Author Topic: More things that annoy me.. (Read 235398 times)

DocSavage · « **Reply #1800 on:** December 11, 2016, 11:15:24 AM »

The rush to regulate e-cig's/demonize them.

I don't use them, but it pretty much looks like a combination of bending to child protection groups demands (Always reasonable people. They'd call to ban turkey at schools if enough believed turkey makes you tired), and government overreach to control the stuff like normal tobacco.

Wait on the studies before fear peddling? Why do that, something needs to be done NOW.

And if future studies prove e-cig's/vaping is as safe as a steam bath, I'm sure they'd relax those restrictions, of course. Not.

BobbyR · « **Reply #1801 on:** December 11, 2016, 11:39:42 AM »

That's just the part of the bigger problem of the growth of the nanny state

BlackLight · « **Reply #1802 on:** December 12, 2016, 03:12:48 AM »

At least some of the push to regulate e-cigs/vaping is coming from the old-school cigarette companies. They're actually pushing for tougher regulations on themselves because the smaller e-cig companies will have a harder time staying in business.

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DocSavage · « **Reply #1803 on:** December 14, 2016, 01:53:34 PM »

Someone asks for help: "Google it".

Why even reply at all, if that's your "help".

FreebirdSTF · « **Reply #1804 on:** December 14, 2016, 02:06:08 PM »

OTOH, I see a lot of people ask a lot of questions that can easily be answered by Googling it or trying an obvious place to look first before asking.

BlackLight · « **Reply #1805 on:** December 14, 2016, 07:43:28 PM »

Quote from: DocSavage on December 14, 2016, 01:53:34 PM

Someone asks for help: "Google it".

Why even reply at all, if that's your "help".

Google it.

BlackLight · « **Reply #1806 on:** December 15, 2016, 01:42:41 PM »

Certain web pages that keep shifting and jumping around after they've supposedly finished loading. You'll be reading text from an article, then some banner ad on a completely different part of the page reloads, and the page starts jumping. This should never, ever happen.

FreebirdSTF · « **Reply #1807 on:** December 15, 2016, 01:59:40 PM »

I agree with that one BL.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1808 on:** December 15, 2016, 07:28:05 PM »

That's the reason I keep Javascript off, if reading from phone/tablet.

BobbyR · « **Reply #1809 on:** December 15, 2016, 09:28:49 PM »

That is annoying

DocSavage · « **Reply #1810 on:** December 16, 2016, 11:11:35 AM »

See an item on the menu called "pancakes with pulled pork and jack daniels bbq sauce".

Get curious enough to place an order. Recieve a shot of syrup, and a shot of Jack.

If you buy jack daniels bbq at the store, do they give you a bottle of jack and bottle of honey bbq? O_o

DocSavage · « **Reply #1811 on:** December 17, 2016, 02:42:01 PM »

You order out, and they burn it. Badly.

Been happening at a lot of places lately. Just picked up some horderves from our favorite
italian place, all burned. Favorite pizza spots tends to burn to the point of being cardboard like.

And this chinese spot I've gone to since high school, which is run by the same man and his daughter, handed me a bag that looked like coal, but was meant to be ribs.

At this point, I go to McDonalds for reliably decent food, instead of cheap bad food.

Beer_Baron · « **Reply #1812 on:** December 18, 2016, 02:43:48 PM »

ya, McDonald's has definitely improved their food quality over the years. A decade ago I avoided that place like the plague because it seemed to give me the runs every time I ate there. But over the past 2 or 3 years I've started going there again for the occasional lunch break if I happened to be in town. And ever since I moved a year ago, McDs is now the 2nd closest restaurant to my home and I seem to go 2 or 3 times a month. Heck, I'll probably end up going there tomorrow when my friend is in town visiting

DocSavage · « **Reply #1813 on:** December 19, 2016, 10:55:41 PM »

"I had a lot of help *snip* "

Never seen a broadcast of Christmas Vacation where they cut out the "...from Johnny Walker" bit.

Why not just edit out the cigars while you're at it. "Go get my "lolipop" "

BlackLight · « **Reply #1814 on:** December 20, 2016, 01:13:32 PM »

When you've made a personal commitment to healthier eating/living habits, how people are frequently looking over your shoulder to make sure you're sticking to it, and rarely missing an opportunity to comment if you're not measuring up to their standards ("Why are you eating pizza? I thought you were on a diet.")

Made all the more irritating by the fact that, if you weigh 600 lbs and make no effort to live healthier, you can eat a plate of reheated mozzarella sticks for breakfast and nobody will say a word to you about it. So, really, the comments are never about people looking out of for you - they're about the insecurities of the person who can't help but comment.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1815 on:** December 20, 2016, 03:03:11 PM »

Quote from: BlackLight on December 20, 2016, 01:13:32 PM

When you've made a personal commitment to healthier eating/living habits, how people are frequently looking over your shoulder to make sure you're sticking to it, and rarely missing an opportunity to comment if you're not measuring up to their standards ("Why are you eating pizza? I thought you were on a diet.")

Made all the more irritating by the fact that, if you weigh 600 lbs and make no effort to live healthier, you can eat a plate of reheated mozzarella sticks for breakfast and nobody will say a word to you about it. So, really, the comments are never about people looking out of for you - they're about the insecurities of the person who can't help but comment.

In my experience, people can be almost passive aggressive in trying to make a diet as hard as possible.

Like say if a guy was a recovering alcohoic, they'd be breaking out the shots and beer and constantly waving it under your nose. That's obviously messed up, but that's how a lot of dieter's get treated.

And then shamed for lack of willpower.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1816 on:** December 21, 2016, 03:16:54 PM »

Pockets are designed to carry: Nothing.

A phone, wallett, keys alone are a pain to carry around in normal pants. God forbid you carry more then that.

I see more guys using money clips now, and ditching the wallets.

FreebirdSTF · « **Reply #1817 on:** December 21, 2016, 03:20:22 PM »

I carry a wallet, three sets of keys, and an iPhone in my two front pockets.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1818 on:** December 21, 2016, 09:31:25 PM »

You switch cable providers, a week before your favorite sports team plays on a station not included in your new package.

At least there's radio.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1819 on:** December 22, 2016, 10:19:42 AM »

The term "guilty pleasure".

It's usually something said to preserve snob cred against something he'd usually look down on someone else for enjoying. Like "The Santa Clause is way way, beneath me, but it's a guilty pleasure."

Hate the term.

BobbyR · « **Reply #1820 on:** December 22, 2016, 09:36:42 PM »

I agree with you on that last one

BlackLight · « **Reply #1821 on:** December 23, 2016, 08:19:23 PM »

I hate the expression, "Don't work too hard." It always sounds like a back-handed insult.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1822 on:** December 24, 2016, 10:07:11 AM »

Krampus.(2015):

Not even gonna put this on the main page, so I don't have to look at the movie name every time I visit.

It's bad. Really, really bad. Not in a B movie charm kind of way either. This is bad in a way you wish you never bothered watching it in the first place and say The Santa Clause 3 instead.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1823 on:** December 27, 2016, 10:47:05 AM »

Fingerprints on a touch screen.

Especially if you don't have a microfiber cloth or something handy, and can't do anything about it.

Prime · « **Reply #1824 on:** December 27, 2016, 12:51:39 PM »

Online poker players that use their entire clock for every single decision. It shouldn't take 30 seconds plus a 10 second time bank for every decision, especially when it's for 10 chips. Sheesh.