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Posted by: pMASTER Oct 3 2008, 11:02

Go on and write about the things that are currently annoying the crap out of you!

I shall start herewith.

• To go the toilet when day breaks...The spurt is annoyingly different. Hardly controllable.
  
• Coffee. Who the heck makes this weak caffeine-free coffee? I wanna have strong black coffee that makes my heart beat faster and forces my brain to come out of its hiding! If I wanted tea, I'd ask for tea.
  
• Dog owners. Seriously, why don't they take their frigging pets on a leash when they can't control them?

This is not an Emo thread, by the way. If it were, I'd be all "I'm just so sensitive, nobody understands and likes me and so I want to become an ugly twat who needs to slash his wrists!".

Posted by: Deadeye Oct 3 2008, 12:12

Learning for the exam on monday !

Posted by: D@V£ Oct 3 2008, 14:51

Fire Alarm tests, without fail, 9am ever Friday. When I'm recovering from my previous nights escapades.

Posted by: Helping Hand Oct 3 2008, 15:08

Large gaps in my college timetable and lack of steam trains

Posted by: Supr3me KiLL3r Oct 3 2008, 20:04

Waking up at 3 a.m. from dogs barking, then waking up again at 6 a.m. to the same thing only without coffee and an empty pack of cigs.

MMORPG games.

Windows XP 64 bit edition

Presidential elections and the media in general for that matter.

Police in this area.

My 27 year old mercedes and diesel prices.

Posted by: Jeza Oct 4 2008, 13:15

World of warcraft

My Focus breaking down!

UK Tabloid papers

cristianno ronaldo

Posted by: JynX Oct 4 2008, 13:56

At the moment.
BT

For this year:
6-9 hours in Uni starting at 9am on a Wednesday, with 12 hour tuesday or Revolution before hand

Posted by: Daniel Oct 4 2008, 13:59

Puns in the Sun. That and fibreglass.

Posted by: pMASTER Oct 4 2008, 14:10

1 litre bottles. Seriously, they're big enough for at least 1,25 litres.

Posted by: Helping Hand Oct 4 2008, 20:41

Firefuckfox resetting itself to default settings.

Posted by: Supr3me KiLL3r Oct 4 2008, 20:47

Ha! I got that bullsh*t a dozen times already. All bookmarks and settings erased....

BTW windows causes that, not firefox

Posted by: Helping Hand Oct 4 2008, 20:49

I still have all of my plugins and bookmarks (Yay for foxmarks) It's just reset all my toolbars and what not ¬_¬

Posted by: JynX Oct 5 2008, 14:20

No baked beans when I'm craving a cheesey beano.

Posted by: pMASTER Oct 5 2008, 15:14

Ring tone ads in the TV. Seriously, WTF? "Send a SMS with 'SHE IS A DIRTY WHORE' to 3333 to get Britney's new single!"

What has ever happened to the good old "Rrring rrring rrring"?

Posted by: Deadeye Oct 5 2008, 15:46

Eaten by the crazy frog.

I'm still annoyed of Macroeconomics. Sucks big time !

Posted by: pMASTER Oct 5 2008, 15:53

Dude, seriously... The worst are all those morons who start to imitate Crazy Frog, preferably at places where everybody needs to listen to them like in the bus...
You wanna get away from a hard day of work and all of a sudden the guy a seat next to you starts "Derrring deng deng deng"...These are the moments where I lose my belief in humanity.

Posted by: Red Square Monkey Oct 6 2008, 14:34

So the Crazy Frog is still popular in Germany? It's completely a thing of the past over here

Posted by: Deadeye Oct 6 2008, 15:57

Nah, not over here really. But for me it's the incarnation of these stupid advertisment. ATM Schnuffi is very popular !

on topic : I'm annoyed that I have probably failed in macroeconomics

Posted by: D@V£ Oct 6 2008, 17:26

Schnuffi? Like that Schnappi thing?

Posted by: Deadeye Oct 6 2008, 18:24

I'm very very sorry. I was beeing misinformed ...it's Schnuffel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEZjP1HzATE&feature=related

Edit : seems its out in the UK aswell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW58S1FNFts&feature=related

Posted by: pMASTER Oct 6 2008, 19:14

FF3...Seriously, where can I get my FF2 back? How for the mercy of God were they able to totally ruin what was once a formidable internet tool?

Just did an update and FF's first reaction to the patch was a crash. By the way dear FF folks, I don't give a fuck about error messages that contain apologies!! Make it work instead of making it polite!

Posted by: Helping Hand Oct 6 2008, 19:24

Mine is fine with patches =]

Posted by: pMASTER Oct 6 2008, 19:36

Damn you.

Posted by: D@V£ Oct 6 2008, 22:00

Heh, cute.
Never seen that over here though.

Terrible animation too!

Posted by: Daniel Oct 7 2008, 15:23

Cute thought it is, it needs a bloody parody. Kinda like what they did to the Crazy Frog. I'm thinking a successful Elmer Fudd...

Posted by: D@V£ Oct 7 2008, 20:26

Channels+1
Such as, ITV2+1.
It's the same thing, just an hour later.

Actually, it's not so much these that annoy me.

Rather, it's the lack of -1 channels.
I mean, what if I want to watch something that's in an hours time!? What if I'm going to be too busy to watch it in an hour?
Of course, this would make Live TV very, very interesting. (Unlike traveling faster than light, this would damage continuity. Take that wikipedia! aha!)



Which brings me quite well to my next point I suppose.

People who believe that travelling faster than light equates to time travel.
I mean, really.
This has got to be dumber than those theories that when you travel faster than sound the controls on your plane will magically reverse. In fact, that's even more likely. Damn you wikipedia for your misconceptions!

Also, add a proper page on Fold-Space. Not just some footnote at the bottom of an Anime article. What would Frank Herbert think!? I bet he wouldn't be happy!

Posted by: BigglesTrevor Oct 7 2008, 22:24

work. work. and work.

Posted by: JynX Oct 8 2008, 09:22

Banks (Damn you HBOS!)
Lecturers (Figure out how to work the bloody over head projection systems for cry out loud!)
Dirty dishes (I really cannot be arsed cleaning up.)

Posted by: pMASTER Oct 9 2008, 15:12

Doctors.

Posted by: D@V£ Oct 9 2008, 17:07

Too true.

Unless you mean people with a Ph.D...

Posted by: pMASTER Oct 10 2008, 09:23

M.D.s

Posted by: Helping Hand Oct 10 2008, 23:39

pMASTER making lots o' new threads!

Posted by: pMASTER Oct 11 2008, 10:12

Britons. They're just so...annoying.

Posted by: Deadeye Oct 11 2008, 11:18

x2 !

Posted by: pMASTER Oct 11 2008, 12:15

Rhinelandians. They're just so...sneaky.

Posted by: Helping Hand Oct 11 2008, 22:38

AOL. Nuff said.

Posted by: JynX Oct 12 2008, 13:39

The price of booze in the venues I work at even with a 50% discount thanks to the bar staff I know.

Posted by: pMASTER Oct 16 2008, 15:29

Deutsche Bahn ticket machines...There is only one out of ten at Wiesbaden grand central station that does accept cash. Who on earth would pay a 4.50 bucks ticket with his credit card?!

Posted by: Gunslinger Oct 22 2008, 22:33

Small town police

Posted by: JynX Oct 31 2008, 09:14

Coursework and lazy, uncooperative & ignorant university colleagues.

Posted by: Deadeye Oct 31 2008, 10:36

Symbian S60 3rd Edition + VPN +my uni = Massive fail !

Posted by: Elliot Carver Oct 31 2008, 22:11

Posted by: Helping Hand Nov 1 2008, 00:40

Posing women in general or?

Posted by: Benoist Nov 1 2008, 01:48

Women in general?

