Covering for someone at work who's on annual leave. Client wants a project done TODAY (and they only told us about it on Thursday). It's outside my specialty, but of course, I'm the only one with knowledge that even comes close to this, so apparently, it's now my responsibility. Dammit Jim, I'm a database programmer, not a PowerShell hack!
Five way intersections. Bonus points if the extra fifth street is two way instead of one, thereby necessitating a third set of traffic lights. Cars hit the "box" and panic because they're not sure which street leads there. A function of GPS reliance that looks screwy when a simple left/right has an extra spoke.
I’m marking exams in one of the many brilliant pubs near my house. This one has music piped in. The new landlord from the brewery has changed the music from the brilliant collection of 80s alternative tracks to an awful collection of general nonsense. I didn’t realise that this had upset me so much until I involuntarily said “fucking Mr Mister”. It was almost like a reflex action.
People on bicycles who have their seat too low, meaning their legs are constantly bent at 90 degrees. I want to scream at them, “You’re peddling at half the efficiency, you moron!”
Stay out of Japan. Kids are taught that to be safe, they have to be able to have both feet on the ground with their legs bent and their butts on the saddle. The whole nation has the seats riding directly on the frame.
I was just looking into reserving a car for my trip to the States later this year. Didn't have my VPN on, so the rental car company gave me the prices in... ...British pounds. Because that's what we use here in Japan under the Raj, I guess.
Since intersections and traffic signals have been mentioned… Pretty much everywhere else I’ve lived they put the traffic signal on the far side of the intersection. Ie; you pull up to one side of the intersection, your traffic signal is on the other side- where you can see it. Here, where I am now in Ohio, they seem to enjoy putting the signals on the same side you approach, so the light is above you- where you can’t see it. I have it easier than most; my car has a sunroof. As long as I don’t go too far forward of the light, I can look up to see it change.
If you need a knob on the back of your mobile phone, you might want to examine how you're spending your time.
Using a different laptop and suddenly losing your ability to type. My laptop has a full keyboard. Im at a desk and the laptop here is a mini. I keep typing a string of gibberish because my brain cant adjust to the key placement Im forced to type really slow....
Been there done that a few times, You'll adjust, and then you'll have to re-adjust to a regulation keyboard.
Plug in a full keyboard. Mini's are killer on wrists anyways so it's better to have one around. Don't want carpaltunal. The little roll up ones are good if you move around a lot.
I've got a mini that goes with my tablet that I'm okay on, got a full-size mechanical for my desktop, but the one that kills me is the bluetooth one for the old desktop I've got hooked to my TV. The key placement is just wrong, and the keys are so stiff that it's almost impossible to type on. Just use it for youtube, Netflix, and Prime movies so it's not that much of an issue but even typing out a title in the search box is difficult. It doesn't help that I have to switch between Japanese keyboard layouts and English ones a couple times a day. The letters are all in the same place but the punctuation marks are different, and oftentimes on a Japanese keyboard the spacebar is tiny and has the language switch key right where my thumb thinks the edge of the spacebar should be so I end up suddenly in katakana.
Some drivers just can't make up their mind as to which lane they want - they're always weaving between lanes. Choose a damn lane and stick with it!
Stop turning off my num lock whenever you feel like it, you stupid laptop! I have arrow keys; when I use the number pad, I want NUMBERS! (There are some who might suggest that I stop fat fingering the num lock key, and I won't dispute them entirely. But that doesn't explain every occurrence, and even when it does, it just means the key is in a stupid location. Bah!)
Yeah, that drives me batshit when one of the office computers in one of my restaurants has the numlock turned off. Or the capslock on.
The capslock key changes the script to じゃぱねせ dammit Japanese script. To get capslock, you have to press shift capslock. You can also get to Japanese by pushing the key to either side of the spacebar, and since Japanese doesn't put spaces between their words (talk about wall of text) the spacebar is sometimes tiny. Just look at this nightmare (not mine): On the positive side, to type in Japanese you just set the keyboard to the Japanese character set and type the Japanese words out phonetically (using the standard transcription system, which takes a short time to master.) By contrast the Korean* keyset is laid out fuck knows how and I still can't figure out how to use it. *I was a Korean linguist a long time ago.
