Frequently hated things from #tfug, #fgij, #clanam, etc.... in no particular order ... |
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| Number | Hater | Hated |
| 1 | Fear_cult | the sun |
| 1 | Ginsu_Squirrel | this stupid chatroom |
| 1 | Waffmula | Laptop repair guy getting his car towed with the parts in it |
| 1 | gsmith | Dry, tired eyeballs |
| 1 | jdr | Having the perfect house sold as we start to write up a contract with the our agent |
| 1 | roosterx | people who keep logs |
| 1 | superbenk | Jury duty |
| 2 | roosterx | people who keep hate logs |
| 2 | tottinge | the assumption that all handheld computer users use windoze. |
| 3 | roosterx | people who keep archival logs |
| 3 | superbenk | CANKER SORES!!!!!!! |
| 3 | superbenk | quot;Running with the Devil" by Van Halen |
| 3 | tottinge | quot;Van Hagar" |
| 4 | superbenk | Van Halen |
| 5 | tottinge | Microsoft. |
| 6 | tottinge | That criswell's 'i hate' script doesn't automatically svn up! |
| 7 | criswell | Scheduling time for my computer to be taken down for the CD to be replaced by the sysadmins, and them doing it waaay after work leaving my computer off and all my project cronjobs un-run. |
| 8 | tottinge | People who immediately think that python's "significant whitespace" means that columns are significant. |
| 8 | tottinge | one more thing before I'm done |
| 9 | tottinge | non-resizable windows -- which means most of Windows as written by Microsloths. |
| 10 | tottinge | stupid jerks who think that having a modal window opens means you shouldn't have the ability to move or resize the window under it. |
| 12 | criswe1l | Fucking dry cookies. |
| 12 | criswe1l | This http://wiki.python.org/moin/ConfigParserShootout |
| 12 | jdr | webpages with links that when clicked shrink your entire browser to 400x400 |
| 12 | superbenk | Command syntaxes that seem like they work but in fact did nothing at all. |
| 12 | superbenk | Lack of friggin AC outlets!!! |
| 13 | criswe1l | Dry fucking cookies. |
| 13 | superbenk | People who hog the one table on the patio that's near the AC outlet |
| 14 | superbenk | Laptop screens that are impossible to read in natural light |
| 16 | criswell | People with two first names. |
| 17 | criswell | Purse phone calls. |
| 17 | tottinge | hardware and content who work like the devil to make sure people can't use their products. |
| 19 | gsmith | A colon full of steaming black beans |
| 20 | tottinge | Java. |
| 21 | tottinge | Enterprise Java |
| 22 | tottinge | Java Beans |
| 23 | criswel1 | All the freaking work and suggested work on the hate list generator. |
| 23 | tottinge | Jakarta project and all their worthless inbred documents, where you have to know everything in order to read about anything. |
| 23 | tottinge | That when you use threaded display and have a collapsed conversation and you highlight and delete it, it only drops the head of the conversation. You have to open it and highlight all the messages to kill them. |
| 24 | aargh | Laptop manufacturers who won't sell without spanking Bill Gate's monkey |
| 24 | tottinge | Frameworks. |
| 28 | criswell | The fact that 'c' and 'v' are so close on the keyboard that I often type 'mc' instead of 'mv'. |
| 29 | criswell | Fucking snow. |
| 30 | tottinge | quot;writing programs" tutorials which really only tell you which buttons to press in some overblown ide in order to have it write the program for you. Badly. |
| 30 | tottinge | writing programs" tutorials which really only tell you which buttons to press in some overblown ide in order to have it write the program for you. Badly. |
| 32 | criswell | The fact that the friggin "Insert" key is right next to "Home" and "Delete" |
| 33 | superbenk | Hate-klutzes |
| 34 | superbenk | Minnesota accents |
| 39 | Lancer_Koal | RPM |
| 44 | superbenk | April Fools news articles |
| 44 | tottinge_ | sissy colors being auto-chosen for me in xchat. |
| 45 | criswell | Fucking tofu eating Jedi. |
| 45 | superbenk | Forgetting things |
| 45 | tottinge | People who give their kids titles as first names "Major", "Senator", "Captain" |
| 45 | tottinge_ | forgetting to turn on logging when I generate an i hate message. |
| 48 | Lancer_Koala | waking up at the ass-crack of dawn to go to the airport |
| 54 | gsmith | Socks that creep |
| 55 | criswe11 | Creeps that sock |
| 57 | Lancer_Koal | Daylight Savings Time. You can't call it "standard time" if it is only in effect 4 months per year |
| 58 | superbenk | When people assume because you work with computers you know/like Windows. |
| 59 | superbenk | When people see I work in IT and think I can help them with ALL their computer problems. |
| 61 | criswell | Forgetting that I commented something out in the build process for debugging purposes and then spending an hour debugging why the damned build stopped when it did. |
| 62 | jdr | Taxes, and the stupid incomprehensible forms and regulations that accompany them |