Posted by: Elliot Carver Nov 1 2008, 02:14

heh teh pretty lady ... long story bad ending. Sometimes even the cutest shyest girls turn out to be bitchy sleep around call girls ... *physicaly sick*

Posted by: brataccas Nov 2 2008, 16:26

nice to see your still around maybe you have forgotton me by now? or

I think females are very strange creatures but they are perfect for calming nerves

Posted by: Benoist Nov 2 2008, 18:00

Ah... now I understand...

Wanna call my Australians friends for a non-sexual visit in order to get you money back? They can wait for you if you want.

Posted by: Deadeye Nov 2 2008, 18:05

Even if this is meant as a joke...it's a bad one. Refrain from it

Posted by: pMASTER Nov 2 2008, 18:55

Lol, massive fail jokes for the win! 'nuff said.

Posted by: Benoist Nov 4 2008, 11:50

I was told that I had to be at 8:30 to get some papers. Sure, no problemo, I woke up at 6:30, and went there. After been waiting since 8:00 (because I knew that the line was going to be HUGE) I enter at 8:30 as one of the first people.

"Hello, here can I tramit the Certificated for Penal Records?"
"No champ, that's at 10:00!"


Why the f*ck, I asked yesterday and they told me "Yeah, it's from half-past eight 'til two o'clock".

Posted by: Helping Hand Nov 4 2008, 14:47

You have a criminal record?

Posted by: Benoist Nov 4 2008, 16:03

That would be a problem?


Nope, but I need it in order to join the Navy. I have all the papers now (well, I have to pick that one tomorrow), but still, the exams aren't very easy.

f*ck, since I wrote that post I've been traveling for one point to another to get those god damn papers, just now I'm at sweet home with the fun at max. I should take a bath.

Posted by: pMASTER Nov 4 2008, 18:01

Leftism. Seriously.

Posted by: D@V£ Nov 4 2008, 19:39

Couldn't agree more. Elitism too.

Posted by: Benoist Nov 4 2008, 20:00

Wait, elitism, with reasons, isn't a bad thing.

Posted by: Elliot Carver Nov 4 2008, 23:09

I earn way to much money to answer than question ... Pimms anyone?

Being a white, single, 18 - 25 male tax payer living in the UK & positive discrimination.

Posted by: Benoist Nov 6 2008, 19:23

When Mozilla Firefox's history deletes by itself.
Having 4651354684 Rick Rolling videos insted of the actual CoD5 trailer.

Posted by: Helping Hand Nov 6 2008, 19:25

The demo owns the trailer =D

Posted by: Benoist Nov 24 2008, 19:33

Having to study 2 math books and 2 physic books for this 4&5 of December.

And now, I will make the apropiet use of this emoticon: [Ad infinitum]

Posted by: D@V£ Nov 25 2008, 01:42

Using PNG files where it'd be more appropriate to use JPG.

I'm not kidding. This should be outlawed. I mean, really, why do people head towards this completely obscure format to make 1280*1024 screengrabs?! It's absurd! There's no reason you couldn't use a jpg! Why use a format that doesn't add anything extra to what your doing but weighs about nine thousand times as much! This nothing short of either sheer stupidity or absolute hatred towards anyone with a slow connection!

[/rant]

Posted by: JynX Nov 25 2008, 02:06

Can't help but agree, was rather brutal on the restricted connection I had last year, no issues now though.

Posted by: JdB Nov 25 2008, 21:39

Having to wait for almost 3 months to get a wisdom tooth extracted (early February 2009)

Posted by: pMASTER Nov 25 2008, 23:28

Having to wait an unknown amount of weeks for the new House season to be broadcasted in Germany.

Posted by: Benoist Nov 26 2008, 00:46

House is horrible now, I like the character a lot, but the program is becoming too monotonous.

Here they began broadcasting it last week, subtitulated luckily. You have to wait that much?!

Posted by: Blackscorpion Dec 5 2008, 16:31

Rain. Cold. Outdoors dining. No sleep.

Posted by: da rat Dec 15 2008, 12:18

The tension the morning before your driving test in the afternoon ><

I will either be posting again in this thread or the Lovely things thread come this evening

Posted by: JynX Dec 15 2008, 12:44

Good Luck with that. Can't advise going in tense btw, best driving whilst relaxed. Though if you've done this before I'm preaching to the choir heh.

Last exam at 4.30pm today, why that late honestly, taking up my whole day.

Posted by: da rat Dec 15 2008, 12:49

lol cheers, already failed once and I was tense as hell. I'm drinking an entire bottle of rescue remedy this time

Posted by: D@V£ Dec 15 2008, 13:17

People who think the terms MB (1,000KB, 1,000,000 bytes) and MiB (1024KiB, 1,048,576 bytes) are interchangeable.

(You're exempt if you don't know what MiBs are, only you aren't now, because I just told you what they were... unless you weren't paying attention! )

Sure, they might be only slightly different, but it's gonna go up yaknow! It won't be long before we're talking TiB, (maybe a few weeks now ) PiB, hell, soon enough it'll be YobiBytes and everyone will be calling them Yottabytes! And that's the same term for a sh*tload of difference! Hell, TiB is enough of a difference! That's 24GiB! I remeber back when my first HDD only had 4GiB on it!)

Posted by: JynX Dec 15 2008, 13:30

Personally I'm waiting for the Yogibytes

You learn something new everyday, even here =|

Posted by: BigglesTrevor Dec 17 2008, 00:23

working 20 hours in two days. later all, im of to bed!

Posted by: Benoist Dec 17 2008, 12:13

Having all my Firefox historial and favorites erased. AGAIN.
Why? Why for the love of god!

Posted by: pMASTER Dec 17 2008, 12:17

Check your data security options and change the interval after which Firefox cleares all personal data.

Posted by: Benoist Dec 17 2008, 12:26

I have that deactivated, it's happens when my PC shutdowns by itself, which is another annoying thing!

Posted by: Helping Hand Dec 17 2008, 12:46

Foxmarks =] Go to the firefox website and install it. It backs up your bookmarks on an external server so that shouldn't happen again, if it does they can be easily retrieved.

Posted by: Benoist Dec 17 2008, 12:50

The own Firefox has an internal backup system, which I used to get the markers back. I only lost the history but luckily all the passwords are still in the database.

It's just annoying the first days, then it's the same.

Posted by: Rewan Dec 22 2008, 23:24

My "old" comp died this morning...

Of course, I lost my XP recover data disc... Will I be able to get a hand on my old data ? Don't know.

Posted by: pMASTER Jan 15 2009, 16:07

Waiting for the dealer to fucking finally provide me with my motherboard. Jesus Christ on a bushbike!

Posted by: pMASTER Feb 3 2009, 15:01

Youtube. They introduced a new system some months ago that allows authors to put some popups in their videos. Holy Cow that's annoying!

Posted by: Rewan Feb 5 2009, 07:22

You can disable them PM...

Posted by: Benoist Feb 6 2009, 03:41

- My teeth...
I brush then 3 times per day, almost fime minutes each time, I always carry one with toothpaste when I travel, it's the only part of my body that I REALLY take care of. I'm the only one in my family without teeth problems because of the above, however I can't get them to be white! I have a yellowish color in every tooth and most noticiable near the gums.
My dentist says that it's normal in some people, but is annoying anyway.

Posted by: JynX Feb 6 2009, 04:00

Everybody has it lol, gets more noticable with age, only way to get rid of it is tooth whitening or tooth bleaching as it's also known. Would not recommend it to anyone.

Posted by: Helping Hand Feb 6 2009, 10:46

Hammond, lol.

_____

College ¬_¬ Useless place.

Posted by: Benoist Feb 10 2009, 18:23

My brother.

He has his own computer, but NO! He has to install this f*cking program "tooltip". 9 of 10 times I close it nothing happens, but the other one the PC restarts, and if I have Mozilla open at the moment I lose my bookmarks, historial, everything.
It's the most annoying thing... EVER. I don't even know (he neither) what's the point of that programs.

