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People using DM instead of PM. Direct message doesn't even make sense, every message is direct. What was wrong with "hey, PM me your address"? At least I see less people saying "Inbox me", which should be punishable by death.
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lidnsya posted:People using DM instead of PM. Direct message doesn't even make sense, every message is direct. No it isn't. I can post something on Facebook or Twitter and hope that a particular individual sees it, or I can send it to them directly as a message, a direct message if you will. My preference is to use "message" as a verb, but PM or DM are both fine alternatives. I don't even mind "inbox" because it's just short for "send it to my inbox". 
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BlueKingBar posted:Oooh I know a REAL good pet peeve of mine. People who treat the mentally disabled like poo poo... Seconded. There's no harm in having mental issues. Everyone has some issue, be it ADHD, depression, autism, OCD, etc. My daughter is diagnosed with autism (mild), my brother has severe OCD (under control now, it was a bitch back when he was younger). One of the best warehouse staff I ever had was a little slow on the draw, but was the hardest worker you've ever seen. If other staff tried to mock him when he didn't get a joke right away or was confused about which row a product was in, I'd tear them a new one. The man operated at 100% all the time. He always did his best.
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I hate that certain websites have been getting savvy to ad blockers, to the point where they will put up an obnoxious, unavoidable screen telling you to add their site to your whitelist or something, or they won't let you read any more content. Oh, really? Well guess what? Closing that tab and never going to your website again. How's that for a whitelist?
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Screaming Idiot posted:gently caress spring, gently caress summer, gently caress winter. Give me that damp, clammy fall weather all year, thanks -- that's easy to dress for and it's easy on the bills. And the best part is that it's gloomy, which means people are unhappy, and that is a good thing because happiness is loving terrible. This, but unironically. Also I know I started name-chat but my real first name is Chad, and I just beg everyone to never name their children this horrible name. Almost everybody I know can look up their name on urban dictionary and find a listing (obviously made by someone with the name) touting that the person with that name is great. I think I went through 8 pages without a positive entry. Of course that doesn't really mean anything but it seems everyone interprets the name Chad to mean you wear 12 popped collars and call everyone "bra". Whenever I say my name for an order they inevitably write Jack. The worst one for me is that about 70% of the people who meet me ask if my full name is Chadwick. I've known several people with my name over the years and none of them were actually named Chadwick. I've never even heard of another person named Chadwick (barring famous or historical people) so why does everyone ask that?
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BuddyChrist posted:The worst one for me is that about 70% of the people who meet me ask if my full name is Chadwick. I've known several people with my name over the years and none of them were actually named Chadwick. I've never even heard of another person named Chadwick (barring famous or historical people) so why does everyone ask that? "Surely your parents didn't just name you 'Chad'?"
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Apr 7, 2016 19:04
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Silver Falcon posted:I hate that certain websites have been getting savvy to ad blockers, to the point where they will put up an obnoxious, unavoidable screen telling you to add their site to your whitelist or something, or they won't let you read any more content. You can install a Greasemonkey script to block the adblock blockers. Should fix the problem until websites start using adblock blocker blocker blockers.
