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WithoutTheFezOn posted:If it’s the left lane, it may be to leave room to bail if the guy in front of them decides to turn left without signaling and figures it’s not safe to unless they have 20 seconds of no traffic coming the other way. 
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Jan 26, 2018 21:31
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Elizabethan Error posted:you can't turn at a red light There's a lot of poo poo you can't do that people do if they think they can get away with it
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Hirayuki posted:I have been That Neighbor. A couple years back, when I was tired of the truck perpetually parked across the street from the same van (belonging to a different neighbor, or more precisely to his basement-dwelling dullard son), I called the Abandoned Vehicles Desk of the police department, the people responsible for this kind of violation per our township ordinances. Every week I'd call and leave a voicemail, until one day the dude picked up. No, this is everywhere, and they creep up inch by inch on the car in front of them throughout the duration of the stoplight. I'm convinced they do it to give themselves something to do during a red light.
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If I still had my zippy little Corolla, I swear to Christ I'd pull into that gap. Is this just a metro Detroit thing? So many poo poo drivers here, but this behavior seems pretty loving weird on top of the usual bad driving.
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I think the answer is almost always that they're old, depth perception is hosed. Or alternatively they're a stupid loving idiot. Or both.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:If it’s the left lane, it may be to leave room to bail if the guy in front of them decides to turn left without signaling and figures it’s not safe to unless they have 20 seconds of no traffic coming the other way. He's talking about the person ahead of you needing to turn left an an intersection and being stuck after the light turns green because they didn't feel it necessary to signal their turn in advance and also won't go if they can see a car on the horizons.
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Inspector 34 posted:I think the answer is almost always that they're old, depth perception is hosed. Or alternatively they're a stupid loving idiot. Or both. eta: One reason I've seen online had something to do with leaving space to escape a carjacking? And another about not hitting the car in front of you if you're rear-ended? JFC, I can't live my life worrying about that poo poo every time I drive anywhere. Hirayuki has a new favorite as of 02:48 on Jan 27, 2018 |
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Jan 27, 2018 02:45
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When discussing a specific thing, people who add more to it in service of their argument, when that addition is completely not part of whatever is being discussed. Bonus points if they don't accept that, no, that's not part of it.
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Jan 27, 2018 03:04
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Do you have a specific example?
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Kinda, but it was more of a second-hand thing that just made me realize "oh yeah, thats annoying": I was listening to an old random radio show that I had saved as a podcast, and a segment was about how the Chicago Blackhawks were getting really good (I think it was as they were going on to win the Cup), but that their TV ratings weren't actually that good. Pretty good for NHL, but nothing compared to the other major sports in the city. The point was that the lovely-rear end Bulls and Bears at the time were killing the Hawks in the ratings. A caller called in, saying that you can't just look at things like ratings, you have to use things like jersey sales. Of course, the caller asserted, the Hawks were way more popular than those other sports with their The host's response, in SA form, was this: "  sales of jerseys?  ", proceeding to remind this caller that the discussion was about the Hawk's ratings being low, not about things like clothing sales.I can't bring up anything specific that's happened to me at the moment, but I know I've been the "that's.. that's simply not part of this, gently caress off" guy with stuff. MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 03:24 on Jan 27, 2018 |
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I’m trying to figure out if I’ve ever encountered something similar but, while I’m sure I have, I can’t think of a single instance. At least I get what you’re talking about now.
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My coworker's been filling in a spreadsheet that normally only I fill in, and she keeps leaving the wrong tab open with some random cell highlighted, instead of leaving everything ready to just start typing the next bit of information when you open it like I do 
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Generally speaking, I don't mind being the guy who goes on food runs for friends or co-workers. But there are two things about it that wind up driving me up a wall, to varying degrees, because it seems like they don't understand that I just want to get their order right: - Talking too fast as I'm writing your order down. I don't know shorthand and my handwriting is basically chickenscratch, so please don't rattle off your complete order in three seconds. - Giving me an incomplete order. I'm not sperging out about do-you-want-X-or-Y for my health, I'm doing it because the last time the lady at the counter asked me if your order wanted X-or-Y, and I had to guess what you want.
