Things That Annoy You

[SpaceProg]

Oh yeah... Sleeping... and the DS too.  When I was going to school we didn't have them newfangled game-playing thingies!  Well... we did, but it was the pea-soup GameBoy and they were usually taken away if they were brought out during class.   

[Auggziliary]

Oh yeah... Sleeping... and the DS too.  When I was going to school we didn't have them newfangled game-playing thingies!  Well... we did, but it was the pea-soup GameBoy and they were usually taken away if they were brought out during class.

In elementary school, we weren't allowed to bring cards, including pokemon cards. They said the rule was so kids wouldn't be tempted to gamble or learn how.

[RinellaWasHere]

Okay, my roommate is a fucking idiot. He only went home for the Thursday of Thanksgiving break, and came back that night. As soon as he did, he left for a party or a rave or some shit and didn't come back till four in the afternoon yesterday. For two days while he was at the party and I was at home, our lights were on, our door was open, his music was blaring, and there was trash and open food fucking everywhere. Our garbage was overflowing, but he hadn't thought to take it out before he left. I didn't think much of it, since he cleaned most of it up yesterday, except for the trash can.

Today, I went to brush my teeth at the sink and had an awful realization. Because Nathan can't be assed to do anything other than drink, party, and listen to his techno music at high volume all the damn time, we now have a fucking fly infestation.

I'm getting sick of his shit.

[Random Gal]

Some preacher apparently came to my university, wanted to use the grounds as a pulpit, refused to pay the usage fee, and is now suing the school over it.

[Auggziliary]

Okay, my roommate is a fucking idiot. He only went home for the Thursday of Thanksgiving break, and came back that night. As soon as he did, he left for a party or a rave or some shit and didn't come back till four in the afternoon yesterday. For two days while he was at the party and I was at home, our lights were on, our door was open, his music was blaring, and there was trash and open food fucking everywhere. Our garbage was overflowing, but he hadn't thought to take it out before he left. I didn't think much of it, since he cleaned most of it up yesterday, except for the trash can.

Today, I went to brush my teeth at the sink and had an awful realization. Because Nathan can't be assed to do anything other than drink, party, and listen to his techno music at high volume all the damn time, we now have a fucking fly infestation.

I'm getting sick of his shit.

Damn... well fruit flies aren't that hard to get rid of. Just take out the trash... Of course that's hard if your room mate is an utter slob.

[Veras]

The World Bank.

I'm trying to get data from their website for a paper I'm working on, and I cannot imagine a more labyrinthine layout.  They have abbreviations that they do not and Google cannot explain.  There does not seem to be a way to access a simple table of the amount that they have loaned to each country.  The place were all of that information is collected, but you can only view about 20 countries per page, and thus have to tab through a lot of pages to get the information for each of the 17 nations in which I am interested.  Moreover, I've found pages on their website through Google that I cannot navigate to through their home page or country pages.  On these pages, they list the total loans that they have made to one specific country.  The numbers from this source don't match the numbers from the other page, and it's not even close.  One has Bolivia as having been approved for a total of $15 million, with virtually none dispersed, while the other says that they have had nearly $275 billion dispersed.

I don't know if they're being intentionally difficult to navigate, or if an advanced degree in accounting is necessary to understand their website, it's annoying either way, and I'm not sure if I have valid data for my paper.

[Auggziliary]

How weird parrots behave. My bird is only attached to me, and treats everything else like a threat. He is a little cuddle monster around me, but he acts like a guard dog whenever anyone else is around. Also he attacks objects and people if it distracts me from him. Like right now, I'm laying on my belly with my laptop in front of me. Auggie(the bird's name) is on the ground and cuddling my face and snuggling under my neck. But since I have the computer, he is trying to block my view of it so I focus on him. He does the same with books, Nintendo, TV, my phone, and homework. If I don't notice him after that he will headbutt me and rub his face on my face as hard a he can like "HUMAN. GIVE ME ATTENTION. NOW". He leans on my face so I can't see sometimes too.
Also, he attacks my computer, phone, DS, and whatever I'm reading since he thinks hes competing for attention.  If I'm typing with my hands he will eventually think my hands are his enemy too since they are "cuddling" the computer instead of him.

What's weird is that he acts like a little guard dog around me, but whenever he sees my mom he becomes her guard dog and treats me like a threat. Sometimes he attacks my mom though to "protect" me. I guess it just depends on who he wants to see at the time.

[Material Defender]

The World Bank.

