I just got invited to a meeting for a time zone that doesn’t exist this time of year. In the US EST does not stand for Eastern time, it stands for Eastern Standard Time (~November-~March), EST is not an active time zone, it is EDT Eastern Daylight Time. Its a pointless thing, most people probably don’t notice, but its wrong.
Fake internet points to anyone who knows why DB-9 bothers me.
Edit: corrected a missing n in an eastern
When you have a dispenser (liquid soap, sanitizer gel, shampoo, etc.) and it’s almost empty, so the damn bottle gets knocked over from the slightest nudge. Makes me so irrationally mad.
My partner leaves his drink bottle near the sink, empty or mostly empty.
I accidentally knock that fucker over at least twice a day. I move it to a different part of the kitchen where it’s very unlikely to get accidentally knocked, he knows the spot so it’s not like I’ve hidden it or inconvenienced him.
But he puts it back next to the fucking sink and I knock it over and it makes so much fucking noise and scares the dog and I have to stop what I’m doing to go pick it up, just in case it does have a bit of water in it and creates a slip hazard, and it’s going to be the reason I suffocate him in his sleep.
The things they do that drive us nuts. I feel your frustration in your post. 🤭
For a bit the stuff inside will keep the COG low enough that its somewhat stable, but at some point it just stops being worth it. It also seems to last forever.
A full grown, mature, adult person saying “pasghetti” instead of spaghetti
I’ve never heard this in my life.
What if they’re being overall intentionally childish?
It’s irrational how it irritates me…it just does.
No judgment, are there other childish pronunciations that bother you too, or is just spaghetti? There is a company called pinnacle that uses a little girl intentionally mispronouncing the company name in their ads.
No, just that one. Most of the time people mispronounce things because they have only read the word and not heard it, so I try not to judge people when they do- but that one is a real fingernails on the chalkboard one for me.
Twice as annoying.
The librarian at my school says “liberry.”
I hate when grown adults say they need to “go potty.”
parmisian cheese
People who walk into a building and then just stop and stand in front of the door.
People who stop and chat in the grocery store, blocking the entire aisle.
People who pull out or merge into your lane right in front of you in traffic, slow down hella, and then immediately change lanes just to be first or save 0.3ms.
People with obnoxiously loud vehicles.
People.
People… That could be a problem, there are a lot of them.
My wife’s car has a emergency brake PADEL (not pedal) on the dashboard that is connected on one end and you can push down on the other end or loop your finger under the padel and pull up (like a button version of a diving board). You push it to turn on the Emergency Brake, and once on, you pull it to turn it off. But what if it’s off and you pull it? Nothing. If it’s on and you push it? Nothing. This button takes 2 inputs but depending on its current state only 1 input will do anything. It’s bad UI/UX in the real world.
Here’s a stock photo of the kind of button but in a different car than my wife’s.
I think that’s actually good UX from a safety standpoint. It means the button is “idempotent”: doing an operation the first time puts it in a state, and then doing it again leaves it still in that state.
If you’re in a moment of panic and want the brake on, you might push the button a bunch of times in quick succession to “be sure.” If it were a regular button, this would rapidly toggle it on and off, which would leave it in an uncertain state after you pressed it so fast. This way it turns on and stays active until you are ready to turn it off, and then you do another idempotent operation to turn it off. I don’t think all buttons should be like this, but I think it’s a good design decision for a button used in an “emergency.”
Its a pointless thing
ಠ_ಠ
But no, it’s not a pointless thing. Because people will say that something occurs in one particular time zone, and I’ll convert it under that assumption. Only for them to then turn around and blame me for being an hour late because they said standard time when they meant daylight time. Time communications should always be done in UTC first, with other time zones giving as optional extras, specified in terms of their UTC offset explicitly, alongside their name.
The important thing is the time gets communicated, and in the US outside states that don’t observe daylight saving time, I just assume the vernacular time for that zone.
Many things annoy me…
Slow walking people.
Twats on electric scooters weaving through traffic.
Drivers not using their indicators.
These are just a few things.
