Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

[JonRB]

Hooli said:

We made menus into the Autoexec.bat & Config.sys files so you could select which start up you required.

There was a time when I could hand-craft an autoexec.bat and config.sys that yielded more usable memory than any wizard or tool was capable of doing automatically. It was a bit of a black art at the time. I wouldn't have a clue now.

And since it depended on what you were trying to load, I too had an entire directory of them and a batchfile-based menu system for loading the correct ones for what I wanted to do.

[Hooli]

JonRB said:

Hooli said:

We made menus into the Autoexec.bat & Config.sys files so you could select which start up you required.

There was a time when I could hand-craft an autoexec.bat and config.sys that yielded more usable memory than any wizard or tool was capable of doing automatically. It was a bit of a black art at the time. I wouldn't have a clue now.

And since it depended on what you were trying to load, I too had an entire directory of them and a batchfile-based menu system for loading the correct ones for what I wanted to do.

Sounds familiar, ours had pretty colours for the menus etc too.

[Squawk1066]

Pothole said:

Squawk1066 said:

The word queue. Why isn't it que? It's two letters too bloody long.

Because then it would just be pronounced kuh. 's French, innit?

Can we not shorten it but still pronounce it correctly?

[MartG]

Squawk1066 said:

Pothole said:

Squawk1066 said:

The word queue. Why isn't it que? It's two letters too bloody long.

Because then it would just be pronounced kuh. 's French, innit?

Can we not shorten it but still pronounce it correctly?

But then we'd not be able to differentiate it from cue ( as in snooker cue ) or from cue ( as in a signal to start something )

[fatboy18]

MartG said:

Squawk1066 said:

Pothole said:

Squawk1066 said:

The word queue. Why isn't it que? It's two letters too bloody long.

Because then it would just be pronounced kuh. 's French, innit?

Can we not shorten it but still pronounce it correctly?

But then we'd not be able to differentiate it from cue ( as in snooker cue ) or from cue ( as in a signal to start something )

What if it was like this then... q ...Would that work?

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[anonymous-user]

Cambridge sockless bearded hipster s with fking perfectly sculpted hair, and a really fking scruffy "LOOK AT ME!" beard. Trying to make the beard look "so casual" when you've clearly spent an hour getting your side parting straighter than Russell Brand. And no fking socks. s. You can afford a MacBook, face, go and buy some socks. Hell, go to the Sally Army and they'll be 20p and you can say you've done your bit for a charitable society. You can even get another sticker for your satchel/Mac, you fking Chris Martin wannabee.

s.

So glad tomorrow is my last working day in this City (City?! It's like a bloody market town). Let me go back to Essex where one can call a digging implement a spade.

No. I can't leave it. Hipster motherfker s. Get fked and take your fking jamjars with you. I hope you get ebola from your fking fair-trade hand roasted Hot Numbers cat st coffee. I will laugh.

[Tyre Tread]

I found working in Cambridge quite frustrating too.

[fatboy18]

Great Rant

[droopsnoot]

fatboy18 said:

MartG said:

Squawk1066 said:

Pothole said:

Squawk1066 said:

The word queue. Why isn't it que? It's two letters too bloody long.

Because then it would just be pronounced kuh. 's French, innit?

Can we not shorten it but still pronounce it correctly?

But then we'd not be able to differentiate it from cue ( as in snooker cue ) or from cue ( as in a signal to start something )

What if it was like this then... q ...Would that work?

But surely the repeating 'ue' is a nod to the visual imagery of people standing in a queue, one after each other? While you're writing or typing the second set of 'ue', you're reminded of the seemingly endless tedium of waiting in a queue. If it was just a single letter, that would be too short and snappy to represent a queue.

[fatboy18]

droopsnoot said:

fatboy18 said:

MartG said:

Squawk1066 said:

Pothole said:

Squawk1066 said:

The word queue. Why isn't it que? It's two letters too bloody long.

Because then it would just be pronounced kuh. 's French, innit?

Can we not shorten it but still pronounce it correctly?

But then we'd not be able to differentiate it from cue ( as in snooker cue ) or from cue ( as in a signal to start something )

What if it was like this then... q ...Would that work?