I'm trying to get data from their website for a paper I'm working on, and I cannot imagine a more labyrinthine layout.  They have abbreviations that they do not and Google cannot explain.  There does not seem to be a way to access a simple table of the amount that they have loaned to each country.  The place were all of that information is collected, but you can only view about 20 countries per page, and thus have to tab through a lot of pages to get the information for each of the 17 nations in which I am interested.  Moreover, I've found pages on their website through Google that I cannot navigate to through their home page or country pages.  On these pages, they list the total loans that they have made to one specific country.  The numbers from this source don't match the numbers from the other page, and it's not even close.  One has Bolivia as having been approved for a total of $15 million, with virtually none dispersed, while the other says that they have had nearly $275 billion dispersed.

I don't know if they're being intentionally difficult to navigate, or if an advanced degree in accounting is necessary to understand their website, it's annoying either way, and I'm not sure if I have valid data for my paper.

I could ask my dad about it, since he's got a pretty strong accounting background.

[RinellaWasHere]

How weird parrots behave. My bird is only attached to me, and treats everything else like a threat. He is a little cuddle monster around me, but he acts like a guard dog whenever anyone else is around. Also he attacks objects and people if it distracts me from him. Like right now, I'm laying on my belly with my laptop in front of me. Auggie(the bird's name) is on the ground and cuddling my face and snuggling under my neck. But since I have the computer, he is trying to block my view of it so I focus on him. He does the same with books, Nintendo, TV, my phone, and homework. If I don't notice him after that he will headbutt me and rub his face on my face as hard a he can like "HUMAN. GIVE ME ATTENTION. NOW". He leans on my face so I can't see sometimes too.
Also, he attacks my computer, phone, DS, and whatever I'm reading since he thinks hes competing for attention.  If I'm typing with my hands he will eventually think my hands are his enemy too since they are "cuddling" the computer instead of him.

What's weird is that he acts like a little guard dog around me, but whenever he sees my mom he becomes her guard dog and treats me like a threat. Sometimes he attacks my mom though to "protect" me. I guess it just depends on who he wants to see at the time.

Is it a Salmon-Crested/Moluccan Cockatoo? Those birds are serious snuggle bunnies.

[SpaceProg]

Or possibly a Senegal Parrot?  They're notorious for picking one person, and one person only.  All others, beware their wrath.

[nickiknack]

I'm now 30 and I feel much older...

[Shane for Wax]

Neon color schemes.

[Veras]

The World Bank.

I'm trying to get data from their website for a paper I'm working on, and I cannot imagine a more labyrinthine layout.  They have abbreviations that they do not and Google cannot explain.  There does not seem to be a way to access a simple table of the amount that they have loaned to each country.  The place were all of that information is collected, but you can only view about 20 countries per page, and thus have to tab through a lot of pages to get the information for each of the 17 nations in which I am interested.  Moreover, I've found pages on their website through Google that I cannot navigate to through their home page or country pages.  On these pages, they list the total loans that they have made to one specific country.  The numbers from this source don't match the numbers from the other page, and it's not even close.  One has Bolivia as having been approved for a total of $15 million, with virtually none dispersed, while the other says that they have had nearly $275 billion dispersed.

I don't know if they're being intentionally difficult to navigate, or if an advanced degree in accounting is necessary to understand their website, it's annoying either way, and I'm not sure if I have valid data for my paper.

I could ask my dad about it, since he's got a pretty strong accounting background.

I appreciate it, but I don't think it would really help.  The thing that is killing me is the non-matching numbers, even though the descriptions of the numbers are identical.  The only thing that I can think of is that they cover different time frames, but there is no description of the time period with the data.  When it says "total dispersed," I don't know if it means this year, this decade, since the Bank was established, etc.

[Auggziliary]

Or possibly a Senegal Parrot?  They're notorious for picking one person, and one person only.  All others, beware their wrath.

Nope. Hes a Blue Crowned Conure.
Here's a vid of one, its not Auggie, but he acts exactly like this one:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiYhIpDiF7Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiYhIpDiF7Q</a>

Of course, hes like that around me only. If anyone except me or my mom tried that he'd try to rip their fingers off.
I did a little experiment with it too. I took a teddy bear and put it in front of Auggie. He didn't react at all. Then I started kissing and cuddling the bear while saying "good bird!" and other things. After 10 seconds, Auggie was puffed up twice as big and bobbing his head in anger. I put the bear in front of him and he attacked it like crazy. It was like watching someone stab something like 80 times.

[Sleepy]

A motherfucker in his shitty sports car almost hit me today, because he decided that right on red doesn't require any yielding.