Bank websites that won't let you in no matter how many times you go through the "Reset password" routine.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
Can a fabric be of such a loose weave that it stretches from being one size to another from being cut to trying to contystruct a pair of jeans. & then do it again when recut?Something is going seriously weird with this build anyway. I thought I cut the thing to the standard size I've cut all my jeans, then stitched it in a way that should have had it pretty snug only to find out it was a few cm wider when I thought i should be finishing seams before adding a waistband. I then took it in a further 3cm. & now find out that it seems to be too wide again.
Normally wouldn't want to go any narrower at this poiint cos jeans wouldn't go on.
Maybe it is just the fabric. I've been getting good results from a cotton/linen blend now trying a linen/viscose one. Welll can't keep working on the same thing. & since it was made for a different purpose maybe it's time to relegate it to not fully successful experiment. & finish them to the best I can. Bummer.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 14 February 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link
Wifi at chain cafes whose sign-in page obliterates all tabs I had open on my browser, not even allowing the Back buttons to get me to where I was.
My work-around is opening Safari first to sign in b/c I never use it, but sometimes I leave Chrome or Firefox open and every tab turns into Welcome to Starbucks! or Panera or whatever. Including pinned tabs.
This shit has ruined my Christmas shopping, research, and work countless times.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Saturday, 14 February 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
Use history.
― Jeff, Saturday, 14 February 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Using history is A) needless extra clicking and typing, B) insufficient if the tabs were not loaded very recently and I can't remember exactly what they were, and C) not helpful w/ the annoyance of repinning tabs.
I suppose I should use a session manager (which I would have to install and set up on Chrome).
But still, it's shitty of those signals to fuck up my tabs.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Saturday, 14 February 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
[2005] all your tabs are belong to us [/2005]
― Aimless, Saturday, 14 February 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
Sorry for your loss, Je55e.
― Jeff, Saturday, 14 February 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
people who are waiting for someone in a parking lot or having a convo with someone and just sit in the middle of the lane instead of PULLING INTO A FUCKING PARKING SPACE AND NOT BLOCKING EVERYBODY
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 14 February 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
cute boho girl at market working my last nerve today
like i saw her & was like omg you are adorable
next time i see her she had all her groceries spread out on the sandwich order counter like she didnt understand baskets or shopping carts there's no room to put in an order so i say "hi excuse me can i get in here" & she moves them to one side slightly like she just lives to be in the way
i saw her again outiside yknow just standing in the middle of the the walkway with her bike twirling her hair just hanging out
she's looking RIGHT AT ME as I am walking towards her with my cart full of stuff
and i'm thinking she sees me so she'll move but no she just keeps on looking at me and standing there blocking the walkway til i stop & say "excuse me" and she moves and is surprised that this is a thing that is happening
i swear, these fuckin adorable people who act like fking alien visitors who dont grasp basic human customs
i just
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 February 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
A woman sitting behind me on the train yesterday was having a shit fit about this stroke sign awareness billboard (Face Arm Speech Time - F.A.S.T.) because problems with someone's face, arm, and speech are all symptoms of a stroke, whereas time stands for "time is critical," which is more of an admonition so it didn't fit. It was kind of hilarious and I wanted to turn around and tell her there was a place on the internet where she would feel right at home called the Irrationally Angry thread.
― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Saturday, 14 February 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
<3
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 February 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
"let me sing you the song of my people"
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 February 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
lol @ both those
― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 February 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link
That FAST advert was on TV a couple of times yesterday and I thought the same thing re 'time'
― koogs, Sunday, 15 February 2015 07:04 (nine years ago) link
Irrational because it's clearly a language thing but: Americans referring to treasure hunts (with clues leading to the next clue) as 'scavenger hunts' which are a different thing!
― kinder, Sunday, 15 February 2015 10:26 (nine years ago) link
When people ask me to remind them about something later. Take a load off Annie.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:40 (nine years ago) link
Oh I passionately hate that. Keep your own meticulous to-do list, don't exploit mine!