Posted by: Red Square Monkey Feb 11 2009, 03:18

Enjoy your spyware.

Posted by: pMASTER Feb 11 2009, 12:46

If I were you, I'd format my computer now and put the keyboard on live electricity so your brother is kept away from it.

Posted by: BigglesTrevor Feb 28 2009, 12:20

Blister Packs. I got a new set of headphones in the post this morning, who invented these god awful things? I had to use a massive knife just to get into the dam thing.

Posted by: pMASTER Mar 1 2009, 15:14

Teeth, yeah. The last remaining wisdomteeth cause trouble again.
Wisdomteeth, appendix - why were these useless things packed into us?

Posted by: Benoist Mar 1 2009, 17:14

Wait a few "evolutions" and you won't have them anymore.

Posted by: D@V£ Mar 1 2009, 19:33

Evolution is the exact reason we do have them...

Here's my annoying thing;

People who talk about evolution (in a Darwinian sense) with no clear concept of what it is exactly. TV does this. A lot.
They also do this with relativity.

I'm looking at you Tim Kring.

Posted by: pMASTER Mar 1 2009, 20:15

What a ridiculous name!

And I agree with what Dave told me via MSN: The usage and cosmetic advantages of teeth and jaws in general are overrated!

Posted by: Benoist Mar 1 2009, 20:48

We do, right, but now they are useless, and if they are useless, isn't that our future being won't have them?


Of course my knowledge is TV, a wikipedia Article and what my imagination brings up. I'm not an expert.

Posted by: D@V£ Mar 1 2009, 21:12

No. That's not how evolution works. I'm suggesting you take a hammer to your teeth immediately.

Not for the same reason I'm suggesting pMaster take a hammer to his teeth. But like most forms of dentistry, it also doubles up as a suitable punishment.

Evolution works in that mutations that are capable of surviving better in the environment available will survive (as opposed to the mutant with toes for lungs, which won't). At which point, said mutant will do what living things do, and the mutations will (usually) be passed onto their descendants, who will pass said mutations onto their descends et cetera, et cetera.

Evolution does not work by creatures magically following some kind of pre-planned route wherein they suddenly become better every generation or so.


This is why stuff like the appendix isn't going to go away. People without one aren't inherently better at survival than people with one. Though modern medicine and the nanny state has pretty much beaten the sh*t out of natural selection... curse them!

(Though I blame the nanny state more, medicine can't help itself...)



(...Actually, the thought of Karl Marx and Dr House beating up Darwin is pretty funny)

(Don't know why I said House... to be honest, I can't particularly think of any real famous Doctor... as long as no one thinks he's not Prince George...)

(...Dr Phil? I don't think he's really applicable...)

(I've never actually seen House... I'd probably like it... but... meh...)

Posted by: pMASTER Mar 1 2009, 21:29

Hahaha...

"Defendant, here is your sentence: Three years and six month at the dentist's chair!"

But maybe I should use the hammer instead, where I know what I'm getting! The funny part is, I'm in fear of a jaw suppuration. And what drugs do I pop? One that can cause agranulocytosis as a side effect.

Posted by: Benoist Mar 1 2009, 21:49

So, you are saying that in some point a mutation will cause that some people will be born without an appendix, and they will be the most acclimated people for survival?
Of course an appendix is not the best survival tool, but you get what I'm saying... don't you?

Posted by: BigglesTrevor Mar 1 2009, 21:51

talking off teeth, i need 3 fillings tomorow.

Posted by: D@V£ Mar 1 2009, 23:13

What's there to be afraid of? You don't need a jawbone. I mean, what do you use it for? Hmm?

Chewing and some talking. Heck, you can do a good bit of talking without a jawbone. You could even get one of those cool voice boxes! Then get a radio-career as a Stephen Hawkings impersonator!

As for chewing, it's an excuse to eat more stuff like Pasta and Chilli. And I can't think of anyone who hasn't thought to themselves "I really need to eat more stuff like Pasta and Chilli".

So, yeah, loosing your jawbone can only help but kick-start your career! You know, like turning 40, but without the whole "old" thing!

Posted by: pMASTER Mar 19 2009, 21:46

MSI.

"Do you want to install Direct X 9.0c?"
"No."
"Please wait while setup.exe installs Direct X 9.0c on your system."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Posted by: Jason Mar 20 2009, 04:59

Working in retail forces you to work with some of the most frustrating people alive - Customers!

Complain, moan, want, compalin... did I say moan? Grrrrr

Posted by: JynX Mar 20 2009, 11:53

Correction to that: most frustrating people alive - Management

Posted by: pMASTER Mar 20 2009, 15:27

Allergic attacks when no antiallergenic agents are at home.

But I'll withstand the agony. That's my way of saying "Fuck you mother nature".

Posted by: Helping Hand Mar 21 2009, 11:01

Windows Live Messenger 9.0 ¬_¬ Useless PoS killed itself so rolled back to 8.5 ¬_¬

Posted by: JynX Mar 21 2009, 14:19

short notice Job offers, am either going to half to turn up stupidly late for work tonight or offer half price and do half the time for the job offer.

Posted by: Blackscorpion Mar 21 2009, 19:21

Just one thing... don't brush your teeth TOO much!

Posted by: pMASTER Mar 21 2009, 19:59

And don't brush your teeth within an hour or so after your last meal. Sour or sweet food will soak your tooth enamel and you'll basically just scrape your enamel off instead of really cleaning your teeth.

Posted by: Benoist Mar 26 2009, 15:33

I had just been called from TeleTech, an important company (important in the world of CallCenters, that is), I passed the phone interview and were organizing for the face-to-face meeting when I ask about the workhours... The only hours avaible are from 3 PM to 9 PM, and I've to go to college at 7 PM.

The other company never called me back, if there is a god he can screw himself.

Posted by: Helping Hand Mar 26 2009, 17:03

You're going to work in a call centre?

Posted by: Benoist Mar 26 2009, 17:15

*were

And yes, why the question? I know, it's a sh*tty job, but they payment is not that bad (at least here) and well, as I don't have anyother work experience that's one of the best jobs I can apply.

Posted by: Helping Hand Mar 26 2009, 17:24

No reason, I just detest most people who work in them :- )

Posted by: Blackscorpion Mar 28 2009, 21:32

My very good friend (with whom I just had a few drinks ) works at a call centre, too... the hours are fairly odd (midday 'till 8 PM), for him compared to normal working hours, that is, and he's a tad pissed off at the work "sometimes"... but then again, if it's all that's available and the pay's quite good, too...

Posted by: D@V£ Mar 29 2009, 08:43

F*cking daylight savings!

It's not that I don't like farmers, but seriously, why not a 10-minute jump each day for the first 6 days of the week, than a whole hour jump on the last day. When I need to get up 9. And I've set my alarm for half seven. And now it's half-8.

F*cking daylight savings...

Posted by: pMASTER Mar 29 2009, 15:29

Here in Germany we owe daylight saving time to Adolf Hitler.
His legacy was good enough for young Germany to abolish everything his regime introduced except for this little nasty thing: Daylight saving time.

Posted by: D@V£ Mar 29 2009, 17:36

I should have known something as nefarious as daylight savings would have been supported by Nazis

Posted by: pMASTER Mar 30 2009, 14:07

Up to this day, Germany is renaming streets or places the name of which were given during the Nazi time. You can't even publicly say that the Autobahn programme of the Nazis was a good thing.

But daylight saving time...That's a thing we must praise.
Waste seperation is an invention from the Nazis, too. The arms industry should have easier access to recyclable ressources.

Econazis, that's what we are.

Posted by: pMASTER Apr 7 2009, 15:29

Captchas. Make them readable, goddamnit!