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Hirayuki posted:I have been That Neighbor. A couple years back, when I was tired of the truck perpetually parked across the street from the same van (belonging to a different neighbor, or more precisely to his basement-dwelling dullard son), I called the Abandoned Vehicles Desk of the police department, the people responsible for this kind of violation per our township ordinances. Every week I'd call and leave a voicemail, until one day the dude picked up. Where I live some left turn lights have the actual sensor for the advance green 2-3 car lengths behind the line. If this is the case it makes sense, otherwise, 
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Coolspaz posted:Where I live some left turn lights have the actual sensor for the advance green 2-3 car lengths behind the line. If this is the case it makes sense, otherwise,
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If I'm in the far left lane and will be the second car at the red light I will leave some room. Especially if the front car is right on the white line or past it. Double especially if there's a good chance a semi trailer is going to make a left into us and the guy in front is going to need to back up. I'll also keep a little back if I'm the front car because most people turning left from my right cannot maintain their lane for poo poo. When the light is nearly green I'll probably move up. No crazy gap, just a car length at the very most.
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It's aggressively stupid that the Microsoft team decided to add a menu to the loving ctrl-alt-del command. That is literally the only keyboard command that my mom, aunts, and grandma know and it's the go to "ah, bad, restart" key that they know and love because they aren't the best interneters. Why the gently caress would you add a menu to the panic button? Everyone who wants to lock the computer or switch users know how to do that without the loving ctrl-alt-del menu. My old rear end relatives just want "turn off" and "stop the computer", and frankly, same Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 21:55 on Jan 28, 2018 |
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One of the games I play on Steam reliably gets glitched graphics after playing for a few minutes. Ctrl-Alt-Del + Cancel fixes it. That's about the only thing I like about the extra step to the ol' three-fingered salute.
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Jan 29, 2018 00:23
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Elizabethan Error posted:you can't turn at a red light the light will eventually turn green and if you don't leave enough room to go around them when you stop then you can't teleport your car backwards in space and time in order to give yourself room to go around them later
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's aggressively stupid that the Microsoft team decided to add a menu to the loving ctrl-alt-del command. Press ctrl-shift-esc to open the task manager directly instead. Unless you're looking for it to just shut down the computer, in which case... go back to Windows 95 I guess?
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Ctrl Alt Delete still gives quick access to reboot, it's just in the bottom right now instead.
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Aphrodite posted:Ctrl Alt Delete still gives quick access to reboot, it's just in the bottom right now instead.
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Olive! posted:Press ctrl-shift-esc to open the task manager directly instead. Unless you're looking for it to just shut down the computer, in which case... go back to Windows 95 I guess? Ok, explain this to people between 60 and 85?
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Twitter has started sending me notifications when people I follow like a tweet. What the gently caress? It was bad enough that it started showing everyone your likes along with your retweets - essentially making retweets pointless - but why the gently caress would I want notifications about other people's likes? If someone sends me a message, mentions me by name or responds to something I posted, that's something I want to be notified of. If someone clicks the "like" button on some random tweet I can probably afford to miss that.
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I hate the notifications when people i know follow someone else even more. Let me follow who I want to follow, I don't need help twitter i can find the funny people myself.
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I hate when sellers on ebay leave me feedback before even sending the item. The transaction is finished at the point when I receive the item and indicate that all is well by leaving positive feedback. At that point, the seller can leave me feedback and we go our seperate ways.
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Sunswipe posted:I hate when sellers on ebay leave me feedback before even sending the item. The transaction is finished at the point when I receive the item and indicate that all is well by leaving positive feedback. At that point, the seller can leave me feedback and we go our seperate ways. I imagine they do it because as far as you as the buyer are concerned, your part/responsibility in the transaction is done. If you don't receive the item it's on them and should effect their rating, not yours. I guess hypothetically you could falsely claim you didn't receive it and become a bad buyer, but I'm assuming these people assume most people aren't like that and that as long as you paid promptly with a valid payment method and they didn't have to harass you for it, that's a 5 star transaction as far as they are concerned.
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Sellers aren't allowed to leave anything but positive feedback so there's not really anything to wait for for them.
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Aphrodite posted:Sellers aren't allowed to leave anything but positive feedback so there's not really anything to wait for for them. Really? How is that feedback if theres only one option?
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Aphrodite posted:Sellers aren't allowed to leave anything but positive feedback so there's not really anything to wait for for them. Huh, didn't know that. When did that come into force? I know I got negative feedback from a seller a few years ago.
