Trivial Things That Make You Surly

[El Diablo 4,232]

Wasn't paying close attention and grabbed a box of kitchen trash bags with the long "ears" and not drawstrings. Didn't realize it until I opened them up at the house a month or so later. Now I've got to use them. Fuck. In the larger scheme of things though  I guess I've done dumber stuff with $4 (South Austin's mom) and at least this mistake won't leave me with an uncomfortable rash. So there's that.

[elfenix 34,250]

6 hours ago, Tylerocks said:

Metro busses driving on Westheimer...particularly in Montrose.  Lanes are too narrow and and those fat bastards drive right down the fucking middle of the 2 lanes.

and they stop every fucking 2 blocks.  i know, that's the policy, stop every 2 blocks.  but is it really necessary when the blocks are 200' long?

[Trey3216 15,346]

46 minutes ago, elfenix said:

and they stop every fucking 2 blocks.  i know, that's the policy, stop every 2 blocks.  but is it really necessary when the blocks are 200' long?

Mfers ain’t walking 

[elfenix 34,250]

When bars try to drown out crowd noise by turning Joe Buck up to 11 and all you can hear is the speaker buzzing and some moaning that kinda sounds like Joe fucking buck.

[Armybrat 40,850]

Two years ago while turning into a parking spot, I scraped about  8” of paint off the  lower edge of the front air dam on Mrs. Brat’s new Accord.

Yesterday I did the same thing with my new Civic.

gottdammit.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,074]

Where the fuck does a restaurant get off serving New England clam chowder if they don't have oyster crackers? No, I don't want any goddamn croutons.

Place should be burned to the ground. 

[drt 638]

Round toilet seats. Who the fuck in this day and age puts those in a commercial building?

[HornsOverIthaca 2,333]

Someone more concerned with the aesthetics of the crapper than the functionality.  Some sort of European types would be my guess.

[WhatTheBuck 28,783]

1 hour ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Where the fuck does a restaurant get off serving New England clam chowder if they don't have oyster crackers? No, I don't want any goddamn croutons.

Place should be burned to the ground. 

Yeah, that's not cool at all. Not that there's anything wrong with croutons. Give me choices. But oyster crackers are required just like sour cream with potato skins. 

[NorthLoop 14,208]

On 10/17/2019 at 2:53 PM, PittsburghTiger said:

1. People who hog the fucking left lane on the highway and do not drive at a speed that is equal to just about everyone else.

2. People, in the right lane, who are being passed on the highway who then decide they must speed up to make your pass more difficult.

3..assholes in the left lane, while being passed on the right, decide to speed up and try to cut you off from getting in front of them. May they die a horrible death. 

 

If I was granted DPS authority tomorrow the first thing I would do is pull over left lane abusers all. goddamn. day. 

[Walden Ponderer 12,639]

11 hours ago, drt said:

Round toilet seats. Who the fuck in this day and age puts those in a commercial building?

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

11 hours ago, HornsOverIthaca said:

Someone more concerned with the aesthetics of the crapper than the functionality.  Some sort of European types would be my guess.

Nah, oval looks better.

[Armybrat 40,850]

1 hour ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Nah, oval looks better.

Fits my dick better.

[TexasHooch 5,122]

Radio commercials during game broadcasts.  Why does every f'ng one need to have a pun.  "Hit a home run with Davidson plumping". "Washburn-McCreary Funeral services, it's a slam dunk".  Don't take a sack in the sack, get blue chew chewables".  Fuck!

[achooloco 1,072]

we've had 3-4 generations of football fans trained to spot small pieces of yellow flying across the broadcast, from any direction. so what do dumb fuck ad folk do in 2019? make every ad pop up in the corners and random unnecessary program info fucking yellow. assholes.

[52-80 19,160]

I got a really good one:  the grammatical rule where you don't close the quotation mark when it ends a paragraph.  i imagine it would kill software developers.

[SilasCoade 2,622]

4 hours ago, 52-80 said:

I got a really good one:  the grammatical rule where you don't close the quotation mark when it ends a paragraph.  i imagine it would kill software developers.

What are you talking about? The only time you don't close the quotation is if the next paragraph continues the quoted material.

