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Oh dear. : A thread about things that tick you off quite a bit, and might even elicit a frown.

 
  

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Mistoffelees
18:26 / 30.09.06
Having the realisation, that that woman "would be my nextdoor neighbour!", could really put some potential buyers off.

Good luck with selling the house to your Mother and Uncle!
 
 
Spaniel
07:14 / 01.10.06
It already has put potential buyers off, sadly.
 
 
Princess
07:43 / 01.10.06
I'm a vegetarian, it's two in the morning, I don't know you and I'm already a wee bit sad. Just how likely do you think it is that I want to talk about the chicken kievs you think I've stolen you drunken cockney twat?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
10:25 / 01.10.06
Say, Introversion, did it ever occur to you when you put Defcon up for pre-purchase as a download that those of us putting money down to pre-purchase might actually want to download the damn game at some point?

Game became available on September 29. A day on which I work. By the time I got home on the evening of the 29th, the Interversion and Defcon sites were down, and remain down two days later.

The Internet's been around for a while, fellows. I don't think "increased requests" and "server load" are really things I need to sit down and explain to you using charming crayon drawings on construction paper.

I wouldn't be this annoyed if I hadn't already paid for the game directly through their site rather than just getting it through Steam, which apparently works. Being a daffy idiot, I thought the option that gave the creators the biggest piece of the pie was the nicest one.

UPDATE: From the company: But for the first 2 hours at launch when we had a DNS outage, the website's been up all weekend. Unfortunately this morning some nut cut through the fibre cable connecting our 100mbit server at our Canada data centre. So... er... sorry about the insane ranting there, Introversion. Lunatics slashing your equipment isn't really a problem planning better could have solved.
 
 
Olulabelle
19:37 / 02.10.06
Dear Autumnwatch, I think you should know, hedgehogs do not eat slugs and snails unless they are really hungry and can't find anything else. Actually slugs can give them lungworm and they can die from that disease.

To say anything else is to be promulgating misinformation which is dangerous to hedgehogs. And you're Autumnwatch. You should know this already.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
19:39 / 02.10.06
Rabbit ears.

And not the kind you put on.

Or the kind you pet.

The kind technological throwbacks like me use because bloody cable is too expensive.

Fucking rabbit ears.
 
 
lekvar
21:08 / 02.10.06
I'm fairly certain I asked for decaf this morning. That's what I usually get. You know, the 3 or 4 times I come in per week for the past 5 years. But I'm pretty sure you gave me full strength coffee. I'm pretty useless right now as all of my neurons overload. I'm a little upset about this as the full strenght coffee you serve sends my body into system collapse. Please, give me decaf when I ask for it.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:10 / 02.10.06
I got really wasted at the weekend and woke up this morning without any glasses. I am currently at work, with my nose inches from the screen, wearing someone else's specs which aren't strong enough.
 
 
■
21:31 / 04.10.06
Hmm. So single people get a 20% council tax discount. That mean that they pay 80% of the bill each.
When two people live together they each have to pay 50% of the bill.
That means single people pay a minimum of 60% more council tax than everyone else.
Something isn't right there.
 
 
The Natural Way
07:25 / 05.10.06
Of course, Bobbos, I didn't know any of the above stuff - because my fucking phone was lost in passport control and I haven't been able to afford a new one until today, which ticks me off quite a bit, etc. - and.....oh dear.
 
 
Liger Null
07:26 / 05.10.06
So the plan is for Mum and my uncle to go up there in the week, take back the key and set Margaret straight:

I really think your parents should consider changing the lock as well, just in case.
 
 
Princess
18:10 / 05.10.06
Cous-cous isn't food. It's what you eat when you can't afford food.

If future packaging could explain this to me before I buy cous-cous, I feel much vexation could be avoided.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
18:21 / 05.10.06
I love cous-cous! Delicious fluffy cous-cous with some merguez sausage and steamed broccoli, YUM.
 
 
Spaniel
18:23 / 05.10.06
Cous cous so is food.

Nice easy cous cous goodness.

Cous cous
1 pepper
Mushrooms
Onion
Garlic
Raisins
Cashew nuts
Stock

Directions
1. Cook the cous cous in the stock
2. Fry the mushrooms, peppers, onion, garlic and cashews
3. Throw it together and add the raisins
4. Leave in the fridge to meld
5. Eat

Easy, nice, yum.
 
 
Spaniel
18:23 / 05.10.06
What Matt said, too
 
 
Persephone
18:36 / 05.10.06
You can also braise some sliced fennel, onion, and orange in orange juice for about twenty minutes. When it's done, stir in cooked couscous. Very nice with sauteed spinach or chard on the side.
 
 
Princess
19:09 / 05.10.06
Ah, you are people with ingredients. Cous-cous with ingredients may well be food. Indeed, I have eaten a delicous Brie and picallilli cous-cous. However, I am eating cous-cous sprinkled only with vegan stock from Lidl. I defy anyone with a mouth to try it and tell me it's food.
 
 
Char Aina
19:13 / 05.10.06
well, it was all i could eat after food poisoning kicked my arse en route to europe once.
i had it with ketchup.
tiny drips of ketchup.
 