| 63 | jdr | Commercial product info sites that don't have a price list |
| 63 | jdr | paying some one to do something that should be free like filing your taxes |
| 65 | tottinge | That "sneaky gene" that makes cats do really stupid and potentially hazardous things without forethought. |
| 67 | criswell | Having to be the only one who ever comes up with fun scripts |
| 67 | criswell | Having to be the only one who ever comes up with fun scripts" |
| 68 | criswell | When automatic things aren't automatic |
| 77 | superbenk | saggy socks |
| 81 | criswell | The fact that Amarok is so cool. |
| 82 | criswell | The fact that RPM depends on non-free software and probably violates its own license. |
| 83 | jdr | Windows Messenger and its @!%$ing insistance on starting up even though it claims to not be installed! |
| 84 | jdr | Windows Autoupdate |
| 85 | jdr | service packs |
| 87 | criswell | Little fake plastic grass in store bought sushi packs. |
| 87 | superbenk | JavaScript page hit counters |
| 88 | Lancer_Koala | Making a fresh pot of coffee, and then realizing I'm out of cream |
| 89 | criswell | When a "Thangs that kack ass" comment gets onto the Things I Hate list.... |
| 92 | Koala | Dying harddrives |
| 92 | Lancer_Koala | Computers |
| 92 | criswell | When someone says something is extreme when it's not |
| 92 | gsmith | Phone trees that leave the most likely option to the last choice |
| 92 | superbenk | People in the office that whistle to the radio! |
| 93 | superbenk | People who giggle on the phone in *my* office |
| 97 | superbenk | The little hair clippings stuck in my ears after getting a haircut |
| 99 | tottinge | FBI/Interpol warnings that if I use the movie *I* bought, they'll throw me in prison or take all my money. |
| 100 | tottinge | FBI/Interpol warnings on kids movies -- don'tcha threaten my kids!!! |
| 101 | tottinge | Companies who name all their technologies in such a way that google responds by spitting the whole internet at you (COM, .net, etc) |
| 101 | tottinge | when some jerk (disney) uses the no-forward/nomenu flag (disney) to play a crapload (disney) of previews. Jerks. |
| 104 | Lancer_Koala | That error messages in Linux are starting to resemble error messages in Windows in their level of informativeness |
| 114 | jdr | a leaky seam in your paper coffee cup |
| 119 | superbenk | Tucson, heat, missing winters, lack of safe standing water (all of the above). |
| 123 | Ginsu_Squir | Wordpress themes with really crappy colors |
| 123 | Ginsu_Squirrel | Wordpress themes with really crappy colors |
| 125 | criswell | Finding a carrot in a bag of carrots that is shaped like a turd |
| 128 | criswell | Cheetle on my fingers. |
| 132 | Koal | Random power outages and UPS's with no battery life. |
| 132 | Koala | Random power outages and UPS's with no battery life. |
| 132 | criswell | Stupid Carmel idiots who do shit like this http://www.fox28.com/News/index.php?ID=29189 |
| 133 | superbenk | Listening to accountants talk financial crap |
| 143 | jdr | Forgetting my cell phone at home and not having access to all the contacts stored in it |
| 152 | aargh | People who have colorful flowery patterns on the background of their e-mails and a bright magental comic sans font for text |
| 161 | aargh | websites that have "open links in new window" for NO good reason |
| 164 | jdr | Programs that produce useful graphical output but have no way to save the output except the copy/paste buffer resulting in horrible aliased images |
| 171 | criswell | Lite Yogurt |
| 172 | criswell | Non-video video game reviews... I was elected to *LEAD* not to *READ*. |
| 172 | criswell | Promised speed increases between version differences of an app (BZR) that aren't delivered |
| 172 | criswell | Snot |
| 172 | criswell | The phrase "Man-Cave." |
| 172 | criswell | When some dork lets me cast raise on them when they don't need it, and it wastes my MP.... |
| 172 | superbenk | Lack of Lite Yogurt when I'm HUNGRY! |
| 173 | jdr | My credit card company calling me to try to sign me up for 'free' stuff that will cost me $8.99 per month, and then getting mad at me for turning down the 'free' offer |
| 175 | tottinge | programming editors that can only show one file at a time. |
| 182 | criswell | Replying to someone in IRC with something lengthy only to have their connection time out immediately after. |
| 182 | criswell | When I ask for input on work project X and yet no one gives me any for 24+ hours... |
| 182 | criswell | When there's a handyman in your house working on the bathroom and you have to drop a Count Dooku. |
| 182 | criswell | When website pages start with "Hey Friend!" |
| 182 | criswell | When you meet people with really cool names in person, and they ultimately are very ordinary and boring... |
| 182 | criswell | Widely placed NM placeholders that wont sit still so I can watch them out of the corner of my eye! |
| 182 | criswell | bbaker |
