What induces nerd rage in you?

[OrfBC]

What annoys you, but also makes you think "Wow, it is so pathetic that this bothers me so much."


Me? "Cyclons".

[Timemaster Tim]

People who refer to their PC as "the hard drive". It's not just a hard drive! There's a freakin' motherboard with a freakin' CPU and freakin' RAM in there too!!!!!

Okay. I'm calmer now.

[madkevin]

What doesn't?

[mystery]

People who put "the" in front of technological things, as if it's somehow unique.

"I found it on the Google."

[Kevin J Baird]

People who don't eat certain kinds of food and who have to point it out whenever you are eating any of such food. As though you'll suddenly grip them by the back of the head and force them to eat a spoonful. I really don't need to know that something I'm eating makes you gag, or you threw-up once when you ate it. Seriously...

[Abilio Carvalho]

pathetic things that drive me insane? Not that many, actually, but the one that does is WAY pathetic:

people that misread the rules and believe it's possible to slide their regiments around while charging in Warhammer.



Yeah.

[John Many Jars]

People who 1) set their TVs to stretch 4:3 content to 16:9 AND 2) sneer at others' explanations of why this is wrong, because BIGGER is BETTER in any ratio.

[Brian Seiler]

H emmer effing R. I just had to forward my job description to my HR department. Maybe that's more general rage than nerd rage, but I lump it together because they should freaking know this stuff already.

And in my part of the country they call it "the CPU" instead of "the hard drive."

Any person who ever buys a pre-packaged system at a higher price than it would have cost than rolling their own, despite the fact that I have advertised very clearly on several occasions the fact that I would be happy to show everybody how to build a goddamn computer out of parts. Maybe in the lunchroom so that everybody can see.

When television shows get technology so wrong that it learns to sleep with its back to the wall out of habit.

When people fail to use classification systems properly. Like, take an online dating site from the thread just over ----> that a way. OkCupid, if you believe it, is full of bisexuals. That's great, except all of them are looking to date women exclusively. So, I'm forced to ask, why in the donkey launching gorilla fuck did you label yourself bisexual? Did you think that anybody was going to draw some deep and fundamental conclusion about how you classify yourself as an individual and your personal sexual identity based on the field in a form? No. No they weren't. You're just absolutely goddamn fucking up the system for people who are trying to use it by inserting yourself into search results that you want to be excluded from. Read between the lines you drooling idiot - the field is for sorting people who want to have sex with what kind of people they want to have sex with. If you don't want to have sex with guys right now, whether because you already have one or because you're just not into that at the moment, call yourself a lesbian.

People who take out problem tickets with me to report problems where if they had just bothered to put the text of their error message into the fucking Google search box and hit the button, the cause of their problem would have become flagrantly obvious. I know that you might be too dumb to figure out how to configure your internet proxy settings, but I'd like to think that you can work a box and a button.

Every single IE/FireFox toolbar ever created and their pigheaded insistence on pop-up blocking, and, furthermore, the general ignorance of the plebeian masses to the fact that ALL OF THEM DO THAT. You know how many times a month I get some dumbass client complaining about the report not loading in its pop-up box and he's got goddamn Yahoo! toolbar or some other pile of ridiculous crap running right there?

People who think that it's a good idea to develop "macros" for Microsoft Office. Seriously. That stupid tool you make today to copy all of your data to some third worksheet where it will then be molested thoroughly and handed off to the final book for publication will one day be my problem, and you know what? You suck at doing code. That's why nobody wants to pay you to do it. So stop.

Flash websites. I have buttons on my browser for a goddamn reason you shit eating ass crackers. Let me lend you some clues - your web designer is a hack. It is not cool that I have to use your in-browser menu to navigate from your blog to your photos to your bio just to tell if you're Screaming Idiot #12 from Large-Scale Hollywood Action Movie, and it is even more not cool that when I go and hit the back button like I have been trained to do by ten years of having access to the internet that I am then booted directly back to your entry splash page - or even better, the Google search results.

Web designers in general, for that matter, kind of piss me off, if only because they seem to have given up their craft in the name of looking like Twitter. Somebody recently booted me in the ass until I finally created a Facebook account and as far as I can tell, it's the same goddamn thing, which makes it doubly baffling to me. And OkCupid is doing that now too.

