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Even for things where you'd think they'd be helpful for, like how to assemble something or even how to prepare+cook something, they manage to ruin it with the intros, corny background music and speeding the video up when they're actually doing something. And if it's a recipe you better be prepared to hear some 5 minute backstory about why they love this dish and how your mom used to make it for christmas every year and it is your childhood and on and on forever. To be fair though online text recipes are very, very guilty of that too.
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Dec 9, 2016 17:24
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Fuckin' decoy kitchen towels. Looks like a towel and feels like a towel, but simply pushes water around the countertop instead of absorbing anything.
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Dec 9, 2016 17:31
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yeah I eat rear end posted:It's even worse when it's a thread with pages of replies so you think you've found the answer, only to find out every reply is "I have the same problem" and monthly bumps of "anyone ever figure this out?". A combination of this, where someone asks the exact question you want the answer to, no one knows the answer, and the last post is the person who originally asked the question coming back to say "It's OK, I figured it out" but doesn't say what the actual solution was.
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Dec 9, 2016 17:48
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The best instructional videos on youtube are the ones where they record their screen and open up notepad to type out annotations in real-time, despite having a microphone turned on and picking up the keyboard clacks, muffled breathing and TV in the background.
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Dec 9, 2016 18:07
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Being unemployed, I'm peeved with employment agencies who are obviously hiring Indians through the visa program. I'm not angry with the Indians, because they're just trying to make a life in the US and the companies are obviously doing some kind of legal slave labor thing via our visa program. That's not my peeve though. Whenever a job comes up that my resume pings their threshold I get an inbox full of emails from just about everyone in that office, as well as calls all day. It's obvious they did even skim my resume either, because I'm never even close to qualifying, nor do I want to relocate to South Dakota for a 3 month contract.
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Dec 9, 2016 18:22
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Hardcordion posted:The best instructional videos on youtube are the ones where they record their screen and open up notepad to type out annotations in real-time, despite having a microphone turned on and picking up the keyboard clacks, muffled breathing and TV in the background. I love these ones, they're like performance art.
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Dec 9, 2016 18:43
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Iron Crowned posted:That's not my peeve though. Whenever a job comes up that my resume pings their threshold I get an inbox full of emails from just about everyone in that office, as well as calls all day. My somewhat related peeve is that my resume actually gives the impression I'm better than I am. I'm a programmer and have been working the same job for ~7 years, but I'm pretty bad at my job so I'm only about as skilled as a normal programmer with 1-2 years experience. So I get all these emails through LinkedIn for jobs I definitely am not qualified for, but "I'm actually way worse than someone with 7 years experience should be" isn't exactly going to inspire much confidence in a prospective employer.
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Dec 9, 2016 19:36
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The town I live in only has green yield lights when turning left. Maybe there are green arrows but I never see them. There should be some on the major busy streets but no. Takes forever to turn left at times.
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Dec 9, 2016 19:44
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...@@@MARKSVIDEOS@@@... (blaring techno, channel has three videos) alright guys, uh, today we're gonna be fixing your uh, your blender. So what you wanna do is, well you see this panel here? Now you're gonna take it off. So you wanna get a screwdriver, I like a 3mm phillips but, uh, i mean any screwdriver would do but that's my go to one if you know, now we're gonna unscrew here... i'll just move that so you can see... and here.
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Dec 9, 2016 20:56
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Tiggum posted:A combination of this, where someone asks the exact question you want the answer to, no one knows the answer, and the last post is the person who originally asked the question coming back to say "It's OK, I figured it out" but doesn't say what the actual solution was. "I don't have this exact issue or anything like it and didn't even bother to read your question but you should start by defragmenting your hard drive and updating your video card drivers."
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Dec 9, 2016 21:11
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How loving hard is it to stay in your own lane while driving?
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I think we can all agree on the best youtube instructional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpCJzdWxEbQ
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BioEnchanted posted:I think we can all agree on the best youtube instructional video:
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When multiple radio stations all play the same loving song at the same time, but off by a few seconds. So scanning the radio gets you the same song 5 different times and in 4 different lines. I want someone to remake "Baby It's Cold Outside" with the girl role as a straight man and the other as a gay man. Some lyrics would need to alter for this to work but then maybe straight men wouldn't think the song is romantic. Bonus points for there being a loving Idina Menzel version that had all of us at work cracking up.
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Dec 10, 2016 02:57
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People who replace every instance of "we" with "we the people" when they are talking about politics.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Fuckin' decoy kitchen towels. Looks like a towel and feels like a towel, but simply pushes water around the countertop instead of absorbing anything.  I think we have like 2 kitchen towels out of 8 or so that actually absorb anything. even after washing them (by hand and in the washing machine) they're not really any more absorbent. also lint
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yeah I eat rear end posted:People who replace every instance of "we" with "we the people" when they are talking about politics. Ew. Just ew.
