|
Magic Hate Ball posted:Frost on the outside, fog on the inside? I’m not buying the pitch for this candy
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2017 22:13
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 6, 2024 21:41 |
|
|
I've taken (at least) hundreds of flights and been through probably every type of boarding style, but it never matters - the second the gate agent speaks that first word into the PA system 20%+ of the people on the flight, regardless of what group they're in, go to the podium area and block everyone else. I'm sure there are some brilliant solutions to the boarding problem, and I'm sure they've tried to build in ways to deal with trouble and get it back on track, but there's just no way to keep people from messing it up. Of course I give people a break if they're hard of hearing, not English speakers, or any other legitimate reason but flight after flight after flight most of these people are just buttholes who want to get on early. Just this morning I did LA to SF on a 150 seat plane, which is overkill on what's basically a commuter hop so it was only a couple dozen people in the boarding area. Still with an almost empty plane and early boarding, we got held up as a family decided to argue that they should be able to go down during the same pre-boarding time as the wheelchairs. We still went out early but they refused to believe that it was even legal to stop a family with ~LITTLE CHILDREN~ from boarding whenever they want. You can make as many groups you want and write a brilliant algorithm to sort people in perfectly, but no matter where that family flies they are going to have the same righteous argument for as long as it takes to beat down the gate agent into letting them go. There are lots of people like that. It's a losing battle.
|
|
#
?
Dec 14, 2017 00:23
|
|
|
Hey, every major porn site, I don't know how you're getting the data that I'm into incest porn, but I'd rather you not fill my hey-check-this-out panels with "Hot step{whatever} {sex act}s with her own step{whatever}" left and right. Where the hell do these recommendations even come come from? Is it aggregated from everyone? Are there secret porn gnomes from the South that are looking up this stuff when I go to sleep? MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 00:48 on Dec 14, 2017 |
|
#
?
Dec 14, 2017 00:45
|
|
|
I'm pretty sure it's at least partially geographical and you get suggested what people on your area look for.
|
|
#
?
Dec 14, 2017 00:58
|
|
|
MisterBibs posted:Hey, every major porn site, I don't know how you're getting the data that I'm into incest porn, but I'd rather you not fill my hey-check-this-out panels with "Hot step{whatever} {sex act}s with her own step{whatever}" left and right. The thing that always confused me is how a lot of them have titles like "not mom seduces not son hot xxx". It confuses me for two reasons: 1) the target audience probably doesn't like being told that they aren't really related and 2) if it's against the rules to say "mom fucks her son" outright, just slapping some "not"s in front of the nouns isn't really fooling anyone.
|
|
#
?
Dec 14, 2017 01:36
|
|
|
I looked up an answer to that, once. Near as I can remember, it's basically porn studios doing their best to avoid the government looking into them for potentially filming illegal acts like actual incest. Hell, I think there was a situation once where two porn stars were hired for a movie, and things had to be shuttered because the two actors were actually brother and sister. Even if the two were OK with it (they weren't), the studio would've caught hell for taping actual incest. MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 02:24 on Dec 14, 2017 |
|
#
?
Dec 14, 2017 02:22
|
|
|
More driving pet peeves! People who, when needing to make a turn, slowly angle themselves into the turn lane while slowing down instead of quickly getting into the turn lane and straightening out. Until you are actually in the turn lane all you're doing is slowing down in the middle of a busy road and blocking traffic. The entire point of the turn lane is to get out of the way of traffic while waiting to be able to make a turn and there's plenty of room to get into it and slow down too.
|
|
#
?
Dec 14, 2017 18:40
|
|
|
There was a site called something like Only Young Porn and then they changed to Young Legal Porn so there probably was government people cracking down on that stuff.
|
|
#
?
Dec 14, 2017 20:42
|
|
|
"Does this mean [iconic Fox property] is a Disney Princess now?" I have never before wished for this many people to walk blindfolded into traffic.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 01:48
|
|
|
queserasera posted:"Does this mean [iconic Fox property] is a Disney Princess now?" As an addendum to that, people earnestly believing it's some big ooh and ahh type situation that Disney now has a bunch of R-rated properties. ...When they've had Touchstone Pictures for the last thirty years and that's literally the entire reason it exists.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 01:55
|
|
|
queserasera posted:"Does this mean [iconic Fox property] is a Disney Princess now?" Who's an iconic Fox property princess?
