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Cowslips Warren posted:This and "OH MY GOD THAT SNAKE IS POISONOUS!" the difference between these terms is so degraded in English you really ought to let it go you're right but it's not worth the fight
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Similar to people not knowing what to order when it's ordering time - people who only start to think about maybe preparing to get out of a car, once the car is off and parked. Like, did you not realize we were getting close to our destination??
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Oct 27, 2017 02:58
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No, no. The snake was dipped in lacquer and it's still tacky. Don't touch!
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Oct 27, 2017 02:59
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CainsDescendant posted:I was catching up on the walking dead this weekend because I hate myself and every time someone in the show so much as touches a gun or a knife the accompanying gun cocking or knife drawing sound effect will play and it's completely maddening I've never understood what they are trying to accomplish with dubbing in all of those sounds but I've always thought it would be hilarious to have a character that smokes cigarettes that make the sound of a Zippo lighter opening each time he takes a drag.
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Oct 27, 2017 06:15
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They probably figure you're giving the show at best half of your attention so the gun and knife sounds are there to tell you an action scene is about to happen.
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Oct 27, 2017 07:19
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Everyone deals with this but autocorrect. If I misspell “probably,” “Chicago” or “parking” my phone turns them into the very real phrases “prob ably,” “Chica go” and “par king.” And that’s not getting into the weird poo poo iPads do.
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Oct 27, 2017 15:14
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Whenever a snake shows up in a movie or tv show, it constantly makes a rattlsnake or hissing noise. Snakes are silent, gently caress One you realize that any time a cat or dog or horse etc are on screen there are near constant overdubbed noises for them regardless of what they’re actually doing you’ll never be able to unsee it. There is no subtlety when it comes to animals in movies or shows they just apparently never shut the gently caress up Also the fact that they use a red tailed hawk cry for any bird of prey because they don’t want people to know that bald eagles chirp like baby chickens
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Oct 27, 2017 17:08
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Aesop Poprock posted:Also the fact that they use a red tailed hawk cry for any bird of prey because they don’t want people to know that bald eagles chirp like baby chickens That made the first time I actually heard a red tailed hawk cry IRL pretty scary.
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Aesop Poprock posted:One you realize that any time a cat or dog or horse etc are on screen there are near constant overdubbed noises for them regardless of what they’re actually doing you’ll never be able to unsee it. There is no subtlety when it comes to animals in movies or shows they just apparently never shut the gently caress up
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Oct 27, 2017 17:20
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CainsDescendant posted:I was catching up on the walking dead this weekend because I hate myself and every time someone in the show so much as touches a gun or a knife the accompanying gun cocking or knife drawing sound effect will play and it's completely maddening Also, the sound of a safety catch or a hammer cocking when someone draws a Glock. A pistol known for not having a hammer or a safety catch. You might as well dub the sound of a tuba over it. Another one is when the sound effect clearly isn't right for the weapon. Saw a good example of this in an episode of Airwolf. The lead character, Stringfellow Hawke, is being chased by a couple of bad guys with Walther PPKs that make standard TV gun noises. That is, until Hawke disarms one of the baddies and uses his PPK to fire at the other one, at which point it sounds like he's fitted Sledge Hammer's loudener to it. Oh, and the way characters will work the slide on a semi-auto or the pump on a shotgun for dramatic effect, even though the weapon was already chambered. It's like they're leaving a little trail of unfired ammo in case they need to find their way back later. Just once, I want someone to run out of ammo at a crucial moment because they wouldn't stop dicking around with their gun.
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Oct 27, 2017 17:25
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Aesop Poprock posted:One you realize that any time a cat or dog or horse etc are on screen there are near constant overdubbed noises for them regardless of what they’re actually doing you’ll never be able to unsee it. There is no subtlety when it comes to animals in movies or shows they just apparently never shut the gently caress up The most egregious example I've seen was in We Bought a Zoo in any scene with the dog that they barely acknowledged existed. It was clearly not moving its mouth at all but every time they showed it walking behind them there was constant barking noises dubbed in.
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Oct 27, 2017 17:25
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I'd like to see a film where this is applied to absolutely everything, so it's just a cacophony of exaggerated noises.
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Oct 27, 2017 19:16
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I'd like to see a film where this is applied to absolutely everything, so it's just a cacophony of exaggerated noises. My favorite parody of the gun thing is definitely scary movie 3 with the shotgun shovel.
