Pet Peeves

[Meredith McKay 7,799]

Composing a whole ass cue in a dream, but forgetting it afterward.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[Mr. Hooper 4,953]

Composing music in my dreams, waking up and humming it into a recorder, playing it back, and realizing it's shit.

[Sweeping Strings 2,839]

Cyclists on the pavement/sidewalk are bad enough ... electric scooter-riders on it are worse. Want to try using your powered vehicle on the road instead, you pricks?    

[Jurassic Shark 14,827]

21 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:

Composing music in my dreams, waking up and humming it into a recorder, playing it back, and realizing it's shit.

 

Story of HanZ' life.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

Well, well, well. Hans.

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

Water bottles with the tiny cap lids. I'm not trying to save the environment with water bottles. With the amount of unrecyclable k-cups I've dumped into the Earth, it's clear I really don't give a shit. On some days if I'd had access to the doomsday switch from the end of Beneath the POTA, we'd all be in serious jeopardy. 

 

The water is filled all the way to the top and the tiny cap causes immediate spillage. In addition, there's almost always one incredibly resilient bit of plastic holding the cap to the bottle which you then need to use all your strength to remove, causing more spillage. I can never sip properly from it. I just end up spilling more water all over myself.

 

I got a bottle of Aquafina from a vending machine and it had a normal cap lid. Easy to open, easy to sip, no spillage.

[Mr. Hooper 4,953]

I remember when bottled water became a thing in the '90s. I don't know how we were ever convinced to buy water, when we had perfectly good drinking water at home we could fill a reusable bottle with.

 

Pros: convenience, for the ultra-lazy, or if stuck with no other option but a vending machine.

 

Cons: Costs money, pollutes the environment, you leach plastic particles into your body...and to top it off, the water (to me) often has a funny taste and isn't as tasty as (my) tap water.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

The water purists out there are the weirdest lot who need to get lives.

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

2 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:

I remember when bottled water became a thing in the '90s. I don't know how we were ever convinced to buy water, when we had perfectly good drinking water at home we could fill a reusable bottle with.

 

Pros: convenience, for the ultra-lazy, or if stuck with no other option but a vending machine.

 

Cons: Costs money, pollutes the environment, you leach plastic particles into your body...and to top it off, the water (to me) often has a funny taste and isn't as tasty as (my) tap water.

 

I'm not next to a water tap all day.

 

I'm just going to start buying Aquafina which has a normal cap.

 

As for microplastics in our bodies, we're already surrounded by plastic everywhere in everything and it's in all of us shrinking our taints and reducing our sperm counts.

[Tallguy 5,505]

On 21/05/2024 at 10:41 AM, Unlucky Bastard said:

People keep prefixing all their sentences and statements with "literally" as if they're scared everything they say will be mistaken for being a figure of speech. I wish people would grow some confidence in expressing themselves so they could avoid resorting to this redundancy.

 

Even worse, when they use it to prefix a clear figure of speech. "I was literally scared out of my skin!"

 

Then some moron decided to defend it by saying "speech evolves over time“!

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

Rucksacks, or backpacks, as they are know in some countries.

Why, no matter what you are trying to put in one of them, do they always conspire the fall forward?!

It gets on my tits.

[Tallguy 5,505]

4 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Rucksacks, or backpacks, as they are know in some countries.

Why, no matter what you are trying to put in one of them, do they always conspire the fall forward?!

It gets on my tits.

 

You're wearing it on the wrong side, then.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

It's not when I'm wearing it.

It happens when I put the rucksack down on a flat surface, and unzip it. It always wants to fall towards me.

I don't get it.

First world problems, I know, but it chaps my ass (and gets on my tits).

[Andy 5,874]

What are you putting in it? A laptop? 
 

Maybe you need a rucksack with a weightier bottom. 
 

Frost River Geologist Pack

 

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

That's a very nice piece of kit, but... $250?

Too rich for my blood.

No, no laptops in my backpack, just the usual (pens, pencils, cell phone, wallet, work papers, coins, mini-torch, etc.).

[Andy 5,874]

10 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

That's a very nice piece of kit, but... $250?

