Do share the little things that p*ss you off. Three of mine are -
1. People smoking in bus stops when I'm waiting for a bus
2. Cyclists who use the sidewalk - very dangerous
3. People who bring (loud) toddlers and babies to concerts (now this one is musical, but I'm sure you'll forgive me as it's not the music that I'm discussing).
What are yours?...
Here are a few of mine and most will be about people, because people annoy more than anything. :)
1. Loud, obnoxious people.
2. People who can't think for themselves.
3. People who smoke. My Mom is excluded as she smokes, but I simply leave the room when she does.
4. Pure and utter stupidity. This can be a number of things, which I'm not going to launch into.
5. People who have children, but can't take care of them. In other words, the irresponsibility of others.
6. People who smack their food while their eating. I work with many Vietnamese people who do this on a regular basis.
7. ATM machines. Need I go on?
8. People who can't control their emotions. Being excited is fine, but sometimes this borderlines on being downright obnoxious.
9. Presumptuous people.
10. People who don't listen and can't wait to have the next word.
11. People who can't control their children/pets.
12. Hypocritical people, which mostly includes religious people.
13. People who preach to me. If I wanted to be preached to, I would go to church. It's annoying and tiresome.
14. People who don't clean up after themselves. This includes throwing garbage away.
15. Rude waiters/waitresses. Hello? This affects your tip!
Nothing gets me angry anymore..
I'm passed that already...
( No I don't expect you to believe this) ;D
Saul
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People that stomp in a 2nd story apartment. It sucks for those on the first floor. :)
I also don't like people that hold up a line because their card was declined but they can't stand to lose face so they pretend like it was an accident and make us wait while the card is run through twice more... seriously...
Or people that hold up the line because they only start writing a check ONLY after everything is scanned and the cashier and the rest of us are waiting.
I guess I have a problem with lines. :D
The sh*tty drivers that are f*cking everywhere!
People whose idea of "listening to music" is playing it loud enough for the entire apartment building to hear.
Quote from: MN Dave on October 04, 2010, 05:40:16 AM
The sh*tty drivers that are f*cking everywhere!
That is another interpretation of unsafe sex. ;)
Quote from: DavidW on October 04, 2010, 05:38:38 AM
People that stomp in a 2nd story apartment. It sucks for those on the first floor. :)
I used to live on a 3rd floor apartment building when I was a kid (the apartment complex right across the street from the entrance of Universal Studios).
Luckily, my parents told me not to annoy the people below us- going over a friend's house, though, made me feel bad for the people below them.
Quote from: DavidW on October 04, 2010, 05:38:38 AM
I also don't like people that hold up a line because their card was declined but they can't stand to lose face so they pretend like it was an accident and make us wait while the card is run through twice more... seriously...
Or people that hold up the line because they only start writing a check ONLY after everything is scanned and the cashier and the rest of us are waiting.
I guess I have a problem with lines. :D
Me, too...
hmmm what's even more fun than that is being a cashier, working by yourself and waiting for an someone to come out for an override while the line piles up while simultaneously waiting for a loader and getting two customers asking you questions you don't know or don't care about and having to call the department, but they aren't answering and you look and can't find them, where were they? They were here just a second ago... oh wait, the scan gun stopped working, okay, i have to go to another register and tell everyone to come over here... "there's a glare on this machine" "it didn't read your card"... "well it went through and asked me for my pin number. it won't charge me twice, will it?" "no, it does this all the time," I explain for the 5th time that day. Next customer: uhhh (tries to figure out how to put in the card) "Upside down" I repeat for the 20th time that day... "they should make these all the same" I hear for the 10th time that day. "Can I see your card?" I say for the 30th time that day. I could go on forever...
People who don't know how to merge. The correct way is to go to the end (as far as you can) and merge every other car. You don't merge 10 miles ahead and create a backup and you don't try to weasel in when it is the other side's turn. This is one of the few things that really ticks me off (well that, and sites that go down and threads that use symbols in place of characters - :).
Quote from: ukrneal on October 04, 2010, 07:20:12 AM
People who don't know how to merge. The correct way is to go to the end (as far as you can) and merge every other car. You don't merge 10 miles ahead and create a backup and you don't try to weasel in when it is the other side's turn. This is one of the few things that really ticks me off (well that, and sites that go down and threads that use symbols in place of characters - :).
YES
Yeah Greg, when the line piles up I am just thinking "please call someone else to man a register!" And then it happens and it always seems like someone charges up to go into the new line, which IMO is cutting. >:(
Quote from: DavidW on October 04, 2010, 05:38:38 AM
People that stomp in a 2nd story apartment. It sucks for those on the first floor. :)
I keep imagining my downstairs neighbors cleaning their weaponry while staring at the ceiling with that crazed Kubrickian look in their eyes.
1. People who jabber during movies at cinemas.
2. People who tell me that because I am not reborn, I'll be going to Hell.
3. Distorted music piped into stores and played through my phone while I'm put on hold.
4. Performers who make millions but have little or no talent.
5. Renters who take poor care of my condos in Hawaii.
6. My being so clumsy.
7. My wife constantly leaving dresser and cabinet drawers open.
8. Contractor whose work is shoddy.
9. Guys who wear their pants so baggy that they have to use one hand to keep them from falling down.
10. Women who wear excessive makeup.
When the corpses emerge from the bottom of the lake.
Quote from: Satzaroo on October 04, 2010, 12:21:44 PM
2. People who tell me that because I am not reborn, I'll be going to Hell.
This is more apt to excite mild pity on my part. Here are people with no better notion of life, the universe, theology, or inter-personal skills, than they might glean from a pamphlet; and yet they have the temerity to advise you on your spiritual welfare, all unaware of the pit of hubristic vice they have fallen into. Having said that, I do not fault you at all for finding it a nuisance.Quote4. Performers who make millions but have little or no talent.
I could be sour every day for the rest of my life, if I wished, over inequities in life which no energies of mine will change.
1. Pious non-smokers who can smell the stuff a mile away and think that the slightest puff will land them in an oxygen tent.
2. People who talk constantly on their cell phones.
3. Extremists of all stripes.
4. Slow drivers.
5. Prudes.
6. Road construction.
Quote from: Daverz on October 04, 2010, 12:02:01 PM
I keep imagining my downstairs neighbors cleaning their weaponry while staring at the ceiling with that crazed Kubrickian look in their eyes.
Especially when it is time to blast Bruckner at 11 on the volume setting. ;D
Adding to your #6 Don: when road construction is finished but they leave the signs telling you to slow down anyway!
Quote from: Bulldog on October 04, 2010, 01:29:50 PM
1. Pious non-smokers who can smell the stuff a mile away and think that the slightest puff will land them in an oxygen tent.
2. People who talk constantly on their cell phones.
3. Extremists of all stripes.
4. Slow drivers.
5. Prudes.
6. Road construction.
On #1, you do realize that ANY second hand smoke is considered quite unhealthy for you? And why should a non-smoker be forced to suck in their smoke in the first place?
Quote from: ukrneal on October 04, 2010, 09:26:15 PM
On #1, you do realize that ANY second hand smoke is considered quite unhealthy for you? And why should a non-smoker be forced to suck in their smoke in the first place?
You sound like a #1. Given current laws, under what circumstances might you be forced to suck in smoke?
I don't drive, so can't comment on the things on the roads that p*ss you off (though as a pedestrian, hate it when I am about to cross a zebra crossing and a fool just drives through it as if it wasn't there - yes, I know there are idiots on the road). I can relate to the supermarket checkout ones - I am (again, being a dinosaur) a person who only pays with cash and used to dislike how those with credit cards always seemed to hold up the line. But now, something has improved, a credit card transaction takes about the same time as a cash transaction.
Another topic is food packaging. Here in Australia, cooking oil coming in plastic bottles has a seal that is very difficult to open. There is a tiny tab you pull to open the ring around the top, but 99% of the time, it breaks. So you have to - rather hazardously - use a knife or stanley knife to cut around the seal. Bummer.
I should have used footpath rather than sidewalk in my OP, maybe all the Americans here are influencing my ling :D. The thread also should have been titled "The Little Things That P*ss You Off" - if a moderator can correct this it would be an improvement!...
Quote from: Bulldog on October 04, 2010, 09:59:26 PM
You sound like a #1. Given current laws, under what circumstances might you be forced to suck in smoke?
Reminds me of the IT Crowd--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJakQmMJ8jY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJakQmMJ8jY)
In the whole episode though it was funnier. The smoking area ended up being moved several blocks down to an unused bus stop bench. >:D
Smoking doesn't bother me in open air but I won't let anyone smoke in my apartment.
I can't believe anyone still smokes. :P
Quote from: Satzaroo on October 04, 2010, 12:21:44 PM
4. Performers who make millions but have little or no talent.
Which all leads to one thing:
Most people's taste in music just sucks.
That should be a thing to add in this thread...
Or what about celebrities that haven't done anything? Screw bad music and acting, we have people that are celebrities but literally do nothing. Like Perez Hilton, what exactly does he do??
Quote from: DavidW on October 05, 2010, 08:09:03 AM
Or what about celebrities that haven't done anything? Screw bad music and acting, we have people that are celebrities but literally do nothing. Like Perez Hilton, what exactly does he do??
Maybe he is a celebrity because his name sounds like Paris Hilton?
Quote from: DavidW on October 05, 2010, 08:09:03 AM
Or what about celebrities that haven't done anything? Screw bad music and acting, we have people that are celebrities but literally do nothing. Like Perez Hilton, what exactly does he do??
He digs up dirt on other celebrities - an unsavory occupation, but it is "something".
Quote from: DavidW on October 05, 2010, 08:09:03 AM
Or what about celebrities that haven't done anything?
The Firesigns coined a term for that: celebrazzi
Quote from: Bulldog on October 05, 2010, 08:37:46 AM
He digs up dirt on other celebrities - an unsavory occupation, but it is "something".
Alright that is something. But what Kim Kardashian? She seems to be famous for having a reality show about her life doing in particular, or did I miss something?
Quote from: DavidW on October 05, 2010, 09:13:04 AM
Alright that is something. But what Kim Kardashian? She seems to be famous for having a reality show about her life doing in particular, or did I miss something?
She also starred in a rather "famous" video. She's also quite good at marketing and a rather astute business woman (in regards to her stores, perfumes, modeling, etc.). She's also brilliant when it comes to marketing her own very unique brand.
Quote from: DavidW on October 05, 2010, 09:13:04 AM
Alright that is something. But what Kim Kardashian? She seems to be famous for having a reality show about her life doing in particular, or did I miss something?
Fabulous viola player too....or am I thinking of someone else? ;D
At the request of the original thread starter, the lovely and talented Sid... :)
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 05, 2010, 09:40:37 AM
At the request of the original thread starter, the lovely and talented Sid... :)
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Thank you! I was just about to write about how much I dislike that term in the title! $:)
See the alternative above!
Of course, if your pop is dead, bugs are unavoidable! 0:)
Quote from: Cato on October 05, 2010, 09:46:27 AM
Thank you! I was just about to write about how much I dislike that term in the title! $:)
See the alternative above!
Of course, if your pop is dead, bugs are unavoidable! 0:)
No flies on this boy!
Quote from: Philoctetes on October 05, 2010, 09:19:56 AM
She also starred in a rather "famous" video. She's also quite good at marketing and a rather astute business woman (in regards to her stores, perfumes, modeling, etc.). She's also brilliant when it comes to marketing her own very unique brand.
Brilliant she isn't. Her mom manages her entire life. From what I can tell, Kim is a child in a woman's body.
Quote from: Bulldog on October 05, 2010, 10:56:24 AM
Brilliant she isn't. Her mom manages her entire life. From what I can tell, Kim is a child in a woman's body.
Kris, her mother, manages a portion of her contracts (generally only on the modeling side, although she also does handle some of the publicity and the public relations angles), but other than that, Kim does indeed manager her own business, and has branched out on her own to build her own brand (although, this is sometimes down in conjunction with her mother, but it is generally Kim who does the prompting; as with her perfume line).
Quote from: Philoctetes on October 05, 2010, 11:12:21 AM
Kris, her mother, manages a portion of her contracts (generally only on the modeling side, although she also does handle some of the publicity and the public relations angles), but other than that, Kim does indeed manager her own business, and has branched out on her own to build her own brand (although, this is sometimes down in conjunction with her mother, but it is generally Kim who does the prompting; as with her perfume line).
Did her mother manage product placement contracts in Kim's sex video? That's the origin of her celebrity, a parallel with Paris Hilton.
I don't understand why this "Kim Kardashian" is supposed to be so important... ::)
Quote from: Scarpia on October 05, 2010, 11:14:58 AM
Did her mother manage product placement contracts in Kim's sex video? That's the origin of her celebrity, a parallel with Paris Hilton.
That's actually pretty interesting, because Kim was able to really capitalize where Paris was not. I'm unsure how 'unscripted' the release of the tape was. I mean it could have been a clear marketing ploy; as 'sex tapes' aren't really causes of infamy anymore, especially of her type, which are akin to something you might see on Cinemax.
Kim was defiitely created from that mileau though, and I think it was her seemingly 'blind' ambition that drove her to the status of a celebrity. I'm unsure when Kris really became her full manager. I think it it happened because there were so many appearances, that Kim did need someone to assist her.
Either way it paid of handsomely for her.
Quote from: Greg on October 05, 2010, 11:16:27 AM
I don't understand why this "Kim Kardashian" is supposed to be so important... ::)
Two obvious reasons:
(http://cdn.screenjunkies.com/www/sites/default/files/images/2009/kim-kardashian-tao-birthday-03.jpg)
Sarge
Quote from: Bulldog on October 04, 2010, 09:59:26 PM
You sound like a #1. Given current laws, under what circumstances might you be forced to suck in smoke?
That entirely depends on what country you live in. However, that has nothing to do with what you said. If you are a smoker (or maybe others can answer), then I can take this opportunity to ask why you (again, if you smoke) would smoke ANYWHERE if you knew it would be drifting to other people and forcing them to inhale said smoke. And let's be reasonable, we're talking about indoors in confined areas, outdoors when the wind is taking smoke to a neighboring table, etc.
It has been my experience that smokers are often courteous to people they know are non-smokers and/or when they see their smoke is inadvertently blowing into someone. I also think that a courteous request is almost always better received than a dirty look.
Quote from: Greg on October 05, 2010, 11:16:27 AM
I don't understand why this "Kim Kardashian" is supposed to be so important... ::)
Well I enjoy her, but I don't think I'd call her all that important. I think she's an interesting character, and perhaps even an interesting case study. I also find Paris Hilton to be very interesting.
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 05, 2010, 11:20:45 AM
Two obvious reasons:
Sarge
You're looking in the wrong direction.
1. unable to find something, only to find out that I left it in a strange place.
2. people who have to talk to their friends, acquaintances, bosses (or whatever) either in the middle of the room, or right by the door.
3. People who smoke right next to a door. I don't care if one smokes or not, but I don't. I don't want to inhale it every time I enter or exit a building.
4. Arrogance. People who think they are smarter/better than I am, and shove it in my face. Regardless if it's true or not.
5. How easily I get pissed off.
Quote from: ukrneal on October 05, 2010, 11:21:43 AM
That entirely depends on what country you live in. However, that has nothing to do with what you said. If you are a smoker (or maybe others can answer), then I can take this opportunity to ask why you (again, if you smoke) would smoke ANYWHERE if you knew it would be drifting to other people and forcing them to inhale said smoke.
