You're WRONG! (And it pee's me off)

[Captain Mostly]

you're always correcting people's use of words AND YET:

"unless the outcome of a game of poker is can be determined before it is played..."

is can be determined? what?

[Ali]

It would be dishonest of me to edit my previous post sooo...

I'm stealing the C from your name aptain Mostly...


And perhaps I should read over my posts more thoroughly  .

[Captain Mostly]

While I'm in the mood:

"Music is what makes the world go round... it's no wonder the world feels so segregated and shallow these days"

On the most obvious level, music ISN'T what makes the world go round, but more importantly: The world DOESN'T feel shallow these days. People have just as much depth of character, and nature is still as utterly mind-boggling, and there is still as much to see and learn as there has ever been.

The way people state their personal view of the world as though it was indesputable fact bugs me a lot.

On an un-related note, when people talk about "the machine" it bugs me. It's only THEIR choice to view the world a certain way that produces the machine. If they didn't chose to think of it as one, it wouldn't be one, because it ISN'T one.

ALSO: The suggestion that the world feels segregated "these days" is preposterous. The world is no more segregated now than it's ever been, and in fact, it's pretty safe to say that there's a lot LESS segregation now than in recent history.

BUT ON THE OTHER HAND: It IS irritating how people have to constantly make up new definitions for every single slight defference in bands' "sounds".
I like the way HMV only recognises about 5 different types of music. "Dance", "classical", "Country", "Jazz" and "Rock n' Pop" for everything else. Although I did notice they had a "metal" section last time I was in there, but I got the impression this was only to look like they were hip. They didn't really know what it meant.

[shbaz]

I don't agree with grouping Rock and Pop at all.

One really annoying thing that bugged me on GarageBand.com was this moron who put his techno music in the Rock section, "Because it's a broad category and I felt it belonged there." Nevermind that there was a techno category specifically for that.

[Barcik]

If you want to get me all boiling and red, then football is the subject. I just hate it when blatant fools who don't know shit about football start arguing about the subject. The problem is that since they are so clueless, they will never understand they are wrong.

I also hate comments about great movies such as "it sucks". A person who can take a movie such as "The Godfather" and say "beh, that's a piece of trash" has no right to live. I mean, I have never called any quality movie I didn't like "trash". There's a big difference between not liking a movie, and thinking that it stinks. Disliking a truly great movie is valid, thinking that it's bad proves one to be an idiot.

[Andail]

Most of my classmates blab all the time about nonsense.

One woman said "I don't understand the fuzz about chemicals. Why are people so terrified of chemicals? They're not so dangerous after all."

But over-hearing this, I took it pretty calmly. If it results in the most moronic part of my class starting to experiment with acids or whatnot, I don't really care.

Another girl, who's like the most immature little sorry excuse for the female gender ever (she's fresh from high school, but looks like twelve) said: "I'm not so affraid of being raped, cause I think I'm so tall that most guys would think twice before attacking me."

As she's like under average height, and with the constitution of a noodle, I adviced her calmly to still be careful.

[Redwall]

I hate common myths, like "the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space," and "You only use 10% of your brain,", "Camels store water in their humps," etc.

Also, Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson," except in movies.

But most disturbing of all, is the misuse of the word GOOD. "Did you sleep good?" "NO! I slept WELL!"

[Las Naranjas]

And on that note Ali, stockbrokers are also gamblers. Like punters on sports and the ponies, they can study form etc., but no-one knows what way the stock will move until it does.

However, unlike other proffessional gamblers, they seem to seek respect and legitimacy for their profession.

[Andail]

I hate common myths, like "the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space,"

As disturbing as I find this - the mere notion that something just a few yards thick should be more visible than any other big building (stadium, skyscraper, pool, you name it) just because it's terribly long is appaling to me - I keep getting this confirmed by reliable sources. Sad but true.

The misconception is that it should be visible from the moon; it can only be seen just where space as a definition begins, which isn't that far beyond the stratosphere or whatever lies outmost.