| 186 | criswe1l | People who make kernel modules that aren't available as a patch against the stock kernel. |
| 187 | criswe1l | People who don't keep version histories telling what the difference between their module is from upstream. |
| 187 | superbenk | Various tech blogs/news sites that just recycle the exact same stories from everywhere else to compose 75% of their content |
| 188 | criswe1l | ware. |
| 189 | Lancer_Koal | Stupid fscking touchpads.. especially if its offcenter from the keyboard such that to comfortably type, you constantly hit it with the heel of your hand |
| 189 | Lancer_Koala | Stupid fscking touchpads.. especially if its offcenter from the keyboard such that to comfortably type, you constantly hit it with the heel of your hand |
| 189 | criswell | When someone is in an unhealthy relationship with someone (wife, mother, husband, whatever), refuses to get out of it, and then complains about it. |
| 192 | Lancer_Koala | nerim.net/debian-marillat refusing connections if you apt-get update twice in a row (i.e. right after making a change in sources.list) |
| 192 | criswell | Breakfasts that taste REALLY good but are too small and leave you wanting more. |
| 192 | criswell | In Firefox you can "View Source Chart" in a new tab, but when you "View Page Source" it's ALWAYS in a new window, with no option for embedding. |
| 192 | criswell | In Firefox you can "View Source Chart" in a new tab, but when you "View Page Source" it's ALWAYS in a new window, with no option for embedding. |
| 192 | criswell | Sneezing fits. |
| 192 | criswell | Yaz commercials. |
| 193 | Lancer_Koala | unofficial debian archives that don't link unstable to sid |
| 193 | superbenk | Breakfasts that taste really good but make you wish you hadn't eaten them afterwards. |
| 200 | tottinge | quot;Is Linux Ready " articles |
| 201 | tottinge | quot;Linux Is Ready" articles |
| 205 | bbaker | Jalapeno pepper stems in my sub! |
| 217 | Lancer_Koala | New shirts with so many fricken pins in them that you don't find them all until later that day when one stabs you in the neck |
| 219 | Lancer_Koala | Mosquitos in Arizona.. they're not normal mosquitos, they're some kind of super mosquito with powers of invisability and a wicked bite |
| 231 | paranoid_android | Idiots who send attachments in MS Word/Excel of something that can be sent in plain text, simply because they wanted the frickin' company logo in WordART displayed prominently |
| 238 | criswe11 | Stupid laptop NIC dongles. |
| 257 | superbenk | Car dealership service depts. that call me with recorded messages about stupid service deals that I'm due for |
| 261 | jdr | Trying to find the menu item that lets you set axis ranges in OOo charts |
| 262 | criswell | Losing code that I've written, and then needing it again. |
| 281 | criswell | When conference calls are cancelled and no one tells me. |
| 283 | criswell | When it's raining men! *BOOM* Hallelujah! |
| 291 | criswell | Running out of hard drive space |
| 292 | criswell | Sitting at work for two and a half hours with your fly open. |
| 293 | superbenk | Watching someone sit at work for two and a half hours with their fly open. |
| 298 | criswe1l | People who use "buh" in place of "but" in IRC. |
| 298 | criswe1l | People who use "buh" in place of "but" in IRC. |
| 301 | tabke | crunchy toilet paper |
| 302 | tottinge | Important" movies. |
| 323 | superbenk | When people say they are "creating a trac" when they mean they are "creating a trac *ticket*" |
| 327 | criswell | SuSE, and the fact that everything useful is *NOT* in it... |
| 341 | bbaker | When you send an email asking a question & they respond with without addressing the question, but with something total unrelated. |
| 342 | criswe11 | Hate-O-Meter scripts that are dumb |
| 345 | superbenk | End of line nonsense from people's stupid email clients (ie, "=20" a the end of each line) |
| 351 | criswell | Phantom drips of food in my beard that turn out not to have happened when I go to clean them up... |
| 361 | criswell | Fucking robotic, supposedly voice-recognizing, automated call centers.... "Tell me what problem you're having?" ... "I'm sorry, I didn't catch that" GAH! |
| 361 | criswell | Not being able to cut & paste easily from host system to virtual system. |
| 361 | criswell | When my wife is home sick and makes a stinky-ass lunch that smells up the entire house. |
| 367 | Lancer_Koala | MS's arbitrary and inconsistant use of capitalization in filenames |
| 368 | criswell | Working on "work" things at 11:14pm.... |
| 371 | criswell | Doing a pull, having outstanding changes I didn't notice, then doing a commit with a "merge" message that winds up attaching to my outstanding changes instead of an actual merge |
| 371 | criswell | When packages don't include sample rc/configuration files in their doc directory, only in the man page, which makes copying/pasting them into new files that much more difficult... |