I wouldn't; I'm a very considerate guy. ;D
You know Kim Kardashian becoming famous for a sex video explains a lot... because she looks like a porn star! :D
Quote from: Greg on October 05, 2010, 11:16:27 AM
I don't understand why this "Kim Kardashian" is supposed to be so important... ::)
She is not important: the phrase "famous for being famous" applies here.
And why? "Infamous" is the better term.
Sarge has two answers above, but like others of her ilk, she is actually infamous for her idiotic behavior.
Quote from: Cato on October 06, 2010, 04:25:56 AM
She is not important: the phrase "famous for being famous" applies here.
And why? "Infamous" is the better term. Sarge has two answers above, but like others of her ilk, she is actually infamous for her idiotic behavior.
Well that was true in the beginning, but as I pointed out in my post, it's patently untrue now.
And she's more important than most, but that really doesn't say anything at all.
Quote from: Cato on October 06, 2010, 04:25:56 AM
She is not important: the phrase "famous for being famous" applies here.
And why? "Infamous" is the better term. Sarge has two answers above, but like others of her ilk, she is actually infamous for her idiotic behavior.
If she's anything like Paris Hilton, I don't want to ever hear about her again. I would rather only say "Paris Hilton" as a cuss word.
It's really sad how these people are glorified and famous, while the people who actually contribute stuff to society aren't nearly as much.
Quote from: Greg on October 06, 2010, 06:35:05 AM
If she's anything like Paris Hilton, I don't want to ever hear about her again. I would rather only say "Paris Hilton" as a cuss word.
It's really sad how these people are glorified and famous, while the people who actually contribute stuff to society aren't nearly as much.
You've just made my day, Greg. Thanks!
Quote from: Greg on October 06, 2010, 06:35:05 AM
If she's anything like Paris Hilton, I don't want to ever hear about her again. I would rather only say "Paris Hilton" as a cuss word.
It's really sad how these people are glorified and famous, while the people who actually contribute stuff to society aren't nearly as much.
Have you become one of those posters who simply reads posts that confirm already what you affirm?
Quote from: Philoctetes on October 06, 2010, 07:07:58 AM
Have you become one of those posters who simply reads posts that confirm already what you affirm?
I'm not even sure what you mean by that.
I'm saying- assuming she is anything like Paris Hilton. I don't really know anything about her, so I don't know if she is or not.
Quote from: Philoctetes on October 06, 2010, 07:07:58 AM
Have you become one of those posters who simply reads posts that confirm already what you affirm?
How could that be? Wouldn't you have to read the post first in order to determine whether it confirms your views?
Quote from: Greg on October 06, 2010, 07:59:31 AM
I'm not even sure what you mean by that.
I'm saying- assuming she is anything like Paris Hilton. I don't really know anything about her, so I don't know if she is or not.
That you sought out a post that you seemingly agreed with, even given that there were many posts that were more informative, and in fact debunked some of what he posted.
And is being Paris Hilton a negative?
Quote from: Philoctetes on October 06, 2010, 07:07:58 AM
Have you become one of those posters who simply reads posts that confirm already what you affirm?
You miss the point. The dismissal of Hilton and Kardashian is to prove to himself that he is a cultural "elite" despite the fact that he is utterly obsessed with puerile Japanese cartoons. ;D
Turning away from people annoying you:
The exit sign that is positioned in a movie theater so that it's green glare washes across the screen.
When you impulsively buy music straight on your touch/iphone and it vanishes before you sync? Yeah don't like that.
When it was warm/hot one week and chilly the next? That is the worst.
Quote from: DavidW on October 06, 2010, 05:17:09 PM
Turning away from people annoying you:
When it was warm/hot one week and chilly the next? That is the worst.
;D
Forecast for here tomorrow: AM = 44°F (7 C), PM 88°F (29 C). Enough contrast for you? It isn't like we're in the desert where that sort of thing is dictated by the terrain... :-\
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 06, 2010, 05:41:00 PM
;D
Forecast for here tomorrow: AM = 44°F (7 C), PM 88°F (29 C). Enough contrast for you? It isn't like we're in the desert where that sort of thing is dictated by the terrain... :-\
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Haha you need to bring summer clothes with you to change mid-day. ;D
Yes, the vagaries of weather...
Another thing that I hate is people spitting in the street. When they do it behind me, I feel that they are spitting on my back.
& related to that (especially in these days of the Swine Flu epidemic), people who cough and sneeze in public spaces without shielding their mouth. Sometimes it's excusable (I have once made this mistake myself in a library, and was rightly reprimanded), but most of the time it is not...
Not much can get my temper to come out from its cave of tranquility.
That said, it irritates me a fair bit when people i'm walking behind stop straight dead in front of me. Am I the only person who makes an effort to check for people behind me if I'm about to slow down, change direction or stop? These people should be given rear brake lights! 8)
Quote from: Benji on October 07, 2010, 04:47:05 AM
Not much can get my temper to come out from its cave of tranquility.
That said, it irritates me a fair bit when people i'm walking behind stop straight dead in front of me. Am I the only person who makes an effort to check for people behind me if I'm about to slow down, change direction or stop? These people should be given rear brake lights! 8)
This. And even worse: this, when the offender has only just emerged from a revolving door. Hello!!?
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 07, 2010, 04:50:48 AM
This.
And even worse: this, when the offender has only just emerged from a revolving door. Hello!!?
Just for clarification, when I say stop dead in front of me, I do not mean pass on to another plane of existence. I should have said 'become voluntarily stationary'.
Of course i'd forgive someone for the inconvenience of expiring in front of me. Eventually. ;D
Yes, dear: there's a whole dead cat in every bar of Dead Cat Soap!
Quote from: Benji on October 07, 2010, 04:58:13 AM
Just for clarification, when I say stop dead in front of me, I do not mean pass on to another plane of existence. I should have said 'become voluntarily stationary'.
Of course i'd forgive someone for the inconvenience of expiring in front of me. Eventually. ;D
You jest, Benji, but I was playing golf one time and we got to the 3rd tee and there was an ambulance out in the middle of the fairway picking someone up and driving off. The rest of the party soldiered on and when it was clear we played away.
I saw one of them in the grill after and asked him what had happened.
"Did you know Dr. So-and-So?".
Yes, met him a couple of times.
"We were playing the 3rd and he dropped dead right there"
Shit, I noticed you kept playing so I thought indigestion maybe...
"Oh, Jack would have wanted us to play on"
I thought about it for a minute and decided that he would have done. We're an odd lot... :)
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 07, 2010, 06:38:06 AM
You jest, Benji, but I was playing golf one time and we got to the 3rd tee and there was an ambulance out in the middle of the fairway picking someone up and driving off. The rest of the party soldiered on and when it was clear we played away.
I saw one of them in the grill after and asked him what had happened.
"Did you know Dr. So-and-So?".
Yes, met him a couple of times.
"We were playing the 3rd and he dropped dead right there"
Shit, I noticed you kept playing so I thought indigestion maybe...
"Oh, Jack would have wanted us to play on"
I thought about it for a minute and decided that he would have done. We're an odd lot... :)
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Well we can only hope to die doing what we love.
...which brings to mind the joke "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like grandpa.... not screaming in terror like his passengers".
Quote from: Scarpia on October 06, 2010, 01:28:40 PM
You miss the point. The dismissal of Hilton and Kardashian is to prove to himself that he is a cultural "elite" despite the fact that he is utterly obsessed with puerile Japanese cartoons. ;D
I can only imagine this is a joke...
Quote from: Greg on October 07, 2010, 08:31:21 AM
I can only imagine this is a joke...
You are unfamiliar with the concept of a smiley? But do you really maintain that those "manga" are anything other than puerile?
Quote from: Scarpia on October 07, 2010, 08:50:24 AM
You are unfamiliar with the concept of a smiley? But do you really maintain that those "manga" are anything other than puerile?
Ah, I see. ;)
I don't normally read manga, so I couldn't really say. Anime, however, ahem... quite so, quite so.
(of course, I do watch some that are "utterly puerile" and I admit they are so- such as K-On)
Real anime, such as Elfen Lied, Monster, Higurashi, Clannad After Story, Welcome to the NHK, Now and Then-Here and There, etc. can either blow your mind with their insight, storyline, or often, just be traumatizing to watch (seeing kids in an army forced to go into villages and massacre everyone and take some of the kids and force them to join their army was probably one of the more disturbing plot details for me, personally). After watching a good anime, a
typical Hollywood movie or TV show can feel shallow and stupid. :D
Quote from: Greg on October 07, 2010, 09:11:14 AM
Ah, I see. ;)
I don't normally read manga, so I couldn't really say. Anime, however, ahem... quite so, quite so.
(of course, I do watch some that are "utterly puerile" and I admit they are so- such as K-On)
Real anime, such as Elfen Lied, Monster, Higurashi, Clannad After Story, Welcome to the NHK, Now and Then-Here and There, etc. can either blow your mind with their insight, storyline, or often, just be traumatizing to watch (seeing kids in an army forced to go into villages and massacre everyone and take some of the kids and force them to join their army was probably one of the more disturbing plot details for me, personally). After watching a good anime, a typical Hollywood movie or TV show can feel shallow and stupid. :D
Do you really think Scarpia is interested? He is satisfied, because he has reached his goal and looks for similar ones.
Quote from: Henk on October 07, 2010, 09:37:49 AM
Do you really think Scarpia is interested?
Probably not- I just like to talk about it. :D
Quote from: Greg on October 07, 2010, 09:11:14 AM
Ah, I see. ;)
I don't normally read manga, so I couldn't really say. Anime, however, ahem... quite so, quite so.
(of course, I do watch some that are "utterly puerile" and I admit they are so- such as K-On)
Real anime, such as Elfen Lied, Monster, Higurashi, Clannad After Story, Welcome to the NHK, Now and Then-Here and There, etc. can either blow your mind with their insight, storyline, or often, just be traumatizing to watch (seeing kids in an army forced to go into villages and massacre everyone and take some of the kids and force them to join their army was probably one of the more disturbing plot details for me, personally). After watching a good anime, a typical Hollywood movie or TV show can feel shallow and stupid. :D
Sorry, Anime, not Manga. Incorrect terminology. I can't claim any great familiarity with the genre, but what I have seen has left me with impression of superficiality, and a tendency to cater to the viewer's sensationalist or puerile tastes. The plot summary you give above doesn't change my impression. There is nothing particularly interesting of creative about it. It did happen in the cultural revolution and transferring it to the anime world deprives it of its proper weight, I'd say.
Quote from: Greg on October 07, 2010, 09:11:14 AM
Ah, I see. ;)
I don't normally read manga, so I couldn't really say. Anime, however, ahem... quite so, quite so.
(of course, I do watch some that are "utterly puerile" and I admit they are so- such as K-On)
Real anime, such as Elfen Lied, Monster, Higurashi, Clannad After Story, Welcome to the NHK, Now and Then-Here and There, etc. can either blow your mind with their insight, storyline, or often, just be traumatizing to watch (seeing kids in an army forced to go into villages and massacre everyone and take some of the kids and force them to join their army was probably one of the more disturbing plot details for me, personally). After watching a good anime, a typical Hollywood movie or TV show can feel shallow and stupid. :D
Now and Then. Here and There. Is so fucked up.
Quote from: Scarpia on October 07, 2010, 09:53:20 AM
Sorry, Anime, not Manga. Incorrect terminology. I can't claim any great familiarity with the genre, but what I have seen has left me with impression of superficiality, and a tendency to cater to the viewer's sensationalist or puerile tastes. The plot summary you give above doesn't change my impression. There is nothing particularly interesting of creative about it. It did happen in the cultural revolution and transferring it to the anime world deprives it of its proper weight, I'd say.
It depends on which one you're watching. The strange this is, some shows can be extremely puerile and deep at the same time, which is somewhat disorienting.
You would have to see it to understand, basically. 8)
Quote from: Philoctetes on October 07, 2010, 10:40:08 AM
Now and Then. Here and There. Is so fucked up.
But at least it ended happy! ...after so many people died. :D
I wonder why no one has done an anime der Ring des Nibelungen. (Maybe someone has.) The Rhinemaiden sequences might make a good Hentai. 8)
Quote from: Scarpia on October 07, 2010, 10:54:47 AM
I wonder why no one has done an anime der Ring des Nibelungen. (Maybe someone has.) The Rhinemaiden sequences might make a good Hentai. 8)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlock_Saga
@greg
That's true, but still, all the children...
Quote from: Philoctetes on October 07, 2010, 11:06:32 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlock_Saga
Interesting find! I wonder if it's actually any good, though...
Quote from: Philoctetes on October 07, 2010, 11:06:32 AM
That's true, but still, all the children...
The sad thing is that stuff like that happens in Africa all the time...
Quote from: Greg on October 07, 2010, 11:35:42 AM
Interesting find! I wonder if it's actually any good, though...
The sad thing is that stuff like that happens in Africa all the time...
Well I've never really seen a poorly done anime... I mean some are silly and just purely ridiculous, but they generally have good art direction, allowing me to still enjoy the experience.
I know, I think that is why that work hit me so hard, same with FMA or Avatar. I think anime is a highly underrated format. I mean I think I'd rank Avatar as one of the greatest television shows of all time, in regards to its plot, its dialogue, it's construction, its direction, etc.
Little Things that P*** You Off -
...all political correctness and those who insist upon it. may it & they rot in the putrid pile of wretched puke such resembles. ;D
Quote from: david johnson on October 07, 2010, 11:49:43 AM
Little Things that P*** You Off -
...all political correctness and those who insist upon it. may it & they rot in the putrid pile of wretched puke such resembles. ;D
Didn't you just piss yourself off when you posted?
Quote from: Philoctetes on October 07, 2010, 11:37:47 AM
Well I've never really seen a poorly done anime... I mean some are silly and just purely ridiculous, but they generally have good art direction, allowing me to still enjoy the experience.
I'll gladly change this for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hUW5NI6SL8
:D
Quote from: Philoctetes on October 07, 2010, 11:37:47 AM
I know, I think that is why that work hit me so hard, same with FMA or Avatar. I think anime is a highly underrated format. I mean I think I'd rank Avatar as one of the greatest television shows of all time, in regards to its plot, its dialogue, it's construction, its direction, etc.
FMA I have to get to eventually- but I want to watch the remake:
http://myanimelist.net/anime/5114/Fullmetal_Alchemist:_Brotherhood
Because: Average rating: 9.18 :o
Quote from: david johnson on October 07, 2010, 11:49:43 AM
Little Things that P*** You Off -
...all political correctness and those who insist upon it. may it & they rot in the putrid pile of wretched puke such resembles. ;D
Well, when political correctness goes overboard, I see what you mean...
Threads about the little things that piss you off. >:(
;D
Quote from: Greg on October 07, 2010, 12:04:34 PM
I'll gladly change this for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hUW5NI6SL8
:D
FMA I have to get to eventually- but I want to watch the remake:
http://myanimelist.net/anime/5114/Fullmetal_Alchemist:_Brotherhood
Well that plot is ridiculous, but the art is pretty neat, but that plot is just like what the fuck.
FMA is probably the highest quality anime I've ever seen, perhaps Escaflowne had better art direction, but in regards to the depth offered, I don't think anything can touch FMA, on the Japanese side.
I rate Avatar the best anime overall.
Quote from: Philoctetes on October 07, 2010, 12:52:10 PM
I rate Avatar the best anime overall.
At least if you want to consider it an anime...
Quote from: Greg on October 07, 2010, 02:44:08 PM
At least if you want to consider it an anime...
I would consider it an anime. It's not in the mold of the 'classic' type, but I think it more than fits the typical mold.
Quote from: david johnson on October 07, 2010, 02:10:51 PM
how?
You censored your post. A typical move of a politically correct person.
