1961

People who insist on speaking in “text-speak”.

I’m sorry, but I will not respond to “B T Dubs”.

1962

Don’t even know what that might mean… :)
Must be too old & out of the loop. Same goes for l33t speak…

1963

“BTW”

Come on, it wasn’t that hard to figure out.

1964

Cannot stand this.

Also people who post “I can’t BELIEVE nobody has mentioned x yet!” when either A. It was mentioned two pages ago or B. The thread just started.

1965

Or C, when its in the title of a thread.

1966

You should put that in the nerd rage thread.

1967

“prolly”

RAAAGE

1968

I’ve never entered this thread before, and I can’t BELIEVE it’s 66 pages!

1969

Where’s your rage? Dammit Scrax!

1970

This seems like a pretty unique problem to me, but I get angry anytime someone asks me to recommend a book, and I say, Zodiac by Neal Stephenson, and they say “Oh, I heard that movie wasn’t very good.”

I think I’d be less frustrated by it if people ever ever mistook it for anything else, or they responded with anything less than total sureness that I was talking about something related to the movie.

1971

And the movie was freaking awesome!

1972

Or D, people who still can’t remember the difference between its and it’s.

1973

The single screw that’s stopping me disassembling this laptop to do the intended HD/SSD swap. What’s the point of having a screw if it’s recessed 8ft and made of marshmallow. Dell = Morans.

1974

When people send around an email with a link that looks like this:

K: he\docs\are\here

My K: drive isn’t necessarily the same as your K: drive, you fool! Mostly I nerd-rage at Microsoft over this.

On a related note, when you plug a thumb-drive into your 'puter and it doesn’t show up in Explorer because Windows has mapped it to a drive letter that’s already in use by a network drive.

1975

A new type of nerd rage for me, woo!

Ebook readers usually have the option to download previews of books, the idea being that if you like the sample you’ve read you can easily purchase the whole thing, often in a single click.

When this works, it works well. You get enough of a sample to make an informed decision on whether to pass or buy. But several times I’ve read previews that consisted of the book cover, the various copyright pages, the dedication page, maybe a table of contents – pretty much everything before the book proper begins.

And that’s where the preview ends, leaving you with no actual content to base your possible purchase on. Dear publishers (or whatever entity sets the parameter for each preview): This does not work as enticement!

1976

This reminds me of the time I was reading Neuromancer in College during down time between classes. Guy next to me, which I knew somewhat well enough, asked me what the book was about. So I told him the basic plot and he replied with haughty sureness, “So the author ripped off the Matrix huh?”

I should have shoved the book down his throat.

1977

…this is the nerd rage thread?

Am I weird? When I check out somewhere and pay by card and I am asked if I want to pay by credit or debit, I say “credit” or I say “debit.” I don’t say “I don’t care” or even better, “LOL what’s the difference it all comes from the same place anyway blah blah blah.” Shut the fuck up and just answer the fuckin’ question. Some people prefer credit for points or they don’t know their PIN and some prefer debit because the money comes out right away or whatever. Just shut up and answer the stupid question. I even gave you the answers. Fuck.

1978

Yes, I’m constantly behind people in line who seem like it’s their first time ever paying for anything at a place. No, it’s not funny that you can’t work the keypad for your credit card and the fact that you’re laughing and apparently having a good time with being a dunce doesn’t lessen my desire to push you onto the floor.

1979

Red Box. Ugh. Was pressed into service by the wife the other weekend to take her credit card and go down to the local grocery store and pick up a couple of movies that she had already ‘checked out’ online. When I got there the line was already three deep and when I left it was probably six. The morons that proceeded me…

  1. Were distracted by someone they had randomly run into while they were trying to check out and then discovered to their horror that their credit limit had been exceeded and so denied. Took about 5 minutes; an eternity.

  2. Were not sure what they wanted and scanning back and forth picking out one movie and a game but did not see another movie that they were hoping for; pulled out their cell phone and called home to ask if so-and-so wanted something else because they didn’t have it; didn’t get a suitable response; THEN flipped out and cancelled their entire transaction. Another 5 minutes easy. I’m dying of old age in this line.

2.5) Somewhere between 2 and 3 a person pushing a cart on their way out the store ‘innocently’ barges in and is ‘politely’ informed that there is a line waiting. Stunned! Stunned I tell you!

  1. An older gentleman who despite only having to return a couple of movies manages to make a hash of it and is taking forever. We who are behind him are getting very restless and so I swoop in and guide him through it.

  2. My transaction: Here to pick up, check. Swipe card, check. Movie in hand… 15 seconds. I bow. The line applauds. Women tells small child to be like me.

1980

When I click on the link for the next page, but get taken back to the top of the current page. Makes me want to throw things.