What induces nerd rage in you?

Creole_Ned · 2011-07-01T16:20:22.000Z

BaconTastesGood:

Oh, I have an actual nerd rage post!!

Cut-and-pasting from a Web page into Gmail and it keeps all the formatting codes so that, hey, all my text is now like 32 point bold and I can’t figure out how to make it go back to the normal font I was using.

Use the ‘remove formatting’ button. It looks like a T with a red X at the bottom of it. :)

Word’s smart formatting sometimes gives me fits, too. I’ve disabled a lot of the ‘I know what you want to do’ features. No, I am not making a bullet list, dangit!

Zylon · 2011-07-01T16:29:54.000Z

robsam:

It’s really not that hard to understand, why does it bother you that a dumbed down explanation for the masses is being used?

Because making the masses even dumber is never a good idea.

And then the non-dumb-masses start using the same dumbed-down terminology.

BaconTastesGood · 2011-07-01T16:31:26.000Z

Creole Ned:

Use the ‘remove formatting’ button. It looks like a T with a red X at the bottom of it. :)

That wasn’t working for me (which is why I posted). Specifically, if I want to keep the formatting but then go back to normal, it didn’t seem possible. To just strip out the formatting entirely works (although I would prefer it if it had an option somewhere like “Paste plain text”) but that wasn’t what I wanted either. I wanted my BIG BLOCKS OF TEXT but then to go back to regular font.

Oh, and a nerd-peeve (as opposed to rage) is when people use Twitter hashtags in FB or forum posts. I don’t know why it bugs me, because the other similar idiotic things never bugged me as much (especially since I did them heh).

#nerdrage <-- irks me
</nerdrage> <-- I’m fine with

Gus_Smedstad1 · 2011-07-01T19:36:47.000Z

Bill Dungsroman:

I love the one with the family where the mom essentially does Photoshop to fix her family picture. The cloud! It does everything!

That was exactly the one I was thinking of. “Hurr! You couldn’t possibly edit photos without the cloud!”

XPav · 2011-07-01T22:30:48.000Z

I rage at forums that lie to me about there being a 64th page.

russellmz00 · 2011-07-03T11:24:29.000Z

who should i rage at?

myself for not making sure my printer was plugged in when i told it to print a coupon?

hp for having my printer not actually print when i turned it on no matter how many resets i did? (wound up having to unplug a usb cord and replug it in)

chobani yogurt for limiting the number of coupons when i tried it again and making sure i got a printout saying i exceeded my coupon limit instead of saying outright they wouldn’t give it to me?

wisefool · 2011-07-12T08:41:37.000Z

Have you tried rebooting your computer? REALLY? NO? How did I guess?

jerri_blank · 2011-07-17T16:09:38.000Z

My current rage is around the new overuse of the word “curate.” BoingBoing is the biggest offender I’ve run across (sorry, Rob). According to BoingBoing, you can now curate webcomics sites, essays on a blog, Father’s Day gift ideas and playlists.

I’m not the first to notice this. It’s a little silly.

Meghan_Bowyer · 2011-07-17T17:51:21.000Z

Goddamn SPCA commercials! I was crying in 10 seconds. TEN!

Omniscia · 2011-07-17T18:25:04.000Z

Meghan Bowyer:

Goddamn SPCA commercials! I was crying in 10 seconds. TEN!

Are they still using that depressing Sarah McLachlan soundtrack?

Meghan_Bowyer · 2011-07-17T19:05:10.000Z

Omniscia:

Are they still using that depressing Sarah McLachlan soundtrack?

This one wasn’t, thank God.

Mightynute · 2011-07-18T07:09:01.000Z

Old people with email addresses (old people should not be on the internet! Just report to the Carousel already!) who always try to say them over the phone as “w-e-p… now, you have to make sure that’s all lowercase…”

No I don’t, you useless anachronism! Go back to your telegraph and Pony Express and get the fuck off my Internet!

sinnick · 2011-07-18T07:11:15.000Z

Maybe they are just trying really hard to adhere to the RFC standard ;)

Chris_Gwinn · 2011-07-18T07:18:25.000Z

Mightynute:

Old people with email addresses (old people should not be on the internet! Just report to the Carousel already!) who always try to say them over the phone as “w-e-p… now, you have to make sure that’s all lowercase…”

No I don’t, you useless anachronism! Go back to your telegraph and Pony Express and get the fuck off my Internet!

I had a report the other day that helpfully suggested that the problem might be that the user was copying and pasting bold text and, since the password was case sensitive, it was probably causing the failure.

Creole_Ned · 2011-07-18T23:02:04.000Z

The admin control panel for phpBB3. You get what you pay for.

And I got nerd rage.

Quitch · 2011-07-19T04:33:03.000Z

My local council’s colour scheme for restaurant health checks:

Red - Bad
Green - Satisfactory
Yellow - Excellent

Seriously, WTF?

Mightynute · 2011-07-19T05:15:31.000Z

It’s based on the color of bananas. Yellow means okay, green means wait a while, and red means “where the fuck did you get that banana?”

(joke courtesy of Mitch Hedberg)

anaqer · 2011-07-19T14:21:26.000Z

Meghan Bowyer:

Goddamn SPCA commercials! I was crying in 10 seconds. TWO!

There, now your post has at least a superficial connection to the topic.

PussyCat · 2011-07-19T17:22:53.000Z

When a Cat bites you… But you just cant stop petting the damn thing!

Cormac · 2011-07-20T06:14:48.000Z

Threads that appear to have new posts, but don’t!!