Quote from: Philoctetes on October 07, 2010, 03:04:51 PM
I would consider it an anime. It's not in the mold of the 'classic' type, but I think it more than fits the typical mold.
You censored your post. A typical move of a politically correct person.
you are imagining things. :)
Reviewers who feel they have to "underscore" praise of a recording/performer/composer by cutting down some other recording/performer/composer. As if their evaluation of the latter is Universal Truth™. Juvenile, juvenile, juvenile.
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 08, 2010, 03:39:48 AM
Reviewers who feel they have to "underscore" praise of a recording/performer/composer by cutting down some other recording/performer/composer. As if their evaluation of the latter is Universal Truth™. Juvenile, juvenile, juvenile.
If I may paraphrase Mr T,
I pity the foo' who derives self-esteem from the mocking of others.
Quote from: david johnson on October 08, 2010, 12:04:17 AM
you are imagining things. :)
He meant that you went out of your way to asterick the piss in your post. The censure software doesn't do that because the word is not that bad.
Book jackets. I can't stand them.
As soon as I either buy a hard cover book, or get a book from the library, I remove the book jacket. Then, before returning it to the library, I re-tape the book jacket back to the book.
I always take the jackets off too Ray. :)
Quote from: DavidW on October 14, 2010, 07:56:57 PM
I always take the jackets off too Ray. :)
Hell yeah. I wish they wouldn't bother.
Quote from: Schlomo on October 04, 2010, 12:21:44 PM
2. People who tell me that because I am not reborn, I'll be going to Hell.
People who aren't reborn and think they're going to Heaven are annoying
Quote from: abidoful on October 15, 2010, 03:56:40 AM
People who aren't reborn and think they're going to Heaven are annoying
People who push off their superstitions on others are very annoying...
8)
People who think they're in a position to judge who is and who is not reborn are . . . mistaken.
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 15, 2010, 04:38:00 AM
People who think they're in a position to judge who is and who is not reborn are . . . mistaken.
Indeed. As well as off-putting. :)
8)
hmm..
Quote from: Schlomo on October 04, 2010, 12:21:44 PM
2. People who tell me that because I am not reborn, I'll be going to Hell.
Quote from: abidoful on October 15, 2010, 03:56:40 AM
People who aren't reborn and think they're going to Heaven are annoying
You know what I hate? People that just have to spew their hatred and intolerance on threads having nothing to do with religion or politics. It makes the forum a little less friendly.
Quote from: DavidW on October 15, 2010, 06:27:56 AM
You know what I hate? People that just have to spew their hatred and intolerance on threads having nothing to do with religion or politics. It makes the forum a little less friendly.
People whose avatars are mysterious to me. What is that David, an origami mollusc of some description? >:(
I feel intolerant towards it, and also slightly hungry. I bet it isn't even edible paper. ::)
:D
You've very close it's a murex. :)
I've folded it from a sample paper, I liked the paper enough that I put in a big order. ;D
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/4997125156_d99bea4f6e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahlerfan999/4997125156/)
Lang's Murex (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahlerfan999/4997125156/) by mahlerfan999 (http://www.flickr.com/people/mahlerfan999/), on Flickr
Here is my photostream if you want to see of my folding-- http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahlerfan999/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahlerfan999/)
:D
Quote from: DavidW on October 15, 2010, 07:41:11 AM
You've very close it's a murex. :)
I've folded it from a sample paper, I liked the paper enough that I put in a big order. ;D
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/4997125156_d99bea4f6e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahlerfan999/4997125156/)
Lang's Murex (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahlerfan999/4997125156/) by mahlerfan999 (http://www.flickr.com/people/mahlerfan999/), on Flickr
Here is my photostream if you want to see of my folding-- http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahlerfan999/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahlerfan999/)
:D
Oh that's much better in large. Impressive! (Oh...does anyone else always say this word in Darth Vader's voice in their head??? Also the word Sister how he says it in ROTJ...apologies for the geeky aside!) 8)
I'll add you as a Flickr contact David, if you like.
Whenever I pull the vader with the impressive, I immediately follow it with most impressive! ;D
Yeah do it Ben add me. :)
Quote from: DavidW on October 15, 2010, 07:46:01 AM
Whenever I pull the vader with the impressive, I immediately follow it with most impressive! ;D
Yeah do it Ben add me. :)
Done! Your origami creations on Flickr are goooood....gooooooood *cackle*. ;)
Quote from: Benji on October 15, 2010, 07:49:42 AM
Done! Your origami creations on Flickr are goooood....gooooooood *cackle*. ;)
Excellent! Oh wait thats Burns from the Simpsons. ;D
1. When I'm filling in time ("faffing about") & I do it too much, so that I end up being late (or almost late) for the next thing I have to do.
2. Just missing a bus or train (by a hair's breadth), especially when I have to wait say 20 minutes for the next one.
3. Having a cold/flu that comes and goes. I end up having it on and off for about a month, before it finally goes away. It also takes longer to recover when we are having very changeable weather down here in Sydney - for a few days it's like winter, then like summer - make up your mind mother nature, for god's sake! (or is this el-nino/climate change?)...
Choreographing Lohengrin and other ancient period operas in modern dress. Having Lohengrin decked out in a glimmering light blue suit while declaiming about coats of arms and spears and shields (as I saw in a blu-ray production) is absurd. This incongruity detracts from the music and subverts the inherent grandeur of the opera.
Quote from: Schlomo on November 14, 2010, 11:24:32 PM
Choreographing Lohengrin and other ancient period operas in modern dress
I've never heard of such a thing, but a choreographed
Lohengrin, no matter how it was costumed, would probably piss me off. ;D
Quote from: Wendell_E on November 15, 2010, 02:43:11 AM
I've never heard of such a thing, but a choreographed Lohengrin, no matter how it was costumed, would probably piss me off. ;D
Shall we dance, Dear? :D
In any case, I agree with Schlomo's intention. I don't want my Don Giovanni togged out by Armani and pulling out a 9mm Glock instead of a sword. It just won't do, I'm afraid.... :-\
8)
Man you two are the type to be hating on those modernized Shakespeare plays. :D
Quote from: DavidW on November 15, 2010, 06:17:00 AM
Man you two are the type to be hating on those modernized Shakespeare plays. :D
Oh, you mean
Romeo & Juliet with music by Bernstein? The Jets, The Sharks... I'm so confused... :'(
8)
People who pull over to the side of the road when the ambulance is coming waaay on the OTHER SIDE of the road!!! >:D
Quote from: snyprrr on November 15, 2010, 07:06:07 AM
People who pull over to the side of the road when the ambulance is coming waaay on the OTHER SIDE of the road!!! >:D
People who put people's lives at risk because they are too impatient to pull over, as the law requires, when an emergency vehicle is in the area.
(Oh, that's not a little thing, it's a public menace.)
Quote from: snyprrr on November 15, 2010, 07:06:07 AM
People who pull over to the side of the road when the ambulance is coming waaay on the OTHER SIDE of the road!!! >:D
That is what you are supposed to do BY LAW. What if the ambulance has to say make an abrupt turn and you're driving along in it's way? C'mon man.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 15, 2010, 06:20:51 AM
Oh, you mean Romeo & Juliet with music by Bernstein? The Jets, The Sharks... I'm so confused... :'(
8)
Womb to tomb, Gurn! Quote from: DavidW on November 15, 2010, 06:17:00 AM
Man you two are the type to be hating on those modernized Shakespeare plays. :D
I don't mind them modernized, I mind them goofified ; )
Quote from: DavidW on November 15, 2010, 06:17:00 AM
Man you two are the type to be hating on those modernized Shakespeare plays. :D
My position is that Shakespearean language requires a Shakespearean setting. In this respect, I am a purist.
Quote from: DavidW on November 15, 2010, 07:16:54 AM
That is what you are supposed to do BY LAW. What if the ambulance has to say make an abrupt turn and you're driving along in it's way? C'mon man.
ok, let me modify thatahhh, caught myself before I was going to be mean! See, it does work. ;D
and no, I don't think the ambu is going to make an abrupt turn across the MEDIAN!!!!! Yes, people on the OTHER side of the road are pulling over. And that isn't the height of,... why do people do it? Because they are cowards afraid that someone will turn them in for even perceiving an infraction.
Surely, they are like the lady who complains to the school that her little precious could get hurt if there were balls on the recess court, so now, there are no balls at the school at all.
So, maybe I meant to say that panty-waists are part of the Little Things!
oooo,... my temperament will not allow me on this Thread. I can already feel the blood pressure.
Quote from: snyprrr on November 15, 2010, 11:00:31 AM
ok, let me modify that
ahhh, caught myself before I was going to be mean! See, it does work. ;D
and no, I don't think the ambu is going to make an abrupt turn across the MEDIAN!!!!! Yes, people on the OTHER side of the road are pulling over. And that isn't the height of,... why do people do it? Because they are cowards afraid that someone will turn them in for even perceiving an infraction.
Surely, they are like the lady who complains to the school that her little precious could get hurt if there were balls on the recess court, so now, there are no balls at the school at all.
So, maybe I meant to say that panty-waists are part of the Little Things!
oooo,... my temperament will not allow me on this Thread. I can already feel the blood pressure.
Often when traffic is blocked at a traffic signal I have seen emergency vehicles cross the median and drive on the "wrong" side of the road. That is why you are required to pull over even if the emergency vehicle is on the other side of the road.
Quote from: Scarpia on November 15, 2010, 11:20:53 AM
Often when traffic is blocked at a traffic signal I have seen emergency vehicles cross the median and drive on the "wrong" side of the road. That is why you are required to pull over even if the emergency vehicle is on the other side of the road.
Good point.
Toilet paper getting smaller. The last rolls I bought were 1/4 inch narrower than the previous pack. (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y1ZENC90L._SL110_.jpg) It looks more like adding machine tape on the paper holder. And to make it even worse, the price was higher!
Way over-large images on this site, when I'm accessing via my mobile device.
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 16, 2010, 05:11:59 AM
Way over-large images on this site, when I'm accessing via my mobile device.
Karl: POINTS & FONT >:D
Cyclists on main roads (when I'm driving)
Rudeness
People who pay for tiny purchases with a credit card (when I'm in a hurry)
People described as 'not suffering fools gladly' in other words they are arrogant and intolerant
People described as 'natural born leaders' (the most overrated 'virtue')
People who are inconsiderate to those who cannot be of use to them
My wife telling me I'm 'having an affair' with my CD collection :o
By the way, my daughter tells me that I am turning into a 'grumpy old man' >:(
Quote from: vandermolen on November 17, 2010, 12:46:44 PM
My wife telling me I'm 'having an affair' with my CD collection :o
By the way, my daughter tells me that I am turning into a 'grumpy old man' >:(
haha, and oy! ::)
Quote from: vandermolen on November 17, 2010, 12:46:44 PM
Rudeness...
People described as 'not suffering fools gladly' in other words they are arrogant and intolerant
People described as 'natural born leaders' (the most overrated 'virtue')
People who are inconsiderate to those who cannot be of use to them
Yes these things peeve me off immensely too. One can go for days or weeks without being unfortunate enough to bump into such people, but when one does, it really puts a dampender on your day...
Quote
My wife telling me I'm 'having an affair' with my CD collection :o
I hope the situation doesn't come to her saying that you have to choose between her and the cd's!!! :o
Quote from: vandermolen on November 17, 2010, 12:46:44 PM
People who pay for tiny purchases with a credit card (when I'm in a hurry)
You wouldn't like me then - I'm always using my debit card. Besides, it doesn't take any more time to use a card than to use cash (unless the system is slow).
Same here, and this week I was actually thanked by the cashier because he didn't have to dig out change. :D And it is faster to use the card, so why is Vandermolen complaining? ??? In alot of places you don't have to sign for small purchases, one swipe=speedy. :)
Quote from: Bulldog on November 17, 2010, 03:46:13 PM
You wouldn't like me then - I'm always using my debit card. Besides, it doesn't take any more time to use a card than to use cash (unless the system is slow).
He's in Europe. Out there, they have to send a telegraph to the credit card company to find out if the charge is approved, I think. 8)
That's right, and we send it by hand via boys who have grown too large to push them up chimneys.
Mike
Quote from: DavidW on November 17, 2010, 03:48:07 PM
Same here, and this week I was actually thanked by the cashier because he didn't have to dig out change. :D And it is faster to use the card, so why is Vandermolen complaining? ??? In alot of places you don't have to sign for small purchases, one swipe=speedy. :)
I have to say that I do the same myself sometimes - so I shouldn't complain really!
Quote from: Bulldog on November 17, 2010, 03:46:13 PM
You wouldn't like me then - I'm always using my debit card. Besides, it doesn't take any more time to use a card than to use cash (unless the system is slow).
Not only can the system be slow; the cashiers can be slow witted. They do fine with the bills, but some of these arithmetical superstars have trouble figuring out how to divvy up the change.
I was amused by hearing about a man who gets annoyed (understandably I think) when cashiers hold up his bank notes to the light to check they are not forgeries. His response is to test any change given by banging each coin on the table and then testing each coin for authenticity between his teeth. Haven't had the nerve to try this myself yet.
This new journalistic phrase "international terrorists/terrorism".
Come off it, guys, we all know who you're talking about.
Yesterday: three frustrations on the road.
A driver in front of me kept putting on his brakes for no apparent reason.
A driver in front of me had his turn signal on three miles before turning.
A driver in front of me at the last minute had his left turn signal on but turned right.
Quote from: Schlomo on November 22, 2010, 09:31:04 AM
Yesterday: three frustrations on the road.
A driver in front of me kept putting on his brakes for no apparent reason.
A driver in front of me had his turn signal on three miles before turning.
A driver in front of me at the last minute had his left turn signal on but turned right.
It's a good thing that you don't know what the drivers in back of you are up to.
Quote from: Bulldog on November 22, 2010, 09:47:52 AM
It's a good thing that you don't know what the drivers in back of you are up to.
...or what they are saying about you. ;D
Fucking retarded fucks. It's amazing that some people can even breathe.
My pet peeve goes to the people that stop at the light with their rear tires on the line, their fronts sticking out into traffic. ::)
Quote from: DavidW on November 22, 2010, 10:57:28 AM
My pet peeve goes to the people that stop at the light with their rear tires on the line, their fronts sticking out into traffic. ::)
Blockers of the Grid. Yes, off with their heads!
People that never learn how to really listen to music. Those who hear something, then dismiss it out of hand, completely cheating themselves out of something they could get so much from.
I guess I feel sorry for them, not angry.
Quote from: AndyD. on November 22, 2010, 11:03:49 AM
People that never learn how to really listen to music. Those who hear something, then dismiss it out of hand, completely cheating themselves out of something they could get so much from.
I guess I feel sorry for them, not angry.
Agreed, but if people are so inflexible, it's their problem (or maybe not? - ignorance is bliss). I personally try not to judge a work until giving it a thorough going over, like 3-5 listens. That at least gives things a chance...
Quote from: Sid on November 22, 2010, 08:07:37 PM
Agreed, but if people are so inflexible, it's their problem (or maybe not? - ignorance is bliss).
You have an excellent point. I guess I'm trying to fit things too much into my own, limited Weltanschauung.
Quote from: AndyD. on November 22, 2010, 11:03:49 AM
People that never learn how to really listen to music. Those who hear something, then dismiss it out of hand, completely cheating themselves out of something they could get so much from.
I guess I feel sorry for them, not angry.
It's not always easy to really connect to a work I find. It usually requires more listens then just one, rest, focus, and when one has so many cd's to listen, one quickly wants to connect to them all. I find that I connect to a work if I start to become in a certain emotional mood
by it, together with images of life. But often that does not really happen unfortunately. Also just to hear a good performance / interpretation can be satisfying.