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Dec 10, 2016 04:17
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:How loving hard is it to stay in your own lane while driving? Uhh have you ever seen it done, pro driver? Next you'll be demanding that people avoid tailgating you from 3 feet away when traveling 60 on the highway.
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I am now 95% sure that there are a bunch of people loving around in the vacant apartment below us and have been doing that every friday night (like 9pm to 1am) for like a month, but I have no proof other than the direction the sound is coming from. I just want quiet! oh my god! edit: my brother called the police because he heard them loving with the power tools and they've been screaming and poo poo edit 2: we watched a couple of teenage girls leave through the patio doors down there and the cop arrived after they all left, I think. but I'm sure it'll just happen again next week. I guess I should call the property manager on monday to be like 'hey your contractors are leaving this apartment in a way that allows people to go in at night' but they don't loving care about anything 
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my pet peeve is that no one cares about anything and I want to die
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:How loving hard is it to stay in your own lane while driving? ...don't you just fly everywhere?
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genetic_knockout posted:Ew. Just ew.
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yo rear end is grass posted:...don't you just fly everywhere? She used to, but turbines kept giving her trouble. Even in the air she had traffic issues...
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BioEnchanted posted:She used to, but turbines kept giving her trouble. Even in the air she had traffic issues... How loving hard is it to stay in your own plane while driving?
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Dec 10, 2016 10:26
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I hate that it's apparently grammatically correct to include commas and other punctuation that should be outside of a quote at the end of a sentence inside of the quote. It shouldn't bequote:My friend's book, "Bob Goes To The Store," was a success in China That's nonsense, as is quote:I ate seventeen eggs for "breakfast." Is the book called "Bob Goes To The Store,"? Are you eating "breakfast."?
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Counterpoint: who cares. I will also get annoyed if anyone whines that I put two spaces after my periods. It's not hurting anyone.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Counterpoint: who cares. I will also get annoyed if anyone whines that I put two spaces after my periods. It's not hurting anyone. Only because the forums edit that out.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Counterpoint: who cares. I will also get annoyed if anyone whines that I put two spaces after my periods. It's not hurting anyone. Oh yeah?! Well my pet peeve is people that put two spaces after periods! It's also literally my job to notice things like that though so whatever.
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The Moon Monster posted:I really hate it in TV shows or whatever when some "ethnic" character will throw in words in their native language and then immediately follow them up in English. "I'm a throwing una fiesta grande! A big party!" Similarly, when someone speaks perfect conversational English for ten minutes, then gets to "goodbye" or "thank you" and suddenly it's an exaggerated "gracias, adios." Your vocabulary is wide enough to know what a microwave or chest of drawers or whatever is, but you can't think of how to say "thank you"?
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The Moon Monster posted:And everyone knows what a fiesta is! Yep. A big nap. I'm gonna go have one in a few minutes. LITERALLY A BIRD posted:How loving hard is it to stay in your own lane while driving? Based on the drivers around here? It's really loving hard since no one does.
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When you ask a question of someone, like, "Hey, did Bob get approval for the project? How much?" The reply is "Yes. Guess." No, no, no. This is not how a loving real live conversation works. Poor communication is the ONLY way movies move along, but in real life, you don't laugh and ask me to guess a number. Did any of our foster kittens get adopted? Yes, which ones? NO I am not going to loving guess, bitch! We had six kittens go, you want me to list off every possible combination?
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Drivers who are too nice. It's one thing to wave someone through at a four-way stop when it's just the two of you, but don't stop for someone turning left on a multiple lane highway. No one is sure what you're doing, traffic in the other lane is still going, and you're holding up traffic behind you. Then there's the added bonus that maybe you'll get tired of being nice and decide to go right when the person turning left figures it's safe enough in the other lanes. If you have the right of way, just go with it. edit: Also pedestrians who stand at the foot of a crosswalk, so you stop for them and they shake their head or wave you through. Like if you're not crossing step back a few feet drat it. The Mighty Moltres has a new favorite as of 05:37 on Dec 11, 2016 |
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The word adulting. "Adulting is soooo hard" gently caress u get good you wimp
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Strategic Tea posted:...@@@MARKSVIDEOS@@@... (blaring techno, channel has three videos) alright guys, uh, today we're gonna be fixing your uh, your blender. So what you wanna do is, well you see this panel here? Now you're gonna take it off. So you wanna get a screwdriver, I like a 3mm phillips but, uh, i mean any screwdriver would do but that's my go to one if you know, now we're gonna unscrew here... i'll just move that so you can see... and here. The worst ones are for anything even remotely "nerdy" because eventually you get that video with the guy who sounds like he's out of breath from turning his computer on and the cadence of his speech is all loving weird in that specific "socially awkward internet dweeb" way and he mispronounces a bunch of words because he's only ever seen them in print and never heard them spoken before. Case in point: WoW raid strategy videos were pretty useful back when I played, but lmao the dude pronounced malady as m'lady.
