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My pet peeve is how as son as the weekend starts, I can't help but think of how short it is and that it will be over soon.
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Trailers that only mention that they're fan-made after a long string of text in the title, like "New VENOM Sony OFFICIAL trailer #2 2018 SUPER HD RED BAND | Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams | First Look | (fan-made) Of course, you soon find out what kind of garbage you're in for as soon as you watch for a few seconds.
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Apr 14, 2018 17:34
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- It annoys me that regardless of video length or data connection, videos on Twitter stop/try-and-buffer/spit-back-an-error-message around a quarter to halfway through. I have no idea why it happens; it can be a 15 second long video or a three minute one; it will inevitably stop and eventually say "NOPE SORRY THIS VIDEO CAN'T BE PLAYED SUCKS TO BE YOU". - I hate that I'm not very good at processing two distinct sounds (say, voices) at once. Like, I can hear the person on a podcast talking about something, and I can hear someone talking about something else, but it never fails to get garbled into something that I can't understand what either said.
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Apr 14, 2018 20:00
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When people talk about misuse of the word literally they are not talking about people who can speak coherently and makes a mistake, but 20 ish something people who have not learned to talk yet. "Yeah, I'm like literally dying right now, haha so funny, gotta show respect man know what I am saying?" Zero substance in their language. Whenever there is a *cricket cricket* going on in their head they replace it with a couple of terms to fill the void that is their personality.
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Apr 15, 2018 03:16
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20ish something here, no you idiot, you loving buffoon, kids these days know what literally means even with their nonsense slang and their disrespect Haha you’re literally killing me
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Apr 15, 2018 03:44
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Retain employees referring to their store as "I" instead of "We". "I might have some more of that in stock, sized ten and a half." Also sports fans referring to a team the like as "We". "We played like crap in the second half." I don't think either of these things happened much 20 years ago.
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Apr 15, 2018 04:49
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Related to that second one - there was a large police presence at my local pub. Why? Was there a robbery? A bomb threat? No. A football game. We really cannot be trusted, football fans are just pathetic.
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Apr 15, 2018 04:53
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Phyzzle posted:Also sports fans referring to a team the like as "We". "We played like crap in the second half." I don't think either of these things happened much 20 years ago. Here’s a NYT article from 2000 discussing sports fandom that casually mentions an academic researched fandom starting in the 70’s and some of his research focused on the use of terms like “we won”. So it dates back at least that far...and given that people were crazy passionate about sports before that, I’d lay money it goes back even further. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2000/08/11/sports/sports-psychology-it-isn-t-just-a-game-clues-to-avid-rooting.html You’re definitely right to find it irritating and dumb, but it’s in no way a new phenomenon.
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Apr 15, 2018 07:18
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Seventh Arrow posted:Trailers that only mention that they're fan-made after a long string of text in the title, like "New VENOM Sony OFFICIAL trailer #2 2018 SUPER HD RED BAND | Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams | First Look | (fan-made)
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Apr 15, 2018 09:03
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I've also seen promo videos made for fake phones. "New Oppo 8 Phone 16-core processor 32gigs RAM!!!"
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Apr 15, 2018 09:27
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Phyzzle posted:Retain employees referring to their store as "I" instead of "We". "I might have some more of that in stock, sized ten and a half." This is my pet peeve, except I am the retail employee and I am *required* to say "I" and not "We". It's supposed to create a feeling of intimacy, a real one-on-one experience. We're also encouraged to flirt and touch a lot. I'm a women selling bullshit to hang on your organ donor cycle. All of my customers are old men or lowriders that are young enough to be my kid. Corporate loves to make retail workers do gross poo poo for scraps. There is a very good chance if you hear someone say that they're either so Stockholm Syndrome broken that it's not their fault. Or, worse, they're a wage slave required to put some sleeze on it. Retail is truly the ultimate hell.
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Apr 15, 2018 13:22
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I am annoyed that I get precum after the deed instead of beforehand like most people. Serves no purpose and have to wait 5 minutes to use kleenex again.