But you have a good point, you inspire me the way you are listening to music, you did already earlier.
I'm still learning how to cope with my collection and how I want to enjoy it and listen to music. There are different kinds of music, they need different listening, different approaches. When you have a box with 50 compositions of string quartets and you have 50 of such boxes, how do you cope with that? Just pick one SQ and listen to it many times? When you have listened to it, you forgot which string quartet it was. Make an administration of it?
Henk
Quote from: AndyD. on November 22, 2010, 11:03:49 AM
People that never learn how to really listen to music. Those who hear something, then dismiss it out of hand, completely cheating themselves out of something they could get so much from.
I guess I feel sorry for them, not angry.
Andy always hates it when his friends diss Dio... ;D
Quote from: Henk on November 23, 2010, 02:29:52 AM
I'm still learning how to cope with my collection and how I want to enjoy it and listen to music. There are different kinds of music, they need different listening, different approaches. When you have a box with 50 compositions of string quartets and you have 50 of such boxes, how do you cope with that? Just pick one SQ and listen to it many times? When you have listened to it, you forgot which string quartet it was. Make an administration of it?
Henk
That's always a challenge. :)
I try to listen to anything I get before I store it on my computer, but with box sets it's something impossible to listen to them all. Probably the best thing would be to start listening to a favorite a few times, then continue on to another one you like, listen to a random one, listen to one you like, etc.
Quote from: Henk on November 23, 2010, 02:29:52 AM
I'm still learning how to cope with my collection and how I want to enjoy it and listen to music. There are different kinds of music, they need different listening, different approaches. When you have a box with 50 compositions of string quartets and you have 50 of such boxes, how do you cope with that? Just pick one SQ and listen to it many times? When you have listened to it, you forgot which string quartet it was. Make an administration of it?
Henk
When faced with that problem, I was first tempted to create a spreadsheet like a huge nerd. But you know what? If you don't know that you've listened to it before, then WHAT DOES IT MATTER? Listen to it again. When I traverse big box sets I repeatedly listen to what catches my fancy but otherwise just randomly pull things out of the set whimsically. And you know what? That works. I've listened to almost all of the big Bach set that way. :)
Quote from: Henk on November 23, 2010, 02:29:52 AMI'm still learning how to cope with my collection and how I want to enjoy it and listen to music. There are different kinds of music, they need different listening, different approaches. When you have a box with 50 compositions of string quartets and you have 50 of such boxes, how do you cope with that? Just pick one SQ and listen to it many times? When you have listened to it, you forgot which string quartet it was. Make an administration of it?
Henk
I try to maintain a listening journal, but it is hard to maintain the discipline over long periods of time.
There was a time when I was mainly listening to things that were familiar (Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms) and it was easier. Now I am usually listening to something new to me and I have the vague feeling I am loosing track of my impressions of the music I listen to. But as you say, it is for enjoyment. But at some level, I'd like to keep track of things I like so I can come back to me.
Quote from: Scarpia on November 23, 2010, 06:40:41 AM
I try to maintain a listening journal, but it is hard to maintain the discipline over long periods of time.
My journal-keeping could never keep up with my voracious listening.
Quote from: Scarpia on November 23, 2010, 06:40:41 AM
I try to maintain a listening journal, but it is hard to maintain the discipline over long periods of time.
Scrobbling with last.fm might be your answer, and you can keep it private. This only works if you now listen through your pc, and not still spinning cds and lps. It's just an add on for various media players (and ipods, smart phones) that keep track of this stuff for you.
Quote from: DavidW on November 23, 2010, 06:12:52 AM
Andy always hates it when his friends diss Dio... ;D
:P
That's why I don't have many friends.
Quote from: AndyD. on November 23, 2010, 02:09:21 AM
You have an excellent point. I guess I'm trying to fit things too much into my own, limited Weltanschauung.
Don't give yourself such a hard time. It's the zeitgeist, stupid! It's not you.
Quote from: Schlomo on November 23, 2010, 11:06:49 AM
Don't give yourself such a hard time. It's the zeitgeist, stupid! It's not you.
No, I'm Duh. The other one is Stupid.
Quote from: DavidW on November 23, 2010, 06:12:52 AM
Andy always hates it when his friends diss Dio... ;D
It's funny, I was never to much into Dio as a band. Dio as a band was just way too '80's for me. Now, Rainbow was and remains my favorite, and what Ronnie did with Sabbath was terrific.
Having urine spray onto your pant legs or your leg itself as you pee into a urinal.
Quote from: Schlomo on November 25, 2010, 12:16:31 AM
Having urine spray onto your pant legs or your leg itself as you pee into a urinal.
Ready - AIM - Fire!
Quote from: Schlomo on November 25, 2010, 12:16:31 AM
Having urine spray onto your pant legs or your leg itself as you pee into a urinal.
It is
very slightly less aggravating when it's your own... :-\
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 25, 2010, 08:56:16 AM
It is very slightly less aggravating when it's your own... :-\
Well if it's a little baby pissing on you, you'll probably just think it's cute. ;D
I guess that would change the name of the thread to little things that piss on you. :D
People who call for "freedom" and want the"government off our backs", "smaller government","limited government" ,and "religious freedom",and then demand that the government have unlimited power to pry into our bedrooms, take away rights from homosexuals, ban any book,magazine, film or telvision program etc which they find sexually offensive, and after calling for religious freedom say that "America is a christian nation" and demand that
US laws be made on the basis of what is written in the Bible,and THEIR interpretation of it. Despite the fact that the New Testament is an ancient series of writings from the bronze age, a time when people were extremely ignorant and there was virtually no scientific knowledge,and demand that students in public schools be forced to participate in Chrsitian prayers and Bible readings every day in school even if their parents are Jews,Muslims,Hindus,Buddhists,atheists or agnostics.
And that all women who are pregnant be forced to bear children against their will even if a pregnancy would kill are seriuosly harm them or they were too poor to provide for those children.
And that students in school be taught creationism as scientific fact,despite the fact that this is nothing but ancient superstition.
You seem slightly off topic - these are not exactly "little things"... ::) 8)
Q
Quote from: DavidW on November 25, 2010, 10:46:20 AM
Well if it's a little baby pissing on you, you'll probably just think it's cute. ;D
I guess that would change the name of the thread to little things that piss on you. :D
Or "Better Pissed Off than Pissed On".... :D
Speaking of pissed, holiday celebrations and wine will do that to you... :)
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Hope those who celebrate it all had a good Thanksgiving Day.
Many of the things that people have specified here, I sign up on their side. Especially the motoring stuff. I get annoyed when fit people use disabled parking spaces at supermarkets. It is also noticeable how often when it happens it is an expensive car; some people seem to feel they are special and that it is only the little people who should bother with such niceties.
I had a friend who was a bit late for a game of squash. He parked in a disabled space in his sports car, aware that some people were watching him. So he got out slowly, then limped away from the car. I imagine his squash racket would have given away his other little racket.
Mike
Quote from: knight on November 26, 2010, 11:30:40 PM
Hope those who celebrate it all had a good Thanksgiving Day.
Many of the things that people have specified here, I sign up on their side. Especially the motoring stuff. I get annoyed when fit people use disabled parking spaces at supermarkets. It is also noticeable how often when it happens it is an expensive car; some people seem to feel they are special and that it is only the little people who should bother with such niceties.
I had a friend who was a bit late for a game of squash. He parked in a disabled space in his sports car, aware that some people were watching him. So he got out slowly, then limped away from the car. I imagine his squash racket would have given away his other little racket.
Mike
For those that like that sort of thing, there is an episode of "Seinfeld" which explores the implications of illegally parking in the handicap spot.
I must have seen it but blanked it.
Mike
I have a pet peeve, it's forum related actually $:)
Posters that change the thread title in their post. Why I don't like it: the thread name shows up correctly in "show unread posts..." but the oh so cleverly renamed title appears on the recent posts on the bottom of the front page. ::) Which leads stupid people like me to think that they missed something.
The Greek letter zeta: ζ
Quote from: DavidW on November 28, 2010, 06:21:44 PM
I have a pet peeve, it's forum related actually $:)
Posters that change the thread title in their post.
I also find that irritating.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 26, 2010, 06:47:18 AMSpeaking of pissed, holiday celebrations and wine will do that to you...
Thankfully I don't subscribe to all the holiday excess anymore. I'm officially retired from the celebration of holidays. This certainly didn't happen over night and it took me years to get to this point, but I'm happy with the way things are now: just another miserable day where people pretend to be nice when deep down they don't feel the way they do at all. I just got burned out on all the fake niceness and I finally can be myself now.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are actually beautiful holidays, but seldom do people look at the real motivation and intention behind them.
Interesting line overheard in Los Angeles, circa 1980's:
"I am p***ed off by intolerant people! I think intolerant people should all be shot and the world would be a better place!"
Quote from: springrite on November 28, 2010, 09:23:41 PM
Interesting line overheard in Los Angeles, circa 1980's:
"I am p***ed off by intolerant people! I think intolerant people should all be shot and the world would be a better place!"
Perhaps he was the manifestation of the turkey voting for Thanksgiving.
Mike
GURN! Why did you lock the "Atheists know more about your religion than you do" thread? I'm almost sure I was winning! :D :P
Seriously: What's exactly the topic we can't touch? Could you please be specific? Is it the priests raping kids? The Church protecting said priests? The Catholics who ought to quit the Church in protest? All those things should be talked about, I think...
Now, if you mean Henning and I arguing like 4th graders, I do agree and apologize for my part in that lame exchange (but he started it! :))
Quote from: Iconito on December 01, 2010, 06:26:32 PM
GURN! Why did you lock the "Atheists know more about your religion than you do" thread? I'm almost sure I was winning! :D :P
Seriously: What's exactly the topic we can't touch? Could you please be specific? Is it the priests raping kids? The Church protecting said priests? The Catholics who ought to quit the Church in protest? All those things should be talked about, I think...
Now, if you mean Henning and I arguing like 4th graders, I do agree and apologize for my part in that lame exchange (but he started it! :))
Well, I thought everything I wrote there was self-explanatory, obviously not. You and I aren't going to debate the merits of my decisions in public anyway, but certainly the arguing like 4th-graders enters into it. ::)
If you have issues with institutionalized pedophilia, as you surely do (and who doesn't, really?), then you need to exorcise that elsewhere. If you believe that the mere fact that someone subscribes to a faith that existed long before institutionalized pedophilia became the norm makes them well-disposed towards it, then you are insane. In any case, this is the last open air post on this topic, I can't be more clear than that.
GB
Quote from: Mirror Image on November 28, 2010, 09:15:54 PM
...Thanksgiving and Christmas are actually beautiful holidays, but seldom do people look at the real motivation and intention behind them.
Same here in Oz, with our national holiday, Australia Day on the 26th of January. I bet few Australians know what this day is in aid of, what it commemorates, it's just an excuse for all of the yobbos in the country to climb out of their holes and get pissed and act like idiots. Of course, not everyone here is in that category, but it takes only a few people to spoil the party. I myself think that this holiday should be scrapped & replaced with a holiday on January 1st, when Federation occured in 1901. Or a republic day (when we become a republic?). Of course, none of these changes would stop the yobbos from acting the way they do! (unfortunately, you can't legislate against stupidity)...
*rant over* - got that off my chest!...
Quote from: Sid on December 01, 2010, 06:39:15 PM
Same here in Oz, with our national holiday, Australia Day on the 26th of January. I bet few Australians know what this day is in aid of, what it commemorates, it's just an excuse for all of the yobbos in the country to climb out of their holes and get pissed and act like idiots. Of course, not everyone here is in that category, but it takes only a few people to spoil the party. I myself think that this holiday should be scrapped & replaced with a holiday on January 1st, when Federation occured in 1901. Or a republic day (when we become a republic?). Of course, none of these changes would stop the yobbos from acting the way they do! (unfortunately, you can't legislate against stupidity)...
*rant over* - got that off my chest!...
What DOES it commemorate, Sid?
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on December 01, 2010, 06:38:11 PM
If you believe that the mere fact that someone subscribes to a faith that existed long before institutionalized pedophilia became the norm makes them well-disposed towards it
OK, but just to clarify, I never meant that! The faith is one thing, the corrupt institution is another (i.e: quit the institution, not your faith! Actually doing so reinforces and honors your faith, IMO). I'm terribly sorry if I didn't make myself clear about that.
Quote from: Iconito on December 01, 2010, 06:50:47 PM
OK, but just to clarify, I never meant that! The faith is one thing, the corrupt institution is another (i.e: quit the institution, not your faith! Actually doing so reinforces and honors your faith, IMO). I'm terribly sorry if I didn't make myself clear about that.
That might be pushing it, too... Catholics can still protest it or strongly disagree with it. I wouldn't move to another school because a teacher was busted for raping a student.
What annoys me is when I want to keep listening to music but I have to go to bed. :'(
Quote from: DavidW on December 01, 2010, 07:01:04 PM
What annoys me is when I want to keep listening to music but I have to go to bed. :'(
What annoys me is going to bed.
Quote from: Greg on December 01, 2010, 06:58:09 PM
That might be pushing it, too... Catholics can still protest it or strongly disagree with it. I wouldn't move to another school because a teacher was busted for raping a student.
But you would if it was lots of teachers raping students, and said teachers were protected by the highest school authorities...
Anyway, let's drop it already. I fear Gurn's wrath :)
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on December 01, 2010, 06:41:58 PM
What DOES it commemorate, Sid?
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"Australia Day," 26 January commemorates the landing of the first fleet in Sydney back in 1788. This is the day that began the white colonisation (some say invasion) of Australia, the establishment of the first penal colony here by Captain Arthur Phillip. Many of the yobbos I was talking of can't tell it apart from when Cook "discovered" Australia in 1770, in other words British colonial rule was imposed then but the continent was not colonised until 1788 when they decided to send all of those convicts and naval officers here; the British gaols were overflowing, and the USA would not accept any more convicts from Britain. I think that (frankly) my depth of knowledge about these issues is more advanced than that of many Australians. There is a lot of confusion about what Cook did with what Phillip did. So I think that this holiday should be scrapped, not only because of that, but more importantly when we (finally?) become a republic, the significance of this day will be obsolete (I think it already is, and many Australian Aborigines would agree with me, they hold a "Survival" Day on the same day, which can also be perhaps moved to a more suitable date, but I won't go into that). The late Patrick White, Nobel Prize winning Australian author, pointed out how Australia was the only country that celebrates the setting up of a penal colony, all others celebrate their independence. Needless to say, I agree with him 100 per cent! (although many Australians wouldn't, talking of "tradition" or crap like that, despite not really knowing what is being commemorated - go figure)...
The way you guys are going on with issues from other threads (that have been locked!) it seems we run the danger of this one being locked as well. Can people stick to the topic here, is that too difficult? This is the only place I can "vent" some of my frustrations about pet peeves. I don't want it to be locked down!...
Quote from: Sid on December 01, 2010, 07:20:31 PM
The way you guys are going on with issues from other threads (that have been locked!) it seems we run the danger of this one being locked as well. Can people stick to the topic here, is that too difficult? This is the only place I can "vent" some of my frustrations about pet peeves. I don't want it to be locked down!...
Um.. they're completely in line with the thread.
Quote from: Greg on December 01, 2010, 07:02:09 PM
What annoys me is going to bed.
I'm annoyed when I have to get out of bed.
I think it's funny what little things annoy people in their heads. I like reading about others', and telling my own. Not the major stuff, just the ones that don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. The stuff that doesn't infuriate, just annoys, even though you know it's not worth being bothered about. Most of mine involve mis-use of terms, or people believing in false information.
