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That extremely tired forums joke: "Mods change my name to __________ (insert amusing phrase from earlier in thread) tia"
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Oct 19, 2017 18:02
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Speaking of changing names, it's annoying on Twitter when folks change their names. It's an ever-fun game of "Wait, who are you?"
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Oct 19, 2017 18:07
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FELD1 posted:That extremely tired forums joke: "Mods change my name to __________ (insert amusing phrase from earlier in thread) tia" This and also people posting suggestions for a new thread title. It's funny maybe 1 time out of 10.
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Oct 19, 2017 18:08
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yeah I eat rear end posted:This and also people posting suggestions for a new thread title. It's funny maybe 1 time out of 10. That's different though because thread title changes actually happen fairly regularly.
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Oct 19, 2017 18:33
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yeah I eat rear end posted:This and also people posting suggestions for a new thread title. It's funny maybe 1 time out of 10. Post Your (least) Favourite Pet Peeve: It’s funny maybe 1 time out of 10
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Oct 19, 2017 18:54
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Post Your (least) Favorite Pet Peeve: also people posting suggestions for a new thread title. Come on. You have to at least give it a hook.
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Oct 20, 2017 07:36
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Whiz Palace posted:Content: the phrase "I don't have an accent". There is a corollary - I haven't got the expected accent. I grew up in Yorkshire, but speak way more "posh" than I should given that. Yorkshire occasionally bleeds through but very weakly. I blame growing up with American TV. Must have hosed my accent sideways :P May also have been influenced by my dislike of Slang. I was never able to pull it off and any attempts got me made fun of, so I just burnt the bridge and went "Fine, gently caress slang and nicknames. Formal all the way." I have friends at work where I am the only one who uses the full version of their name even when everyone else abbreviates (eg names like Will and Joe I just stick with William and Joseph) BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 08:33 on Oct 20, 2017 |
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Oct 20, 2017 08:31
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BioEnchanted posted:There is a corollary - I haven't got the expected accent. I grew up in Yorkshire, but speak way more "posh" than I should given that. Yorkshire occasionally bleeds through but very weakly. I blame growing up with American TV. Must have hosed my accent sideways :P I remember my brother and I went to the Boys' Brigade in East Belfast and being asked, "Why does your brother sound normal while you sound posh?" and just not having any idea.
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Oct 20, 2017 09:16
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BioEnchanted posted:I have friends at work where I am the only one who uses the full version of their name even when everyone else abbreviates (eg names like Will and Joe I just stick with William and Joseph)
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Oct 20, 2017 11:44
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MisterBibs posted:Speaking of changing names, it's annoying on Twitter when folks change their names. It's an ever-fun game of "Wait, who are you?" names and @handles are different and @handles never change
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Oct 20, 2017 12:07
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Parasol Prophet posted:If I were Will or Joe, that would be my pet peeve. Me too. Also: people who call me my last name despite being asked not to. Just use the name someone wants to be called, people.
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Oct 20, 2017 12:38
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Knit fabrics getting caught on protrusions as you walk past, leading to a tear or pulling your garment off or just pulling you the gently caress off your feet and onto your rear end like a moron.
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Oct 20, 2017 13:59
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EmmyOk posted:names and @handles are different and @handles never change Handles can and do change, but people rarely mess with that because it makes things very confusing. Usually you only see handles change on like, journalists that switch companies.
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Oct 20, 2017 15:03
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I was about to bitch about how horrible this temporary iPhone I’ve been using is when it comes to wrongly autocorrecting the most basic things but it just autocorrected Enya to Arby’s and I laughed for a solid amount of time
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Oct 20, 2017 20:15
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EmmyOk posted:names and @handles are different and @handles never change I've changed my @handle several times
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Oct 20, 2017 20:33
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Parasol Prophet posted:If I were Will or Joe, that would be my pet peeve. I use the abbreviations on occasion, it just depends how I'm feeling.
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Oct 20, 2017 21:54
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BioEnchanted posted:I use the abbreviations on occasion, it just depends how I'm feeling. why not just use the names they prefer to be called by?
