Things That Annoy You

[SpaceProg]

I'm annoyed when my fave racer has a fast-as-hell car and is set to win most of the race running up front and then gets a loose wheel and has to pit, and later the crew chief makes a bad call for 4 tires instead of 2.  FRUSTRATION.

[Sleepy]

I just read an article about a family who lives on $14k a year, and I know damn well that some people will wave it in the face of folks who struggle to live on minimum wage and say, "See? This family can do it! You don't need no welfare!" The family bought a house for less than $40k, and they paid in cash with the savings they had from when they were earning more. Hardly anyone is going to get that good of a deal, and hardly anyone on minimum wage will be lucky enough to have those savings. Their $14k budget also didn't seem to factor in medical expenses, so I guess you're fucked if anyone gets something beyond a cold.

[Southern Comforter]

I just read an article about a family who lives on $14k a year, and I know damn well that some people will wave it in the face of folks who struggle to live on minimum wage and say, "See? This family can do it! You don't need no welfare!" The family bought a house for less than $40k, and they paid in cash with the savings they had from when they were earning more. Hardly anyone is going to get that good of a deal, and hardly anyone on minimum wage will be lucky enough to have those savings. Their $14k budget also didn't seem to factor in medical expenses, so I guess you're fucked if anyone gets something beyond a cold.

Yeah, I know a lot of people that live on $14k. They live like this:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzaO73pC-A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzaO73pC-A</a>

[ThunderWulf]

I just read an article about a family who lives on $14k a year, and I know damn well that some people will wave it in the face of folks who struggle to live on minimum wage and say, "See? This family can do it! You don't need no welfare!" The family bought a house for less than $40k, and they paid in cash with the savings they had from when they were earning more. Hardly anyone is going to get that good of a deal, and hardly anyone on minimum wage will be lucky enough to have those savings. Their $14k budget also didn't seem to factor in medical expenses, so I guess you're fucked if anyone gets something beyond a cold.

Yeah, I know a lot of people that live on $14k. They live like this:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzaO73pC-A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzaO73pC-A</a>

And this is why I hate people who think lower middle class = poor.  People like this have to fight just to stay alive.

[Søren]

When acronyms are used to such a degree, its annoying to do another search to find what the acronym means.

[Meshakhad]

I've come to accept YouTube ads as a necessity. But it annoys me that every single Robot Chicken clip has the SAME ad, which happens to be unskippable.

[Distind]

I just read an article about a family who lives on $14k a year, and I know damn well that some people will wave it in the face of folks who struggle to live on minimum wage and say, "See? This family can do it! You don't need no welfare!" The family bought a house for less than $40k, and they paid in cash with the savings they had from when they were earning more. Hardly anyone is going to get that good of a deal, and hardly anyone on minimum wage will be lucky enough to have those savings. Their $14k budget also didn't seem to factor in medical expenses, so I guess you're fucked if anyone gets something beyond a cold.

I'd murder to get a house capable of withstanding a light breeze for that much. Seller's choice of who dies too. I saw a few for that low, they typically had 3 walls, 1/2 a roof and an infestiation that scientists where still trying to categorise in known classes of plant/animal. Unless I was aiming to domesticate the infestation for additional income I'd be better off living in the woods.

As a note, 14k a year'd barely cover my rent for a two bedroom apartment. Probably won't next time I sign a new lease.

Also, if you want to ditch the adds, Adfender. Works by funneling all of the webpages you load through a proxy and killing anything from a known ad provider, lists of such are updated freqently and will work with any browser. Love it.

[nickiknack]

Cash only vending machines.

[chitoryu12]

I just read an article about a family who lives on $14k a year, and I know damn well that some people will wave it in the face of folks who struggle to live on minimum wage and say, "See? This family can do it! You don't need no welfare!" The family bought a house for less than $40k, and they paid in cash with the savings they had from when they were earning more. Hardly anyone is going to get that good of a deal, and hardly anyone on minimum wage will be lucky enough to have those savings. Their $14k budget also didn't seem to factor in medical expenses, so I guess you're fucked if anyone gets something beyond a cold.

I'd murder to get a house capable of withstanding a light breeze for that much. Seller's choice of who dies too. I saw a few for that low, they typically had 3 walls, 1/2 a roof and an infestiation that scientists where still trying to categorise in known classes of plant/animal. Unless I was aiming to domesticate the infestation for additional income I'd be better off living in the woods.

As a note, 14k a year'd barely cover my rent for a two bedroom apartment. Probably won't next time I sign a new lease.

Also, if you want to ditch the adds, Adfender. Works by funneling all of the webpages you load through a proxy and killing anything from a known ad provider, lists of such are updated freqently and will work with any browser. Love it.

This is why I don't plan on moving, at least not until I have a very secure income. This house has been in my family ever since my grandparents helped raise it back in the late 70s, and I frankly have no reason to move. It's been paid off for many years, and utilities are relatively inexpensive. It's got quite a bit of room for a one-story ranch house, and we just keep upgrading things like the piping and electrics as time goes on.

Considering the cost of apartment rental or home ownership in these days, I don't think it's unprecedented for me to simply remain here and inherit the house upon my mother's death. I'd like to get myself a home elsewhere eventually (NYC holds a special place in my heart and I've spent quite a bit of time there), but only when I can easily afford the costs.

[Distind]

Pay attention to local laws around inheritance taxes on that thought. Houses are quite valuable, probably more so than you'd want it to be. Though there are usually was around having to pay the taxes. Typically I don't endorse tax dodges, but on the one damn house you actually live in I make exceptions.

Edit:
Also, COM objects. Someone please kill me, I thought I'd escaped these things.... maybe I'll write a webservice wrapper or something.

[Material Defender]

People who bitch and whine about what other people do without actually talking to that other person to see if they'll correct the error.

[Auggziliary]

People who bitch and whine about what other people do without actually talking to that other person to see if they'll correct the error.

I hate that. A girl who sits by my(the puppy abuser I talked about once before) doesn't stop bitching about some trivial shit someone else did. It ruins my day.

[ironbite]

Next time she does that, grab her by the back of the hair, slam her face into a desk, give her a big kiss, then go back to doing whatever the fuck it was you were doing.

Ironbite-she won't be bitching about trivial shit no more.

[RavynousHunter]

Everything in my head aside from my teeth and hair have been hurting all fucking day.  Halls do next to nothing, but at least the Tylenol's helped the headache.

[Igor]

I got a fuck no yesterday or the day before and I can't figure out what it's for. Note that I'm not annoyed by the fuck no itself, I just can't figure out what I said that someone took issue with.