Stuff that REALLY annoys you.

Post by **Jedburgh** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:24 am 0

shillyshalley wrote:AMERicanS.......SaYinG......EYE......raCK.

Shit disguises.

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:17 pm 0

Probably been said, but people who walk in to a shop then stop dead just inside the doorway casuing pile-ups behind them.

Oh, and deadlines.

Kon-Tiki · Post by **Kon-Tiki** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:36 pm 0

leekfiend wrote:People with widescreen televisions who insist on stretching all content to fill the screen, thus buggering up the aspect ratio on $bignum percent of it.

And yet they WHINE LIKE FUCKERS when you fix it.

"errrrr, I don't like those black bits, make them go away"

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!

*places order for baseball bat with the words 'ASPECT RATIO' engraved into it*

Mom once saw this long-faced Belgian celebrity on a widescreen TV. She doesn't want one ever since, and doesn't understand why people want them. She says he looked fat, all stretched out to the left and right, while he usually has a long face.

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:46 pm 0

All those pop-up things you get when starting Windows.

"Do you want to update this or that? NOW!"

Windows updates, MSN Messenger wanting you to connect, Outlook wants to autoarchive, Java wants to update itself, Anti-Virus wanting to do something and our SmartPhone system just pops up a message box saying it is there.

Gnaah!

I just want to:

1) Look at my email and drink my coffee
2) Maybe do some work

9am on a Monday morning is NOT the right time to ask me many questions, especially if I want to install some half-arsed Windows update that will f**k up everything. I just swear a lot can click cancel/close buttons a lot.

Kon-Tiki · Post by **Kon-Tiki** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:48 pm 0

If we're talking 'bout Windows...

That "accessability option" where it gives you a popup when you press and hold Shift for 7 seconds. It pops up, even if it's specifically turned off and shouldn't. HIGHLY annoying when playing a game that requires you to hold the Shift-button down for a while.

Same goes for Msn taking up the entire system's resources when being disconnected and when logging in. And for Aim which gives auto-focus on every window it spawns

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:54 pm 0

leekfiend wrote:People with widescreen televisions who insist on stretching all content to fill the screen, thus buggering up the aspect ratio on $bignum percent of it.

Some tellys have a strange sort of variable aspect-ratio mode which is supposed to be a better solution to this problem[*], whereby the centre of the screen is something closer to the correct AR, and the edges are stretched more. The idea being that most of the action takes place in the centre. This is fucking awful. I can just about get my brain to temporarily adjust to viewing everything uniformly stretched to fit widescreen mode, if I'm forced to. What I can't get my head round is people becoming thinner and fatter as they move across the screen. Or if they're in close up and slightly off-centre, one side of their face gets all stretched out making them look deformed. Whoever thought that would be a good idea never actually sat down and tried to watch it.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:58 pm 0

Every widescreen TV I've used has just chopped bits off the picture rather than bugger up the aspect ratio when I make 4:3 full screen

moosedude · Post by **moosedude** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:12 pm 0

1) Lorraine Kelly.

2) Stupid People (see 1)

3) Skin Rashes.

4) Magnum adverts with the really loud cracking chocolate sound.

actually, scrap that list, heres the revised;

1) Everything.

shillyshalley · Post by **shillyshalley** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:07 pm 0

Jedburgh wrote:
shillyshalley wrote:AMERicanS.......SaYinG......EYE......raCK.
Shit disguises.

PEoplE....tHaT....NEEd.....a....hUG....ThAT...I..CaN'T....reACh.

Cloudane · Post by **Cloudane** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:45 pm 0

Ohh, some absolute classics there, been nodding and laughing at the past 2 pages!

CPU fans/heatsink clips.

Oh god, yeah. Like the newer P4 and AMD ones which are sometimes so tightly clamped that they bend the motherboard. I've seen a board destroyed in this way.

Not to forget the old favourite badly designed motherboards where even the CPU manufacturer's stock heatsink doesn't fit properly without bending capacitors and/or having them in contact with it.

And the thankfully no-longer-used Socket A heatsinks where if you didn't manage to hold it 100% flat and 100% still while you were forcing the clip down with a screwdriver and your entire weight on top of it, you could chip the edges and corners of the die (with unpredictable results)

Receipts.

