It tempts me to paste a big “Blergphone” label on my cell.
People who use hashtags on Twitter when a sentence would serve just fine.
“TOR server queue sucks! #seriouslybiowarefixyourservers”
Fuck you. Nobody else in the whole world is going to use that hashtag ever again. Just type it out as a sentence. Don’t make Twitter any dumber than it already is. Ugh.
Yeah the hashtag thing on twitter is annoying, only because I’m not on Twitter so I see people do FB/G+ updates with fake tags in an effort to be funny. #knowwhatImsaying
New nerd rage: people who drive with just their parking lights on. Is there a particular reason to do that? Because inevitably they forget they didn’t turn on their headlights, it gets dark, then they wonder why everyone keeps flashing their lights at them. “BUT MY LIGHTS ARE ON, THE DASH IS LIT, WTFPPL?”
Marcus
2664
I was going to post this in the other rage thread but I guess it works here as well. Fucking Amazon.com apps that don’t fucking let me fucking put shit on my fucking wish list. Example being the new Price check app they just came out with lets me do everything but add it to my wish list! It is just as bad on the Kindle Fire when I am using the device to look through some of their suggestions. It would be nice to be able to add the shit to the wishlist so I can buy it later if I want.
1.5 aspect ratio for 35mm stills has been around for literally 70 years. It’s not new. Yet somehow, if you frame and mat a print, the one aspect ratio that is not readily available in pre-cut mat openings is 1.5. 1.25, sure. 1.33, if you insist, though they won’t carry that in most sizes. 1.5? Go to a custom framing shop, we don’t carry that.
Yes, you can purchase such mats from Adorama or B&H, but your local art store? Forget it.
They’re could be using a client that post to Twitter and FB/G+ so it may not be just for the lols.
New nerd rage: people who drive with just their parking lights on. Is there a particular reason to do that? Because inevitably they forget they didn’t turn on their headlights, it gets dark, then they wonder why everyone keeps flashing their lights at them. “BUT MY LIGHTS ARE ON, THE DASH IS LIT, WTFPPL?”
Safety, if your car doesn’t have daytime lights, also on some cars those are the daytime lights. It’s generally a good habit but yes not turning your lights on when it’s dark is a problem.
WarrenM
2667
Why the FUCK doesn’t the queue work in the Hulu app on the XBox? FFS, they just updated the app … it STILL doesn’t work? Fuck off.
Except they also use hashtags that aren’t doing anything but extending the conversation “Twitterly”, #amirite?
Safety, if your car doesn’t have daytime lights, also on some cars those are the daytime lights. It’s generally a good habit but yes not turning your lights on when it’s dark is a problem.
Why not just turn on your headlights? That’s my point – I’m fine with daytime lights, just go all the way, don’t 1/2 ass it with parking lights.
Even seeing it used in an effort to mock the practice, it still makes me hrrrrrrrgghhghghghghhr
TimJames
2670
Probably unrelated, but I remember it was one of those things that supposedly looked cool on certain cars, especially in twilight hours. I may have done it once or twice as a young whippersnapper. I think it’s illegal in some states though.
sluggo
2671
This may have been mentioned before in the thread, apologies if that’s the case.
I’m traveling home for the holidays. My plane is about to start boarding and they announce “we’re now boarding rows X/Y/Z.” Immediately 150 people stand up and block every possible path to actually getting on the plane.
My row is called, and I’m trying to make my way through this mass of humanity, and I can’t tell who’s actually in line and who’s just blocking the way. No one is moving, and I have to start saying “excuse me” to get around people, and they’re looking at me like I’m cutting them in line, and I have to ask almost every single one if their row was called, and refrain from cursing at them when they say no and I squeeze by them.
I finally get to the counter, and there’s so many people jammed in here that I have to assume that at least a few of them are actually in line. But people hand in their tickets, and they’re told “no, we’re not boarding your row yet” and they’re ushered aside. And before I can actually get to wherever the line is, they announce more rows and another 20 people jump in line ahead of me, which means when I finally get on the plane, the nearest place to stow my bag is about 10 rows away from my seat.
This happens to me enough, where people constantly block the way when their rows aren’t called, that I wonder if I’m going if I’m going to snap one day and stand on a seat in the terminal and yell “IF YOUR ROW HASN’T BEEN CALLED, PLEASE SIT YOUR DUMB FUCKING ASSES DOWN AND LET OTHER PEOPLE THROUGH.”
