Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[Decider-VT]

"Operation Rainfall". Perhaps years of NOE being pants have hardened me but never have I seen such whining. Some US gamers really seem to throw their toys out of the pram if they think they're missing out on something, while many other gamers in the rest of the world have had a far worse selection for many, many years. Utterly cringeworthy.

[Skull Commander]

Here's another irk. The Scottish ned chant of "Here We ****ing Go" at gigs. I'm watching some of the T in the Park coverage on the tele and it's all I can hear between songs. It's really bloody annoying.

[Brad]

Microsoft Technical Support:

Me: I want to remove Office Mac 2011 from my Son's Mac Mini and install it on his new Macbook
Them: ok, just uninstall it from the Mac mini, install it on the new Mac and you'll be abel to activate it
Me: how do I uninstall it?
Them: Click on the Start button etc.
Me: It's a Mac. There is no Start button
Them: Oh, well how do you normally uninstall applications on a Mac?
Me: Just delete the app
Them: have you tried that
Me: No, because if I do that then there's no way that the application is going to deactivate itself is there?
Them: Well, I don't really know Macs
Me: Can you get me someone who does
Them: *click*

I call again, someone registers the problem and give me a case #

*several weeks pass*

I call again:

Them: You need to uninstall it
Me: There is no uninstaller. Your actual technical support page gives instructions on how to manually remove it because there is no uninstaller
Them: "I'm telling you, if you uninstall it then it will deactivate"
Me: And I'm telling YOU that there is no uninstaller and there is no way to deactivate this product. It's a known problem. Google it. Or BING it if you want YOU STUPID ****WIT!!

To cut a long story short we ended up actually shouting at each other. The solution it seems is for me to download a hacked version from piratebay. I really don't knwo what else to do.

[koopatroopa90]

Do you still have the serial code? My Office 07 pack code (for Windows though) still works despite me using it on about 7 machines and never deactivating anyting.

[vanpeebles]

Here's another irk. The Scottish ned chant of "Here We ****ing Go" at gigs. I'm watching some of the T in the Park coverage on the tele and it's all I can hear between songs. It's really bloody annoying.

Probably ikobo

[Brad]

Do you still have the serial code? My Office 07 pack code (for Windows though) still works despite me using it on about 7 machines and never deactivating anyting.

I do. Mac Office 2008 had no activation. 2011 does but they only did half the job. Once it has been activated on a computer that's it. I mean you can reinstall on that same computer as many times as you like but it's basically tied to that hardware and there is no provision for deactivating and reactivating somewhere else. It's a total shambles!!

Last word is that if I sit at the computer with disc in hand and product key with me and then call them when it fails to install then they'll sort it. from what I've read on the net all they do as add another activation to the allowed list. How can a company this big make such a massive oversight?

[sj33]

I have Office 2010 for Windows and that can actually be activated on as many machines as you want. This is the difference between a retail version and an OEM version. Office Mac could be different, of course.

[Brad]

It is. This is a retail version. Can be activated on 2 computers. It's the most restrictive activation MS have ever done my the look of it. Wish I'd stuck with 2008 now :-(

[charlesr]

I'd reserve judgement till you have driven in paris LOL

The French attitude to driving is incredible. I'm constantly astonished at how vast numbers of drivers, young and old, male and female, manage to get their ****boxes to go so fast, although in the last 2 weeks I figured that it's mainly by a combination of apexing blind corners and prayer.

[speedlolita]

It is. This is a retail version. Can be activated on 2 computers. It's the most restrictive activation MS have ever done my the look of it. Wish I'd stuck with 2008 now :-(

This is why I don't buy Office anymore.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Women who seem to think that the Cruella DeVille hairstyle is an attractive look. You know what I mean: part dark colour, then with this added blotch of peroxide blonde thrown on somewhere.

Also a few skater related irks that endo might understand:

Skaters who wear basketball shirts. Looks dumb. All started by the overrated Chad Muska.

Skate Co's that started moving their production to China, which it turns out arent really that much cheaper to produce in the end but have destroyed the quality that was once there.

After all the Hype, Swansea's Exist Skatepark finally opens but looks f*ckin tiny in the vids I've seen on youtube . Wish Len's old skatepark was still there

Outsider companies who have come into the skateboard industry because its popular & easy to make a quick buck off of, but will bugger off as soon as it goes quiet again. I'm looking at Nike in particular, because it seems as tho nearly every skater I see seems to have jumped like a sheep onto the Nike bandwagon, while REAL skate shoe companies run & started by REAL skateboarders that are trying to produce new & better skate specific shoes seem to be losing out just cos skaters want to be seen wearing a swoosh on their foot.

[toythatkills]

Women who seem to think that the Cruella DeVille hairstyle is an attractive look. You know what I mean: part dark colour, then with this added blotch of peroxide blonde thrown on somewhere.

TBH, this on a cute girl gets me every time

To add to the thread, a giant wasp has settled right in the corner of one of my windows so I can't get a glass over it

[koopatroopa90]

I thought only lezzas did that?

[randombs]

Straight male wasps are also known to settle in window corners, so...

[monel]

Straight male wasps are also known to settle in window corners, so...

haha


Shouldn't it be straight female wasps, though? Deduct a point...