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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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Ticker
19:01 / 08.10.07
XK, you have eyes that see over continents.

nah, I was standing two feet away when it was installed.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:05 / 08.10.07
Olulabelle: what the bobbins is the point of having one?

NEVER trust spellcheck.

I've seen enough people at work get in shit for trusting it blindly and have very similar words replace the one they had a typo in. My advice is, if you're not sure about the word, check it yourself. And proofread everything you've done before you give it to anyone.

I don't use a spellchecker, EVER. It doesn't mean I'm always right in my spelling; far from it. But it does mean any mistakes are my own.

Spellcheckers suck. Apart from anything else, they are teaching people that there's no point in learning how to spell, or to bother checking that you've done everything right, because it'll all get done FOR you somewhere further down the line.

FUCK spellcheckers.

I hates 'em.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:08 / 08.10.07
I'm not scratching, I promise. The no-scratch rule was impressed upon me very strongly. I'm just grinding my teeth and occasionally whimpering a bit.

Some big tough barbarian me.
 
 
Ticker
19:13 / 08.10.07
When it gets bad, just remember light smacking is acceptable.

Lot's of barbarians complain about itchy things like beards and lice and unwashed animal skin underpants. Ok real barbarians just wear leggings but still ITCHY!!
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
12:13 / 09.10.07
Bad news today via a newspaper article in Atlanta on severe delays for visa processing for out-of-U.S. fiancés and spouses. Kali and I are not very happy. Not very happy at all.
 
 
Spaniel
12:37 / 09.10.07
Boooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:22 / 11.10.07
Hi, unspeakably draining flu thing which has been hanging around for days! Feel free to fuck off any time you like so I can have my life back!
 
 
Olulabelle
17:21 / 11.10.07
^ Strongly agree.
 
 
grant
17:25 / 11.10.07
Had that a couple weeks ago. Laryngitis four days before a gig. Fever at work.

It got better. There is hope.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
17:35 / 11.10.07
germs are dumb.
 
 
Twice
17:42 / 11.10.07
Flicking through Sky Box Office I just noticed a film called Premonition and actually thought "Mmm. I wonder what that's about?"
 
 
grant
18:02 / 11.10.07
Eh. You've seen it all before.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:45 / 12.10.07
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Barbelith is a disease vector.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
13:15 / 12.10.07
Twice/grant, is that the Nicolas Cage film where he can see into the future and -- according to the trailer I saw -- uses his awesome power to duck things?
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
13:28 / 12.10.07
No, that's Next, based on the popular UK high street clothing chain.
 
 
Twice
16:21 / 12.10.07
Ah, I just booked a flying lesson. I HATE flying.
 
 
Pingle!Pop
09:44 / 15.10.07
(This post doesn't exactly belong here, but neither does it exactly belong in the miserable thread, or in the abject terror thread. So here it goes.)

I've always been terrified of German Shepherds. When I was young I had a vivid and incredibly disturbing nightmare: I was in a room with a huge German Shepherd which was staring at me from the other side of the room, and which I knew wanted to kill me. I was terrified, and thought that if I pretended to be dead it would no longer bother with me. But the dog stalked over to me and stood over me, and it knew I was pretending. It then started intoning in a cold, horrible telepathic voice: "Cold baby... cold baby..."

I was, unsurprisingly, scared to death. Since then, I went to lengths to avoid going anywhere near any such beast.

Last night, my brother texted me to say that my parents had adopted a new dog after the previous one died earlier this year. A "beautiful white German Shepherd".

Argh.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
09:51 / 15.10.07
Whatever person at the increasingly illiterate and ill-researched BBC News website wrote this piece of fantastic fact-checking The Hobbit is Tolkien's prequel to the fantastical Rings trilogy, telling how Bilbo Baggins finds a supernatural ring and passes it on to his nephew, Frodo.

It's not a prequel. It came first. Look up the word before you use it if you don't know how to use it properly.

Oh, and it's the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

And a cursory reading of either book (or even the Wikipedia entries on both) will reveal that Frodo doesn't even appear in The Hobbit, let alone have the ring passed on to him.

The term gitwizard never seemed so appropriate.

Thank you.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:03 / 15.10.07
It's not a trilogy. It's six books in three volumes.
 
 
Evil Scientist
10:33 / 15.10.07
Technically though the Hobbit movie will be a prequel because it's coming after the LotR films.
 
 
Mistoffelees
10:38 / 15.10.07
I've always been terrified of German Shepherds.

As a child I was, too! My aunt had a German Shepherd. And whenever I came around to visit my grandmother, that dog would bark wildly at me and pull at its chain. Those twenty meters to the steps to my grandmother were hell. And one time my cousin thought it a funny idea to let the dog inside my grandmother´s living room, while I was sitting there with her. The dog didn´t bark, just ran around us and the living room table.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
10:41 / 15.10.07
It's six books in three volumes.

Point.

Technically though the Hobbit movie will be a prequel because it's coming after the LotR films.

The film of The Hobbit might possibly just about be regarded as a prequel to the films of LoTR if you look at it like that, but the article does say The Hobbit is Tolkien's prequel (emphasis added).
 
 
Quantum
12:10 / 15.10.07
To quote XK but transferred to LotR reviews- When it gets bad, just remember light smacking is acceptable.
 
 
Spaniel
19:06 / 20.10.07
You know, I don't like to complain about this shit, I really don't. I love living in Brighton, I love my house, I love this season with it's witches and explosions. But, fuck, I'd forgotten just how bloody irritating those incessant bangs can be.

Only another month or so of this. Maybe, next time I won't buy a house in densely packed residential area.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
20:20 / 20.10.07
J.K. Rowling. Show, don't tell, but at least tell in the text rather than three months later.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
22:59 / 20.10.07
I KNOW. (Not shouting at you, Lady, just too irked to post in lowercase.)
 
 
Olulabelle
09:08 / 21.10.07
What has she done?
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
09:21 / 21.10.07
Essentially outed Dumbledore, in an interview, whilst lacking the nerve and/or inclination to have done so in the text of the books.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
17:56 / 21.10.07
And--AND!--it is revealed that Dumbledore was led astray because he had a huge crush on Grindelwald and NEVAR LUVD AGANE. So the ghey has effectively blighted his life, as well as contributing to the demise of his family and the Rise of Voldemort, and his most meaningful relationship appears to consist of, as others have pointed out elsewhere, giving sweets to and generally exploiting an underaged boy. Only nice het couples get to live Happily Ever After.
 
 
GogMickGog
12:58 / 22.10.07
Oh.

Those Tiger Lillies tickets were for last night.

Fine.

Where was I?

Sweeping floors.

Cool.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
13:57 / 22.10.07
The Tiger Lillies played? In London? Last night? Oh dear. I think I'm going straight to hell for missing that one.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
16:34 / 22.10.07
when submitting a cover letter for employment, it is important that when writing the phrase "attention to detail" you do not blatantly misspell the word "detail".
 
 
grant
16:50 / 23.10.07
The Golden Compass is now the subject of widespread email forwards.

For promoting atheism.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
19:14 / 23.10.07
Why does that tick you off grant? I'm sure Pullmann and the film makers are smiling all the way to the bank.
 
 
Mistoffelees
19:36 / 23.10.07
People overestimate the influence of books and movies on children, where religious matters are concerned. I read the Narnia books when I was a child (plus I had years of obligatory christian religion lessons), and I still didn´t turn out to be a christian.
 
  

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