Using the word "entrée" to mean the main course in a meal.
Using the word "sushi" to mean raw fish.
Any movie that includes chess in it: they get so much incorrect, I can't watch any of them.
"Irregardless"; even if that was real, it would mean the opposite of what its user intends.
I don't sweat the small stuff. And they say, it's all small stuff.
Quote from: Sid on December 01, 2010, 07:07:09 PM
"Australia Day," 26 January commemorates the landing of the first fleet in Sydney back in 1788. This is the day that began the white colonisation (some say invasion) of Australia, the establishment of the first penal colony here by Captain Arthur Phillip. Many of the yobbos I was talking of can't tell it apart from when Cook "discovered" Australia in 1770, in other words British colonial rule was imposed then but the continent was not colonised until 1788 when they decided to send all of those convicts and naval officers here; the British gaols were overflowing, and the USA would not accept any more convicts from Britain. I think that (frankly) my depth of knowledge about these issues is more advanced than that of many Australians. There is a lot of confusion about what Cook did with what Phillip did. So I think that this holiday should be scrapped, not only because of that, but more importantly when we (finally?) become a republic, the significance of this day will be obsolete (I think it already is, and many Australian Aborigines would agree with me, they hold a "Survival" Day on the same day, which can also be perhaps moved to a more suitable date, but I won't go into that). The late Patrick White, Nobel Prize winning Australian author, pointed out how Australia was the only country that celebrates the setting up of a penal colony, all others celebrate their independence. Needless to say, I agree with him 100 per cent! (although many Australians wouldn't, talking of "tradition" or crap like that, despite not really knowing what is being commemorated - go figure)...
Ah, thanks for the history lesson. As a Yank, I feel rather badly that I already knew quite a bit of that when, as you say, many of your own countrymen do not. It is rather like our lot over here, who seem to know f*** all about our own history or even geography. You aren't alone, Sid! :-\
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on December 02, 2010, 05:55:15 AM
Ah, thanks for the history lesson. As a Yank, I feel rather badly that I already knew quite a bit of that when, as you say, many of your own countrymen do not.
Hence his use of the obscure colloquialism yabbos, said more in sorrow than in anger, meseems . . . .
Quote from: Wendell_E on December 02, 2010, 03:00:16 AM
I'm annoyed when I have to get out of bed.
That's why I'm annoyed when I have to go to bed.
LTTPMO: Re. getting out of bed, I'm mildly irritated (just short of peeved?), when I stumble half-awake into the kitchen and pour a scoop of coffee beans into the grinder without first removing the grinder's lid. Coffee beans ricocheting all over the kitchen! That's a pain--but it's a pisser when I clean up the mess and then do it again! ;)
Quote from: DavidRoss on December 02, 2010, 07:17:10 AM
LTTPMO: Re. getting out of bed, I'm mildly irritated (just short of peeved?), when I stumble half-awake into the kitchen and pour a scoop of coffee beans into the grinder without first removing the grinder's lid. Coffee beans ricocheting all over the kitchen! That's a pain--but it's a pisser when I clean up the mess and then do it again! ;)
:D Done that... :)
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on December 02, 2010, 07:20:43 AM
:D Done that... :)
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Done that, but replace "slightly irritated" to "ready to choke my cat".
Quote from: AndyD. on December 02, 2010, 07:23:35 AM
Done that, but replace "slightly irritated" to "ready to choke my cat".
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Oh, sh*t! Now I have to clean up the coffee that I just sprayed all over my monitor. Laughing out loud when I just took a mouthful of coffee is another pisser! ;)
Quote from: DavidRoss on December 02, 2010, 07:31:46 AM
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Oh, sh*t! Now I have to clean up the coffee that I just sprayed all over my monitor. Laughing out loud when I just took a mouthful of coffee is another pisser! ;)
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Quote from: AndyD. on December 02, 2010, 07:23:35 AM
Done that, but replace "slightly irritated" to "ready to choke my cat".
;D I'm always happy to choke a cat for you... ;)
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And speaking of cats, "cute" cat photos are another pisser!
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Quote from: DavidRoss on December 02, 2010, 07:42:06 AM
And speaking of cats, "cute" cat photos are another pisser!
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EEEEK!
Choke it before it gets to the children!
When people don't use three suspension points......... :)
Quote from: DavidW on December 01, 2010, 07:01:04 PM
What annoys me is when I want to keep listening to music but I have to go to bed. :'(
Well, don't let your mom push you about like that. >:D
Mike
Quote from: knight on December 05, 2010, 11:11:22 PM
Well, don't let your mom push you about like that. >:D
Mike
Yes Dad! ;) ;D
Quote from: DavidW on December 06, 2010, 05:55:10 AM
Yes Dad! ;) ;D
Hm... I remember sometime ago it was revealed that MN Dave was Knight's son. Now he has another son named David! ??? :D
Quote from: Opus106 on December 06, 2010, 06:03:49 AM
Hm... I remember sometime ago it was revealed that MN Dave was Knight's son. Now he has another son named David! ??? :D
If you only knew the sordid truth, you would be stunned! :o :o Alas, I cannot reveal things which I have personal knowledge of, else I would shock the world with this irony! :)
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Yes, you would, Uncle Gurn.
OK, my contribution to the 'piss me off' thread:
I suppose by now everyone knows that I collect Beethoven 9th symphony recordings. At least, if you don't, you haven't been paying attention. :D
Anyway, if you go to eBay to check out recordings, the 9ths are, at least 90% of the time, listed like this:
Beethoven: Symphonie No. 9 by Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Now seriously, does that tell you anything? No conductor, no orchestra, if there is a picture of the cover it is nearly always too small to read anyway. Occasionally under "Contributing artists" they will list the other 3 soloists. ::) WTF? Don't they actually want to sell these items? The odd thing to me is that nearly all the eBay stores do this, not just any one that I can point my finger at. >:(
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on December 06, 2010, 12:14:17 PM
Beethoven: Symphonie No. 9 by Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Now seriously, does that tell you anything? No conductor, no orchestra
They give you the name of the band and the song. What more do you need to know?
Quote from: Daverz on December 06, 2010, 01:14:52 PM
They give you the name of the band and the song. What more do you need to know?
:D Yeah, that's about it.... well, the lead singer anyway! ::)
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This reminds me of when I wanted to buy an iPod. The salesman kept telling me how many 'song' each one could take. I asked how much time they were supposed to be able to absorb; but no, it was all about the number of songs and the company advertises the machine in that way. Since some of my 'songs' last 20 minutes and others last two minutes, it is meaningless to anyone who listens other than what I loosely term 'pop'.
Mike
Oh yes; seasons greetings to all my sons. That old bike is knackered now!
Quote from: Opus106 on December 06, 2010, 06:03:49 AM
Hm... I remember sometime ago it was revealed that MN Dave was Knight's son. Now he has another son named David! ??? :D
He has many sons named David, perhaps he's catholic. Likes to have a large family--
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;D ;D
Quote from: knight on December 06, 2010, 10:56:50 PM
This reminds me of when I wanted to buy an iPod. The salesman kept telling me how many 'song' each one could take. I asked how much time they were supposed to be able to absorb; but no, it was all about the number of songs and the company advertises the machine in that way. Since some of my 'songs' last 20 minutes and others last two minutes, it is meaningless to anyone who listens other than what I loosely term 'pop'.
Mike
Oh yes; seasons greetings to all my sons. That old bike is knackered now!
And what's really funny is that it is dependent on bit rate, and the song # (based on 3 minutes per song) is for 128k rate, but the itunes store uses 256 now! :D
They should just give the capacity, and if the customer is too stupid to figure out how much music that is, then they can't do arithmetic and you can inflate the price and they won't be any the wiser. ;D
I also like how the battery life is reported assuming all features are off, 128 bit rate song is playing and the lcd backlight is at a minimum and set to auto dim and shut off within seconds. What's worse is that video life is reported assuming the backlight is at min as well! :D
Quote from: DavidW on December 07, 2010, 07:48:37 AM
And what's really funny is that it is dependent on bit rate, and the song # (based on 3 minutes per song) is for 128k rate, but the itunes store uses 256 now! :D
They should just give the capacity, and if the customer is too stupid to figure out how much music that is, then they can't do arithmetic and you can inflate the price and they won't be any the wiser. ;D
Well, at least capacity is a fixed reference. I know that when I first bought my Sansa Fuze, I had no idea how much of my music I should be able to fit in 8Gb, but at least it was a reliable frame of reference. "1600 songs" (as Mike observes) is worthless unless your principal listening is Dean Martin, David Bowie & Donovan ; )
Quote from: knight on December 06, 2010, 10:56:50 PM
This reminds me of when I wanted to buy an iPod. The salesman kept telling me how many 'song' each one could take. I asked how much time they were supposed to be able to absorb; but no, it was all about the number of songs and the company advertises the machine in that way. Since some of my 'songs' last 20 minutes and others last two minutes, it is meaningless to anyone who listens other than what I loosely term 'pop'.
Mike
Oh yes; seasons greetings to all my sons. That old bike is knackered now!
A pop song is 3 minutes on average, so you can roughly convert songs to minutes by multiplying by 3.
Quote from: Scarpia on December 07, 2010, 10:25:08 AM
A pop song is 3 minutes on average, so you can roughly convert songs to minutes by multiplying by 3.
And yet, that doesn't account for bitrate and thus file size. I don't think I am being too harsh when I say that most pop music is adequately recorded at 128. But most classical is AT LEAST 192. My high-end VBR files are around 230, but a lot of people I know use only 320 CBR. So there's that... :-\
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on December 07, 2010, 10:34:21 AM
And yet, that doesn't account for bitrate and thus file size. I don't think I am being too harsh when I say that most pop music is adequately recorded at 128. But most classical is AT LEAST 192. My high-end VBR files are around 230, but a lot of people I know use only 320 CBR. So there's that... :-\
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It's the other way around. Classical music is easier to compress because it doesn't have synthesized deep bass, nor the treble extension offered in electric guitars to name a few instruments. One of the things lost in 128 bit compression is lack of extension in treble and bass which is not a big loss for mid-centric classical but plays hell with pop music.
Quote from: DavidW on December 07, 2010, 10:47:27 AM
It's the other way around. Classical music is easier to compress because it doesn't have synthesized deep bass, nor the treble extension offered in electric guitars to name a few instruments. One of the things lost in 128 bit compression is lack of extension in treble and bass which is not a big loss for mid-centric classical but plays hell with pop music.
De facto, pop music is virtually always compressed way more than classical, whether it hurts it or not. :)
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All too often my arms and legs bump into things that leave me with large red blotchy marks stemming from, my doctor tells me, the blood thinner I have to take for ever and because I am getting old. What a bummer!
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on December 07, 2010, 11:03:02 AM
De facto, pop music is virtually always compressed way more than classical, whether it hurts it or not. :)
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Dynamic range compression != bitrate. In fact that's a pet peeve of mine (and you knew it too! ;D ) is when people confuse dynamic range compression, frequency compression and bitrate compression!!
Anyway that's another reason that pop music is harder to compress. An mp3 encoder can't remove sounds that you can't really hear (excepting high and low frequency information) in pop as readily as classical because in pop everything is the same loudness due to the complete lack of dynamic range.
I'd have to check the book that I have, but I think that the engineers at Fraunhofer were using classical music and pop music that used acoustic instruments with a reasonable dynamic range when they were designing their compression algorithms.
This:
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I love this Firefox skin but that pixel cluster is infuriating. Since I noticed it, it has always remained in the corner of my eye, watching me unblinkingly, undressing my soul.
My wife bites her nails down to the nubs and then some. What's left is a discolored mess. I wish she'd mutilate herself in private, but no such luck.
Perhaps she is signalling something to you.
Mike
Time for some hardcore pent-up rage:
Journalists who use incorrect terminology for internet-related things, such as describing denial of service attacks as "hacking" and the solo people who carry them out as "hackers", consequently totally misleading the reader about the level of expertise and creativity involved in these events and granting "insider" interviews to completely inconsequential figures who can offer very little insight (this happens all the time with Anonymous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29) "scoops").
Vegemite (surely the condiment equivelent of somebody who dresses differently for attention but only succeeds in looking worse than the people wearing classics).
"Literaly".
Straight friends of gay people who decide "I want to see what that is like" and make a move out of the blue with no prior warning, assuming that the gay person is some kind of magnanimous swinger who will be totally up for it. This is a bizarrely common occurance.
Children ending statements with a high scoop in their voice making them sound either intentionally or unintentionally sarcastic - they can no longer control which of those they express.
The evil and lack of pride in software developers who go beyond simply bloating their products, increasingly adding functionalities that harm the performance of the downloader's computer. A lot of mainstream apps have flirted with malware, but even those that don't are guilty of things that should be completely unacceptable: tricking people into accepting a bundled "helper bar" for their browser either by making it difficult to know how to decline it by deceptive phrasing, or simply by lying, and when you choose no it installs it anyway. Worse is how so many popular applications also now include a (they say) "quick launch" startup process which as more programs are installed, the sheer amount of needless background processes running at any one time can harm the stability and performance of an average speed PC, or cripple a slow one. These tactics suck so much because they're not even helpful - if a person needs the app they will open it themselves via the start menu, they don't need all this garbage in their system tray or taskbar. A person with some experience can easily disable these processes, but it's newbies who it ruins the experience of. I can no longer see much of a difference between these people and the scum who trick the naive into opening exe attachments in their emails.
The angel emoticon not being a part of this forum's set $:)
Retagging classical music (or I should say 'tagging', as I have yet to ever encounter a logically presented suggestion from any tags database so no longer even look and do it manually).
Facebook's "friends" list, which to make sense should be renamed to "acquaintances", then perhaps with a more exclusive "friends" list as an additional option.
Butt-licking folksy advertising. There is a chain of frozen food supermarkets in the UK called Iceland which is currently running a nausiating "mums are heroes" campaign. I find it hard to match the supposedly heroic domestic struggle of the mother doing everything possible for their child with somebody who stuffs them with constipating frozen readymeals. A stolen observation from a great comedian (Stewart Lee): a mobile phone store called the Carphone Warehouse felt the need to issue a disclaimer after a racism scandal on the Big Brother TV show that it sponsored in which it states how racism is completely against "the values of the carphone warehouse", as if such a manifesto even exists, and that it would contain anything other than the words "sell more phones".
Related to the previous bit: the seemingly endless dreadful stream of female singer songwriter music used to accompany banking, gadget and automobile adverts, usually with a soft "heee heee so naive and pure" voice singing a mauled sea-shanty, folksong or yodel bent into a pop framework and sparse "heee heee how impish, clean, irreverent and contemporary this is" beats or strumming. Perhaps the worst thing about these is that I think that this is actual music that people buy albums of rather than cynical commissioned jingles. These are fine examples as any:
http://www.youtube.com/v/FGAWSCb8GhU http://www.youtube.com/v/R8GpHifZO3M http://www.youtube.com/v/b3xe9dSY7zM
It's like being imprisoned in the basement of an Oompa-Loompa.
A truly impressive contribution, positively cathartic. Surely better out than in! You nailed some things there that bug me, but I had not even realised until they were highlighted how teeth-grindingly irritating some are.
That Iceland advert uses and mangles a piece of music I know, but the name escapes me. Perhaps you can put me out of my misery, but to know what piece is being destroyed will increase my annoyance.
Mike
Quote from: Lethe on December 10, 2010, 10:39:11 PM
Straight friends of gay people who decide "I want to see what that is like" and make a move out of the blue with no prior warning, assuming that the gay person is some kind of magnanimous swinger who will be totally up for it. This is a bizarrely common occurance.