That qualifies as nerdrage, right?
dermot
2672
No, that’s just generic rage. It’s still worthy though.
They’re called Gate Lice by some folk.
Right. You can turn all that stuff off, but you have to hunt down the settings. They should have a big “Stop helping me” button. They could put a picture of clippy on it. Speaking of Clippy, I met the guy who drew him. Real nice guy.
JoshV
2675
When I traveled in asia, none of the asian folks paid any attention to the rows being called, and the attendants didn’t bother to check row numbers on tickets. Everyone just boarded willy nilly. The whole exercise does seem mostly pointless, since they won’t take off til everyone’s seated anyway. About the only issue is having to check your bag because the overhead bins are full.
Which leads me to my rage at the airlines: When they decided to charge people for checking their baggage, you know what happened? Everyone tries to carry-on everything, and it makes it an extra pain in the ass to embark and disembark. Which makes all the flights late.
TAirlines could fix a lot of this but the people making the policies don’t understand how people game the system, or they do understand it and don’t care enough (assuming it’s the outliers, i.e. infrequent travelers who don’t know how to game the system).
The big problem is that doing anything against the rules has no downside. Sticking all your personal items overhead so that you don’t have anything over your feet? Sure, why not, no one is going to call you on it. Boarding before your zone is called? Worst case is that you go “Oh, oops, I thought you called zone 5, my bad”. Best case – you board early.
Trying to board with oversized carry ons? Sure, why not try? Worst case – they gate check for free.
And hey, checking bags is expensive? Just bring it as a carry on and most airlines will do a complimentary gate check, so you bypass the fee entirely, in exchange for more hassle for GAs and baggage handlers.
This is why I love the zealous gate agents that bust people for oversized luggage or trying to board early.
I just wish that airlines would board back to front. I don’t even care about first class, but whatever. Let first class go first. Fine. They paid more for two hours of luxury, so who am I to complain? But when you get back to coach, don’t call on the people sitting in the front of coach to board before the ones in back. That just doesn’t make sense and slows the line down as everyone entering has to wait for all the people who went in before them to finish cramming the entirely of their earthly goods into the tiny space above the seats and sit down before anyone else can come in.
WarrenM
2678
Well, as you said there aren’t any real consequences … how do they “bust” them?
shift6
2679
I flew Southwest last week and one of the boarding agents was hardcore. Everyone had lined up A1-A30, A31-A60, B1-B30, etc. and he kept an eye on the order of boarding. If you were a few numbers off no big deal, but if you were way ahead he was like “hold on, we’ve got people before you” and such.
Which I can appreciate; I mean if you are A58 and you’re up front by the A30 range and there are 20ish people who you just tried to screw out of a reasonable seat since they are unassigned, well you just got told!
While this makes sense, practically speaking it doesn’t work.
Technically you should board back to front, and aisle to window, but the reality is that there are things conspiring against making shit work to your benefit.
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You have to let frequent fliers/priority fliers feel special and board early (note: I’m one of those, and if I didn’t get to board in Zone 1/2 I’d be irked given how much I travel)
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You have to let exit row board early so that any adjustments to exit row seating can be done early if possible. But this is a source of rage for me no matter what – no standard mechanism for handling exit rows. I’ve seen non-english speakers, little old ladies, handicapped, and children flying alone all seated there inadvertently by the seating assignment system instead of prioritizing.
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To make up for revenue shortfalls, a lot of airlines are allowing passengers to pay extra for ‘choice’ seats, and those seats tend to be up front and, again, have the expected perk of boarding early.
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People don’t actually board on time, so what happens is that maybe some percentage board when called, the rest are incoming connections or wandering around the terminal or whatever, and they end up getting stuck in the mix.
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Frequent fliers that fuck up the system by stowing their shit ahead of their rows so that they can grab them on the way out instead of having to reach behind or above to get their stuff.
Of course, the only reason anyone gives a shit about boarding early is to ensure overhead space, so until airlines fix that shit it’ll be a mess.
This is all avoidable if they started boarding earlier, enforced carry on limits (I want to start punching the self-entitled assholes who sit there screaming at GAs when denied boarding with their huge ass roll aboards), and waived first checked bag fee.