 
Princess
19:26 / 05.10.06
So much wrong with that combination of images.
 
 
Spaniel
19:28 / 05.10.06
Cous cous with brie and piccalilli. Allow me to say YeFUCKINGuck.

Not as nasty as strawberry angel delight and ketchup, though, but that's another (horror) story.
 
 
Princess
19:37 / 05.10.06
But the genius thing is, it would still be pink. So someone would have to put it in their mouth before they realised it wasn't innocent strawberry angel delight. Pure, evil, genius.

Thankyou for helping me find new ways to interact with my family.
 
 
Spaniel
19:39 / 05.10.06
Happy to help

The story: I knew a woman who actually really enjoyed that shit. Really. Enjoyed. It.

When I found out I wanted to vomit... on her.
 
 
The Natural Way
07:26 / 06.10.06
You didn't really know her though, did you? I knew her. You're my twin and sometimes our memories get confused...
 
 
Evil Scientist
08:18 / 06.10.06
Well a certain someone's MySpace page has aggravated me slightly, that's for certain. Not to a headsick level, but just annoyed because I was a little bit concerned there for a moment and now, apparently, IT WAS ALL A JOKE 23!11!

Fine, whatever. S'not like I'm owed anything is it? Just a bit of a mental slap in the face for half-assed attempts at diplomatic resolutions.

Next time I'll just channel The Punisher instead.
 
 
Spaniel
11:37 / 06.10.06
Marriage, that's not true, I did know her, I just didn't know her very well.

In the spirit of being ticked off, hows about pming me that mobile number? In case you haven't noticed it's fucking useless having a mobile if no-one can contact you.


House update: someone is very interested, so interested, in fact, that they've had a full survey done. Now here's hoping we can keep that woman away from them.
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
09:01 / 10.10.06
"Is a 1Mb attachment sent to 10 people going to go out?" asks my colleague, querying the attachment limitations in place on our e-mail client.

"No problems, the limit is 2Mb" says I restating the limitations for her.

"But if I send it to 10 people, doesn't that mean it's a 10Mb attachment?" Say she, frustrating me with her technignorance.

"No, just send the message" I reply, resisting the urge to beat her with a stapler for once again demonstrating that on a technical scale I really should be earning far more money.

Am I asking too much that someone who has probably been using office technology for longer than I have, have at least a basic understanding of the basic fundamentals of using said mysterious digital trickery?
 
 
Quantum
09:31 / 10.10.06
Relax dude, most people still get scared by the photocopier. 'Press the collate button' I say 'then you won't have to do all that sorting by hand.'
'The what? No no, I prefer to do it this way, it just mucks up if you press any of those stupid buttons' spends twenty minutes shuffling bits of paper

On the Cous-cous, if you don't fry it in butter or olive oil or even vegetable oil with garlic then you're all silly. Toast it for a minute or so, then pour enough water on to cover it, take it off the heat and cover with a cloth, stir with a fork after a minute (adding a knob of butter if you have it), eat after two or three. Otherwise you're likely to get sludge instead of fluffy grains of delicious cous-cous.
 
 
Mistoffelees
15:23 / 10.10.06
The question of your colleague is justified. My email account once put every sent email in a "sent emails" file, thus busting my mb limit. It´s not just computer-nonsavvy people who think weird, the people, who deal with the internet for a living, screw up, too.

Reminds me of the following:
A colleague once made fun of her mother, because her mother went to the CD player and turned the CD around and put it in the player again, just like people turned a record. At the same time, there were DVDs for sale (Goodfellas, for example), where you had to do just that to see the second part of the movie.

With technology getting more and more complex today, you can always be in for surprises and get your preconceptions befuddled.
 
 
Mistoffelees
15:26 / 10.10.06
To explain my sent email bit:
I had sent one email with an attachment, that was well in my mb limit, to several people, and my client refused to send it to everybody, because it put every email in that folder with a copy of that attachment.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:18 / 12.10.06
Dear God.

I know, I know.

"Stop reading it, Stoatie".

But I can't.

I just...

can't.
 
 
Spaniel
19:43 / 12.10.06
They are properly weird.

[Ag!] I sent Gumbitch a PM earlier which contained speculation about whether some friends of ours plan on announcing their engagement on Saturday evening, sadly, due to my phraseology and his wacky head he only went and sent one of 'em a congratulations text.[/Ag!]
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
19:51 / 12.10.06
Sweet Mama J, Stoat, that's appallingly fascinating. Page 3 and feeling kind of ... unreal.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:54 / 12.10.06
The more time I spend reading that site, the more I love Barbelith.
 
 
Spaniel
20:02 / 12.10.06
I mean, I can get behind geekery, but those guys are fucking taking it to the next level. It's just so horrible.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:22 / 12.10.06
Please, Barbelith, I beg you. Come round to my house and smash the fingers on my mouse hand. I CAN'T STOP... AND I'M STILL ONLY ON PAGE SEVEN OF *sob* TWEHEHEHEHEHELVE...
 
  

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