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 03:24
|
|
|
Marge, obviously.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 03:26
|
|
|
Cowslips Warren posted:Who's an iconic Fox property princess? I read this in the same tone I use to say 'Who's a good boy?" to my dog.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 03:32
|
|
|
People are losing their poo poo about girls from Anastasia to the loving queen mother from Ridley Scott's Alien series. On the social media I see (and have now blocked). And the Star Wars stuff. And the FCC stuff. And the Alabama election stuff. And whatever Orange Julius Caesar did today. I'm going to block so much crap it's just going to be cat gifs. And that will never be a pet peeve.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 03:36
|
|
|
I remember the days when it was a running joke that the internet was nothing but cat pictures. Oh how I miss those days.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 03:41
|
|
|
I hate fake San Francisco in shows/movies. Psych The Movie is entirely unconvincing and looks Vancouver as gently caress.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 11:07
|
|
|
I hate how many people apparently don't know what a colon is. Every time I tell them "http://" they're like "Which ones the colon, that's the two dots right?" and it's like, this isn't a technical thing. This is a basic language thing. How the hell do you not know what a colon is, it's used all the time to denote lists in written language.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 15:53
|
|
|
BioEnchanted posted:I hate how many people apparently don't know what a colon is. Every time I tell them "http://" they're like "Which ones the colon, that's the two dots right?" and it's like, this isn't a technical thing. This is a basic language thing. How the hell do you not know what a colon is, it's used all the time to denote lists in written language. Similarly, I hate it when people are bewildered when I call a # a pound and/or number sign instead of a hashtag. There was also some guy I used to know who didn't know what a tilde is and would always call it a "squiggly". It's not hard to commit the right words for things to memory, so I guess my peeve is people who intentionally avoid doing it.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 16:17
|
|
|
yeah I eat rear end posted:Similarly, I hate it when people are bewildered when I call a # a pound and/or number sign instead of a hashtag. There was also some guy I used to know who didn't know what a tilde is and would always call it a "squiggly". At least the tilde is rarely used. I can understand not knowing the name for the tilde (or the ampersand, before learning it's name I just called it the "And symbol".)
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 16:20
|
|
|
BioEnchanted posted:At least the tilde is rarely used. I can understand not knowing the name for the tilde (or the ampersand, before learning it's name I just called it the "And symbol".) How often is pound used in a non-hashtag context? I only ever use it for ordering prescriptions or maybe numbered lists.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 16:22
|
|
|
Henchman of Santa posted:How often is pound used in a non-hashtag context? I only ever use it for ordering prescriptions or maybe numbered lists. In one of the plotting tools at work you use it to comment lines out which is where my example comes from. It just sounds stupid to say "put a hashtag before that line". Also in some gated apartment complexes you have to put # before the code.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 16:26
|
|
|
Henchman of Santa posted:How often is pound used in a non-hashtag context? I only ever use it for ordering prescriptions or maybe numbered lists. I use it for my apartment number in my address 
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 16:55
|
|
|
It will always be an octothorpe to me
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 17:01
|
|
|
It's clearly a waffle.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 18:11
|
|
|
someone awful. posted:It will always be an octothorpe to me To me, it's a noughts and crosses board that's had too much to drink.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 18:19
|
|
|
Mu Zeta posted:I hate fake San Francisco in shows/movies. Psych The Movie is entirely unconvincing and looks Vancouver as gently caress. There are multiple movies set in Seattle that feature major Vancouver tourist attractions like Stanley Park and Granville Island. They don't even try to hide it.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 18:25
|
|
|
lavaca posted:There are multiple movies set in Seattle that feature major Vancouver tourist attractions like Stanley Park and Granville Island. They don't even try to hide it. “Chicago” with mountains in view has appeared too
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 01:45
|
|
|
Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx has a few shots of the ol' Bronx Rockies as well.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 01:59
|
|
|
People being lovely hagglers. I run a small business, I get people wanting deals, but there's an art to haggling. "So I can take your pictures and copy them at the supermarket, right?" Five minutes later. "Can I get a discount?"
