Author Topic: More things that annoy me.. (Read 235421 times)

DocSavage · « **Reply #1600 on:** April 03, 2016, 01:15:36 AM »

http://kotaku.com/nba-2k16-studio-sued-over-some-video-game-tattoos-1756503371

Tattoo companies are sueing over rendition of tattoos in video gamse. One guy won 20,000.

What's next, clothing companies sueing over shirts? Hair stylists sueing over realistic styles?

DocSavage · « **Reply #1601 on:** April 07, 2016, 03:16:25 PM »

Google's so useless now.

You can't even get a common telephone book reference off Google, instead it gives these "background check" sites with no phone number..

I suppose I can try whitepages.com, but the point is the inconvience.. Just show the damned thing on Googles front page.

BlackLight · « **Reply #1602 on:** April 10, 2016, 04:22:11 PM »

I hate the smell of hand sanitizer. It's gross.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1603 on:** April 11, 2016, 01:34:01 AM »

I looked up Connecticut in Urban Dictionary. Two pages of people bashing my state. One of them called New York and Massachusetts the only states that matter, so I looked up Mass next.

About four-six pages of people raving about how Mass is the best place on Earth.

WTF??? Is the entire Urbandictionary just New Yorkers and Masser's dicking around? Do people in CT not use the internet? Is CT even that bad, or Mass that good...? I've been there, and to New York, and my favorite state is: Vermont.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1604 on:** April 12, 2016, 03:38:20 PM »

Javascript. That combined with all the adds = whatever device I'm using grinding to a halt. Usually leave it disabled, but some sites are built around it.

I realize spam has been a way of life for awhile now, but when you're constantly hitting the back button because of hijackers, or rebooting a crashed browser, something's wrong.

BobbyR · « **Reply #1605 on:** April 22, 2016, 11:27:07 AM »

Facebook whenever someone famous dies

DocSavage · « **Reply #1606 on:** April 24, 2016, 05:56:07 PM »

I'll agree with that. And I'm barely connected.

April vacations. A solid week of partying kids screwing up traffic for the rest of us. So far every single day, I've driven behind a car that went from 80 to 40, and back up again. Had a few close calls, and saw some pileups averted..

BobbyR · « **Reply #1607 on:** April 27, 2016, 02:22:47 PM »

I swear I spend my whole day telling people to do things theys hould have done, or telling them the same information I've given them 3 times already or correcting other people's mistakes

DocSavage · « **Reply #1608 on:** April 29, 2016, 11:35:33 AM »

A bunch of guys who just sit in their car/van, in a parking lot. Usually eating sandwhich's and talking loud. Especially this one guy who.parks the curb at a local place, walks in for coffee, walks back out to the car, then walks in for a refill without paying (Big sign says no free refills).

What are you doing? Who just kills time sitting in a parking lot? Go in anx have your lunch like everyone else.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1609 on:** April 29, 2016, 04:47:28 PM »

Went beer shopping. Stopped for a sample of brown ale.

Me: "Wow, this is really good!" Him: "If you like that, try this oat stout".

"Amazing! Best I've had since Samuel Smith! How much for a bottle?"

"Oh, they're seasonal. And we're sold out."

...it's got to be a marketing tactic. Drive you to drink by frustrating you with product you can't buy..

Beer_Baron · « **Reply #1610 on:** April 30, 2016, 03:57:51 PM »

Quote from: DocSavage on April 29, 2016, 11:35:33 AM

A bunch of guys who just sit in their car/van, in a parking lot. Usually eating sandwhich's and talking loud. Especially this one guy who.parks the curb at a local place, walks in for coffee, walks back out to the car, then walks in for a refill without paying (Big sign says no free refills).

What are you doing? Who just kills time sitting in a parking lot? Go in anx have your lunch like everyone else.

Maybe he really hates people and doesn't want to be surrounded by them any more than is necessary

FreebirdSTF · « **Reply #1611 on:** April 30, 2016, 04:10:53 PM »

Getting away like that isn't weird to me. Depending on the nature of your job it may be more comfortable sitting in your car in a parking lot than going in somewhere. I did it the other day in my work truck.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1612 on:** April 30, 2016, 04:34:36 PM »

Me, I usually go down to the pond/woods instead. If I have time.

I realize not everybody has access to that, but we have like five recreational areas all over town. The guy in the car was 20 feet away from one.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1613 on:** May 01, 2016, 09:57:16 AM »

Walt Whitman gave himself positive reviews under aliases. Good to know "fake reviews" isn't a modern thing, apparently.

It's not so much the fake reviews that annoy me, as much as the bandwagon effect that follows. Going with the Walt Whitman example, if someone tried arguing his work wasn't very good, he'd be shunned from literary circles and nobody would ever take him seriously as a writer/critic.

So basically, if you dupe the right people, you're untouchable (Otoh, a concentrated effort of negativity can probably as easily ruin careers).

Sure, the "think for yourself" trope is an obvious retort, and in a world of no stakes, that's good advice. But sometimes, mass opinion matters.

Why does it seem like individual people are often smarter/less niave then a group of them? You'd think more people = more critical thinking, but it really doesn't work that way..

DocSavage · « **Reply #1614 on:** May 06, 2016, 03:02:33 PM »

Looks like the tail of my car caught a loogie..

Stay classy drivers.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1615 on:** May 06, 2016, 03:59:56 PM »

Android devices.

Google play store is a joke.

BobbyR · « **Reply #1616 on:** May 06, 2016, 06:34:13 PM »

How so? I love my windows phone but I'm getting tired of the lack of aps

DocSavage · « **Reply #1617 on:** May 06, 2016, 09:23:47 PM »

Google Play tends to de-list aps.. Even stupid notepads or junk that your phone could handle.

Not sure how the system works, but it seems like every app maker has to actually opt in each individual device, or something. Probably as some sort of initiative to force out foreign made knockoffs.

I've read a few posts from app makers complaining their own app they designed wasn't listed as compatible with the phone they designed it for, and which they know it works on.

Also, the way apps install isn't very efficiant.. I've had four-five hundred megs open and been unable to install a five meg app on several occasions.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1618 on:** May 12, 2016, 08:02:14 AM »

Patton.

The movie has "anti military" written all over it.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1619 on:** May 15, 2016, 12:12:59 PM »

Pat downs at lines.

Get a metal detector.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1620 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:52:10 PM »

Sin taxes.

Using people who have an addiction as a revenue stream, essentially.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1621 on:** May 26, 2016, 08:00:28 PM »

Pretty much the entire East coast, at this point.

Wonder how things are in California..

Zandrax · « **Reply #1622 on:** May 26, 2016, 09:22:43 PM »

Now that biking is my main form of transportation, people that don't signat when they turn.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1623 on:** May 26, 2016, 09:57:59 PM »

Quote from: Zandrax on May 26, 2016, 09:22:43 PM

Now that biking is my main form of transportation, people that don't signat when they turn.

Worse is when people back out of their driveway without looking, as you're speeding downhill and can't possibly stop in time.

BlackLight · « **Reply #1624 on:** May 27, 2016, 02:43:08 AM »

Quote from: Zandrax on May 26, 2016, 09:22:43 PM

Now that biking is my main form of transportation, people that don't signat when they turn.

In your area, is it illegal to ride through a crosswalk? Do you have to stop at the curb and walk it through?