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Oct 20, 2017 22:06
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a top floor apartment means heat rises and the sun is always shining on our unit so even tho it's like 70 out, it's 78+ inside and nothing is helping bc the AC is off until may and even 4 fans doesn't make a difference :^))))) and the people below us started blasting music, how nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love being sweaty and angry e: if i could afford a quiet secluded living situation oh you loving bet i would take it e2: because it's been so hot, i tried sleeping with two fans (one was our older one which makes a lot of rumbly noises) to drown out the bath noise. it kind of worked but then the extra fan noises kept me from sleeping anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i can't make more noise just to drown out the other noises, apparently. and i have ear wax issues that make earplugs uncomfortable/unsafe and i need to be able to hear my rats and the smoke alarm and the door, among other things. if the noise is so loud that i can feel it, earplugs don't help! snoo has a new favorite as of 22:25 on Oct 20, 2017 |
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Oct 20, 2017 22:10
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if someone introduces themselves as "joe" and you call them "joseph" without, like, checking if that's a thing they're okay with, you're being incredibly weird. (also, if they introduce themselves as "joseph", you should ask before using "joe", some people don't like nicknames!) hell, i know someone named Will who that's their actual name, not William, so if you called them William you'd actually be calling them something that isn't even their name. for no reason other than you "felt like it"! calling people anything other than the name they introduce themselves with, without asking first, seems incredibly presumptuous to me  it'd make me super uncomfortable if it happened to me, at least.
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Oct 20, 2017 22:11
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someone awful. posted:if someone introduces themselves as "joe" and you call them "joseph" without, like, checking if that's a thing they're okay with, you're being incredibly weird. (also, if they introduce themselves as "joseph", you should ask before using "joe", some people don't like nicknames!) It mainly depends on familiarity - when I first start working with people I often learn their names from the online work chats which tend to present as their full names. After a while of noticing what others call them I transition to the preferred abbreviation if I know what they are. Many of them sit no where near me so hearing their preferred name is rarer, so takes longer to learn. Before the familiarity set in Joe offhand mentioned that I was the only one who called him Joseph but didn't mind it. Also Will's seems to vary, I've heard both Will and Bill so tend to stick to Will now. BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 22:22 on Oct 20, 2017 |
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Oct 20, 2017 22:14
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BioEnchanted posted:It mainly depends on familiarity - when I first start working with people I often learn their names from the online work chats which tend to present as their full names. After a while of noticing what others call them I transition to the preferred abbreviation if I know what they are. Many of them sit no where near me so hearing their preferred name is rarer, so takes longer to learn. Before the familiarity set in Joe offhand mentioned that I was the only one who called him Joseph but didn't mind it. Okay, that I understand completely. I do the same thing at my call centre job. With customers, I typically just ask what they prefer to be called if there's an obvious contraction like Nicholas becoming Nick.
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Oct 20, 2017 22:22
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BioEnchanted posted:It mainly depends on familiarity - when I first start working with people I often learn their names from the online work chats which tend to present as their full names. After a while of noticing what others call them I transition to the preferred abbreviation if I know what they are. Many of them sit no where near me so hearing their preferred name is rarer, so takes longer to learn. Before the familiarity set in Joe offhand mentioned that I was the only one who called him Joseph but didn't mind it. Also Will's seems to vary, I've heard both Will and Bill so tend to stick to Will now. I can’t imagine why
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Oct 21, 2017 10:25
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Me: "If you don't mind, put a lot of stuff in each bag, please. I'd rather have as few bags as possible." Grocery Store Cashier: "Okay, sure." *cashier proceeds to put three things in a bag before spinning the bag-dispenser-carousel-thing, even though the next four things she will put in the next bag could clearly fit in the first bag*
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Oct 22, 2017 01:14
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MisterBibs posted:Me: "If you don't mind, put a lot of stuff in each bag, please. I'd rather have as few bags as possible." See, I have the opposite issue, where I bring multiple bags and they stick everything in one bag.
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Oct 22, 2017 01:30
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I love BioEnchanted to pieces but he does sound a little bit like Andy Dick's character in NewsRadio
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Oct 22, 2017 11:23
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I'm glad we pack our groceries by ourselves here in Finland
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Oct 22, 2017 11:25
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I use self checkout always. 0 human contact. But those machines look like they are from the 90s and break all the time. Pretty sure it's Windows 98 underneath.
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Oct 22, 2017 11:28
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everyone should watch NewsRadio btw, it is the best TV comedy ever made (barely edging out The Mary Tyler Moore Show) e: I am not old, I just love old TV
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Oct 22, 2017 11:34
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Even when I have my tablet set to "rotation locked", VLC totally ignores that and rotates the screen anyway.
