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Posted on 11-23-09 03:19:40 AM

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3. Sneezing while peeing

4. People who expose an extreme amount of their upper gum when they smile

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Posted on 11-23-09 04:47:05 PM

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5. Websites which prompt you to log in to access certain pages that, upon logging in, take you back to the main page instead of the page which you were trying to access.

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Posted on 11-23-09 06:33:54 PM

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Originally posted by Kles
5. Websites which prompt you to log in to access certain pages that, upon logging in, take you back to the main page instead of the page which you were trying to access.

Web sites that reorganize and redirect all the old links to the home page rather than to their corresponding new URLs.

In a similar vein, Web sites that delete content quickly. Mostly this is news Web sites, and zillions of blogs and pages and Wikipedia articles keep links to the article long after it's gone.

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Posted on 11-23-09 06:49:34 PM

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Originally posted by Terra
Web sites that delete content quickly. Mostly this is news Web sites, and zillions of blogs and pages and Wikipedia articles keep links to the article long after it's gone.

oh god this.

I've had to poke around on archive.org for a few things like this before. On 56k, that was a massive pain in the ass.

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Posted on 11-24-09 03:06:08 PM

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6. People who say "life isn't fair" as a means to justify being a dick (or, in general, really).

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Posted on 11-24-09 04:30:15 PM

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Originally posted by Kles
6. People who say "life isn't fair" as a means to justify being a dick (or, in general, really).

This.

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Posted on 11-25-09 07:24:43 AM (last edited by HyperHacker at 11-25-09 04:31 AM)

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Post #2634 - 11-25-09 02:24:43 AM

When my monitors aren't perfectly aligned, I'll eventually notice and just have to fix it.
People who say they'll get back to you/call you back/etc and don't. Or don't respond to text messages. Rude.
Comments in assembler! They just seem to choose random characters. Sometimes it's @, sometimes it's #, some even use /* C style! */ This is not C, not Bash, not what the fuck ever uses @ for a comment! Semicolon is the only appropriate character for comments in assembly! Don't even start with the multiple statements per line crap. You don't do that!
Anything that requires registration to view. You really shouldn't even require it to post comments in most cases.
In Linux (at least Xubuntu) clipboard data is requested from whichever program last copied at the time it's pasted. Which means if you copy, then close the program, the clipboard is wiped out. Who the hell designed that? There are hacky workaround programs that run in the background and copy it themselves, but they don't work.
People who get all bothered or upset by something harmless or funny. Like who the fuck cares?
When you do a bunch of work for someone and all they have to say is pointing out the one thing you did wrong. Some gratitude would be appreciated.
Lights being left on. At school the bathroom lights are on all day. Nobody bothers to simply flick them off when they leave. There's even still a second set of lights that are bright enough as it is, so those big main lights don't need to be on at all! In my apartment building the hallways are fully lit 24/7. Why do we need such bright lights all night? It's just annoying and wasteful. Dim them just to where you can see, and install a damn window at one end (or both) for the daytime.
Why do PS2/PSP swap X/O in English countries? It's just silly. PSP has a system-wide configuration for it, but you can't change it without a hack, and half the games/homebrew ignore it anyway, so you're always having to switch back and forth. It's even worse when the games don't respect it themselves, but pass it on to the built-in system menu functions, so you're using X to confirm in the game menus, but suddenly you need to use O in a save file/wifi AP selection menu.
The significant lack of drag and drop functionality in today's operating systems. I should be able to drag an image or link from Firefox to a folder window to save it there. Drag a file into an Open File dialog to open it, or into a textbox to insert its path. Drag embedded videos, images, etc off a web page into their own window. Drag a highlighted URL from a text editor into Firefox. Many things I should be able to do here.
It feels like something's stuck under my fingernail, but there isn't. Agh!
So many sites that are complete bullshit (registration required to view content, or no content at all) still manage to be within the first few results for Google searches fairly often. I can usually tell when a site's going to be a search engine trap just with a glance at the title and URL. Why can't Google? Especially for sites that have been reported repeatedly by numerous people, ranked untrustworthy in services like WOT, etc. I can only believe they're paying off Google, or they'd be gone by now. (I'm looking at you ExpertSexChange.)
Domain squatters. Can we get some kind of "use it or lose it" law to get rid of these? Actually, the patent system needs that too. If you're clearly using your domain name/patent for nothing other than to keep others from having it or to annoy people, it gets revoked, fuck you.

Originally posted by Terra
Similarly with taskbar buttons, which is why I use a double-height taskbar.

Drag your taskbar to the side of the screen. It's bliss. Except 7 fails at it. >8^(

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Posted on 11-25-09 07:48:40 AM (last edited by Dialga at 11-26-09 05:53 AM)

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-Dialga's post

1. Haveing to enter a compleatly unreadable code from an image when you want to registrer on a webpage.
2. Peaple who knows nothing about computera and keep asking me how to do simple things such as printing a document.
3. The red underlines on every single word i type in firefox (how do i turn that off???)
4. When you don't know what to post
5. Internet lag/disconnecting when watching a YouTube video (Stupid router)
6. Non-responding USB Devices
7. Random errors in Project64
8. The lack of a decent computer
9. Running out of ideas
10. Videos of games being recorded with a crappy camera
11. Loading...
12. LAG
13. My mouse
14. TV Remotes
15. Peaple who write in Spanish on YouTube.

EDIT: Added 7 more.
Five-minute-later-EDIT: Added 5 more.

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Posted on 11-25-09 01:19:00 PM

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Originally posted by HyperHacker
Domain squatters. Can we get some kind of "use it or lose it" law to get rid of these? Actually, the patent system needs that too. If you're clearly using your domain name/patent for nothing other than to keep others from having it or to annoy people, it gets revoked, fuck you.