| 391 | criswell | Going through a buglist of a few hundred bugs to prioritize them when 90% of them I know nothing about |
| 391 | criswell | People who upload music/audio to Archive.org's Open Source Audio directory and then don't indicate a license or copyright for it |
| 391 | jdr | Cordless phones with short lived batteries, that start beeping at you 20 minutes into a conversation |
| 402 | Koala | Wallops. |
| 412 | criswe1l | Customers that think it's okay to mix and match packages from arbitrary RPM-based distributions |
| 412 | criswe1l | Tiny little connectors that look like other tiny little connectors but really aren't |
| 415 | superbenk | Forums that make you login to view attachments |
| 418 | criswell | Having two mugs in front of me, one containing Tea from this morning, the other containing Tea from earlier in the week, and picking up the older one to drink because I'm too busy working... |
| 421 | aargh | Ascii characters that don't let you output cool symbols |
| 421 | criswell | Open Source projects that are big enough to have "documentation teams" |
| 421 | criswell | When I'm WFH, my wife is home sick, and I step out to take a shower or use the restroom and I come back to find her using the computer with a dozen fucking browser windows open, me logged out of all my web apps, and the system left in a state where I have to spend 15 minutes trying to get it back to where it was BEFORE she started fucking with my shit |
| 422 | superbenk | When someone replies to a specific question with advice on a completely different way of doing something rather than actually answering the question and assuming that the person asking the question may very well have had good reasons for doing it the way they were to begin with. |
| 432 | superbenk | Droopy socks |
| 451 | criswell | Trying to remember to take pills that you're supposed to take more than once per day. |
| 452 | criswe1l | Going back to "clean" code up, only to wind up both cleaning it AND breaking it. |
| 452 | criswe1l | Going back to "clean" code up, only to wind up both cleaning it AND breaking it. |
| 452 | criswe1l | Those horrible little plastic covers they put over the tabs on ethernet cables. |
| 452 | with | |
| 453 | criswell | When people use my Hate-O-Meter to inject their pages for Google-rank |
| 454 | criswell | Sam Rulez http://www.samhart.com/ |
| 455 | superbenk | When the guy who owns http://www.superk.org does the same thing the guy who posted #454 |
| 456 | superbenk | tabke's stupid paranoia |
| 458 | schultmc | Automatically closing CD drives |
| 461 | criswell | The fact that I haven't figured out how to cut & paste between VirtualBox and the normal desktop |
| 471 | criswell | That Ubuntu has the slickest installation experience in all of Linuxdom. |
| 472 | criswell | The phrase "updated resume". Bitch, if you have my resume, it's the update resume! |
| 481 | Koala | waiting for moderator aproval on a post because you accidently hit 'send' before your mailing-list-join confirmation went through |
| 481 | criswe1l | When I type a word so much in code that I start to question whether it's spelled correctly or even a real word. |
| 487 | superbenk | When someone else gets a ticket which specifically says they're getting the ticket because I'm too swamped and then that other person comes to me with every little question about the ticket and I essentially end up doing it :P |
| 488 | criswell | When someone else gets a ticket which specifically says they are getting the ticket because the ticket is then swamped under the first ticket that I had when my grandmother's ticket is pulled from a hat and is the ticket for the Petty concert I wanted to go to but my ticket had a triple 'A' on it indicating I was on the 'No Fly List' and then the second ticket (which was the first if you are counting) was called a liberty cabbage. |
| 491 | criswell | People who mix tab characters with spaces for indentation |
| 491 | criswell | People who use tab characters instead of spaces for indentation |
| 534 | superbenk | Facial hair |
| 535 | criswell | Fecal hair |
| 536 | superbenk | Dead IRC channels |
| 537 | superbenk | RSS feeds that don't include summary text from the article they link to (superbenk glares at CNN.com) |
| 540 | superbenk | People who can't remember their own usernames for logging into the network. |
| 541 | superbenk | People who call me on the phone with web changes rather than emailing them so I won't lose/forget wtf they want me to fix. |
| 542 | superbenk | People. |
| 543 | criswel1 | superbenk |
| 544 | superbenk | criswel1 |
| 546 | superbenk | Fresh installs on a *POKEY* Internet connection |
| 546 | superbenk | Mistyping crap when I'm pissy |
| 547 | criswel1 | Pissing crap while I'm mistyping |
| 547 | superbenk | Copying a DVD image from NFS over WLAN only to loose connection at 97%. |
| 547 | superbenk | criswel1 when I mistype crap and am pissy |