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Oct 27, 2017 19:36
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Sunswipe posted:Oh, and the way characters will work the slide on a semi-auto or the pump on a shotgun for dramatic effect, even though the weapon was already chambered. It's like they're leaving a little trail of unfired ammo in case they need to find their way back later. Just once, I want someone to run out of ammo at a crucial moment because they wouldn't stop dicking around with their gun.
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Oct 27, 2017 21:11
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Maggie Fletcher posted:It's the same at work. The relentless stream of gifts and flowers anytime someone so much as gets a hangnail. Apparently there's a thing called Bosses Day, and although all three of our department's "bosses" are incompetent at best, we had to all get them flowers and cards, only to hear them respond "wait, this is a thing?" Bosses Day and Admin Professionals day are my two pet peeves. My boss probably makes four times what my co-workers and I make, and she's rarely in the office. We're buying her a gift and/or taking her to lunch why? Our Admin works for the boss, period. She makes that clear whenever you make a request of her. Why are we acting like she works harder than everyone else and taking her to lunch on her "special day"? Shouldn't the boss be doing that?
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Oct 28, 2017 00:20
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My toes are cold and I can't find my comfy moccasins. Finding them probably won't be hard, unless I'm tired and don't want to actually get up off the couch to, you know, find them.
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Oct 28, 2017 00:54
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The Mighty Moltres posted:When someone says something and you couldn't quite hear them, so you say "Pardon?" and they repeat themselves even quieter than before. I don't understand it at all. Hate to break it to you apparently nervous guy, the quieter you get, the more you'll be asked to repeat yourself. Reply to an old post but I utterly agree. I have partial hearing loss, optic nerve damage, and my left hand sometimes shakes when I'm doing mundane things. What do I get? People speaking quietly while refusing to turn their head to me so I can hear them, telling me I need new glasses, and asking if I'm OK when they see my hand shake. gently caress you people! I've been working with you for years! You know exactly what's going on. Just accept that I have to put my nose up to the computer sometimes and that my hand will stop shaking the second you shut up about noticing an essential tremor. Meanwhile, I'm loud as gently caress when I talk and people still act like they can't hear me. They just lose focus. You asked me the question dickhead! How can your mind wander in the 2 seconds it took me to come up with an answer? "Hey mostlygray, how do I do 'X'?" they say. "Well, you should do 'Y'." I respond. They've already started checking Facebook or staring at their navel by this point. Focus rear end in a top hat!
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Oct 28, 2017 05:15
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When I'm listening to the radio and the host talks about a song they're going to play, but then doesn't play it immediately. "There's this great new song that I've been listening to lately that I'm going to play for you, but first, here's a completely different song!" I don't know how common this is because I don't listen to a lot of radio, but they seem to do it all the time on Triple J.
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Oct 29, 2017 00:53
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Tiggum posted:When I'm listening to the radio and the host talks about a song they're going to play, but then doesn't play it immediately. "There's this great new song that I've been listening to lately that I'm going to play for you, but first, here's a completely different song!" This has been pissing me off about Triple J for a long time. It's not like they need to string people along to keep them hearing ads. I wish they would just stop.
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Oct 29, 2017 01:34
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People who stand super far away from the last person in line, to the point where you can't tell if they're in the line or not. Nobody's asking you to stand creepily close, dude, but a two foot gap is obnoxious.
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Oct 30, 2017 02:31
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People who, after completing their transaction with the cashier, slowly and deliberately spend two minutes sorting evrything back into their wallet / purse. Bonus points for making unnecessary smalltalk whilst people are behind you waiting for you to move on.
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Oct 30, 2017 11:43
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Capt.Whorebags posted:People who, after completing their transaction with the cashier, slowly and deliberately spend two minutes sorting evrything back into their wallet / purse. Bonus points for making unnecessary smalltalk whilst people are behind you waiting for you to move on. Seconding this. Also waiting until after you pay to even start bagging your stuff. It's always the ones who spend a minute counting out exact change too. I really wish there was a store near me with self checkout lanes.
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Oct 30, 2017 11:52
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MisterBibs posted:
actually, speaking as a tech support guy, we love it when stuff just randomly starts working again. It's great, people usually still thank me even though I didn't do poo poo. So yay
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Capt.Whorebags posted:People who, after completing their transaction with the cashier, slowly and deliberately spend two minutes sorting evrything back into their wallet / purse. Bonus points for making unnecessary smalltalk whilst people are behind you waiting for you to move on. Yeah, I really hate when not only have they been standing in line for 5 minutes, but have been staring slack-jawed at the cashier for the 5 minutes during check out, and wait until there's a total to even bother trying to get out their payment method.