Which reminds me - social networks. What the hell? Why do I have a Facebook account? From what I can tell, all it's good for is playing games that are, for the most part, better replicated with their own standalone applications and looking at other people's pictures like some kind of pervy stalker, which I could do just as well from the bushes by their bedroom windows. You've got your LinkedIn for business and your MySpace for musicians for some reason and your Facebook for your "real" friends and why the hell do I have them? They're like email addresses except you have to be on the network to send anything to anybody. So congratulations, retards - you just sponsored what amounts to proprietary HotMail. Not that I'm any better, because I've got one too, but at least I'm doing my damnedest not to do anything with it.


*pant* *pant* Okay. Okay. I think I'm out for now, mostly because I have to beat my brother home to give him a blood meter to see if he's got a wonderful chronic disease. There's totally more, though. I suspect I may have drifted from the nerd theme at some point, though.

[OrfBC]

RAAAAGH!

Nope, those are all totally valid things to be annoyed with.

I am annoyed by "lawl".

[Jon Rowe]

Nerd Rage.

[Tankero]

So many things, sooooo many things...

TV ads, hypocritical language in press releases, any sort of ad campaign aimed at <SNEER QUOTE OPEN>gamers<SNEER QUOTE CLOSE>.

Also, anything George Carlin used to get mad at.

[Cubit]

a lot of what you guys are posting sure is annoying, but it isn't necessarily nerd rage.



Term used to describe extreme anger, offence, indignation, and other similar emotions by a nerd, geek or similar. Nerd Rage can be triggered by a number of things, most commonly through helplessness in the face of bullying, internet fights, or seeing their favorite film/show/anime/etc degraded or insulted in some way.

now lets get serious

[Adam Altmann]

-That there is such a thing as "The Committee for Workplace Enthusiasm". That someone thought it up, and subsequently decided it was a fine idea. That people are on this committee. That I have gotten emails from them.

-Poor use of the english language in any sort of professional capacity. For example: in pamphlets, anything on company letterhead, television commercials, news broadcasts, mass emails, presentations, etc. I got all uppity about this one earlier today:


With the hustle and bustle of today’s face-paced living, who couldn’t use a little stress relief?!
Everybody is stressed-out, but few people have the tools they need to adequately address the effects these stresses have on their body. And stress has many detrimental effects, including sleep disturbances, increased irritability, loss of concentration, focus and memory, and lost productivity. Once more, the negative impacts of stress have been linked to high blood pressure, weight gain, anxiety, fatigue and numerous other diseases.

[Zylon]

To the great surprise of nobody, the expression "digital download" irritates the piss out of me.

ALL DOWNLOADS ARE DIGITAL.

[MarchHare]

Greedo shooting first.

Comic Sans.

Employees at my company who think that because it's my job to fix their work computer, it's also my job to fix their home computer.

Employees at my company who think that because it's my job to fix their work computer, it's also my job to fix their kid's Xbox.

[Cubit]

Nothing pisses me off more than an employee at my work replying to all instead just replying. Stop filling up my inbox with your worthless questions you fucks.

[Tyjenks]

Any utterance from the wife regarding my videogaming. Stone SOup the other night was called "That game with the city you have been playing". What? Aside from the fact that her description is completely inaccurate, do you even look at the screen? The fact that every videogame is, "The one where you are slaying dragons". The fact that she thinks Reality TV has some beneficial quality to it that in anyway trumps gaming in any form.

Mine may be better classified as Marital Rage.

[theborbes]

It really annoys me when people use the word meme as some kind of descriptor. like "meme art"... all art is composed of memes. "internet memes" aren't as much of an abuse to language as the first example, but in that case whoever uses that term is just too lazy to actually describe what it really is, like maybe it's just a saying, or a joke.

The other thing that annoys me is misuse of the word evolution.

[EvilIdler]

You know what's worse than average dumbfucks referring to the computer as "the CPU"? Programmers referring to the fucking computer as "the CPU". Yeah, we've got one over at some developer forum.

I also have immense hatred for people who are too lazy to get their own domain for e-mail. THAT is true nerd rage!

[Case]

The Balrog has wings.

OK, didn't mean to go there. Just kidding ;-)

[Athryn]

-That there is such a thing as "The Committee for Workplace Enthusiasm". That someone thought it up, and subsequently decided it was a fine idea. That people are on this committee. That I have gotten emails from them.

-Poor use of the english language in any sort of professional capacity. For example: in pamphlets, anything on company letterhead, television commercials, news broadcasts, mass emails, presentations, etc. I got all uppity about this one earlier today:

You left out all the Wow stuff that gives you nerdrage!

