Trivial Things That Make You Surly

[Upgrayedd 5,797]

1 hour ago, SwanderedTalent said:

The left lane is for passing only. Unless I think I'm driving faster than anyone else can would or should!!! Then it's for me and I can stay there all day!!!!

also when there's heavy traffic on a two-lane highway, I need to let the car in front of me in the left lane know how unhappy I am with all the traffic by tailgating him and making reckless lane changes to try to get around that one person!!!! I'll deal with the other sixty cars in front of me after I pass this one guy but right now he's the only thing between me and open road!!!!!!!

My personal favorite is the guy that doesn't know/care that the HOV lanes are only HOV during rush hour.  All other times they are the left/fast/passing lanes.  I know I am only doing 10 miles over the posted limit, but instead of tailgating and making that quick pass on the right, how about using the not-HOV lane there sport?

[Guest Lobo]

Why the fuck when you're on the Southwest website, and you go to airport/departure site and you you just hit AUS instead of messing with the pull-down menu...does it auto-populate with Grand Rapids MIchigan?  Or when I'm searching for a flight for family to come down here from MDW, and you go to destination airport and you type "AUS" real fast because it's easier than moving hand over to mouse to scroll down, it still picks GRR for Grand Rapids?  What in the fuck is the cause of that?  It's annoying as shit! 

[clapclapclap 9,000]

Fast food cashiers that stick their dirty paw in the drink cup before handing it to you.

Actually not trivial, it's gateway hygiene indifference that can lead to Blue Bell licking.

[DougO 5,238]

When the box of 12 pack soda cans decides to collapse just outside the car in the HEB parking lot, when it's open, and it's on a fairly steep slope.

[WhatTheBuck 28,696]

1 hour ago, DougO said:

When the box of 12 pack soda cans decides to collapse just outside the car in the HEB parking lot, when it's open, and it's on a fairly steep slope.

They're making them with cheaper cardboard and cheaper glue. If the hand hold doesn't rip so you drop it, the dispenser end comes unglued so the cans roll out of the fridge. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,771]

Should probably go in the getting old sucks thread, but ear hairs.  Not inside the ear, but I get this one that grows on the top, only it’s not like an actual hair, it’s more like 30lb monofilament line.  I can feel it up there but if I yank it out it’ll bleed.  Guess I should just tie a snap swivel on it.  

[Okie State 3,746]

The person in charge of the emergency signs on the highways in Houston who decided to post 'A storm is forming in the Gulf. Be prepared. Fill up your car with gas'.

Yeah let's start another gas panic. Thanks asshole.

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

1 minute ago, Okie State said:

The person in charge of the emergency signs on the highways in Houston who decided to post 'A storm is forming in the Gulf. Be prepared. Fill up your car with gas'.

Yeah let's start another gas panic. Thanks asshole.

They must own gas stocks.

[Js1 84,989]

3 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Should probably go in the getting old sucks thread, but ear hairs.  Not inside the ear, but I get this one that grows on the top, only it’s not like an actual hair, it’s more like 30lb monofilament line.  I can feel it up there but if I yank it out it’ll bleed.  Guess I should just tie a snap swivel on it.  

I’m not even “old” and I get them every so often. Usually just swipe along the ear with the razor when doing my face. Pisses me off though, it’s gross 

[Sandman 3,401]

People at work that print shit and then leave it on the printer all day. Every time I get my papers from the printer (immediately after clicking "print" BTW) there's always recipes or emails in the stack. I don't give a damn if you print personal stuff, just go pick it up. 

[Guest]

10 hours ago, Okie State said:

The person in charge of the emergency signs on the highways in Houston who decided to post 'A storm is forming in the Gulf. Be prepared. Fill up your car with gas'.

Yeah let's start another gas panic. Thanks asshole.

The only people who panic are those who have lived there less than a year/ post-Harvey.

Fuck hurricanes though.  Sooooo glad to be done with that horseshit.

[Guest]

7 hours ago, Js1 said:

I’m not even “old” and I get them every so often. Usually just swipe along the ear with the razor when doing my face. Pisses me off though, it’s gross 

the trimmer blade is perfect for backhanding those PITA ear hairs.

[Cheeseweasel 26,437]

18 minutes ago, Sandman said:

or emails in the stack

People who print emails are either very old or very stupid. Fuck them.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Cheeseweasel said:

People who print emails are either very old or very stupid. Fuck them.

What if the 'lectric goes out?

See?  Did ya ever think of that?

 

LMAO.  I can just hear it in the copy room...

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,771]

17 minutes ago, slorch said:

What if the 'lectric goes out?

See?  Did ya ever think of that?

 

LMAO.  I can just hear it in the copy room...

I have a coworker that prints shit out excessively.  Always double-sided to save paper!!!  

 

[Cheeseweasel 26,437]

3 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

I have a coworker that prints shit out excessively.  Always double-sided to save paper!!!  

We all have one. Sometimes our graphics debt will print a large file which takes a few minutes to spool. She'll hit print 106 times and walk back and forth to the copier cussing that it's not printing. Guess what happens when the file finishes spooling?

