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Things that frustrate us all

Gen. Jack O'Neill said:
When you grab everything you think you need to sit down,relax and watch tv, only to sit down, get everything situated, start relaxing and...... then you spot the remote for the tv on the table 10 feet away....
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Telepathically controlled tv is the future! That way you can switch channels with your mouth full without being disgraceful.
 
Discofan said:
When people keep calling you for the stupidest of reasons (e.g. you've won a "large" sum of money, a "medium" wants to tell you your future, they want your opinion on this or on that, when what they really want is to sell you something... etc).
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In an audiobook I encountered a splendid method that unfortunately works only for males: the guy who gets called answers the phone with "Mr X's residence, Y the butler speaking" and explains to the callers that unfortunately the young master is on a trip to Patagonia and not expected back for the next 6 months.
Ingenious trick, imho :)
 
Scribble said:
Two things...

When your vet entered the wrong phone number and left a message with whoever's number that is and is not in today so needs to call you tomorrow and you just want to make your cat better.

When you rearrange your PC hard drives and it takes forever for it to restart because it needs to read all of them. Still waiting.
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Still spinning...
 
I had programmed my box to record something while I was away. The bad news is that there was a power outage due to the exceedingly windy weather and about half of the program has not been recorded!!
 
So...I guess I should have looked up the implications of switching SATA ports on HDDs set up in RAID before actually doing it. Guess that's what's been causing my issues the last four or five days.

Gonna need to reset it when I can.

Oy.
 
^you might want to ask Santaman. He builds and customizes computers and knows everything about hardware. Plus he loves challenges

argh of the day: this weather. We had a storm last night, drizzle in the morning, snow before noon and now the sun shines. I wouldn't mind, only I get a migraine whenever the weather changes. So I'm currently fighting #4 today.
 
rhubarbodendron said:
^you might want to ask Santaman. He builds and customizes computers and knows everything about hardware. Plus he loves challenges

argh of the day: this weather. We had a storm last night, drizzle in the morning, snow before noon and now the sun shines. I wouldn't mind, only I get a migraine whenever the weather changes. So I'm currently fighting #4 today.
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:(

And thank you. If it's not fixed this morning, I will.
 
^good idea! I could do with one that goes to work for me.
Being tired all the time sucks. One just can't concentrate. I used to attend the needlework club meeting on thursday evenings but I've played truant for almost 2 years - I'm always too tired. It gets better in summer, though.
 
rhubarbodendron said:
^good idea! I could do with one that goes to work for me.
Being tired all the time sucks. One just can't concentrate. I used to attend the needlework club meeting on thursday evenings but I've played truant for almost 2 years - I'm always too tired. It gets better in summer, though.
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Problem is: the holograms might start a revolution like they did in the Voyager relaunch novels for being abused as slaves.....
 
^^that's what happens if you permit your servants (or software) to think.
There are worse plot lines, though. Have you read TNG's "Wardrums"? A Klingonified version of Lord of the Flies plus sex and crime. Made me deeply regret that there's no raspberry award for literature.
 
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