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

[SpeckledJim]

thismonkeyhere said:

MartG said:

Articles which describe electric cars as 'zero emissions' - they are not, they just emit stuff elsewhere i.e. at a power station.

Add in the energy losses inherent in transmitting the power and charging the batteries ( never mind the environmental issues around manufacture and disposal of their batteries ) and what you have is an inefficient vehicle powered by burning coal.

The same applies to hydrogen powered vehicles - where do they think the hydrogen comes from ?

SUV's are often castigated by the treehuggers for being 'big' and weighing 'two tonnes or more' - oddly the same description has been applied to Toyota's Mirai but apparently it's OK because it's powered by hydrogen

Shhhh....

Greenies don't respond well to logic.

Electric cars are MILES more efficient than ICE cars though. There might be some good arguments against them, but that's not one.

[JonRB]

Doing a move of a 30GB directory structure from one area of the same SSD to another in Linux and it actually did a copy & delete and took 20-odd mins to do it. Just to say that again, a directory move on an SSD took 20-odd mins.

Windows would just jiggle around its internals a little and leave the files still in the same physical place on the SSD and do it in a matter of seconds.

This annoys me beyond reason.

(Apologies for high geek factor in this post. It has probably annoyed some people beyond reason)

[edited for spelling. Despite the typo already having been quoted]

Edited by JonRB on Monday 8th June 19:09

[matchmaker]

thismonkeyhere said:

Rostfritt said:

People who gob bits of chewing gum into urinals. Some poor bd whose job is already not particularly pleasant has to pick that out, all because you couldn't spit it into the bin. Same 'it's someone else's job to clear that up' mentality as all other litterers.

+ people who gob chewing gum anywhere that isn't a bin. I'm sick of seeing pavements defaced with the stuff.

I make no claims to be a paragon of virtue, but even as a kid, with all my faults and stupidity, the worst place I ever put chewing gum was down roadside drains - and that only when there was no bin.

Dirty bds. My wife cleans the local library. Most of the floors are carpeted. Frequently she has to pick chewing gun off the carpet. Dirty bds.

[droopsnoot]

JonRB said:

Doing a move of a 30GB directory structure from one area of the same SSD to another in Linux and it actually did a copy & delete and took 20-odd mins to do it. Just to say that again, a directory move on an SSD took 20-odd mins.

Windows would just jiggle around its internals a little and leave the files still in the same physical place on the SSD and do it in a matter of seconds.

This annoys me beyond reason.

(Apologies for high geek factory in this post. It has probably annoyed some people beyond reason)

Isn't it something to do with the filesystem layout, how it decides whether it can rename or has to do it the long way? I vaguely remember something about this from some time ago.

[JonRB]

droopsnoot said:

Isn't it something to do with the filesystem layout, how it decides whether it can rename or has to do it the long way? I vaguely remember something about this from some time ago.

You could be right. It just seemed so totally unnecessary for an SSD - physically moving bytes around (and shortening the life of the SSD by doing so, and also taking bloody ages) - when simply rewriting the File Allocation Table (or Linux's equivalent of) would achieve the same thing. For all Windows' faults, that's what it would have done and would have been blisteringly fast as a result.

[PoleDriver]

People!
Never again will I help anyone, bail them out or try and do them a favour! From now on my motto is 'Look after number one!'

Edited by PoleDriver on Monday 8th June 21:11

[rambo19]

PoleDriver said:

People!
Never again will I help anyone, bail th out or try and do th a favour! From now on my motto is 'Look after number one!'

Been doing that for years!

[anonymous-user]

fking IT wkstains.

Working abroad. Need my works computer ("it's not your computer, it's the company's computer") to be freed of some of the restrictions such as being able to use the USB sockets for bulk file transfer, and to reduce the stupid 5 minute lock-out as I do a lot of webinars etc.

Speak to the IT Cockends."We can do that remotely. Do x, y and z, then restart and it will work."

It didn't. Then, because the fking nerdfks only work about 15 minutes a day, have to wait another 18 hours to speak to them. They then do it again, with no result. Useless cross-dressing pricks.

So I now have to cut my weeks home leave (when Im flying off with the Mrs) 2 day short so I can go in to the office and get them to physically do it. This will cost me about £400 in altered flights. I ask the fking adenoidal techy tts if it's really necessary, if I can just leave the laptop with the weekend security guards, they say "no, it's against IT policy". So I tell him his department is as helpful as a brain tumor. Now the is pushing for a disciplinary.

Good job my boss agrees with me.

