the hallway.

I can't stand it when they're off set. I have an OCD compulsion to check and make sure that both switches are set so up turns on the light and down turns it off.
They are called 3-way switches, that's how they work. Not sure how you can have them work properly and have them act(up as on) like regular switches. One is always odd.
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06-05-2013 , 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Cotton Hill
Internet banner ads in general infuriate me, probably way more than they should.

They reuse the same stock images all the time that have nothing to do with the ad. I'd say pretty much 90% of internet banner ads are either misleading to just flat out lies.

And they always appeal to the biggest morons on the planet, like 12 year olds who have never been on the internet before.

I don't know anyone of even marginal intelligence that clicks banner ads ever, so it makes sense that they would target the biggest morons on the planet to try to get clicks, still infuriates me though.
That's not just an internet banner ad though. It's on a billboard in LA.
http://o.dailycaller.com/thedailycal...f5d9d0d12e36/1

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06-05-2013 , 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by electricladylnd
They are called 3-way switches, that's how they work. Not sure how you can have them work properly and have them act(up as on) like regular switches. One is always odd.
Guess I didn't explain that in the best way.

What I meant was that the switch at my entry point has to be set at up = on and down = off.

I can't stand it when I come upstairs to the kitchen and the switch is set the other way. If I'm going back downstairs I'll flip the switch near the hallway so it sets the switch at the top of the stairs to the way I like it.
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06-05-2013 , 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by I_AM_EVIL
People that end sentences with "so".

"I really didn't want to tell you that but I did any way, so...."

**** off and die.
Quoting this b/c it still pisses me off every time I hear it.

If you're guilty of doing this then I hope you get bleeding anal warts that get infected.
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06-05-2013 , 09:22 PM
ending with so is 10000000000x better than starting with so. Ending implies that the listener can figure it out on their own and/or it's pointless to try and verbalize the outcome because it would take too long and generally all listeners would understand.

Starting it with so just makes no ****ing sense whatsoever.

SO. i went to the movies yesterday
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06-05-2013 , 09:55 PM
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"I really didn't want to tell you that but I did any way, so...."
so.....you molested a ferret and stuck a tooth pick in your pee hole?

so.....you jerked off while looking at your parent's wedding photos?

so.....you broke into an ATM to pay for a hooker that does ATM?

so.....you stuck fish hooks through your nipples and then tied them to a kite during a hurricane?

"You're" the person telling me something. I'm not listening to try and figure out wtf you're saying. Finish your god damn point or don't start it.
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06-05-2013 , 10:17 PM
So, you mad bro?
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06-05-2013 , 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Cotton Hill
Internet banner ads in general infuriate me, probably way more than they should.

They reuse the same stock images all the time that have nothing to do with the ad. I'd say pretty much 90% of internet banner ads are either misleading to just flat out lies.

And they always appeal to the biggest morons on the planet, like 12 year olds who have never been on the internet before.

I don't know anyone of even marginal intelligence that clicks banner ads ever, so it makes sense that they would target the biggest morons on the planet to try to get clicks, still infuriates me though.
100% of my ad clicks are accidental
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06-05-2013 , 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by cicakman
100% of my ad clicks are accidental
How can you click what you shouldn't see?
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06-05-2013 , 11:16 PM
my friend says "minus well" all the time. i have corrected him, he still says he is right. And then he posts about alex jones speaking truth..but that should and does piss me off.
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06-06-2013 , 12:00 AM
I didn't even know what "minus well" was supposed to mean. My only guess was that he was using some type of Orwellian newspeak to say he wasn't doing well, similar to double-plus ungood. Google result:
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/minuswell.html


I mean why not "midas well" instead?
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06-06-2013 , 12:58 AM
Twenty-somethings who call themselves hippies.
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06-06-2013 , 10:39 AM
Showers
Don’t get me wrong, I love a nice, long, warm shower, which is why it’s so frustrating that all shower manufacturers can’t produce a nice, simple, consistent, functioning shower. It really can’t be that difficult. The first time showering in a hotel or at someone’s house is never a pleasant experience. You have to experiment with the gauge until you find that Goldilocks temperature (or, in showers with two taps (read: faucets), simultaneously turn the hot tap in one direction and the cold in the opposite with ambidextrous precision, a technique I have yet to master). Then there’s showers that are so weak they just dribble down your back like a sobbing infant, leaving the rest of your body shivering in the cold air. There are the showers that sting your back. A place I stayed recently had a shower that alternated every two seconds between skin-sizzling heat and scrotum-shrinking cold. I took to washing in the sink (where the water worked fine, wtf…?). Landlords, hotel managers, homeowners and shower manufacturers: take note. I just want a standard shower with simple controls that expels a jet of warm water at a comfortable velocity so that I can cleanse myself. Is that really too much to ask? Is it?
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06-06-2013 , 02:05 PM
That should piss you off.

Jordan not just dunking the ball in his "spectacular move" vs. the Lakers in '91
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06-06-2013 , 04:21 PM
no way he could have
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