| 548 | work_superk | People making popcorn mid-morning when I'm starving and trying to save my lunch for... well, lunch. |
| 550 | superbenk | The inability to kick Ginsu_Squirrel's ass over IRC. |
| 551 | superbenk | When researchers expect everyone else to just know what something is by looking at it just because they do. Matching images to items based solely on their appearance and a name (filename is useless) is annoying. |
| 555 | Ginsu_Squirrel | you guys not making any sense |
| 555 | tottinge | DRM |
| 555 | work_superk | People who say "Hows Comes" ... wtf is that? |
| 556 | superbenk | Microsoft Exchange |
| 557 | work_superk | When moving a folder with the same name as another folder in the destination directory overwrites the destination folder rather than appending to it's contents. |
| 558 | superbenk | Just getting into a cool project and starting to really learn it then being bombarded with crap work. |
| 559 | superbenk | Every single electronic device requires it's own proprietary AC adapter... why can't they just use a set of standard plugs for varying power levels and be done with it!? |
| 559 | superbenk | Having an awsome idea that *should* be super easy to implement only to trip and stumble over oneself's own ignorance of the tool used to implement said idea. |
| 600 | tottinge | Technical support people who don't know that Linux is an operating system. |
| 601 | superbenk | When software doesn't tell you what key you used to register it with (/me glares at MS) |
| 610 | criswell | When the opened package of something is behind/under another closed package of that same something. |
| 611 | schultmc | people talking about food when I haven't eaten yet today ;) |
| 612 | Koala | When people set a meeting time via email and use EST or CST when they clearly mean EDT or CDT (in the summer). |
| 612 | criswell | Audacity's "load file" window can be resized, but the "save file" window cannot... WTF? |
| 612 | criswell | People trying to limit my free speech just because they are starving |
| 617 | criswell | Apparently fixing a bug without realizing it and thus making a hackish fix I made 5 months ago now become a bug... |
| 617 | criswell | People who schedule an interview with me and then require nine million confirmations of the interview. |
| 629 | Lancer_Koala | IRC links that crash my browser |
| 663 | superbenk | When I clip my fingernails and get the skin so it is sensitive for days and days. |
| 664 | bbaker | Websites that have white text on a black background. Thanks for fucking with my vision assholes! |
| 664 | superbenk | My office. |
| 665 | superbenk | All the Score: 5 Funny comments on /. |
| 665 | superbenk | Configuration files that aren't commented in English |
| 665 | superbenk | People who talk CONSTANTLY!!! |
| 666 | bbaker | People who type IM conversations in sentence fragments |
| 666 | bbaker | When a coworker has a customer talk to you about something that you're not involved with. Then that customer continues to contact YOU for everything from then on about more things that you're not involved with. |
| 666 | superbenk | Long boring & insanely stupid show intros (you know, the bumper music and silly sound bytes from movies and stuff) |
| 667 | superbenk | Commenters who start their comment on the subject line and continue it in the body of the message! |
| 667 | superbenk | Old women with short hair and capris. |
| 668 | superbenk | Monthly Microsoft is about to fizzle articles... after 20+ yrs of those articles you'd think they'd give it up and just wait and see, eh? |
| 668 | superbenk | Old people who think they look fashionable in their stupid outfits & stinky perfumes/colognes & dumb gaudy jewelry... |
| 668 | superbenk | Paranoid nerds |
| 669 | superbenk | Finding a really cool software package on Freshmeat only to find it costs money |
| 669 | superbenk | Radio DJ's doing a charity fund-drive and trying to sound important and "cool" at the same time |
| 669 | work_superk | People who have called me and I've fixed *one* Windows problem for them and now they call me with *every* Windows problem they have. |
| 670 | superbenk | People automatically assuming people who use the word "hack" are malicious people out to cause mischief and do criminal things. |
| 671 | aargh | Steve Miller's song where he goes from Phoenix -> Tacoma->Philadelphia-> Atlanta-> LA that is just pretty geographically fucked up just to make a dumb song rhyme.. |
| 683 | criswell | People who talk on their cellphones while using public bathrooms. |
| 700 | tottinge | web pages with fixed widths. Why do people think we like having a 30-character wide article running down the center of our 180-character-wide displays? It's stupid. STOP IT. |
| 701 | tottinge | Anything done in frontpage. |
| 702 | Lancer_Koal | People who constantly set their googlechat status to something because they think people care |
| 702 | work_sup1rk | Saxaphones in 80's music. |
