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I mentioned earlier (I think?) that I was astounded at the number of people who still use AOL emails. Well I found a new one. For Reasons my job is interested in reducing paper usage, so they want email addresses to contact people, rather than an address or phone number. The number of people who give us a loving fax number, but no email, is also astounding. We are more than twenty years into the 21st century, people. The time to be dragging your feet on this is LONG since over. I guess my peeve is people who just plug their ears and pretend nothing has changed. You're a human being, dude, loving adapt! That's why our species has been able to take off the way it has: WE ADAPT.
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InediblePenguin posted:every fuckin day i find poo poo stashed all over the checklane by people who would rather set up a hidden object game than loving interact with the cashier to say "i don't want this after all" I once found a melted tub of ice cream hidden in the electronics department behind a bunch of school supplies. It had a big old slash near the bottom, so it had also leaked all over the endcap.
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Jan 11, 2021 16:18
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I have a current pet peeves involving my roommate. Instead of just going to bed early, like at midnight instead of 2am, will just stay up all night when she has to do something important the next day. This leads to her being exhausted and rambling on, and on, and on about whatever is annoying her, which is everything. I'm currently listening to her complain about the existence of commercials, and how they're better in Europe. I'd tell her to just go to bed, but that just pisses her off and she stays up longer out of spite. This usually lasts until she's mumbling incoherently and leans back in her chair and starts snoring for the next six hours. Once she did that while I was watching Starship Troopers at a good volume, I was amazed that she managed to sleep right through all those action movie sounds. EDIT: An update if anyone cares. My roommate was crawling around on the floor looking for the back for her earring, and then just laid down to sleep. This is a new one to me. At least it's in a spot where I don't need to keep stepping over her. Iron Crowned has a new favorite as of 17:39 on Jan 11, 2021 |
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Jan 11, 2021 16:45
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I'm currently peeved at my roommate because for three or four mornings in a row he has cooked up some massive onion/mushroom stir fry and the stove is right next to my room so I just have horrible itchy eyes.
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Jan 11, 2021 17:16
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Silver Falcon posted:I mentioned earlier (I think?) that I was astounded at the number of people who still use AOL emails. My primary e-mail address is still an @hotmail.com account from 2000. 
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Jan 11, 2021 18:27
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I still have a hotmail account that I use when I need to give out an email address so my gmail account doesn't get flooded with spam.
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Jan 11, 2021 18:56
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Wile E. Toyota posted:My primary e-mail address is still an @hotmail.com account from 2000. Mine is from 1996 
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Jan 11, 2021 19:01
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My primary email address is a carrier pigeon network.
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Jan 11, 2021 19:07
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Henchman of Santa posted:I'm currently peeved at my roommate because for three or four mornings in a row he has cooked up some massive onion/mushroom stir fry and the stove is right next to my room so I just have horrible itchy eyes. i’m your roommate, those are breakfast burritos and you can have some if you want
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Jan 12, 2021 10:21
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Silver Falcon posted:I mentioned earlier (I think?) that I was astounded at the number of people who still use AOL emails. For years my company sent invoices and BLs through fax. Then enough customers complained that they wanted them in email, so we switched to a system where we could send fax through email. There’s no actual fax machine involved now at either end. Just sending faxes back and forth via email.
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Jan 12, 2021 12:58
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Smart speakers in general piss me off. You always sound like a dick when you're shouting at it, and even more like a dick when it doesn't understand you first time so you have to shout louder. They're creepy as gently caress, and have maybe like two genuinely useful features. Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook can get the gently caress out of my house with their cameras and microphones.
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Jan 12, 2021 18:05
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Putting on underwear and the leg snags on my big toe
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Jan 12, 2021 21:19
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Joey Freshwater posted:For years my company sent invoices and BLs through fax. Then enough customers complained that they wanted them in email, so we switched to a system where we could send fax through email. Ah, yeah my problem is I need an e-mail and I have a fax number. Also, any of ya'll who still use your Hotmail accounts, I have no problem with you. You do you. I was more astounded that people are using AOL addresses for official business correspondence. Like a local business that has an AOL address for a contact instead of firstname_lastname@companyname.com. It strikes me as unprofessional. Or am I just being a cranky grandma?
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Jan 12, 2021 21:23
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When people (admittedly, this is mainly hacker news, which is already a cesspool) start a reply with "False." Talk like not a robot please
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Jan 13, 2021 02:54
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Killingyouguy! posted:When people (admittedly, this is mainly hacker news, which is already a cesspool) start a reply with "False." Sounds like loving Dwight
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Jan 13, 2021 03:21
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Killingyouguy! posted:When people (admittedly, this is mainly hacker news, which is already a cesspool) start a reply with "False." i also hate “wrong.”
