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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Luet » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:43 am

Yes, the article I linked says that somebody did a study and the X thing came out on top of the possible remedies. They also say that an X might not be best, and possibly a star or "satans circus" (upside down star inside a circle) might be better.
That is really cool! I'll have to try that first before my other remedies. I wonder if early application makes it work better.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby VelvetElvis » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:51 am

I dont do it until I see the little welt.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Young Val » Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:20 pm

I kills me that my mother and I can't remain civil through a three minute phone call. I always think our relationship is going to evolve and it never. f******. does.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Satya » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:07 pm

Laziness and disorganization at work. Not keeping things organized/clean at work. People who don't see how organization makes things run smoother and more efficiently.

That I'll be able to watch season2/episode 2 tomorrow morning but have to go to work immediately after and not be able to chat about it.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Luet » Sat Sep 24, 2011 8:20 am

I have to clean the house. BLAH! I keep find little, picky projects to organize instead of the things that need to be done like vacuuming, cleaning the bathroom, etc.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby LilBee91 » Sun Sep 25, 2011 10:05 am

My tendency to hit my joints on random objects. Hips on door knobs, knees on desks, toes on chairs, head on cupboards, etc. No wonder I get so bruised up going through my day.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby VelvetElvis » Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:06 pm

Pweb is getting way, way politic-y and I hate it.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Platypi007 » Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:33 pm

Time Warner Cable, been without internet (cable internet, I'm tethering to my phone) for over 30 hours now, everyone in my neighborhood has been. When I called this morning they didn't even have a work order in for our neighborhood anymore, even though their system still showed that we had no signal.

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Re: Things that I hate

Postby zeroguy » Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:05 pm

Overuse of rhetorical questions in whatever I'm reading. Which is pretty much any use of them, really.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Luet » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:48 am

I hate waking up to a crappy, accusatory email. My stomach is roiling and now I have to wait all day for a response to my reply. :grumble:
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:03 pm

I seem to have lost my driver's license. Not like I'll need that this week...argh. [insert stream of frustration laced profanities here]
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Syphon the Sun » Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:08 pm

That I'm sick and still can't seem to get to sleep.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Jayelle » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:08 pm

Everyone and everything today. Grr. Blargh. :grumble:
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Luet » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:09 pm

Awww. *hugs* (from a distance so you don't hit me) :)
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Gravity Defier » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:39 pm

For Jan: :grouphug:
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Luet » Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:08 pm

In between transferring over a hundred pictures from my camera to my computer, half of them somehow got deleted. Included in those was pictures of a new bird that I hadn't identified yet. I felt sick when I realized what had happened.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Platypi007 » Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:26 pm

When you are feeling better, and think that maybe your allergy and sinus trouble is getting better, then your allergies let you know they were just scared away by the pseudoephedrine that you forgot to take the latest dose of. :D

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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Claire » Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:18 pm

:grumble: <--- this smiley is perfect for this thread.

I just want to fall asleep and wake up in a few months when I start hearing back from law schools.

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Re: Things that I hate

Postby LilBee91 » Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:59 pm

Politics.

I know I should be a concerned citizen and politically involved and all that, but I don't care enough to put up with such opinionated folks, particularly the ones who are incredibly ignorant, stubbornly biased, or outright deceptive (who are pretty much the only ones you ever hear). Blegh.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby VelvetElvis » Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:23 pm

The world is not as bad as the media would have you believe. It is also not as sensational as they would have you believe. Happy news, boring news, and logical, level-headed people don't make for "good" stories.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Syphon the Sun » Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:04 pm

I just want to fall asleep and wake up in a few months when I start hearing back from law schools.
How did I miss this? Which law schools?!
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Mich » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:58 am

I apparently hate it when people flat-out lie to me. I take that back: I know for a fact I don't mind if they lie over personal matters. I mean, you know, that's your biz, and I love lying to be private and such, and apparently am not a hypocrite in that area.

But man, today I was lied about over a video game. A video game! This guy, a very good friend of mine, and I were playing a game. A strategy game. There was a third player involved, one who is notably worse than both of us, and a fourth computer opponent to balance. I wanted to be somewhat easy on the third player, so I focused my early efforts on my friend, and we were being quite good-natured about this (or so I thought). After completely destroying his base through a series of accidental good calls, constant reinforcement, and a series of emergency decisions that would weaken my end-game, I managed to completely destroy my friend's base.

Now, in this game, there's no really good way to check to see if someone's been completely defeated. There is a message that gets displayed for about five seconds, but I've missed it previously.

All of this backstory is probably technobabble to the uninitiated, but I'm explaining it just in case you care.

So after my friend's base was gone, I didn't think I had seen the message, so I started exploring the map and, from what I could tell, none of the places it was possible for him to be in were occupied by my friend. Meaning he was missing from the map. "Didn't you get a unit out of there or anything?" I asked.