Those annoy me so much. Don't domains ever just fade away naturally anymore?

I especially don't like how they tend to masquerade as a real Web site with bot-created keywords around everywhere.

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Whiny people "Mothers" who take their babies to the theater and make everyone else suffer their incessant whining because the bitch wants to watch a movie. Grab a DVD ffs" Random computer slowdowns when you're trying to get something done The more I sleep, the more tired i am My CompSci teacher cut out half the class because some people in the room were slower at getting the basics than others ..Since when the fuck did normal people use Matlab?! More may be to come. ____________________

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Posted on 11-25-09 01:42:00 PM

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Posted on 11-25-09 03:29:47 PM (last edited by Terra at 11-25-09 12:51 PM)

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Originally posted by Sukasa
My CompSci teacher cut out half the class because some people in the room were slower at getting the basics than others

That was school for me. I had been reading books with no pictures for years, and in 5th grade the teacher acted like we all had to have the books dictated to us excruciatingly slowly, not allowing us to read ahead, because of a few individuals who had trouble reading. Of course, it didn't help that she tended to pick the most boring books ever

Some other school ones for me:
- The education equivalent of the [trope]NonstandardGameOver[/trope]: The Automatic Fail. Usually caused by something like having too many absences. I think that if you can learn the material from the textbook and/or other sources, pass the tests, and complete the assignments and projects, you should be able to pass the class without attending the lectures.
- Extremely harsh penalties for late assignments. In the real world, projects run behind schedule constantly, but in school, I've had many teachers who will reduce an A to a D or F is it's one day late, and sometimes even one second late.
- Teachers, especially if they do the above, who take weeks or even months to hand back papers. I just got a stack back today, parts of which are things I turned in back in September.

Jul-related: When people mention page counts of threads under the assumption that everyone uses 20 PPP.

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Posted on 11-25-09 03:40:02 PM

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Amen to the PPP one, I use 100 PP and TPP. But yeah, either next semester convinces me that staying at this university is a good idea, or I drop out and just get a full-time job and pay rent. ____________________

Posted on 11-25-09 08:54:52 PM

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Well, at least for a while I would hate having my alarm go off at 7:30a, 8:00a, etc. and only would set my alarm to go off either 12 minutes after 7, 45 after 7, 12 after 8, but recently I've been setting my alarms for 6:50, 7:30, and 7:45.

My desk. When it gets messy, it just bugs me. But usually not to the point where once it gets messy I clean it up. :p

And of course: nub typng leik dis lik dey dunt no how 2 spel.

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Posted on 11-26-09 03:16:50 AM

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Post #2635 - 11-25-09 10:16:50 PM

The fact that in the morning, trying to get me out of bed is like trying to drag an elephant up a mountain, but now when I should be going to bed, I'm totally wired. WTF.

Originally posted by Dialga
3. The red underlines on every single word i type in firefox (how do i turn that off???)

By spelling correctly.

Originally posted by Terra
Jul-related: When people mention page counts of threads under the assumption that everyone uses 20 PPP.

And then link to thread.php?id=foo&page=24 instead of using the "link" function to a particular post.

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Posted on 11-26-09 03:24:25 AM

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Originally posted by Pandaren
Originally posted by jamosup
I hate the sound of chewing.

IS IT HARD TO KEEP YOUR FUCKING MOUTH SHUT WHEN YOU EAT FFFFF

This is pretty much my biggest pet peeve. It makes my blood boil when I have to listen to the sound of chewing.

ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

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Posted on 11-26-09 07:58:00 AM

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People who are senselessly annoyed by little things. I'm not just saying that to be clever; it seriously bothers me when people get bothered enough over trivialities to the point of being seriously angry and cursing.

People who think religion is somehow inherently evil and jump at every chance to complain about people having any sort of belief in a higher power whatsoever, especially in situations where it's inappropriate. While I'm not religious by any means (I could probably be classified as an atheistic agnostic), I've known some kind and intelligent people who find a lot of strength in faith. If it helps get them through the day and they're not being dogmatic and (quite literally) holier-than-thou about it, who honestly cares? Of course, maybe I've just been more understanding of religious people since I've always grown up around Christians who have actually been pretty sensible and tolerant.

When people use apostrophes in plural words (e.g. "plum's"). This is so much more common than it should be. It's not that big of a deal to me, but I definitely notice it way more than I should. I realize I'm just being an obnoxiously nitpicky shithead.

Originally posted by Kles
6. People who say "life isn't fair" as a means to justify being a dick (or, in general, really).

This, absolutely.

And finally, this is unrelated and I'm not really bothered by it, but:

Originally posted by Tweaker
Typos. I fucking hate typos. Not "traditional" typos, though--I hate when people purposely neglect very clear, simple conventions of the English language.

If someone intentionally ignores a convention of the English language, it's not a "typo". The term "typo" stands for "typographical error", and only refers to mistakes made during the typing process (i.e. those made by a slip or misalignment of the fingers).

And now I expect somebody to add that they're annoyed by people who nitpick too much.

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Posted on 11-26-09 05:26:10 PM

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Originally posted by Danielle
Originally posted by Pandaren
Originally posted by jamosup
I hate the sound of chewing.

IS IT HARD TO KEEP YOUR FUCKING MOUTH SHUT WHEN YOU EAT FFFFF

This is pretty much my biggest pet peeve. It makes my blood boil when I have to listen to the sound of chewing.

ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

Oh my god this. GAH. Pisses me off so much. Didn't you EVER LEARN FUCKING MANNERS?

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Posted on 11-26-09 05:35:19 PM

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How inactive the 'Computers / Technology' forum is these days. When I first came here, it was the forum I visited the most.

People that butcher the English language while texting, IMing, etc...

Getting a text message that says only: 'k'

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