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What annoys you most?; Rant here if you need to!
Topic Started: Mar 3 2013, 08:45 AM (309,901 Views)
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Yeaaaaah. He's a nice enough guy (until you get him talking politics) but he says some pretty weird stuff from time-to-time.

A few weeks ago he stumbled on some website claiming that photographs taken in the 1920s "irrefutably" show evidence of present-day time travelers, because some people in the photos are wearing t-shirts, what look like wrap-around sunglasses, and are carrying digital cameras. He nearly lost his mind over it.

What's worse... the other guys in MX Control had to have the concept of "time travel" explained to them. I mean... even if you're not versed in science fiction or speculative science, I would think the term "Time Travel" is fairly self-explanatory.

I tried explaining that while time travel from present-to-future is theoretically possible, even Stephen Hawking doubts the possibility of present-to-past time travel.

His response? "Who is Stephen Hawking?"

I face-palmed.
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Yay for no common knowledge at all!
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People where I live don't know who our Prime Minister is.
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Actually, that probably annoys me the most. People with no common sense.
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I couldn't resist

But yeah, people with no common sense or who are just plain wrong are annoying. No one will get this but there was a guy who worked at my local Games Workshop who claimed the reason there was no Chaos Dwarf army available at the time was because in the game's fluff they were wiped out by the Wood Elves.

There is so much wrong with that, I am still shocked he said something like that as fact, especially to someone who'd been in the hobby for twice as long as him and has about ten times more stuff for it than him

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The office I work in has some special people in it, and a lot of really dumb things are said that make my brains asplode. Sometimes it's a lack of common sense, sometimes just sheer dumb@ssery. I don't think everyone is going to know exactly who Stephen Hawking is, but he's kind of a household name, right? Maybe if I had said "Einstein" instead, even though I'm fuzzy on the details surrounding any theories Einstein may have postulated regarding time travel.

A lady here got on a rant a few weeks ago about the Congressional sequester and finished with "Thanks, Obama."

Thankfully, my friend Bryant beat me to it and explained what the sequester actually is, why it happened, and who was responsible for it. He shot me an e-mail later; "Sometimes, I wonder if it's even worth bothering... Sheesh."

Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, is knowing what you're talking about before blaming someone REALLY so much to ask? Oy...
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And among the worst is, when I see these things on Facebook :
1+1+1+1+1+1*0
I reply 5. And then someone says it makes 0 and I should go back to school -.-
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If you multiply anything times 0, it's meant to be 0. At least that's the rule of math I learned.
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All the stupid people in the world. We should genetically-splice and successfully create a T. Rex (impossible) and ship all these dopes to the T.rex cage. Then we see the happiness.


What also annoys me? Annoyances. Annoyances annoy me.
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Jun 8 2013, 06:54 PM
If you multiply anything times 0, it's meant to be 0. At least that's the rule of math I learned.
First rule of math is multiplication comes first. Except when there's brackets.
1+1+1+1+1+1*0=1+1+1+1+1+0=5
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Maths is stupid
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Math makes me feel stupid.
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Murdock129
Jun 8 2013, 07:02 PM
Maths is stupid
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There are lots of art forms that actually use complex mathematical equations to create the art itself. Fractals as art are a good example. ;)

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That's math. But pretty.
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It really annoys me when people don't even know the basics of animals, or try to sound smart but screw it all up. Its fine if you don't know what a caecilian is, but don't tell everyone around you that its a snake. -.-

My personal pet-peeves are calling salamanders lizards or mixing up lions and tigers.
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