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so is this adblock blocker crap just going to spiral into a loop infinitely or is someone going to invent something better. because everything surrounding internet ads is just insane
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Silver Falcon posted:I hate that certain websites have been getting savvy to ad blockers, to the point where they will put up an obnoxious, unavoidable screen telling you to add their site to your whitelist or something, or they won't let you read any more content. uBlock Origin's element picker mode will let you block the nag screen, allowing you to browse with impunity 
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mostlygray posted:One of the best warehouse staff I ever had was a little slow on the draw, but was the hardest worker you've ever seen. If other staff tried to mock him when he didn't get a joke right away or was confused about which row a product was in, I'd tear them a new one. The man operated at 100% all the time. He always did his best. You're a good man and just be aware that I appreciate what you're doing. There are a lot of social stigmas against innocent people that need to go out the window ASAP, but mental disabilities are one of the bigger ones (just below racism and sexism in my book) because A) a lot of mentally disabled people are going to be way more sensitive to criticism, let alone discrimination and B) the people are supposed to be helping them most, mental facility workers, are sometimes worse. I've been to a couple of mental hospitals sadly, and depending on who you get, they're either the kindest souls or the most patronizing pieces of poo poo you'll ever see who then go on to laugh at you with their co-workers behind your back. It's loving sick. Don't get me wrong, I'm not offended by words like "retarded", I admittedly say it myself sometimes. I try not to use it but I do have some anger management issues so it slips. Using autism as an insult doesn't really make me angry enough to speak up but it's definitely not helping the case. Actual abuse, mockery, or bullying on the other hand, they can gently caress off and I will go out of my way to stand up for a person in that case. Like yeah, I get it, from a "normal" perspective mental disability can be obnoxious sometimes. I get that. But I can assure you, that guy who's being dragged around the store by his social worker is not trying to piss you off, be funny, or be edgy. He is trying to be a normal human being, and if something's wrong with him otherwise I can also assure you it had to do with his parents or caretakers treating him like poo poo over the (relatively) minor annoyances from his condition. He likely lives a living hell every day even on a good day. Be kind. If I can get one more important thing in too. You know when people congratulate and give a lot of credit to disabled people, mentally or physically, doing something that you wouldn't expect them to be able to do? Like, say, a guy with no hands being really good at competitive video games (it's happened at least twice, I can find the video if you're in doubt, one was Street Fighter 4 and the other was Super Smash Bros. Melee). Or a guy with autism getting a business off the ground. Or a guy with no legs competing in wheelchair marathons. Those people are praised because that is exceptional. That is equivalent to becoming a star football player or singer to your average joe. Do not hold, force, or expect everyone to that standard because quite frankly it's unreasonable to ask.
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Similarly, an old classmate of mine was of the mindset that mentally handicapped/challenged people were "angels from God." As in they were just like large sweet innocent babies who could do no wrong. This was in a college class about child development. I remember watching a documentary there about a single mom whose now 50 year old son, with the mentality of a toddler but the body of an adult man, explained how hard it was to be, not only a black woman in the 60's, but a single mom with a son with his problems, and yes, she would have had an abortion had she known at the time. Said classmate had to have the vid stopped because of her hysterical crying that that "bitch" would "murder one of God's angels." Over and over again. She didn't seem to grasp how things change, how the 60s weren't the same as 2004, and no, dummy, the fact your aunt did it and never regretted having her "angel baby" means poo poo all. Said aunt also had a huge family to help her out plus social services that didn't exist in the loving 60's. And oh, never ever ever could you say that some of those precious "angel babies" had sexual urges when they hit puberty. No! That was sick and wrong! Peeve: bandwagon "I'm soooo more tolerant than you! LOOK HOW SUPPORTIVE I AM OF THIS!" My 'asexual' friend has started plastering all kinds of pro-transgender stuff on FB. That's cool, but do I really need to see rainbow text about how you'd rather pee next to a transgender than a bigot several times a day? Do you have to constantly post memes about how awesome being a transgender is (she isn't) and how much you find them amazing and brave? It's like the people who post nothing but REMEMBER 9/11 with eagles all over their FB pages. I get it! You are more patriotic than me! You are more tolerant than me! I don't hate transgenders, I just don't post about them nonstop so maybe you think I do?
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Silver Falcon posted:I hate that certain websites have been getting savvy to ad blockers, to the point where they will put up an obnoxious, unavoidable screen telling you to add their site to your whitelist or something, or they won't let you read any more content. It doesn't work on everything, but if their adblock blocker is in its own script, you can snipe it with noscript  If noscript doesn't work either then I tell the site to gently caress off and get my news elsewhere.
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Austin Powers came out when I was in Middle School. Guess what my name is. I still get people going "Haha has anyone ever called you Austin Powers haha" BuddyChrist posted:The worst one for me is that about 70% of the people who meet me ask if my full name is Chadwick. I've known several people with my name over the years and none of them were actually named Chadwick. I've never even heard of another person named Chadwick (barring famous or historical people) so why does everyone ask that? The only Chad I know his full name is Chadwick.
