Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

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  1. OurJud

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    Websites that intentionally run poorly on mobiles and pester you left right and centre to ‘use the app’, just because that’s where a huge chunk of their revenue comes from.
     
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    I love this song, but I’m posting it here because he says “Only you cand make all this world seem right...”

     
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    The landscape keyboard on mobile devices. There is no reason it should take up that much space on the screen, especially when it has the ability to split! But no, that space that splitting the keyboard frees? Is just filled with the background color of the keyboard, so there's no reason for that feature to exist! Is it too much to ask to be able to see what I'm writing?
     
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    Bowlderizing of song lyrics, usually for television ads. It's Black Betty, bam-ba-lam, not Big Betty.
     
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    I dunno...seems like every thought I’ve ever thunked is on Quora.

    Even did a google for David Bowie dick - on ‘private’ - obviously- and after the Debbie Harry revelations - obviously. All curiosity sated, y’know.
     
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    Do you remember a few years ago there was a trend for people to phrase everything they said as though it was a question? It’s difficult to explain in words but their pitch would rise towards the end of the sentence.

    Anyway over recent years I’ve noticed a new trend sneaking in (at least here in the UK) which seems rife within the media, where people pretext every question they answer with ‘So...’

    “We have all these fossils in the one place. Sarah, what does this tell us?”

    “So... the fossils are nearly all from the Crusteaous period...”

    “Before we start the quiz Peter, tell us about yourself. What do you do?”

    “So.... I work for a major pharmaceutical and....”
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    Don't let's get started on duck anatomy and courtship, or lack thereof.
     
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    Google apps are not compatible with my kindle. I can't even edit my docs in the browser, it's ridiculous
     
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    I have a blackberry. I feel your pain...


    When I first worked with public-facing software, back in the day when the entire internet could fit on a modern flash drive, one of the fundamental rules was ensuring that your product worked in as many places as possible (usually just by sticking to W3C standards), now the rule seems to be a shrug and "change your tech, boy, your old crap isn't supported"
     
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    What kills me is that I can't even download my docs as a word doc for my tablet's word processor, I just get a ridiculously complicated twenty pages of code formatting I can't read, let alone write
     
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    Have you side-loaded a real word processor yet? I know the Kindle is pretty much a piece of crap, but going outside Amazon-space can effect some small improvements.
     
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    WPS Kingsoft Office works perfectly fine. The issue I have is that, out of habit, I write my essays on google docs, because I can access my Drive from basically anywhere and half the time when I need a processor for essays or whatever, none of the devices available to me have Word, which I CAN access from WPS Kingsoft.

    I've tried sideloading, but I don't want to break it by rooting and when I try apks for other word processors it says "There was trouble parcing the package". Well I don't need you to analyze it, that's why Apps from Unknown Sources is allowed!

    Computers can be retarded
     
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    This is why I have one (1) dedicated device for writing, so I don't have to
    bother with all of those types of 'cloud' shenanigans. :p
     
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    The constant, fictitious slang in A Clockwork Orange was approximately 1000% easier to suss out than the (presumably) real-life verbiage in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'm only a quarter of the way through, and I'm rather enjoying the audiobook anyway. So far, it's poignant and melancholy, and it's read by Colin Farrell, so how could I not? Still, I could use some freaking annotation!

    I have no trouble with Dickens and the like, or at least I always know whats happening, whether I catch every reference or not. There are sections of James Joyce, though, in which I have absolutely no idea what he's talking about! I need a course in turn-of-the-century Irish slang and apparently a lesson in Catholicism and local history. He's a beautiful writer, but he's making me feel dumb!
     
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    My favorites are the ones where they stop just before a well-known line that will be in most customers' heads whether they hear the whole stanza or not. Is it Philips that has the Beatles line?: "I have to admit, it's getting better, a little better all the time." Then in my head, the backup vocals chime in, "Can't get no worse." That's terrible advertising!

    I'm still unsure whether Carnival want's us to associate the redacted Iggy Pop lines with their cruises or not. "Here comes Johnny in again [...] with a lust for life!" Wait! You skipped the middle part: "...with a liquor and drugs and a sex machine. He's gonna do another strip tease..." I can't decide if they're being deliberately subliminal on that one. o_O
     
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    I doubt it. Ad execs often only know the chorus or hook or whatever. The US Navy considered using The Village People's In the Navy as a recruitment song, politicians often use Springsteen's Born in the USA to whip up a patriotic fervor, parents never realized that Ozzy's Suicide Solution was an anti-drug and alcohol tune, etc.

    Ooh, and my favorite: The song Cop Killer was pulled from Ice-T's Body Count album, but the skit Smoked Pork, which appears to depict the actual murder of a police officer, stayed because no one bothered to listen to the album.
     
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    Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead- Cannibal Corpse sheds light on
    the phenomena of being 'awake' during surgery due to the anesthesia not
    working correctly. :)
     
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    Oh man, I did not need that in my head.
     
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    Oof... I've had root canals that were less painful than that one.
     
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    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    "But...but George Fischer is so fluffy...
    Ok, maybe he just has a tree trunk for a
    neck, but still..." :p
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    Cannibal Corpse mainly writes songs based on Horror themes/conepts
    and is a Death Metal band, so nothing they put out is going to be light
    and happy fun times. :p

    :supergrin:This song featured in Ace Ventura Pet Detective.
     
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    Not even that admittedly funny photo is erasing the idea of being conscious during spinal surgery.
     
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    Not even going to glimpse, @Cave Troll. I'm already nervous about the needle sewing electrodes a fraction of an inch from my spinal cord. Any more and I might chicken out.
     
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    Oh, well then yeah might want to skip that one. Sounds like serious business from the get
    go. I am sorry if I did anything to exacerbate your anxiety, and I hope that everything goes
    well for you.

    (I feel like shit now.)
     
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