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Apr 15, 2018 13:45
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Midig posted:I am annoyed that I get precum after the deed instead of beforehand like most people. Serves no purpose and have to wait 5 minutes to use kleenex again.  anyway I do the "we" thing with sports teams but it's just because it's shorter than having to specify which team you're talking about all the time. The only people I talk about sports with know what teams I like so it's always clear what we mean when we say we. It's not intended to imply I am part of the team or contribute in any way.
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Apr 15, 2018 14:08
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The proper way is to say “we” when your favorite team does something good and “they” when the team does something bad
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Apr 15, 2018 14:41
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I say "we" when referring to sports teams because I am on the Astros, Rockets, Dynamo, Red Wings and the motherFUCKING Skeeters. Sure they don't like that I keep saying it, and frankly the cease and desist letters are getting a little hurtful, but I AM on the team. If I don't cheer, they won't win. And if they lose it's because they didn't listen when I hollered all the right plays. Also the refs are all payed off. And just because they escort you out when you call Dallas Keuchel "Yeasty Beard" while sitting behind the dugout because fucker won't leave the mound when I specifically informed Hinch that he was toasted last inning doesn't mean I'm not a part of the bench. Or something, I blacked out a bit. Point is, we are all players on our favorite teams if you believe hard enough.
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Apr 15, 2018 15:14
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There was a thing while back in the Olympics when Ben Johnson won, all the Canadian broadcasters were like, "The CANADIAN Ben Johnson has won! A great moment!" But then afterwards it was like, "Ben Johnson, the FORMER JAMAICAN has tested positive for steroid use! Boo!"
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Apr 15, 2018 16:24
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A thing in fiction - I wish stories about real places would pick something other than the thing it's most famous for as it's main crux, because it just gives the game away, like any story set in Salem with inevitably be a witch trial story - change it up, there were other things. Maybe start it making the audience expect a witch story, but have an ember from a burning spark off in the forest and start an uncontrolled fire and the real story isn't about Witches being secretly real, but about the New England Dark Day where the sky was totally blotted out by smoke to the extent that they needed candlelight outside during the day. Throw a loving curveball or something.
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Apr 15, 2018 16:45
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I use “we” for the habs but that’s partially self-deprecating bc the habs loving blow chunks and never ever win, like I’m 50% sure I would be a net positive for the team and I can barely skate, and partially bc one of my best friends loves the leafs and does the same
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Apr 15, 2018 18:00
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Something that seems to be annoying a lot of people lately is when in academic papers people will always say "we" instead of "I" on solo papers. I do it and don't care that it's weird, it's just the way people write. My academic peeve is when a referee has this peeve and asks me to replace all the "we"s with "I"s. Focus on the science.
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Apr 15, 2018 18:10
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I use the royal we to refer to myself in my head- I don't know why, or when it started, but I always do. Pet peeve of today: people who don't watch their goddamn kids. This is a hospital, you fucks, quit letting your children run around screaming.
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Sociopastry posted:Pet peeve of today: people who don't watch their goddamn kids. This is a hospital, you fucks, quit letting your children run around screaming. Maybe they want the hospital staff to stab them with a syringe of Xanax Content: stupid company policies that are written in this tone that I can’t explain. It’s upbeat yet looking down on you at the same time. The one I’m specifically thinking of is worded something like “be at work 5 minutes early! If you’re 5 minutes late, that means you’re going to be 5 minutes late on everything you do that day!” God I can’t even replicate the tone. I need to look at the thing and post it when I’m at work next time. I don’t know how marketers work but I hate them. Also the 5 min thing is bullshit, for obvious reasons. Also we’re hourly and not allowed by the company to clock in more than 5 min early. Wtf difference does 5 min make.
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Apr 16, 2018 08:43
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Any fantasy setting that borrows too much from Norse Mythology. I know it can be pretty hard to be original, but at least do better than slight variations of their original names such as Odyn or Fenryr. Lazy writing and the settings is already oversaturated with it.
