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Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

Frigga_92

Hope it's okay to start the new thread (not sure if mods have to do it).

I posted this right at the end of the last thread so just carrying it over as it has me driven demented.

I have a question on this subject.

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(my first thread on boards :cool: )

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paulbok

People who pronounce anything other than the Glasgow football club "Celtic"

They may be spelt the same but everything is is pronounced 'Kel-tic' not 'sell-tic'.

eisenberg1

LizzieJones wrote: »

Just think how well you'll sleep once it comes off.

:eek::eek::eek:

Vel

Not having the patience to wait to allow my body moisteuriser to fully sink in after a shower so I end up with my pyjamas stuck to me

jimgoose

It is difficult to be sufficiently blasphemous regarding Lotus Notes email clients be the best of times, but Notes Client 9 "Social Edition" would challenge a wounded, drunk Dutch Pirate. :mad:

mickydoomsux

jimgoose wrote: »

It is difficult to be sufficiently blasphemous regarding Lotus Notes email clients be the best of times, but Notes Client 9 "Social Edition" would challenge a wounded, drunk Dutch Pirate. :mad:

I do love to see end users raging about "productivity" software

The reason it's always so obtuse is that it was more than likely designed by commitee.

When I was in college we had a class called Software Engineering and it was infuriating. Software Engineering is what you do in the industry when you are bad at programming. There's numerous flow charts and methodologies and fluff that have been concocted to "aid" the development of software but in reality they just make most applications completely and utterly infuriating because they become over-engineered ****piles and they cause simple projects to become and utter nightmare.

I got into a debate with the lecturer of the course one day and he was not best pleased when i suggested that the entire idea was stupid because all you should really being doing is developing the software, testing it to see if it is easy to use for the average user and then bugfixing and changing the stuff that was deemed to be bad during the usability test.

He wasn't having any of it. Guidelines had to followed, plans had to be made and stuck to even if they made the end product crap. As long as the software came out exactly as described in the design document (that was written long before the first line of code, usually by someone who themselves could barely code), then it was considered a successful project.

Such a Gaping Fanny

People who mispronounce Celtic (football club) as "Keltic".

jimgoose

mickydoomsux wrote: »

I do love to see end users raging about "productivity" software

The reason it's always so obtuse is that it was more than likely designed by commitee.

When I was in college we had a class called Software Engineering and it was infuriating. Software Engineering is what you do in the industry when you are bad at programming. There's numerous flow charts and methodologies and fluff that have been concocted to "aid" the development of software but in reality they just make most applications completely and utterly infuriating because they become over-engineered ****piles and they cause simple projects to become and utter nightmare.

I got into a debate with the lecturer of the course one day and he was not best pleased when i suggested that the entire idea was stupid because all you should really being doing is developing the software, testing it to see if it is easy to use for the average user and then bugfixing and changing the stuff that was deemed to be bad during the usability test.

He wasn't having any of it. Guidelines had to followed, plans had to be made and stuck to even if they made the end product crap. As long as the software came out exactly as described in the design document (that was written long before the first line of code, usually by someone who themselves could barely code), then it was considered a successful project.

Lord graciously hear us!! :pac:

[Deleted User]

paulbok wrote: »

People who pronounce anything other than the Glasgow football club "Celtic"

They may be spelt the same but everything is is pronounced 'Kel-tic' not 'sell-tic'.

Boston Celtics

.......eek!

OldNotWIse

Accidentally clicking the Adtech link

eisenberg1

paulbok wrote: »

People who pronounce anything other than the Glasgow football club "Celtic"

They may be spelt the same but everything is is pronounced 'Kel-tic' not 'sell-tic'.

Omackeral wrote: »

Boston Celtics

.......eek!

Or any football club that uses the word "celtic":D

Generic Dreadhead

Celtic Fans

eisenberg1

Cormac... wrote: »

Celtic Fans

Are they in the shape of a celtic cross, and you just plug them in and get a celtic breeze?:D

Generic Dreadhead

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Are they in the shape of a celtic cross, and you just plug them in and get a celtic breeze?:D

Causes short hair to be 17.5% more likely to be unnecessarily gelled forwards, an increased interest in Liverpool football club and in extreme cases can can lead to a skin breakout of Tribal tattoos

[Deleted User]

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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I have to wear something similar in 2 weeks, a Holter moniter.

Apparently, I have to avoid 'High Voltage Areas' :eek:

But if it wakes me from my sleep....then that will not be trivial :mad:

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Oh those 24 hr things are a pain! I have tacychardia, and while they were monitoring I had to wear those yokes with the stickers on your chest. Of course I had to be allergic to the nickle in it, so ended up tearing them off me.

