Minor things that bother you

[Rothman]

Half of a full moon is a quarter.  This makes no sense.

I get that the part you can see is a quarter of the moon, but then the full moon should be called a half.

Let's start calling the full moon a two-thirds moon, and half of it would be a one-third moon.  If we're going to mess with people's minds, we should have some fun with it.

The "quarter" phases are called that because they're one and three quarters of the way through the lunar cycle. We ought to be calling the full moon second quarter...

Somebody needs or has been watching norasguidetothegalaxy...

[SSOWorld]

What's a newspaper?

[ZLoth]

People haven't seen Breaking Bad?

Heard about Breaking Bad? Yup. Seen it, or it's sequel series Better Call Saul? Nope.

I also haven't seen The Wire, The Sopranos, or Game of Thrones either. I'm familiar with their premises, but real life just prevented me from sitting down, watching those series, and forming my own judgement. At least with GoT, I can say that I've been through the books. And, that's just a short list of series that I want to watch and haven't yet.

[J N Winkler]

People haven't seen Breaking Bad?

Heard about Breaking Bad? Yup. Seen it, or it's sequel series Better Call Saul? Nope.

I also haven't seen The Wire, The Sopranos, or Game of Thrones either. I'm familiar with their premises, but real life just prevented me from sitting down, watching those series, and forming my own judgement. At least with GoT, I can say that I've been through the books. And, that's just a short list of series that I want to watch and haven't yet.

I loved Breaking Bad but couldn't make it past the first few episodes of Better Call Saul.  A lot of my enjoyment of Game of Thrones came from the sheer visual feast and from location-spotting (e.g., I had visited the alcazar in Seville, which stands in for the royal palace of Dorn, long before the show premiered).  I haven't tried The Sopranos and sort of drifted away from The Wire when the character clearly based on Martin O'Malley took center stage in its third season.

Prestige TV is often tricky in terms of being something you actually want to sit down to watch.

[Max Rockatansky]

The Sopranos was one of the last TV shows I actually followed closely.  I just don't have time or an attention span necessary to make a commitment to a long running series anymore.

[Takumi]

People haven't seen Breaking Bad?

Heard about Breaking Bad? Yup. Seen it, or it's sequel series Better Call Saul? Nope.

I also haven't seen The Wire, The Sopranos, or Game of Thrones either. I'm familiar with their premises, but real life just prevented me from sitting down, watching those series, and forming my own judgement. At least with GoT, I can say that I've been through the books. And, that's just a short list of series that I want to watch and haven't yet.

I loved Breaking Bad but couldn't make it past the first few episodes of Better Call Saul.  A lot of my enjoyment of Game of Thrones came from the sheer visual feast and from location-spotting (e.g., I had visited the alcazar in Seville, which stands in for the royal palace of Dorn, long before the show premiered).  I haven't tried The Sopranos and sort of drifted away from The Wire when the character clearly based on Martin O'Malley took center stage in its third season.

Prestige TV is often tricky in terms of being something you actually want to sit down to watch.

Better Call Saul was a slow builder, but in the end I ended up liking it better than Breaking Bad. El Camino, meanwhile, felt anticlimactic to me.

[ZLoth]

The Sopranos was one of the last TV shows I actually followed closely.  I just don't have time or an attention span necessary to make a commitment to a long running series anymore.

Translation: Real life intruded.

[JayhawkCO]

People haven't seen Breaking Bad?

Heard about Breaking Bad? Yup. Seen it, or it's sequel series Better Call Saul? Nope.

I also haven't seen The Wire, The Sopranos, or Game of Thrones either. I'm familiar with their premises, but real life just prevented me from sitting down, watching those series, and forming my own judgement. At least with GoT, I can say that I've been through the books. And, that's just a short list of series that I want to watch and haven't yet.

I loved Breaking Bad but couldn't make it past the first few episodes of Better Call Saul.  A lot of my enjoyment of Game of Thrones came from the sheer visual feast and from location-spotting (e.g., I had visited the alcazar in Seville, which stands in for the royal palace of Dorn, long before the show premiered).  I haven't tried The Sopranos and sort of drifted away from The Wire when the character clearly based on Martin O'Malley took center stage in its third season.

Prestige TV is often tricky in terms of being something you actually want to sit down to watch.

Better Call Saul was a slow builder, but in the end I ended up liking it better than Breaking Bad. El Camino, meanwhile, felt anticlimactic to me.

I agree that Saul was tougher to get into, but my wife and I persevered and just started the final season last night. It's a very good show. Not as good as Breaking Bad for me, but Bob Odenkirk is amazing in this show as are Jonathan Banks (Mike) and Rhea Seehorn (Kim).

[Max Rockatansky]

The Sopranos was one of the last TV shows I actually followed closely.  I just don't have time or an attention span necessary to make a commitment to a long running series anymore.

Translation: Real life intruded.

Some would argue in the real world that I live in fantasy reality.  Starting to make decent money enabled me to do things beyond staying at home watching TV or playing video games (which I also stopped playing).

[wanderer2575]

The high percentage of memes with spelling and/or punctuation errors.

[Takumi]

People haven't seen Breaking Bad?

Heard about Breaking Bad? Yup. Seen it, or it's sequel series Better Call Saul? Nope.

I also haven't seen The Wire, The Sopranos, or Game of Thrones either. I'm familiar with their premises, but real life just prevented me from sitting down, watching those series, and forming my own judgement. At least with GoT, I can say that I've been through the books. And, that's just a short list of series that I want to watch and haven't yet.

