people who have their ringtones cranked up at work, especially if they get calls 12 times an hour, are disgusting savages
some dude left his phone at his desk overnight (screenlocked) and his alarm blasted from 7am until 10am when he started his shift.
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 27 March 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
I don't understand the need to have sounds turned on the phone at all, outside of specific situations where you are expecting an important call that you are worried you might miss. Put it on vibrate, man. Nobody wants to hear the sound of submarine sonar every time you get a text.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 27 March 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
my phone is on silent 90% of the day! if I'm at home and it's not in my pocket I turn the ringer on, or if I'm working outside. like why... does your phone need to make noise
― mh, Friday, 27 March 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
ia at my mum who saw sinead o connor perform live & gave the mommingest review ever "i would have left if i could, she didnt talk to the audience once"
Ohhhh, man, not the same thing but this reminds me of when I recently saw Cat Power. She was technically opening for Rufus Wainwright (who, as I've discovered, has a fairly sizeable middle-aged lady following, including my gf's mom) but she arrived late and wound up playing after him. And this group of women in the front row talked shit about Cat Power through most of her set. Not exactly loudly but loud enough for us to hear them several rows back, so I'm sure she could certainly hear them over a piano from <10 feet away. "This is so depressing." "She's just playing the same thing over and over." Mortifying.
― Gimme Gimme Pop Secret (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 March 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
Tbh I'd probably be saying exactly the same thing, plus my irritation that I arrived late on purpose and still didn't manage to miss her.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 27 March 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
not audibly during the performance, I hope!
― mh, Friday, 27 March 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
Listen with the kind of day I've had I'm not ruling anything out.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 27 March 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
IA at supermarkets that sell chunks of ginger root in a cellophane packet for 90p instead of selling it loose so you can break off a chunk for 16p.Ditto 3 onions in a net for 1.10 or two Courgettes for 2 quid but for some reason the gunner bugs me the most.
― kinder, Friday, 27 March 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
Because you'll never use that much ginger before it goes bad. You want to make a stir fry, not open an Asian fusion restaurant.
I feel the same way about cilantro which always comes in massive bundles.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 27 March 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
use all the cilantro, ignore the instructions
― mh, Friday, 27 March 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Step 1: Buy the entire bushel of cilantro that comes wire twistie-tied together.
Step 2: Put all the cilantro in the garbage, tie bag, remove from house immediately.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 27 March 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
give all cilantro to mh, keep it away from in orbit
― mh, Friday, 27 March 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
This just made me think of a burrito containing nothing but cilantro, like a Vietnamese spring roll except a burrito and hold the lettuce, noodles, meat, and sprouts and sub cilantro. Now I am sad and disgusted.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 27 March 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
that might be almost too much cilantro, unless it's a thick tortilla.
― mh, Friday, 27 March 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Since I got anosmia in 2010 I haven't been able to taste cilantro :(My sense of smell has come back partially (with major "perversions") but cilantro still doesn't taste like delicious soap.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Friday, 27 March 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
I created a massive list of UK-US English translations for a work thing - possibly the most comprehensive list that exists anywhere - and the last-discovered major omission was cilantro.
― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 28 March 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
So it's something you can't share? Or can you? I love that kind of thing.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Saturday, 28 March 2015 03:19 (nine years ago) link
My iPhone's autocorrect has learned the following bad spellings that drive me crazy
yiuCoukd (always capitalized)tye (the)wilk
And it insists on changing "co" as in "co-authored" to "℅."
And this post reinforced all of those spellings :(
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Saturday, 28 March 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Lol at c/o
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Saturday, 28 March 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Shoukd make it easier for yiu to shop for wilk tho
― j., Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
i hate ios8's autocorrect. at least i think that's when it got worse. went through so many autocorrected Hash, Hag, Hear just to type Yeah to my supervisor the other day.
― computer champion (harbl), Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
Wondering what the story is on the disappearance of instant fairtrade coffee from the shelves of the local LIDL. Been gone for the last couple of weeks and now its shelf space has been taken up. So looks like it isn't about to reappear.Been relying on that place for my coffee needs for the last couple of years so hope it isn't permanent.Hoping it isn't an intentional policy thing. Cos I liked the fact you could get Fairtrade coffee. Also hoping i haven't been hoodwinked into thinking something that wasn't actually fairtrade was.
Now wondering if you can get a cafetiere that does less than 8 cups of coffee at a time. I haven't really used one before so don't know what a minimum amount you can make in one would be. & I only really drink one cup at a time and live alone.