Although this one was great:

Posted by: JynX Apr 28 2009, 03:24

Evolutionary biology/ists: your subject is pointless, it helps no one with any real problems, has no finicial or comercial merits and adds another sodding exam to my list with about as much relevance to what I want to do with my degree as one of the pope's speaches. ARGH!

Posted by: D@V£ Apr 28 2009, 10:18

Fixed that for you

Posted by: JynX Apr 28 2009, 12:07

Typically arrogant physicist

Posted by: Benoist May 20 2009, 13:45

Political Correctness. I've my ass full of that sh*t, I don't want other people to use it... but when they edit my messages to "improvee" them... *



*I normally hate the use of smiles, but this time I really don't have words.

Posted by: pMASTER May 20 2009, 14:09

Someone edited your posts to make them "politically correct"?

Posted by: Helping Hand May 20 2009, 14:19

Political Correctness is just wrong anyway, if you remember one of my old sigs was to ban it?

Posted by: pMASTER May 20 2009, 14:52

Word to the wise, political correctness must be banned.

Posted by: Benoist May 20 2009, 16:16

Not here, in other forum.

And yes, it must be banned, in the end all will be saying the same... Although they do that already

Posted by: JynX May 21 2009, 02:07

See nothing wrong with political correctness, just so long as people don't expect me to be such.
Really if some one wants to make an ass out of themselves trying to please everybody fair play to them, more amusement for me I say.

Anyway, is this not entering the realms of the political discussion thread?

Posted by: pMASTER May 21 2009, 02:08

Nope. This is a debate about annoying things.

Posted by: Benoist May 21 2009, 02:37

My internet connection, it comes and goes, come and goes... It's strange because I can't use Firefox or other navegators, I've to refresh every second until I "catch" the signal and the page loads, but MSN, Google Talk and other programs like those work just fine.

Posted by: Wittmann May 21 2009, 12:00

Customers.

I hate retail.

Six more months and have degree, then can leave

Posted by: pMASTER May 22 2009, 14:16

Captchas, more than freaking ever before.



The stupdity in this one is overwhelming.

Posted by: AndreAce Jun 3 2009, 17:27

What I never understand is why are olives in cans/glass came filled up with sunflower- or colza oil and not with olive oil.

Posted by: pMASTER Jul 6 2009, 15:51

Dead links.

The internets are so fucking huge that it blows my mind how a file could possibly get lost in there...

Posted by: Blackbuck Jul 6 2009, 17:48

They aren't lost (unless people take them down) just hiding...

Posted by: Benoist Jul 19 2009, 02:33

-Americans and their idea that communist is just plain bad and that communism killed people, instead of saying that people in the name of communism killed people.

They are just too... too... naive. Not everyone, of course.

Posted by: AndreAce Jul 20 2009, 18:02

-(some)Americans having the brass to claim in internetforum discussions (mostly after having no more solid arguments) that I have not the right to discuss a topic any further because I am from Germany and that made me automatically a nazi, guilty of starting WW2 even though I was born 40 years after Hitler's coup d'état / takeover...

Posted by: pMASTER Jul 20 2009, 18:49

Lol?

Posted by: D@V£ Jul 21 2009, 00:14

Point out that Bush family's entire fortune was derived from the Union Banking Corporation, which was a front for the secret Nazi plot to take over the US. The sort of people who say crap like that are usually "conservatives" (or, as proper conservatives call them "reactionaries").

Posted by: Benoist Jul 21 2009, 02:53

Argh! Republicans!


EDIT: Hehe, the gif remind me about a photo of... certain member of this forum.

Posted by: pMASTER Jul 21 2009, 12:44

Adverseness against technological progress.

My party officials demand official documents to be send as .rtf-files. .rtf-files?!
.pdf is so much more handy goddamnit!

Posted by: D@V£ Jul 21 2009, 14:22

Heh.

PDF files are slow to load, and need acrobat. RTF on the other hand is much smaller, loads quicker and can be read by software installed directly on windows.

Unless you want to put pretty pictures everywhere you don't need a PDF file.

Posted by: pMASTER Jul 21 2009, 14:35

Oh well, there are pretty pictures in these documents. Change protection is a pain in the ass in .rtf-files as well. And to install Adobe Reader is a total of three fucking mouse clicks!

Posted by: Benoist Jul 24 2009, 18:26

-Evony ads

Posted by: pMASTER Jul 25 2009, 15:14

What the heck is that supposed to be? Did you mean "ebony"?

Posted by: Benoist Jul 25 2009, 17:02

It's an online game that started to use (a few months ago) the "boobs + spam" technique.

http://www.evony.com/ for yourself.

Posted by: Blackbuck Jul 25 2009, 17:24

I just ad-blocked the images. Although epic cleavage.

Posted by: D@V£ Jul 30 2009, 18:50

Hur hur hur

Plants vs Zombies have made a spoof of that ad. It's got zombies! Zombies!

ZOMBIES!

Posted by: Blackscorpion Aug 9 2009, 20:25

Sounds of airsoft in my head.

Posted by: LT. Drake Jackson Sep 25 2009, 02:03

- Horror movies (Horror in Silent Hill)
- Pop, "cumbia villera", reggaetton.
- Get some part of my body cut and dont know with what did I cut (Im not emo, just happened today by accident)
- Free internet games (Exepting those last gen ones that are coming now, but wont play them due to heavy conection needed)
- Monsoon rain tactics in the woods at night with my guerrilla comarades (Just joking, no guerrilla in my country, yet...)
- OFP bug boards in mods overpassing 1.5 GBs GRRR I go and complete madness when happens.
- My girlfriend (Only at the moment, she is not being affectionate/fond with me... I want her mouth now!!! )
- Really scary parts in DooM 3. (I totally hate darkness, but the game is so cool that I continue playing it)
- Terrorist Takedown 2 (Worst game in my life!!! 6 continued hours in a day and I completed it!!! GRRR worst game I bought)

Posted by: Blackbuck Sep 25 2009, 11:52

That was the oddest rant I've come across on these boards |:

Posted by: JynX Sep 29 2009, 02:47

This isn't including mine on MSN I presume?

Posted by: Blackbuck Sep 29 2009, 09:14

Correct.

Posted by: JynX Sep 29 2009, 12:50

Good to see my wierdness standards haven't fallen any then

Posted by: Benoist Oct 24 2009, 17:56

-CSIs. I can't stand them anymore, every character is annoying (it seems that their superiors like to have a group of people with strage oddities instead of a normal group, like a 80s buddy-cop movie), the investigation doesn't makes sense... How it spawned 4 different series?
-Fall asleep on the bus in the way back from a party.

Posted by: D@V£ Nov 11 2009, 01:30

Tuning in televisions.

Having to tune in your television every time you want to change channel.

Having to spend over an hour tuning televisions...

Posted by: JynX Nov 11 2009, 05:44

Stats more complicated than a Chi squared test

Posted by: Wittmann Nov 11 2009, 11:38

End of semester exams ><

Posted by: pMASTER Nov 11 2009, 12:27

Steam.

Posted by: Blackbuck Nov 11 2009, 14:29

MW2?

Posted by: pMASTER Nov 11 2009, 15:12

Yes. I've always hated Steam and now I do hate it even more. I'm the lord of this computer, and no fucking program is. Curiousness made my buy MW2, but the nasty surprises it has come with make me think I should've gotten me a black steamless copy for Chrissakes.

Posted by: D@V£ Nov 11 2009, 15:34

People moaning about/extolling the virtues of MW2...
Repeatedly...
Everywhere I turn...

Posted by: pMASTER Nov 11 2009, 16:37

Nope this is just about Steam.

Not MW2.

It's like Vista's rights management or SECUROM - just a frigging tool to harass honest customers. No, that's not true either. I'm pissed off by the general attitude of the gaming industry towards its customers. It's been smoldering in me since it took me almost a day to install ArmA2.