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Sunswipe posted:Huh, didn't know that. When did that come into force? I know I got negative feedback from a seller a few years ago. Looks like somewhere around 2012. The reasoning was that buyers were afraid to leave negative feedback because sellers can retaliate, or something.
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Aphrodite posted:Looks like somewhere around 2012. Why even have feedback for buyers then?
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When people get mad at you for being "too laid back". I've been waiting a while for a reimbursement and yeah it's kind of annoying, but it's the government, if I check in on it i'll probably get the response email after they mail the check. They are slow as hell, I have the agreement that they will reimburse me, if they actually ghost me I can fight it and get it back but there's no sense in freaking out before it comes to that.
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Non-single people telling me one or more of the following things: -how great it is to be single because of all the freedom -how I'll find someone just when I stop thinking about it -how I'll find someone as long as I put myself out there -how they'd totally set me up with their friend if he didn't live in a different state/wasn't a Trump supporter/hadn't just started dating someone, etc. -how they didn't find their soulmate until they were [my age + 1 year] -how guys are missing out on how great I am -how they'd totally do me if they weren't attached to someone else Just...either set me up with one of your normal local friends or leave me alone, please.
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YeahTubaMike posted:Non-single people telling me one or more of the following things: I've been fighting depression for a good long while partially related to this (not to get all E/N because... well you can read my thread that's hopefully collapsed into archives by now), and I agree with this 100%. I'm not even asking for help or anything, just some level of sympathy or understanding instead of just-so stories that undercut what I'm going through. What makes this even worse is that two days ago, "Bell Let's Talk" trends in Canada, which is bullshit corporate telecom advertising masquerading as charity/awareness about mental health, and the same people that give me bullshit "advice" change their Facebook pictures for one day and do gently caress-all the other 364 days out of the year.
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Life is an empty void so just know that nobody else is really happy either. That gives me comfort and solidarity.
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Phone peeve: when people ask "one more thing" six or seven times in a row.
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Whiz Palace posted:Phone peeve: when people ask "one more thing" six or seven times in a row. If you stop killing people, Columbo will stop investigating you.
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mojo1701a posted:I've been fighting depression for a good long while partially related to this (not to get all E/N because... well you can read my thread that's hopefully collapsed into archives by now), and I agree with this 100%. I'm not even asking for help or anything, just some level of sympathy or understanding instead of just-so stories that undercut what I'm going through. Yeah agreed on all counts. And extend that to those self-congratulatory facebook memes that are like "hey I'm sharing this bc if you feel depressed... PEOPLE LOVE YOU. THINGS WILL BE OK. YOU WILL GET BETTER. GET UP AND MAKE A SANDWICH" Honestly those things and the people that share them are negative support for mental illness, as far as I'm concerned. Talk to your friend who has problems? Naw, just share. I have been EMC'd and psych-held for a suicide attempt, once, and vividly remember seeing a post like that from someone I used to be close with shortly before. That poo poo isn't just unhelpful, it's hurtful. Generic, nonspecific bullshit targeted for "you sadbrains" is just so aggressively hurtful. Every single person is different and you'd do 1000x as much good by hitting up one struggling friend and being gentle and listening. Sharing shotgun anti-depression posts is just... gently caress if I know, stupid. It's decreeing to the world that you'd rather feel good than help someone else, and it demonstrates an extremely wrong view of depression. One message saying "Hey Edgar Ho, I love you. Are you ok? Please know you can talk to me about anything" is worth about 10 million "sadbrains folks, let this meme remind you that people like you" shares Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 17:18 on Feb 2, 2018 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Yeah agreed on all counts. I had a friend who stopped talking to me (without warning) after I had a depressive episode two years ago without even giving me any warning. I blamed myself at first, but realized that a decent friend would've at least given me some warning. Instead, she just dropped me and told me only after I texted her if she'd gotten rid of Facebook or something. I'm taking meds, and working on my situation, but once in a while, I just want to vent. That's it. Which is why all of those self-congratulatory posts and "likes" are insulting because you keep claiming "let's talk" without the corollary of "let's listen". I realize the average person may not be equipped to do something, but don't share this bullshit and claim something about a "dialogue" if you're not willing to even listen. Sunswipe posted:If you stop killing people, Columbo will stop investigating you.  Very nice.
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