[Peter Thomas]

Another thing that annoys me is when people start arguing incorectly about complete rubbish!! Like people who argue for hours over whether or not the Telletubbies are secretly talking in dutch (or any foreign language, really) so they can tell kids to go and murder their neighbours without their parents realising.  It made me laugh, yes, but if also made me angry that people can actually argue about that kind of thing. What happened to arguing about the good old things, like Philosophy and the Meaning of Life, and which Cereals taste better??

Oooh..... and those silly buggers who try to turn everything into a government conspiracy. I find them fascinating, definitely, and some of them could even be true (SOME, I say, like the landing on the moon, which I'm not really decided on), but to act as though you know FOR A CERTAINTY is just...... gay! Some of my friends are like "oh, what the hell? Of COURSE they landed on the moon! Like, duh! Why would they lie?" Not that there was any competition to beat the Russians to it, or anything. And they don't know how to admit that maybe, just MAYBE they don't have a clue what they're crapping on about, and everything is just subjective and they're being very unwise to try and change people's opinions based on their own strangely formed ideas.

Wow!! I love this thread. I feel so much better after posting. It's like screaming at someone in the knowledge that they're not going to scream back...  

[Fuzzpilz]

Um, about the moon thing: none of the arguments used by those who believe it was a hoax hold any water. Seriously. I can explain in more detail if you want. List the ones you're tempted to believe in if you do.
If that's not enough for you: the Russians believed it, you know. Never protested. If there was a fierce enough competition for the US to lie, you can be sure that they'd have pounced on any hint that it wasn't the truth.
If you're looking for US government conspiracies, look elsewhere. Nothing to be found on the moon.

[Unilin]

Least of all any landing vehicles, footprints or flags, seeing as how the moon landing was obviously all a hoax perpitrated by the US government in conjunction with the free masons.

[DGMacphee]

There's this movie reviewer in Brisbane called Des Partridge.

I like his reviews, but he gets his facts wrong every now and then.

[Redwall]

I hate common myths, like "the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space,"

As disturbing as I find this - the mere notion that something just a few yards thick should be more visible than any other big building (stadium, skyscraper, pool, you name it) just because it's terribly long is appaling to me - I keep getting this confirmed by reliable sources. Sad but true.

The misconception is that it should be visible from the moon; it can only be seen just where space as a definition begins, which isn't that far beyond the stratosphere or whatever lies outmost.

Yes, it's visible where space begins, but other objects are as well. At least that's what my sources tell me.  

[Femme Stab Mode >:D]

Minimi: I dunno, I'd say poker is half-gambling at least. I mean, it doesn't matter how much skill you have, if you get a useless hand you're screwed!

Not really, if you can bluff. Most of the winnings I got form poker (I played it a lot in my free time on cadet annual camp, we played for candy for lack of money) I got from bluffing shamelessly, and a large par tof the rest I got foiling bad bluffs. It's skill, judgement, and an ability to hold your face in a  permanent grin.

[shbaz]

The flags, vehicles, and footprints are only going to be visible with a REALLY damn good telescope, and they put mirrors up there that we can reflect back with lasers. The reason you can't see stars is for the same reason you can't on earth in the daytime.. the moon is bright.

[remixor]

Speaking of music...  Being a music major, one thing I hear a lot is the fallacy that "Music is the/a universal language."  That's a big bunch of bullshit (hooray alliteration) and I'm tired of explaining why.

[DGMacphee]

I thought maths was more of a universal language than music as such.

Then again, music is based on maths in a lot of ways.

[remixor]

Math is certainly much more of a universal language than music is, at least conceptually.

[Captain Mostly]

I don't like it when people say that something is "gay" (for example, if someone were to say that "claiming to know something for a certainty is gay" or some such) even though the characteristic they're describing is very rarely something specific to homosexuals (and I only mean this with regards to when people use the word "gay" to mean "homosexual")

Slightly MORE irritating is when things that are badly made or designed or just plain un-fashionable are rendered "gay" in a similar way.

I remember (back in the old days) being in school, and hearing someone spend basically an entire hour proclaiming that Visual Dbase was "Mega gay!" and "So fucking GAY!" and "Such a gay boy!"

Mind you, I guess VDb IS something of a sexual predator.