I had a sour patch kids that didn't open right and thought of this thread.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 02:51 (eight years ago) link
I just want to know what kind of fucked up kryptonite-plastic alloy they're making chip bags out of now, the shit doesn't tear in any way. Flap is just a cruel joke.
Maybe I'm just getting old, maybe I need a scissors holster on my belt, should come free with a fucking golf shirt
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 09:27 (eight years ago) link
i solved the problem by just eating the bag
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link
there seems to be a hair on the screen of my touch-screen windows-based laptop
*gently attempts to brush hair from screen*
all open windows are rearranged, resized, Window Media Player is launched, all fonts set to 58, task bar disappears
― fappy bird (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link
lol yeah laptop touchscreen has been a nuisance approx 1000x more then it has been useful
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 15:34 (eight years ago) link
Windows/Microsoft is a source of so many of these. Guess eventually I'll have to give up my $75 Dell Laptop and shell out $10,000 for an entry-level Mac.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link
Understandably peevish thread
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 15:47 (eight years ago) link
they aren't even touch-screen anymore, they are gesture sensitive - just wave your hand within a foot of the screen and it'll flip over your powerpoint pages.
― koogs, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
Could you just blow on it?
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
mobile websites w/ locked menus & banners that reduce the scrollable part of the screen to like 1.5 inches
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
I installed a VPN adblocker in iOS and that solved a fair bit of that. Not all, but much of it. The only drawback is the VPN blocks all apps not just safari/chrome, so it makes siri not work, among other things. I can live with that tho.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 05:24 (eight years ago) link
Just wondering, is Windows 10 a blight to a lot of people? I keep finding things buffering when i go to do nearly anything. Don't think it was as bad on Windows 7. So wondering if t might be a better thing to go back to that.
Is there a beta element to the system? Was it released before they ironed out all the kinks.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 08:27 (eight years ago) link
Fine on both my boxes
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 11:07 (eight years ago) link
There were bugs, they got improved, but it still pisses me off. Things like the Windows button, goes through phases where you can't click on it (only right-click).
― kinder, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 11:09 (eight years ago) link
I haven't switched to Windows 10, but man, Microsoft sure wants me to know that I can every fucking time I reboot.
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 12:01 (eight years ago) link
They highly encourage you to embrace the destruction of your computer, think of it as a scorched earth strategy
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link
Most of my Win 10 problems are display/graphics card probs
― fappy bird (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link
Clicking on the Facebook icon on a website, expecting their Facebook page but getting the "Share our website!" pop-up instead.
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
And that's another thing: Looking for information/art and finding nothing on official website, but discovering 48 image folders on the FB page.
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
when one of a website's menu listings is 'information'.
― kinder, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
I watched The Simpsons a few weeks ago (when Scharpling and Wurster did guest voices), and I was IA that the characters were occasionally fucking around on cellphones and half paying attention to other people talking. Like, I get that that's real life, and I have no attachment to modern day Simpsons, but it felt so irritatingly out of place on the show I've missed the last fifteen seasons of.
Like I said, it's been a few weeks and it's still stuck in my craw. Hardcore IA.
― I am very inteligent and dicipline boy (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:46 (eight years ago) link
"Hi! It seems as though you're using an Adblocker..."
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:54 (eight years ago) link
I'm yet to have my PC remind me let alone force me to upgrade to win10 oddly. But I have disabled all updates and I ignore all those flags in the bottom right so fuff to Microsoft.
xp "Hi! It seems as though you're using an Adblocker..."
YES TO THIS. If it just whines about it, whatever (I see you, Guardian), but if it outright wont let me view the site, then fuck you site you lost my clicks.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link
And yeah its weirdly jarring seeing the Simpsons using iphones and tablets now, but I suppose thats because a lot else about the show hasnt aged a day.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:41 (eight years ago) link
Is there still an antenna on their huge ass TV?
― pplains, Thursday, 31 March 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link
fuckin xyzzzz__ and James Morrison and o.nate and everyone else on the what are you reading thread being awesome and having great suggestions because they've already read every goddamn thing
(i am not actually angry, and indeed very much appreciate the suggestions, just feeling lame)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 March 2016 01:43 (eight years ago) link
I did upgrade one of my computers to Windows 10, found that nothing worked because there were no drivers and promptly reinstalled Windows 7. Of course it still reminds me constantly to upgrade to Windows 10.