[Lat22 3,973]

12 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Should probably go in the getting old sucks thread, but ear hairs.  Not inside the ear, but I get this one that grows on the top, only it’s not like an actual hair, it’s more like 30lb monofilament line.  I can feel it up there but if I yank it out it’ll bleed.  Guess I should just tie a snap swivel on it.  

Nose, in ear, on ear, but not a one on the top of my head.

[Sandman 3,401]

15 minutes ago, Lat22 said:

Nose, in ear, on ear, but not a one on the top of my head.

I'm getting some that sprout right out of the middle of my forehead. Thank God I have blond hair so nobody sees it.

[HouTex 1,841]

2 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

People who print emails are either very old or very stupid. Fuck them.

This.  As late as 2004 or so one of my former law partners would have his secretary print an email and give him the hard copy, and then he would hand write the reply and give it back to his secretary, and then she would actually send the reply using his email.  Probably took an hour or so to reply to one simple email.  He thought it was beneath a lawyer to actually type on a computer.

Edited July 11, 2019 by HouTex

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

I get that people are busy, and there's a lot of running between meetings and calls, and it can be challenging to carve out time for biological needs.

But for fuck's sake, people, we're adults. Don't fucking eat while you're on a fucking phone call, especially when you're fucking talking. I mean holy shit. Chomp chomp chew chew slurp. 

[Prepuce of Doom 20,954]

3 hours ago, HouTex said:

This.  As late as 2004 or so one of my former law partners would have his secretary print an email and give him the hard copy, and then he would hand write the reply and give it back to his secretary, and then she would actually send the reply using his email.  Probably took an hour or so to reply to one simple email.  He thought it was beneath a lawyer to actually type on a computer.

This was my father, except for the fact that he would use his dictaphone to record his replies.

If he saw something on the Internet that he wanted to share with someone, he would print it out, have his secretary scan it, email it to him, and then he would forward you the PDF.

It took years to convince him that there was an easier way. 

[Knoxtnhorn 5,918]

Friends from TN are visiting from out of town.  Deal w/ wife was I go to IKEA, then we get bbq.  I've now been sitting in this GD, mothereffin place for almost 3 hours.  Ufufufugkgidudc!

[HouTex 1,841]

8 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

This was my father, except for the fact that he would use his dictaphone to record his replies.

If he saw something on the Internet that he wanted to share with someone, he would print it out, have his secretary scan it, email it to him, and then he would forward you the PDF.

It took years to convince him that there was an easier way. 

Not sure how old your father is, but my former law partner would now be only 57 or 58.  He was in his 20's when PCs became widespread and in his mid to late 30's when email became widespread.  He was just stubborn.  He refused to have a computer in his office until the firm made him get one.  Then he never turned it on.  He thought he was being cool and I thought he was an idiot.

[Prepuce of Doom 20,954]

My dad would be 75 in a couple of months.

He was a surprisingly good typist (I had no idea he could type at all until he gave me shit for my middling typing scores/grades in middle school, when I foolishly challenged him to beat my score, which he did, handily, and with the added "fuck you" of voluntarily covering his hands and keyboard while doing so...) but just didn't want to take the time to learn how to use an email program or a word processor. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,771]

6 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

This was my father, except for the fact that he would use his dictaphone to record his replies.

If he saw something on the Internet that he wanted to share with someone, he would print it out, have his secretary scan it, email it to him, and then he would forward you the PDF.

It took years to convince him that there was an easier way. 

I work with a couple of people who constantly were printing shit out and scanning it to pdf.  I politely showed them they could print to pdf directly.  One of them still forgets and scans stuff.  Geezus.  

[elfenix 34,161]

9 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

This was my father, except for the fact that he would use his dictaphone to record his replies.

If he saw something on the Internet that he wanted to share with someone, he would print it out, have his secretary scan it, email it to him, and then he would forward you the PDF.

It took years to convince him that there was an easier way. 

i still haven't convinced the boss there's a better way

 

12 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said:

I get that people are busy, and there's a lot of running between meetings and calls, and it can be challenging to carve out time for biological needs.

But for fuck's sake, people, we're adults. Don't fucking eat while you're on a fucking phone call, especially when you're fucking talking. I mean holy shit. Chomp chomp chew chew slurp. 

sports talk hosts are constantly eating during their shows.  wtf guys, you're on air for 4 hours, can you not eat during that span?

[Prepuce of Doom 20,954]

3 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

I work with a couple of people who constantly were printing shit out and scanning it to pdf.  I politely showed them they could print to pdf directly.  One of them still forgets and scans stuff.  Geezus.  

The easier way I was referring to was simply copying and forwarding the URL - I would never have attempted to explain printing to a PDF to my dad. 

That's next, next, next level shit from where he maxxed out his technological give-a-shit meter. 

He passed away about two years ago, and he was still using Ask Jeeves right up until the end. 

Edited July 12, 2019 by Prepuce of Doom

[SilasCoade 2,620]

^^^lmao @ ask jeeves

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

8 hours ago, elfenix said:

wtf guys, you're on air for 4 hours, can you not eat during that span?

