Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

Sometimes it swings too far the other way. I'm a few hours from the city of Amarillo, with the "l's" pronounced. Everyone knows, accent or not, that double "l's" are pronounced "y" in Spanish. Amarillo with a "y" sound is yellow in Spanish. We have several schools and streets and I think a town called Guadalupe. All are pronounced - American accent or Latin - "Guad-a-loop-ay" except in Austin where Guadalupe Ave. is known as "guad-a-loop."

 

When people refer to fat women as 'curvy'... as though this somehow lessens the possible offence caused by highlighting their weight.

 

Trying to get DOS box to work, and I still don't know how.
So I cleaned up all the old games I downloaded. No old school
gaming for me.

 

Try Virtual Box from Oracle.

 

DOS box never did really work. OSs don't release hardware the way old-school DOS games want them to. Newer (post-2001) motherboards are 'real-mode' haters. Laptops also challenge DOS efforts.
Try booting actual DOS from USB and give that a shot. You have to deal with all the golden-oldies like CONFIG.SYS and SET commands. XP was truly the last OS to run DOS games successfully.
Got any old hardware? Want some?

 

Yeah I got an old DOS machine, but IDK how I could
transfer the games over to it without putting them on
either a 5 1/4 or 3 1/2 floppy disk. I don't have the fancy
doo-hicky to hook to the laptop to make that kinda file
transfer.

 

Always worked for me. Then again, I started off with DOS.

 

Cairo, Illinois.

Bet you thought Ki Ro. Nope, Kay Ro.

 

Interlink cable! That's what it was called!
A true blast from the past! Does the old machine have USB?

 

IDK, it may be a bit old to have one.

 

USB 3.5" Floppy Drive. Very handy. Very cheap.

 

Can you send me a pic of the back?

 

If you're competent with building hardware, use one of these:

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IDK when that will be, considering ti is buried in the
room that became the misc. closet of storage.

 

This is one of the pettiest things imaginable to complain about, but:

I'm trying to watch a Korean movie on Prime. I'm allowed to choose between Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and New Norwegian for my subtitles. What... what happened to English and Bokmål, pray tell?

ETA: Okay, turns out the option advertised as New Norwegian is, in fact, Bokmål (these being the two official written standards of our language). And now I'm going to complain about that, because I had psyched myself up and was looking forward to reading some New Norwegian. Yeah, that's right, there's just no pleasing me today.

 

In this you are lucky. We were discussing Prime earlier, but in the Japanese version you have two choices: Japanese overdub, or [original language] with Japanese subtitles.

That cannot be turned off. And if the [original language] production includes portions in a third language, all subtitles will be in Japanese and Japanese only.

So there I am watching season 2 of The Sopranos, the season where they go to Italy, and trying to use my basic lived-in-America Spanish knowledge and the Japanese subtitles to understand what they're saying in frikkin' Italian!

Fuggedaboutit.

 

Amazon Prime Germany annoys me in having a lot of content only with German dub. In particular old movies/TV shows where it wouldn't be much no work at all to put them on with original language (since they have been released on DVD with it decades ago.)

 

Sheesh, that's rough. And that part of the show is so good! To makes matters even worse (if at all possible) I think maybe those Italian fellers are speaking Neapolitan, which as I understand is incomprehensible to most of the rest of Italy.
ETA: I had to check, it's Standard Italian and Neapolitan.
Yeah, I... I can't say that I envy you. I'll just shut my mouth and go enjoy my veritable buffet of language freedom, shall I?

(As a side note, I like Prime, I do, but it could be better in the subs department. It's inconsistent. You never quite know what you'll be saddled with. Not really a problem, since damn near everything I watch is in English, but... Yeah.)

 

Going for a coronavirus test today (I have some mild symptoms), and I had a parcel collection scheduled. So I ring the couriers to tell them I won't be in, that I'm going for a coronavirus test and where to collect from.

At the end of the call, the girl says "Enjoy the rest of your day".

Err, yeah...

 

I may have posted a rant about this before, but with all the events being rescheduled, it bears repeating. If you have an event scheduled for April and you reschedule it for September, you're moving it forward, not pushing it back. Thank you.

 

Recorded messages when you call your bank etc, that prattle on for five minutes giving you information you don't want or require, when you know that even when you eventually get the ring tone you'll be waiting at least 10 minutes anyway.

 

It's an interesting one this. I too am in the group that would say 'next Thursday' (from now) to mean in eight days time rather than tomorrow, but where do you draw the line? I mean would 'next Thursday' on a Friday, mean in 6 days time or 12?

Oh, and I'm also with you on the 'brought forward/pushed back' opinion too. If an appointment is rescheduled for an earlier date, it has been 'brought forward'.

Think of it as being in a queue for a loaf of bread. The person at the head handing it out decides that the old lady towards the back needs her bread earlier than everyone else, so he says, "Hey old lady. I'm bringing you forward."

 

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