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1) The little little drop of rain on my glasses.
2) Walking under the building overhang when drop of water drops between my glasses and face.
3) People who use don't instead of doesn't.
4) That annoying guy at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park 2 days ago who tried making jokes at every single thing out loud. So very annoying.
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Moms who bring their coughing sick kids with them to the grocery store. They cough in every direction, including on the fresh produce. Spreading the love. Remember, sharing is caring. And who couldn't use a few days off work.
Moms who bring their coughing sick kids with them to the grocery store. They cough in every direction, including on the fresh produce. Spreading the love. Remember, sharing is caring. And who couldn't use a few days off work.
It would probably be good if America went full in on wearing masks when they’re sick, but I admit I don’t.
When I first noticed the people who use them most are Asian, I thought “WTF? Our American air not good enough? Toughen up.”
Imagine my surprise when I learned they’re wearing them because they’re putting in effort not to be an asshole... unlike me.
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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Apr 10, 2019, 08:51 AM
Originally Posted by subego
I’ve only seen this when people are on speakerphone, and it makes sense to me there.
Ooo, there's a pet peeve - people driving, talking on speakerphone, holding the bottom of the phone at their mouth with the phone extended out in front of them like an oyster shell. Somehow that makes me more mad then someone just holding the phone up to their ear. And even that makes me more mad than someone using a handsfree device to talk in the car, even though talking handsfree is still just as distracting as any other method.
ordering an ipad mini weeks ago, finding out it's been in stock at every local apple store for five business days before it finally shows up at my door.
Ooo, there's a pet peeve - people driving, talking on speakerphone, holding the bottom of the phone at their mouth with the phone extended out in front of them like an oyster shell. Somehow that makes me more mad then someone just holding the phone up to their ear. And even that makes me more mad than someone using a handsfree device to talk in the car, even though talking handsfree is still just as distracting as any other method.
Speaking of distracted driving, I get way more distracted trying to keep my speed below 30 in a camera enforced speed zone than I do driving at the natural speed dictated by road width and traffic.
Why is the skip forward feature on the new apple remote so damn hard to find? It's mildly annoying that 50% of the time I end up pausing the thing I'm watching.
And for some reason, I can always toggle the skip backwards feature 100% of the time ... screw you apple, give me the old remote with the fast forward/backwards buttons.
Why is the skip forward feature on the new apple remote so damn hard to find? It's mildly annoying that 50% of the time I end up pausing the thing I'm watching.
And for some reason, I can always toggle the skip backwards feature 100% of the time ... screw you apple, give me the old remote with the fast forward/backwards buttons.
I think the old AppleTV remote still works on the new AppleTV?
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
So, I'm officiating at my son's upcoming wedding and, due to an extreme loss of weight, I needed to get a new dress shirt (to go along with a new suit) I had forgotten how ridiculous the packaging of men's dress shirts were. It's pretty obvious that the dress shirt industry is firmly in the pocket of Big Pin. There are pins everywhere! You spend more time searching-out and removing pins from the shirt than you do trying it on. I'm an odd size, so I had to try on several different shirts. At the end of the ordeal, I had this small mountain of pins sitting on my table.
In addition to the pins, there's also the cardboard forms and collar braces, as well as various plastic neck inserts and whatever they call that little plastic piece that sits over the top button. It's all pretty damned wasteful.
So, I'm officiating at my son's upcoming wedding and, due to an extreme loss of weight, I needed to get a new dress shirt (to go along with a new suit) I had forgotten how ridiculous the packaging of men's dress shirts were. It's pretty obvious that the dress shirt industry is firmly in the pocket of Big Pin. There are pins everywhere! You spend more time searching-out and removing pins from the shirt than you do trying it on. I'm an odd size, so I had to try on several different shirts. At the end of the ordeal, I had this small mountain of pins sitting on my table.
In addition to the pins, there's also the cardboard forms and collar braces, as well as various plastic neck inserts and whatever they call that little plastic piece that sits over the top button. It's all pretty damned wasteful.