― ljubljana, Sunday, 15 February 2015 14:29 (nine years ago) link
Americans anyone referring to treasure hunts (with clues leading to the next clue) as 'scavenger hunts' which are a different thing!
fixed
― Aimless, Sunday, 15 February 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
people who play Smoke on the Water in guitar stores
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 15 February 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
or ANYWHERE
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 15 February 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
http://homepage2.nifty.com/csta/music/vari/ww102.jpg
― camp event (suzy), Sunday, 15 February 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
i went into a rage earlier trying to convert some e-tickets into PDF's to put on my kobo, as I don't have a printer. It is more like a rational self hating type of anger really because I have been through this a few times and haven't got any better at doing it. Like every time I end up googling "HTML to PDF" and fucking about with malware ridden waste for an hour like a noob. All for a 1 Hour "Bounce Session" in Castleford (>_<)
― xelab, Sunday, 15 February 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
Kids have some weird app where you can make a cat play guitar by tapping it. Took me awhile to figure out the cat's playing Smoke on the Water because the kids just tap-tap-tap-tap as fast as possible, making every note a sixteenth note.
I'd almost sit down with them and teach them the correct meter, but we all have to pick our own battles don't we.
― pplains, Sunday, 15 February 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Concert venues where ticket holders and seekers have to stand in the same damn line
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 15 February 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
I take it the name Father John Misty is a joek on acid-folk and hippie-dippie nostalgia in general, maybe incl. his having been in a CSN-type harmony band actually apparently seriously named Fleet Foxes. Now Rolling Stone says his new album is good like Randy Newman, which makes me IA or RA because one RN always was enough. Also the latest incarnation of Firefox has fucked me up several times lately, incl while trying to type this, wtfff???
― dow, Monday, 16 February 2015 01:10 (nine years ago) link
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:43 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, fucking hate this, seen it with movies too -- you buy tix to beat the crowd, make sure you get a seat, then you get stuck behind the ticket line.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 16 February 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
i have cumulative IA for the people who get all the way to the top of the movie ticket line and then have no evident plan about what it is they want to see or how many tickets they might need or how they would like to pay for them or whatever else it is they could possibly be discussing at such earnest length with the poor beleaguered cashier.
― estela, Monday, 16 February 2015 02:59 (nine years ago) link
IA about some customer service right now. How come I can't just email the company my question? I have to register and give you my home address and phone number first? It's not like a non-customer would want to go through the trouble of asking your support desk, I already paid for your product, but now you want my personal info so you can make even more money off me.
I mean, welcome to the world I guess, but still. Damn.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 February 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
Also having a really bizarre moment where I try to run an .exe file and Windows comes up with the message that "Windows cannot find the file"! And it asks me to please "make sure I typed the name in correctly"! Oh, I must have made a typo, because Windows is a text-based operating system, I forgot about that! Thanks for the help, M$, keep doing the lord's work making shit software!
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 February 2015 03:05 (nine years ago) link
is your system's PATH statement too long, could be, or you have system file corruption
― mh, Monday, 16 February 2015 03:12 (nine years ago) link
No, it's just a file in a folder I right-click and hit 'run', just like every other file. I'm pretty sure it's a 32-bit file and I have a 64-bit system or something. I've downloaded it repeatedly and it always says the same thing. Even copied it to different folders. Hopefully they will get back to me. It's for a motherboard BIOS so no way in hell am I touching it.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 February 2015 03:15 (nine years ago) link
wo some sort of expert assistance
i have cumulative IA for the people who get all the way to the top of the movie ticket line and then have no evident plan about what it is they want to see or how many tickets they might need or how they would like to pay for them or whatever else it is they could possibly be discussing at such earnest length with the poor beleaguered cashier.― estela, Sunday, February 15, 2015 6:59 PM
― estela, Sunday, February 15, 2015 6:59 PM
Same here with supermarket lines, and it's usually older people, who suddenly realize they have to pay for all that stuff they loaded their cart with.
― nickn, Monday, 16 February 2015 04:54 (nine years ago) link
Firefox supposedly reopening on the pages you closed it on but instead reopening to pages you were on much earlier. Not sure how it bookmarks but it really doesn't seem to do a good job. It also doesn't update any pages so those that reopen will still be on the time that you left them on. I tend to have a tv guide page open and expect it to open at the right i.e. current time but it will still be on the page from whenever earlier despite the site being dynamic. What I'm talking about with the reopening of much earlier pages is if I'm somewhere in a site when I close the internet application I can wind up with the page of the website I haven't visited in days being what it's opened on. Tends to happen with demonoid or some chatlists where they are subdivided into different subjects.