| 712 | criswell | The fact that 3:30-5:30pm my office is unbearable to work in unless I block out the window due to the horrible blinding sun searing through it. |
| 718 | criswe11 | That "rpm -qa" is so utterly useless. |
| 718 | criswe11 | That "rpm -qa" is so utterly useless. |
| 718 | criswell | That Prilosec OTC has an odd number of pills in the box, meaning my last "dosage" of each box is half of what it should be. |
| 718 | criswell | The fact that Ubuntu's installer doesn't work at resolutions 800x600 and lower... |
| 719 | criswe11 | That people *think* "rpm -qa" is something helpful to send to me when I design their distro. |
| 719 | criswe11 | That people *think* "rpm -qa" is something helpful to send to me when I design their distro. |
| 719 | criswell | Cats that pick while you're working to perch on your chest and demand love. |
| 719 | criswell | Running out of disk space. |
| 719 | criswell | When I'm at a remote meeting where we take notes on a large paper-board, and then I'm responsible for the giant-ass sheets of paper after the meeting is over... |
| 720 | criswell | Having to then transcribe the information on those stupid sheets into a wiki |
| 720 | tottinge | Godwin's law and how I cant say nazi without.... |
| 721 | superbenk | Deleting 2 hrs of the most insanely boring video every and having to tape it all over again. |
| 723 | criswell | Having legitimate "work" that needs to get done, but lacking any and all motivation to do said work... Instead only being motivated to build a motion sensing device out of an old laptop and a quickcam.. something which I have NO practical use for... |
| 761 | criswell | A couple weeks after bitching at superbenk for being so wishy-washy on his phone having to go phone shopping for my wife's xmas present.... |
| 765 | criswell | When *kick* *ass* places that RULE go out of business and I have to shop at their crappier contemporaries... |
| 773 | superbenk | When people walk in and ask "Is there something wrong with the server?" without qualifying that question with any sort of specificity. |
| 774 | superbenk | Having to be nice to people you feel like punching. |
| 775 | superbenk | All the little hairs everywhere after a hair cut |
| 775 | superbenk | Comments like this: "...it is amazing how happy people are, in knowing absolutely nothing about their computers. They're all a bunch of Mac users!" |
| 775 | superbenk | Terminal programs that don't let you adjust color schemes easily. |
| 776 | superbenk | When someone is talking to someone else and the other person gets interrupted half way through the conversation and the person talking transfers the second half of the conversation to me (who really couldn't care less even if he heard the first half). |
| 776 | superbenk | Women with clunky shoes that go 'clop, clop' whenever they walk anywhere. |
| 777 | superbenk | lt;3' 'E>' '<nick> hugs <stupid item>', etc. |
| 780 | superbenk | People who gush over their pets |
| 784 | jdr | quot;Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed" |
| 801 | superbenk | HDDs with no activity lights. |
| 802 | superbenk | HDDs with no per-drive activity lights. |
| 802 | superbenk | People who talk to themselves while they work. |
| 805 | superbenk | Multi-page articles that only have printable versions of one page at a time & not the entire article. |
| 805 | superbenk | Wifi manufacturers not bothering to state which chipset the cards use on the box. |
| 810 | criswell | OCD |
| 810 | superbenk | Old people who find the stupidest things funny like everytime they say something they have to laugh about it. "Yuck, yuck, I just said some words!" |
| 811 | criswell | People with quotes in their email signatures. |
| 811 | superbenk | Old people getting all creamy when they see candy. "Ooooh! Chocolates! They look yummy." |
| 812 | criswell | Customers. |
| 812 | criswell | Getting diagnosed with something, then everyone starts sending you EVERY link they can find online on the topic. |
| 812 | superbenk | Having to pee in the middle of eating lunch. |
| 812 | superbenk | Rod Stewart |
| 815 | superbenk | Slow torrents |
| 819 | criswell | When the Russians forget they are unmuted on the conference call and start talking. |
| 819 | criswell | When you are shipping a package at UPS/Post-Office/Whatever and they ask you if you're shipping any live animals |
| 820 | superbenk | Wanting to buy movies and they can't be found to buy anywhere. |
| 823 | superbenk | shift-pgup/pgdown not working in screen |
| 825 | lancer_koala | Gum on the sidewalk |
| 825 | superbenk | Finding a really cool piece of software only to find it's a major bitch to install. |
| 826 | criswell | Getting a sneezing fit on a conference call. |
| 830 | superbenk | Google results that lead me to another results page for the same thing on a different search engine. |
| 830 | superbenk | Websites that put all docs in PDF format instead of HTML. |