But yeah. IT motherfkers and their whole "computer says no" attitude. Talk about tail wagging the dog. I'm gonna take a st in the laptop bag before I give it to them. wkers. Why make life so difficult for everyone, just because they're a 35 year old Virgin living with their fat fking moaning mum?

And since they've carried out their remote "solution" aka a fking abject failure, my VPN is now disabled, so I am doing everything over webmail and having to wait for the fking UK to start before anyone can send me any fking project related stuff off their ing servers. Useless fking obstructive fking balding fking geek s.

Edited by OpulentBob on Tuesday 9th June 08:07

[Moonhawk]

On BBC breakfast this morning. When they are doing a piece with video and get slightly ahead of themselves they eek out the last few words.......to........hit........the.........correct..................timing.

[Hackney]

when inertia in toilet role > strength of perforation

[isee]

OpulentBob said:

fking IT wkstains.

Working abroad. Need my works computer ("it's not your computer, it's the company's computer") to be freed of some of the restrictions such as being able to use the USB sockets for bulk file transfer, and to reduce the stupid 5 minute lock-out as I do a lot of webinars etc.

Speak to the IT Cockends."We can do that remotely. Do x, y and z, then restart and it will work."

It didn't. Then, because the fking nerdfks only work about 15 minutes a day, have to wait another 18 hours to speak to them. They then do it again, with no result. Useless cross-dressing pricks.

So I now have to cut my weeks home leave (when Im flying off with the Mrs) 2 day short so I can go in to the office and get them to physically do it. This will cost me about £400 in altered flights. I ask the fking adenoidal techy tts if it's really necessary, if I can just leave the laptop with the weekend security guards, they say "no, it's against IT policy". So I tell him his department is as helpful as a brain tumor. Now the is pushing for a disciplinary.

Good job my boss agrees with me.

But yeah. IT motherfkers and their whole "computer says no" attitude. Talk about tail wagging the dog. I'm gonna take a st in the laptop bag before I give it to them. wkers. Why make life so difficult for everyone, just because they're a 35 year old Virgin living with their fat fking moaning mum?

And since they've carried out their remote "solution" aka a fking abject failure, my VPN is now disabled, so I am doing everything over webmail and having to wait for the fking UK to start before anyone can send me any fking project related stuff off their ing servers. Useless fking obstructive fking balding fking geek s.

Edited by OpulentBob on Tuesday 9th June 08:07

As an ex IT support person I wholeheartedly agree with you. I never bother with IT support anymore at my company unless it' something that I am locked out of working around, I always get them to come physically to my desk and fix it in a non-optional request type of manner. Things get done on the first try ever time when they are physically next to you and realise that the optimal way to be left in peace is to solve my problem.

[Munter]

PoleDriver said:

People!
Never again will I help anyone, bail them out or try and do them a favour! From now on my motto is 'Look after number one!'

Half of people are s. And the other half are dicks. fk em all I say.

[jdw100]

English people that say or type 'ass' instead of 'arse'.

Immediately makes me think they are an idiot.

(Unless they are referring to a donkey/mule type of animal)

[bigkeeko]

jdw100 said:

English people that say or type 'ass' instead of 'arse'.

Immediately makes me think they are an idiot.

(Unless they are referring to a donkey/mule type of animal)

Just accept it. We`re starting to look like `little America`. I mean, we`re becoming as fat as them and to remind me, my pals son talks like a Harlem black. Some of the ste he comes away with sounds retarded but he thinks it`s cool.

[Hugo a Gogo]

jdw100 said:

English people that say or type 'ass' instead of 'arse'.

Immediately makes me think they are an idiot.

(Unless they are referring to a donkey/mule type of animal)

i always thought them there londoners pronounce 'ass' as 'arse' (cockernee rhyming slang, 'Arris, Aristotle = bottle, bottle n glarse = arse)

[jdw100]

bigkeeko said:

Just accept it. We`re starting to look like `little America`. I mean, we`re becoming as fat as them and to remind me, my pals son talks like a Harlem black. Some of the ste he comes away with sounds retarded but he thinks it`s cool.

Also the use of 'retarded'; another Americanism and actually quite offensive.

[mybrainhurts]

cookmysock said:

Rostfritt said:

People who gob bits of chewing gum into urinals.

It makes it taste funny

You idiot, you're supposed to clean them with brushes, not lick them.

[R2T2]

OpulentBob said:

fking IT wkstains.

Working abroad. Need my works computer ("it's not your computer, it's the company's computer") to be freed of some of the restrictions such as being able to use the USB sockets for bulk file transfer, and to reduce the stupid 5 minute lock-out as I do a lot of webinars etc.