Also where when I do reopen hoping to be able to pick up a thread I was on earlier it can just go to ho me once I click the page header. Happens all the time with this site. I see the headline is on the top of the page among a few at the top of the screen. Click on it only to be returned to Site New Answers
I haven't gone back to using Chrome yet but I think they did at least stay on the pages you exited. I think ther were other problems with them though.
― Stevolende, Monday, 16 February 2015 09:03 (nine years ago) link
Concert venues where ticket holders and seekers have to stand in the same damn line― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:43 PM
Or even if they don't there is usually never any kind of signage as to who stands where and if you ask the people already in line or the security guys they just grunt and stare at you so you stand around for ages wondering if you'll make it in even though you've already paid for tickets
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 16 February 2015 10:15 (nine years ago) link
Firefox supposedly reopening on the pages you closed it on but instead reopening to pages you were on much earlier.
It's taken me forever to figure out how to stop Firefox from doing that. I don't want all my old pages opened. Sometimes, they're the ones that caused the crash in the first place and when Firefox tries to open them all back up again, guess what happens.
I admit, I'm not the greatest user. Sometimes I'll look up and realize I've got 30 tabs open. My solution is to close the entire window and open a new one. But at the end of the day, I'll just quit all at once.
― pplains, Monday, 16 February 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
POint with me was that I did want it reopening the windows that were open when i shut down but it seems to bookmark at some earlier stage. Don't know when exactly. is it being overloaded by having a few windows open?
― Stevolende, Monday, 16 February 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Get a session manager add-on. Whichever one I use is very helpful, though I got under the hood a little too deep and muffed up something up. Now it re-opens to pages I will not visit until years in the future.
Today I learned that the lyrics are "Take a load off Fanny" which name/word's first meaning for me is has become the British one.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 05:46 (nine years ago) link
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/20/the-weight-of-our-ears-take-a-load-off-who/
― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link
When I scroll down to read the comments/info under a youtube video (yes, I know, my gravest mistake right there) and then I want to go back to seeing the video and I press the Home key, which rewinds the video to the beginning
(all other overriding of scrolling keys like up/down arrows also pisses me off but this is the worst. THE WORST.)
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
online & podcast film/tv critics who are pathologically hung up on plausibility and often employ the phrases "totally took me out of it" "you have to follow the rules of the world you create"
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
idk I mean I'm completely eyeroll-y at people who hem and haw about "plot holes" for films like Batman (srsly saw a 35+ post thread about whether it was possible for Batman to escape the nuclear detonation in Dark Knight Rises), but I do think films should be internally consistent at least.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 02:22 (nine years ago) link
these two doofuses rolled up in a van behind me tonight at the gas station. waiting for my pump. apparently the two unoccupied pumps on the other side that were unobstructed by any object or vehicle were insufficient or they were unfamiliar with the concept of turning around. went inside to the food mart after gassing up, coming back out minutes later to see them still waiting behind my car, waiting for my pump at an empty gas station.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 02:24 (nine years ago) link
idk I mean I'm completely eyeroll-y at people who hem and haw about "plot holes" for films like Batman (srsly saw a 35+ post thread about whether it was possible for Batman to escape the nuclear detonation in Dark Knight Rises)
fuckin eyeroll nonsense imo. you are 100% notm
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 02:32 (nine years ago) link
TO THE BATTHREAD
just 35+ seems awful low for a superhero-related argument tbf
(ftr if anyone can escape a nuclear detonation it's batman i mean come on)
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 11:15 (nine years ago) link
oh what he's got his anti fuckin nuclear cape on that day bollocks
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 11:30 (nine years ago) link
five posts and counting let's make this happen guys
anti fuckin nuclear cape and cowl
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 11:31 (nine years ago) link
idgaf if he was wearing simon cowl he's the worlds richest rarebit after that blast
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 11:32 (nine years ago) link