Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
Discussion
How to some people manage to be louder when they're doing nothing than when they're having a conversation?
Shuffling chairs, breathing through their mouths, sniffing, pounding laptop keys instead of tapping them, fidgeting and making their clothes rustle, eating with wet slaps.
I'm having to deal with all of these in an otherwise silent environment at the moment.
Shuffling chairs, breathing through their mouths, sniffing, pounding laptop keys instead of tapping them, fidgeting and making their clothes rustle, eating with wet slaps.
I'm having to deal with all of these in an otherwise silent environment at the moment.
ktards.
Pothole said:
Morningside said:
The phrase "hard working". ALL people work hard so why do we need this pointed out?
And tummy. Christ even doctors are using it
I AM NOT THREE YEARS OLD!!
Would you prefer they ignored their training and referred to your abdomen as your stomach?And tummy. Christ even doctors are using it
I AM NOT THREE YEARS OLD!! MissChief said:
Pothole said:
Morningside said:
The phrase "hard working". ALL people work hard so why do we need this pointed out?
And tummy. Christ even doctors are using it I AM NOT THREE YEARS OLD!!
Would you prefer they ignored their training and referred to your abdomen as your stomach?And tummy. Christ even doctors are using it
I AM NOT THREE YEARS OLD!! (I'm not saying that this applies to 'tummy'. I'm just pointing out that sometimes a doctor's term is less medical-sounding that the terms a layman might use)
Edit:
Artic? You mean Articulated Lorry?
Last night: filling up at a busy petrol station, an entire line of drivers gets held up after paying because one selfish eejit wanting to buy something other than petrol parks up just on the corner of the building by the exit from the pump lanes, blocking everyone in (queues and people waiting to join means no reversing). This must be somewhere in Vols 1-3 as even though it only takes five minutes for pillock to find and buy the item they want, it's annoying. Is it beyond reason though? Paying 98.9p/litre did help but not much.
What the hell has happened to programmers? Why are they now referred to as coders?
Is this a good reason?
Is this a good reason?
Morningside said:
What the hell has happened to programmers? Why are they now referred to as coders?
Is this a good reason?
My 13yo came back with some "coding" homework. Part of her task was to get her parents to do some "coding" for the first time on some online "app". She was rather surprised when I said that I had written hundreds of thousands of lines of code. I tried to explain that, if I wanted to play a game on the first computer I had, I had to program it first. Is this a good reason?
It rather worries me that her teacher would have no idea of how computing worked for the parents of the generation whose kids she was teaching. Most educated people of my generation will have learnt BASIC at some stage.
AstonZagato said:
My 13yo came back with some "coding" homework. Part of her task was to get her parents to do some "coding" for the first time on some online "app". She was rather surprised when I said that I had written hundreds of thousands of lines of code. I tried to explain that, if I wanted to play a game on the first computer I had, I had to program it first.
It rather worries me that her teacher would have no idea of how computing worked for the parents of the generation whose kids she was teaching. Most educated people of my generation will have learnt BASIC at some stage.
It rather worries me that her teacher would have no idea of how computing worked for the parents of the generation whose kids she was teaching. Most educated people of my generation will have learnt BASIC at some stage.
Reading this made me think just the other day (I'm still fairly young but that was more than 2 decades ago, time where have you gone?
)PC's still had "turbo" buttons on them to boost the CPU speed from 44 MHz to 88 MHz(memory fades but was something in that region), MS-DOS was a given and the Intel 486 CPU was state of the art. On introduction the Pentium chips (running at mind boggling speeds of up to 200MHz!)were things of wonder, most had only just come to terms with the revolutionary witch craft of the Windows 3.1 operating system 
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