I mean, could you tell me please why I should buy such an expensive product if the original copy comes up with a goddamn copy protection mode that tells me I mustn't run certain programs on my system or that fucks the entire installation process up when it does not like my DVD drive. And then there is this neat internet validation service thingy that doesn't allow me to specify the installation path and as if that wasn't enough, tells me I only have a limited contingent of installations left?

Because I could just as well get the entire thing for free and without the surrounding crap.

And guess what? Software piracy is still safe and sound.

Posted by: D@V£ Nov 11 2009, 18:22

Vista's rights management is disable-able... you don't like it, turn it off...

There's an annoying thing, people who complain about Vista because of a single feature that takes less than 5 minutes to turn off. (I mean, it's like complaining a desklight is on, when the switch is right next to you, there's no reason you can't turn it off, you just enjoy complaining)

Which brings me to:
Annoying thing no.2: People who enjoy complaining.

As for Steam, all these are developer issues, as I thought I said but apparently didn't, this is down to external copy protection being stuck on top of Steam (usually SecuROM and other such nonsense, this is your limited installs issue right here). There's no reason for this, as Steam is, in itself, a perfectly good copy protection system. There are plenty of good pieces of software on Steam, such as Killing Floor or Red Orchestra, which work flawlessly. You only need to be online to activate the game, Steam also provides multiplayer services and whatnot. Installing is as simple as downloading. Once it's activated you don't even need to be online to play.

The only thing you've said that has any real grounding in reality is that you don't get to choose where to install the game. But, do you really need to? If you want to install it to a different drive just install steam to that drive. It's not rocket science.

The issue is, my final annoying thing for today;
Developers who make absolutely no effort to modify their software for cross-platform compatibility.

EDIT:
Whoops, forgot one.
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/modernwarfare2?q=modern%20warfare%202

Posted by: pMASTER Nov 11 2009, 18:25

Did you realize that my entire post wasn't about Steam anymore since the No, that's not true either bit?

Posted by: D@V£ Nov 11 2009, 19:21

My apologies. Although you should have specified better, if your post wasn't "just about Steam" why did you start it by saying it's "just about Steam".

Posted by: pMASTER Nov 11 2009, 21:35

Fair enough then. Maybe I just didn't expect suchlike reactions?

Posted by: Wittmann Nov 12 2009, 07:55

Cant we just streamline this and say things that annoy me;

Invasive DRM (SecuROM, ect...if I WANT to run Daemon Tools Lite, I bloody will thankyou!)
Activision/Blizzard and IW for their attitude to PC customers? Personally Im not going to buy it. Thats how I plan to 'moan', with my wallet.
Not Steam but STEAMWORKS and also Windows Live; forcing you to have a net connection for save games to work (Offline saves work for Windows Live mind but only for offline games and steam can be launched in offline mode, but updates are solely through live and Steamworks...) I have this on DOW2 and ETW. Annoys me a little. I like being offline for SP games.

Tropico 3, Cities XL and Borderlands await me

Posted by: D@V£ Nov 16 2009, 02:18

Multiple pieces of Coursework expected in on the same day.

Surely module co-ordinators would realise every student leaves all their coursework until the last minute!

You ever tried doing a 1,000 word essay and 2 assessment sheets in a single minute? Not easy, let me tell you that.

(Heck, doing any one of them in a single minute is a helluva task. I mean, that's over 100 words a second! )

Posted by: Wittmann Nov 29 2009, 00:06

Being called into work during the depths of my sunday sleep-in...

Posted by: Benoist Nov 29 2009, 19:14

Remembering what the heck I did last night.

Posted by: pMASTER Dec 1 2009, 00:04

Gaydar detects gayness in your post.

Just kiddin'.

Posted by: D@V£ Dec 8 2009, 00:55

The following groups:

1. Vegetarians (I don't mean people who don't eat meat, but people who make a point of not eating meat, in particular PETA)
JESUS CHRIST. Have you heard their latest idea? Apparently meat farming is a major contributor to man made climate change!
Firstly, this is cows f*cking farting. If that's not natural emission, then what the f*ck is? If anything, eating meat is decreasing the amount of methane and whatnot in the atmosphere.

Oh, that brings me to my second point quite nicely.

2. Global Warming Fanatics.
I know what you're probably thinking if you're smart, and, no; Fanatics is preciously the right word. Half of the crap these people seem to believe is about as far removed from reality as the stuff those cnuts who attend military funerals with "God hates F*gs" placards. Here's the facts about emissions in Australia, a typical "Western" country (in terms of populace, which would is a more important factor in pollution than size, quotation marks because it's in the south east).

Lead scientists are being forced to resign simply for stating these facts http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=an0YbipgqczQ. You know, just like how lead scientists were being executed for stating that maybe the earth isn't the centre of the universe. And now even the EPA are looking to classify CO2, you know, that stuff you breath out, as a "Public Danger". These are clearly the sort of people so lacking in mental capacity that they would probably think getting rid of all the CO2 is the atmosphere is a great idea.

For those of your who said "Yeah, that would be a good idea" to that last bit. Get the f*ck off these forums and learn about a little something called "photosynthesis". I think you'll find it's quite useful, because it stops the everything on the planet, you know, dying of suffocation. Though I imagine if you are one of these idiots the entire notion might be a bit too complex for you...

I had a third category of people I don't like, but they can wait for a later time. I'm too angry for it now!

Posted by: Benoist Dec 8 2009, 02:59

For god sake, why aren't you a world leader... yet?

Posted by: Wittmann Dec 8 2009, 06:18

Our current leader of the opposition is convinced, on some levels along with his backer, Senator Minchin that climate change is a gigantic leftist conspiracy to de-industrialise the world.

There are fanatics on both sides of the debate - I think Copenhagen is probably the right step as it seeks to reasonable address the issue where as the ultra-Green leftists want it to fail in the hopes the world becomes worse off forcing us to take more drastic options, whilst the right wishes it to fail as they believe it's all a conspiracy and damnit, there's money in dem dere rainforests and screw the frogs, trees, natives ect.

My solution is much simpler.
Cull some humans

Posted by: JynX Dec 8 2009, 21:28

Because he has some "principles" that he will stick to for an example of how this impedes political sucess: see the liberal democrats in the UK.

on topic:
Some people shouldn't be allowed to eat within earshot of others. Very little preventing me slapping this fat cow other than the potential for annoying letters in the mail due to PETA mistaking her for a whale is that I'm trying to study!

Posted by: D@V£ Dec 8 2009, 22:16

I could just do what Tony Blair did and lie about all of them. You know, like how he was always saying "I won't increase tax". Turned out pretty well. Good thing I've got no ethics, 'eh?

Anyways, I seem to be a tad calmer now, so I'll continue:
3. People who repeatedly try to pass off "US Military Robots", "Monkey controls mechanical hand with own brain" and "Man controls computer with non-invasive EEG" as "News".
I have seen two of these in the "news" this last week last week. This is not news. Just because you don't know about it does not make it news. I was the only person in my flat last year who knew about the Soviet efforts in Afghanistan, but if the BBC had "USSR enters Afganistan" in their headlines... well... I don't really need to finish that comparison, do I?

For those who are wondering:
The "new" US Army Robots are currently on H+'s frontpage video links (seriously, these guys claim to be futurists? It might be a good start to stop living in the past...), http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/07/military-robots.jpg, you know, the one they started throwing through windows at the beginning of the Afghan occupation to see if it annoyed the Taliban. You can tell it's a pretty old video because the soldiers in are still using D-BDUPAT...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/11/001116080512.htm showed up somewhere this week, I can't remeber where. For those of you who don't know, this happen 9 years ago. Let me put that in perspective for you, this was when Clinton was still US president. This was back when if you said "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush", people would think of that stupid looking old guy with the moronic grin who used to be president and invaded Iraq... oh wait...

As for EEG vidja game controllers. This is not new. This has been around for a while now. I know it hasn't popped up on some so called "news" sites for a while, but it keeps doing it. I can't be bothered finding the details on this one because it hasn't actually appeared in this week's news. You can look it up yourself if you really want to know...

