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Things that frustrate us all

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1. That too many still prefer the English dub over the sub of a show that's no longer even relevant anymore. To the point I *still* get heated about it.

Yeah, that's the only one that's stuck around. I can't even watch videos pertaining to the show in question, at all, even though I love it because someone might mention the dub. It's stuck around.
 
B.J. said:
A few days late on the names discussion, but I also have the worst trouble remembering anyone's name. I'm a freakin' aerospace engineer, and I have to think about what the name of the guy sitting next to me is!

Meanwhile my wife, who's a teacher, manages to remember nearly all of her students' names in her classes. That would be 30+ students in about 6 or 7 different class periods. And then she gets a whole new set every semester! It honestly amazes me.
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I can remember numbers, can often remember how to get somewhere after only driving it once or twice.

Peoples brains are just wired differently
 
When you're driving along at a good pace, then a car quickly cuts out in front of you and drives twenty miles an hour slower than what you were going

Hitting every red light
 
Turd Ferguson said:
When you're driving along at a good pace, then a car quickly cuts out in front of you and drives twenty miles an hour slower than what you were going

Hitting every red light
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Esp. annoying when you are stuck behind someone doing 5-10 under the speed limit and if you had been doing the speed limit you would have been through the lights before they changed. Yes I now it's a limit but if you want to driver under the speed limit make it easier for others to overtake you.

What about drivers who are reasonable fast on the straights but go around corners slower than needed.
 
PureCrimson said:
So, just being honest with a "No thanks" is more rude to them than flat out lying?
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In my experience that depends on the country - it's primarily a cultural difference. To give you 2 extreme examples: in the US, people hesitate to give you a straight no. They rather use what they euphemistically call "white lies". To me as a Bavarian, straightforwardness is a sign of respect while lies (whatever colour) display contempt.
Frankly, I can't understand what's supposed to be good about someone telling "no, you look great in this dress" and then having them die from shame when they happen to encounter a tall mirror and realize they look like an overstuffed sausage that's going to burst any moment. IMHO it's better to spare them the humiliation and tell them frankly but diplomatically: "I think the more loosely fitting one suits you better".

My argh moment of the day:
wanted info on which operating systems supported a certain software. No info on the website. I asked the programmer who wrote the software and received an unfriendly "have a look at the website and the search index" - which I had both already done (in vain, hence my question). Grrrrrrr! Yet, I consider my question answered: I'd rather die than buy software from such a rude b... errr... male descendant of unmarried parents.
 
rhubarbodendron said:
In my experience that depends on the country - it's primarily a cultural difference. To give you 2 extreme examples: in the US, people hesitate to give you a straight no. They rather use what they euphemistically call "white lies". To me as a Bavarian, straightforwardness is a sign of respect while lies (whatever colour) display contempt.
Frankly, I can't understand what's supposed to be good about someone telling "no, you look great in this dress" and then having them die from shame when they happen to encounter a tall mirror and realize they look like an overstuffed sausage that's going to burst any moment. IMHO it's better to spare them the humiliation and tell them frankly but diplomatically: "I think the more loosely fitting one suits you better".

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Now for me it would generally be more a case "I think X suits you better but if you are happy wearing Y, you find something comfortable etc. wear it and screw what other people think. Shouldn't it be about the person rather than what they are wearing.
 
MacLeod said:
Esp. annoying when you are stuck behind someone doing 5-10 under the speed limit and if you had been doing the speed limit you would have been through the lights before they changed. Yes I now it's a limit but if you want to driver under the speed limit make it easier for others to overtake you.

What about drivers who are reasonable fast on the straights but go around corners slower than needed.
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That's not really a problem around here unless you're on some winding back roads. I don't feel there's any excuse to be going super slow on a straightaway unless you're an asshole.
 
Getting paid and then having bills all at once.

What I miss the most about high school and college is that all of what passed for an income was disposable.
 
Turd Ferguson said:
When you're driving along at a good pace, then a car quickly cuts out in front of you and drives twenty miles an hour slower than what you were going
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When you driving along at or just above the speed limit, someone comes flying up behind you, whips around to pass you, and then slows to turn into a fast-food place, forcing you to stand on the brakes.

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When you're driving along with someone hanging back in the next lane just in your mirror, and you come up on a slower vehicle and put your turn signal on to pass it, and the *bleep* who been riding off your shoulder for the past ten miles decides that NOW would be a good time to pass you, forcing you to stand on the brakes.
 
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Back when I worked in a shop, the staff would take my pens so often that I wore one on a string around my neck. If I didn't, I'd never have a pen with which to write down customer's orders.
 
When there is only one piece left of a certain food that you like and you are next to the customer that got it.
 
Discofan said:
When there is only one piece left of a certain food that you like and you are next to the customer that got it.
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I must admit I like being that other customer. There's just something smugly satisfying about picking up a bargain that you know is being coveted by someone else and possessing it, lol. I remember going to a sale with my Mum and we all were allowed into the shop just before the sale started. Some of us hovered over this bargain bin of jeans waiting for the word 'go'. It was worse than a lolly scramble :guffaw: I was hopeless I ended up with a pair of jeans the wrong size.
 
Refuge said:
I must admit I like being that other customer. There's just something smugly satisfying about picking up a bargain that you know is being coveted by someone else and possessing it, lol. I remember going to a sale with my Mum and we all were allowed into the shop just before the sale started. Some of us hovered over this bargain bin of jeans waiting for the word 'go'. It was worse than a lolly scramble :guffaw: I was hopeless I ended up with a pair of jeans the wrong size.
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I think it's the whole point of these kinds of sales so that people end up buying things they wouldn't have bought otherwise.
 
When you are in a hurry and the checkout line that you picked (because there were fewer people in it than in the others) moves so slowly that people from other lines keep passing you.
 
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