Takes the edge of being a poor skydiving, embedded systems engineer, workaholic.
I think I'm suffering from post-university blues. If I ever get out of Lancaster (where my parents live) and back into a city, life will look up, married or not.
unimportant things that annoy you
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Takes the edge of being a poor skydiving, embedded systems engineer, workaholic.
I think I'm suffering from post-university blues. If I ever get out of Lancaster (where my parents live) and back into a city, life will look up, married or not.
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when people say they will be somewhere and are 15+ mins late. but moan if I am more than 2 mins late 
+1, I usually have a tuna sandwhich after a workout and the process of draining tuna is something I cba with when I'm knackered.
When you text/email/IM someone and they simply reply with "?"
? Is a question mark not a question. So are you asking a question or saying you don't understand? Really annoying because then you have to go back and say "why the ?" then they explain. Why couldn't they just do that in the first place?!?!
EdGey - easy solution is to buy the no drain tuna pretty sure John West do it
? Is a question mark not a question. So are you asking a question or saying you don't understand? Really annoying because then you have to go back and say "why the ?" then they explain. Why couldn't they just do that in the first place?!?!
EdGey - easy solution is to buy the no drain tuna
pretty sure John West do it
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Xmas time is approaching, it's time to revive the thread of "annoying" things.
- microwavable food that does not list proper instructions for refrigerated and frozen, but instead falls back to "when cooking from frozen, adjust times accordingly". Accordingly to what? My experience? Look, luv, if I was Jamie Olivier I wouldn't be microwaving this <beep>, would I? So why don't you just <beep>ing tell me, you lazy <beep>, did I just pay £3.99 to be your research department?
Two more entries from me after 30 minute online shopping trip:
- That Popular Auction Place discontinuing asterisk searches.
Well, firstly, their search engine sucked as it was, especially when they discontinued old distance filters and introduced 100 character limit (so in popular searches involving electronics, you could no longer get rid off sellers pretending to be UK based and filter out keyword spamming [eg. sellers listing stuff like like "Used granny knickers not iphone, ipad, playstation"] via hundreds of "minus" flags.
At least back then, you could filter out most of the foreign language inflections with an '*' ie. "PS3 (contr*,kontr*) -(bat*,cab*,kab*,adapt*)" would search for PS3 controllers in most languages, while in the same time filtering out all battery packs, cable replacements and adapter junk. Now, when That Popular Auction Place search doesn't support asterisk searches and number of filters is limited to 100 characters, it's just utterly useless as you have to list every foreign language possibility singular and plural ie. -(cable,cables,kable,kabel,kabels,cabo,cabos,etc,etc). Why would you do this That Popular Auction Place, why, why, why. Why?.
- That "Forest Site" search. Oh my god. This is <beep> is 1990ies bad! You literally type "sony dab radio cd ipod dock" (presumably looking specifically for a DAB radio with CD player and iPod dock by a popular maker) and after one correct result it starts listing complete cobblers just vaguely related to single term of your search. Sometimes it is so crazy bad that you type specific gadget name or precise model number and on the same page search immediately deteriorates to results from gardening section and not even remotely related chachkies for kids. It's literally easier to use google with "inurl:" to search that site than rely on onsite engine. I don't understand how it's even remotely possible to write something so absolutely useless and broken and remain in business.
- microwavable food that does not list proper instructions for refrigerated and frozen, but instead falls back to "when cooking from frozen, adjust times accordingly". Accordingly to what? My experience? Look, luv, if I was Jamie Olivier I wouldn't be microwaving this <beep>, would I? So why don't you just <beep>ing tell me, you lazy <beep>, did I just pay £3.99 to be your research department?
Two more entries from me after 30 minute online shopping trip:
- That Popular Auction Place discontinuing asterisk searches.
Well, firstly, their search engine sucked as it was, especially when they discontinued old distance filters and introduced 100 character limit (so in popular searches involving electronics, you could no longer get rid off sellers pretending to be UK based and filter out keyword spamming [eg. sellers listing stuff like like "Used granny knickers not iphone, ipad, playstation"] via hundreds of "minus" flags.
At least back then, you could filter out most of the foreign language inflections with an '*' ie. "PS3 (contr*,kontr*) -(bat*,cab*,kab*,adapt*)" would search for PS3 controllers in most languages, while in the same time filtering out all battery packs, cable replacements and adapter junk. Now, when That Popular Auction Place search doesn't support asterisk searches and number of filters is limited to 100 characters, it's just utterly useless as you have to list every foreign language possibility singular and plural ie. -(cable,cables,kable,kabel,kabels,cabo,cabos,etc,etc). Why would you do this That Popular Auction Place, why, why, why. Why?.
- That "Forest Site" search. Oh my god. This is <beep> is 1990ies bad! You literally type "sony dab radio cd ipod dock" (presumably looking specifically for a DAB radio with CD player and iPod dock by a popular maker) and after one correct result it starts listing complete cobblers just vaguely related to single term of your search. Sometimes it is so crazy bad that you type specific gadget name or precise model number and on the same page search immediately deteriorates to results from gardening section and not even remotely related chachkies for kids. It's literally easier to use google with "inurl:" to search that site than rely on onsite engine. I don't understand how it's even remotely possible to write something so absolutely useless and broken and remain in business.
Touché. Touché. Oh, and people who say "touché" and "karate" with american accent.
Being wrong (about anything).
Knowing that I'm wrong greatly annoys me. Knowing that everyone else knows I'm wrong is even worse.
And caps lock being so close to shift. It continually foils my attempts to log on or type emails.
Knowing that I'm wrong greatly annoys me. Knowing that everyone else knows I'm wrong is even worse.
And caps lock being so close to shift. It continually foils my attempts to log on or type emails.
Getting 4oD to work. The programme, not the 15 ads you have to watch beforehand.
Load programme. 6 ads. Digital rights error. Refresh. Select an ad of you choice. Black screen. Refresh. 6 ads. Digital rights error....FFFFFUUUUUUU....!
Load programme. 6 ads. Digital rights error. Refresh. Select an ad of you choice. Black screen. Refresh. 6 ads. Digital rights error....FFFFFUUUUUUU....!
when people say they will be somewhere and are 15+ mins late. but moan if I am more than 2 mins late
THIS! A MILLION TIMES THIS!
1 friend in particular, always tells me I am late (I am not) and the other day we where supposed to be somewhere at 5:30 yet at 5:35 he hadnt left his house. does my crust!
Ad blocker on FF and Chrome block the ads.
Oh, things that annoy me. Not having some sort of slave type to clean the house and wash my balls (I love ping pong).
The over use of the words 'amazing' and 'confidence' on TV.
The troll meme (and the whole concept behind it) and that stupid black and white one of that bloke, so over used its no longer funny, not that it was in the first place.
TV, particulary the BBC that refer to anything thats to do with the internet as 'cyber'.
The troll meme (and the whole concept behind it) and that stupid black and white one of that bloke, so over used its no longer funny, not that it was in the first place.
TV, particulary the BBC that refer to anything thats to do with the internet as 'cyber'.