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Pet Peeves v. u mad?

username13 said:
seeing a whole group of people out to dinner and they ar all stuck glued to their phones, texting or whatever the fuck you all do. If i have a lot of time on the pc or tablet, when i go i i leave that shit alone. This is a new behavior but i bet inten years everyone will be fucking glued to a screen. Last time i left civilization it wasnt this bad. It seems like,we,are devolving quickly.
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couldn't agree more, you are not alone
I always leave my car in my phone, if I had a spouse or children, I would put it in my pocket and use only incase of emergency
if I ever have to use my phone around others, I excuse my self, or just walk away unannounced

gotta love when these people pretend like they're paying attention to what another is saying to them, and when they're asked for some kind of reaction, they need to have what was previously said repeated to them
whatever, this cell phone era makes it easy to recognize people who I either don't want in my life or no longer wish to elevate my relationship with them
 
I don't like people abbreviating "Wikipedia" to "wiki" (or "the Wikipedia page" to "the wiki")--"wiki" simply refers to a protocol for web content generation and editing, and there are many wikis (eg, the bluelight wiki). Incidentally, "wiki" stands for "what I know is. . ."

ebola
 
ebola? said:
I don't like people abbreviating "Wikipedia" to "wiki" (or "the Wikipedia page" to "the wiki")--"wiki" simply refers to a protocol for web content generation and editing, and there are many wikis (eg, the bluelight wiki). Incidentally, "wiki" stands for "what I know is. . ."

ebola
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as we integrate ourselves to the net, "what i know is" and wikipedia will become one and the same.

sorry ebola, but you are resisting those of us who are ahead of the curve. :p
 
So when people say, "It's not on the wiki!" they actually mean, "It's not included in the semantic structure of the sum of available computation!"? :P

ebola
 
10 go to wiki
20 search *subject*
30 if found go to 50
40 if not found go to 60
50 respond
60 go to "make some shit up which sounds good"
70 pose

in other words, wiki will replace intuition. ;)
 
People who quote someone's post that contains the person's picture, but edit out the part that shows it's a quote, making it look like they're posting their own pic. Bagochina, I'm looking directly at you.
 
alasdairm said:
"to all intensive purposes"

do some people just not think about what they are writing or saying means?

alasdair
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This isn't usually my style, but allow to play doubles advocate for a moment. It's very possible they were in a hurry and failed to note their mistake. It's happened to me before.
 
Ali said:
do some people just not think about what they are writing or saying means?
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Perhaps aren't aware of just how intensive their purposes are. ;)
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Right now, I'm pretty unhappy with incompatibility between proprietary file formats. It's pretty much a nightmare to coax a PC into reading an HFS+ filesystem on an external drive (or at least it is with my hardware). Having gone through 2 different programs designed to accomplish this task, both having failed in the same way, I'm on the cusp of creating a linux partition SOLELY to handle this matter.

ebola
 
Max Power said:
This isn't usually my style, but allow to play doubles advocate for a moment. It's very possible they were in a hurry and failed to note their mistake. It's happened to me before.
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i don't buy it.

i can understand a typo or a brain fart but when somebody writes "for all intensive purposes", it seems to me that they really think that is the turn of phrase - they didn't mean to write "for all intents and purposes".

it's an eggcorn, and one of the more common ones.

alasdair
 
Also, whenever you see something awesome or a really good part is about to happen in a movie you've seen and the person who's watching hasn't and they either look away right before it happens for some bullshit reason or take 10 seconds to respond to your cries of, "Look!" I was outside earlier talking to a neighbor and saw the weirdest lightning strike I've ever seen. It formed a near perfect circle, as if in a plasma ball. I told the neighbor to look and five seconds later he decides to look up and say, "What?" I described what I saw and told him to keep looking because it would probably happen again. He looks for a total of three seconds and looks at his phone. Sure enough, it happened right as he looked away. Then he started with the condescending, "Yeah, yeah. Sure." bullshit. Some people would miss witnessing seeing the creation of the universe if it meant being able to troll someone else and bug the shit out of them.

This is definitely one of my, "Fuck nearly everyone on the face of the earth!" days.
 
I don't like "ppl", "plz", or "smh". When I read, most of the material is played in my head aurally, and these acronyms and abbreviations make you sound like a stroke-victim.

ebola
 
ebola? said:
I don't like "ppl", "plz", or "smh". When I read, most of the material is played in my head aurally, and these acronyms and abbreviations make you sound like a stroke-victim.

ebola
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Just wondering how does that make you "sound" like a "stroke victim"?.
 
^I know a guy who's had a stroke and sounds and says he feels just the same. I seriously doubt he's used internet acronyms to the point of diminishing returns, too. I guess it's different strokes for different folks.
 
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