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Tiggum posted:Townsends saying "paste" instead of "pastry". When he's reading out old recipes that say it, fine, that's accurate. But why does he consistently say it in all contexts? He's not speaking 18th century English otherwise, it's pretty much just this one word. that guy sounds like a real rear end in a top hat
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People telling you every loving detail of their most recent minor ailment. "Well, it started on Tuesday, and it was just a runny nose, you know, but then on Wednesday afternoon my throat started tickling, but my nose was a bit clearer. By Wednesday night I had developed a cough, and was feeling quite bunged up, but I felt OK in myself, not too bad. By Friday it had started clearing up, but it feels like now I'm getting ANOTHER cold!" OH MY GOD I DON'T CARE. WHO WOULD EVER CARE ABOUT THIS? Yes, this is my mother-in-law, why do you ask?
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When it comes to things like that there's the whole "I can potentially die" thing that has been happening all year. But yes it's annoying. Especially because it's usually from people that also complain if they cough once. Fartington Butts has a new favorite as of 11:13 on Dec 24, 2020 |
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fussy online communities. i bought a specialist device for retro gaming and it has a whole support discord, and of course it's divided up into like 10 subdiscords with 3 users or something each, and they complain if you ask a question in the wrong one i hate detail oriented people
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if i ask a question online, either answer it plainly or shut the gently caress up. don't tell me to google it, don't lecture me on piracy or whatever arbitrary personal morality you have, don't start a discussion, just answer the question
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Shibawanko posted:if i ask a question online, either answer it plainly or shut the gently caress up. don't tell me to google it, don't lecture me on piracy or whatever arbitrary personal morality you have, don't start a discussion, just answer the question Related: "How do I do X?" "WHY WOULD YOU EVER WANT TO DO X YOU SHOULD DO Y INSTEAD"
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Shibawanko posted:if i ask a question online, either answer it plainly or shut the gently caress up. don't tell me to google it, don't lecture me on piracy or whatever arbitrary personal morality you have, don't start a discussion, just answer the question When I get stuck on a game, I tend to Google what to do next, and often get reddit users who have already asked the same question as me. Invariably, in the responses, there'll be some sanctimonious oval office saying "Well, if you actually paid attention to the game's environmental story telling, you'd find out the answer. Why don't you explore the game world and find out the answer for yourself?" Dude, I get to play video games for like maybe 1 hour a day on average... if I get stuck, I just wanna progress, I don't want to spend hours retreading areas just because I missed a keycode written on a whiteboard.
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Also when people close question threads with "Oh it's okay I figured it out" with no indication of what the solution was. This will inevitably be the only Google result for any given question you have.
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docbeard posted:Related: Every loving time I look up something about using a controller on a PC game. "OMG JUST USE KEYBOARD AND MOUSE YOU loving LOSER." gently caress you. I want to sit back with a controller like I'm playing a game, not hunch over a loving keyboard like I'm doing loving data entry.
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docbeard posted:Also when people close question threads with "Oh it's okay I figured it out" with no indication of what the solution was. This will inevitably be the only Google result for any given question you have. And if you open a new question, it'll just get closed by a mod claiming the problem has already been resolved with a helpful link to the useless "answer".
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docbeard posted:Related: When I first started dabbling in Linux, I discovered I could have audio or wifi but not both at the same time, so I sought out help on the internet, and the response I got was 'well the nice thing about open source software is you can look at the source and implement the fix yourself instead of bothering us with questions like this' I was like 12 but ok
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My favorite variant of that is where there was a legit answer, and there are replies pointing out how helpful it is. But the reply is just [deleted by user] because they ran a script to bulk-edit and 'delete' all their posts as a way of deactivating their account.
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The Perfect Element posted:When I get stuck on a game, I tend to Google what to do next, and often get reddit users who have already asked the same question as me. Invariably, in the responses, there'll be some sanctimonious oval office saying "Well, if you actually paid attention to the game's environmental story telling, you'd find out the answer. Why don't you explore the game world and find out the answer for yourself?" it sort of feels like every internet community is like this, it even happens on here on occasion although much less than elsewhere
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You know the memes about management throwing pizza parties instead of doing anything to make their employees’ lives easier and how beaten-down Americans are? Well, inspired by someone in the office treating us to Chinese takeout last week (since social distancing precludes the usual Christmas party) and the scratch-off lottery ticket inside a Christmas card a coworker gave me, my dad started insisting I, literally the lowest guy on the warehouse totem pole, treat everyone else to the next pizza lunch. He wants to give me the money to do it, but it’s still just offensive to me. Dr Christmas has a new favorite as of 16:43 on Dec 24, 2020 |
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Sunswipe posted:Every loving time I look up something about using a controller on a PC game. "OMG JUST USE KEYBOARD AND MOUSE YOU loving LOSER." gently caress you. I want to sit back with a controller like I'm playing a game, not hunch over a loving keyboard like I'm doing loving data entry. I remember trying to see if there was a mod or anything for an autorun in 7 Days to Die and I found a thread in the steam forums where someone was basically asking the same question. It was just a stream of assholes calling them a casual and saying stupid poo poo like 'why not just get a bot to play the game for you then' as though running a long distance holding the loving 'w' key was a major part of the gameplay. I loving hate gamers.
