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HeroCommanD
England33 Posts
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
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emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
On November 04 2012 10:54 Grobyc wrote: When people use twitter hashtags on places like facebook and forums and stuff. ~_~ With u on that one.... When you are talking to someone face to face and they say something semi funny and actually say "lol" but don't actually laugh out loud. Don't use text speak when actually speaking, it makes you sound like a fucking moron. | ||
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KneeHi
United States50 Posts
And anyone who has ever said "YOLO". | ||
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MountainDewJunkie
United States10340 Posts
Craigslist ads for cars (or I guess ebay ads and such too): 1) just because you spent $500 on a spoiler, $650 on a new transmission, $1,000 on lowering it 6 inches, and $60 on new blue headlights, does not mean you can add them directly to the KBB price of your vehicle. You can spend thousands of dollars on your '96 civic, it's still never going to be worth more than $3,500. Don't whine about how much you spent on it. A buyer should not bail you out on bad investments. 2) going on about how great your car is, and then at the very end of the ad, mentioning, "Oh, the block is out, you just have to put it back in, and it's good to go." Fucking bullshit, either drop the price that should be on a running car, or put the block in yourself. And why is the engine out at all? Could it be... it's a lemon??? And in the same breath, slipping in at the very end, "it just has a gasket problem/rod knock/blown gasket." Oh, so all it needs is a new fucking engine, or if I'm super lucky, an extensive costly rebuild? Sweet! 3) The ad looks great, the car looks great, so you call up the guy. Guess what? The title isn't signed! Or the title "hasn't come in the mail yet." Or "it's signed by the previous owner, you just have to fill in the date." There's either something very shady going on with the vehicle, or, you were too cheap to register the vehicle in your own name and pay sales taxes or tabs. Filing for loss of title is a huge inconvenience, it can take a long ass time. Not to mention if it turns out the car is stolen or salvaged... you're fucked. It's upsetting because you can basically count on a good chunk of the population looking for an opportunity to fuck his fellow brother over. This is why the 99% will never rise. | ||
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Alakaslam
United States17324 Posts
On November 04 2012 16:48 MountainDewJunkie wrote: Someone back me up on this one. Craigslist ads for cars (or I guess ebay ads and such too): 1) just because you spent $500 on a spoiler, $650 on a new transmission, $1,000 on lowering it 6 inches, and $60 on new blue headlights, does not mean you can add them directly to the KBB price of your vehicle. You can spend thousands of dollars on your '96 civic, it's still never going to be worth more than $3,500. Don't whine about how much you spent on it. A buyer should not bail you out on bad investments. 2) going on about how great your car is, and then at the very end of the ad, mentioning, "Oh, the block is out, you just have to put it back in, and it's good to go." Fucking bullshit, either drop the price that should be on a running car, or put the block in yourself. And why is the engine out at all? Could it be... it's a lemon??? And in the same breath, slipping in at the very end, "it just has a gasket problem/rod knock/blown gasket." Oh, so all it needs is a new fucking engine, or if I'm super lucky, an extensive costly rebuild? Sweet! 3) The ad looks great, the car looks great, so you call up the guy. Guess what? The title isn't signed! Or the title "hasn't come in the mail yet." Or "it's signed by the previous owner, you just have to fill in the date." There's either something very shady going on with the vehicle, or, you were too cheap to register the vehicle in your own name and pay sales taxes or tabs. Filing for loss of title is a huge inconvenience, it can take a long ass time. Not to mention if it turns out the car is stolen or salvaged... you're fucked. It's upsetting because you can basically count on a good chunk of the population looking for an opportunity to fuck his fellow brother over. This is why the 99% will never rise. "Great starting car for high school / colledge student" (lol iPhone almost wouldn't let me play stupid) Arrive after 3 hours drive, he means a good car to begin a restoration project. And I bought it, thinking a rebuild would solve things. I learned something that month. Ohh, I learned something. But regardless great starting car? "Oh I meant project". Oh so a engine replacement is a good starter for a high school student. Then the DMV says the car cannot be registered until I fix it. So I still have it, will possibly fix it... Someday... Gears ground to dust, I hear you. But this one is my fault too. On the flip side have hope, 4k for a 2005 ranger in near mint condition. Craigslist can be a good thing. | ||
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
11739 Posts
