Minor things that bother you

[JayhawkCO]

I think Facebook has become close to useless to me.

Facebook is for two things:
1) Posting pics of vacations so that friends and family can see if they so choose
2) Facebook marketplace since it's basically Craigslist where there's not a 95% chance someone wants to scam you

Meh.  I keep track of my old friends through it.

Yeah. But you're old.

[Rothman]

I think Facebook has become close to useless to me.

Facebook is for two things:
1) Posting pics of vacations so that friends and family can see if they so choose
2) Facebook marketplace since it's basically Craigslist where there's not a 95% chance someone wants to scam you

Meh.  I keep track of my old friends through it.

Yeah. But you're old.

One has to be in order to have old friends.

[kphoger]

One has to be in order to have old friends.

Not true.  I've got friends in their 90s.  And they're on Facebook.

[hbelkins]

I think Facebook has become close to useless to me.

Facebook is for two things:
1) Posting pics of vacations so that friends and family can see if they so choose
2) Facebook marketplace since it's basically Craigslist where there's not a 95% chance someone wants to scam you

Ha. I see a lot of "they scammed me" posts about FB Marketplace sellers.

[dlsterner]

Rage bait in highway groups though?  Out aside of Crash_It trying to stir his usual BS there isn't a lot of that among road group pages.

Who is that?

An unhappy incel around the age of 40 better known as:

- Cra_sHIt
- Barf
- Lord Carhorn

His claims to fame include:

-  Cammer videos of nominal driving infractions.
-  Illinois isn't flat (it is).
-  Wallethub is the only way to analyze statistics (except when it isn't favorable towards Illinois).
-  He once claimed to be dating a 19 year old (never provided proof though). 
-  He would lob baseless accusations of racism despite being a confirmed uber transphobe. 

Don't forget his disdain towards Wisconsin residents.

[Max Rockatansky]

Rage bait in highway groups though?  Out aside of Crash_It trying to stir his usual BS there isn't a lot of that among road group pages.

Who is that?

An unhappy incel around the age of 40 better known as:

- Cra_sHIt
- Barf
- Lord Carhorn

His claims to fame include:

-  Cammer videos of nominal driving infractions.
-  Illinois isn't flat (it is).
-  Wallethub is the only way to analyze statistics (except when it isn't favorable towards Illinois).
-  He once claimed to be dating a 19 year old (never provided proof though). 
-  He would lob baseless accusations of racism despite being a confirmed uber transphobe. 

Don't forget his disdain towards Wisconsin residents.

Almost forgot about the food reviews of course.  Illinois as we all know is the top tier destination for Mexican food.

[D-Dey65]

I think Facebook has become close to useless to me.

Facebook is for two things:
1) Posting pics of vacations so that friends and family can see if they so choose
2) Facebook marketplace since it's basically Craigslist where there's not a 95% chance someone wants to scam you

Meh.  I keep track of my old friends through it.

Yeah. But you're old.

My mother was on Classmates as well as Facebook for a while. Some supposed fellow Bayside High School student supposedly recommended something in a message on that site. She wrote back and found out from his kids that he was dead. That was when she cancelled her subscription to Classmates.

[thenetwork]

I think Facebook has become close to useless to me.

Facebook is for two things:
1) Posting pics of vacations so that friends and family can see if they so choose
2) Facebook marketplace since it's basically Craigslist where there's not a 95% chance someone wants to scam you

Meh.  I keep track of my old friends through it.

Yeah. But you're old.

My mother was on Classmates as well as Facebook for a while. Some supposed fellow Bayside High School student supposedly recommended something in a message on that site. She wrote back and found out from his kids that he was dead. That was when she cancelled her subscription to Classmates.

My experience in high school was not a good one.  I have never attended a class reunion (well, I walked by one once).  Yet I get regular emails from Classmates asking me to check out the latest news from my graduating class.

If I want to see what has become of my graduating class, I'll go to Facebook and "lurk" on their Facebook page every few years and see how and where some of these classmates wound up when I need a good laugh.

[JayhawkCO]

I think Facebook has become close to useless to me.

Facebook is for two things:
1) Posting pics of vacations so that friends and family can see if they so choose
2) Facebook marketplace since it's basically Craigslist where there's not a 95% chance someone wants to scam you

Ha. I see a lot of "they scammed me" posts about FB Marketplace sellers.

At least with Facebook, you should be able to see it coming. Craigslist you have no context of who you're actually talking to. At least you get a profile pic on FB.

[kphoger]

For Christmas I got y'all a nice shiny padlock.

For Christmas I got my wife a nice shiny padlock.  And I'm not even kidding.

We've been going to the gym a lot lately, as she's been on a journey to get healthier.  For Christmas this year, I bought her a gym bag so she can wear a jacket and thicker pants or whatever in the car on the way to/from the gym during the winter.  And, to go along with that, I also got her a padlock to put on the locker door.

I must say, though, that when she unwrapped the padlock first, she was a bit confused...

After just a few times using the padlock at the gym, last week she couldn't unlock it.  Fortunately, it was locked to her new gym bag on the way there, rather than to the locker during our workout.  After we got home, we tried some more to get it unlocked.  It's one of those ones with four little number wheels, and her combination was 1-6-0-2.  On a whim, I tried 1-6-0-1 instead, and then 1-6-0-3.  That second one worked, and the lock popped open.  Then it took several attempts to get the thing closed again to try opening it again.  Finally, we succeeded, and now the thing works correctly without issue.