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Oct 30, 2017 16:02
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I hate the "Go Now" feature on the Fandango app, and similar apps on older movie apps I've used. Great idea - tell me what movie times are showing right now - but they designed it so it literally lists shows that are showing right now. It's not helpful to tell me that in one minute s movie is going to start, dammit.
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The journey planner on the Public Transport Victoria website is absolute garbage. Going to Google Maps and selecting the public transit option there gives me better advice than the actual website of the organisation that supposedly runs the whole thing. And who the hell decided that it should default to what time you want to leave rather than what time you want to arrive? Who looks at a timetable thinking "well I don't care when I get there, but I want to leave around 2pm"?
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Seconding this. Also waiting until after you pay to even start bagging your stuff. It's always the ones who spend a minute counting out exact change too. I really wish there was a store near me with self checkout lanes. I really hate self checkout lanes, unless the store is not crowded. Invariably, I get stuck behind the person with a room-temperature IQ who can't follow simple prompts, and it takes me longer to buy my one item than it would have if I had gone through the regular checkout.
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Oct 30, 2017 17:21
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MightyJoe36 posted:I really hate self checkout lanes, unless the store is not crowded. Invariably, I get stuck behind the person with a room-temperature IQ who can't follow simple prompts, and it takes me longer to buy my one item than it would have if I had gone through the regular checkout. I don't get how some people just can't operate a self-checkout, I mean I've been using them on the regular for about 14 years now, it's not like it's some new thing. The fact that I even have my ID out when I'm buying beer seems to be a rarity as the clerks seem genuinely shocked that I have it out for them.
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Iron Crowned posted:I don't get how some people just can't operate a self-checkout, I mean I've been using them on the regular for about 14 years now, it's not like it's some new thing. The fact that I even have my ID out when I'm buying beer seems to be a rarity as the clerks seem genuinely shocked that I have it out for them. I quit using it to buy beer. Even though I look older than Clint Eastwood, and I don't get carded, it usually takes the clerk about five minutes to get to me because she's trying to help some other moron who can't work the machine.
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MightyJoe36 posted:I quit using it to buy beer. Even though I look older than Clint Eastwood, and I don't get carded, it usually takes the clerk about five minutes to get to me because she's trying to help some other moron who can't work the machine. Eh, I'm usually doing it after work so the self-checkout is somehow faster than an express lane. But yeah, it takes them 5 minutes because they have to walk some idiot through the self-checkout process
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Capt.Whorebags posted:People who, after completing their transaction with the cashier, slowly and deliberately spend two minutes sorting evrything back into their wallet / purse. Bonus points for making unnecessary smalltalk whilst people are behind you waiting for you to move on. These are always the same kind of people that walk into a building and stop dead in their tracks in the doorway. Then they have to gently caress around with some stupid fussy thing while people pile up behind them trying to get into the drat building. 
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Alright I guess the broader pet peeve in all of this is "Jesus Christ maybe plan even a little bit before you buy something off Craigslist" but basically, I had a nice antique couch I put up for sale and some woman drove from another state to come get it with her daughter. She came with two small dogs in the SUV for whatever crazy reason. Our driveway is on a steep hill and she parks with the back of the car facing DOWN THE HILL instead of towards the garage at the top. I'm the only guy around and we're struggling to get the drat thing in the car from a down angle cause it's heavy as hell and none of us are particularly strong. The dogs both jump out of the car and run down the street and the teenage daughter is chasing them to get them back. After struggling forever I manage to pull the thing into the car from the inside and wedge it enough that it fits (which is barely, even though she knew how big the thing was). She then slams the hatchback on her daughters head without waiting for her to get out of the way (they were both lifting from the back at that point). Then her car breaks down when she tries to leave. I help jump it out in the street where she got it and she says a light is on saying the brakes need checked. I offered to call a towing company or something and she said she thought they would be ok and took off and I assume they died shortly after What the gently caress was that  was I on some lovely Sam Hyde prank show or something