Posted by: JynX Dec 14 2009, 11:53

Technology.
Namely my PC and my phone
niether are doing what they should and I lack the expertise to fix them.
PC is looking to cost me between 1 and 2 thirds of what i paid for it to get it back in working order which considering my income at the moment is far from good news.

Posted by: Rewan Dec 15 2009, 18:42

Weather... And me.


It's too f*cking cold for me... where is my heat ? Heh ? Where is it ? I bet it's again because of the damn Global Hearth Warmin'
Man... no more seasons.

Posted by: Wittmann Dec 17 2009, 10:39

Your heat is here.

37 degrees and half the country is on fire again.

Posted by: D@V£ Dec 17 2009, 14:47

The so called internet "Aspies".

Before we go any further with this, I don't mean people with Asperger's Disorder. That'd be like me saying I hate white males between the ages of 19 and 24. No, I'm talking about the group of people who claim to have asperger's disorder so they can get away with acting like assholes. What's more, they seem to think they're better than everyone else because of it.

Here is my message to you people:
F*CK. YOU.
You clearly have no idea what this disorder is. You clearly think that just because you're a c*nt you can get away with it because you've self-diagnosed yourself with some condition? I have this disorder, and I have not had an easy time growing up with it. I still have problems with it occasionally. Reading wikipedia does not constitute any form of medical knowledge. Especially concerning the sensory issues related to ALL forms of autism. (Which I can't help but notice seem to have been reduced to little more than a passing mention on the aforementioned 'encyclopaedia')

You people have made a mockery of the very real problems of the families and sufferers affected by this condition for your own petty gain. In my mind that makes you even worse than people who pretend to be crippled to get money from their government. You people are the reason if anyone asks me about my condition, I just say "high functioning autism" then change the subject. I hope you all die in the most painful ways imaginable.

Posted by: pMASTER Dec 17 2009, 16:42

Löl. Never met a living representative of this ominous species.

Posted by: Benoist Dec 17 2009, 20:50

You have became even more insteresting my dear David.

Gosh, that sounded a bit gay.

Posted by: pMASTER Dec 17 2009, 21:01

Annoying: people on the internet who think their right to free speech would include the obligation to exercise it. So they go and produce pages for pages of bullshit. Which will sadly remain in the depths of the internet for all eternity.

Posted by: Wittmann Dec 18 2009, 12:47

I supposrt D@VE in this matter 100%.

Because those of us who are cnuts, like myself, should just say so.
Which I do

Posted by: D@V£ Dec 18 2009, 20:26

Dude, you're the one who started this thread

Posted by: pMASTER Dec 18 2009, 20:51

No valid point since the very moment you have posted in here as well!

That said, I was addressing a different and more difficult problem than that: the dimwits who open thread after thread on a delicate issue and obviously have anything but real insight.

Posted by: D@V£ Dec 18 2009, 23:05

That might be true, but:
A. You started the thread, therefore all the posts in this thread are your fault
B. I'm not complaining about it

Posted by: pMASTER Dec 19 2009, 00:36

Very well then!

Posted by: Wittmann Dec 19 2009, 09:43

Christmas Carols

Posted by: pMASTER Dec 19 2009, 13:27

The Copenhagen Summit and Ecologist hysteria in general.

Oh noes, Copenhagen hasn't produced our desired results! We're doomed! The end is nigh!

Posted by: Blackbuck Dec 19 2009, 16:44

iLol so very true. (The annoyance at it part not that the end is nigh)

Posted by: JynX Dec 19 2009, 17:47

fixed that for you ¬_¬

Posted by: Wittmann Dec 21 2009, 02:43

I like the day though. I get to sleep in, enjoy a feast and have beer's on the deck with the Old Man. Plus its going to be a mild day instead of a scorcher.

Every single day on the lead up to Xmas can go suck a d*** though.

Posted by: Blackscorpion Dec 29 2009, 22:14

Bought ArmA 2... disk... corrupted (CRC error). f*ck.

Posted by: pMASTER Dec 29 2009, 23:18

You're sure? You might want to test it on another system, especially to find out whether your computer is working flawlessly or not.

Posted by: Blackscorpion Dec 30 2009, 00:16

Oddly enough... after putting the DVD into the old machine (~2003, now mostly used for storage), it works. Installing it onto an external HD at the moment, just in case. Wonder if burning it onto a CD and trying that in would work...

Wonder why it doesn't work on this thing, though. Wonder if it's something wrong with the whole system or just the DVD station... supermodern HD/Blu-Ray can't handle a few small scratches on the surface?

Posted by: pMASTER Dec 30 2009, 00:30

Sometimes a computer will produce CRC errors with otherwise flawless files when it has problems with accessing the RAM.

Posted by: pMASTER Dec 31 2009, 11:04

Alarm-clocks! Merciless little pieces of junk they are!

Posted by: JynX Jan 1 2010, 01:39

Hogmany

Posted by: Deadeye Jan 13 2010, 21:03

Sneakers in the snow...damn I need to buy some boots.

Posted by: pMASTER Jan 13 2010, 23:54

Not to get wished a happy birthday by the members of my favourite forum!

In other words: people who put themselves center-stage.

Wait...what?

Posted by: pMASTER Feb 9 2010, 01:26

Message boxes displaying the following words:

Seriously, fuck you! Kthxbai.

Posted by: D@V£ Feb 9 2010, 08:28

People complaining because they have a good connection to the net

Posted by: Blackbuck Feb 9 2010, 21:31

Mine *touch wood* hasn't been as shit as it is usually, weird |:

Posted by: JynX Feb 14 2010, 08:09

Argh! I call bull on this recession being over nonsense, only jobs available to me involve testing experimental drugs for various things or bollywood choreogrpahy. Drug testing I like to let animals and idiots have the monopoly on that...

Damn this phase of generically sucky student indy bands* not having any financial aspirations incase they are deemed to be selling out!
Bring back unsigned metal bands I can at least get money from them in Glasgow!

*A further note of thanks to Emergenza for ceasing support for Glasgow based bands by removing us from the preliminary stages of the contest, way to remove incentive for unsigned acts! and indirectly crushing potential income for me!

Posted by: Blackbuck Feb 14 2010, 14:20

People want to see you fail up your end :|

Posted by: D@V£ Mar 29 2010, 13:23

These new phone ads on youtube, or as I like to call them "oh hey, I see your browser hasn't crashed yet, here, let me help you with that".

I'm not against adverts (f*ck you BBC) but it seems some companies seem to have lost the plot slightly. I'm not a marketing genius, but I think making people despise your product and company isn't the best way to sell stuff. Jus' saying.

Posted by: pMASTER Mar 29 2010, 20:13

Daylight saving time. Hitler introduced it over here, that says it all!

Oh and speaking of ads and commercials: adult friendfinder-ish popups are truly a pain in the ass. Though it's funny to see how the girls they tout move to a new place every time I dial in again.

Posted by: D@V£ May 27 2010, 11:13

Getting up at half six (half past six, for you crazy German types who think half six means half five!), thinking you have an exam in an hour or two, only to find out it's actually in the late afternoon...

Posted by: pMASTER Jul 23 2012, 05:10

We need to revive the community! Do your part! Engage in fun threads!


What's annoying: cleavage shots where the model intends to arouse you with her cleavage, yet wears a necklace so ridiculously large that you can hardly see anything!

Posted by: pMASTER Aug 1 2012, 20:26

Surviving endless rows of captchas, countdowns and ads-ridden relinks only to get a 404 error upon attempting to download a desperately needed old driver.

Posted by: Benoist Jun 27 2013, 11:39

Since we're with the annoying things, I can add when more than two threads have new posts. It's always spam.

