Things that drive you mad

[kerbiloid]

14 minutes ago, HansonKerman said:

You used two in the same sentence and even forgot how to have proper grammar.

Forgot? I even didn't know!

[HansonKerman]

48 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Forgot? I even didn't know!

ANGERY

[Superfluous J]

Speaking of acronyms and initialisms, I both love a good - and enjoy a bad - backronym.

NASA, I'm looking at you.

Edited June 16, 2020 by Superfluous J
Wow how did I miss that swypeo for so long.

[Nuke]

people using words wrong. such as using a noun as if it was a verb or any other word type substitute. also related to the slightly less annoying error of using the wrong tense for the situation. i am far less concerned for things like proper punctuation and capitalization like your usual grammar police, where as those are often common mistakes, where as the behavior ive mentioned is almost always intentional out of vanity or blatant unbridled narcissism, where sounding cool is more important than making sense.

Edited June 6, 2020 by Nuke

[kerbiloid]

It's good to notice this notice and vocabulary it in the mind, thanks.

[StrandedonEarth]

30 minutes ago, Nuke said:

people using words wrong. such as using a noun as if it was a verb or any other word type substitute

But that's how language evolves. Google officially became a verb years ago, etc.

Does the shift key on your keyboard not work?  /jk 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Nuke said:

the behavior ive mentioned is almost always intentional out of vanity or blatant unbridled narcissism, where sounding cool is more important than making sense.

[benzman]

I hate it when people use the word 'fun' incorrectly. As in 'that was very fun'. No.  It was either 'very funny' or 'a lot of fun'. It was NOT 'very fun'.

  But then again I am just a Grumpy Old Man.

 

[Nuke]

4 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said:

But that's how language evolves. Google officially became a verb years ago, etc.

Does the shift key on your keyboard not work?  /jk 

yes but evolution of language should be slow. and furthermore with globalization it makes sense for it to evolve even slower for the sake of consistency. its natural for every generation to develop its own slang, that's fine. most of what i use is more gen-x slang (most of which is derived from the 50s and 60s due to surfer and hippie culture, and of course rock'n'roll) than yz speak, despite being born in '81. not even sure what generation i fall into because the starting threshold for millennials is either 80 or 82 depending on who's definition you use. i heard someone my age use the term 'sandwich generation', not sure, i just no i have absolutely nothing in common with millennials. i remember '80s speak being rather atrocious. i dont remember '90s speak at all. but most of the slang still adhered to grammar rules.

the shift key is strictly an angry button.

 

1 hour ago, benzman said:

I hate it when people use the word 'fun' incorrectly. As in 'that was very fun'. No.  It was either 'very funny' or 'a lot of fun'. It was NOT 'very fun'.

  But then again I am just a Grumpy Old Man.

 

that too, i blame texting and twitter for this. i miss irc where you are were allowed to type full sentences, and that was in the 90s. sometimes i feel like we have regressed technologically. i also notice a lot of people who use smartphones never seem to use the phone part anymore, so its only a matter of time before people start speaking emoji. these devices really need another name, as even the "smart" is wrong. these devices only execute code, they don't actually think (at least till we start seeing neural net processors, and that might become a thing soon). with a lot of things moving to the cloud, the expance's "hand terminal" is a better name, and if you read 'the churn' apparently they also have cyberdecks (which is also becoming a thing because of 3d printers, raspberry pis and an odd merging of the case mod and mechanical keyboard community). 

Edited June 6, 2020 by Nuke

[HansonKerman]

3 hours ago, Nuke said:

yes but evolution of language should be slow. 

the word “nerd” came from a dr suess book. Evolution of language can be any speed. Also use your shift key capitalization is a grammar error. Like c’mon. Talking about evolution of language and blaming texting? smh.

[Commodore_32]

Things that drive me mad,

- The darn TLA_DEBUG_STACK_LEAK

-That FSX keeps resetting all the controls once i unplug a thing

-That the cat meows for me to open the door when im busy

-That i mess up so badly with my keyboard  Example: nvver¿¿¿'   (never)

-That a Lego falls on 3 AM

-Sometimes my chair wheels get stuck and dont roll

-Thath someone has a potato microphone in voicechat

 

[Nuke]

7 hours ago, HansonKerman said:

the word “nerd” came from a dr suess book. Evolution of language can be any speed. Also use your shift key capitalization is a grammar error. Like c’mon. Talking about evolution of language and blaming texting? smh.

new words are also different. they are ok, for the most part. its the misuse and mangling of existing words i dont like. 