They do still do fairtrade non-instant in the place.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 28 March 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
pfeh, i get that restaurants need to make money, but i am IA at being guilt-tripped when i don't order a lot of food. i just ordered a club sandwich from room service and the guy was like "are you sure you don't want anything else? something to drink?" and you could visualize him mentally sighing even though it wasn't audible. i didn't even want a whole sandwich, but i would have felt self-conscious just asking for a starter. the sandwich arrived and it's HUGE and comes with fries. i couldn't even eat half of it, and there's no mini-fridge in the room so i can't save the rest for breakfast. i should have just had one of the protein bars i brought with me. now i'm IA at myself for not doing that.
― Textured Vegetable Personalities (get bent), Sunday, 29 March 2015 02:22 (nine years ago) link
it bothers me that the transportation department in my state regularly refers to the "MS River" on Twitter.
"MS" is a postal abbreviation for the state's name. You would never refer to the first president as George WA.
― pplains, Sunday, 29 March 2015 02:32 (nine years ago) link
Of course. it's George IA
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 March 2015 02:34 (nine years ago) link
multiple sclerosis river
― Textured Vegetable Personalities (get bent), Sunday, 29 March 2015 02:36 (nine years ago) link
Ms. River
― computer champion (harbl), Sunday, 29 March 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
george iowa?
― mh, Sunday, 29 March 2015 03:57 (nine years ago) link
I get annoyed when people use old-fashioned abbreviations for states! Particularly on pieces of mail but anywhere else too.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Sunday, 29 March 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
I tell you what, no one thought I was from Arizona back when we used Ark.
― pplains, Sunday, 29 March 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
People who say "karma, bitch!"
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
HSB your associates are horrible quote machines
― mh, Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
Was actually my pastor that said it ;_;
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
your religion is subservient to Breaking Bad scripts
― mh, Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
My phone autocorrects ill to "I'll" all the time and drives me bonkers.Perhaps I should stop having such an affect of saying "ill" instead of "sick", i unno.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Monday, 30 March 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
if i type "he's" on my phone it tries to auto-correct to "hens".only if i type "hes" does it default to "he's"
stop penalising me for correct punctuation, dickwad phone!
― kinder, Monday, 30 March 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
Websites, billboards and advertising that use outdated versions of the city's skyline.
My own company even just did this recently on a magazine cover, somehow catching the magic week the Met Building was getting turned into Simmons.
http://i.imgur.com/dRjfNBp.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
When you click on a picture to enlarge and it opens a picture exactly the same size. MOTHERFUCKINGGKJKLSDFJKLSDF
― Jeff, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
^ THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS.
― pplains, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
• Click on a picture to enlarge, stays the same size.
• Click on a picture to enlarge, lightbox screen opens up, obscuring half of picture.
• Right-click on a pic to view separately, somehow automatically downloads to your hard drive.
― pplains, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
daylight time, goddammit
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― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
no one is even forcing you to specify, we will understand if you just put CT.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
Cereal packaging.
In particular:-cereal boxes that don't have the name on the side so if you have three different Kellogg's cereals they all look the fucking same-cereal boxes that don't have that little flap you push down to keep the top closed-cereal boxes with the tops glued so tightly that you rip that little flap thing and can't close the box-plastic inner bags that rip downwards when you try to open them so you can't pour your cereal without half of it ending up loose outside the bag in the bottom of the box-stupidly sized boxes that don't fit in any standard kitchen cupboard or shelf-every single fucking thing about weetabix packaging
I've let this shit build up too long. Fuck cereal.
― there can be only (onimo), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 23:36 (nine years ago) link
Solution: clear plastic tubs, toss packaging.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
lately i've been irrationally angry when reading articles about the videogame bloodborne where the writer calls the fictional location in which the game takes place 'yarnham' instead of the correct 'yharnam'.
it's particularly annoying to me because you see the correct spelling many, many times on-screen when playing. pay closer attention ffs!
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 09:38 (nine years ago) link
websites that list the full name of US states in a selector, but the list is alphabetized by the state's abbreviationconversely, websites that list the abbreviations of US states but alphabetize the list by the state's full name, leading to this:
IDILINIA
― mh, Thursday, 2 April 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
That's horrible.
Never noticed that myself, though. It's tough living at the top.
http://i.imgur.com/Rahc91b.gif
― pplains, Thursday, 2 April 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
I think Iowa is the only state screwed over by that convention, although Alabama/Alaska comes close
― mh, Thursday, 2 April 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link
Well, it should, right?
AlabamaAlaska
AKAL
― pplains, Thursday, 2 April 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
Maine----------ME Maryland-------MD Massachusetts--MA Michigan-------MI Minnesota------MN Mississippi-----MS Missouri-------MO Montana-------MT
MAMDMEMIMNMOMSMT
― pplains, Thursday, 2 April 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link