???
Quote from: Lethe on December 10, 2010, 10:39:11 PM
The angel emoticon not being a part of this forum's set $:)
0:)
Quote from: Lethe on December 10, 2010, 10:39:11 PM
Facebook's "friends" list, which to make sense should be renamed to "acquaintances", then perhaps with a more exclusive "friends" list as an additional option.
I hear ya. When the chat feature suggested I create lists of friends, I created one called "Friends!" with a ! so I could distinguish real friends from not-friends. Of course, following the redesign, they deleted that feature and now chat runs off of pictures of people. Pictures so small I can barely see them, of people who have made their profile pictures either (a) pictures of them when they were 12 for nostalgia reasons, (b) pictures of them in a large group, or (c) pictures of somebody else entirely. We could take up a whole page of this thread talking about Facebook "features" alone.
The Oompa-Loompa comment was hilarious. So glad you're back. Now, where are you hiding Elgarian?
Quote from: Brian on December 11, 2010, 01:30:32 AM
0:)
Another thing that pisses me off: I mixed up $:) with 0:) ;D
I didn't know Elgarian had departed - he must return or I will burn an effigy of Edward.
Quote from: Lethe on December 10, 2010, 10:39:11 PM
http://www.youtube.com/v/FGAWSCb8GhU http://www.youtube.com/v/R8GpHifZO3M
The first one reminds me of Susan Vega's
Tom's Diner, the second something by the Dresden Dolls.
Quote from: Lethe on December 11, 2010, 01:42:33 AM
I didn't know Elgarian had departed
Now
that pisses me off! He's one of my favorites hereabouts, a model of rational civility with admirably dry wit. What happened?
I like to forward internet odds and ends to my wife. What I don't like is that her email address is so cumbersome: it has 21 letters before the @.
People who talk to me at social gatherings and then look around for someone more interesting/important to talk to, while they are talking to me. >:D
Quote from: Schlomo on December 11, 2010, 10:39:33 AM
I like to forward internet odds and ends to my wife. What I don't like is that her email address is so cumbersome: it has 21 letters before the @.
My first e-mail address had 16 before the @, and a total of 24. So long that I wasn't able to enter it to register at a couple of sites, the Canon one, for example. That did indeed piss me off.
Which brings up another issue: Poorly designed forms asking you to write in, say, your address, but don't give you enough room to do so. I only need 6 (or 11) characters for my zip code, but my street address takes 22 (with abbreviations), and sometimes forms will have blanks of the same short length for both of those pieces of info.
Quote from: Schlomo on December 11, 2010, 10:39:33 AM
I like to forward internet odds and ends to my wife. What I don't like is that her email address is so cumbersome: it has 21 letters before the @.
Your email program does not have a contact list?
Quote from: Scarpia on December 12, 2010, 05:04:08 AM
Your email program does not have a contact list?
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I'm not sure what you mean. These are some of my tactics. Instead
of painstakingly transcribing my wife's email address and my own--obligatory for sending emails via the Washington Post or Huffington Post websites, for example--I can select all, copy, go to my hotmail, click on my wife's email address, paste the material, and then send it. That's the fastest way to work with WP. Fox news already has my wife's and my email on tap the second I click on its email icon. That's great. For the NY Times, I just click on "send to me" and then go to hotmail to forward the article.
I hate writing to WWW fora and not getting any reply at all. Or no more than soliloquising.
Quote from: Wurstwasser on December 12, 2010, 09:45:08 PMI hate writing to WWW fora and not getting any reply at all. Or no more than soliloquising.
I agree, Michael! ;)
Quote from: Wendell_E on December 12, 2010, 03:08:44 AMWhich brings up another issue: Poorly designed forms asking you to write in, say, your address, but don't give you enough room to do so. I only need 6 (or 11) characters for my zip code, but my street address takes 22 (with abbreviations), and sometimes forms will have blanks of the same short length for both of those pieces of info.
Happened to me even worse: In a registration window, the password field was unlimited at length. I used 20 chars because I used a password manager then. Wasn't able to login, it took me quite some time to find out why: The password field in the login window was limited to 15.
Also the lengthy E-Mail-Adress is a problem quite often. Mine is 8+(n*26), depending on the domain name. For GMG it should be like "wmoqtr085mfqzqm77jh24uelv2fklrs2omfwgr4thxtzu2hbejf5pxc4zmgq@" ... because a) I DES encrypt some information into it and b) I can compute the E-Mail address per domain. With 1000s of web services, I sometimes forgot which username and password I used and then wasn't able to receive the password in case it was forgotten. Today I compute everything; usernames (from a 2Mio. wordlist), passwords and mail addresses.
The suggested username for gmg is "cantor_josef", but here I stick with the Wurst.
Evil fish odor after a co-worker has reheated something in the microwave which ought to have been permitted an honorable death.
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on December 13, 2010, 07:54:06 AM
Evil fish odor after a co-worker has reheated something in the microwave which ought to have been permitted an honorable death.
Yup, bringing fish to the office is a firing event.
Quote from: Bulldog on December 13, 2010, 10:24:09 AM
Yup, bringing fish to the office is a firing event.
There are certain varieties of Asian fish sauce that take it to a whole new level. Recently a particularly odorous fish was prepared here and the plant maintainance people were called because some people were concerned that there might be a dead squirrel stuck in the ventilation ducts. ???
1. Weirdly redundant notices like this one given to all residents in my condo building:
"Water will be turned off from 9:00 a.m to 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, December, 16, for the following units:
1808-2810
1807-2810
1806-2810
1805-2810
Please be advised"
2. So many obese Americans staying at the most exclusive hotels in Hawaii. Only the Japanese tourists are svelte, oy gevalt!
The phrase "please be advised" is annoying in itself. It's like, I've just read your warning message - there's no need to be a dick about it, as if I am in some way not paying attention and need a textual prod at the end. If a sign requires the somewhat passive-aggressive "please be advised, then it's obviously not advertising something important enough.
It is not as if we have signs like:
WARNING
Sharks are in these waters
Please be advised
Instead we have signs like:
NOTICE
The residents association have
noticed that somebody has
been discarding cigarette butts
in the foyer's cactus pots
Any continuation of these
actions will result in a fine
Please be advised
In an article in today's Guardian about proposed changes to the funding of UK orchestras, a journo refers to "the Hallé in Birmingham". Relocated from Manchester, have they? I know everywhere outside London blurs into one for a lot of Londoners. Perhaps it would have been safer for him to just say, "the Hallé, somewhere north of Watford".
Vengeance humor. ;D
(* chortle *)
Quote from: Lethe on December 15, 2010, 07:30:18 AM
The phrase "please be advised" is annoying in itself. It's like, I've just read your warning message - there's no need to be a dick about it, as if I am in some way not paying attention and need a textual prod at the end. If a sign requires the somewhat passive-aggressive "please be advised, then it's obviously not advertising something important enough.
It is not as if we have signs like:
WARNING
Sharks are in these waters
Please be advised
Instead we have signs like:
NOTICE
The residents association have
noticed that somebody has
been discarding cigarette butts
in the foyer's cactus pots
Any continuation of these
actions will result in a fine
Please be advised
Here's a nifty sign...
(http://www.protect-the-sharks.org/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/nggshow.php?pid=79&width=320&height=240&mode=)
Quote from: ukrneal on December 16, 2010, 06:05:42 AM
Here's a nifty sign...
(http://www.protect-the-sharks.org/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/nggshow.php?pid=79&width=320&height=240&mode=)
How about this one in a real estate listing: "...has a large dick for entertaining..."
Coca-Cola can ringpulls are slightly longer than Pepsi ones. When you open a Coke can, if you bend the ringpull the whole 180 degrees, they are prevented from snapping into the drinking hole by their length. I have found that with Pepsi ones, they sometimes click inside and I need to prise them out with some keys.
Pretty much the definition of trivial, but it's so unneccessary. Design your product better, dudes :-X
Quote from: Lethe on December 22, 2010, 05:25:23 AM
Coca-Cola can ringpulls are slightly longer than Pepsi ones. When you open a Coke can, if you bend the ringpull the whole 180 degrees, they are prevented from snapping into the drinking hole by their length. I have found that with Pepsi ones, they sometimes click inside and I need to prise them out with some keys.
Pretty much the definition of trivial, but it's so unneccessary. Design your product better, dudes :-X
Back in the dark ages when pull tabs were first in use, they removed a strip of metal and came completely off the can, like this:
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQidX13xBz7YHPy9-X8eZ5nVR44uApcmPboN2YD6hqn8JZopnIsoA)
We used to just drop them into the can through the open slot. Never swallowed one. Can't recall one ever flowing into my mouth while drinking, despite having done it hundreds (thousands?) of times. I suspect that the tab retention innovation was for the safety of unsuspecting barefoot beachgoers whose footsies got sliced up by pull tabs discarded thoughtlessly by dorks.
It's hard to imagine how it used to be - I've seen photos of concerts with hundreds of the old-style ringpulls ground into the floor by thousands of feet.
When I said they "snap" into the hole, I wasn't totally clear with my whinging - I mean that it clicks under the rim but remains attached, impeding the drinking hole pretty substantially - I suppose I could push it in with a key/knife (whatever is closest), but it involves the same effort as levering out.
tattooed women
poor enunciators
fuzzy picture quality at movie theaters
flooring and furniture that attract dust
the noxious smell of macaroni and cheese
pregnant women beach goers who expose their enormous bellies.
Why are you letting the tattooed men off the hook? :P
I agree with you on the macaroni and cheese thing - one of my friends used to buy microwavable lasagnas and they made the whole house smell like an explosion in a glue factory.
Edit: Not something that pisses me off, but perplexes me: I went to a hairdresser today and there were three women there who looked like triplets: heavy makeup, near platinum blonde long hair with a lot of iron curls in. For a person who makes hairstyling their career, I would've thought they would put a premium on originality...
Quote from: Schlomo on December 22, 2010, 09:32:37 PM
tattooed women
poor enunciators
fuzzy picture quality at movie theaters
flooring and furniture that attract dust
the noxious smell of macaroni and cheese
pregnant women beach goers who expose their enormous bellies.
I like the look of pregnant women at the beach. After all, they're producing a new life.
Working from 27th until 30th December 2010. >:D >:(
Quote from: Wurstwasser on December 23, 2010, 08:19:39 AM
Working from 27th until 30th December 2010. >:D >:(
You don't have to work on the 31st? Lucky you!
I hate all these new weirdly shaped plastic bottles for condiments that make it impossible to extract more than about 85% of the contents. It's not just the idiots who come up with these stupid ideas in the first place, but the morons who sign off on them who deserve eternity in Hell trying to extract a little bit of water from a bottle that won't let it out!
1) Overpriced CDs
2) Opera CDs without translated libretti (Hey I'd love to learn German, Italian and Russian but I just don't have the time!)
3) CD Boxed sets at enticingly low prices but with less than desirable performances! (This really p***es me off as I get all excited and then I see performances dating back to the 1930s or worst yet with conductors I can't stand or are simply unknown!)
4) Scratched CDs
5) CDs with hardly any liner notes or inadequate liner notes
6) CDs that skip
7) CDs with ultra tight slip cases where you have yank that damn CD out every time you want to play it!! (Is paper really that in short supply!)
8 ) Damaged jewel cases that come apart in your hands as you try to open them!
9) CD recordings that have cuts, are abridged or are missing fragments, sections you name it! (Hey I don't give a flying fig if the CD can only take x minutes which led to the cuts! I want to hear the work in its entirety and I do mean ENTIRETY!!!!!)
10) Euro Trash opera productions!!
I can go on and on but who really cares about the little things that p**** me off!!!!!
Quote from: marvinbrown on December 23, 2010, 12:34:10 PM
I can go on and on but who really cares about the little things that p**** me off!!!!!
We do care, Marvin.
Marvin, those aren't little things, they are tremendously important things ;D
Especially this!
Quote from: marvinbrown on December 23, 2010, 12:34:10 PM
7) CDs with ultra tight slip cases where you have yank that damn CD out every time you want to play it!! (Is paper really that in short supply!)
Quote from: Schlomo on December 22, 2010, 09:32:37 PMpregnant women beach goers who expose their enormous bellies.
Yes this is really bad. Now granted I don't live near a beach, but let me add that I hate pregnant women who wear tight clothing, especially shirts to where their belly just hangs out. Absolutely f****** disgusting.
I guess burkas could be a solution...
Quote from: Schlomo on December 22, 2010, 09:32:37 PM
pregnant women beach goers who expose their enormous bellies.
Quote from: Mirror Image on December 23, 2010, 12:52:11 PM
Yes this is really bad. Now granted I don't live near a beach, but let me add that I hate pregnant women who wear tight clothing, especially shirts to where their belly just hangs out. Absolutely f****** disgusting.
What's with all the hatin' on preggers? Pregnant women's bellies are beautiful--unlike the beer guts of guys whose t-shirts are too short to cover them. (usually the same guys whose pants slide down to expose their asses when they bend over. Talk about losing your appetite!)
Quote from: DavidRoss on December 23, 2010, 12:59:18 PM
What's with all the hatin' on preggers? Pregnant women's bellies are beautiful--unlike the beer guts of guys whose t-shirts are too short to cover them. (usually the same guys whose pants slide down to expose their asses when they bend over. Talk about losing your appetite!)
For some reason this made me really want to watch
Juno.
Quote from: Brian on December 23, 2010, 02:17:52 PM
For some reason this made me really want to watch Juno.
Great flick. I could stomach seeing it again.
Quote from: DavidRoss on December 23, 2010, 02:23:00 PM
Great flick. I could stomach seeing it again.
Michael Cera, who seems to play the same character every time, would become annoying.
Quote from: Scarpia on December 23, 2010, 02:56:19 PM
Michael Cera, who seems to play the same character every time, would become annoying.
Actually, I was just watching it again and was really impressed with him. In places, his character is called upon to be confused and poker-faced, and he does it. In one memorable scene, in a chemistry lab, he has to put a smile on an awkward situation and his face is so priceless I was tempted to rewind and watch again. In other places, glimpses of genuine emotion are required, and he delivers again.
I think it is really easy to get caught up in the "Michael Cera plays the same role" cynicism and use it to sound like a cool person who looks down on his inflexibility. But the truth is, in
Juno (as in
Arrested Development) he isn't bringing the Michael Cera character into the film, the film is demanding a character of him. Paulie Bleeker helped define the Michael Cera aura - I think it's still his most famous role, although maybe that was
Superbad - but it's not because it's part of an assembly line chain. It's because Paulie Bleeker is a strongly created character.
-
BTW, I approached
Juno with terror that the teenage me had liked it for immature reasons.* I hadn't seen it in about 2 years and was really apprehensive about all the expectations. Turns out I still really like the film, just for different reasons, that's all. :)
*Not the sex stuff. The constant popcornesque one-liners.
Quote from: Brian on December 23, 2010, 03:23:05 PMI think it is really easy to get caught up in the "Michael Cera plays the same role" cynicism and use it to sound like a cool person who looks down on his inflexibility. But the truth is, in Juno (as in Arrested Development) he isn't bringing the Michael Cera character into the film, the film is demanding a character of him. Paulie Bleeker helped define the Michael Cera aura - I think it's still his most famous role, although maybe that was Superbad - but it's not because it's part of an assembly line chain. It's because Paulie Bleeker is a strongly created character.
So I you consider I'm about "trying to sound like a cool person?" I'll do you the courtesy of not telling you what I think of you.
Arrested development, Juno, I did not see Superbad, but I saw "Paper Heart." Perhaps the worst film ever made, in my opinion, and he played the same character in every other role I've seen him in.