Speak to the IT Cockends."We can do that remotely. Do x, y and z, then restart and it will work."

It didn't. Then, because the fking nerdfks only work about 15 minutes a day, have to wait another 18 hours to speak to them. They then do it again, with no result. Useless cross-dressing pricks.

So I now have to cut my weeks home leave (when Im flying off with the Mrs) 2 day short so I can go in to the office and get them to physically do it. This will cost me about £400 in altered flights. I ask the fking adenoidal techy tts if it's really necessary, if I can just leave the laptop with the weekend security guards, they say "no, it's against IT policy". So I tell him his department is as helpful as a brain tumor. Now the is pushing for a disciplinary.

Good job my boss agrees with me.

But yeah. IT motherfkers and their whole "computer says no" attitude. Talk about tail wagging the dog. I'm gonna take a st in the laptop bag before I give it to them. wkers. Why make life so difficult for everyone, just because they're a 35 year old Virgin living with their fat fking moaning mum?

And since they've carried out their remote "solution" aka a fking abject failure, my VPN is now disabled, so I am doing everything over webmail and having to wait for the fking UK to start before anyone can send me any fking project related stuff off their ing servers. Useless fking obstructive fking balding fking geek s.

Edited by OpulentBob on Tuesday 9th June 08:07

I work in IT support, and I was sat there giggling.

That much restriction is a piss take. Here the users call us if they want to install something like iTunes or something like that, but for the most of them we have offline installers, and use those, but there's hardly every any problems. Locking down USB drives? Sounds like they're doing it because they can, not because it improves business workflow in any way, shape or form.

I'm 21, work in IT support and have a girlfriend; what do I win?

[Hooli]

R2T2 said:

OpulentBob said:

fking IT wkstains.

Working abroad. Need my works computer ("it's not your computer, it's the company's computer") to be freed of some of the restrictions such as being able to use the USB sockets for bulk file transfer, and to reduce the stupid 5 minute lock-out as I do a lot of webinars etc.

Speak to the IT Cockends."We can do that remotely. Do x, y and z, then restart and it will work."

It didn't. Then, because the fking nerdfks only work about 15 minutes a day, have to wait another 18 hours to speak to them. They then do it again, with no result. Useless cross-dressing pricks.

So I now have to cut my weeks home leave (when Im flying off with the Mrs) 2 day short so I can go in to the office and get them to physically do it. This will cost me about £400 in altered flights. I ask the fking adenoidal techy tts if it's really necessary, if I can just leave the laptop with the weekend security guards, they say "no, it's against IT policy". So I tell him his department is as helpful as a brain tumor. Now the is pushing for a disciplinary.

Good job my boss agrees with me.

But yeah. IT motherfkers and their whole "computer says no" attitude. Talk about tail wagging the dog. I'm gonna take a st in the laptop bag before I give it to them. wkers. Why make life so difficult for everyone, just because they're a 35 year old Virgin living with their fat fking moaning mum?

And since they've carried out their remote "solution" aka a fking abject failure, my VPN is now disabled, so I am doing everything over webmail and having to wait for the fking UK to start before anyone can send me any fking project related stuff off their ing servers. Useless fking obstructive fking balding fking geek s.

Edited by OpulentBob on Tuesday 9th June 08:07

I work in IT support, and I was sat there giggling.

That much restriction is a piss take. Here the users call us if they want to install something like iTunes or something like that, but for the most of them we have offline installers, and use those, but there's hardly every any problems. Locking down USB drives? Sounds like they're doing it because they can, not because it improves business workflow in any way, shape or form.

I'm 21, work in IT support and have a girlfriend; what do I win?

I work in IT support & it made me laugh too. Thing is people who get angry & demand people come out to jobs that can be done remotely tend to suffer a lot of issues where things didn't work. Cue one laughing geek telling the other geeks xxxxx is gonna be mad again

[Hooli]

8Ace said:

ch108 said:

Issi said:

Couples, usually in their mid thirties, who equate a stroll along the prom with climbing the north face of the Eiger.

As in dressed head to toe in North Face gear, with his and hers matching Merrell shoes, complete with 35l daysacks, and all for a gentle ramble down by the beach.

Now to await all of the 'Well, how do you know that they weren't going to finish their Raspberry Ripples and then run up Snowdon?' comments.

Especially if they have walking poles too

Ha. Glad it isn't just me

I have asked them before if they've lost their skis, needless to say they didn't get the reference.