Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)

[Bobberoo99]

glenrobbo said:

MartG said:

When something unforeseen makes a simple task much more complex and time consuming

Like wanting to get a file of my Buffalo LinkStation NAS, only to find that the latest update to Win10 removed the SMB1.0 protocol which the NAS uses - necessitating a firmware update to it before I can get to my files

Nope. Sorry.

I haven't the foggiest clue what you are going on about.

The Plains Indians never had that sort of trouble with their buffalos until the
palefaces came along with their firesticks and ruined everything with their indiscriminate butchery.

Sometimes the wise old ways of the elders are the best.

To be fair when I read what MartG had written I saw "Like wanting to get blah cough pppfffrrrrrtt snort, blubber, cough WHAT!!!! true dat, bark, to it before I can get to my files!!!"

[ESOG]

Cotty said:

funkyrobot said:

It's no fun when pedestrians do this on cycle paths etc.

I bike down a wide mixed use path for bikes and pedestrians. I will quite regularly come across pedestrians completely blocking the path. I even see single pedestrians walking down the middle and blocking it.

I see this a lot. I think a lot of time they are looking at their phone and not at the path so they tend to wander a bit but then come back to the middle. Bloody annoying trying to pass as they keep changing direction. I want to say "Put the fking phone down"

See I always assumed people would instinctively walk on the same sides and direction on a pathway as one would drive their car. In the U.S. walking on the right side one way and those coming do so on the left side. But noooo thats much too difficult for people to fathom and thus we are met with a sea of morons all walking in disarray.

[ESOG]

People who hum while they eat.

People who smack their lips and chew loudly and squishy. For some reason this evokes SERIOUS anger in me. I feel so much disdain for people while they do this that if they took a second from piling food into their mouths to look up at me they would see me giving them a serious death stare. I honestly cant explain it but i feel murderous intentions towards people who chew like that.

Also people who for example are having a bowl of ice cream and they are completely unaware of how loud and gorgingly fast they are clinking the spoon about the bowl. Scraping and seeking for EVERY damned last bit of their precious G'damned ice cream.

[nonsequitur]

MartG said:

When something unforeseen makes a simple task much more complex and time consuming

Like wanting to get a file of my Buffalo LinkStation NAS, only to find that the latest update to Win10 removed the SMB1.0 protocol which the NAS uses - necessitating a firmware update to it before I can get to my files

Not a clue.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

ESOG said:

People who smack their lips and chew loudly and squishy. For some reason this evokes SERIOUS anger in me. I feel so much disdain for people while they do this that if they took a second from piling food into their mouths to look up at me they would see me giving them a serious death stare. I honestly cant explain it but i feel murderous intentions towards people who chew like that.

Also people who for example are having a bowl of ice cream and they are completely unaware of how loud and gorgingly fast they are clinking the spoon about the bowl. Scraping and seeking for EVERY damned last bit of their precious G'damned ice cream.

Absolutely totally with you on this.

I had a colleague onbthr desk next to me who was an incredibly noisy eater. One day he decided to chew gum and I almost walked out. Utterly vile.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

nonsequitur said:

Not a clue.

Really?

Even someone with basic reading skills and zero technical knowledge should be able to make something of that, if only from the context of the first sentence.

[cymatty]

Someone who decides 2 minutes into taxi-ing that they feel unwell and need a doctor. 2 hours later and still not departed.

[anonymous-user]

MartG said:

When something unforeseen makes a simple task much more complex and time consuming

Like wanting to get a file of my Buffalo LinkStation NAS, only to find that the latest update to Win10 removed the SMB1.0 protocol which the NAS uses - necessitating a firmware update to it before I can get to my files

I detect an "IT professional"

[anonymous-user]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

nonsequitur said:

Not a clue.

Really?

Even someone with basic reading skills and zero technical knowledge should be able to make something of that, if only from the context of the first sentence.

Little bit patronising there.

The first sentence is a broad statement, and bears no relevance to the rest of the post, except for (one assumes) the fact the second paragraph refers to something complicated that need not be. The content of the second means nothing to those not in the game.

I could say the same first line, and then replace the second paragraph with "The C4 process requiring a full design including cover and proposed protection measures before the SU provides a non-betterment output" - would you, with your basic reading skills and zero technical knowledge of my industry be able to make something from it? My grads, 5 minutes out of Uni, would know straight away, it is not in any way complicated - IF you know the subject...

PH is home to a large number of IT Professionals who seem to think everyone knows about servers and cables and mice and CTRL-ALT-DEL.





HOWEVER.

As it is the beyond reason thread, I shall ask you to disregard everything I've just written and accept that whatever Mart is annoyed by, is totes valid.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

OpulentBob said:

I could say the same first line, and then replace the second paragraph with "The C4 process requiring a full design including cover and proposed protection measures before the SU provides a non-betterment output" - would you, with your basic reading skills and zero technical knowledge of my industry be able to make something from it?

