Things That Annoy You

[dpareja]

People who cite Infowars as if it were in any way legitimate.

[Askold]

a) I am more tired than I thought it was possible after just 3 days on vacation trip with the kids. They didn't sleep well in the RV or on the boat. Now we are back at home but tomorrow we are going to go to an SCA event and I'm not sure if we can survive this.

b) You damn kids and your pokey-men are going too far: http://usmclife.com/2016/07/marine-vets-catching-pokemon-mosul-iraq/

[ironbite]

Moronic flight crews who try and buck the system not realizing it creates more problems for the folks on the ground rather then showing management what for.

Oh and for all captains who might be around once your plane is parked at the gate, you have no power so don't act like you're the man in charge.  The ramp crew is.

Ironbite-fuckers.

[Art Vandelay]

Being woken up in the middle of the night with acid reflux. That sure makes for a miserable evening.

[Askold]

Looks like we are not going to the SCA event after all. At least not today due to my wife having a crisis because of of how tiresome this traveling has been and/or introvert overload from being around people too much.

[Even Then]

Got any specific examples? Not trying to be confrontational, I'm just curious now.

[Askold]

People who claim that "Fast travel" in a game means that your character teleports over the distances. No. It's just a time skip and the character walked/ran/rode/drove to the destination and you don't have to wait and do it yourself because this anti-frustration mechanic skips the boring bit.

"Then how come you aren't out of mana and down a few healing potions" Well maybe the character waited for a minute to recover the mana and didn't get beaten up by every mudcrab between those two cities.

[Veras]

I can't find a full time job.  I have an M.A., a teaching license, and 5 years of experience as a teacher and administrator, and I can't even get a damn interview for open positions.  I will also have a son at some point in the next 2-5 weeks, and we are totally super fucked if I don't have something that pays more than part time Barnes & Noble employee by then.

There was a lawsuit that shut down my former school, so I think that maybe I'm being passed over because of my association with that dumpster fire (even though I was a plaintiff, and was among the small group of people who got screwed over the worst by it).

[Askold]

Finnish laws for self defense.

It's not like I would want some of those "I shot a prostitute after dark because she refused to have sex with me when it turned out that I'm a horrible person so that counts as defending my property" laws but sometimes it seems like people get convicted for doing anything to defend themselves.

Like this one guy, four people attacked him. They rang the doorbell and when he went to answer they attacked him with baseball bats (well, the Finnish off-shoot sport to be exact but they are the same although only made from wood as far as I know) and one gun. While getting beaten up the homeowner retreated to the kitchen where he got a kitchen knife and used it to defend himself.

The homeowner has now been found guilty to one attempt of "too much force when defending oneself" and four accounts of attempted manslaughter. He was sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in jail as well as forced to pay 21000€ to his "victims."

The attackers each were sentenced to one year and few months in jail (the amounts varied a bit) for assault and battery and one of them was punished for "crime with a firearm." Oh, and one of them had to pay 500€ fines (to the government, not their victim.)

...You would think that the attackers would at least be punished for "premeditated crime" or attempted manslaughter as well but it appears that either there is a lot that happened which the public has not been told about, these judges are incompetent or there is no justice in Finland.

[Svata]

US baseball bars are also wood. Only little league/high school/college teams use aluminum.

[rookie]

US baseball bars are also wood. Only little league/high school/college teams use aluminum.

And softball uses aluminum. As to the Finnish self defense laws, didn't you guys used to be vikings at some point?

[SCarpelan]

Nah. Vikings were our Scandinavian neighbors; we have a different cultural background from the other Nordic countries. We were actually targets of occasional raids by them and the fact that those didn't always end well for the Viking attackers kind of supports the point you are making.

[TheUnknown]

Today I drove through a fucking downpour (while still being relatively inexperienced and nervous with driving), just to get to what I thought was a job interview.  It was not.  It was one of those "career building seminars" that companies like to do, after which I could've set up an appointment for an actual interview for a chance to join the company.  I ended up just leaving.

[Zygarde]

Could have been worse, it might have been one of those pyramid schemes.

[niam2023]

Why is the Daily show not on at 1030? It's instead showing that vulgar lout Tosh's show. I suppose if you're the kind of "person" who still follows / stalks CWC's life, you'd find him funny for examining women in cat ears and dysfunctional red neck types.