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Silver Falcon posted:I hate that certain websites have been getting savvy to ad blockers, to the point where they will put up an obnoxious, unavoidable screen telling you to add their site to your whitelist or something, or they won't let you read any more content. Thing is, static/slow-changing ads don't bother me. Banner ad that sits quietly and changes every hour or so? Fine. Sidebar ads that do the same? Great. It's the screaming videos with autostart that you can't disable, the 'newsfeed' that's just an ad, the music that won't quit no matter what. It's so bad it overwhelms the actual site to the point it can no longer be enjoyed. Who the hell thought these were a good idea? Attention, people: these are why there's adblockers.
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BuddyChrist posted:This, but unironically. Have you ever asked your parents why they chose the name 'Chad'? That goes for everyone with crazy-rear end names that have haunted them through their lives. Do your parents at least have a good reason for saddling you with these albatrosses? (My name is a very normal, boring name and my parents intentionally chose it because it can't be shortened and they didn't want me to grow up with everyone using a nickname instead of my real name.) Content: my current peeve is people who have an uncanny ability to stop conversation dead by not understanding basic social conventions. I'm doing the online-dating thing and was messaging a girl, asked her if she'd be interested in meeting up for a coffee sometime. Her response was 'I don't like coffee'. Welp, okay  How do you not understand that 'coffee' doesn't mean coffee? It's just a polite, socially-acceptable way to frame meeting a stranger from the internet for the first time. We can have beer or soda or juice or you can just not drink anything, I really don't care. Another girl I was talking to: I asked her what she likes to do in her free time and her reply was 'I work pretty much all the time'. Okay, that's cool but again, this is a question designed to facilitate conversation. I don't care if you don't actually have time to do hobbies or whatever but just tell me what you like. gently caress. How are these people so dull that they don't understand how to have a conversation?
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cyberia posted:Have you ever asked your parents why they chose the name 'Chad'? That goes for everyone with crazy-rear end names that have haunted them through their lives. Do your parents at least have a good reason for saddling you with these albatrosses? It's worth noting that my brothers have completely normal names, I think my parents thought they had more room to play around with a girl's name.
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Parents giving their kids unusual names just because it's from a thing they liked is a pet peeve of mine, even if it didn't happen to me. Not only is it projecting something about your own tastes on a completely different person (odds are the terrible dragon name you cursed them does not have the same meaning to them as it does to you), but names are not easy to change and a bad name can lead to bullying or worse. Although most of them are at least better than the tragedies you see on name of the year.
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Okay, this is my last namechat entry, although I love it so. My mom wanted to name me Mariah, which, if you've ever seen or met me does not fit. I guess my dad won out, filled in the name before she woke up. I'm glad I didn't end up as Mariah Magdalene. Speaking of projecting your interests on children, devout Catholics should be banned from naming their kids. vvv: Brit/American pronunciation: a lot of Brits were super excited about my ID when I lived in Oxford because I lived next to Magdalen Bridge and my middle name was Magdalene. EXCITING poo poo. They said it like "Maudlin" which is also how my dad says my middle name which pisses me off to no end. cash crab has a new favorite as of 02:57 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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I have a foreign last name and a first name that can be pronounced different ways, i.e. The American way  or the British way etc. I know they're trying to be respectful but it's nonetheless annoying when people ask, "Is it [american pronunciation] or [british pronunciation]?" Like they're asking me which of 2 names I have. Then I say "whatever you want" but they keep asking so I just end up saying the American way anyways. We're in America, just pronounce it like an American! <-- that sounds so bad
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Wait, so people actually ask you how to pronounce your name instead of just blundering into it and still getting it wrong after you've repeated it three times? What...what is heaven like? . (I actually quite like my name)
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Mine isn't nearly as unusual/annoying as some of the ones here, so I feel like I got lucky, but for a while there I was thought to be twins, and my dad was pushing for the duo of Ruby and Emerald. That probably would've gotten old. As it is, my main name-related pet peeve (and then I'll stop) is that it's becoming popular again. I can't quite explain it, but it just feels incredibly weird and confusing to see out in the wild. I saw a commercial the other day that featured it as the name of one character, and it threw me for a loop. I don't want to sound like some kind of crazy person obsessed with their own name, but I guess after 20+ years of not meeting a single other Ruby in person, it just feels like that name is mine, goddamnit, and where are all these pretenders coming from!?
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I'm just glad I wasn't born a girl, because my dad said he would've called me "Crystal Rose" (though, thankfully, my mom later told me she would've totally vetoed that in favor of "Josephine", which is a much nicer and less stripper-y name).