Too rich for my blood.

It’s the backpack used in Dial of Destiny. 
 

Strange.  So it’s leaning away from the straps and towards you? Maybe the straps aren’t heavy enough to counterbalance it?

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

Why is it so stupidly easy while mindlessly scrolling social media to accidentally comment, react or message someone when you're not even doing anything but scrolling with your thumb? A while back I accidentally ended up forwarding something to someone in a private message that I don't even know and I'm not even sure how it happened, and then I just blocked that person out of embarrassment. But I didn't even do anything.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

What makes people who drive an Audi, think that they own the fucking road???!!!

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

Why does Audi use the Olympic symbol as its logo?

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

On 20/07/2024 at 2:00 PM, Andy said:

It’s the backpack used in Dial of Destiny. 
 

Strange.  So it’s leaning away from the straps and towards you? Maybe the straps aren’t heavy enough to counterbalance it?

 

Not quite sure, but it's a common thing with me and rucksacks.

It's a bit like zippers. They hate me, and I hate them back. I've had so many decent items of clothing ruined because of faulty zippers.

[Richard P 4,736]

I love my hiking backpack because it doesn't use a zipper for the main compartment. Pretty much nothing to get overstressed and break.

 

In my world a zip has to be very high quality or you're heading for trouble.

[Jurassic Shark 14,827]

On 20/07/2024 at 2:48 PM, Naïve Old Fart said:

No, no laptops in my backpack, just the usual (pens, pencils, cell phone, wallet, work papers, coins, mini-torch, crowbar etc.).

 

Fixed.

 

On 20/07/2024 at 2:42 PM, Andy said:

What are you putting in it? A laptop? 
 

Maybe you need a rucksack with a weightier bottom. 
 

Frost River Geologist Pack

 

 

Why is it so low? I won't get an A4 sized book in there!

[Jurassic Shark 14,827]

On 20/07/2024 at 3:00 PM, Andy said:

It’s the backpack used in Dial of Destiny. 
 

 

Is this true? If so, feel free to gather the DoD fans of the forum to get me one for Christmas. 

[Andy 5,874]

Yeah it’s the exact one from DoD.  

[Mr. Hooper 4,953]

6 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

Is this true? If so, feel free to gather the DoD fans of the forum to get me one for Christmas. 

This one's too easy... I'm not biting. lol

[Jurassic Shark 14,827]

5 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:

This one's too easy... I'm not biting. lol

 

I'm sure you're going to give me a KotCS backpack!

[Andy 5,874]

Here you can see the difference between the DoD and KotCS backpack.  Frost River sells the Geologist Pack in an Artifact edition without their leather brand patch so it’s movie accurate. 
 

 

 

[Jurassic Shark 14,827]

13 minutes ago, Andy said:

Here you can see the difference between the DoD and KotCS backpack.  Frost River sells the Geologist Pack in an Artifact edition without their leather brand patch so it’s movie accurate. 
 

 

 

 

Which one's your favourite?

[Andy 5,874]

I don’t own the KotCS one, so I can’t really compare.   I know you can get them much cheaper though, and it looks taller for people who need laptop room or whatever.  Here is a replica of it, which was a postwar German rucksack.   Link below. 
 

KOTCS Style Backpack

 

Oh and one thing of interest… if you want it to be movie accurate, you have to add a leather patch of “HJ”, which I presume is for Henry Jones.  There are people who make them in the Indy Gear community. 
 

 

[Mr. Hooper 4,953]

Bad movie theatre etiquette...

 

I somehow almost always get a seat-kicker behind me—no matter how much fucking leg room they're given.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

On 08/08/2024 at 3:32 AM, Andy said:

Here you can see the difference between the DoD and KotCS backpack.  Frost River sells the Geologist Pack in an Artifact edition without their leather brand patch so it’s movie accurate. 
 

 

 

 

What brand is the jacket?

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

Wested Leather

[Meredith McKay 7,799]

Spiders.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

4 hours ago, The Great Gonzales said:

Spiders.

They annoy you, or do you have arachnophobia?

[Meredith McKay 7,799]

2 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

They annoy you, or do you have arachnophobia?