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Jan 13, 2021 05:04
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Always respond with "I see where you're coming from, King, and respect your viewpoint, but have you considered-"
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Jan 13, 2021 16:30
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I've been sleeping like poo poo lately and finally got a decent night's rest the other day, and of course I spend all night dreaming about loving work. Like, I don't even want to dream about work when I'm sneaking a nap at work.
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Jan 14, 2021 04:48
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Minor thing, but when people send me emails and the CC themselves on it. Not an alternate email...literally sending it to themselves. Why? There are two ways to easily see an email you sent: 1) Sent emails folder. But really, are there still people, even 70 year old boomers who hate computers, who don't know this exists? 2) Change Outlook to conversation view, and then your sent emails and the other persons reply are all together in your inbox. Much better, honestly it should be the default option in Outlook, and why isn't it? Bill Gates plz respond.
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Jan 15, 2021 22:00
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I BCC myself on all my work E-mails because I want them in the Sent folder on my other computer, too, and I'm too lazy to set up/not interested in IMAP. (I don't use Outlook.)
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Hirayuki posted:I BCC Big Caucasian Cock?
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Jan 16, 2021 14:15
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I’m so sick of bizarrely paranoid yet hypocritical covid chat. As someone who both got it and lost family to it. Like, even now, you’ll get people posting online about if a different sort of mask will make them safer if they have a beard, and like... dude maybe shave? I’m a babyface who grows hair at lightspeed too, I prefer wearing a beard, but... it’s not that big a deal. Fuckin shave if you get tachycardia from spending two minutes in a pharmacy with your mask + a beard rather than desperately searching for The Perfect Mask Also these people are like 100% privileged middle class computer toucher types who haven’t left their house in a year which sure makes me bitter. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 14:19 on Jan 16, 2021 |
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Jan 16, 2021 14:16
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I’m so sick of bizarrely paranoid yet hypocritical covid chat. As someone who both got it and lost family to it. I got annoyed with all the constant disclaimers about “well, if it wasn’t for the virus”. No poo poo, everyone knows... then I made a post where I didn’t make that disclaimer about events that aren’t even happening now and within minutes had a “have you heard about this pandemic” type reply and was like “oh, that’s why there’s always disclaimers”. There’s a ton of people who really want you to know they’re taking it seriously even in places like SA where it’s kind of the standard.
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Jan 16, 2021 20:20
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I used to CC myself in on emails when I was working on procuring multiple projects, I'd set up a rule to file based on contract ID so it would automatically keep records of everything without me dipping into the sent file. I didnt want to set up more rules for sent stuff because I'd hit my lazy limit
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Jan 18, 2021 13:48
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People representing a long s with a lower-case f. If you look at actual texts in which the long s is used it's clearly different from f and transcribing them both as the same character just adds confusion where none previously existed - especially if you're reproducing archaic spelling as well, in which case you get used to just reading every F as an S until suddenly a real F appears and it throws you off.
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Tiggum posted:People representing a long s with a lower-case f. If you look at actual texts in which the long s is used it's clearly different from f and transcribing them both as the same character just adds confusion where none previously existed - especially if you're reproducing archaic spelling as well, in which case you get used to just reading every F as an S until suddenly a real F appears and it throws you off. ...Well, hell, that's one Discworld question answered.
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Vegans/vegetarians who see someone eating an animal product and have to bring up how bad it is for the environment and how their health is so much better without meat and the plant version tastes just like the meat version ok no it doesn’t taste the same ok pal People who see a vegan/vegetarian eating and have to announce how good their chicken sandwich is or how many ribs they’re gonna cook this weekend and if god didn’t want us to eat animals he wouldn’t have made them delicious Hahahahaha ok there is no god alright buddy
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I hate that so much. Like stop being so obnoxious about other people’s food and let them eat, don’t attempt to start an argument! I kind of dislike people commenting on what other people are eating in general, actually. This doesn’t count when it’s someone you’re eating with or a close friend or something, that usually doesn’t have the lovely awkwardness that comes with someone walking past you at work while you’re eating and going “what is that”. Admittedly I’m a bit sensitive to this, when I was a kid I’d often bring leftovers to school for lunch and sometimes the other kids would make fun of me because my food was “weird”  but yeah, just let people eat, god.