My slow pace is still faster than slow walkers.
Where I am, the scooters are not supposed to be on normal sidewalks, and seem annoyed your using the sidewalk.
IF YOU USED YOUR SIGNAL WE WOULD HAVE BOTH GONE FASTER!
The left lane is for passing, I really don’t care how fast or slow you are going, if your not passing somebody GET OVER!
anyway, you might have struck a few nerves.
Where I am, the scooters are not supposed to be on normal sidewalks, and seem annoyed your using the sidewalk.
Yes, same here in the UK, i dont budge when im walking on the pavement, and i walk in the middle, sometimes when the pavement becomes narrow, it forces them to slow right down.
I just don’t make an effort to move farther over.
Pavement is one of the more interesting words for British vs American English. British pavement == American sidewalk. In American English, I don’t see pavement in common use, but its more of the general material that a road is made out of, or maybe hard surface, when not specifying a specific. “They just put some new pavement down”. Anyway, I just think its one of the more interesting (and potentially confusing) British to American translations.
Sometimes I’m tempted to just stand in the middle of a roundabout with a sign that says “use your blinkers you fuckin morons” but then I remember I like being in one piece. Even worse are the people that signal going into a roundabout but not while they’re exiting. Yes, you have literally no other option but to enter the roundabout, better signal to let people know I’m gonna enter it. There’s 4 exits and people waiting to enter lol fuck you have fun guessing where I’m gonna exit.
The “open” in “OpenAI”, I know about the origins but currently…
Because the connector you think of as DB-9 is ackschually a DE-9 connector. A DB-9 connector would somehow be the width of those 25-pin parallel port connectors, but holding only 9 pins.
D is for D-subminiature
Second letter is the connector housing size (A through E)
The number is the amount of pins.ackschually a DB-9 connector has no meaning as low and high density pin counts are specified for the d-sub series, and db-9 is an impossible combination.
Pointless? The most pointless thing that aggravates me?
Mowing grass.
It’s not solving the problem. At all.
It annoys me more when other people care.
Changing the clock every daylight savings time.
Its Daylight Saving (no s) Time. And I am firmly on the side of standard time year round; I’m a morning person.
Same.
People typing “ahahahah” instead of “hahahaha”.
Some people actually do start their actual, in-person laugh with an “a.” Are you saying what’s natural is somehow wrong?
I’ve never heard anyone laughing in a way that could be written down as “ahahah”. Do you have any example?
Laughing is, as far as I can tell, multiple “Ha!” as in “suprise!” there’s a clear exhalation before the a sound.
I think Jimmy Carr’s laugh does. Check it out, it’s worth the watch.
I’ve heard people exclaim, “Ahaha” or so before. It’s not rare but it’s not like it’s never occurred.
Not pronouncing the “h” in “herb”. Or the “l” in “solder”.
Also, two spaces after a full stop. I thought we stopped doing that in the '90s. And the Internet had killed it off, because HTML just won’t display more than one space. But more recently, some platforms have started actually showing multiple spaces again. It just looks so damn wrong.
Oh, and one that occurred to me as a result of writing that previous paragraph. When people write “90’s” to refer to the decade of the '90s. Misuse of apostrophes in general, but particularly when it’s after a number, acronym, or letter. Mind your Ps and Qs, not P’s and Q’s.
Not pronouncing the “h” in “herb”.
Well, that’s normal in the US to omit.
Or the “l” in “solder”.
People do that?!
Both are the standard American English pronunciations. For solder, the o is more of an ah sound so sahder.
Wait till you hear buoy 🤣
Quay confuses me.
that’s normal in the US to omit
Yeah, I know. And it bothers me. It sounds so incredibly wrong.
People do that?!
Yeah, Americans seem to mostly pronounce it “sodder”. Which is weird, considering they’re more likely than the rest of the English-speaking world to pronounce words like “calm” and “balm” with the l, where for us it’s more like “cahm” or “bahm”.
“t” in mortgage
everything. EVERYTHING!
Complaint about misuse of time zone identifiers. I truly love you. Keep doing what you do. We need you.