NAH BRAH I GOTTA GET MY PROTEIN

[El Diablo 4,232]

13 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

I work with a couple of people who constantly were printing shit out and scanning it to pdf.  I politely showed them they could print to pdf directly.  One of them still forgets and scans stuff.  Geezus.  

I'm forced to print shit and scan it to myself sometimes because there are webpages out there that do NOT print to .pdf. I don't know shit about webpages or why they won't print right but they don't. Hell, some won't even print correctly on a printer, they have to be shrunk to like 60% so that it all fits on one page and THEN it has to be scanned. FML.

[elfenix 34,161]

2 hours ago, El Diablo said:

I'm forced to print shit and scan it to myself sometimes because there are webpages out there that do NOT print to .pdf. I don't know shit about webpages or why they won't print right but they don't. Hell, some won't even print correctly on a printer, they have to be shrunk to like 60% so that it all fits on one page and THEN it has to be scanned. FML.

if you're in chrome, and you hit print, and you select 'save as pdf,' it doesn't work?   or it's not there? i've always gotten exactly the same output.  can you post one of the pages that won't save to pdf?

[El Diablo 4,232]

13 minutes ago, elfenix said:

if you're in chrome, and you hit print, and you select 'save as pdf,' it doesn't work?   or it's not there? i've always gotten exactly the same output.  can you post one of the pages that won't save to pdf?

Using IE at work, never tried it in Chrome. I'll report back.

EDIT: Yep, that worked. I'll have to remember that. Don't need it often but yeah, that'll save a PITA print/scan job a few times a week.

Edited July 12, 2019 by El Diablo

[Lone Star Horn 2,007]

4 hours ago, El Diablo said:

Using IE at work, never tried it in Chrome. I'll report back.

EDIT: Yep, that worked. I'll have to remember that. Don't need it often but yeah, that'll save a PITA print/scan job a few times a week.

Also, if a website doesn't let you print a page, can't you just use the snipping tool, and save the image? Granted it's a picture of what you want, but it should work.

[Sbbruin 21,690]

It makes me surly when shit gets borked, like right now.

[BrazilHorn 6,575]

People that get on elevator for one flight of stairs. WTF Lazy Ass

[elfenix 34,161]

9 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

People that get on elevator for one flight of stairs. WTF Lazy Ass

can't get to the 6th floor bathroom from the stairwell.  which makes me surly cuz i don't want to wait for the elevator either.

[El Diablo 4,232]

2 hours ago, Lone Star Horn said:

Also, if a website doesn't let you print a page, can't you just use the snipping tool, and save the image? Granted it's a picture of what you want, but it should work.

Yes, but that's such a pain too. For what I do it really needs to be a .pdf eventually however it takes to get it there. Most people at work are on IE just because that's what has been on the computers there forever. We've got 600 users. Chrome is there of course, it's just nobody has really moved to it. At home I've only used Chrome for years but that's at home. 

[troph 24,486]

Bitches scheduling a competitive tennis match at 8am on a Saturday.

[PilotsError 2,275]

score streams

[WhatTheBuck 28,696]

store screams

[immortal13 4,059]

The puddle of piss in front of every public urinal. 

[mdmost 42,683]

I mean it's as if guys just piss right on the floor on purpose. I get you might be crooked but the lip on the urinal is pretty wide and you still find a way to miss it. 

[TornACL 7,666]

On 7/11/2019 at 1:46 PM, Knoxtnhorn said:

Friends from TN are visiting from out of town.  Deal w/ wife was I go to IKEA, then we get bbq.  I've now been sitting in this GD, mothereffin place for almost 3 hours.  Ufufufugkgidudc!

Wait, your friends wanted to go to Ikea as part of their visit? 

Or your wife wanted you out of the house for three hours while your friends visited, so she could bang one (or both) of them. 

[Scheiss Meister 8,387]

How fucking hard is it to cut a pizza into roughly even pieces and all the way through the crust?  Very fucking hard, apparently. 

[Knoxtnhorn 5,918]

1 hour ago, TornACL said:

Wait, your friends wanted to go to Ikea as part of their visit? 

Or your wife wanted you out of the house for three hours while your friends visited, so she could bang one (or both) of them. 

Wife was with them. They don't have an IKEA anywhere near them in TN.  It was brutal, but the bbq was worth the wait.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,780]

You went to IKEA to get BBQ?

[Walden Ponderer 12,638]

26 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

You went to IKEA to get BBQ?

Mmmmm.... Smoked caribou, marinated in lingonberries.

[Butch Had Not 2,938]

Fuck you Truvada commercials. I can't fucking escape them on cable tv. 

[TexArcher 37,413]

I'm sure this has been mentioned multiple times by now, but people who talk on their cell phones in public restrooms.  You're not guiding a resident through an emergency surgery or anything else that couldn't have waited 90 seconds.

It also annoys me when I don't have a massive fart to rip at that moment and I have to settle for flushing the toilet several times in a row so the person on the other end knows what a low class degenerate their friend/boyfriend is.

I hope you drop your phone in the urinal.

[TexArcher 37,413]

Also, when the classic rock station plays Pat Benatar, who is neither classic, nor rock.