Posted by: pMASTER Jun 29 2013, 00:38

Ah! Sweet!
I fail to see why we don't frequent these threads more often - isn't it great to rant about annoying stuff and take pleasure in seeing that other people suffer from the same kind of shit as you do?

What I find very annoying is when something embarrassing ruins me entire day.
Had two of those incidents today (FML!).

One of the staff with my oncologist's is the cutest thing. Truth be told I never know if I want to bang her hard or just keep her in a glass like a butterfly. Anyways, as I was laying there waiting for the check-up to commence suddenly she felt urged to explain to me how to best conceal an erection if need be.

Oi! Wait, my day got even more embarrassing.

After my stay at the doctor's I went to the jeweler to have my broken wristwatch fixed. Way into the official opening hours I was still waiting for the shop to open at last. With me there waited a gal my age. As she was looking kind of annoyed too I thought I should chat her up and went for a joke: pointing at the watches in the showcase I said "It sucks when customers can see by the shopkeeper's own goods how late they are". She was like "uhhahaha, yeah, well...".
Finally the shopkeeper arrived - and who'd be waiting for me inside on the other side of the counter? The very same gal, who turned out to be the shopkeeper's daughter and new co-clerk.

And something entirely else: nanny state arrived on the internet. Today Firefox simply refused to run Flash Player and whatnot because of "This plugin is out of date. You should update it". Well?! Erase "should", insert "must", right? Screw you.

Posted by: Elliot Carver Jun 30 2013, 10:58

lol oh dude. wtf was she testing for that might give you wood?? and how the hell do you conceal an erection ... without hiding it in her
Sounds like your gunna get a whole lot of broken watch back there buddy lol Maybe when you go back you could ask her if you could help with her time keeping ^^

If had to rant at people id rant at the privacy morons.

Moron - "omg i dont want Obama reading my facebook updates, the internet polices itself we should ban spying and the NSA" ...
le me - "Sooo you'd be alright with people using facebook to organise terrorist attacks?"
Moron - "well no the authorities would catch them"
Le me - ..........

The world would be more pissed off if no one was actually monitoring electronic data for cells. 9/11 ... yeah we set that up on Netscape!

Posted by: D@V£ Jun 30 2013, 12:24

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238920/Escaped-criminal-taunts-police-Facebook-enjoys-Christmas-run.html (You've got to love the daily mail, tits on page 3, but god forbid we print the word "fuck" Oh wait I'm thinking of the Sun there aren't I? 'eh, not much between them anyway.)

Facebook "spying" is pretty dumb to begin with. It's really just data mining, people can't expect their personal details to remain secret if they put them in a public place. And it's not even like they're being encouraged to do so, it actually takes effort to do. It's like spray-painting your bank details on the side of your house. Someone's going to spend all your money, and I don't blame them.

Posted by: Elliot Carver Jun 30 2013, 17:44

In a world where you can go to prison for 2 years for saying on Twitter 'typical Muslims stabbing a soldier to death in London' and only get 13 months inside for raping underage girls ... 15 years ago (Stuart Hall) it doesn't really matter anymore, everything is too messed up on its head. Fridays budget - we saved 11.5 billion *yay* oh wait ... we still borrowed 120bn last year, another 80bn this year. In other words we borrowed the NHS or the Welfare budget. We'd have to completely get rid of the entire health service or the entire benefits system just to break even. What makes me laugh is if a country like Rwanda was allowed to borrow 100bn a year it'd be a first world country too

That little fun fact the government loves to hide - Dave and Osborne are working on the Deficit = the gap between the amount we make (GDP) and the amount we spend (Budget). Thats not our Debt. The UK national debt is £1.3 trillion (Q1, 2013) ... or our entire GDP for 3 years.
Remember we saved 11.5bn in Fridays budget...<10% of the amount we have to borrow in 2014, <0.1% of our entire debt ...

Look at the country again ... look at other countries, see how they have progressed over the past 5 years and we haven't. See how everyone is poor and has to "club together in these times of austerity" but behind the scenes the top 2% are getting massively rich. Thats why you don't vote Conservative. Or now Liberal Democrat who let these feckless twats in or Labour who were borrowing so heavily they nearly doubled the national debt in a decade and caused the financial crisis in the first place. 2005 General Election i abstained from voting as i said "there was no one who i felt fit to represent me" and i was really hated for it by friends and family who said 'our right to vote is what our grandfathers beat the nazis for'. 7 1/2 years later after sticking by my own guns everyone says i was right all along ...

Country needs a decent military coup.

Could rant all day baby but i got O2 modeling to rock

Posted by: pMASTER Jun 30 2013, 18:24

Absolutely! The worst thing is that today you cannot even advocate the full rigour of the law anymore as that is soooo reactionary and downright right-wing. But as you say, yet still violating the code of newspeech is a criminal offence.

Mood question without having seen her.
Rubbing your forearm (with your hands, you bloody pig!) makes the blood vessels there contract more blood hence shrinking the erection.

I'm not happy with the NSA scanning the entire interweb either - the problem is it could even be legal as the whole net periphery is situated in the US of A of all countries - but it's not security concerns that kill my outrage but how people deal with it. I mean, why do people who post nudies online for the whole wide world to see complain about the NSA scanning their FB conversations for "suspicious" words? What is this? You'll show them your junk but when they scan for the word "bomb" its a breach of privacy?

Oh, yes, annoying things: Edward Snowden. Can't open a newspaper anymore without his goddamn mug being everywhere.

Posted by: D@V£ Jun 30 2013, 23:48

You have the right to vote... though, you can only really vote for the 3 main parties, and they basically stand for the same thing, raise taxes, cut public spending and line their own pockets as much as they can.

Don't like it? Throw away your vote by trying for someone else! They can't win because no one votes for them, because they'd be throwing away their vote since they can't win! Absolutely no problem with the system there!

Say, as a community, how much of the NSA's time do you think we waste with TERRORIST and BOMB addons?

Posted by: pMASTER Jul 1 2013, 00:15

^
How many parties you found on the last ballot? Only 3? Or wasn't it something like 13? 23? 33?!
You can hardly know that they really aren't up to the task if you never want to give them the chance. With all that talking about how much of a sucker the established parties are, how could that be the worse alternative? I don't get it.

Annoying: Rejectionists.

Posted by: D@V£ Jul 1 2013, 10:02

Far too many. And that's also part of the problem, there's so many "alternative" parties that not enough people vote for any one of them. Which leads to the wonderful situation where you're "represented" by some asshole flown in to a safe seat by the Labour party because his hometown kicked him out for being a corrupt bastard. Don't like him? Your other option is a some Tory asshole who knows he's not going to win because it's a safe seat for labour, so didn't even bother campaigning and spent the money on a new allotment instead.

End result, you end up with the lovely situation where Labour and the Lib Dems both get around 25% of the vote, yet, somehow Labour have 40% of the house and the Lib Dems only have 10%. Democracy in action, ladies and gentlemen!

Sure, you can vote for Uncle Ewyn's home grown vegetable party, since the system isn't proportional, and there's no transferable vote, Uncle Ewyn could come second in every constituency in the country, actually have the majority of the votes in the entire country, and still not get one ounce of representation in government. It's lovely how fucked up our voting system is.

Of course there's people who want to change it, but since it's massively beneficial to Labour and the Conservatives, no one's ever going to support in parliament, instead, they're more than happy to vote on far more important issues, for example, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23122628

Posted by: Elliot Carver Jul 1 2013, 16:16

Which is exactly why i said "there was no one who i felt fit to represent me". I know so many liberal democrat voters who feel ashamed their vote was used to let the conservatives into power, im glad im not part of that bunch. So if i don't vote for the main 3 my choices are murder a black person or live in a cave whilst waiting 30 years for British industry to catch up with the rest of the world. Or i can vote, as you say, for someone with a personal agenda to change something local, like stopping a wind farm or cuddling TB infested badgers.

