I rant against people who aren’t handicapped, yet park in handicapped parking; not necessarily the ones who park and leave (believe it or not), but the ones who park and remain in their vehicles. Their rationale, of course, is that if an actual handicapped person needs the spot, I will move. But if a handicapped person needing to park sees another vehicle in that spot, they will move on and look for another spot, which, ultimately, makes them no better than non-handicapped persons who park in a handicap spot and just don’t give a hoot. They just don’t think, or know, they are just as bad. And I’m not even handicapped.
Oops. Misplaced modifier.
“them,” of course, refers to the non-handicapped persons who park in a handicapped spot and remain in their vehicles; thinking how noble they are.
Some tiny rants that have built up over the years that I just have to get off of my chest (most are CompSci and class related):
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[li]You know, there is a reason why there are pre- and co- requisites for classes. It’s called: so you have at least a passing knowledge of what the hell the instructor is talking about. Don’t start whining that you don’t understand anything that’s happening, or that you didn’t do well in a class when you knew damn well you didn’t have the necessary background and signed up for it any way, against all advice (even from fellow classmates).[/li][li]Related to the above, why the hell can’t the registration system deal properly with checking for pre-reqs before letting a student register?[/li][li]You know, this is a senior level CompSci course. How in the name of all that is good, bad, and ugly did you mange to get here when:[/li][list]
[li]You don’t know how to cut-and-paste.[/li][li]You stubbornly insist that a basic computer bought from your average BigName Store will not come with an typical OS installed, such as Windows.[/li][li]You insist that a computer without a typical OS (just BIOS: nothing else) is still perfectly usable. (Same person as above.) As what, a paperweight that doubles as a space heater? Oooo, looky, I can fiddle around with the BIOS settings! Ain’t this the bee’s knees! :rolleyes:[/li][/ul]
[li]There is a reason why there are these mysterious dark marks on processed tree pulp: they’re called ‘instructions’. See where it says “type in the following:”, with even a nice screen shot showing you what everything will look like when you’re done? Then why does it look like you’re trying to recreate a Picasso painting with JAVA code?[/li][/list]
Ahh. Much better.
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Firefox: you are a bad mistress-
How do you expect to lure me away from the dowdy old IE wife if you can’t even manage to save a bookmark for me? Especially since the old girl went and got tabbing in her new Beta version (ok, to compensate she lost the capacity to copy and paste, but I can keyboard that). I even cleaned and pressed your localstore file, but still you won’t put out. Good thing you were cheap!
The assorted vile fluids sloshing in my sinuses and lungs: get out, and stay out.
I never had a problem with bookmarks in Firefox. Have you tried to reinstall?
Firefox is also much better about blocking popups and ads, even without the great extensions available for same.
And the extensions! I do things I never thought I could do with a web browser.
And IE lost the capacity to cut and paste? :eek: You can’t cut and paste? Are they insane?
Reinstalled multiple times.
C&P-yeah, the C&P from the menu doesn’t work, but ctrl+ C/V/X still works. Weirdness.
Oh. OK. But if I weren’t already boycotting IE, I’d boycott it for not having a working C/P from the right-click menu. Just because of the principle of it.
To the doper community at large:
It seems that anytime someone posts a rant about something related to a person, like a jerk-wad using the elevators to go one story, or someone not handicapped parking in the handicapped spot, someone with bad hygeine or social skills, another soper will invariably come along saying something along the lines of,
“Well, you’re inconsiderate, because some people have [insert random, often quite rare, disease/syndrome/whatever here] so these people you hate might just have this and it’s not their fault so please don’t get mad at all of them!”
And then the OP has to come back and modify the rant to go something like,
“Well, excluding those people with [insert long list of anything even remotely considered a disability or disease or whatever here] I hate everyone who does what I previously said.”
Then another Doper will come along and say,
“Well, I don’t have any of [prevoius list of things], but I [do what OP is ranting against] because [insert special reason here that makes them seem not an asshole for doing an asshole thing.]”
So the OP has to come back again and go,
“oh, well I don’t hate you, [other Doper], just the others who do that.”
Repeat ad naseum.
OK, so can we all just agree upon a rule that when someone posts a rant, it’s automaticaly assumed that he/she is not directing it towards those people who might have no choice but to do what the OP is ranting against for medical or other valid reasons? We can? Good.
People who mooch off of popular websites by using a URL that is a slight mistype of a popular website and host nothing but adversing for poker, viagra, dating sites and such. (*****) They get paid per hit. I believe it is called ‘typosquatting’ and is illegal in many jurisdictions. Legal or not, these folks are lazy moochers with an apparent lack of creativity.
In accordance with bouv’s post:
There are no exceptions.
And if any dopers do this, you suck accordingly.
***** I was going to post a hotlink as an example, but I don’t want to give them free hits. (Although I believe you actually have to click on an advertisement for them to get credit). Let’s just say there is a website as described above that is accessable by leaving off the ‘h’ in www (dot) straightdope (dot) com.
How about those fuckers who find students trying to pay for their books and wrap them up in pyramid schemes? Having your friends turn into mindless hire-zombies is a scary experience.
For that matter, let’s go ahead and pit those fuckers who think it’s OK to turn into mindless hire-zombies and try to recruit all their friends. I now have a policy of cutting each of these people off at the first sign. Thankfully I was raised with an ounce of common sense and know it’s all baloney, and I’ve never been taken in by greedy pyramid-builders or desperate student-zombies.
BRAINS! BRAAAAAAAINS!!!
Sorry.
For those of you walking your well-trained, beautifully-heeling dog on multiuse paths, good for you. The dogs on the paths that I can’t stand are the ones on those retractable leashes that are running around within a 20 foot radius of their owner, and it never occurs to the owner to pull their wayward pooch back to a reasonable closeness when other people are trying to get around (which, on a busy path, would be all the time, and therefore the dog should be properly heeled.)
Even worse. They chant “Sales! SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALES!” all class long. Really hard to focus. I’ve taken to wearing a helmet to every class.
I got my first paycheck for my summer job today! HOORAY!
The ATM ate my debit card when I tried to deposit it! BOO.
Tomorrow I’m off on a four-day roadtrip with no way to get money other than withdrawing cash via teller during business hours. And I’m not getting a new card for six more days.
Thanks for the fraud protection (I mean it!) but DAMN, that is a BIG PILE OF SUCK.
I WANT MY MONEY!
If it makes you feel better, I had three ATM cards from the same account get eaten at two different ATMs within half a semester. After the last time I ordered new ones they just sent me two for the price of one. I wouldn’t be surprised if they send me four next time.
What if my name really is goooogle, and I want to make a personal website, huh? WHAT THEN??!
Pigeons!!!
Every fucking time I wash the car one or even more of these flying germ infested bastards has to go have a shit on it…fuckers!!
Ya wanna bet? :eek:
Darn it people, it is that difficult to check Page Setup before you send a print job? Is it so much to ask that you check the printer to see if it actually has 11x17 paper in it? I have better things to do than un-jam the copiers due to user errors. Quit making me come over there to clean up your messes! Sheesh!
You misspelled “winged rats.” Please make sure your spelling checker is on.
But…but…
