Oh my fucking God, this. Or my other favorite: "What can I do to raise my grade?"
My usual response is "Unless you have a time machine, your only choice is to actually start doing some work."
Pet Peeve rants.
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My usual response is "Unless you have a time machine, your only choice is to actually start doing some work."
Cajungal
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That really does suck, but I tend to be more forgiving about it now than I used to be... provided the grade is no more than a day late. I took a class a couple of years ago where the professor never gave feedback on our essays and projects unless we went chasing after him. So there was no way to know how you were doing and what you needed to improve.
Cajungal
Staff member
It wasn't. The dean brought him in for a talk.
After 5 days in Disney, my questioning people and walking is probably more than a pet peeve, but anyway...
Treat freaking walkways the same way you would a road! I shouldn't be hugging the right side of a walkway and have someone coming toward me trying to get between me and the edge. Hey! I'm already here, you move to the side to let me continue, not me move to let you against the "wall" to get past. UGH!
Treat freaking walkways the same way you would a road! I shouldn't be hugging the right side of a walkway and have someone coming toward me trying to get between me and the edge. Hey! I'm already here, you move to the side to let me continue, not me move to let you against the "wall" to get past. UGH!
People sending messages in 10 short, separate sentences so my phone will not stop going off for a good 3-5 minutes. Messages can be written as a single paragraph, people. Or there should be a setting somewhere so I can make it my phone stops notifications after the first message from the same person if they send multiple messages within a minute of each other.
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for that.
I'm so guilty of that 
The worst was when I was dating that widow. She had a talk-to-text thing in her car, so she'd be yattering and and I'd receive 6-part texts. One night she sent me almost 70 texts at work before I shut my phone off. Despite a third of my responses being "I'm at work, I'll call you later."
figmentPez
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Survey results that mean absolutely shit. Survey found 51% of people think stormy weather affects cloud computing.
Apparently the survey makers think that's the wrong answer. I'm just wondering how many of those 51% of people have no idea what cloud computing is, and how many of them know their internet tends to go out during storms, and knows damn fucking well that they may not be able to get to Google Docs, or play Sim City if they can't connect to the internet. So yes, smart people who know what cloud computing is can have the informed, and accurate, belief that stormy weather affects cloud computing. One of the major points mentioned in almost every article about how cloud computing will impact online applications and computer games using cloud processing has been how a lack of internet connection means those applications will be degraded, or completely unavailable. You asked your question wrong, Citrix.
Apparently the survey makers think that's the wrong answer. I'm just wondering how many of those 51% of people have no idea what cloud computing is, and how many of them know their internet tends to go out during storms, and knows damn fucking well that they may not be able to get to Google Docs, or play Sim City if they can't connect to the internet. So yes, smart people who know what cloud computing is can have the informed, and accurate, belief that stormy weather affects cloud computing. One of the major points mentioned in almost every article about how cloud computing will impact online applications and computer games using cloud processing has been how a lack of internet connection means those applications will be degraded, or completely unavailable. You asked your question wrong, Citrix.
That's Poe's Law, innit?
GasBandit
Staff member
DA RED STROIPE MAKES IT GO FASTA YA GIT
On a similar note, I really dislike it when folks speak with authority on subjects that they have no authority. If they just spoke from experience, it would be much more palatable.
"I'm so random!" No you're fucking not, shut the fuck up I hate you
Hey now I'm proud of my ability to non seguetur. Justifiably so.
Also I love portmanteau.
--Patrick
Cajungal
Staff member
That's how I feel about people who make a big deal out of the fact that they're "weird." The weirdest people I know think they're perfectly normal when they're doing truly crazy things. That's what makes them kind of strange in the first place. Only wanting 3 cubes of ice in your water does not make you a Zooey Deschanel-grade "adorkable" (shudder) weirdo.
And demanding that your three cubes of ice be made of frozen lemon water so they flavor your glass of ordinary water as they melt just makes you a jerk.
--Patrick
Yeah. If you do that at your house, fine. That's all you. But asking someone else to do it when you're out somewhere? Are you fucking kidding?
Broken links are weird as hell.You know who was REALLY weird?
The "I'm so weird/random" folks can get in the boat with the "I am so OCD" folks and shove off.
Cajungal
Staff member
It bothers me when people make light of OCD. Also, if you say you're so "OCD" you're saying "I'm so obsessive compulsive disorder." Do you also use an ATM machine?
People that actually are OCD have a legitimate problem, and typically don't make an issue of their issue. This is about the "I'm saying I have this even though I have never exhibited a single indicator" type person, the same type person that that will always say they are weird/random when they do nothing that is different than the crowd is doing.