I want a party that will actually do stuff to tackle the sh*t country we now live in. Stop underage pregnancy, stop the booze culture, stop the slut culture, make education free again, build a decent military, get rid of nukes, stop paying people not to work, make glasses available on the NHS, lower transport costs, actually use taxes to pay for things, tackle crime properly, install a proportionate justice system, not build HS2 and spend the money on replacing Heathrow ... the list is endless. All we've had for 5 years is insignificant cuts to the public sector and the pseudofear of recession.

When a political party starts saying the things i want to hear then i will invest my vote. Until then my vote is staying with me.

Posted by: Elliot Carver Jul 2 2013, 14:35

Also to rant some more - Snowden

I refuse to believe that a sh*t hot analyst at the top of his field with access to the entire NSA suite and 4 years planning only made it for 10 days before getting stuck.

• Why not gain asylum first before you make the USAs most wanted list?
• Why travel to China and then Russia and not direct to Ecuador or Venezuela?
• Out of all the media outlets he goes to The Guardian newspaper, Why?
• He spends his entire career hacking, spying and stealing for the NSA, CIA and private black op shell companies then suddenly has a change of heart throwing away a $200,000 a year, mansion in Hawaii, FHM top 100 girlfriend and a Ferrari 458 lifestyle?

There must be more to this than is being reported in the media

Posted by: D@V£ Jul 2 2013, 16:36

A sense of morality, perhaps? I can see why, with modern media, you'd have reason to doubt this exists. But, hey, it's an explanation, and a good enough one for me I mean, if people are dumb enough to believe in stuff like Christianity, then I don't see how someone thinking they shouldn't be spying on each other is too outlandish

(Don't get me wrong! I enjoy spying on people as much as the next guy. The next guy is Mark, though, so there may be a degree of bias in that statement.)

As for the path, getting from the US to Hong Kong is pretty easy, Ecuador, not so much. After the leak, they revoked his passport. Have you ever tried going somewhere without a passport? It's not as easy Hollywood would have you believe (Or at least, not as easy for someone who's used to modern comforts. Something about being huddled in the back of a freezer truck for a few days with a hundred other bodies, a corpse or two and very little air doesn't appeal to westerners. I can't imagine why.)

Posted by: pMASTER Jul 2 2013, 17:01

In my books Edward Snowden isn't a hero. I've heard it many times before and I do fully agree: in a democratic state, which the USA still are (hear hear), there'd have been plenty of legal and sustainable ways to take action against governmental trespass - which prism (unfortunately) not necessarily is if stateside law allows it. He could've approached the senate committee which oversees the NSA and what there is more. Instead he blew the bomb up in a crusade for "freedom" and hid away - in utterly unfree countries where political criminals like him aren't brought properly to trial but sent to forced labour camps. Why is that? Why didn't he just cross the border to Canada where there is no extradition treaty with either? So he was either bought by the Russians/ Chicoms or he's an attention-seeking show-off just like all the internet's other "freedom fighters" such as Julian Assange and Bradley Manning who, oddly enough, only go against the "evil imperialists" as well instead of really risking something.

Well, if us conservatives lose the elections later this year he'll be getting asylum in Germany - our leftists already promised that.

Posted by: D@V£ Jul 2 2013, 21:30

I think you missed the part where they're trying to have him arrested for treason. You know, the reason he's hiding in a foreign country to begin with? Or do you just not see how mind-blowingly stupid it is to try ratting out the organization that is spying on everyone to the organization that is spying on everyone?

Posted by: Elliot Carver Jul 3 2013, 00:19

Well if he was on the plane back to Bolivia with the El Presidente he's been diverted into Austria - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BONBETuCMAE2D1H.png:large

My take is he was working for the MSS (Chinese intel) after being rejected for SF duty. Chinese wanted to dump him as US - China relations have thawed over the past half decade and to avoid a black bag Snowden went rogue to the press and turned up on the HK doorstep. They stuck him a safe house and dropped him off at the airport telling him to never come back. He went to Russia to blarb to the FSB in return for asylum and they told him to feck off as their not stupid enough to cuddle up to a wanted US spy. FSB probably stuck him in a safe house until they can find a suitable method of kicking him out that doesn't involve a toe tag.

Posted by: pMASTER Jul 11 2013, 15:58

Insomnia.

Posted by: Elliot Carver Jul 11 2013, 23:13

Amen to that one. Although you do get to watch the sunrise and get pics like this -



(This hasn't been instaf*cked)

My beef this week is with my brother & Amazon. Twit spent 3k on a new camera and unsurprisingly they double charged him lol. First they said they never took the 2nd payment then they said he was trying to commit fraud. Hes now stuck trying to find a lawyer stupid enough to sue a multinational company

Posted by: pMASTER Jul 12 2013, 05:32

Weird, I've never had problems with Amazon nor heard of anyone having some.

Posted by: Elliot Carver Jul 12 2013, 13:32

Its the usual big company bull. Paypal did something similar to a group of friends who all chipped into an account to rent a tennis court for a year. Paypal grabbed the lot, said it was fraudulent and told them they'd need to take paypal to court to recover the money. After a request from the bank to find out where the money was being kept it turned out to be in a stupidly high interest account in the Bahamas ... After 6 months of legal wrangling and red tape Paypal suddenly gave the money back weeks before it went to court.

Its Internet 101 - If its too good to be true, it is. That stunning red head is a man and don't spend more money than you can afford to loose! *facepalm*

Posted by: pMASTER Jul 14 2013, 03:25

Well, maybe you guys have less strict commercial laws over there tempting the companies to become all cocky... I really hadn't heard of something like that before.
With that being said, it happens quite often here that banks defer wire transfers for a day or two in order to increase the sums available to them.

Annoying: When Google displays search results that don't even contain one of the words of the query. Even targeted commands don't work anymore as they used to. Sorted by relevance? Pfff as if. I can think for myself, you know? I ain't no Steve Jobs-worshipping Facebook-drone!

Posted by: Mark-HH Jul 14 2013, 19:07

Heat. I'm melting |:

Posted by: pMASTER Jul 14 2013, 20:36

What's the temperature on your isles? Odd. Here it's much more pleasant weather than during the horrible heat wave three (?) weeks ago. Hot, but with constant winds and comfortably dry air.

Annoying (just to stay on topic): scumbags with a 160db custom stereo in their stupid pimped ride.

Posted by: Daniel Jul 14 2013, 21:12

It's perfect over here, been swimming in Coniston several times, absolutely gorgeous. Hope it lasts.
Not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow though. Can't say exactly where I work, but it involves wearing heavy overalls, working within a large piece of metal, inside a giant shed. Not ideal.

Posted by: pMASTER Aug 17 2013, 23:37

[Annoying]

* Samuel Koch. Several years ago the guy broke his neck in a stupid and reckless game show stunt and has been omnipresent ever since with books and shows and whatnot. I cannot take pity on someone who foolishly and utterly unnecessarily endangered his health for game show profit and now presents himself as the nation's First Victim. But you musn't say that unless you want the bleeding hearts zerg you for being an "insensitive prick". What about the poor buggers who become paraplegic by a hard work's accident or something like that?

* The Spanish ranting about Gibraltar but when it comes to Ceuta and Melilla being all like "that's not the same thing".

* Election campaigns. My own party's is fluffy and insubstantial but at least we're not downright lying nor being unfair towards others. The others are. "That's what you say", you might think. Well, it's a difference whether you write on your posters "Vote for me" or "Don't vote for that other asshole!".

* Edward Snowden and all the "OMFG!1!1!NSA1!1!!"-drama.

* Inflation. Food prices have gone up almost 10% due to a mixture of long winter, hot summer and severe flooding and storm damages.

Posted by: Mark-HH Aug 24 2013, 20:32

People who forget your Birthday

Posted by: pMASTER Aug 24 2013, 20:47

We didn't forget it. We were just a little bit... late.