Agreed with whoever said they can't stand people that say math classes are pointless. I'd add that to just about any class though. Econ is pointless, yeah, not understanding the basics of supply/demand, and opportunity cost are two big reasons that people fail every day in their finance management. English is useless, I'm not going to write novels, and what job will I ever need to write a 10 page essay in? No, you're right, learning how to properly research an item and build a strong case around it is completely useless in all facets of life. Diagramming sentences is pointless? The analytic skills involved in that are just utterly worthless, and completely inapplicable in any real life/work scenario, right? Except you'd have to be a complete fucking retard to think that. Then they bitch about how hard life is when they're stuck working at some shit-hole job for the rest of their lives, because they never learned how to use their brains beyond putting their pants on and getting fucked. People that are obsessed with cars and fixing them, (but don't do anything work related with them) and try to talk to me about them. Cars are great, and I'm glad that at least some group of people really loves them enough to design and fix them, and I get that having an idea of how to do basic maintenance on your vehicle is a really good thing since it'll save you thousands throughout the year. Beyond that, cars get me from A to B, and maybe look kind of cool while getting me there. I don't care, and please, keep that fucking lame ass discussion somewhere else. Also people that are overly interested in guns and military weaponry and aren't in the military. Why? It just doesn't make sense. At least cars are worth knowing about; I can understand people's passion for cars (doesn't make their conversations any less awful), but weapons? Who cares what bullet can hit what target from how many thousand yards, or what plane is faster and better than the others? This actually has no practical application to your life if you're not working on/with them or designing them. SHUT UP. On November 04 2012 03:15 iKill wrote: You know what? I agree. IT IS NEVER A FUCKING OFFENSE TO EXPECT PEOPLE TO ACT OUT THEIR FULL POTENTIAL I mean, obviously if you have expectations way above someones level you gotta curb that shit. But expecting people to do the shit they're well able to is fucking fine, and if you get mad about it, you're a lazy slacker. It isn't about expecting people to act to their full potential and getting mad about it. It's about being an absolute prick in delivering that message. One could say "I'm really disappointed in the way you handled that, I thought better of you," and deliver a very impactful message that might actually inspire someone to do better with themselves. The message above serves as nothing but a way for some jerk to vent, typically will not be received well (or with anything but disgust and resentment), and will serve nearly no purpose in changing future outcomes. I'll agree that most people are overly sensitive: I think you should be able to flat out tell people when they fucked up, and how to do the job better next time. Like, in my line of work, if someone overlooks a very simple process, and escalates it to the next support level, I should be able to say that behavior is unacceptable, and they need to shape up. The only reason that should make someone mad is because they got caught being a lazy shit stain and got called out on it: they should be mad at themselves. But there's still a line that has to be drawn somewhere, and taking your anger out on someone because they made a mistake, in such an overt manner is almost never the best way to handle a situation (granted, if someone is repeatedly doing the same thing, and other methods are not working, maybe it could be beneficial... or maybe that person needs to be thought of as less/fired in a work scenario). Also, agreed with whoever said they dislike when people speak in memes. I have some friends that talk like that. "I gives no fucks," or "I can has," or "I has xyz." Stupid. I'd actually expand that to say that it's a mild irritation when people bring the internet culture into pop culture at all. I think it's because I was part of it when it was all really starting to bloom, and these people are just riding the waves of popularity, and in some sense I feel like they're stealing from us. It's like when your favorite band sells out to make some crappy music for a couple of albums, and everyone loves them and is a bigger fan of them than you are. The internet used to feel like a secretive club to me, where inside jokes came about very rarely, and meeting someone who knew what you were talking about was kind of exciting... now, ever asshole on the planet knows what a lolcat is, and they tell me about it as I haven't seen this stuff since its inception, practically. I guess it's just a part of me that felt like there was a real sense of community and belonging, and everyone being in on it has kind of killed that feeling for me. | ||
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Yorbon
Netherlands4272 Posts
