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starkebn posted:I think a HOA in Australia is called "the body corporate", so I'm not sure what the argument is It's a very stupidly specific example of a larger issue that I see pop up way too often that I wanted to complain about because there were a lot of things annoying me that morning. Guy was trying to argue that Australia and the rest of the world besides the US doesn't have HOAs by any name as some kind of sick burn, and used the example where universally some HOA or equivalent organization would be present, in any country.
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starkebn posted:I think a HOA in Australia is called "the body corporate", so I'm not sure what the argument is I don't think those are the same thing at all.
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Tiggum posted:I don't think those are the same thing at all. I don't know much about it truthfully, so I'm happy to admit I'm probably wrong. I just know most apartments have a "body corporate" you have to pay to keep all the communal lighting and gardens and poo poo fixed
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Aug 27, 2017 07:24
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This discussion is gonna be irrelevant anyway, when we live in the NWO one world government brought to you by Doritos™
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Aug 27, 2017 07:50
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Where does the body electric fit in?
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Aug 27, 2017 08:08
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Are you saying you don't celebrate the you yet to come or?
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Bobby Digital posted:Where does the body electric fit in? Dunno, but I'm singing it right now.
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I hate people who feed the ducks/geese when there are huge signs saying not to. Mostly because my park has become a swamp of geese that chase people if they don't have food. I sadly did not have a bike or a weapon, but after working at the zoo, I know that if an animal knows he has your number once, he will punch it every loving time. You get one chance. So when rear end in a top hat goose rushed me, I made sure no one was around (the fishermen don't care, but the idiots feeding the ducks handfuls of bread would), and just kept walking with fists moving until he had to either go in the street or hit the wall behind him. He chose the street. Now we have one of those enemy things where the male will do a territory call, and I ignore it. But the second he or his mate get up and walk towards me, fists out and I do the pissed off walk as fast as I can toward them. They back down. And if assholes want to feed ducks, don't feed bread! Buy loving duck food, it exists!
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Cowslips Warren posted:I hate people who feed the ducks/geese when there are huge signs saying not to. Mostly because my park has become a swamp of geese that chase people if they don't have food. I live in Canada and Canada geese are the worst. They are protected by federal law and the loving know it.
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I still have a really fond memory of a swan attacking me pondside at a park and beating me with its wings when I was probably 4 or 5 and my dad ran up and punted it like 20 feet into the pond. I wish I could see the end result cause that thing was probably embarrassed as hell
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0do8ruFgGVU My way from work led to a park for a while where there were a ton of geese, and I don't know if they just were a chill flock or species or what but I walked close by them multiple times and they never paid any attention. They had goslings and all. By contrast, in another park I saw some kid trying to feed the geese (with crisps  ) while they had young, and he was stretching his hand out towards them while the adults stared at it and hissed, and I didn't stick around to see the outcome but maybe someone learned a lesson that day.e: okay, third goose story: I'm walking through yet another park and see two girls lying in the grass. A canada goose is circling them. As I come closer it's becoming apparent that the goose is actually very slowly closing in on a spiral path. Eventually I lose sight. When I come back the same way 15 minutes later, there's no trace of the girls. The goose is sitting in their exact spot.
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Somehow all my music was deleted from iTunes. This is annoying because: a) It now looks like I have loads of music but I've never listened to any of it; and b) iTunes can't restore half the cover art (which it did for all the albums in question when I originally ripped them from the CDs - in any event, the "get album artwork" function just straight up isn't working) and it'd be a tedious chore to copy all the covers I need off the Internet.
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I hate when I complain about a problem to a person who is able to fix it, and they respond as if we're having a chummy whine session instead of, y'know, a professional discussion about an actual fixable issue. This happens a lot with my managers at work. Hey, Tom left this big mess on the ground and it's a huge safety hazard, and he's been over there chatting with friends for 30 minutes Wow, what an rear end in a top hat! That guy is ALWAYS doing stuff like that, huh? Haha what a wacky dude, I can't believe he thinks that's cool. ......you know you're his supervisor, right? Haha yeah I can't believe he thinks he can get away with that all the time. What a bad employee! I'm scheduled to close & then open the next morning twice next week. Wow that really sucks, huh? This new scheduling program is horrible! Ok but like, you're able to change it, right? Because you said that's not supposed to happen but it's been like this every other week. Yeah, it's not supposed to do that. Weird! These wacky computers! Haha
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After this many years of internet being commonplace, why are college/uni online components still so loving poorly designed? Made worse by every prof having a slightly different setup and there being multiple places where you might find or submit assignments? And why do we need three different web services for different student activities? Keeping track of poo poo is a nightmare.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:After this many years of internet being commonplace, why are college/uni online components still so loving poorly designed? Because too many schools let different offices choose their own technology to purchase and support. Even if it's the rare instance where it's all one technology, you can't tell faculty members ANYTHING so they do whatever they want with it. Any uniformity that a school displays is all a facade. Behind the scenes it's a never ending nightmare of petty bickering and outright incompetence, balanced with a bunch of dedicated staff fighting the good fight for lord knows what reason.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:After this many years of internet being commonplace, why are college/uni online components still so loving poorly designed? In addition to what Indolent Bastard said, the people who design, buy and use the software are three or more different groups. The users complain about something, the designers say that it works fine if you use it properly, the buyers don't want to spend any more time or money on it so they just tell everyone to work around it (because it doesn't inconvenience them personally).
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A related peeve summed up well by our old friends at XKCD:
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I've never been a huge XKCD fan, but that's so accurate that I fully approve. I guess what I'm saying is that I share that peeve. In a similar vein, when I send an email to, say, the office of graduate studies asking a specific question? I do not want to be sent nothing but a link to a page I've either already checked or, rarely, knew about but was trying to circumvent by going to the supposed source. Actually, I got this a lot from various advisors over the years too. "Google it" is not, in my opinion, a thing you should have as a valid dialogue option when you're getting paid to help people navigate their futures.