Yes, I would.

Thing A is preventing Thing B from happening, and Thing A must be dealt with first. I don't need to know or understand the things in order to be able to work that out. Basic comprehension on the words "requiring" and "before".

Same goes for MartG's thing. Something is preventing something else from happening, and this annoys him. Even more so because it was working fine before but something decided to update and it broke everything.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Wednesday 22 August 10:10

[Clockwork Cupcake]

[redacted]

[Shakermaker]

After many years of poor performance, the company finally decided to splash the cash to upgrade and fix the heating/air conditioning in the building.

This has necessitated 6 weeks of work being carried out, with everyone in the building being required to up sticks and move around to different offices/desk spaces/work from home for a while whilst the workmen did what they needed to do.

All back into our normal spaces this week, scaffolding donw etc.

It's f***ing sweltering in here now and it isn't even 10am.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Shakermaker said:

After many years of poor performance, the company finally decided to splash the cash to upgrade and fix the heating/air conditioning in the building.

This has necessitated 6 weeks of work being carried out, with everyone in the building being required to up sticks and move around to different offices/desk spaces/work from home for a while whilst the workmen did what they needed to do.

Sorry, I don't have a clue what you are talking about because I don't have a detailed in-depth knowledge of the physics behind how air conditioning works.

[Frank7]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

nonsequitur said:

Not a clue.

Really?

Even someone with basic reading skills and zero technical knowledge should be able to make something of that, if only from the context of the first sentence.

Have to side with nonsequitur here, and I can read up a storm in two languages, but definitely have zero technical knowledge.
I got that the guy wanted to do something to his files, but as there’d been an update to something, this proved impossible, and that he was annoyed about it, but as to what he wanted to do, and with what, he may as well have typed it in Serbo-Croat.

[Shakermaker]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Shakermaker said:

After many years of poor performance, the company finally decided to splash the cash to upgrade and fix the heating/air conditioning in the building.

This has necessitated 6 weeks of work being carried out, with everyone in the building being required to up sticks and move around to different offices/desk spaces/work from home for a while whilst the workmen did what they needed to do.

Sorry, I don't have a clue what you are talking about because I don't have a detailed in-depth knowledge of the physics behind how air conditioning works.

It would appear that neither did the contractors who did the work in our building...

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Frank7 said:

Have to side with nonsequitur here, and I can read up a storm in two languages, but definitely have zero technical knowledge.
I got that the guy wanted to do something to his files, but as there’d been an update to something, this proved impossible, and that he was annoyed about it

So, unlike nonsequitur, you do have a clue then.

That was all I was getting at really - that the technical details weren't really important and the nub of the matter is exactly as you say. I guess nonsequitur's response of "not a clue" annoyed me beyond reason.

Frank7 said:

but as to what he wanted to do, and with what, he may as well have typed it in Serbo-Croat.

Entirely fair enough.

[captain_cynic]

OpulentBob said:

Little bit patronising there.

PH is home to a large number of IT Professionals who seem to think everyone knows about servers and cables and mice and CTRL-ALT-DEL.

Not really,

Computers have been a part of daily life for well over 25 years now, so they're well and truly integrated into our society so it is a reasonable expectation that people will understand the basic terminology surrounding them.

According to the diffusion of innovation, there will still be some laggards, but to be a laggard about computers at this point requires wilful ignorance and wilful ignorance is not something to be proud of.

[droopsnoot]

ESOG said:

See I always assumed people would instinctively walk on the same sides and direction on a pathway as one would drive their car. In the U.S. walking on the right side one way and those coming do so on the left side. But noooo thats much too difficult for people to fathom and thus we are met with a sea of morons all walking in disarray.

I agree, but the last time I mentioned how normal people should always walk on the left here, I was bombarded with examples of how I'd be mown down if I dared to try such a thing on the London Underground.

[Oldandslow]

Shakermaker said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Shakermaker said:

After many years of poor performance, the company finally decided to splash the cash to upgrade and fix the heating/air conditioning in the building.

This has necessitated 6 weeks of work being carried out, with everyone in the building being required to up sticks and move around to different offices/desk spaces/work from home for a while whilst the workmen did what they needed to do.

Sorry, I don't have a clue what you are talking about because I don't have a detailed in-depth knowledge of the physics behind how air conditioning works.

It would appear that neither did the contractors who did the work in our building...

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[popeyewhite]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

nonsequitur said:

Not a clue.

Really?

Even someone with basic reading skills and zero technical knowledge should be able to make something of that, if only from the context of the first sentence.

No, it really is bks to most non-geeks.