Totally agree with this. It is extremely wasteful. Where I work, there are bakeries where you walk in, grab a tray and a tong and pick your bread. You present your tray to the counter and the person bags your bread into individual baggies (with no handles), tapes them shut with a good amount of tape, and then places all of them (all being more than 2, sometimes 1 if you ask) into a bag with a handle and gives it to you. If you ask for additional bag with handle for your 1 piece of bread, it is also ok and many people do. Extremely wasteful. Bread doesn't have cooties, do they? The person is just doing to throw the bag away instantly. I may understand if the bread is covered in some sort of cream, but this is just bread rolls, bagel type of stuff.
Totally agree with this. It is extremely wasteful. Where I work, there are bakeries where you walk in, grab a tray and a tong and pick your bread. You present your tray to the counter and the person bags your bread into individual baggies (with no handles), tapes them shut with a good amount of tape, and then places all of them (all being more than 2, sometimes 1 if you ask) into a bag with a handle and gives it to you. If you ask for additional bag with handle for your 1 piece of bread, it is also ok and many people do. Extremely wasteful. Bread doesn't have cooties, do they? The person is just doing to throw the bag away instantly. I may understand if the bread is covered in some sort of cream, but this is just bread rolls, bagel type of stuff.
Bread doesn’t have cooties, but (as far as The Health Department is concerned) random food service people might. So, in an abundance of lawsuit avoidance, places like bakeries avoid their employees actually touching your food.
I will point out that the open trays and “sometimes used” tongs make the “no touchee” stuff not only even sillier, but absolutely pointless, because the lawsuit would read “failed to prevent germ ridden slimebags from fondling the food before I bought it.”
On the other hand, some of that packaging might be reusable. Those bags with handles can be reused. Lunch, books, etc., can be toted i such bags.
TV shows in the format:
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Apr 26, 2019, 12:16 PM
I think that's why Top Gear UK was so refreshing for American viewers - just an hour straight through. Top Gear US had plenty of problems, but one that made it unwatchable for me was all of the recaps and coming-ups. They'd show the same "funny" moment 5 or 6 times throughout an episode as they'd tease it, show it, then recap it before and after every break.
TV shows in the format:
Coming up This, this and this. This has happened, now coming up This, earlier this, now this, earlier this (again). Coming up this, after this (earlier this happened), later this, after this, remember when this happened. Next week...
This. It drives me insane. They take 30 minutes of programming and stretch it into an hour.
TV shows in the format:
Coming up This, this and this. This has happened, now coming up This, earlier this, now this, earlier this (again). Coming up this, after this (earlier this happened), later this, after this, remember when this happened. Next week...
Originally Posted by Laminar
I think that's why Top Gear UK was so refreshing for American viewers - just an hour straight through. Top Gear US had plenty of problems, but one that made it unwatchable for me was all of the recaps and coming-ups. They'd show the same "funny" moment 5 or 6 times throughout an episode as they'd tease it, show it, then recap it before and after every break.
Originally Posted by Atheist
This. It drives me insane. They take 30 minutes of programming and stretch it into an hour.
I remember Mythbusters being a particularly horrible offender.
Official looking snail mail that looks like the real thing, requiring you to open it....
I’ve found the “tell” with these is they will either have no return address, or if they do, it’s generally hidden, and/or won’t have the company name at the top.
Websites that have the cookie dialog box, or prompt you to download their app, or breaking news header (even worse, heads that won't go away).
I was on a website just yesterday. There was a video ad in the middle of the article. It was auto-play, of course. I could click to stop the video, so I did and scrolled down to keep reading the article. Once I had scrolled past the video, it suddenly appeared in the right sidebar, in a fixed position relative to the window, so it stayed visible as you kept scrolling. You could click it to stop, but once you resumed scrolling the article, the video started playing again.
Most aggravating thing I've run across on a website in a long time.
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