Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

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  1. Martin Beerbom

    Martin Beerbom Senior Member

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    I use a Mac with Safari and the tool Better to block ads and protect me from fraudulent sites. From the last few videos I watched, these two seem to block also the ads on YouTube – which result in my annoyances I already told about, namely that the video either doesn't start or stops playing – namely whenever YouTube wants to push an ad! Now that I know where it comes from, I gladly take the stops over the ads, which rib me way more.
     
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    Drivers who have to pass me, get in my Lane and slam on their brakes to slow down. Thus, slowing me down the process to.
     
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    Adblock plus with Opera also bins all youtube ads. The only thing you get is if the youtuber (god I hate that word) actually puts in a plug for their sponsor in the course of their video, like "Hi, I'm Johnny youtuber, and in a moment I'll be showing you how to trim your snake's toenails, but first, I'd like to give a big shoutout to snaketoenailtrimmer.com for sponsoring this video. Their products are the BESTEST! Now, on to our tutorial. The first thing you need to do is..."
     
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    :superlaugh:, I hate that it's a thing
     
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    Makes you ask the serious questions, like if a Youtuber is making videos, are they Youtubing, or Youtubering, and likewise, does that make Twitch streamers Twitchers, and are they and a Twitchering, or must constantly Twitching?
     
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    It makes them parasites, individuals of no value or need to to live! And they need to be cleansed and purified in the Holy Fire's of the Space Marines Wrath

    By the will of the Holy God emperor of man, I declare exterminatus on YouTube!

    Oh! Sorry about that, that's the Warhammer 40K Space Marine in me. LOL

    They're youtubingers
     
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    Not to be confused with Youtubingers, who frequently binge on Youtube, but don't create.
     
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    Youtublets? Youtubercules? Youtubinator? Youtists?
     
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    U2berbrats?
     
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    Makes it sound like a Genestealers. :p

    Got it YT and their content creators on some level are
    the Tyrinids. :D

    "Prepare to become one with our biomass." :p

    (Still more terrifying than the Borg.) :rofl:
     
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    This appeared in my YouTube feed:

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    When YouTube videos do shit like this. They make a title, they show an image that's really obvious who or what they're talking about but then they put in a freaking circle or an arrow around said thing they're talking about!!

     
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    There’s the occasional individual who comes into the shop with a fairly easy to resolve issue or a simple question and I have to answer over and over and dumb down further each time until it becomes a punch line like the old joke about the guy who walks into a doctor’s office and says my arm hurts when I do this, and the doctor says then don’t do that.
     
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  14. Martin Beerbom

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    Related to my recent mechanical pencil obsession: They're tools. They're meant to be grabbed with bare hands. So why do manufacturers insist on using materials that attract fingerprints like hell? Like high-polished Chromium?

    I have one of the cheap Pentels, a silver GraphGear 500. I like to use it just because it is almost completely matte, including the clip.
     
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    If I was being pedantic and practical - and for the purpose of this reply I will be - the fact you recognise they’re tools should mean fingerprints don’t matter.
     
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    it does if you plan to use the tool to commit murder.. just sayin :D
     
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    a) when people think they know more about my stuttering than I do (spoiler alert, I've had 25 years of this, so i'm pretty sure whatever you have to tell me, i've heard it before)

    b) talking on the phone and blocking and having the person over the other end either hang up or say "i think we lost connection" (i should be used to it, but im not, and its irritating/frustrating)
     
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    Not one of my problems, but I understand the overall issue very well:

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  20. Martin Beerbom

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    1) I'm more of the school of design that calls for "looks good even when used" and "ages well". (The latter does not mean it shouldn't show signs of use. But those signs should look good.)

    2) See thread title.
     
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    Dents, scratches, and signs of wear are what we oddballs say; "It has character". :p
     
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    Pretentious spellings of common names. I’m watching a documentary about film scores and one guy’s name flashed up as ‘Mychael’ :rolleyes:
     
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    Oh crap! That's part of my naming conventions, LOL.
     
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    I don't know what this means.
     
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