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This Sunday, I played in a church orchestra, and it reminded me of everything I used to hate when I played in concert bands and jazz orchestras in school and university. I think the most aggravating is always going to be the one musician who thinks they're hot poo poo despite being barely competent on their instrument.
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When people ask me if I'm mad at them and won't answer when I ask what made them think I was after saying "no". I wasn't but now I kind of am.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:After this many years of internet being commonplace, why are college/uni online components still so loving poorly designed? My school's site has trouble with the Chrome browser. If I want to enroll or do other admin stuff I need to use Firefox.
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Mu Zeta posted:My school's site has trouble with the Chrome browser. If I want to enroll or do other admin stuff I need to use Firefox. I like Firefox because I can block all cookies/plugins and just white list sites one at a time, also all my keystrokes aren't being logged by Google.
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This chain of events, because it always seems to happen a lot because I have the memory of an ant and try to avoid using the same password everywhere: - poo poo, I forgot my password for ~site~, or ~site~'s app - Check Chrome/Google's password-saving feature - Dammit, there's like five different passwords saved for ~site~, because I've forgotten my password four times before - Try a few of the passwords before giving up - gently caress it, reset my password and I'l just make a new password - Now there's six different passwords, when I'm not busy I should go through and delete the ones that aren't right anymore, so this doesn't happen again - Six months later, start from the beginning
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yeah I eat rear end posted:When people ask me if I'm mad at them and won't answer when I ask what made them think I was after saying "no". Ugh I hate this and friends who are constantly worried about your opinion of them, afraid to contradict you on the most mundane of topics. Dude, I'm not going to hate you for liking a different kind of chips from me, but I'll probably come to resent you for acting like a whipped dog around me when I've never even raised my voice in your presence
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"Real people, not actors". As far as I know most actors are in fact real people, aside from, like, Air Bud and Erin Esurance.
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MisterBibs posted:This chain of events, because it always seems to happen a lot because I have the memory of an ant and try to avoid using the same password everywhere: Also those loving dots when you are trying to type a password. If you insist my password be 3Dg&R_^11eN*h0 instead of edgarallenho then for gently caress's sake let me see this mess. Has anyone, ever, had an account compromised from some hacker craning over their shoulder to read the password as its typed?
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gently caress no. By far the most common method of stealing somebody's password is phishing. Complicated passwords are a placebo designed to make it feel like the company is doing something for password security without actually putting any effort in.
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I feel like I've just recently complained about passwords here, but god they are aggravating. My (least) favorite is when the site has 5 different rules passwords need to follow. but you'll never find out what they are until you're angrily trying to put together a new one after resetting because it turns out this is the only website you visit that requires uppercase, lowercase, a number, three symbols, fifteen characters and two new security questions.
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Parasol Prophet posted:I feel like I've just recently complained about passwords here, but god they are aggravating. "But only the special characters , % @ § and ) are allowed" E: especially when the auto-reset from the password makes you retype other information or the loving captcha Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 05:17 on Sep 1, 2017 |
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Current peeve: I am sick currently and my nose is both completely stuffed up and yet also constantly running to the point where I've shoved a wadded Kleenex in there like a nosebleed to prevent about getting everywhere. Why this, biology?
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MisterBibs posted:This chain of events, because it always seems to happen a lot because I have the memory of an ant and try to avoid using the same password everywhere: I recommend a password manager like KeePass (or if you must, a cloud-based one like OnePassword or Lastpass, but if you're really security conscious those aren't your best choice). Took me forever to start using one but it's so much easier.
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Pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but flat head screws. Who in the loving hell decided these were a good idea? Probably some assholes who could count on never ever having to work on a thing, ever. gently caress flat head screws forever, and especially the lovely ones they use for wall outlets for some reason.
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Inspector 34 posted:Pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but flat head screws. Who in the loving hell decided these were a good idea? Probably some assholes who could count on never ever having to work on a thing, ever. gently caress flat head screws forever, and especially the lovely ones they use for wall outlets for some reason. What is the actual reason for this kind of weirdness, where one product continues decades or maybe even hundreds of years after its practical? Is it obscure nostalgia or some sort of crazy grip on the market the old timer companies have? Are there different companies that only make either flat head or Phillips screwdrivers?? Is Phillips a brand or just a type? Aesop Poprock has a new favorite as of 08:49 on Sep 1, 2017 |
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Flat screws work great if you have a properly fitting driver. The problem is that most people just use the first driver they find that kind of fits into the slot. The extra slop means that all of the force is concentrated on the very corners of the blade, deforming the screw head and slipping like crazy. Not that needing to have a giant set of like 20 flat screwdrivers isn't its own problem, but it makes things a lot less terrible to work on.
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You're less likely to strip the head with a standard screw than a Philips-head so that's something, I guess. Still not worth it.
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Aesop Poprock posted:What is the actual reason for this kind of weirdness, where one product continues decades or maybe even hundreds of years after its practical? Is it obscure nostalgia or some sort of crazy grip on the market the old timer companies have? My pet peeve is the reverse of this. A perfectly good product that works as intended, then they discontinue it and come out with the "new and improved" version which is a piece of poo poo, but they never go back to the original.
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:Pet peeve: Agreed, fahrenheit is a lovely way to express temperature.
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mlnhd posted:Why? Can we not go down this road in yet another thread? Here is a spoiler of the entire argument: Pro-celsius: the rest of the world does it it makes more sense for water to boil/freeze at 100/0 americans are stupid Pro-fahrenheit: america is cool, we don't want to be told what to do it's more intuitive/has a wider range to describe every-day conditions
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