LynnGrace

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

My veins are awful, which is a nightmare since I have to have regular blood tests and I also get infusions via a drip. I had some blood taken this morning and it was a nightmare. It took about 10 minutes of faffing about trying to decide which arm to use.

The worst experience I ever had with it was after major surgery. A young student/team member, or whatever they're called, came to take blood late at night. Sweet Jesus after a few minutes of poking and prodding with the needle the blood was running down my arm on to the sheet and she was clearly panicking. I had to tell her to go and get someone else to take the blood. Thankfully I had a nerve block in my spine and could feel bugger all.

Poor you, that sounds awful.
My veins cause problems every time I need blood tests which is quite regularly.
It's interesting to see how skilled some people are at getting the needle in, and others most definitely are not.

LynnGrace

Boom_Bap wrote: »

It's painful.....and those that sit in lane 3 and whip accross lanes 2 & 1 to get into the exit lane at the last minute.

Agreed.
My other personal annoyance, when driving on a motorway, happened very early on Monday.
Someone overtakes, there is not another car in sight, but they come back in front of me so sharply, they almost take the front wing of my car with them. FFS!

Pumpkinseeds

There's an old fella in my town with one of those electric scooters. I've seen him twice this week driving it in the centre of a lane of traffic. It really annoyed me this morning when he did it right past the Garda station in front of an oncoming squad car, I doubt they had a chat with him about how dangerous and wreckless his behaviour is.

Czarcasm

mickydoomsux wrote: »

I do love to see end users raging about "productivity" software

The reason it's always so obtuse is that it was more than likely designed by commitee.

When I was in college we had a class called Software Engineering and it was infuriating. Software Engineering is what you do in the industry when you are bad at programming. There's numerous flow charts and methodologies and fluff that have been concocted to "aid" the development of software but in reality they just make most applications completely and utterly infuriating because they become over-engineered ****piles and they cause simple projects to become and utter nightmare.

I got into a debate with the lecturer of the course one day and he was not best pleased when i suggested that the entire idea was stupid because all you should really being doing is developing the software, testing it to see if it is easy to use for the average user and then bugfixing and changing the stuff that was deemed to be bad during the usability test.

He wasn't having any of it. Guidelines had to followed, plans had to be made and stuck to even if they made the end product crap. As long as the software came out exactly as described in the design document (that was written long before the first line of code, usually by someone who themselves could barely code), then it was considered a successful project.

Nyaaaysus! :pac:

Dammit I just couldn't let this one go! No, honestly micky I have to fully agree with your lecturer. He was bang on the money, as was Steve Jobs when he said -

We built [the Mac] for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research.

and -

A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

I may be a dinosaur at 37 in terms of the younger college graduates emerging fresh from college today, but I have the guts of 20 years software development, implementation and deployment up on them, plus anything they can do, I can do too, because I didn't just sit on my tod after I gained my degree in computer science and mathematics from DIT nearly 20 years ago (I'd been developing software and learning programming languages since I was about 12, in between downloading jpegs of Cindy Crawford that took HOURS to download!

), I keep upskilling to stay current, not because I need a job, but because I have a job, and in order to maintain that job, that involves telling people what they need, rather than focusing on what they tell me they need.

I can tell you if I let my customers dictate to me what they want, not only would I be out of business, but they'd be long gone out of business too. A typical example being charity organizations, which I do a lot of work for free (because tbh they couldn't afford my services if they actually had to pay for them), but they're all heart and no brains.

They have the best of intentions in mind and want to help as many people as they can, and they have all this money coming in, but their problem is that they're pissing it down the drain just as fast on top heavy administration and management and an often archaic IT infrastructure. Words like "productivity" and "efficiency" generally mean nothing to these people who spend all day with their heads in fluffy clouds as opposed to the digital variety.

I've spent months and in the cases of some organizations, years, pushing them towards a more business model oriented approach, and a lot of people don't like it, a lot of people. That's in the initial stages where I meet with the most resistance, suspicion, and downright *pulls head out of fluffy cloud*, "Fcuk you and the horse you rode in on!", *smiley face, butter wouldn't melt* :pac:

But eventually, they do come round because they see the long term vision as opposed to the short term "we need more money, who do we tap this time?" effort. Their productivity increases, their efficiency increases, and their effectiveness in helping their "clients" (jesus I hate that word with a passion, they're people!) increases.

