Little things that irk you 2

[Decider-VT]

At one stage it even falsely identified errors in its own auto-generated code. Now, I'm aware of a bad workman blaming his tools, but...

[Brad]

No it's not just you. Everyone at my firm hates it with a passion.

[briareos_kerensky]

Hardware incompatibilities.
Got a blazing new motherboard with on-board USB 3.0, but since it's a X79 board, the USB controller is a third-party on board chip. And apparently my video capture card only likes third-party USB 3.0 controller chips from NEC. Had to dig out the PCI expansion card I had on the previous non-USB 3.0 PC and use it in order to acquire video.
Next time, Blackmagic, make a USB capture platform that doesn't require a particular controller brand to work, please.

[bwi]

Potholes
Tyre repair kits that dont work on potholed tyres
Car manufacturers that dont put spare wheels in any more

Luckily i'm in the RAC , but a flat bed truck to bring back a car with a puncture is crap.
Recovery guy went through the same pothole himself and described it as a "crater". 225/40 18 tyres aint cheap. How do i go about getting some compo out the council?

ggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[NW2013]

Sky prices taking the p again. Apparently they are planning to charge ?10 for 24 hours access to sports on their Now TV service. They are having a laugh! Something like ?2/3 for a footy match or F1 race would have been ideal but this price is so greedy.

[Brad]

EA:

So, it turns out I'd hidden BF3 from my games list. A forum post followed up by a tweet to EA with a link to the forum post got a response telling me exactly what I'd done. So, why am I not posting in the smile topic? Because I spent 50 minutes waiting to speak to an EA support dude last week followed by a 20 minute conversation that resulted in him telling me that Windows 8 wasn't supported.

Slightly embarrassed that the lack of BF3 was a product of my own doing of course!

[Dogg Thang]

That's a little like the time I failed to buy a Bob Dylan album from iTunes. It was just after a major iTunes update and I went to buy it, but there was a problem (some connection error or something). Didn't bother to try again but, later that day, was looking to redownload a different album from my iTunes list and I noticed there was the Bob Dylan album in my iCloud list. But I was pretty sure the sale hadn't gone through. I checked my recent purchases and there was no sign of it. There was no hint I would be charged for it at all.

So being the good citizen that I am, I mailed them to let them know there may be an exploit and I managed to get a free album from them. They quickly mailed me back to let me know that the reason it was in my iCloud list was that I had already bought that album about a year before. Oh... Felt like a bit of a tit.

[Colin]

Professor Green. That TV ad he's on gets my back right up, with that horrendous nasally voice and weird accent, projecting a faux tough guy image. **** off.

[Largo]

I dont like how 'the' is often placed infront of websites when speaking about them

Oh ill see you on the facebook.

I uploaded a video to the youtube.

Is it 'the' youtube, or maybe just 'youtube'.

I'm going to post tonight on the bordersdown.

**** off.

[Brad]

People who don't pronounce the 'p' in the word crisps.

I'm just having a bag of crisssss.

[randombs]

I dont like how 'the' is often placed infront of websites when speaking about them

There was a clip on Have I Got News For You about Gordon Brown and he called Eastenders 'the Eastenders'. Cracked me up!

[Adam Stone]

I dont like how 'the' is often placed infront of websites when speaking about them

Oh ill see you on the facebook.

I uploaded a video to the youtube.

Is it 'the' youtube, or maybe just 'youtube'.

I'm going to post tonight on the bordersdown.

**** off.

I've never, EVER, met or experienced that. Do people really do that??

Hang on.. we are talking about people, YES OF COURSE THEY DO, but that often? Wow. That would annoy me too

[Adam Stone]

People who are paid lots of money because they simply have BEEN PRESENT for a long time. Are they good at their job? NO. Do they make bad decisions? YES.

...But they have worked in the same place for YEARS! Years of not being good at their job and years of making bad decisions. So that's fine. Lets pay them lots of money.

Annoys the f*ck out of me.

[MisterBubbles]

Lets name some names Adam.

[Decider-VT]

Professor Green. That TV ad he's on gets my back right up, with that horrendous nasally voice and weird accent, projecting a faux tough guy image. **** off.

He was in the year below me at school. I wish I'd bullied the living daylights out of him.