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I'm just glad I wasn't born a girl, because my dad said he would've called me "Crystal Rose" (though, thankfully, my mom later told me she would've totally vetoed that in favor of "Josephine", which is a much nicer and less stripper-y name). Sorry to add to namechat again, but my stepsister's name is Crystal Jewel. I never thought about it as a stripper name growing up, but now that I think about it... Pet peeve time! Every year on April Fool's Day, some woman pranks their SO that they're pregnant. That's a dumb, old joke, but worse is the people crowing about "that's not funny--some people can't have kids!" Yeah, and some people have cancer and some people are starving and some people can't get laid; does that mean we should never prank people with food a la spring snakes in a beer nuts can? That's not funny, some people are really hungry and would love to have beer nuts! Goddamn, it's April Fool's, of course people are going to prank. If the mere mention of pregnancy, real or fake, is enough to trigger you because of fertility issues, please seek professional help.
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This year, I saw zero fake pregnancy posts on Facebook, and either 11 or 12 sanctimonious memes about sensitivity toward the barren.
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We've had pedestrian-crossing-chat before a while ago, but I'm visiting a busy city for a holiday and it's pissing me off again. Two things in particular are standing out, idiots trying to cut it close on the traffic lights and leaving themselves queued right over the crossing, blocking the way, and people inexplicably moving sideways, getting in other people's way.
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BuddyChrist posted:This, but unironically. Who ever said I was being ironic? Anyone who thinks people should be happy is an idiot. People should, at all times, be slightly miserable. Joy should be brief and gotten over with as quickly as possible.
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docbeard posted:Wait, so people actually ask you how to pronounce your name instead of just blundering into it and still getting it wrong after you've repeated it three times? My name isn't weird, it's super easy like "John." So what they're asking is, "is it pronounced 'Jahn' or 'Jun'?" I have no reason to be using the British pronunciation of my name, and it's not like I have a foreign accent either, I have a super American one, so I really don't understand why people ask.
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cyberia posted:Have you ever asked your parents why they chose the name 'Chad'? That goes for everyone with crazy-rear end names that have haunted them through their lives. Do your parents at least have a good reason for saddling you with these albatrosses? I hate to ruin your Friday but those women were almost certainly trying to blow you off as politely as they know how. The one who doesn't understand basic social conventions may, in fact, be you.
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Parasol Prophet posted:my dad was pushing for the duo of Ruby and Emerald No offense to your dad, but I hate it when people give one of their kids a normal, resume-safe name, and saddle the other one with something ridiculous. Emerald is not a name, and I'm glad your hypothetical twin did not actually exist. I just realized that both of my uncles have normal dictionary names and my mom is the odd one out. Maybe that's why I'm sensitive to it? quote:I guess after 20+ years of not meeting a single other Ruby in person, it just feels like that name is mine, goddamnit, and where are all these pretenders coming from!? We have two Andrews working in my department. I told them that if I ever encountered another Ursula in the workplace, I'd feel like I had to get a new job.
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http://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/a28600/amanda-chantal-bacon-moon-juice-food-diary/ This woman and anyone that has a simiilar lifestyle should be shot into the sun.
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AlphaKretin posted:idiots trying to cut it close on the traffic lights and leaving themselves queued right over the crossing  Screaming Idiot posted:Anyone who thinks people should be happy is an idiot. People should, at all times, be slightly miserable. Joy should be brief and gotten over with as quickly as possible. This is not to say that people in bad situations should put up with it and not complain, but that if you are in a bad situation then the one thing you can immediately change for the better is your own attitude and you can still try to improve your situation without focusing on the negative the whole time. And if you're in a situation where you can post about petty grievances on this forum then you probably have a pretty nice life and should enjoy it.