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Apr 16, 2018 11:02
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My apartment office is being remodeled and has up signs that say "please excuse our progress". What the heck, you didn't need to say anything so why put up such a self righteous sounding "excuse".
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Apr 16, 2018 11:11
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Seventh Arrow posted:There was a thing while back in the Olympics when Ben Johnson won, all the Canadian broadcasters were like, "The CANADIAN Ben Johnson has won! A great moment!" http://www.isandymurraystillbritish.com/
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Apr 16, 2018 14:49
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A “I never get sick so I don’t need a flu shot  “ guy I know got the flu. Hahahahahahaha. (Peeve being what he always said)Unfortunately he’s gonna have cognitive dissonance and keep saying that and block this from his memory and/or say this wasn’t the flu but instead some mystery illness. But I can enjoy this while it lasts because he’s super sick (not like dying, just bed ridden and very uncomfortable. Typical flu.)
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Thin Privilege posted:A “I never get sick so I don’t need a flu shot My grandma is like this (not really about the flu shot specifically, just in general) and swears it is because she is always drinking a bunch of aloe vera crap from a MLM. Nobody hopes she gets sick but when she does and is caught it's always funny to see her try and explain it - it's always either "I forgot to take my aloe punch yesterday" or some bullshit excuse like she was dusting and is sneezing because of that. She also claims she has never been able to smell anything, but she'll occasionally slip up and say "that smells good/bad" and backpedal like "i meant it LOOKS like it smells good, I can't smell". I think it's more funny than annoying, because just...why lie about something so stupid for decades?
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Apr 16, 2018 16:08
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I used to have a friend who liked to claim that he never got sick. But he did get "food poisoning" shockingly frequently.
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Starting a new job and learning all the dumb new software names that everyone uses instead of terms like "your desktop" or "email." "Okay, so first you'll want to log into Citnom and open up your Zibnar Portal, then head to Axiob to clock in. After that, click on Xylink for your intra-company chat. Oh, you'll need different passwords for all of these, by the way."
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Apr 16, 2018 22:05
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ah, do you work in healthcare, too?
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Parasol Prophet posted:Starting a new job and learning all the dumb new software names that everyone uses instead of terms like "your desktop" or "email." And you have to update the passwords at regular intervals. And yes, the gui for all this crap is straight outta '96.
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Apr 17, 2018 02:34
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But none of the password-updating intervals are the same, because that would make things too simple!
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Parasol Prophet posted:Starting a new job and learning all the dumb new software names that everyone uses instead of terms like "your desktop" or "email." drat straight. I had to learn how to deal with logistics, shipping, and distribution management in 3 days with no prior knowledge years ago The real frustration, is that no-one who trains you even understands what they are telling you to do. They've forgotten that we were all once strangers in a strange land. "Just use use Gentran to connect to the VAN, verify the translation, export it to EDIct, export the data to a flat file, process the records, create the shipping labels, process the drop-ships, import everything back into EDIct, then export the shipment data to Goldmine. Then all you have to do is send the 856 and 810 back through Gentran and you're good to go! Don't forget the 812s that I never explained to you. Oh, by the way, our vendor doesn't accept normal 997s so you have to use a macro to modify a standard 997, you'll figure it out." Then ask that person, "What does any of that mean?" They won't know. They'll just say, "Click these buttons and it works. Have fun! My last day is today and I'm leaving early." Edit: I haven't worked with EDI since X12 4010 so half of what I said may be BS.
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Parasol Prophet posted:Starting a new job and learning all the dumb new software names that everyone uses instead of terms like "your desktop" or "email." Not directly related, but it reminded me of a current ongoing peeve: HR people throwing applications out because you don't have experience with specific software packages or programming languages despite having experience with other ones that do the same things. If the focus of the job was on the code and writing production-quality software rather than the data analysis/result I could understand being strict, but just because I use python now instead of R or packages like hadoop/spark/whatever buzzwordiest package is going around doesn't mean I can't switch - I have to start working with stuff I've never touched before all the time, it's part of the job. Focusing on the specific software rather than the person being adaptive (despite emphasizing such qualities in the job ad) seems to be missing the point. Why require an advanced degree and years of academic experience if you don't seem to understand what they actually do?