[52-80 19,160]

1 hour ago, Llogg said:

What are you talking about? The only time you don't close the quotation is if the next paragraph continues the quoted material.

Exactly.  Not only is the preceding paragraph not "closed", a new quotation marks is used to open the next paragraph.

 

If you make long quotations, put it in blocks.

 

Or, maybe write more shit in your own words.

[Homercles 10,205]

People who sit in those goddamn massaging chairs that beep incessantly if you don’t pay.  They have those at both Catch Airs where I take my kids to burn off energy, and right now there’s a giant lady sitting in it just oblivious to the obnoxious noises driving everyone nuts.  
 

She keeps looking inquisitively at it despite the big sign that says ‘will beep if you don’t pay to activate this chair’. 

[Js1 85,346]

On 10/18/2019 at 8:16 AM, Tylerocks said:

A couple:

New bath towels or the weird non-absorbent ones that just push the water around as you're drying off.  You all know that one towel that fucking sucks.

Metro busses driving on Westheimer...particularly in Montrose.  Lanes are too narrow and and those fat bastards drive right down the fucking middle of the 2 lanes.

Those metro buses on montrose - not trivial. They swing into your lane at will. Bus > car and I’m lucky I haven’t been on the losing end yet 

[SilasCoade 2,622]

2 hours ago, 52-80 said:

Exactly.  Not only is the preceding paragraph not "closed", a new quotation marks is used to open the next paragraph.

 

If you make long quotations, put it in blocks.

 

Or, maybe write more shit in your own words.

This is not only trivial but wrong. Dialog, for instance, may span more than one paragraph for a single speaker. Closing the quotation would make you think a new speaker had started. I'm not much of a programmer, but it doesn't seem odd to me from that standpoint. Like currying functions you're currying paragraphs into a single quotation.

[52-80 19,160]

17 minutes ago, Llogg said:

This is not only trivial but wrong. Dialog, for instance, may span more than one paragraph for a single speaker. Closing the quotation would make you think a new speaker had started. I'm not much of a programmer, but it doesn't seem odd to me from that standpoint. Like currying functions you're currying paragraphs into a single quotation.

This thread isn't about whether something is right or wrong (nevermind first needing to agree on a reference be it AP, MLA, Chicago, etc...)

I get closing a quote necessitates re-attributing the speaker.  But then....how about not starting a new paragraph with the same speaker?

 

Now STFU and let me rant.

 

[nnm 36,416]

Grammatical arguments make me surly. 

[Armybrat 40,850]

12 hours ago, nnm said:

Grammatical arguments make me surly. 

May I quote you on that?

[Walden Ponderer 12,639]

3 hours ago, Armybrat said:

May I quote you on that?

How many paragraphs you plan on using?

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

1 minute ago, Walden Ponderer said:

How many paragraphs you plan on using?

ummm.....

[Walden Ponderer 12,639]

Just now, Onboard 2.0 said:

ummm...

FIFY. Just to stay thematic and shit.

[You don't know me 1,161]

On 10/17/2019 at 11:24 AM, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Mother fucker, it happened again this morning. This is getting to be not trivial.

Adjust your side view so that it shines right back in his face.

[nnm 36,416]

1 hour ago, You don't know me said:

Adjust your side view so that it shines right back in his face.

Won't bother him because of his polarized Oakleys, worn night or day.

[elfenix 34,250]

3 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

ummm ... .

 

3 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:

FIFY. Just to stay thematic and shit.

ftfy.   "ummm . . . ." would also be accepted. 

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

I'm a single space dot dot dot dot guy. 

[52-80 19,160]

Totally mad at what a retardo I am.  Left a couple of Gs on the table.

 

Was going through expense report system and realized I had an expense type up, filled out, receipts sorted, and done everything short of submitting it. 

 

Wasn't standard business expense either like from a meeting, but came from a perk/Benny, was over 1 year ago, and from a tight-pursed team that I transferred out of.  Different group, different business unit, different country entirely.
 

