Shit that annoys you

[teledad]

Property surveyor working at my neighbor's house is standing in knee deep dry grass smoking a cigarette. I mean, it's not like there's a risk of fire in California or anything.

[Danno]

The search function is great--if you already know what you're looking for.
BTW why doesn't the search function search thread titles. If I search police behaving badly why does that thread show up 2/3 of the way down the list of threads. Well, at least it shows up. Sometimes a search by thread title doesn't show up at all. Am I missing something--a way to specifically search titles?

advanced search
search single content type (not sure this step is necessary, think you'll get the same thing from "search multiple content types", but...)
keyword(s): police behaving badly
adjacent dropbox: search titles only
search now

I mean, the search function isn't great, it's a bit clunky, but I can almost always find what I am looking for fairly quickly. So either I'm a forum ninja or y'all have the attention span of a coked-up baboon.

[old goat]

Property surveyor working at my neighbor's house is standing in knee deep dry grass smoking a cigarette. I mean, it's not like there's a risk of fire in California or anything.

advanced search
search single content type (not sure this step is necessary, think you'll get the same thing from "search multiple content types", but...)
keyword(s): police behaving badly
adjacent dropbox: search titles only
search now

I mean, the search function isn't great, it's a bit clunky, but I can almost always find what I am looking for fairly quickly. So either I'm a forum ninja or y'all have the attention span of a coked-up baboon.

Thanks. I'll try to remember. If I forget how to do it, how do I search for these posts?

[old goat]

Property surveyor working at my neighbor's house is standing in knee deep dry grass smoking a cigarette. I mean, it's not like there's a risk of fire in California or anything.

I'd have your phone set to video and at the ready. You can probably get good money for the footage of the surveyor on fire. [too morbid?]

[riser4]

I'd have your phone set to video and at the ready. You can probably get good money for the footage of the surveyor on fire. [too morbid?]

No way too morbid. Donny has pissed me off and I don't really have any sympathy left for Darwin award winners and or morons.

[stealurface831]

I don't really have any sympathy left for Darwin award winners and or morons.

Ah, like the people that don't wear their fucking masks.

[krp8128]

Ah, like the people that don't wear their fucking masks.

Or walk down store aisle against the flow of traffic, seemingly oblivious to the 2' diameter "WRONG WAY DO NOT ENTER" floor sign they've stepped on as they work there way upstream like some sex driven Salmon on it's way to spawn, only so fat wife can tell fat husband don't let the cans of Monster crush the Little Debbies....

[stealurface831]

they work there way upstream like some sex driven Salmon on it's way to spawn, only so fat wife can tell fat husband don't let the cans of Monster crush the Little Debbies....

I lol'd. This hit home. I live amongst such creatures. The Walmart nearest to me in Granite Falls, North Carolina is rife with their kind. It is the headwaters in which the invasive Redneck Salmon spawn.

[old goat]

Or walk down store aisle against the flow of traffic, seemingly oblivious to the 2' diameter "WRONG WAY DO NOT ENTER" floor sign they've stepped on as they work there way upstream like some sex driven Salmon on it's way to spawn, only so fat wife can tell fat husband don't let the cans of Monster crush the Little Debbies....

The one way aisles lasted about 3 weeks at Safeway. There were as many people going the wrong way as the right. The way it was set up you had to double back in whichever end of the store--produce or baked goods--you started in, and you had to go up and down every aisle whether you needed something there or not to avoid getting out of synch.

[skaredshtles]

<snip> y'all have the attention span of a coked-up baboon.

Confirmed.

[skaredshtles]

<snip> Granite Falls, North Carolina

[stealurface831]

Originally Posted by stealurface831
<snip> Granite Falls, North Carolina

There is literal incest.

[Danno]

Companies that don't answer questions about their products. Was interested in some skis on geartrade (from a non-local ski shop), and asked a question at least 2 days ago. No answer. Then I went to the seller's website, thinking maybe going to the source would get better info (nope) or a quicker response. Asked a question through their web form, still no response. WTF, I am trying to buy your shit!

[TNKen]

Drift boats. Every time I want to go blasting up the river in the jet, damned drift boats everywhere with their damned fly swatting clients sitting in them, fishing with "strike indicators" which are really bobbers by another name.

[abraham]

advanced search
search single content type (not sure this step is necessary, think you'll get the same thing from "search multiple content types", but...)
keyword(s): police behaving badly
adjacent dropbox: search titles only
search now

I mean, the search function isn't great, it's a bit clunky, but I can almost always find what I am looking for fairly quickly. So either I'm a forum ninja or y'all have the attention span of a coked-up baboon.

The app search is painless and acceptable as well. Though I usually have a decent idea of the word combo needed to find what I'm looking for.

[EWG]

The color “Dove White.”

[old goat]

Companies that don't answer questions about their products. Was interested in some skis on geartrade (from a non-local ski shop), and asked a question at least 2 days ago. No answer. Then I went to the seller's website, thinking maybe going to the source would get better info (nope) or a quicker response. Asked a question through their web form, still no response. WTF, I am trying to buy your shit!

Your mistake is asking the shop (or the doctor, dentist, car mechanic, lawyer, CPA, contractor, etc). Everyone knows the authoritative source on any subject is TGR.

[Bobcat Sig]

No doubt this has been covered, but it bears repeating. I call it the meeting jinx.

I this new, all-digital meeting world, someone schedules a meeting, opens the meeting with something along the lines of, "We probably won't need all the scheduled time." And then proceeds to be the one to take up the entirety of the scheduled meeting. Bonus points for going over the meeting lenghth.

[The AD]

"We probably won't need all the scheduled time." And then proceeds to be the one to take up the entirety of the scheduled meeting. Bonus points for going over the meeting lenghth.

Yes, stating that jinxes it every time.

[frorider]

It’s not a jinx. It’s human psychology 101. When people state that at beginning of a meeting, it creates a feeling of ‘OK let’s feel free to dive into details or seemingly related topics since we have so much time.’ Which then happens and the meeting fills up the entire time.

Whenever an organizer would state this I would say ‘OK, let’s all agree on the revised length of the meeting and run it accordingly’. Which generally worked.

[~mikey b]

tinnitus sucks

[Bobcat Sig]

It’s not a jinx. It’s human psychology 101. When people state that at beginning of a meeting, it creates a feeling of ‘OK let’s feel free to dive into details or seemingly related topics since we have so much time.’ Which then happens and the meeting fills up the entire time.

Whenever an organizer would state this I would say ‘OK, let’s all agree on the revised length of the meeting and run it accordingly’. Which generally worked.

FKNA!

I should also note that a good portion of the people on these types of calls are sales and sales leadership, which usually amounts to a competition of who can talk longer...

[Supermoon]

It’s not a jinx. It’s human psychology 101. When people state that at beginning of a meeting, it creates a feeling of ‘OK let’s feel free to dive into details or seemingly related topics since we have so much time.’ Which then happens and the meeting fills up the entire time.

Whenever an organizer would state this I would say ‘OK, let’s all agree on the revised length of the meeting and run it accordingly’. Which generally worked.

Every project, meeting, whatever will always take up 100% of the time and money allotted. At least. It’s one of Newton’s laws I’m pretty sure.

[Mazderati]

Meetings. Where minutes are taken and hours are lost.

[Supermoon]