On November 05 2012 22:27 SweeTLemonS[TPR] wrote: This is all very recognisable. (except for the internet part :$ )+ Show Spoiler + People with complete lack of foresight, and/or people that don't consider how changing a step early in a process will necessarily effect the following steps, and expect you to immediately make said changes without any negative outcomes. People that don't consider more than one variable, as if there were only a single variable in whatever problem they're solving. Agreed with whoever said they can't stand people that say math classes are pointless. I'd add that to just about any class though. Econ is pointless, yeah, not understanding the basics of supply/demand, and opportunity cost are two big reasons that people fail every day in their finance management. English is useless, I'm not going to write novels, and what job will I ever need to write a 10 page essay in? No, you're right, learning how to properly research an item and build a strong case around it is completely useless in all facets of life. Diagramming sentences is pointless? The analytic skills involved in that are just utterly worthless, and completely inapplicable in any real life/work scenario, right? Except you'd have to be a complete fucking retard to think that. Then they bitch about how hard life is when they're stuck working at some shit-hole job for the rest of their lives, because they never learned how to use their brains beyond putting their pants on and getting fucked. People that are obsessed with cars and fixing them, (but don't do anything work related with them) and try to talk to me about them. Cars are great, and I'm glad that at least some group of people really loves them enough to design and fix them, and I get that having an idea of how to do basic maintenance on your vehicle is a really good thing since it'll save you thousands throughout the year. Beyond that, cars get me from A to B, and maybe look kind of cool while getting me there. I don't care, and please, keep that fucking lame ass discussion somewhere else. Also people that are overly interested in guns and military weaponry and aren't in the military. Why? It just doesn't make sense. At least cars are worth knowing about; I can understand people's passion for cars (doesn't make their conversations any less awful), but weapons? Who cares what bullet can hit what target from how many thousand yards, or what plane is faster and better than the others? This actually has no practical application to your life if you're not working on/with them or designing them. SHUT UP. On November 04 2012 03:15 iKill wrote: You know what? I agree. IT IS NEVER A FUCKING OFFENSE TO EXPECT PEOPLE TO ACT OUT THEIR FULL POTENTIAL I mean, obviously if you have expectations way above someones level you gotta curb that shit. But expecting people to do the shit they're well able to is fucking fine, and if you get mad about it, you're a lazy slacker. It isn't about expecting people to act to their full potential and getting mad about it. It's about being an absolute prick in delivering that message. One could say "I'm really disappointed in the way you handled that, I thought better of you," and deliver a very impactful message that might actually inspire someone to do better with themselves. The message above serves as nothing but a way for some jerk to vent, typically will not be received well (or with anything but disgust and resentment), and will serve nearly no purpose in changing future outcomes. I'll agree that most people are overly sensitive: I think you should be able to flat out tell people when they fucked up, and how to do the job better next time. Like, in my line of work, if someone overlooks a very simple process, and escalates it to the next support level, I should be able to say that behavior is unacceptable, and they need to shape up. The only reason that should make someone mad is because they got caught being a lazy shit stain and got called out on it: they should be mad at themselves. But there's still a line that has to be drawn somewhere, and taking your anger out on someone because they made a mistake, in such an overt manner is almost never the best way to handle a situation (granted, if someone is repeatedly doing the same thing, and other methods are not working, maybe it could be beneficial... or maybe that person needs to be thought of as less/fired in a work scenario). Also, agreed with whoever said they dislike when people speak in memes. I have some friends that talk like that. "I gives no fucks," or "I can has," or "I has xyz." Stupid. I'd actually expand that to say that it's a mild irritation when people bring the internet culture into pop culture at all. I think it's because I was part of it when it was all really starting to bloom, and these people are just riding the waves of popularity, and in some sense I feel like they're stealing from us. It's like when your favorite band sells out to make some crappy music for a couple of albums, and everyone loves them and is a bigger fan of them than you are. The internet used to feel like a secretive club to me, where inside jokes came about very rarely, and meeting someone who knew what you were talking about was kind of exciting... now, ever asshole on the planet knows what a lolcat is, and they tell me about it as I haven't seen this stuff since its inception, practically. I guess it's just a part of me that felt like there was a real sense of community and belonging, and everyone being in on it has kind of killed that feeling for me. I was about to say that the destiny thread annoys me every time it comes up, but nevermind... | ||
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MountainDewJunkie
United States10340 Posts