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 02:24
|
|
|
Henchman of Santa posted:How often is pound used in a non-hashtag context? I only ever use it for ordering prescriptions or maybe numbered lists. I don't know about other countries, but in Australia It's used a lot for phone functions. Like, dial *10# (star-ten-hash) on a landline to get the phone number of your last missed call. Record your message on some voicemail systems and then hit the hash key to play it back, delete it or re-record it. Of course, we've always called it the hash sign anyway, so people are probably more aware of where the term "hashtag" actually comes from.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 05:04
|
|
|
life is a joke posted:Just this morning I did LA to SF on a 150 seat plane, which is overkill on what's basically a commuter hop so it was only a couple dozen people in the boarding area. Still with an almost empty plane and early boarding, we got held up as a family decided to argue that they should be able to go down during the same pre-boarding time as the wheelchairs. We still went out early but they refused to believe that it was even legal to stop a family with ~LITTLE CHILDREN~ from boarding whenever they want. You can make as many groups you want and write a brilliant algorithm to sort people in perfectly, but no matter where that family flies they are going to have the same righteous argument for as long as it takes to beat down the gate agent into letting them go. There are lots of people like that. It's a losing battle. Early boarding for those who need extra time. That's me. So I'm making my way down the ramp with my dog when I nearly get trampled by idiots with kids. The kids run ahead and isn't that cute? No, it isn't. If your kid can scamper down the ramp that quickly, maybe you don't need extra time to get on.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 08:51
|
|
|
Other plane peeve: people who break out in applause every time they see someone in the military board. I "support are troops" and all but i can't imagine how annoying it would be to always get applause and people shoving their way into your face to shake your hand and say "thank you for your service" everywhere I go. If it were genuine appreciation in an appropriate setting i wouldn't care but when people do it on planes/in the airport it seems more about the thanker being all "look how patriotic i am everyone". You never see a quiet gesture, it is always intentionally loud to make sure everyone sees it.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 11:38
|
|
|
yeah I eat rear end posted:Other plane peeve: people who break out in applause every time they see someone in the military board. I "support are troops" and all but i can't imagine how annoying it would be to always get applause and people shoving their way into your face to shake your hand and say "thank you for your service" everywhere I go. Are Troops tend to hate that poo poo as well, or at least a lot of them. I have a pet peeve about how sometimes before something totally unrelated like a concert the people speaking will be like “give it up for folks in uniform!” It’s always military, never thank you nurses or teachers or garbage collectors or anyone who has a hell of a lot more benefit on our well-being than Pvt Jerkoff the humvee mechanic. Also sorry guys but “and symbol” and “hash/hashtag” are common correct parlance and far more natural then using archaic terms. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 11:52 on Dec 17, 2017 |
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 11:47
|
|
|
Lately, the second I type "s", autocorrect assumes I've typoed "a", before I even finish typing the word, so any word that starts with "s" takes a few tries to get right without autocorrect loving it up for me. Thankfully constantly correcting it as I bitch about this in a few places seems to be training it back on the right path. but why would you do this at all if I still have word to go, wait until I press space at least.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 14:37
|
|
|
Edgar Allen Ho posted:Also sorry guys but “and symbol” and “hash/hashtag” are common correct parlance and far more natural then using archaic terms. If you see a #4 combo or whatever at a restaurant do you order the hashtag 4?
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 14:52
|
|
|
A guy at work got angry, to the point of getting inches away from my face and screaming at me about how "using the those fancy words doesn't make you sound smart", because I called a hyphen a hyphen and he didn't know what I meant. You're basically considered a useless dumbass unless you communicate through slamming your dick against things and yelling about football.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 15:02
|
|
|
"Hashtag" is not appropriate unless it's part of an actual hashtag. (I.e. it's wrong literally everywhere other than Twitter or I guess Tumblr maybe. Or...does Facebook use the drat things too? Eh, doesn't matter, everything about Facebook is wrong.) You can call it a hash sign if you like, though. Actually you can call it anything you want, I'm not your mother.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 15:55
|
|
|
It's kind of like people not knowing what "begs the question" means anymore.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 16:05
|
|
|
yeah I eat rear end posted:If you see a #4 combo or whatever at a restaurant do you order the hashtag 4? I don't order the pound four, either. "Number sign" is also a correct usage. Using different correct names for things is not the same as not knowing the name of a thing at all, btw. A colon is not the correct way to refer to a semicolon in any context. A hyphen is a specific thing, and a tilde is a specific thing. I have profs in their sixties that call the thing a hashtag. Kids these days etc. but it's not the same league as just not knowing the name of a thing. It has a name, hashtag, or hash sign or pound sign or whatever. Basically language changes. Everyone knows what hashtags and and signs are, but people will be confused if someone constantly calls a colon a semicolon. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 16:20 on Dec 17, 2017 |
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 16:15
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 6, 2024 21:41 |
|
|
I once joked "why half-rear end it with a semi-colon when you can use a full one?" and had some guy give me a five minute lecture on the difference between them regardless of how many times I said "it was a joke why are you this broken". I was also stuck in a car with him and couldn't just leave.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 16:26
|
|