Often times I have asked myself if they're like the blind leading the blind that they have this ham fisted way of operating themselves while they work with people who need their help, but the thing is, they have access to resources I can only dream about, so they can help more people than I ever will on my own, but because for me, if I can help them to help MORE people, then at the end of the day it's all collectively helping the people that need it, or the "end-users" of their services if you will, who 99 times out of 100 can't tell the difference between what they want, and what they actually need either.

/Ranty McRanterson

Gongoozler

People beeping me when I have done nothing wrong :mad:

Paddy Cow

Gongoozler wrote: »

People beeping me when I have done nothing wrong :mad:

Myself and some friends were driving into Galway and there was a bit of a back log at one of the roundabouts. My friend is a nice driver and she let another car go ahead of her. She didn't have to and the guy in the car thanked her by giving her the middle finger? :eek: It was so shocking we all just burst out laughing. There really are some nutjobs out there on the roads!

Czarcasm

Gongoozler wrote: »

People beeping me when I have done nothing wrong :mad:

You're a cyclist, that's enough reason to beep you right there

mickydoomsux

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Myself and some friends were driving into Galway and there was a bit of a back log at one of the roundabouts. My friend is a nice driver and she let another car go ahead of her. She didn't have to and the guy in the car thanked her by giving her the middle finger? :eek: It was so shocking we all just burst out laughing. There really are some nutjobs out there on the roads!

My favourite is the people who do something completely in the wrong and then get mad at you for having the temerity to beep at them because they pulled out in front of you at a junction or on a roundabout.

Nothing beats having to slap on your brakes to avoid a collision only to be greeted buy some frothing, red-faced gob****e flipping you off whilst ranting and raving.

Paddy Cow

When casually chatting with a member of the opposite sex and the subject of being single comes up and you make it clear that you have no time for a boyfriend. He says you are just making excuses and I say I'm not, I simply have no interest in dating right now. He turns on the "charm" and asks me to go to the cinema. I tell him I don't have the disposable income right now (which is true) and I'd rather focus on the things that need sorting now, which will get me a better standard of living in the long run, than blowing money I don't have on seeing a movie that I could probably find on the internet if I really wanted to see it.

He then says "don't worry, I'll take care of that". No thanks. I've made it clear that I'm not into dating at the moment and a guy paying for me to go to the cinema is definitely moving from the friendzone to the datezone. It's not going to happen. Let it go. I admire your courage in putting yourself out there but please don't make it awkward after I've made it perfectly clear to you that I'm not interested by pushing the idea that we should do "date" stuff. I'm not going to change my mind. If you want to date someone, then find women who want to date.

Ice Storm

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Myself and some friends were driving into Galway and there was a bit of a back log at one of the roundabouts. My friend is a nice driver and she let another car go ahead of her. She didn't have to and the guy in the car thanked her by giving her the middle finger? :eek: It was so shocking we all just burst out laughing. There really are some nutjobs out there on the roads!

Maybe he was just being socially awkward like this poster and is cringing about it now? :pac:

Gongoozler

Czarcasm wrote: »

You're a cyclist, that's enough reason to beep you right there

This is the kinda attitude that we could do without on the roads.

Ah don't mind me, I'm a grouch because I got beeped at twice year though I was 100% not wrong.

blinkey 101

danniemcq wrote: »

10,000 post limits.

But in seriousness phone memory.

My phone has 500+mb free of internal memory but thats not enough space to install a 800kb app or stream a song from google play.

I get that it need memory for X and Y but jeez its annoying

let me guess Samsung s4 no wait s5 even lower memory again ?

deise08

Paddy Cow wrote: »

When casually chatting with a member of the opposite sex and the subject of being single comes up and you make it clear that you have no time for a boyfriend. He says you are just making excuses and I say I'm not, I simply have no interest in dating right now. He turns on the "charm" and asks me to go to the cinema. I tell him I don't have the disposable income right now (which is true) and I'd rather focus on the things that need sorting now, which will get me a better standard of living in the long run, than blowing money I don't have on seeing a movie that I could probably find on the internet if I really wanted to see it.

He then says "don't worry, I'll take care of that". No thanks. I've made it clear that I'm not into dating at the moment and a guy paying for me to go to the cinema is definitely moving from the friendzone to the datezone. It's not going to happen. Let it go. I admire your courage in putting yourself out there but please don't make it awkward after I've made it perfectly clear to you that I'm not interested by pushing the idea that we should do "date" stuff. I'm not going to change my mind. If you want to date someone, then find women who want to date.

Slowly puts her hand up.

where's this guy?

Paddy Cow

deise08 wrote: »

Slowly puts her hand up.

where's this guy?

What's the male equivalent of Single White Female? Because if you want to know, I can send him your way :pac:

honeygirl

I hate spiders! keep finding them in my bathroom:(