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Recruiters can be all kinds of ignorant when it comes to technology. I guess it's not their fault, they're just going by whatever info someone hands them but it's still irritating when your chance of getting a job depends on them. Like asking for 10 years of hadoop experience when the technology has barely been around for that long. 7 years of Spark experience, likewise. I had a recruiter try to gauge my aptitude in python by asking me trivia questions about the language. "What are the immutable data types in python?" "What's the difference between a list and a dictionary?", that sort of thing. That's a pretty bad way of trying to tell if someone's a good programmer, just look at their projects instead. I can carry on a perfectly good conversation in english but I couldn't even start to tell you what a second-person participle is. Also maybe this really is a thing but I have to kind of wonder when I see an ad saying that they require someone who knows C, C+, Java, Python, Go, PHP, Scala and like five other languages.
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Parasol Prophet posted:But none of the password-updating intervals are the same, because that would make things too simple! And they can't be any of your seven previous passwords, can't contain the numbers to your birthdate, any letters from your name, but must be at least 13 characters, no repeats, six additional numbers that are prime, and a special character (that's only available on a Japanese keyboard).
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Seventh Arrow posted:I had a recruiter try to gauge my aptitude in python by asking me trivia questions about the language. "What are the immutable data types in python?" "What's the difference between a list and a dictionary?", that sort of thing. That's a pretty bad way of trying to tell if someone's a good programmer, just look at their projects instead. I can carry on a perfectly good conversation in english but I couldn't even start to tell you what a second-person participle is. I hate interviews like this too where they try to stump you. Give me 5 seconds on google/stackoverflow and I can tell you. I've also had them ask me to write code on a whiteboard. What practical value does that have? I've never seen anyone do that before at work, only during interviews. Like you said they should only focus on your actual real world results/projects and judge them to see whether the coding skill demonstrated is appropriate for the job.
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Leavemywife posted:And they can't be any of your seven previous passwords, can't contain the numbers to your birthdate, any letters from your name, but must be at least 13 characters, no repeats, six additional numbers that are prime, and a special character (that's only available on a Japanese keyboard). This is less of a problem now that Google is holding onto my passwords, for better or for worse. Sometimes I use a random string generator to produce a bunch of garbage as a password, if I know I'll likely never need to enter it manually.
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There's one account I have that I'll never get back into, because I forgot the password and they actually use a security question. Obviously I know the answer, but that has absolutely nothing to do with what I actually entered as my answer. I might have used letters, I might have used numbers, I might have worded it any of about 10 ways, and that's all assuming I actually answered the question they asked me and didn't just write gently caress off. e: I did try "gently caress off" and that wasn't it, and there are way more than 10 ways I could have told a database to gently caress off. e2: *arguing with phone support* look if you don't want people to set their security question as "what is the SQL command that deletes a security question database" you should tell them My Lovely Horse has a new favorite as of 15:16 on Apr 17, 2018 |
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"It's silly and shallow to refuse to get along with people just because they have different political opinions than you. My conservative neighbors know I'm a liberal but we get along just fine because I just don't talk to them about politics, and you should do the same." fuckhead, this only works if your EXISTENCE is not considered a political topic. as a visible queer from a mixed-race family my existence is, in fact,a political topic, sorry for being too "silly and shallow" to actively pursue socializing with people who think and say out loud that I'm a degenerate subhuman they don't want in their neighborhood or around their kids?
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InediblePenguin posted:"It's silly and shallow to refuse to get along with people just because they have different political opinions than you. My conservative neighbors know I'm a liberal but we get along just fine because I just don't talk to them about politics, and you should do the same." So much this. I'm a black trans woman in the south, forgive me if I don't feel like being nice to the loving guy down the street with the Trump stickers who doesn't think I should be allowed to live!
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