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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

mikedt said:
Vuvuzelas o_O:thumbsdowndroid:
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Meet the Vuvuzela's little brother. It's called a Kazoo

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But then, I also found this little beauty. I give you, the Trombone Kazoo :D

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I studied under Barry Cryer who said i was a grade 8 kazoo player...


here it is, with its natural partner.. the swanee whistle

 
products that are tied and zip-tied so tight... 10 x more than needed.. inside a sealed plastic cocoon.

takes for ever to cut through the plastic..
then hunt down every tie and zip-ties...
 
When you are impatiently waiting for your shiny new phone that was supposed to be delivered yesterday but FedEx messed up and now it's not coming until Monday because they don't deliver on Saturday but a freakin' FedEx truck just went whizzing past your house and didn't stop :mad:
 
How often what i need to make something work is then only sold at a single place, and always marked up to hell.

Most recent example is how i had an old OEM PC go south, so harvesting what i could save leaves me with an Opteron 185 and RAM i don't have a place for. So i need a socket 939 for a quick and dirty rebuild, or if I'm spending any significant money, something newer and hopefully more reliable. Kind of leaning toward the latter, because i need an ide port for console repairs, but when not doing that, i intend to use the system to handle encoding capture streaming from consoles.

But can't find anything at all outside of eBay. And eBay has already royally screwed up my latest order... So bad, that they actively censored my negative review pro actively. :mad: "buy from a trusted seller" ? Yeah, the guy was an asshole, and eBay itself is protecting them from a well deserved, negative feedback.
 
So, I'm trying to buy a mobile home. Mortgage company says, "you must have 20% for a down-payment before we give you a loan."

Well, 10% is reasonable, but I guess 20% because the mobile home market is volatile or something... fine. I scraped together, over the past couple months, enough to purchase a nice home.

Now, they are saying, "where did you get this money?"

Seriously? What are you, freakin' Elliott Ness?
 
Dngrsone said:
So, I'm trying to buy a mobile home. Mortgage company says, "you must have 20% for a down-payment before we give you a loan."

Well, 10% is reasonable, but I guess 20% because the mobile home market is volatile or something... fine. I scraped together, over the past couple months, enough to purchase a nice home.

Now, they are saying, "where did you get this money?"

Seriously? What are you, freakin' Elliott Ness?
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Probably want to make sure you didn't take out a loan, putting your ability to repay and / or have equity if you don't at risk.
 
Unforgiven said:
Probably want to make sure you didn't take out a loan, putting your ability to repay and / or have equity if you don't at risk.
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Correct. Seems like lessons have been learned from the sub-prime mortgage disaster.
 
Doesn't matter. By that logic, your clothes are a device. Your keys are a device. Your tongue is a device. But no sane person would classify them as that.

It's just as smarmy and contemptful as marketers that try to rebrand something to suit their agenda. Like wanting a gig to be 1000 instead of 1024.

It's even permeated into Windows, too. "Updating your device" ? Really? It's a damn PC, not a raspberry pi emulating one.
 
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