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rodbeard posted:gently caress you John Townsend is a saint. When he shared a recipe for an 18th century dessert called Orange Fool, chuds were absolutely livid.
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I've been skimming through some sites to start seeing how the apartment-rent market currently is, since I might try to move somewhere more reasonably priced next year. As always it's loving infuriating how the 'room in apartment/roommates/collective' listings clog up the listings. No matter what you search for, how many rooms, what price range, as long as it's <1000/mo, the majority of listings are lovely things where you just rent 1 room in an apartment with 1-X others. I don't understand how the sites can have great filters about distance, price, area, type. And then not have a filter for 'Split apartment?: yes/gently caress no' or whatever the correct term for it would be in english. You piece of poo poo listing, you are not a '2+ rooms' listing when you're only renting out 1 room in an apartment, as opposed to the whole apartment. Filter by rooms? Doesn't matter, they'll list the number of rooms in the apartment. Filter by size? Doesn't matter, they'll list the full apartment size to make it seem like a better deal than it is. Especially since they'll be renting out a room that'll barely fit a bed and desk. You can even filter by floor, and even by 'not first floor'. So it's so insanely bizarre that they just... don't let you filter out the 1-room rentals from the apartment rentals. Especially in a pandemic.
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contemporary generic beat music. i dont mean to say that all music now is bad or it was better in the past because honestly i have no idea what most contemporary music is even like, but there's a certain style that keeps popping up everywhere that i don't even know the name of and that i don't like. you know how you'll look up an instruction video for something on youtube, and it has some generic, vaguely R&B-sounding background music? maybe with a voice thats sort of sampled and always seems to sound exactly the same? is this a specific artist or just sort of stock music from an online source? it seems to pop up under a lot of ads too. in my head i call this "influencer music" because it seems to be used primarily under low quality youtube videos
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Shibawanko posted:contemporary generic beat music. i dont mean to say that all music now is bad or it was better in the past because honestly i have no idea what most contemporary music is even like, but there's a certain style that keeps popping up everywhere that i don't even know the name of and that i don't like. you know how you'll look up an instruction video for something on youtube, and it has some generic, vaguely R&B-sounding background music? maybe with a voice thats sort of sampled and always seems to sound exactly the same? is this a specific artist or just sort of stock music from an online source? it seems to pop up under a lot of ads too. in my head i call this "influencer music" because it seems to be used primarily under low quality youtube videos A lot of it definitely is royalty-free poo poo, if you watch enough kid's youtubes you hear the exact same songs and they're definitely not shelling out to any contemporary musicians.
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SubNat posted:As always it's loving infuriating how the 'room in apartment/roommates/collective' listings clog up the listings. Actually a lot of sites would really benefit from a "not" filter. Like, if I'm browsing food to have delivered it would be handy to just be able to go "not pizza" because there are so many pizza places and if I wanted pizza I'd just order from my usual place anyway.
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When I search for something on an online store and it goes "Did you mean x?" when what I actually searched for and actually meant gets several times more results than its suggested correction. Search suggestions have been around for ages, how is a check for something this basic not around?
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Tiggum posted:Actually a lot of sites would really benefit from a "not" filter. Thankfully this site atleast supports 'AND' tagging, which functions as a 'not' filter for anything they actively tag. The filters are checkboxes, so I could for example set up a search exclusively for 2nd, 3rd, and 5th floor apartments for example. And an unrelated one: Smart things are so loving unrelentingly dumb and poorly designed. My dad wants some help with some smart wifi sockets(with thermostats) he bought for the ovens in the house. They are not able to connect to the 2.4/5Ghz juggling mesh network because they only support 2.4Ghz, and won't even try to connect, even though there are 2 networks, they just share the same name. Even budget routers from like, half a decade ago came with 5Ghz, not supporting it in a device that's sold now is just ridiculously bullshit. (Extra so since it's so dumb it can't interact with a 2.4+5Ghz network, which is basically the standard approach.) (Which then leads onto the 'why can't I get onto the network admin panel? Oh, because these ISP issued devices have other, pre-set login details, which my dad isn't sure about.)
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Usually when I’m getting delivery or takeout I know what I don’t want, but have no idea what I actually am in the mood for until I’m looking at it, so 
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Beer that doesn’t have the alcohol content on the can
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oldpainless posted:Beer that doesn’t have the alcohol content on the can Isn't that just illegal? It would be here
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BOUGHT THIS NINE YEARS AGO, STILL GOING STRONG. BUYING ANOTHER AS A GIFT FOR A FRIEND. MADE IN CHINA poo poo, ONE STAR.