Quote from: Scarpia on December 23, 2010, 02:56:19 PM
Michael Cera, who seems to play the same character every time, would become annoying.
Does he play the nebbish who knocks her up & you can't figure out what she was doing with him until you realize that he's as safe and unthreatening as a newborn puppy...or David Cassidy.
Quote from: Bulldog on December 23, 2010, 07:57:42 AM
I like the look of pregnant women at the beach. After all, they're producing a new life.
Let them do it modestly. The same goes for breast feeding.
Another gripe: In Waikiki, the cops pay more attention to jaywalkers than to streetwalkers.
Jeebus, just rename this the misogynist asshole thread and be done with it.
Poorly designed forms. Often, they don't give you nearly enough room for an address (street or e-mail). Today, I was filling out a season subscription form, and one of the fields was "Type". Type of what? I put down "tall, dark, handsome", though I don't really care about height. Looking at it again, it was right after "Phone" (not "Phone#", just "Phone") so maybe they meant type of phone, but I'm going with my first instinct.
I'm with Marvin, scratched cds! I've had several cds that have been so badly scratched that I just had to toss them.
I have another one-- lingering chest congestion. >:(
Smelly people. Just, why - it's such a perculiar lifestyle choice. I almost elected to catch the next bus because one guy was so bad.
*Trying to volunteer for a position (playing cribbage with seniors). Had to get a Criminal Record Search done, so I did, only to get a letter back saying they cannot complete my CRS since they have no fingerprints of mine on file. So, now I have to pay another $55 to get my fingerprints taken, and the police said it may take up to 6 months to have the results in.
*Still no decision on the fate of the Phoenix Coyotes future, a joke of a franchise from day 1, while one of the richest men in Canada is ready and willing to bring the team back to Winnipeg, but that would mean poor old Gary Bettmann would be admitting defeat.
Quote from: haydnfan on April 24, 2011, 07:10:11 PM
I'm with Marvin, scratched cds! I've had several cds that have been so badly scratched that I just had to toss them.
I have another one-- lingering chest congestion. >:(
Speaking of CDs, this is the second time in a row I've gotten a pack of CDs that don't even play music, even though they're labeled "music."
Quote from: haydnfan on April 24, 2011, 07:10:11 PM
I have another one-- lingering chest congestion. >:(
Ditto!
Don't know if you guys out there in Europe & the USA have heard of her, but Pauline Hanson really p***es me off. She is an Australian politician (& former fish n'chip shop owner, as she proudly declares) who headed the ultra-nationalist (or more like populist) One Nation Party. She only spent one term in parliament in the late 1990's. She's been trying to be re-elected in any election she feels might be a "goer" ever since. Not only Federally or in her native state of Queensland, but even in the recent March 2011 New South Wales state election. In that last one, she tried for our upper house, got a majority of primary votes, but lost on preferences (we have a preferential voting system in this country, so it's not "first past the post" like in other countries, and Hanson has been at a distinct disadvantage regarding that, no other major party will preference her). Her final comments on the result were that the electoral system needs to be changed (yeah - so fruitloops like her can get in, we already have got the Shooters Party and Christian Democrats, more like bigots, in the NSW upper house). I especially find it ironic that she declares that she's a maverick and a "Aussie battler" one of the people and not a politician, yet all she's been trying to do for the last 10 years is get back into parliament. She even went back to England to retire, her ancestral home, but then swiftly came back because it's full of Pakies :o .
Basically her policies are based on populism rather than any profound convictions. Eg. she's anti-politicians, anti-Aboriginals, anti-immigrants, anti-environmentalists, anti-big business. Oh yeah, did I mention that she's basically against most things, and not "for" anything? :P I must admit that I remember her time in parliament as being of high entertainment value, she always said some rubbish that the media would be eager to pick up at the drop of a hat. But politicians should not be entertainers imo, they can be entertaining but their role is not that of a clown but of an elected representative of the people. Or maybe I've got it wrong, according to the thousands that actually voted for Pauline?...
Quote from: Sid on April 26, 2011, 08:03:05 PM
Don't know if you guys out there in Europe & the USA have heard of her, but Pauline Hanson really p***es me off. She is an Australian politician (& former fish n'chip shop owner, as she proudly declares) who headed the ultra-nationalist (or more like populist) One Nation Party. She only spent one term in parliament in the late 1990's. She's been trying to be re-elected in any election she feels might be a "goer" ever since. Not only Federally or in her native state of Queensland, but even in the recent March 2011 New South Wales state election. In that last one, she tried for our upper house, got a majority of primary votes, but lost on preferences (we have a preferential voting system in this country, so it's not "first past the post" like in other countries, and Hanson has been at a distinct disadvantage regarding that, no other major party will preference her). Her final comments on the result were that the electoral system needs to be changed (yeah - so fruitloops like her can get in, we already have got the Shooters Party and Christian Democrats, more like bigots, in the NSW upper house). I especially find it ironic that she declares that she's a maverick and a "Aussie battler" one of the people and not a politician, yet all she's been trying to do for the last 10 years is get back into parliament. She even went back to England to retire, her ancestral home, but then swiftly came back because it's full of Pakies :o .
Basically her policies are based on populism rather than any profound convictions. Eg. she's anti-politicians, anti-Aboriginals, anti-immigrants, anti-environmentalists, anti-big business. Oh yeah, did I mention that she's basically against most things, and not "for" anything? :P I must admit that I remember her time in parliament as being of high entertainment value, she always said some rubbish that the media would be eager to pick up at the drop of a hat. But politicians should not be entertainers imo, they can be entertaining but their role is not that of a clown but of an elected representative of the people. Or maybe I've got it wrong, according to the thousands that actually voted for Pauline?...
Apparently she and Sarah Palin went to school together.... in any case, this sort of "politics' is becoming the norm, at least in our country. I guess my longtime escapist dream of moving to Australia to dodge the bullshit has come to naught. :-\
8)
Quote from: Sid on April 26, 2011, 08:03:05 PM
Don't know if you guys out there in Europe & the USA have heard of her, but Pauline Hanson really p***es me off. She is an Australian politician (& former fish n'chip shop owner, as she proudly declares) who headed the ultra-nationalist (or more like populist) One Nation Party. She only spent one term in parliament in the late 1990's. She's been trying to be re-elected in any election she feels might be a "goer" ever since. Not only Federally or in her native state of Queensland, but even in the recent March 2011 New South Wales state election. In that last one, she tried for our upper house, got a majority of primary votes, but lost on preferences (we have a preferential voting system in this country, so it's not "first past the post" like in other countries, and Hanson has been at a distinct disadvantage regarding that, no other major party will preference her). Her final comments on the result were that the electoral system needs to be changed (yeah - so fruitloops like her can get in, we already have got the Shooters Party and Christian Democrats, more like bigots, in the NSW upper house). I especially find it ironic that she declares that she's a maverick and a "Aussie battler" one of the people and not a politician, yet all she's been trying to do for the last 10 years is get back into parliament. She even went back to England to retire, her ancestral home, but then swiftly came back because it's full of Pakies :o .
Basically her policies are based on populism rather than any profound convictions. Eg. she's anti-politicians, anti-Aboriginals, anti-immigrants, anti-environmentalists, anti-big business. Oh yeah, did I mention that she's basically against most things, and not "for" anything? :P I must admit that I remember her time in parliament as being of high entertainment value, she always said some rubbish that the media would be eager to pick up at the drop of a hat. But politicians should not be entertainers imo, they can be entertaining but their role is not that of a clown but of an elected representative of the people. Or maybe I've got it wrong, according to the thousands that actually voted for Pauline?...
Its pretty sad and scary that Pauline Hanson is as popular as she is in Australia! :-\ - I definetely don't care for her either Sid! >:( :-X
Quote from: Gurnatron5500 on April 27, 2011, 04:29:35 AM
Apparently she and Sarah Palin went to school together....
Very funny, good one! :P
Quote...in any case, this sort of "politics' is becoming the norm, at least in our country. I guess my longtime escapist dream of moving to Australia to dodge the bullshit has come to naught. :-\
8)
Well we probably have less fruitloops in politics than say the USA (from what I can gather?). Most people here are pretty apathetic about politics generally, so maybe if someone comes into it with a bit of "charisma" then some people eagerly endorse them, probably without thinking much about the consequences. The media also like to jump on the bandwagon & report any rubbish that the person says, whatever the value. It becomes a matter of entertainment rather than politics.
Quote from: Conor71 on April 27, 2011, 03:39:05 PM
Its pretty sad and scary that Pauline Hanson is as popular as she is in Australia! :-\ - I definetely don't care for her either Sid! >:( :-X
Agreed 110% my friend...
Travelling by train and having someone sitting in front of me, WHO PERMANENTLY flips and folds pages of his newspaper. THIS is making me crazy. Also people eating expressively in the train.
Another no-no: People who are eating while they phone me.
(http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/7838/fuuuuuuu.png)
But I wouldn't say those are little things. They are existential.
Relatively few small things piss me off, but one that does, though I don't consider it very small, is people bringing dogs with them to public places. I'm talking places like malls, car dealerships, grocery stores (!), restaurants (!!), and even health care facilities (!!!). People who have legitimate need for service dogs are one thing, but most people who do this most certainly don't need service animals, and are instead profoundly selfish. Oh, I should throw in people who walk their dogs and don't clean up after them, particularly in places where dog excrement ought not to be. I'm thinking of the local elementary school grounds as a prime example. Such things are quite common where I live.
At a mom 'n pop sandwich place. All I want is chips and a sandwich. I've got drinks at home so I don't need to get one. So I make my order, let's say it comes out to 6 bucks. Later I found out that I was completely ripped off. I saw a sign on the counter afterwards that showed a combo deal, sandwich, chips, and drink. All for 5 bucks.
So it turns out that if I had ordered a drink, I would have ended up paying less money for more food. That's a sure way to lose a customer there. Especially for an non-chain restaurant that's competing with bigger places. I just didn't happen to see the sign. The cashier/owner really has to mention the special in a case like that. Screw these places with horrible service.
Quote from: The Six on May 05, 2011, 04:26:43 PM
So it turns out that if I had ordered a drink, I would have ended up paying less money for more food. That's a sure way to lose a customer there. Especially for an non-chain restaurant that's competing with bigger places.
Don't understand this. The situation is identical at McDonald's. Your main complaint seems to be that you didn't see the sign; next time, see the sign.
My complaint isn't that I didn't see the sign, it's that the cashier didn't tell me about the special when she knew I was effectively ripping myself off.
The sign was nowhere close to eye level, by the way. Not that it really matters.
I don't like it when the combo is cheaper either... my solution is to order a water to complete the combo.
1. Newscasts that focus more on the victims words of grief than on the event that caused the grief.
2. Weather news that constantly focuses on what to call the wind that blew everything away. A tornado? straight line wind? micro burst? I am more interested in the number of fatalities, injuries, destroyed home/businesses, damaged area size, etc.
3. Flood reports that stress how many feet above flood stage instead of describing the size of the area affected, number of homes inundated, number of people evacuated, etc.
4. Politicians who refuse to acknowledge or tackle the debt problem in the US.
5. Politicians who accept money from lobbyists.
6. Politicians.
Quote from: nimrod on May 05, 2011, 07:03:11 PM
1. Newscasts that focus more on the victims words of grief than on the event that caused the grief.
"So - your entire family was killed in front of you. How does that make you FEEL?"
So-called "journalists".
I've found another thing to piss me off... releasing exclusively on a format that died years ago, this would be like having a new movie come out today on hd-dvd:
[asin]B004FXLR78[/asin]
SACD, and not even hybrid!? What!?!?! ::)
Quote from: haydnfan on May 07, 2011, 06:27:51 AM
I've found another thing to piss me off... releasing exclusively on a format that died years ago, this would be like having a new movie come out today on hd-dvd:
[asin]B004FXLR78[/asin]
SACD, and not even hybrid!? What!?!?! ::)
SACD is not quite dead yet. It was not a commercial success but you can still buy new SACD releases and players with no difficulty. The claim that it is not a hybrid appears to be a listing error. On amazon.co.uk the same recording is listed as an SACD hybrid.
Well if it's just a listing error... then I take it back. But it raises another complaint: listing errors! ;D
People who whine fucking irritate me.
Quote from: Philoctetes on May 10, 2011, 05:04:17 PM
People who whine fucking irritate me.
Philo as a baby sitter "Spartan childen DO NOT WHINE!" <drop kicks 'em>
(http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/73/230x306/73314_gerard-butler-in-300.jpg)
;D
Quote from: Philoctetes on May 10, 2011, 05:04:17 PM
People who whine fucking irritate me.
Thank you.
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I hope you make a distinction between whining and bitching - bitching is super fun.
Quote from: Lethe Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on May 10, 2011, 05:25:25 PM
I hope you make a distinction between whining and bitching - bitching is super fun.
Absolutely! Without bitching, the world as we know it would cease to exist! :D
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Coming home from the library with a pile of books.
The subtle pressure of the pile demanding to be read in a timely fashion demotivates me from even trying to begin.
Quote from: Lethe Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on May 13, 2011, 04:05:49 AM
Coming home from the library with a pile of books.
The subtle pressure of the pile demanding to be read in a timely fashion demotivates me from even trying to begin.
I know that feeling, that's why (especially since my library is nearby) I only checkout two books at a time. :)
Driving 5 hours to celebrate someone in another town's birthday, and once there they all want to go out to a movie. Half of us just drove across the state to a new city, and we're going to see a movie that we could see in any theater?
Quote from: The Six on May 20, 2011, 01:02:28 PM
Driving 5 hours to celebrate someone in another town's birthday, and once there they all want to go out to a movie. Half of us just drove across the state to a new city, and we're going to see a movie that we could see in any theater?
That is absolutely retarded. What kind of celebration is that?? Hell what kind of reunion is that??
Well, it makes as much sense as going to a movie for a date. You might as well watch a DVD at home and turn up later.
When mp3 downloads don't include liner notes as a pdf... if you want to upgrade from little, consider that case for an opera!
Quote from: haydnfan on May 23, 2011, 07:57:42 PM
When mp3 downloads don't include liner notes as a pdf... if you want to upgrade from little, consider that case for an opera!
It's amazing how so many don't include something so elementary as a cover larger than a postage stamp. They're fine to put their DRM-free music for sale, but god forbid anybody try to step onto the intellectual property goldmine of their
cover art ::) The majors are especially ridiculous with this.
Quote from: Lethe Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on May 23, 2011, 08:12:08 PM
It's amazing how so many don't include something so elementary as a cover larger than a postage stamp. They're fine to put their DRM-free music for sale, but god forbid anybody try to step onto the intellectual property goldmine of their cover art ::) The majors are especially ridiculous with this.
This is the one of the things I admire about Chandos and Hyperion. Most of their recordings, not all of them, have a booklet you can download. Since I still buy CDs, I can view the liner notes before I receive the CD, which I don't know feels like cheating to me. :)
I have found something that pisses me off besides everything I said many pages ago: waiters/waitresses who don't put enough ice in my beverage! If I want iced tea, then this means I want it with ice, therefore, making the beverage cold. Usually, I have tell the waiter/waitress that I need more ice than what they put in the glass.
What I hate is too much ice in my drinks. I ordered a drink, not a cup full of ice! Stop trying to cheap me with this frozen water.
... and so, we see, there are two sides to every story.
Quote from: eyeresist on May 23, 2011, 09:52:19 PM
What I hate is too much ice in my drinks. I ordered a drink, not a cup full of ice! Stop trying to cheap me with this frozen water.
... and so, we see, there are two sides to every story.