"No," he replied, "I'm now speccing for the rest of the game, I guess." Which doesn't imply, it flat-out states he was defeated: after losing your forces you can choose to spectate.

You can see where this is going. I then started to recover my crippled forces, wiped out the computer army, and was starting to build up to take on the third player when I was suddenly overrun by my friend's forces. He completely wiped me out, mostly because I had loosened up my strategy knowing that he, a far superior player than an AI and a thirteen-year-old, was no longer a threat.

Meanwhile it's now, like, six hours later and I'm still frustrated, insulted, and sleepless. Losing doesn't matter: my friend constantly beats me. The thing is, he uses legitimate and honest tactics. Lying, and a flat-out lie at that, is a completely different matter. And I never really catch people in lies. And this was a pretty strong response.

So I guess I really hate lies.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Dr. Mobius » Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:27 am

In a similar vein, I hate when my friends blame me for losses when we're supposedly playing friendly, not-completely-serious matches. I know I'm the lowest skilled player in our group and they know they're essentially playing with a handicap by having me on their team. So how they think it's my fault that we lose when they're screwing off while I'm actually trying is beyond me.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Luet » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:12 am

"Unable to connect to Netflix. Please try again." We keep getting this message when trying to watch streaming through our PS3. We have never had a problem, ever, until the last three days. It works fine and then doesn't work for hours and then suddenly works again. And it's not our internet because I'm using it right now on my computer while the netflix won't work.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby steph » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:40 am

That's really frustrating, Nomi. I'm sorry!!
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby powerfulcheese04 » Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:01 am

I hate this job searching for 2 people thing. I hate that it's already been such a rollercoaster.

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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Platypi007 » Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:34 pm

"Unable to connect to Netflix. Please try again." We keep getting this message when trying to watch streaming through our PS3. We have never had a problem, ever, until the last three days. It works fine and then doesn't work for hours and then suddenly works again. And it's not our internet because I'm using it right now on my computer while the netflix won't work.

I've encountered this a few times (outside of the whole hacking debacle earlier this year...) and I think it is usually Netflix network being overloaded. I wasn't using Netflix last night, but it worked yesterday afternoon for me, hope you get access to it soon!

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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Luet » Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:49 pm

After about an hour of trying to connect, it started working. Thanks for the insight as to the possible cause.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby steph » Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:44 am

Having headaches. I never really have them, but I've had quite a few recently.

Oh, and this week.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby buckshot » Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:45 am

I really hate fly's! I don't want to lock my office at the feed mill but I can't take many more of the "buggers"! At least when I do go in (retired mostly) it's in the mornings when it's still pretty cold in there, and it's possible to hunt them down with whatever tool I can fabricate at the time. I know it sounds petty but it totally sucks to work at the desk with flys dive bombing me! :bash:

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Postby Platypi007 » Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:43 pm

I hate flies, too. The dumpster for my apartment complex is about 75 feet from my door, in the summer we get flies in the area and they will often come in when I open my door. My apartment is not well set up for fly hunting... I have lots of dark toned things, and shadows. There are curtains with folds in which the fly can hid, things it can get behind... Then they land on my TV screen or monitor taunting me, but as soon as I go get the vacuum to suck them up (because no way am I going to smash a fly on my LCD screens...) it will move to some unreachable, unseeable place until I relax again. Damn flies.

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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Luet » Thu Oct 20, 2011 7:35 pm

Fortunately, the few flies that get into my house are quickly hunted down and eaten by my cats.
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Dr. Mobius » Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:08 am

Working with this crap. I wish they'd let me transfer back to the warehouse where I actually enjoyed my work. Keep in mind also that this study is based on incidental exposure from retail products. I come into daily contact with raw, pure BPA powder before it's reacted with anything to make plastic. I suppose it could be worse, though. At least I don't work at phosgene (mustard gas) or Ultem (nitroglycerin).
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby Jayelle » Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:56 pm

Do they at least give you some kind of protection? Mask, gloves, etc?
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Re: Things that I hate

Postby starlooker » Sat Oct 29, 2011 5:31 pm

Suspicious, shrewy wife commercials. The one for Verizon in particular. Wherein we learn to associate getting unlimited texting with getting your ass chewed by your hateful wife. Holy s***. I mean, I HATE the wife's portrayal, and, also, don't companies usually want us to associate their products with happy moments, not terrible marital discord?

Same for the State Farm commercial where the guy is talking to a State Farm agent at 3 AM and the wife is portrayed as shrill and idiotically suspicious. (Which, hell, given the conversation we're overhearing, can't blame her.) Really, State Farm? You want us to associate your services with angry accusations of infidelity?
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