I get a reciept when I buy a Mars Bar from a service station these days. And the helpful lady puts the receipt in your hand and then puts your change on top of it.

Haha good one, very true, same goes for notes. Great, now I've got to slide the change off the note into my wallet and hope it doesn't fall all over.

Another one - people who have 20p in change but still hand over a fiver for that Â£2.20 pint (or whatever)

I always make the effort of handing over Â£5.20 or Â£10.20 if I don't have the exact Â£2.20, and make sure I hand over the 20p first *then* give them the note between their fingers. That's the way I like change given to me, so that's how I give it to them. Someone might get the hint one day!

Fucking 0870 numbers.

http://www.saynoto0870.com

Most geographic equivalents are in the database on that site. Great if you have a mobile phone with free minutes.

That "accessability option" where it gives you a popup when you press and hold Shift for 7 seconds.

Yes yes yes. I hold shift at the beginning of sentences when I'm thinking of what to write, and all of a sudden "BLOOP!" - argh go away!

One more which I was worried I'd have to curse about more strongly for a moment there - when web browsers fail to save whatever you typed into a form, and then you press submit and the site doesn't respond so you hit 'back' and find that the post you spent 3 hours carefully typing up has gone to the great bitbucket in the sky.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:51 pm 0

Yeah, fucking cunts at Pipex have had their automated dialler dialling my landline number for the past two days from 0800 294 1647 - despite me ringing them up to ask them to stop fucking well doing it and being signed up to the TPS.

Just had another call from it, so I've just filled out a complaints form here:

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/landli ... mid=284827

I emailed them today giving them 24 hours to completely remove my telephone number from their wanky system or I'll be going to the police about them making nuisance calls.

Pipex aren't even my fucking broadband supplier.

Fucking cunts.

leekfiend · Post by **leekfiend** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:42 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Every widescreen TV I've used has just chopped bits off the picture rather than bugger up the aspect ratio when I make 4:3 full screen

You're a lucky man.

All of them that I've ever used do have this mode (it's called "Zoom" in most cases I think) however most people, sorry RETARDS, seem to use the setting called "16:9" which forces everything to fill the screen by stretching it if necessary.

And last night I had to use an "X Box 360" media centre thing (protip: said object is UNUTTERABLY FUCKING RUBBISH for showing people pictures compared to a GP2X. It doesn't even have zoom. NO ZOOM. On a console with what, 3 x 3.2GHz CPUs. And rotating an image took about 5 seconds. I repeat, 3 x 3.2GHz CPUs. Rotating a fucking JPEG through 90 degrees should be possible in 0.0000000000000000001 of the BLINK OF A FUCKING EYE on that hardware. You FAIL, Micro$hit. F------------, must try harder) and it insisted on doing something weird to the picture so that the correct aspect ratio could only be achieved with the picture in 16:9 mode. Fuck off, I like my 4:3 thank you very much. Especially when showing pictures which are, indeed, 4:3.

leekfiend · Post by **leekfiend** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:44 pm 0

shillyshalley wrote:
Jedburgh wrote:
shillyshalley wrote:AMERicanS.......SaYinG......EYE......raCK.
Shit disguises.
PEoplE....tHaT....NEEd.....a....hUG....ThAT...I..CaN'T....reACh.

13 year old n00bs that tHiNk StUpId CaPiTaLiSaTiOn Is K-rAd L33t aNd K3WL.

RedOktober · Post by **RedOktober** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:50 pm 0

leekfiend wrote:
shillyshalley wrote:
Jedburgh wrote:
shillyshalley wrote:AMERicanS.......SaYinG......EYE......raCK.
Shit disguises.
PEoplE....tHaT....NEEd.....a....hUG....ThAT...I..CaN'T....reACh.
13 year old n00bs that tHiNk StUpId CaPiTaLiSaTiOn Is K-rAd L33t aNd K3WL.

that shit there is worse than leet and txtspeak put together.

and

PEoplE....tHaT....NEEd.....a....GoOd...HiDInG....ThAT...I..CaN'T....reACh.

Cloudane · Post by **Cloudane** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:45 am 0

In World of Warcraft when you've spent ages carefully clearing a camp on your own, then some tosspot just strolls in while you're killing the last one and opens the chests.

Grrrrrrr!