Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

mikedt · Oct 21, 2017

Vuvuzelas

Deleted User · Oct 21, 2017

mikedt said:
Vuvuzelas

Meet the Vuvuzela's little brother. It's called a Kazoo

But then, I also found this little beauty. I give you, the Trombone Kazoo

psionandy · Oct 21, 2017

Of course, all the cool kids now have gone electric

psionandy · Oct 21, 2017

I studied under Barry Cryer who said i was a grade 8 kazoo player...

here it is, with its natural partner.. the swanee whistle

mikedt · Oct 22, 2017

All the convoluted plastic, cardboard and numerous pins that comes with a new shirt.

olbriar · Oct 22, 2017

The seal beneath the cap of a squirt bottle of mustard or ketchup that's impossible to remove.

Deleted User · Oct 23, 2017

When you work at a place for 7 years, and your boss doesn't even have the courtesy to say goodbye on your last day. :thinking:

Clementine_3 · Oct 23, 2017

LV426 said:
When you work at a place for 7 years, and your boss doesn't even have the courtesy to say goodbye on your last day.

What a jerk! Good on you for leaving

dan330 · Oct 23, 2017

products that are tied and zip-tied so tight... 10 x more than needed.. inside a sealed plastic cocoon.

takes for ever to cut through the plastic..
then hunt down every tie and zip-ties...

olbriar · Oct 23, 2017

Have you ever tried to unwrap a new shower gel while standing naked dripping wet in the shower?

Clementine_3 · Oct 28, 2017

When you are impatiently waiting for your shiny new phone that was supposed to be delivered yesterday but FedEx messed up and now it's not coming until Monday because they don't deliver on Saturday but a freakin' FedEx truck just went whizzing past your house and didn't stop :mad:

olbriar · Oct 28, 2017

I feel for ya Clem. I once had a new phone set in a delivery truck over the 4th of July holiday.
All that free time to play with the new phone... and nope. Grrrrrr

Clementine_3 · Oct 28, 2017

I even called about it last night!! It's not like they couldn't have tossed it on the truck that was going RIGHT PAST me!! Grrrrr

dan330 · Oct 28, 2017

did you wave at it .. as it did a drive-by?

Clementine_3 · Oct 28, 2017

dan330 said:
did you wave at it .. as it did a drive-by?

Only with one finger

no one · Oct 28, 2017

Looks like I came in in the middle of something, huh?

codezer0 · Oct 30, 2017

How often what i need to make something work is then only sold at a single place, and always marked up to hell.

Most recent example is how i had an old OEM PC go south, so harvesting what i could save leaves me with an Opteron 185 and RAM i don't have a place for. So i need a socket 939 for a quick and dirty rebuild, or if I'm spending any significant money, something newer and hopefully more reliable. Kind of leaning toward the latter, because i need an ide port for console repairs, but when not doing that, i intend to use the system to handle encoding capture streaming from consoles.

But can't find anything at all outside of eBay. And eBay has already royally screwed up my latest order... So bad, that they actively censored my negative review pro actively. :mad:

"buy from a trusted seller" ? Yeah, the guy was an asshole, and eBay itself is protecting them from a well deserved, negative feedback.

dontpanicbobby · Oct 30, 2017

That's a groaner.

Dngrsone · Nov 2, 2017

So, I'm trying to buy a mobile home. Mortgage company says, "you must have 20% for a down-payment before we give you a loan."

Well, 10% is reasonable, but I guess 20% because the mobile home market is volatile or something... fine. I scraped together, over the past couple months, enough to purchase a nice home.

Now, they are saying, "where did you get this money?"

Seriously? What are you, freakin' Elliott Ness?

Unforgiven · Nov 2, 2017

Dngrsone said:
So, I'm trying to buy a mobile home. Mortgage company says, "you must have 20% for a down-payment before we give you a loan."

Well, 10% is reasonable, but I guess 20% because the mobile home market is volatile or something... fine. I scraped together, over the past couple months, enough to purchase a nice home.

Now, they are saying, "where did you get this money?"

Seriously? What are you, freakin' Elliott Ness?

Probably want to make sure you didn't take out a loan, putting your ability to repay and / or have equity if you don't at risk.

Deleted User · Nov 2, 2017

Unforgiven said:
Probably want to make sure you didn't take out a loan, putting your ability to repay and / or have equity if you don't at risk.

Correct. Seems like lessons have been learned from the sub-prime mortgage disaster.

codezer0 · Nov 2, 2017

People that call phones devices.

Dngrsone · Nov 3, 2017

codezer0 said:
People that call phones devices.

But... phones are devices. Particularly phones that do so much more than telephony...

codezer0 · Nov 3, 2017

Doesn't matter. By that logic, your clothes are a device. Your keys are a device. Your tongue is a device. But no sane person would classify them as that.

It's just as smarmy and contemptful as marketers that try to rebrand something to suit their agenda. Like wanting a gig to be 1000 instead of 1024.

It's even permeated into Windows, too. "Updating your device" ? Really? It's a damn PC, not a raspberry pi emulating one.

dontpanicbobby · Nov 3, 2017

Damn Phandroidians!

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