AND People who bitch about learning math. "That's what calculators are for!" "When am I ever going to use this? Can't I voluntarily not learn some elementary numerical logic?" "When am I ever going to solve for X lolol" One thing I'm observing more, as a former tutor and a grad, is not only are people resisting logic and any amount of work, but people are resenting math because it has some absolutes (please, no number theory stuff, I'm talking basic shit here). If you have this kind of equation, this is the only solution. To find the solution, you can use any or all of these steps. If you do this every time, in this pattern, you will always be able to find an answer (or prove no solution, whatever). So much of math until like proof based classes are all pattern, rules, and checklists, they require very little "outside the box" style analyses. There's little whiff of anti-intellectualism because they value crap like apple products, starbucks, social media, and whatever latest trends and products far above self improvement and knowledge. Good thing we're cutting more education spending and make college unaffordable for the have-nots. That'll do the trick. *exhales* | ||
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phosphorylation
United States2935 Posts
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Bwaaaa
Australia969 Posts
On November 06 2012 16:37 phosphorylation wrote: flaky people Like their skin is flaky? | ||
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Fearce
Denmark48 Posts
"i just had the worst nite" "whats up brow" "write me on chat brow" "but brow, im on my phone or summit, just write here brow" and people who defend extremely stupid points(I argued with a guy whose main point was that it was harder being a pre-school teacher or whatever than a spinal surgeon because you 'need to understand people') Generally speaking, idiots on facebook grinds my gear. | ||
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
11739 Posts
On November 06 2012 18:50 Fearce wrote: People who, on places like facebook, use the same word or phrase to end every sentence in a long convo. "i just had the worst nite" "whats up brow" "write me on chat brow" "but brow, im on my phone or summit, just write here brow" and people who defend extremely stupid points(I argued with a guy whose main point was that it was harder being a pre-school teacher or whatever than a spinal surgeon because you 'need to understand people') Generally speaking, idiots on facebook grinds my gear. Sounds like you got trollololololed. | ||
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Fearce
Denmark48 Posts
On November 06 2012 19:11 SweeTLemonS[TPR] wrote: Sounds like you got trollololololed. If only. But he seriously sounded legitimately retarded. The amount of grammar and spelling mistakes also backed it up. | ||
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
On November 06 2012 08:57 MountainDewJunkie wrote: Don't forget people who don't think studying history is important. Awww...I personally think that most of us could use extra history sometimes. But yeah, I totally know where you are coming from. And speaking of history, those who will say, "If you know your history" to justify a position. Nothing wrong with using history for debate, but 99% of the time, those guys are completely off. And people who want to take back the word faggot just like the word queer and nigga. For one, those people seem to have contempt for others who have a reason to be offended. And two, queer and nigga is used affectionately, it seems like the people who want to take back the word faggot want to use it as an insult. HMMMMMMMMMM And lastly, people who constantly use offensive words and when someone gets offended, they hide behind the excuse that they are just words and they have no meaning. | ||
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
Oh yes...Guy Fawkes day was yesterday. I wanted to punch all the /b/tards wearing those stupid masks. Just because some of the funniest things that existed came from 4chan does not make you a funny person for being a part of it. Especially when they spew memes every 10 seconds. The most common thing I have been hearing as of late is russle my jimmies and do you even lift, even when the statement has no relevance to what is going on. | ||
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iKill
Denmark861 Posts
Yes, the teacher's bad, we get it. Stop complaining and teach yourself. You've got the fucking textbooks, the curriculum, the internet! Educate yourself instead of complaining that the arbitrary knowledge person you've been GIVEN isn't GOOD ENOUGH to fucking forcefeed you information! Jesus goddamn christ. | ||
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EEJR
Sweden31 Posts
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gold_
Canada312 Posts
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57 Corvette
Canada5941 Posts
People who are too stupid to realize that something is their fault People who complain about something without a "why" or without proof People who are constantly showing off their religion/political beliefs/status "Facebook Gamers" Mentally Handicapped people (Call me a terrible person, they really annoy me) People who constantly want to play the same game with you (Even when you are busy) People who dodge their responsibilities using friends as an excuse. People who think they are trolling but are really just making themselves look like a retard. | ||
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