Mildly, I can't look at one up close without getting the crawlies.

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

How everything is now locked up in stores due to *censored*. I can't even go out of my way to nicer areas and find a store that doesn't require an escort anymore. My favorite Albertson's now looks like the Gringott's vault inside. I still like to walk around a store and grab all my toiletries and things without having to ask for help unlocking doors. It used to just be the razors, so I started ordering those through Amazon. Now, I'm at a point where stores have become so un-shoppable that I'm probably going to start having everything delivered in Amazon boxes, which will probably be targeted by porch pirates, and that will be the next thing.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

That's already started. People complaining everywhere about verandah thieves. You can invest in a CCTV system, but chances are they'll steal that too.

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

Google is generally a disaster but it's also the most robust search engine that I'm aware of so we're stuck with it. One of the dumbest things they've integrated is Facebook and Instagram results for image searches.

 

 

Though highly desirable from the thumbnail, they are always low-res crappy images or videos (??) as seen here that require you to launch Facebook or Instagram, which I don't want to do while I'm image searching the net. Then, if possible, separately bring up the image on Facebook, which is compressed and I can't save, or blah blah blah.

 

These results clutter the image search results. I don't consider Facebook or Instagram websites, but rather social media platforms. Get these results out of here.

[Meredith McKay 7,799]

If they are actually desirable, you can use extract.pic to get the actual image in the highest res possible.

 

Obviously if you don't want them there at all, you are definitely screwed unfortunately.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

I send them to my WhatsApp and save them from there.

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

I don't know how to do any of that shit

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

I hate computers...

[Meredith McKay 7,799]

23 minutes ago, Unlucky Bastard said:

I hate computers...

5 hours ago, Brock Lovett said:

Google is generally a disaster but it's also the most robust search engine that I'm aware of so we're stuck with it. One of the dumbest things they've integrated is Facebook and Instagram results for image searches.

 

 

Though highly desirable from the thumbnail, they are always low-res crappy images or videos (??) as seen here that require you to launch Facebook or Instagram, which I don't want to do while I'm image searching the net. Then, if possible, separately bring up the image on Facebook, which is compressed and I can't save, or blah blah blah.

 

These results clutter the image search results. I don't consider Facebook or Instagram websites, but rather social media platforms. Get these results out of here.

If you put -site:instagram.com and/or -site:facebook.com those results should be excluded from Google searches.

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

Put it where?

[Meredith McKay 7,799]

15 minutes ago, John Dutton said:

Put it where?

In the Google search, right after your query, so as in your example:

 

Susanna Hoffs sexy -site:facebook.com -site:instagram.com

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

That's too much work! I know I sound like a retard, but we used to just put the search in and be good, which by the way was Susanna Hoffs Sexy specifically. 

[Meredith McKay 7,799]

You're right! oops.

 

You might also try Yandex

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

So... I'm in Boots (yes, good JWfaners, I'm on the mainland for a well-deserved break) and I've got some stuff - you know: shower gel; toothpaste, the usual bumf - and I get to the till, and there's someone there tapping away at a Tablet, or similar, and they turn to me and say that I need to use the self-checkout. Bear in mind that I am the only person in the line. There isn't anyone else around.

I was so utterly flabbergasted that I put the stuff down, said: "No, thank you", and left.

Do people actually want to serve the public, these days,or are we like clichés, to be avoided like the plague? Is it asking too much for a real live human being to help me to complete my purchase?

Do any of y'all get the same treatment where you are?

 

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

Shopping in person is a big risk these days. In the states, they're locking everything up and turning the stores into a big vault that requires an attendant. But the customer service has also steadily declined overall since the 2000s. Back then, Millennials would act annoyed when I went into their boutique to try on nice jeans or expensive tees. Now that behavior seems commonplace. They seem annoyed you're even there to potentially give them business. I'm not a boomer who will want to speak to their manager and threaten to never shop there again. Really, I'm the least of their problems and they even treat me like a God damn criminal when I walk in the door. The checkout lines are too long, it's like they don't want you to buy anything. Shopping sucks now.