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Jan 21, 2021 20:14
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I sorta understand when it's hardline vegan people who genuinely believe meat is murder. Wouldn't you say something if you saw someone literally eating human flesh in front of you? It's still annoying but if they wouldn't be assholes about it they wouldn't be very firm in their convictions.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I sorta understand when it's hardline vegan people who genuinely believe meat is murder. I’m usually more annoyed by meat eaters taunting vegetarians/vegans honestly, it seems more pointlessly mean-spirited and with the sole intent to provoke rather than expressing a sincerely-held belief or anything. It felt like it intensified awhile back when people on the internet wouldn’t shut up about bacon if I remember correctly. Anyway I think I expressed myself kind of poorly there, sorry 
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FreudianSlippers posted:I sorta understand when it's hardline vegan people who genuinely believe meat is murder. Part of the issue with this way of thinking about it is that if people genuinely believe that you are going to hell for your sinful actions should they not step in to save you from hellfire? Believe whatever you like but I don't actually have to listen to or care about what you're saying. Don't eat meat. Contact politicians about stopping factory farming. Take effective action that may induce change. Telling me the ribs I'm smoking came from a pig that murdered isn't going to sway me, just the same as being told that homosexuality will drat me to hell isn't going to change my mind. Maybe just worry about your own house and leave me be?
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As a vegetarian, I’m cool with the death penalty and subsequent consumption of pigs that murdered.
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oldpainless!  A new delightful peeve I have just encountered: I stupidly stacked two of the same bowls in the sink to soak and they suctioned themselves together and I spent way too long trying to pry them apart before getting water on myself 
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HOLY gently caress posted:oldpainless! next time turn the stuck stack over, run hot water over the bottom bowl, then flip them around and run cold water into the top bowl. the slight temp difference should unstick them handily
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Killingyouguy! posted:When people (admittedly, this is mainly hacker news, which is already a cesspool) start a reply with "False." Basically everyone on hacker news bothers me. Every poster seems to either have a specific “I’m rich and therefore a libertarian” position on everything involving money or a particularly annoying but identical “I’m not rich but I assume that by agreeing with all of these software engineers I will certainly become rich” position. Yesterday there was a whole echo chamber where they were all agreeing that building luxury apartments magically lowers rent for everyone else. Suggesting that maybe that’s not the case led to really angry responses. 
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Farten Barfen posted:Basically everyone on hacker news bothers me. this is extremely fair. i had to block that site on my devices to keep myself from hate-reading it
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HOLY gently caress posted:I’m usually more annoyed by meat eaters taunting vegetarians/vegans honestly, it seems more pointlessly mean-spirited and with the sole intent to provoke rather than expressing a sincerely-held belief or anything. It felt like it intensified awhile back when people on the internet wouldn’t shut up about bacon if I remember correctly. I don't taunt vegetarians/vegans. I like meat, I like vegetables, I like baking, I'm down with whatever. I just get irritated when you meet someone that never shuts about how much they like bacon or how they're vegetarian because meat is murder. Most people are fine. People that proselytize are irritating. My mom does bug me though. She's been a vegetarian since the 80's. She always tells me how easy it is to be vegetarian. Of course it is, I always cook vegetarian for her when she visits. My dad cooks vegetarian for her at home. I go out of my way to plan vegetarian meals. That's why it's easy. Everyone plans vegetarian for her so, as far as she knows, it's easy. It's fine. I like my vegetarian lasagna that I make with eggplant. I kind of like it better than the meat kind. It's just more work with the salting, pressing, frying, etc. I make a lot of vegetarian stuff, but I still like meat.
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It’s also really easy if you just suck it up and wait or nibble on sides when people cook or go out to somewhere non vegetarian friendly which is what the vast majority of us do.
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HOLY gently caress posted:oldpainless! Speaking of spraying water on oneself, ice cream scoops, like the proper solid aluminium ones, are a cursed monkey's paw wish. The curve that is designed to make perfect balls of ice cream is coincidentally the most efficient way to redirect the water from the tap on to the bench around the sink and also your crotch, no matter how you hold it as you rinse it.
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Novels which don't have short chapters or 'sections'. I'm not saying I want the da Vinci Code, but I've just started reading Under the Volcano, and the first chapter is 48 pages long, with no breaks. Perhaps growing up reading Discworld has overly accustomed me to novels being broken up fairly regularly, but a fifty page chapter would take like... I dunno, maybe like 90 minutes worth of unbroken reading, which unfortunately ain't gonna happen.
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