Post here if you want to be a brat

[C'kayah Polaali]

And, as mentioned, it's usually less folks wanting to have a comfortable cushion and more that it's some nitwit talking on their cell phone and thus also going well under the speed limit too. I tend to glance over as I go past them, and they're usually distracted in some way or another. On the phone, digging through a glove compartment, taking notes on a notepad. That sort of thing.

 

You could always phone them in. A lot of states have distracted driving laws and these people are breaking them. Studies show, after all, that using a hand-held cell phone while driving is statistically as dangerous as driving while drunk.

 

Of course, other studies also show that using hands-free phone systems while driving is statistically as dangerous as using a hand-held phone while driving, so pick your poison.

[Gegenji]

And, as mentioned, it's usually less folks wanting to have a comfortable cushion and more that it's some nitwit talking on their cell phone and thus also going well under the speed limit too. I tend to glance over as I go past them, and they're usually distracted in some way or another. On the phone, digging through a glove compartment, taking notes on a notepad. That sort of thing.

 

You could always phone them in. A lot of states have distracted driving laws and these people are breaking them. Studies show, after all, that using a hand-held cell phone while driving is statistically as dangerous as driving while drunk.

 

Of course, other studies also show that using hands-free phone systems while driving is statistically as dangerous as using a hand-held phone while driving, so pick your poison.

 

I've used my car's built in bluetooth speaker phone system all of three times. Also, phoning them in while driving seems like it'd defeat the purpose. The alternative is to try and memorize their license plates before passing and trying to verify... and that's way too much effort I want to spend on these idiots.

[Kage]

Cops also say not to pull over to the shoulder in the road unless for very big emergencies and also would not like you to do it for phone calls where you are stopped.

 

People are so weird about that shit.

[Ha'uruh Nunh]

I leave 3 car lengths or so in the pitch black mornings on the Beltway, Chachan. Traffic loves to come to an abrupt halt. Saw someone rear-end someone else in the left lane once.

[Kage]

I leave 3 car lengths or so in the pitch black mornings on the Beltway, Chachan. Traffic loves to come to an abrupt halt. Saw someone rear-end someone else in the left lane once.

 

I've... been involved in an accident when traffic came to an abrupt halt. 60mph to 40mph very fast... >.>;

 

Anyway it also reminded me of this video

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[Gegenji]

I leave 3 car lengths or so in the pitch black mornings on the Beltway, Chachan. Traffic loves to come to an abrupt halt. Saw someone rear-end someone else in the left lane once.

 

Again, legit reasoning, rather than middle of the afternoon in clear weather.

[SessionZero]

Protip: when your IT guy is trying to help you with a problem, maybe not being a snarky bitch is the first step to expediting your service process. My motivation to fix your fucking Outlook is going to go waaaaaaay down when I have to listen to you huff and sigh at the other end of the phone every two minutes. I'm not going to know exactly how to fix your exact problem right off the bat every time. I'm a computer technician, not a fucking wizard.

[Warren Castille]

I know. Vaccination's are a "hot" "debate" but I couldn't help laughing while I ate my lunch after being here for 4.5 hours.

 

 

Borrowing this post to put it in here.

 

THE FACT VACCINATIONS ARE A DEBATE AT ALL MAKES ME ANGRY.

[Kage]

THE FACT VACCINATIONS ARE A DEBATE AT ALL MAKES ME ANGRY.

Oh right.

 

You have no idea how many times I've wanted to say this.

 

In this thread.

 

:>

 

"WELL IF YOUR KID IS VACCINATED THEN MY KID ISN'T A PROBLEM TO YOUR KID!!!1111"

 

GAEHJAHHJGJGJKKKKKHHHHHHHHH

[Gegenji]

"WELL IF YOUR KID IS VACCINATED THEN MY KID ISN'T A PROBLEM TO YOUR KID!!!1111"

 

GAEHJAHHJGJGJKKKKKHHHHHHHHH

 

That falls pretty soundly into the whole "YOU cater to ME(/MY child)" mindset that can get really obnoxious really quickly.

 

Also lazy parents who take no blame for the shortcomings of their children due to poor parenting, yet will be first in line to reap the accolades when they do well. I know comedians have probably worded it better, but it's still grating on the nerves.

[Kage]

Everything I see from people who are against vaccinations almost always makes me cringe. And it makes my levels of "I upset" skyrocket.

 

"I had a case of measles when I was younger and I lived to be fine!"

 

"THIS IS FASCISM/SOCIALISM!!!"

 

"HITLER WOULD DO THIS"

 

"Big pharma JUST WANTS MONEY"

[C'kayah Polaali]

Hey, maybe if the parents had learned math properly...

[SessionZero]

Everything I see from people who are against vaccinations almost always makes me cringe. And it makes my levels of "I upset" skyrocket.