But surely the repeating 'ue' is a nod to the visual imagery of people standing in a queue, one after each other?

Mmmm, you could always say you were standing in a long qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq?

[thismonkeyhere]

OpulentBob said:

Cambridge sockless bearded hipster s with fking perfectly sculpted hair, and a really fking scruffy "LOOK AT ME!" beard. Trying to make the beard look "so casual" when you've clearly spent an hour getting your side parting straighter than Russell Brand. And no fking socks. s. You can afford a MacBook, face, go and buy some socks. Hell, go to the Sally Army and they'll be 20p and you can say you've done your bit for a charitable society. You can even get another sticker for your satchel/Mac, you fking Chris Martin wannabee.

s.

So glad tomorrow is my last working day in this City (City?! It's like a bloody market town). Let me go back to Essex where one can call a digging implement a spade.

No. I can't leave it. Hipster motherfker s. Get fked and take your fking jamjars with you. I hope you get ebola from your fking fair-trade hand roasted Hot Numbers cat st coffee. I will laugh.

[Pothole]

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[CC07 PEU]

People who say "I was headhunted" to try and make it sound like they are really in demand and desirable. Were they fk! Unsolicited contact was made by a recruiter keen to make some referral commission and that was it. Just like what happens with everybody else who has a profile on Linkedin or similar.

[Hooli]

thismonkeyhere said:

OpulentBob said:

Cambridge sockless bearded hipster s with fking perfectly sculpted hair, and a really fking scruffy "LOOK AT ME!" beard. Trying to make the beard look "so casual" when you've clearly spent an hour getting your side parting straighter than Russell Brand. And no fking socks. s. You can afford a MacBook, face, go and buy some socks. Hell, go to the Sally Army and they'll be 20p and you can say you've done your bit for a charitable society. You can even get another sticker for your satchel/Mac, you fking Chris Martin wannabee.

s.

So glad tomorrow is my last working day in this City (City?! It's like a bloody market town). Let me go back to Essex where one can call a digging implement a spade.

No. I can't leave it. Hipster motherfker s. Get fked and take your fking jamjars with you. I hope you get ebola from your fking fair-trade hand roasted Hot Numbers cat st coffee. I will laugh.

Excellent rant, would read again.

[John D.]

CC07 PEU said:

People who say "I was headhunted" to try and make it sound like they are really in demand and desirable. Were they fk! Unsolicited contact was made by a recruiter keen to make some referral commission and that was it. Just like what happens with everybody else who has a profile on Linkedin or similar.

Bang on.

[bencollins]

Hooli said:

thismonkeyhere said:

OpulentBob said:

Cambridge sockless bearded hipster s with fking perfectly sculpted hair, and a really fking scruffy "LOOK AT ME!" beard. Trying to make the beard look "so casual" when you've clearly spent an hour getting your side parting straighter than Russell Brand. And no fking socks. s. You can afford a MacBook, face, go and buy some socks. Hell, go to the Sally Army and they'll be 20p and you can say you've done your bit for a charitable society. You can even get another sticker for your satchel/Mac, you fking Chris Martin wannabee.

s.

So glad tomorrow is my last working day in this City (City?! It's like a bloody market town). Let me go back to Essex where one can call a digging implement a spade.

No. I can't leave it. Hipster motherfker s. Get fked and take your fking jamjars with you. I hope you get ebola from your fking fair-trade hand roasted Hot Numbers cat st coffee. I will laugh.

Excellent rant, would read again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_5uVdy5YmA

dead catchy too

[anonymous-user]

That song is accurate. It's what I see every lunchtime when I venture out.

[wack]

Wwkers that sit in the middle lane at 60mph, you come up behind them, sit there for a bit waiting for lane 3 to empty , when it's clear they're not going to move over you pull out then they speed up, at 70 they're still there in your blind spot, s

[JonRB]

People who commence a reply with "Wrong!". Especially on a matter of opinion rather than fact. Not only is it confrontational and rude, but it makes them sound like they are around 14 and unused to debating with adults.