 

as for texting, you essentially have a format that forces you to compress your speaking down into half words, acronyms and emojis. its not much of a stretch of the imagination to see how that might affect one's use of language. 

also relevant:

Quote

A Plan for the Improvement of Spelling in the English Language

By Mark Twain

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s”, and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which “c” would be retained would be the “ch” formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform “w” spelling, so that “which” and “one” would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish “y” replasing it with “i” and iear 4 might fiks the “g/j” anomali wonse and for all.

Generally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeiniing voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez “c”, “y” and “x”—bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez —tu riplais “ch”, “sh”, and “th” rispektivili.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

 

Edited June 7, 2020 by Nuke

[Guest]

18 hours ago, Nuke said:

that too, i blame texting and twitter for this. i miss irc where you are were allowed to type full sentences, and that was in the 90s. sometimes i feel like we have regressed technologically. i also notice a lot of people who use smartphones never seem to use the phone part anymore, so its only a matter of time before people start speaking emoji. these devices really need another name, as even the "smart" is wrong. these devices only execute code, they don't actually think (at least till we start seeing neural net processors, and that might become a thing soon). with a lot of things moving to the cloud, the expance's "hand terminal" is a better name, and if you read 'the churn' apparently they also have cyberdecks (which is also becoming a thing because of 3d printers, raspberry pis and an odd merging of the case mod and mechanical keyboard community). 

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid.

[Nuke]

11 hours ago, Aperture Science said:

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid.

cant say ive ever seen the show, so i can say i neither like nor dislike it. i dont really watch much tv anymore, too much ersatz intellectualism and too many regressive progressives. at some point in the future i might check it out, but its pretty damn low on the list of shows i want to check out. we actually had a couple huge rick and morty fans as neighbors a few years ago, they too thought they were smarter than everyone else. always yelling at each other and sleeping while their kids ran amok (one of them is a natural leader but they will probably stomp that out of her before she turns 18, given their apparent lack of parenting skills). but the cops visited them a lot, lots of drug related stuff and eventually got evicted for same. they also couldn't park their cars correctly, none of them, not even the parents, always parking 30+ degrees off the lines. its a small parking lot, save some space for everyone else. its nothing to do with the show mind you, but thats the impression i get from rick and morty fans. seems like a case of 'like what i like or your stupid'.

but you do bring up another thing i dont like. people who dislike anyone who they deem stupid. or who assume someone else's intelligence and ostracize them if its not up to their standards. everyone wants to think that they are in the half of the population above average intelligence, but only half of them actually are. sometimes i wonder how many online iq tests they took before they found the one that gave them a score over 100, and confirmation bias does the rest. everyone has occasional bouts with stupidity and moments of extreme enlightenment. take tesla and einstein for example, world reguards them as geniuses but even they had an occasional derpness about them. like how tesla didn't believe in electrons, or einstein couldn't accept quantum mechanics. now take someone like al capone, who had the mental age of a 3 year old, yet he managed to evade the police for years and they were only able to lock him up on tax evasion, never mind all the murder and extortion. vincent van gogh was extremely mentally ill but still made masterpeices. stop being a bunch of iqists, human intelligence (or lack there of) is more complex than a single number score (and if you need a one dimensional score to make a judgement you have already demonstrated your lack of capacity for understanding a complex systems). 

Edited June 8, 2020 by Nuke

[p1t1o]

There is no single barista in the UK apparently, that knows what a cappucino is. Yes I am absolutely an unashamed coffee-snob.

Go on, go and order a latte and a cappucino from anywhere and see if you can tell which is which. If they have enough milk in the fridge.

A cappucino is a shortish drink, with a little milk so as to be lighter than a neat esspresso as it is traditionally a breakfast drink (as the first coffee of the day its easier on the stomach, but still strong enough to give you a kick up the backside), with foam on to keep it warm as you relaxedly sip it (not down it). It has *equal parts* esspresso, hot milk and foam. 

99 times out of 100 if you simply order a cappucino in any given cafe (even major ones) you get a gallon of warm milk with probably some coffee in but Im not sure, its always hard to tell. Just like when you order a latte (which literally means "milk" - order a latte in italy and thats what you get. A glass of milk.)

This has been exhaustively tested and my coffee order has been tailored and refined over more than 20 years of cafe-going.

The kicker is that since "an esspresso with a little hot milk" is technically a two-part order and off-menu in most places, about 50% of the time they even get this wrong.

But going from 99% to 50% failure rate is a pretty good result in most contexts, so theres that.

(and no, a "cortado", "flat white" or "machiatto" are not what Im looking for either, even IF you could find any two cafes that make any of those coffees the same anyway)

 

I just want a danged cappucino....

