What's bugging you? (2012)

[TooLiveBrew]

Facebook in general bugs the heck out of me.

Yeah, I actually thought Hammer's comment about 6th grade-caliber stuff described pretty well why I don't like Facebook as a whole.

[RockCoCougars]

I'm back with another one. Just read the sad story regarding the likely drowning of the student from Point on his 21st. All the 'serial killer' theorists are already out in full force again. Newsflash.... college-aged guys drinking to the point of blacking out (especially on their 21st) is not uncommon on a campus, going further, young men do not practice the 'buddy system' as well as women of this age. When I lived both on and off campus back in the day, it was not uncommon at all to see 'lone wolf' drunken young men staggering around.

 

To me, it's a simple equation... blackout drunk guys + a feeling of invincibility + water (especially ice leading to open water) = death. Lord knows where I would have ended up the night I became 'legal' drinking age without a friend escorting me home. After about 8 o'clock that evening, all that I could remember the next day were brief flashes, and then nothing after a certain time.

[Blancofan1]

So my wife gets home from work tonight and I notice that she has her high beams on as she pulls into the driveway. Curious, I ask her about it when she gets in the house and both of her headlights burned out in the past couple of days. She had let me know on Saturday that one had burned out so I planned to stop and pick up a replacement today, but I forgot on my way home and didn't want to run back to FleetFarm to get it.

 

Now that both lights won't work unless on bright, I had to run in an pick up replacements and as I go to install them I actually found the receipt in my toolbox from the last time I replaced her lights. It was on Aug. 15th of last year!! I knew that I changed them fairly recently, but realizing that it had barely been 6 months did not make me very happy. She drives some backroads between Stevens Point and Wausau everyday, so I had bought the extra bright halogen lights last time and bought the same ones again tonight. Needless to say, these will be returned and she will get the basic standard bulbs as I refuse to spend $30 on headlights every 6-7 months. I understand the brighter halogens have a shorter lifetime than standard bulbs, but 6 months is ridiculous.

[1992casey]

A car used the bike lane to pass me yesterday despite the fact that I was going approximately the 30 MPH speed limit. (Based on the electronic radar signs, I may have been going 28.)

[Teatoe993]

Blancofan.... make sure that you do not touch the glass bulb with your skin. That will cause the bulb to prematurely fail. You can only touch the metal areas.

[CheezWizHed]

My manager finally quit a few weeks ago because of all the crap he was dealing with from his boss and our department. He was constantly pointing out that we are chronically understaffed. And constantly chastised when we failed to meet a deadline.

 

So now I'm left to deal directly with his boss. I have a project that will account for about 30% our yearly sales. And I have yet to staff my project for anyone more than myself (our group is about 20 people). I had 4 identified areas to gain resources and each one of them has come up as a dead end.

 

The last one was a contractor that I know and worked with. My former-boss's boss had negotiated this guy to work on the team, but failed to follow through with a contract, so they reassigned him.

[giffted1]

"The Cloud" buzzword.

 

It's space on some server for your music and videos. Whoop de freakin' doo.

[1992casey]

"The Cloud" bothers me too. Avoiding capitalization and referring to "cloud storage" bugs me less. I guess saying "cloud" is more efficient than saying "space on some server" though.

[DatHoser]

Just the latest buzzword for corporate uppities to think they're on the forefront of technology. It's just another example of giving up direct control of something to save a few bucks - not like that's ever backfired before

[NievesNoNO]

Yes, "Cloud" sounds much prettier than "you can put your stuff on our server and pay us for it".

[RightFieldCoder]

I like the new commercial bragging that they were empty the server room. Charles Barkley (being an expert in computers and all) asked what happened to all the data on the servers. "They're on the cloud!". So the data is still on a server, just on a server somewhere else that you don't control. That sounds like a great idea, especially if you care about security, redundancy, backups, etc.

[Nottso]

Hyperbole. Just say no to buzzwords.

[TURBO]

Paying close to $1500 for new shocks and struts, new brakes on all 4 corners, and a new battery, which I could have just replaced myself, but since I was already in for $1400, I just let them do it.

 

Oh well, the Aura should be good to go for a while anyway...

[pitchleague]

The wife ran over a piece of metal this morning and punctured one of the tires on our main vehicle. That's not what bugs me, as it could happen to anybody.

 

What bugs me is that this happened on Sunday instead of earlier in the week (while I was on VACATION) and could easily have got it replaced. Now I have to try and get this done during the work week which is just aggravation. Plus, I really was trying to wait until summer to replace those tires. Oh, well.

[1992casey]

Get a used tire and hold out until summer for the more costly replacement.

[CheezWizHed]

More on cloud:

http://iangotts.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/dilbert-cloud.png

http://www.tissuepathology.com/.a/6a00e009846ac18833016763aead6c970b-500wi

[NeedMoreFans]

Wasps love my house, and they are now out, looking for places to nest. They are out of reach of my spray that I have. This bugs me.

[Patrick425]

I hate it when I go to a sporting event (or any spectator event) and I get to my seat 30-60 minutes before the event is going to start and then there is a person 1 or two rows in front of me that also has arrived at the event early and decides that he/she is going to just stand there until the event starts. I realize nothing is going on yet (althought sometimes there is something like batting practice, etc), but I really don't want to sit there and stare at this persons backside for 30 minutes. What is the deal? You have a seat, take it!

 

This is just one example out of many I see on a daily basis of people just being completely oblivious to anyone around them.

[JimH5]

The following commercials bug me:

 

Speed Stick guy playing poker who is talking to himself about betting the rent money.

 

Golden Corral woman taking her friends to a pricey seafood restaurant, and instead, they jump and roll out of the moving car.

 

MLB 2K12 video game: Kate Upton asking "Randy Johnson" (Justin Verlander) if he has any words of wisdom.

 

 

These ads run constantly on the MLB channel, and I've seen enough. Make new ones.

[GAME05]

between work, i had planned about two days off to pack up and move across country early next week already. i had a place lined up for a six-month term, and just yesterday he emails me saying that now i won't be able to stay there past May. ironic that he told me earlier that he was worried about potential renters flaking out on him, but now he's effectively doing the same thing.

 

now i have to frantically find a new place to live. i might have a bite already, but it'll mean a female being comfortable enough to take on a male roommate who she doesn't know.

 

i suppose if i had the legal gumption, i could force him to let me stay there the entire six months, since it's all agreed to on email. if this prospective roommate declines, i may very well push for this, or at least demand that if i can only stay for two months, then my rent should be deeply reduced for my troubles.

 

edit: i told the landlord to stick his finger in his nose. if the next place declines, i guess i'll visit the siblings and parents for a few weeks until i can find a different apartment. more expensive with money i don't have, though.

[CheezWizHed]

The following commercials bug me:

 

You had me at "commercials"...

[rwa12]

The following commercials bug me:

 

Golden Corral woman taking her friends to a pricey seafood restaurant, and instead, they jump and roll out of the moving car.

 

 

I would like to predict that next years' version of the swine flu will have it's origins traced back to the Golden Corral Chocolate Fountain. The ultimate cesspool of snotty hands and the unwashed masses. Eating out of that thing is like drinking the bathwater of strangers.

[1992casey]

I believe I posted this earlier, but a typical serving spoon in a buffet restaurant has more bacteria than a typical toilet seat. So yeah, the chocolate fountain would fit into that. If you're eating at a buffet, using hand sanitizer before, during, and after would seem to be in order.

[splitterpfj]

Real Housewives bugs the heck out of me.

[Nottso]

Bah! Everything bugs me. I'm a cranky old man.