I loved Breaking Bad but couldn't make it past the first few episodes of Better Call Saul.  A lot of my enjoyment of Game of Thrones came from the sheer visual feast and from location-spotting (e.g., I had visited the alcazar in Seville, which stands in for the royal palace of Dorn, long before the show premiered).  I haven't tried The Sopranos and sort of drifted away from The Wire when the character clearly based on Martin O'Malley took center stage in its third season.

Prestige TV is often tricky in terms of being something you actually want to sit down to watch.

Better Call Saul was a slow builder, but in the end I ended up liking it better than Breaking Bad. El Camino, meanwhile, felt anticlimactic to me.

I agree that Saul was tougher to get into, but my wife and I persevered and just started the final season last night. It's a very good show. Not as good as Breaking Bad for me, but Bob Odenkirk is amazing in this show as are Jonathan Banks (Mike) and Rhea Seehorn (Kim).

The last season has a lot of the biggest payoffs in the series. That's all I'll say.

[thenetwork]

The high percentage of memes with spelling and/or punctuation errors.

I'm seeing it more and more in articles for online local television and newspaper news websites.  I can understand TV station websites, because the TV stations always read the news on the air, so spelling wasn't that important, but for those local newspaper sites that have gone digital....

There IS a feature on your computer that can check for and repair spelling errors for you in SECONDS ya know!!!

[hotdogPi]

There IS a feature on your computer that can check for and repair spelling errors for you in SECONDS ya know!!!

That want fix "real word, but the wrong one". I also saw a local news channel mention Fall River, RI once, and even something like Grammarly would have no idea theirs something wrong there. (For those unaware, the city is in Massachusetts.)

(Self-demonstration intentional.)

[ZLoth]

The fact that my cataract/laser surgery in my right eye has made me far-sighted in that eye while my unoperated left eye is near-sighted. I'm wearing a eye patch and switching between the two eyes until my left eye has it's cataract/laser surgery on the 22nd.

Despite the inconvenience, it's a big improvement over what I had before.

[Max Rockatansky]

I've thought about trying out an eyepatch at work and giving no explanation as to why I'm wearing it. 

[wanderer2575]

There IS a feature on your computer that can check for and repair spelling errors for you in SECONDS ya know!!!

Marry hat a lit tell lam
Ids fleas was wide as now.


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It came with my pea see.
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin not sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write --
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long,
And eye can put the error rite --
It's rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it.
I am shore your pleased two no
It's letter-perfect awl the weigh --
My chequer tolled me sew.

(Sauce unknown)

[ZLoth]

There IS a feature on your computer that can check for and repair spelling errors for you in SECONDS ya know!!!

It hasn't always been that way. One of the early word processors for the TRS-80, SuperScripsit, has spell-check available as a optional add-on. The same with Appleworks for the Apple ][ computers.

I can imagine some parents wanting to disable the spell/checking on their kid's computers at the policy level.

[Rothman]

I miss Appleworks, especially the spreadsheet.

[dlsterner]

The fact that my cataract/laser surgery in my right eye has made me far-sighted in that eye while my unoperated left eye is near-sighted. I'm wearing a eye patch and switching between the two eyes until my left eye has it's cataract/laser surgery on the 22nd.

Despite the inconvenience, it's a big improvement over what I had before.

I had cataract surgery last spring.  The period between the two surgeries is indeed "weird".  Also has issues after my second eye was done since I wasn't supposed to get a new prescription for six weeks (to let the eysisght settle I suppose).

[vdeane]

I actually did manage to get the Goodyear rebate, despite the paperwork issues, and it's a prepaid card, which is annoying enough but that in and of itself isn't what I'm posting about.  No, on the site where you go to activate the card and whenever you want to view the balance and transaction history, after entering in the information, they have you do a captcha.  OK, fairly common these days on the internet, but after you solve it, instead of going to where you want to go, they bring you back to the previous page and you have to enter the card information all over again.  Why!?

[Rothman]

They tore down the Goodyear near me.  I considered it divine intervention.

[roadman65]

When you place an order at a fast food restaurant. You list the items in a nice understanding way. You're not talking faster than they're ringing up the item. You pause between items so they can easily comprehend it.

Yet they still ask you what comes after the first item or some will ask you if they're anything else you want to order making you think they've rung in all your list when in reality they only rung in the first of your list.

That's why I ask for them to repeat the order to see what they rung up so I  don't get short changed before I pay.

Joe Pesci was wrong. They don't f you at the drive thru over the counter. They F you all over.

[Rothman]

I've found problems with taking/fulfilling orders accurately to be very location specific.  Haven't had issues with the vast majority of fast food places we've frequented.

[1995hoo]

I've found problems with taking/fulfilling orders accurately to be very location specific.  Haven't had issues with the vast majority of fast food places we've frequented.

The most recent fast food place I visited—the Roy Rogers nearest to our neighborhood—has a screen attached to the register facing the customer so you can see what the cashier put in for your order and ask them to correct it as needed.


Minor thing that is bothering me just now at 7:40 AM: having a sneezing fit while eating. Especially when the first sneeze hits when your mouth is full.

[mgk920]

I've thought about trying out an eyepatch at work and giving no explanation as to why I'm wearing it. 


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They are useful for addressing double vision situations.  I had to get glasses with a 'prismic' correction to address a double vision problem.

Mike