Anyway that's not why I'm here. I'm here because why it is impossible for flat-pack furniture companies to deliver all the parts necessary to assemble their furniture? It's taken them over a week to deliver our sofa and 4 pieces of wood are missing now it finally got here. It seems this happens all the time, you'd think they'd check.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 1 April 2016 12:49 (eight years ago) link
people that use April Fool's Day to go "omg I'm pregnant" and nobody believes them and they still do the 'shocking reveal' at the end of the day anyway
― Neanderthal, Friday, 1 April 2016 12:49 (eight years ago) link
April Fool's Day in general is starting to make me IA. I wasn't affected by the Gmail April Fool's Day "prank" but I'm peeved thinking about everyone who was. This was a fun day when I was a kid and my friends and siblings and I would punk one another in a harmless way but now it's a day for every sociopath's inner Improv Everywhere to shit on people who just want to get through the day.
― I am very inteligent and dicipline boy (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 April 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I pranked a co-worker once into thinking a project was cancelled and I stopped when I realized I was screwing up her day/planning and from then on have stuck to harmless things.
I always worry that I'm going to have like a heart attack or something and that a family member will post about it on FB and everybody will go "HAHAHAHAA GOOD ONE".
― Neanderthal, Friday, 1 April 2016 13:02 (eight years ago) link
(the first prank was many years ago)
I also hate that due to AFD I had to actually check to see if the Google AFD prank actually happened or if it was a prank within a prank. I hate this fuckin day.
Those places that have just the one Freestyle coke machine.
Cos when it breaks like it did today at Mons and none of the staff knows how to fix it...YOU DRINKING TEA OR WATER BOIII
― Neanderthal, Friday, 1 April 2016 23:19 (eight years ago) link
patsy cline car commercial
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 2 April 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link
Is there any reuse value in a stolen tv satellite reception dish as in the kind of thing that Sky use? I'm just wondering why I would see one in the top of a bush as i walked to the bus stop earlier.Or alternatively, one of those things has got too much weight on it to be blown in anything short of a hurricane from the side of a building to a bush that's about 200 foot away from even the closest house isn't there?
Maybe the fact that that is puzzling me is the most annoying bit. But fact is there was this object that I would think was probably too heavy to be blown to where i saw it earlier. Wind had been howling loudly through whatever gaps in the building I live in make that howling noise anyway. So my first thought was that it might have blown there but now I'm thinking it would be too heavy.But maybe they are lighter than they look so they don't cause damage should they be blown off in a storm anyway?But I'm thinking that flight trajectory for a loose one is either vertically down or parabolically down
― Stevolende, Sunday, 10 April 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
resale value thing there was me wondering if the dish had been stashed. it was in the top of a bush about 6foot plus off the ground which had me wondering if it had blown there.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 10 April 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
spending the morning cleaning because visitors are coming, then the visitors treading mud all over the carpet as soon as they come in.I swear this happens with at least 75% of visitors, despite having two doormats and one long plastic mat by the door.
― kinder, Sunday, 10 April 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
and they've usually driven here and parked right outside
how does this even happen
the redesigned oreo packets with the tearaway flap on top... it's smaller than the packet of cookies and dumb.
seriously there was nothing wrong with the standard packaging before
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 April 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
The other day I was getting lunch at the restaurant/deli in my building. The woman in front of me was getting a sandwich made and was asking the man behind the counter about the different condiments available. "This one is brown mustard, this is Thousand Island, this is chipotle mayo . . ."
She just stared at him blankly for a second, so he repeated, "Chipotle mayo. It's really spicy." So it dawned on me, she doesn't know that a chipotle is a variety of hot pepper. She just thinks it's the name of a restaurant. And she doesn't know why the restaurant is named that.
For some reason it made me really, really pissy for the rest of the day.
(File under: "50 Cent does not know what a grapefruit is")
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:30 (eight years ago) link
I just clicked on my junk mail folder for some reason and Yelp had sent me an email titled "We're Reuben On Up!" and I was filled with the sudden urge to kick my monitor.
― how's life, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:43 (eight years ago) link
You don't appreciate rye humor like that?
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:39 (eight years ago) link
I walked past a Sweetgreen restaurant that had a "Beets Don't Kale My Vibe" sign in the window
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link
I saw a tshirt saying 'don't kale my vibe' and I don't understand it
― kinder, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
don't is short for donut, vibe is short for vibrator, thus "Donut kale my vibrator". See?
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 April 2016 02:03 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF8aaTu2kg0
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 14 April 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link
― how's life, Wednesday, April 13, 2016 7:43 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
So much advertising/marketing tries to get cute with me that it sometimes makes me want to boycott humor.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Thursday, 14 April 2016 02:55 (eight years ago) link
the name meghann. i don't love the h but the 2nd n sends me over the edge. apologies to any ilxor meghanns
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 14 April 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link
oh, it's like Megh-Ann? Never seen this before.
― how's life, Thursday, 14 April 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Facebook "suggested posts"
go eat a bag of vomit, jerks
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 14 April 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link