Well you can always get refills. There's always three sides to every story. ;) :D
How about people living in studio apartments with multiple dogs and cats. I can understand having a little yorkie or a cat... but one of my classmates had two greyhounds. What a self-inflicted nightmare such a life would be!
Oh, one more thing (for now).
Smokers who talk about non-smokers complaining about second-hand smoke as if we're wining for trivial reasons. Health concern aside, the smell of cigarette smoke is not an attractive thing for those who don't smoke. Whatever inconvenience the smoker has to undertake, keeping your smoke away from non-smokers should be a moral obligation.
Quote from: Sandra on May 24, 2011, 01:28:59 AM
How about people living in studio apartments with multiple dogs and cats. I can understand having a little yorkie or a cat... but one of my classmates had two greyhounds. What a self-inflicted nightmare such a life would be!
Well, dog owners - say no more :P
What annoys me-- grass pollen irritating my eyes! >:(
What really sticks in my craw is: that Henning guy posting in Russian.
Oh, wait . . . .
That's one thing I don't miss about back east. By the end of the summer I was absolutely sick and tired of hearing the loud drone of the cicadas.
Can't teach a dog sense, of course . . . can only train him to obey. And who thinks of inculcating the command, "Don't eat the cicada, Rover!," eh?
Why is Xenakis' music better than cicada sounds?
You can stop the CD any time you want. ;D ;)
Quote from: Opus106 on May 26, 2011, 10:27:31 AM
Why is Xenakis' music better than cicada sounds?
You can stop the CD any time you want. ;D ;)
;D
people
Oh, I'm feelin' the love . . . .
Quote from: Leon on May 26, 2011, 10:22:36 AM
This is the 13-year kind - literally billions (according to some experts) have emerged from the ground and invade, in their clumsy manner, every living space. They fly into your eyes, stick to your ties and to add insult to injury, dogs eat them and then loose control of their bowels - often.
According to those same experts, it is a six week cycle of emergence, mating, egg-laying and death until in 13 years, this crop of doggie popcorn will come out of the ground.
Oh yeah I went through that first year I moved here. Hasn't happened since but that was 4 years ago so in 9 years... :)
Quote from: Opus106 on May 26, 2011, 10:27:31 AM
Why is Xenakis' music better than cicada sounds?
You can stop the CD any time you want. ;D ;)
Xenakis - every 13 years.
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 23, 2011, 09:57:38 PM
Well you can always get refills. There's always three sides to every story. ;) :D
Not in the UK, I am with the complaint. It is just a scam.
Mike
Quote from: snyprrr on November 15, 2010, 11:00:31 AM
ok, let me modify that
ahhh, caught myself before I was going to be mean! See, it does work. ;D
and no, I don't think the ambu is going to make an abrupt turn across the MEDIAN!!!!! Yes, people on the OTHER side of the road are pulling over. And that isn't the height of,... why do people do it? Because they are cowards afraid that someone will turn them in for even perceiving an infraction.
Surely, they are like the lady who complains to the school that her little precious could get hurt if there were balls on the recess court, so now, there are no balls at the school at all.
So, maybe I meant to say that panty-waists are part of the Little Things!
oooo,... my temperament will not allow me on this Thread. I can already feel the blood pressure.
You did not make clear until this post that you were thinking of a highway with a MEDIAN, and then you get mad at people and treat them with contempt for not being clairvoyant, when the real deficit is your own in not expressing you thoughts clearly. THAT'S one of the things that really tick me off.
Zdeněk Fibich pisses me off.
Do I really need another great sounding Czech late-Romantic composer to have to investigate? Stop it with all the composers! >:D
Quote from: knight66 on May 27, 2011, 05:28:52 AM
Not in the UK, I am with the complaint. It is just a scam.
Mike
You don't get free refills for drinks like Coke or ginger ale? I can understand not getting one for an alcoholic drink, but a Coke?
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 28, 2011, 07:52:42 AM
You don't get free refills for drinks like Coke or ginger ale? I can understand not getting one for an alcoholic drink, but a Coke?
Nope, no X number of free trims after an initial haircut either (I was surprised when a Canadian friend mentioned this) - we're a stingy nation :)
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 28, 2011, 07:52:42 AM
You don't get free refills for drinks like Coke or ginger ale? I can understand not getting one for an alcoholic drink, but a Coke?
Free refills is fairly common but it is far from universal even in the US. The thing that astonishes me are the enormous cups of soda people walk around with. 1000 calories of sugar water. No wonder the US is one of the rare countries in the world where life expectancy is decreasing.
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 28, 2011, 07:52:42 AM
You don't get free refills for drinks like Coke or ginger ale? I can understand not getting one for an alcoholic drink, but a Coke?
You must live in some magical land where carbonated beverages run like water. Elsewhere, you gots to pay for your drinks. Except water is legislated free in pubs.
Where we live is better than Africa, but it's far from magical! :D
Only in some fast food places do you get free refills- like McDonalds. If it's not the same in Europe, that's definitely something I didn't know!
McDonald's here used to give free refills of coffee; not Coke though. But that also has stopped. I was recently in Rome and here is part of the blog entry I made....
'We ate well and inexpensively, though the bug bear is coffee. Although regarding themselves as world leaders in coffee, for our taste it was never really hot, nor was there enough in the very modest size cups provided. As in many cities in Mediterranean Europe, stand at the bar and a coffee is almost free. But the tired tourist pays in pints of blood, or the throbbing credit card equivalent, for the need of rest in a chair instead of throwing it back standing at the counter. Sit down outside and you phone your bank to prepare an overdraft.'
These small coffees, (not espressos, just small), cost anything from 80 cents to 4 Euros 50 cents. The former if you stood up, the latter if you sat down outside. In Venice two years ago in a very ordinary cafe I was charged 10 Euros for two coffees sitting inside the place. I assume there was such a premium there because they did not have space outside to put chairs and therefore charge the usual outside top-up.
Mike
Quote from: Il Barone Scarpia on May 28, 2011, 08:59:27 AM
No wonder the US is one of the rare countries in the world where life expectancy is decreasing.
Never heard of that. What are your sources?
Quote from: Sandra on May 29, 2011, 11:39:26 PM
Never heard of that. What are your sources?
Overall life expectancy is increasing, but this is an average over a very disparate population.
Quote"There is now evidence that there are large parts of the population in the United States whose health has been getting worse for about two decades."
...
The majority of the counties that had the worst downward swings in life expectancy were in the Deep South, along the Mississippi River, and in Appalachia, extending into the southern portion of the Midwest and into Texas.
...
beginning in the 1980s, the best-off counties continued to improve but there was a stagnation or worsening of life expectancy in the worst-off counties
...
"life expectancy decline is something that has traditionally been considered a sign that the health and social systems have failed, as has been the case in parts of Africa and Eastern Europe. The fact that is happening to a large number of Americans should be a sign that the U.S. health system needs serious rethinking."
...
the stagnation and worsening mortality was primarily a result of an increase in diabetes, cancers and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, combined with a slowdown or halt in improvements in cardiovascular mortality. An increase in HIV/AIDS and homicides also played a role for men, but not for women.
The diseases that are responsible for this troubling trend seem to be most related to smoking, high blood pressure, and obesity.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080422103952.htm
Quote from: eyeresist on May 30, 2011, 12:16:02 AM
Overall life expectancy is increasing, but this is an average over a very disparate population.
Thank you. That's pretty sad, considering that medicine is advancing faster than ever and the number of smokers is dropping dramatically. Our health-care system must be exceptionally poor.
The problem with ice is it melts and waters down the drink. And I've read the ice is usually the dirtiest part of fast food, as the machines are rarely cleaned.
Quote from: Sandra on May 31, 2011, 03:30:25 AM
Thank you. That's pretty sad, considering that medicine is advancing faster than ever and the number of smokers is dropping dramatically. Our health-care system must be exceptionally poor.
Not wanting to get all political, but I imagine being on a low income would be much more anxiety-making in the US than other Western countries, most of which have a much stronger social safety net ("socialism!" >:D ), and this anxiety would in turn exacerbate hazardous behaviours like smoking and over-eating (though some might argue this is nature's way of eliminating the unemployment problem). For myself, I'd probably be dead if not for Australia's generous medicare system.
Quote from: The Six on May 31, 2011, 10:49:22 AM
The problem with ice is it melts and waters down the drink. And I've read the ice is usually the dirtiest part of fast food, as the machines are rarely cleaned.
You know I never thought about that... oh boy I think you're right I should demand "no ice!" everytime! Besides the drinks are already cold.
Quote from: eyeresist on June 01, 2011, 06:05:18 PM
Not wanting to get all political, but I imagine being on a low income would be much more anxiety-making in the US than other Western countries, most of which have a much stronger social safety net ("socialism!" >:D )
Well, yeah. Lack of affordable housing is the number one reason why people are homeless. I know two right now who were homeless for an extended time, despite having full-time jobs.
Quote from: Greg on June 01, 2011, 07:06:03 PM
I know two right now who were homeless for an extended time, despite having full-time jobs.
That is just nuts.
"We demand good medical care for the elderly and affordable housing but NO SICIALISM!"
Quote from: eyeresist on June 01, 2011, 06:05:18 PM
Not wanting to get all political, but I imagine being on a low income would be much more anxiety-making in the US than other Western countries, most of which have a much stronger social safety net ("socialism!" >:D ), and this anxiety would in turn exacerbate hazardous behaviours like smoking and over-eating (though some might argue this is nature's way of eliminating the unemployment problem). For myself, I'd probably be dead if not for Australia's generous medicare system.
Describe how it is in Australia. I'm curious.
Let's say you're a 20-something year old student with a job and no health insurance, and you get some kind of cancer, for example... The treatment costs 10s of thousands of dollars. So you walk in to the hospital. What happens then?
Our bizarre rules about what may and may not be seen and heard on U.S. television. During last night's telecast of the Met's Nixon in China, "goddamn" and "motherfuckers" were bleeped, and appeared in the subtitles as "***damn" and "mother******". Interestingly, given the title of this thread, they had no problem with "pissed", so I've corrected the title of my post. 8)
Of course, there was no problem in showing a depiction of the extreme violence of the Cultural Revolution.
IIRC correctly, the broadcast of the original Houston production did include the "goddamn", but the whole "We'll show the motherfuckers how to dance" line was cut.
Quote from: Sandra on June 02, 2011, 01:45:11 AM
Describe how it is in Australia. I'm curious.
Let's say you're a 20-something year old student with a job and no health insurance, and you get some kind of cancer, for example... The treatment costs 10s of thousands of dollars. So you walk in to the hospital. What happens then?
Assuming public hospital, you show them your medicare card and get treated. There may be a few hundred dollars to pay on top of the basic coverage. (Medicare covers essential treatments. Elective things (e.g. facelifts) you pay for yourself.)
To me this makes perfect economic sense. The prime asset of a nation is the health of its citizens, after all.
Quote from: eyeresist on June 01, 2011, 08:40:01 PM
That is just nuts.
Well, the thing I forgot to mention is that they had to pay child support. Without that, with a basic full time job (maybe a dollar an hour more than minimum wage) you'll be able to afford to rent a room and stay with someone, if you can find someone cheap enough.
Just out of curiosity, is it like this in Australia? When I read about the causes of homelessness in Australia, it ranked the leading causes being:
QuoteCauses according to the 2001 census
Domestic and family violence (22%)
Eviction/previous accommodation ended (11%)
Relationship/family breakdown (11%)
Usual accommodation unavailable (11%)
Financial Difficulty (10%)
While in the US:
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According to the United States Conference of Mayors,[5] the main cause is the lack of affordable housing.
The four next primary causes are:
mental illness or the lack of needed services,
substance abuse and lack of needed services.
low-paying jobs.
Government policy - Child support enforcement keeping drivers licenses from citizens and other civil rights violations.
Quote from: eyeresist on June 02, 2011, 05:50:05 PM
Assuming public hospital, you show them your medicare card and get treated. There may be a few hundred dollars to pay on top of the basic coverage. (Medicare covers essential treatments. Elective things (e.g. facelifts) you pay for yourself.)
To me this makes perfect economic sense. The prime asset of a nation is the health of its citizens, after all.
That must be nice... :-[
I don't know much about socialism. Is it just mainly middle class instead of a high class-low class system? I don't care about getting rich- just being comfortable financially would be good enough for me. If Australia is that way, I think I'd prefer that type of system.
Quote from: Greg on June 02, 2011, 07:14:56 PM
Well, the thing I forgot to mention is that they had to pay child support. Without that, with a basic full time job (maybe a dollar an hour more than minimum wage) you'll be able to afford to rent a room and stay with someone, if you can find someone cheap enough.
Just out of curiosity, is it like this in Australia? When I read about the causes of homelessness in Australia, it ranked the leading causes being:
While in the US:
I don't know much about socialism. Is it just mainly middle class instead of a high class-low class system? I don't care about getting rich- just being comfortable financially would be good enough for me. If Australia is that way, I think I'd prefer that type of system.
I don't know anything about homeless stats in Australia, and I don't know what compulsory child support payments are like either, sorry. I don't see how the system could be crazier than the US.
Re Socialism, the conservatives in the US have really confused the issue, by saying "Whenever the government helps people, THAT'S SOCIALISM!" (with the automatic connotation that it involves worshipping the devil, molesting children and undermining small business).
Australia is a capitalist economy, but the government provides support in terms of education, health, infrastructure, and welfare for unemployment, disability, sole parents, aged. This is pretty standard for modern Western countries. Note that the US government also does all this, but thanks to ideologues on both sides of politics the result is either pitifully under-resourced or made unworkable by red tape.
Quote from: eyeresist on June 02, 2011, 05:50:05 PM
Assuming public hospital, you show them your medicare card and get treated. There may be a few hundred dollars to pay on top of the basic coverage. (Medicare covers essential treatments. Elective things (e.g. facelifts) you pay for yourself.)
To me this makes perfect economic sense. The prime asset of a nation is the health of its citizens, after all.
Thank you. This sounds like it's something from Mars to me. I really hope they'll fix our system soon.
Quote from: eyeresist on June 02, 2011, 09:56:31 PM
I don't know anything about homeless stats in Australia, and I don't know what compulsory child support payments are like either, sorry. I don't see how the system could be crazier than the US.
Re Socialism, the conservatives in the US have really confused the issue, by saying "Whenever the government helps people, THAT'S SOCIALISM!" (with the automatic connotation that it involves worshipping the devil, molesting children and undermining small business).
Australia is a capitalist economy, but the government provides support in terms of education, health, infrastructure, and welfare for unemployment, disability, sole parents, aged. This is pretty standard for modern Western countries. Note that the US government also does all this, but thanks to ideologues on both sides of politics the result is either pitifully under-resourced or made unworkable by red tape.
Cool... yeah, I agree with Sandra. There just needs to be a few things worked out.
When a book is listed as available in the library's database, but when you go to the shelfing location it's not.
I'm pissed off by the horrid viewing angles on laptop screens. Antiglare screens are the worst, much worse than glossy screens.
Quote from: drogulus on March 29, 2012, 09:21:33 PM
I'm pissed off by the horrid viewing angles on laptop screens. Antiglare screens are the worst, much worse than glossy screens.
So true. I have to angle mine between 45 and 65.
I told Lenovo I wanted the ANTIGLARE SCREEN!! (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/Smileys/classic/angry.gif)
It's too bad because Lenovo made me a custom machine for $700. It's a 14"-er and looks and feels wonderful. Toshibas and Acers and HPs are like toys next to it. It's a Thinkpad, dammit!
I'm going to get the screen replaced. I'll take to the local shop and have an "antireflective" (glossy) screen installed.