The only thing that could separate me further from entitlement to it is if I had quit the company.  So.....basically, easy money in the trash

 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,819]

On 10/20/2019 at 3:02 PM, Homercles said:

People who sit in those goddamn massaging chairs that beep incessantly if you don’t pay.  They have those at both Catch Airs where I take my kids to burn off energy, and right now there’s a giant lady sitting in it just oblivious to the obnoxious noises driving everyone nuts.  
 

She keeps looking inquisitively at it despite the big sign that says ‘will beep if you don’t pay to activate this chair’. 

Go tell her to either to take it out of reverse, or get out of the chair.

[deadshank 24,653]

23 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

I'm a single space dot dot dot dot guy. 

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

Married homosexuals use the words "husband" and "wife" in conversation way, way, way more than heterosexual married people. 

[SilasCoade 2,622]

Going to do laundry and finding a load sitting in the dryer from the day before.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8,817]

Going to do laundry and finding a load sitting in the dryer from the day before.

Yeaa...get to rewash that load again too

[MNLonghornFUKM 8,817]

Post so cool it posted twice

[VolenteHawk 495]

On 10/19/2019 at 7:14 PM, achooloco said:

we've had 3-4 generations of football fans trained to spot small pieces of yellow flying across the broadcast, from any direction. so what do dumb fuck ad folk do in 2019? make every ad pop up in the corners and random unnecessary program info fucking yellow. assholes.

Similarly, women's college basketball ticker scores should be in pink.  At least a dozen times a season, a score will roll by and I'm all "shit, Texas and Iowa State are in a barn burner I should flip over to that".  Then I notice the next game is in the 3rd quarter and rage.

 

[deadshank 24,653]

Goofballs that drive these things.   

 

 

[Underdog 28,662]

A truck? 

[Guest Lobo]

what's wrong with an old Ford Ranger?  I could do without the Trapper Keeper graphics on the side, but there were a few years I would have loved a Ford Ranger.  

[deadshank 24,653]

15 minutes ago, Lobo said:

what's wrong with an old Ford Ranger?  I could do without the Trapper Keeper graphics on the side, but there were a few years I would have loved a Ford Ranger.  

They're just stupid, good for nothing trucks.  Usually driven by fat, ugly lesbians.

[Jameslaw121 4,448]

4 hours ago, VolenteHawk said:

Similarly, women's college basketball ticker scores should be in pink.  At least a dozen times a season, a score will roll by and I'm all "shit, Texas and Iowa State are in a barn burner I should flip over to that".  Then I notice the next game is in the 3rd quarter and rage.

 

Yup. done that a few times.Hell, the other day they showed a score Rangers 3 Senators 1 -- for a split second I thought. Sweet the Texas Rangers are winning....Wait. That'd be hockey. Also the Texas Rangers season has been over for awhile...

[Walden Ponderer 12,639]

1 hour ago, deadshank said:

They're just stupid, good for nothing trucks.  Usually driven by fat, ugly lesbians.

Not all of 'em are lesbians.

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

7 hours ago, VolenteHawk said:

Similarly, women's college basketball ticker scores should be in pink.

they don't need to be on the ticker at all

sorry, but the percentage of the viewing audience that cares is so small that you might as well expand the ticker to include WWE results

same goes for stuff like EPL, MLS, whatever

[Nolacycling 893]

The stupid,ugly trucks are the ones with a full back seat and short bed. 

[TornACL 7,698]

12 hours ago, Llogg said:

Going to do laundry and finding a load sitting in the dryer from the day before.

Stop fucking your dryer. Problem solved. 

[ChickenSandwich 9,836]

14 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said:

they don't need to be on the ticker at all

sorry, but the percentage of the viewing audience that cares is so small that you might as well expand the ticker to include WWE results

same goes for stuff like EPL, MLS, whatever

The continuous one is outdated and needs to go away. Far more scores available now and a good portion of the audience is actively trying to avoid it for spoilers etc

Edited October 24, 2019 by ChickenSandwich

[achooloco 1,072]

Auto grat on small parties. Went to a bar for a friends bday, had $8 beer, $12 legent neat, two $15 tequila ocho shots =$50 for me only, only one credit card. Tax of $4.44, auto tip of $9 so $63.44 total. Fuck that place.