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Thanks for the advice on the NoScript and anti-Adblocker blockers. I should have figured such things existed. I was reminded of parking-related peeve. Places with poorly-designed parking. Case in point: the person who designed the parking lot for the Dunkin Donuts closest to where I live should be either shot, or fired. Preferably both. It's designed so that the queue for the drive-through backs up through the parking lot. Did I mention this is a Dunkin Donuts right next to the on-ramp of a major freeway? Naturally it's very popular for commuters to pop in and get their morning dose of caffeine before work. To the point where, if your timing is poor, you can't even park and go inside to order a coffee if you don't fee like waiting in a 10-car queue for coffee, are not in a particular hurry, or just don't like drive-throughs. Now, this wouldn't be such a big deal, as the Dunkin Donuts is in a shopping center with ample, sensible parking. Or at least it used to be, until the shopping center caught on to people using their precious parking spaces  to bypass Dunkin Donuts' shittily designed parking lot. Oh no we can't have that! So they put up signs everywhere saying "These parking spaces are for our precious customers! Anyone using these spaces to go to the Dunkin Donuts will have their cars towed!"Now, I don't know how enforceable such a thing is, especially if you're only going to be inside the place for all of 5 minutes. How could you have time to call a tow truck? But still, pisses me off. Makes me want to just avoid the place entirely. Fortunately, it's New England, so there's another Dunkin Donuts 5 minutes up the road.
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People who bitch about how poor they are, but aren't actually poor. I have one friend with 50k in savings that does it all the loving time, and another that in one breath told me how poor she was, and that she was also thinking about buying a house. Guess what motherfuckers, I make 1300$ a month (good work, grad school). That's poor. Don't insult me by pretending to be poor. You aren't poor. I am cutting my dogs food with rice to make it last until my next paycheck in a few days and spend 20$ a week on groceries. All winter I just kept my coat on in my house instead of using the heat. So don't act like that's your life too.
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Silver Falcon posted:I hate that certain websites have been getting savvy to ad blockers, to the point where they will put up an obnoxious, unavoidable screen telling you to add their site to your whitelist or something, or they won't let you read any more content. Absolutely this, I do the same thing - that and I can't stand obnoxious click-bait articles either. See them all over my FB feed so I either block that page or unfollow the person sharing it. Then that leads to someone asking why I didn't comment or like something they posted because they apparently need that tinge of validation to make their day complete. Nope, gently caress you, quit cluttering poo poo up with ignorant opinions, stupid memes, and other garbage. I didn't comment or like because I. don't. loving. CARE.
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heliotroph posted:People who bitch about how poor they are, but aren't actually poor. I have one friend with 50k in savings that does it all the loving time, and another that in one breath told me how poor she was, and that she was also thinking about buying a house. Guess what motherfuckers, I make 1300$ a month (good work, grad school). That's poor. Don't insult me by pretending to be poor. You aren't poor. I am cutting my dogs food with rice to make it last until my next paycheck in a few days and spend 20$ a week on groceries. All winter I just kept my coat on in my house instead of using the heat. So don't act like that's your life too. I've spent years living under the poverty line, and this woman I know told me that that 50k a year is chimp change* once you factor in car insurance, mortgage payments, kids and stuff. Like, no poo poo, dummy, that's why I don't have any of those things. *: this was a typo but I refuse to change it and I am considering changing my username now
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heliotroph posted:People who bitch about how poor they are, but aren't actually poor. I have one friend with 50k in savings that does it all the loving time, and another that in one breath told me how poor she was, and that she was also thinking about buying a house. Guess what motherfuckers, I make 1300$ a month (good work, grad school). That's poor. Don't insult me by pretending to be poor. You aren't poor. I am cutting my dogs food with rice to make it last until my next paycheck in a few days and spend 20$ a week on groceries. All winter I just kept my coat on in my house instead of using the heat. So don't act like that's your life too. I'd like to be the kind of person who is able to say "I never take income into consideration when forming an opinion of someone" but when someone pulling down $120k a year in an area where the average mortgage payment is less than $500 a month whines at me about how rough they have it, I really do have to wonder what the heck they've got to complain about (other than income tax). Is it a crippling-but-well-hidden drug habit? Are you blowing it all at the OTB parlor? Support payments? Good god, where is all that money going? That's like eight thousand dollars a month after taxes, what are you doing with it all? There's a small vindictive part of me that says "I wish this jerk knew what 'having it rough' meant" when I hear stuff like that, but it's quickly silenced when I realize that I'm wishing for someone to know the joy of being a kid, standing in line with your parents at the VFW on Christmas Eve waiting for an unemployed, disabled veteran to give you a free present because your family is so poor that you don't even have a Christmas tree.
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