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Oct 22, 2017 16:41
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When other people have pet peeves about me and don't tell me, so I have to find out through other people who they've been bitching to. I didn't know it annoyed you that I leave my teaspoon on the sink! If you just told me I would stop doing it! But now it's a big drama because you've been building up resentment this whole time! Use your words! Aaaaaah!!!
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Oct 24, 2017 16:46
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When you ask a question about doing some thing or other, and the response is "we can  " JFC it's the most infuriating, non-committal yet dismissive, passive-aggressive response possible. Give me a loving yes or no.
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Oct 24, 2017 20:46
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See also: "Can I ask you a question?" "You just did  "gently caress those people. It's obvious I'm asking to see if you had a moment to spare or whatever. Being an insufferably smug prick just makes me want to pee on everything you own.
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Oct 24, 2017 22:36
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Sociopastry posted:See also: "Can I ask you a question?" "You just did That's better than "I don't know, can you?". Other peeve: people who refuse to take advice on using something they never used before from someone who has. I frustratedly watched 10 other theoretical physicists try and figure out how to work a coin operated game and fail. I kept telling them thats not going to work when they thought you had to hold down the coin return button as you put the coin in, or giving up after only one coin that got spit out. You have to at least try 5 or 10 times and with multiple coins before declaring the coin mechanism broken. I don't know if it was a case of mass stupidity or what but it baffled me. yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 15:57 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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Oct 25, 2017 15:54
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Is there anything more irritating than some jackhole ordering you to do the thing you were about to do anyway? Like, seriously. You end up wanting to not do the thing you were going to do anyway, out of spite, and you just know they're like "Ha, I have authority!" and it boils my piss it does. Also, it's started raining a lot here. gently caress umbrellas, gently caress everyone who uses umbrellas, especially gently caress people between five foot and five foot six who use umbrellas.. The UK is awash with tiny wee pavements, and it rains 2/3 of the time, and I am sick of defending my face from spikey umbrellas and having runoff poured onto me.
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Oct 25, 2017 16:12
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If you are referring to me, they definitely weren't going to do what i was suggesting to do already. They just kept loving with the return button trying to get the "timing right".
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Oct 25, 2017 16:14
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The word "exit" does not contain the letter G.
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Oct 25, 2017 16:21
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Disgusting Coward posted:Is there anything more irritating than some jackhole ordering you to do the thing you were about to do anyway? Like, seriously. You end up wanting to not do the thing you were going to do anyway, out of spite, and you just know they're like "Ha, I have authority!" and it boils my piss it does. I used to have a manager who would watch me walk to a light switch, get within ten feet with no where else to go, lift my hand, and at that point say "Oh Parasol, make sure you turn the lights off."
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Oct 25, 2017 16:47
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Sociopastry posted:See also: "Can I ask you a question?" "You just did 
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Oct 25, 2017 17:07
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My pet peeve is gift-giving culture. The etiquette surrounding this is way too subtle for me. I'm bewildered by friends that don't bring gifts to birthday parties (when all the food/drink/entertainment is paid for completely by the hosts) even though these same people were happily accepting gifts from me (and everybody else) at their own parties earlier in the year. I get that it's rude to ask for or expect gifts, but my last party kinda felt like a big, coordinated snub. (I didn't say anything to anyone about it, because that also feels rude.) Or my side of the family, who doesn't "do" Christmas due to religious reasons, but still happily accepted my Xmas party invitation and gifts without bringing so much as a plate of cookies to share. Should I just not invite them again? Invite them and ask if they want to stay out of the exchange entirely this time? Invite them and say, "You ain't gettin' poo poo this time, so tell your 7-year-old to brace himself"? And, how big of an rear end in a top hat will I be if I stop giving gifts to people I've given to for the last few years? I'm good friends with a couple and love shopping for them and they always make a big deal out of whatever I give them and how much they like it and how thoughtful it is, then maybe give me some little cheap, unwrapped thing a week or two later (last time I'm pretty sure it was something they already had lying around.) They always have a tree up with a big pile of beautiful gifts under it for...somebody? None of us have kids. At this point it feels like if I stop it will come off as a "gently caress you" and I don't want that. I wish we as a society could just agree that only children and lovers get gifts.
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Oct 25, 2017 18:17
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If they didn't even bring some wine or something then they are just being cunts
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Oct 25, 2017 18:23
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