Edited June 16, 2020 by p1t1o

[cubinator]

On 6/6/2020 at 11:33 AM, Nuke said:

people using words wrong. such as using a noun as if it was a verb or any other word type substitute. also related to the slightly less annoying error of using the wrong tense for the situation. i am far less concerned for things like proper punctuation and capitalization like your usual grammar police, where as those are often common mistakes, where as the behavior ive mentioned is almost always intentional out of vanity or blatant unbridled narcissism, where sounding cool is more important than making sense.

That's beans, man.

[kerbiloid]

When they put together in one jar: potato with beans and coffee with sugar, to consume this mess with gingerbread, ice cream, jelly beans, kitkat, lollipop, marshmallow, nougat, oreo, and pie, and say it's tasty.

Are they all so much hungry and can't think about anything but food?

Spoiler

jar - a stabdard Java archive extension
potato - weak computer
beans - NetBeans, IDE for Java
coffee - Java itself
sugar - syntax sugar, excessive syntax features of, say, Java
gingerbread, ice cream, jelly beans, kitkat, lollipop, marshmallow, nougat, oreo, pie - Androids from 2.3 to 9.
tasty - what the article author likes.

 

[HCB-11]

Seeing something that makes me mad.

Edited June 20, 2020 by MarsBy2024OrBust
(duh)

[DunaManiac]

People who's vocabulary seems to be 99% cuss words.

Seriously, is it that hard to keep it G rated?

Also, speaking of grammar, isn't "crazy" a better word than mad, as in "Things that drive you crazy" IMO @HansonKerman.

Edited June 22, 2020 by DunaManiac

[Moach]

I do not need to be driven to madness, as I've already gotten there, parked and the garage doors have long since become welded shut by rust...

 

But one can always add more madness on top of what's already a pretty damn loony pile - To this purpose, and seemingly to it exclusively, exists the relentless pounding of hammers on walls coming from the apartment above being renovated for what feels like the whole last geological era. I can no longer recall a time when the walls didn't shake from relentless banging all day, every day.... Even with earbuds shoved tightly about as far as beyond eardrums depth, I can still feel the ceaseless repeated blows. It feels like my very soul is being banged upon.

 

Madness is no stranger at times like these.  Even without the hammering, I'm already a pretty screwed up person. This merely adds a little bit of rain over the veritable ocean of insanity that lies inside this head-shaped reservoir of chaos I keep atop my neck

Edited June 26, 2020 by Moach

[HansonKerman]

@Moach ok

On 6/22/2020 at 6:57 PM, DunaManiac said:

People who's vocabulary seems to be 99% cuss words.

Seriously, is it that hard to keep it G rated?

Also, speaking of grammar, isn't "crazy" a better word than mad, as in "Things that drive you crazy" IMO @HansonKerman.

“Mad” was closer to “ocd-inducing” without insulting people with ocd, and sounds better than “crazy” imo. It’s my thread lol.

 

also, that curse word thing: totally agree. I have not sworn once in my life. Like seriously …

[DunaManiac]

14 minutes ago, HansonKerman said:

@Moach ok

“Mad” was closer to “ocd-inducing” without insulting people with ocd, and sounds better than “crazy” imo. It’s my thread lol.

 

also, that curse word thing: totally agree. I have not sworn once in my life. Like seriously …

I rarely do as well, when I do it's usually involuntary.

[catloaf]

Any application that resets to default settings when you close it.

The stock atmosphere shaders in ksp.

Tylo.

Game developers that won't swallow their pride and admit that they added a feature that everyone hates and remove it. And when they do get around to it they replace it with a system that's even worse.  Cough cough new Minecraft combat cough cough cough.

Edit: refrained from writing even worse in all caps.

[DunaManiac]

You know, ever since I was a little kid, there's always been one pet peeve I've always had: hanging up my clothes. I still hate it to this day, and I have no idea why. I mean, I'm fine with folding them, tossing them on the floor, putting them in a pile, sorting etc. but not hanging them.

 

[TheSaint]

49 minutes ago, DunaManiac said:

You know, ever since I was a little kid, there's always been one pet peeve I've always had: hanging up my clothes. I still hate it to this day, and I have no idea why. I mean, I'm fine with folding them, tossing them on the floor, putting them in a pile, sorting etc. but not hanging them.

See, I don't mind hanging them up. But folding them drives me bananas. When i was single I had a stack of bins in my closet. All the stuff that would normally be folded and put in drawers, like underwear and socks, just got sorted out of the laundry basket and into the bins. Getting married put an end to that.