 

"I had a case of measles when I was younger and I lived to be fine!"

 

"THIS IS FASCISM/SOCIALISM!!!"

 

"HITLER WOULD DO THIS"

 

"Big pharma JUST WANTS MONEY"

 

IRL Godwin's Law.

[Kage]

IRL Godwin's Law.

Pretty much.

 

Also, internment camps! Or more Nazi comparisons, concentration camps! Make em wear yellow stars!

[g0ne]

Sometimes, I absolutely hate my life. Sometimes, I wish my life didn't exist. Enough said.

 

Out of smiles for a while.

[Kage]

Sometimes, I absolutely hate my life. Sometimes, I wish my life didn't exist. Enough said.

 

Out of smiles for a while.

 

Nooooo T_T

 

So I saw a meme on /r/adviceanimals that basically had the teacher give a student a 0 because she turned in an assignment early and it was ruined because the school sprinkler system turned on. So instead of other things the teacher could do, the teacher gives the girl a 0 because there was nothing for her to evaluate.

 

[LiveVoltage]

Back to CARS!

 

I hate it when people ride up on others rear ends who are doing the speed limit. Sometimes even more than that. It's like your asking to get in a car wreck and have a possibility of dying.

 

It sometimes makes me want to get a huge truck as my transportation vehicle that way when when another car hits me, Ill completely squash/crush that car and it will serve them right for being idiot's and driving recklessly.

 

Rather be protected and alive and the other person dead rather than being the dead one.

[Gegenji]

Sometimes, I absolutely hate my life. Sometimes, I wish my life didn't exist. Enough said.

 

Out of smiles for a while.

 

I've had days where I get depressed really easily and really dig at my own self-worth. Doubly so if I get introspective about what I do for a living (get up, go to work, come home, hang out alone on the computer all evening, go to bed, repeat). I get immobile, mopey, and otherwise quite sad-sack.

 

However, I believe in something I've taken to calling "karmonics" - a portmanteau of "karma" and "harmonics." It's basically this - everyone has a karmic "neutral" baseline. You will have your good days and you will have your bad days, but it all balances out in the end. While that does make it sound like a good thing will be counteracted by a bad thing, that also means the opposite is true as well.

 

So, um, all I can offer is that I hope your karmonic upswing is a really nice one and you regain your cheer and smiles. It's always nice to see how happy you are around the forums.

 

... Sorry if this is a derail from the whole theme of the thread, but... I kinda felt it necessary.

 

Though, I must admit, I usually hate myself when I get all depressed like that (both during and afterward) so... I guess that counts? :blush:

[SessionZero]

Another IT PSA:

 

Something being foreign to you doesn't make it "not user-friendly." It just means you're not used to it yet.

 

That said, we've had Adobe Acrobat XI and Microsoft Office 2013 as our standard for about half a year now. At this point you're shifting from "unfamiliar with the programs" to "just a plain old fucking moron."

[Coatleque]

Computers have been a staple of our lives for almost 20 years now. If you don't know the difference between the 'address' bar and the 'search' bar, GTFO of the internet.

 

So tired of spoon feeding people over the phone how to browse to a simple web page.

[Gegenji]

Computers have been a staple of our lives for almost 20 years now.  If you don't know the difference between the 'address' bar and the 'search' bar, GTFO of the internet.

 

So tired of spoon feeding people over the phone how to browse to a simple web page.

 

Shortly after I got out of the military, I enrolled in a college to get my degree. Military covering it and all that, so why not. One of the first classes I got was Introduction to Computers... COMP100 or something like that (though that course number could also be Intro to Composition, I can't recall exactly). It was a required course for the programming degree I was going for.

 

I come in on the first day, sit down, and it opens with "How to create and use a folder." Like, Right-Click->New->Folder. That. We were being taught how to do that. And I actually had to HELP the girl next to me with both that and the introduction of "dragging stuff into folders."

 

But yeah. Once I found out that this was basically what the course was, I put up my hand and asked "Um, can I test out of this course?" Fortunately, I could, and the hardest part of it was a few questions about Excel. However, there are honestly people who don't know how this stuff works. It's mind-boggling, sure, but it happens.

 

But, seriously, you'd figure it'd be easier to just... ask a neighbor or a friend or a family member. There must be someone in your social circle you can approach to get such basic questions answered.

[ChewableMorphine]

When your boss uses scumstrats to force you to quit because her image is too damn high to fire anybody. I specifically stated a week ahead of time that I cannot make it this saturday to work, so I requested it off, as well as the fourth of march so I can attend my mother's birthday. So I get no other shifts but the saturday and 4th shift, my boss being fully aware that if I can't make it in I'm out of a job, effectively giving grounds to terminate me: disposable teenage minimum wage worker. Clever bitch. Fuck you.