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:How loving hard is it to stay in your own plane while driving? I heart bacon posted:Based on the drivers around here? It's really loving hard since no one does.
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I went to two different sad things this weekend and booooy do I have a lot. 1-a funeral of a family friend who lost his 96 year old grandmother 2-a friend's get-together because she broke up with her boyfriend of 12 years  incomingprying "Why did you guys break up?" "How did she die?" "What's he doing now?" "What are you going to do now?" And similar statements like "Where are you going to live?" (Prying on the person's life. Let them handle it! Unless they want to give the info don't say this!) turning the conversation onto yourself/ arrogance "Tell me if you need ANYTHING, ANYTHING AT ALL" emphasizing the anything, implying you're such a good and benevolent person. "Tell me if you need anything" in a normal tone is different because you're just saying you're there for them if they want it. It's subtle but very different. "I had [x] happen to me too" e.g. "I broke up with a longtime boyfriend too and I was super depressed" or "My [close family member] died in [year]" bonus point if they add "but I got past it." "I know how you feel" (no you don't know how they feel since everyone and every situation is different) "When I had [x] I did [y]" general condescending "I'm really worried about you" (implying she's suicidal which she has never been suicidal or had depression in her life) "Do you want me to stay with you for a few days?" (Implying she, a grown woman, can't take care of herself). "You still have [x]" e.g. "You still have the rest of your family" "How are you doing/ how are you holding up" in a pitying tone and that certain "sad" facial expression when they ask it (such pity... and what the gently caress are they supposed to say, "I'm good!" when they obviously aren't. But unfortunately society dictates they say, "I'm ok." I'm probably autistic because if I were asked this I would say "like poo poo") "Look at the bright side" possibly adding, "you don't have to deal with [thing] anymore" (this also fits into advice giving, the following category) Advice giving "Think of all the good things in your life" (I particularly hate this one) "You should do something to take your mind off this" "You should take a couple of days off work" (yes and lose money and potentially get fired since she just got her job a few weeks ago) "You should go on a date" (dude, they just broke up on Wednesday (the get together was Saturday), I don't think this is a good time for her to go on a date) "You should get a cat" (wtf? And she is super allergic: she can't even come into my house cause I have cats) "You should do [x]" and similar "you should do [x] to get your mind off this" Basically anything that starts with "you should..." condescending future predictions "It'll be alright" (this is not appropriate since this is a big deal to them so I don't think the person is looking super positively towards the figure) "Life goes on" "You'll get a new boyfriend" (oh my god) Imo the appropriate things to say are "I'm sorry" and "let me know if you want to talk, or need anything" in a normal tone, not the weird turning-attention-to-your-'benevolent'-self tone I described earlier-- and possibly a hug if they're ok with hugs. And buy them some drinks if they want. There's probably a bunch I'm forgetting but man did I hear a ton of stupid poo poo this weekend. Thin Privilege has a new favorite as of 17:46 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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Strategic Tea posted:...@@@MARKSVIDEOS@@@... (blaring techno, channel has three videos) alright guys, uh, today we're gonna be fixing your uh, your blender. So what you wanna do is, well you see this panel here? Now you're gonna take it off. So you wanna get a screwdriver, I like a 3mm phillips but, uh, i mean any screwdriver would do but that's my go to one if you know, now we're gonna unscrew here... i'll just move that so you can see... and here. GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Car repair videos are the worst for this. I know I self-quoted but I was just thinking about how much this pissed me off the other day. I'm trying to figure out how to diagnose and repair my truck and it's 100% that poo poo. How hard is it to just throw up title cards or just say aloud, "There are four bolts right here that need removed" and point at them?
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I have seen 1 video ever that was "here's how to fix the problem that you looked up this video to learn how to fix thanks bye" in 20 seconds, and I wish that was the standard and not the exception, because ugh.
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Re: making the conversation all about yourself, I can't stand people who need to relate someone else's experience to a similar one of theirs in order to comprehend said experience. Believe it or not, unless you're the one doing the processing, nobody in the moment gives a flying gently caress about your journey to understanding.
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