| 831 | criswel1 | When people have 400+ Megs in their Linux platform, and yet insist on being called "embedded." |
| 834 | bbaker | superbenk continuing to get a $80/yr magazine subscription for free after cancelling it. |
| 835 | superbenk | Domains that use the .<whatever> in the name (like del.icio.us). |
| 837 | superbenk | Things that can do many things but all their documentation is centered around one specific task. |
| 847 | superbenk | When bloggers put their mug shots on every single RSS feed from their blog. |
| 871 | criswell | Echo when the Russians join our conference calls. |
| 871 | criswell | When I'm hungry and there's nothing I want to eat. |
| 872 | Lancer_Koal | The term webinar. |
| 873 | criswell | The phrase "back in the day" |
| 888 | criswell | Fixing the hate list and the fact that schultmc is gonna get free DT food. |
| 891 | criswe1l | Working from home while my dog "digs deep" as he licks himself. |
| 891 | criswe1l | Working from home while my dog "digs deep" as he licks himself. |
| 892 | superbenk | Smart people who take a simple question and in the process of answering go off on some tangent causing numerous other issues to be surfaced instead of just answering the stupid question directly. |
| 900 | superbenk | Zits inside the ear |
| 900 | superbenk | co-workers who type REALLY LOUD! |
| 901 | superbenk | When sick days turn into working at home days. |
| 902 | criswe1l | When working at home days turn into sick days. |
| 912 | superbenk | BIOS Logo screens that cover up POST |
| 912 | superbenk | When the vitamin you're trying to swallow gets stuck on your tongue and starts to disolve before you can swallow it and you get that crappy taste left in your mouth. |
| 913 | superbenk | fsck' |
| 921 | criswell | When a distro misconfigures itself somehow such that 'halt' reboots the machine instead of shutting it down. |
| 955 | criswell | When I start getting low-level enough in something to see just how shoddily it's put together. |
| 993 | superbenk | People who say obvious or really irrelevant things in the morning just to start friendly conversation (ie, small talk). |
| 1024 | criswell | The fact that my birth certificate is more valid than my drivers license to border patrol.... And the fact that my drivers license is required to get my birth certificate.... |
| 1025 | schultmc | Restaurants that close between lunch and dinner |
| 1028 | tabke | switching shifts in the middle of the week |
| 1093 | criswell | The fact that Java has no equivalent of C#'s "struct" |
| 1094 | Waffmula | Waking up at 6am when you have no reason to be up |
| 1128 | criswell | Getting "stuck" on a task I'm working on because I can't figure out a good name for the wiki-page that the report will live on... |
| 1204 | schultmc | Snow storms when our crap HOA doesn't have money to pay for snow removal |
| 1205 | schultmc | Home Owners Associations |
| 1234 | schultmc | TMDA |
| 1235 | schultmc | The Indianapolis Mayor's Action Center |
| 1236 | schultmc | Indianapolis Heavy Trash pickup |
| 1255 | tottinge | languages far inferior to Python having the mainstream market share. |
| 1256 | bbaker | Leaving a voice mail message and getting cut off because of a fucking time limit! |
| 1256 | tottinge | Languages far inferior to smalltalk having the mainstream market share. |
| 1337 | schultmc | BarnesAndNoble.com |
| 1337 | schultmc | Sites with confusingly similar domain names |
| 1492 | Ginsu_Squirrel | DSL that claims it is 1.5mbit but only goes 1.2mbit |
| 1717 | criswell | Upgrading my system and forgetting that it kills my VirtualBox images which are in saved snapshot states. |
| 1719 | criswell | Still working at 7:57pm because I've been fighting SuSE for two days... |
| 1721 | criswell | When you're tailing a log file and logrotate rotates the log out from underneath you, and then you panic because you think that the program you're monitoring hasn't run for XX days |
| 1731 | criswell | Juice Boxes. |
| 1731 | criswell | The word "Intellection" |
| 1739 | criswell | Typing 'halt' when I really meant 'reboot'. |
| 1818 | criswell | That the FFXI achievements for Live are all "secret" until you get them. |
| 1826 | criswell | Kludgy shit that lacks documentation! |
| 1829 | criswell | Eating leftovers only to discover the best part(s) of the leftovers are already gone (like the fucking shrimp in my Aroz Camarones from Pappagallos last night!) |
| 1831 | criswe1l | Sticks. |
| 1831 | criswell | Amarok doesn't save updated metadata back to the MP3s after you update them... it saves it to some local DB that can be wiped and all your updates lost. |
| 1832 | criswe1l | Stars. |
| 1873 | criswell | Waiting for calls |
| 1900 | btw | that cool print formatting from perl is never emulated by any derivatives or competing languages. |
| 1902 | criswell | Conference calls where I have "Banana Phone" stuck in my head and it takes a Herculean effort to stop myself from singing it. |