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MightyJoe36 posted:I quit using it to buy beer. Even though I look older than Clint Eastwood, and I don't get carded, it usually takes the clerk about five minutes to get to me because she's trying to help some other moron who can't work the machine. Self checkouts have been bothering me a lot lately. The first time I used one was my freshman year of college, when they had just installed four of them at the local Fred Meyer. I wouldn't say I enjoyed the experience, but it was nice to be able to buy condoms without teenage embarrassment, and I remember thinking that this was a technology that this was a good first try, and destined to get better as technology improved. Instead, what we've gotten is MORE. My local Fred Meyer now has 12 of the machines, overseen by the same one person that used to handle four, so any alcohol purchase or - god forbid - technical issue requiring an override requires trying to catch the person's eye. He may rightly decide to help the frail old lady or the insistent frazzled mom first, so I might wait several minutes for three seconds of his attention. They already invented a system to determine who gets the checker's attention and when; it was called the line. The machines themselves are smaller, because more have to fit in the same space, so it's hard to get even a single person's bi-weekly shopping into the weighing area. The technology, rather than improving, seems to have gone backwards: the scales are buggier, the touch screen laggier, the scanners less sensitive, and the interface less personalized (it used to say "scan your Fred Meyer Rewards card" but now it says "scan your shoppers card," etc.) than I remember them being in their early stages. That was 14 years ago - pre-smartphone, pre-Youtube. The only real improvement has been their surprisingly recent move to be able to accept paper coupons without bothering the guy on duty, but that only lasted about a year before they shifted everything to the mobile app anyway and more or less stopped printing coupons. I'm sure they've spent millions on user testing that clearly shows customers won't tolerate paying a few more cents for a customized greeting for the store you're in, or for a touchscreen from this century, or for scanner that won't erase your credit cards if you happen to set your wallet on it, so this is what we get. I'm just always surprised to compare where that technology is at, to where I thought it would be by this point. Makes u think.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Alright I guess the broader pet peeve in all of this is "Jesus Christ maybe plan even a little bit before you buy something off Craigslist" but basically, I had a nice antique couch I put up for sale and some woman drove from another state to come get it with her daughter. She came with two small dogs in the SUV for whatever crazy reason. Our driveway is on a steep hill and she parks with the back of the car facing DOWN THE HILL instead of towards the garage at the top. I'm the only guy around and we're struggling to get the drat thing in the car from a down angle cause it's heavy as hell and none of us are particularly strong. The dogs both jump out of the car and run down the street and the teenage daughter is chasing them to get them back. After struggling forever I manage to pull the thing into the car from the inside and wedge it enough that it fits (which is barely, even though she knew how big the thing was). She then slams the hatchback on her daughters head without waiting for her to get out of the way (they were both lifting from the back at that point). Then her car breaks down when she tries to leave. I help jump it out in the street where she got it and she says a light is on saying the brakes need checked. I offered to call a towing company or something and she said she thought they would be ok and took off and I assume they died shortly after You should have told her to turn the car around.
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oldpainless posted:You should have told her to turn the car around. I'm one of those people who meekly suggested it and she was slightly manic and said we could do it so I just went along with it. You know that energy where the person is friendly but loud and constantly talkative and there doesn't seem to be any non-rude way to go against it. that was it we had to launch the couch at a 70 degree angle into a too small suv
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Back to the unnecessary party stuff at work...my birthday is in two weeks and I know our admin (who is very sweet) has a list of birthdays, so I asked her not to do anything for it. She understood and tried to keep her own birthday under wraps because it's all getting out of hand but people found out anyway and bought cakes and flowers for her after the fact. This is what I mean--it's not thoughtful, it's last minute and rushed and half-assed and I don't want to have to fake gratitude for poorly-planned, rushed gifts. I thought I'd gotten there fast enough but the coworker I like the least actually asked her for my birthday last week, because I had specifically said I didn't want anything. At some point it's rude and disrespectful to disregard someone's wishes. I'm not being passive-aggressive or "testing" anyone when I say I don't want to celebrate my birthday with them this year. It doesn't mean I secretly want a surprise party. I simply want to celebrate with the people I care about, and not a bunch of coworkers I can barely tolerate. I know my girlfriend wants to send me flowers and I'm thinking of asking her not to send me anything at work so I don't spark some bullshit day-after last-minute rush to provide gifts everyone's sick of buying. I do like my birthday, but my job is super stressful and I don't like most of my coworkers and I"m tired of trying to pretend I do.
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On one hand I get where you are coming from, but on the other it's just a free cake and drinks, who cares, just say a fake thanks and move on.
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The local grocery store recently put up a notice on the doors that says "no animals or pets including ''''''therapy comfort dogs/animals''''; only legal service animals only". Now if only every other public store can put up and enforce that. Stepping in dog poo poo and having dogs get all up in your junk is the opposite of good and i have no idea why people are so rude as to bring animals into these places.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:On one hand I get where you are coming from, but on the other it's just a free cake and drinks, who cares, just say a fake thanks and move on. Sure...we do a "monthly birthdays" cake every month anyway, no worries there and they're still doing that. But the flowers, extra cakes, lunches...that's what's breaking us. I'm not taking free cake out of people's mouths, I'm asking that they don't buy extra.
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