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ORDERED FRODAY.... RECEIVED MONDAY SON LOVES IT... ONE STAR
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I really hate apartment washrooms. Come down, 7 driers. 1 in use. 6 done, all full. 5 of them had a load of clothes on top, meaning that there have been 2 rounds of people not picking their poo poo up. I know the driers are a bit lovely to time because they'll just stop when they're 'dry', which can sometimes just be like 10-20 min. And don't give a time estimate like the washing machines do. But you can just check the status on the same page you use to book the machines in the first place, they'll even say when they finished! Why the gently caress is it so hard for people to just pick up their loving laundry instead of having half the washers and half the driers be stacked sky high with laundry piles? This is of course my fault for doing a load of laundry on a sunday evening, instead of early on a weekday like I prefer, but it's still insanely frustrating.
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Here 'washroom' means 'bathroom' so the beginning of that post threw me off I agree though. Idk why they decided 3 washers and 3 dryers is enough for my entire building, especially when the dryers are hard set to take twice as long as the washers
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Spotify, why are your adverts so goddamn loud? I shouldn't have to scramble to grab my phone when an advert starts to turn it down. And why do you only have 4 adverts that you endlessly repeat? Is the idea just to be as annoying as possible so I'll subscribe?
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Spalec posted:Spotify, why are your adverts so goddamn loud? I shouldn't have to scramble to grab my phone when an advert starts to turn it down. And why do you only have 4 adverts that you endlessly repeat? Is the idea just to be as annoying as possible so I'll subscribe? That is literally the exact idea, yeah.
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honestly why don't they just cut to the chase and play the Emergency Broadcast System sound between songs
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Phosphine posted:Isn't that just illegal? It would be here I’m not sure but I looked for like 90 seconds at this can and never found it.
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nishi koichi posted:ORDERED FRODAY.... RECEIVED MONDAY SON LOVES IT... ONE STAR MAILMAN THREW PACKAGE DIRECTLY INTO THE TRASH ONE STAR
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mycelia posted:MAILMAN THREW PACKAGE DIRECTLY INTO THE TRASH ONE STAR CUSTOMER SERVICE DID NOT MAGICALLY FIX EVERYTHING FOR ME, EVEN THOUGH I WAS THE ONE loving UP A BASIC THING, AND PROBABLY DIDN'T EVEN DESCRIBE IT PROPERLY. PRODUCT WORKS PERFECTLY. 1 STAR BECAUSE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE. Killingyouguy! posted:Here 'washroom' means 'bathroom' so the beginning of that post threw me off Yeah it was just a direct translation, a room you use for washing. It's especially frustrating since the time most people can wash during weekdays is the few hours after work. The amount of machines should be able to handle the daily peak periods, since they happen every day. What happens in practice is that most of the machines stand unused for most of the day, and then are wall-to-wall booked from 14-22, they don't even give you a rebate or incentive to use them in the off-period to spread the load. I think my apartment complex has somewhere around 200-240 apartments. (Though most of those who own their apartments have their own in-unit washing machines, so not quite as many using the room.) But there's only 7 washers and 7 driers. It's really frustrating. I assume they decided on 7+7 originally, before they remodelled the building in 2013 and nearly doubled the amount of apartments in the building.
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SubNat posted:I really hate apartment washrooms. I do not miss apartment laundry rooms. My biggest peeve was when you managed to use a washer or dryer that was broken. My quarter supply was always down to the wire, and I've never seen a laundry room with a change machine, so it always ends with a wet load of laundry drying all over my apartment. My previous apartment switched to cards, which had a similar problem, because the machine that you would load the cards with was in the office, so you could only load it during office hours, which meant Sundays and holidays were out, and if you got home after 6, you're also SOL.
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I lived in a building in Brooklyn that only had two washers and two driers, and sometimes the washer wouldn’t drain so you’d have to fish your clothes out of ice cold water.
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All the places I've lived the last 7 years have all had digital keyfobs you use, that you just recharge online.(Same place you book machines, or check status, etc.) That just sounds like a loving pain. The whole going to an office to recharge the card, or using cash to use one. But yeah, no matter the technological innovations they roll out, they still suck when they're underdimensioned, and undermaintained. Seeing posts on the apartment's facebook group about machines not draining etc isn't uncommon, the moment one is fixed a different one will break shortly after. Thankfully it hasn't happened to me in a couple years, because it's a pain to schelp it over to a different machine just to spin dry it, then over to the driers. Or they get stuck in soapy water and you just have to do another wash in a different machine and hope that's not jank as well (Or locked because someone booked it, but hasn't used it.).
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