 

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[Khoure]

Let me preface this rant by mentioning that I'd never actually follow through on these urges, and I know the thoughts I get are wrong and very unfair to my fellow human, so trust me, I'm not an asshole. But at the same time, I can't really control getting those urges in the first place, short of hightailing it out of there. I guess this is less "why humanity" and more "why brain why". It is still IRL tho, so on topic?

 

 

 

okay, so the sound of eating. The sound of someone mashing a slimy wet mushy wad of food with their mouth WIDE FREAKING OPEN IN THE MIDDLE OF PUBLIC. No matter how I try to reason with myself, it's impossible for me not to consider them a disgusting pig, a vile shit covered cow of a person, almost anything that invokes disgust that I can call them, I've done it in my head.

 

Trust me, I tell myself all the time, food eating is such a small thing, and to think it has any indicator on intelligence is really messed up. But if you're making easily preventable eating noises I will without a doubt compare your intelligence to an animal as I fill with a rage no human should ever have over something so ridiculous.

 

When someone is not just eating with their mouths open, but also talking with food still in their mouths, or loudly sucking sauce off their fingers, or making that completely unnecessary smacking noise with the wad of chewed up paste in their mouth? there are few things I want to do more than jump over to them and tear the food from their mouth, hit them, slap,, throw them to the ground, stomp on their face, etc.. the worst is how much the thought of watching them cry and bleed in some way makes me happy in those moments and then also distressed because what the hell is wrong with me.

 

And of course, there's the flipside where sometimes I just feel so trapped and panicked, and I end unable to do anything cause my hearts racing and I just want to get out of there so badly. So I bite my cheek, cover my ears, squeezing down with the base of my thumbs until my earlobes ache, hoping that if I'm obvious enough they might take pity and if they aren't, at least it's muffled a bit.

 

I also hate it how so many people bring apples to lecture because I legit can NOT work or concentrate on anything when that hell-fruit is being consumed in my vicinity.

 

 

[Kage]

People in my generation / class range have actually never touched a computer except for in libraries. Possibly in computer labs. I think we forget that computers for the longest time were very much luxuries and that we were privileged to be able to use them.

 

Is it frustrating to need to explain to people things we find extremely simple? Yes.

 

You would expect them to have picked up something over the 5 years they worked on the machine? Yes.

 

Should they have taken Notes? Yes.

[Unnamed Mercenary]

Let me preface this rant by mentioning that I'd never actually follow through on these urges, and I know the thoughts I get are wrong and very unfair to my fellow human, so trust me, I'm not an asshole. But at the same time, I can't really control getting those urges in the first place, short of hightailing it out of there. I guess this is less "why humanity" and more "why brain why". It is still IRL tho, so on topic?

 

 

 

okay, so the sound of eating. The sound of someone mashing a slimy wet mushy wad of food with their mouth WIDE FREAKING OPEN IN THE MIDDLE OF PUBLIC. No matter how I try to reason with myself, it's impossible for me not to consider them a disgusting pig, a vile shit covered cow of a person, almost anything that invokes disgust that I can call them, I've done it in my head.

 

Trust me, I tell myself all the time, food eating is such a small thing, and to think it has any indicator on intelligence is really messed up. But if you're making easily preventable eating noises I will without a doubt compare your intelligence to an animal as I fill with a rage no human should ever have over something so ridiculous.

 

When someone is not just eating with their mouths open, but also talking with food still in their mouths, or loudly sucking sauce off their fingers, or making that completely unnecessary smacking noise with the wad of chewed up paste in their mouth?  there are few things I want to do more than jump over to them and tear the food from their mouth, hit them, slap,, throw them to the ground, stomp on their face, etc.. the worst is how much the thought of watching them cry and bleed in some way makes me happy in those moments and then also distressed because what the hell is wrong with me.

 

And of course, there's the flipside where sometimes I just feel so trapped and panicked, and I end unable to do anything cause my hearts racing and I just want to get out of there so badly. So I bite my cheek, cover my ears, squeezing  down with the base of my thumbs until my earlobes ache, hoping that if I'm obvious enough they might take pity and if they aren't, at least it's muffled a bit.

 

I also hate it how so many people bring apples to lecture because I legit can NOT work or concentrate on anything when that hell-fruit is being consumed in my vicinity.

 

 

 

yes. YES. ALL OF IT SO MUCH. You have described a person I live with. But might I add. Oatmeal. Lip-smacking. And demon noodles (instant ramen). When this person eats, I usually immediately reach for anything that can make noise. (Usually computer headset or headphones). ...if I can't think of a good excuse for a song, I put on white noise. Sweet, blissful, white noise.