| 1982 | criswell | Working out on the treadmill for 30 minutes and then eating three candybars... Wait.. do I hate that? |
| 3210 | criswell | The fact that it's only noon. |
| 3276 | criswell | Being pulled off of what I'm working on just when I'm getting somewhere... |
| 3417 | bbaker | Phone calls from research company's wanting to "verify our computer information" |
| 3616 | criswell | When someone says "mechanically, it's just like flipping a switch"... it's hardly *ever* that easy... |
| 3871 | criswell | When an email address I have bounces because the tool I'm contacting no longer works for the company I'm trying to contact. I don't want to sink a day into finding ANOTHER person to email just so I can avoid fucking awful web-forms! |
| 6172 | criswell | Websites with obfuscated registration schemes to thward spambots that wind up making it too difficult to actually post anything to |
| 7162 | criswell | Trying to build old code that some dipshit didn't write proper makefiles for |
| 7173 | criswell | When timewalker complains about the Things I Hate list not working any more |
| 7181 | criswell | The extremely long wait after installing *ONE* package using YaST for YaST to become responsive again and ask me if I want to install another package.. |
| 7181 | criswell | Using an alternate port with SSH is 'ssh -p' (lower case "P"), but with SCP it's 'scp -P' (upper case "P"). |
| 7182 | criswell | Having to dig through pages and pages of forum posts to find a simple answer. |
| 7182 | criswell | Short-ass power cables |
| 7182 | criswell | When I can't tell whether I or someone around me has B.O. |
| 7182 | criswell | When people try to come up with their own flash-based video player interface completely and totally ignoring all of the previous interface designs |
| 7183 | criswell | Having to move my laptop to the floor due to short-ass power cables for bullshit devices I have to hook up to it. |
| 7191 | criswell | Shitty recordings of blues singers where the mic is too far from the stage and it sounds like they are singing at the bottom of a well. |
| 7193 | criswell | Web-sites that bitch if you open links in new tabs (See IndianaCareerConnect.com) |
| 8127 | criswell | When one thing looks like another thing and I confuse the two. Like vagisil creme comes in a similar tube to neosporin, or glue sticks are the same tubes as lip balm. |
| 8172 | criswell | Agonizing over nomenclature in a given project when I really should just be coding. |
| 8172 | criswell | The fact that Freenode can be draconian with their IRC policies |
| 8172 | criswell | Weeks where I have more conference calls than days of the week |
| 8173 | criswell | Having tons of conference calls because we're 3 weeks over on our release date! |
| 8174 | criswell | DRY MUFFINS! |
| 8181 | criswel1 | Idiots who flirt with cute baristas who are out of their league for WAY too long... |
| 8191 | criswell | When I friggin' can't find renamed UI-configuration utilities..... |
| 8743 | criswell | The joke: "There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't." |
| 9000 | superbenk | IRC channels that are dead when I need ANSWERS!! |
| 9001 | criswell | Things. |
| 9172 | criswell | When Visual Studio gets deadlocked in a "I refuse to accept that the changes you just made were made"-state and tosses compilation errors that do not exist! |
| 9315 | schultmc | BestBuy not carrying the english version of Lips |
| 9391 | criswell | SUSE's installer defaults to "boot from hard drive" on the boot menu and I'm trained to just hit enter on the boot menu on install CDs... |
| 9515 | schultmc | Activision |
| 10938 | criswell | The fact that "Fire Fart" has been the #1 video on google video for.. like... EVER! |
| 10939 | criswell | The fact that 3 of the top 10 videos on google video are fart related! |
| 12345 | schultmc | missing topics |
| 12346 | schultmc | the UK National Lottery |
| 15155 | Waffmula | Meetings with coprate people wher I know more about the system their teaching then they do |
| 15156 | criswell | Waffmula-speak |
| 15157 | timewalker | Janoric-speak |
| 15158 | timewalker | How niisan uses 'teh' all teh damn time! |
| 15351 | Ginsu_Squirrel | Search doesn't wrap around in glurp |
| 15352 | Ginsu_Squirrel | Searching the the xchat buffer is a bitch |
| 15353 | gsmith | Being at the bottom of a list |
| 17261 | criswell | The fact that "add to playlist" is right next to "make this my ringtone" in the android music player menu |
| 17262 | criswell | Going to Playstation Home when I mean to go to Playstation Store (to redeem a friggin code) |
| 18737 | criswell | Flow-chart humor. |
| 18739 | criswell | When people don't fucking listen to me when trying to figure out *where* I could fit in an organization... |
| 78189 | criswell | When docking my laptop the fact that my desktop window layout gets all fucked up! |
| 90210 | soymilk | Bluetooth headset reviews that don't mention all features |