But now we don't trust it.  It seems to work just fine now, but we still don't want to put it on a locker, for fear that we won't be able to get it open again.  Yet we also don't want to just throw what appears to be a perfectly good padlock in the trash, either.

[GaryV]

But now we don't trust it.  It seems to work just fine now, but we still don't want to put it on a locker, for fear that we won't be able to get it open again.  Yet we also don't want to just throw what appears to be a perfectly good padlock in the trash, either.

Lock it on one of those "Here's our padlock to show our eternal love" places.

[hbelkins]

Use of "YT" instead of "white."

[kphoger]

Use of "YT" instead of "white."

Totally ignores the sizeable indigenous population of Yukon Territory.

[JayhawkCO]

Use of "YT" instead of "white."

Totally ignores the sizeable indigenous population of Yukon Territory.

And the rapper Young Thug.

[Plutonic Panda]

Use of "YT" instead of "white."

Totally ignores the sizeable indigenous population of Yukon Territory.

And the rapper Young Thug.

Hey man, don't hit on that guy. He did a lot of shit just to live that lifestyle.

[JayhawkCO]

Use of "YT" instead of "white."

Totally ignores the sizeable indigenous population of Yukon Territory.

And the rapper Young Thug.

Hey man, don't hit on that guy. He did a lot of shit just to live that lifestyle.

Truly humble under god.

[LilianaUwU]

Use of "YT" instead of "white."

Totally ignores the sizeable indigenous population of Yukon Territory.

And the rapper Young Thug.

And YouTube.

[Rothman]

Use of "YT" instead of "white."

Totally ignores the sizeable indigenous population of Yukon Territory.

And the rapper Young Thug.

And YouTube.

Wait until HB learns about YN...

[LilianaUwU]

Use of "YT" instead of "white."

Totally ignores the sizeable indigenous population of Yukon Territory.

And the rapper Young Thug.

And YouTube.

Wait until HB learns about YN...

YouNube is the worst.

[Scott5114]

For Christmas I got y'all a nice shiny padlock.

For Christmas I got my wife a nice shiny padlock.  And I'm not even kidding.

We've been going to the gym a lot lately, as she's been on a journey to get healthier.  For Christmas this year, I bought her a gym bag so she can wear a jacket and thicker pants or whatever in the car on the way to/from the gym during the winter.  And, to go along with that, I also got her a padlock to put on the locker door.

I must say, though, that when she unwrapped the padlock first, she was a bit confused...

After just a few times using the padlock at the gym, last week she couldn't unlock it.  Fortunately, it was locked to her new gym bag on the way there, rather than to the locker during our workout.  After we got home, we tried some more to get it unlocked.  It's one of those ones with four little number wheels, and her combination was 1-6-0-2.  On a whim, I tried 1-6-0-1 instead, and then 1-6-0-3.  That second one worked, and the lock popped open.  Then it took several attempts to get the thing closed again to try opening it again.  Finally, we succeeded, and now the thing works correctly without issue.

But now we don't trust it.  It seems to work just fine now, but we still don't want to put it on a locker, for fear that we won't be able to get it open again.  Yet we also don't want to just throw what appears to be a perfectly good padlock in the trash, either.

My lock can do this too. What happened is that at some point when the hasp was open it got pulled upward, which allows you to set the combination. And then one of the wheels got nudged.

When you know this can happen, it's not too hard just be careful with it when the hasp is open.

[D-Dey65]

Ugh! I just found out I missed the chance to register for the 25th Anniversary Wikipedia NYC event. It was scheduled for tomorrow and postponed, but they didn't change the registration date.

[SSOWorld]

Ugh! I just found out I missed the chance to register for the 25th Anniversary Wikipedia NYC event. It was scheduled for tomorrow and postponed, but they didn't change the registration date.

Sorry about that.

[kphoger]

When I'm in a restroom, and there's a tri-fold paper towel dispenser, and I grab one or two like a good frugal citizen, but nine of them come out in one long chain.

[wxfree]

regardless

I came here to complain about my browser not letting me type "ir-regardless" as an unhyphenated word.  (That's what I typed in the first line.)  I turned off the spelling checker, which is the only option I could find, and I don't want to turn it off because I like having misspellings underlined, but I want to be able to misspellify a word if I choose to.  And I found that my browser appears not to be the culprit, but the forum seems to be fixing that for me.  I typed it in and hit the Preview button, and the text box had the correct wrong spelling, while the preview had the unwanted corrected spelling.  I wanted to complain about my computer settings being different without asking me, but they aren't.  I don't want to complain about someone else's computer settings, so I'll just mention that this bothered me.  I hadn't noticed that feature before.

[kphoger]

regardless

I came here to complain about my browser not letting me type "ir-regardless" as an unhyphenated word.  (That's what I typed in the first line.)  I turned off the spelling checker, which is the only option I could find, and I don't want to turn it off because I like having misspellings underlined, but I want to be able to misspellify a word if I choose to.  And I found that my browser appears not to be the culprit, but the forum seems to be fixing that for me.  I typed it in and hit the Preview button, and the text box had the correct wrong spelling, while the preview had the unwanted corrected spelling.  I wanted to complain about my computer settings being different without asking me, but they aren't.  I don't want to complain about someone else's computer settings, so I'll just mention that this bothered me.  I hadn't noticed that feature before.

You can get around that by spelling it impleasable.