[Shadarr]

Which reminds me - social networks. What the hell? Why do I have a Facebook account? From what I can tell, all it's good for is playing games that are, for the most part, better replicated with their own standalone applications and looking at other people's pictures like some kind of pervy stalker, which I could do just as well from the bushes by their bedroom windows. You've got your LinkedIn for business and your MySpace for musicians for some reason and your Facebook for your "real" friends and why the hell do I have them? They're like email addresses except you have to be on the network to send anything to anybody. So congratulations, retards - you just sponsored what amounts to proprietary HotMail. Not that I'm any better, because I've got one too, but at least I'm doing my damnedest not to do anything with it.

I kind of like Facebook. It allows me to keep up with people I know but don't actually want to talk to. It's basically a gossip site. Thanks to Facebook I know that somebody I haven't seen in three years just had a kid, and I even re-connected with a couple people I haven't talked to in months. Of course, I also know that about five different people hate Mondays, and what Superhero/D&D Alignment/whatever they all are, but you can block that to some extent.

Its main advantage over email is that it can be passive. You don't need to send a "what's up" email to anyone, you can just check it and see. And then comment, if the urge strikes you. And conversely, you don't need to send the same email to all your friends telling them you got a new cat or wrecked your car, you can just post it and they'll see. Basically, it's like XBox live--the quality of the service is determined by the quality of your friendlist.


Anyway, my current nerd rage is corporate spam. I get so much crap in my inbox about Executive All-Hands teleconferences and Quarterly Results, not to mention people from other offices sending a city-wide spam to tell everyone that the fax machine is out of order, it's maddening. And then you get people replying-to-all to tell them to cut down on spam. Gah!

[Shadarr]

I also have immense hatred for people who are too lazy to get their own domain for e-mail. THAT is true nerd rage!

What? Why? I have a domain but I don't use it for email because I haven't seen the need.

[Demon G Sides]

When a professor assigns a reading that's half french in a history class full of students that don't know fucking french. Seriously, how does that help us, any? It doesn't, asshole. Who cares if you wrote a book on ending the french revolution, we're talking about all of Europe, not just France, dick.

[FoRmaT]

Linux zealots.

[merryprankster]

Nitpicking Nerds!

[Omniscia]

People who 1) set their TVs to stretch 4:3 content to 16:9 AND 2) sneer at others' explanations of why this is wrong, because BIGGER is BETTER in any ratio.

Ooh, but what about broadcasters who think 4:3 480p video stretched to fit a 16:9 display = HD?

[nKoan]

People who refer to their PC as "the hard drive". It's not just a hard drive! There's a freakin' motherboard with a freakin' CPU and freakin' RAM in there too!!!!!

Okay. I'm calmer now.

What about the people that refer to the whole tower as "The CPU"?

[Cubit]

I see people all the time refer to the monitor as the computer too. Bleh

[nKoan]

Nothing pisses me off more than an employee at my work replying to all instead just replying. Stop filling up my inbox with your worthless questions you fucks.

Oh, the best is when someone hits "Reply to All" to say "Take me off this distribution list" or "Please stop hitting Reply To All"

[Shadari]

People who play FPSes with gamepads! :P

[Aeon221]

When a professor assigns a reading that's half french in a history class full of students that don't know fucking french. Seriously, how does that help us, any? It doesn't, asshole. Who cares if you wrote a book on ending the french revolution, we're talking about all of Europe, not just France, dick.

Nous ne pas avons besoin de quelqu'un qui ne peux pas parler francais.

[Case]

You've been watching History Channel, haven't you?


Ooh, but what about broadcasters who think 4:3 480p video stretched to fit a 16:9 display = HD?

[jabroni]

Top posting!

[Zylon]

Work-related: Calling all large-format printers "plotters".

[jerri blank]

1) When my parents, not-very-savvy co-workers or anyone else uses Google instead of the address bar to get to web sites. They don't appear to know the difference. They would have been dead meat before Google and other search engines came along.

2) My much-smarter-than-me partner, who is looking over my shoulder right now, adds this: people who believe Google is synonymous with "the Internet." I know people (my parents included) who believe the Web is "the Internet" and that e-mail exists, I dunno, outside it, I guess.

3) I get really pissed when someone wants to send me a PDF of a document they're working on, and instead of using the PDF printer that's probably installed in their system, they print the fucker out and then scan it into Adobe. It's especially annoying when Large Federal Housing Agencies do it, because it creates a document that's not even remotely accessible to blind people.

4) People who think that they are web designers simply because they can operate Microsoft Front Page (or its current incarnation, Expression Web).

5) "Designers" of online college courses who spend no time on the Internet (or the WWW, or Google - whatever you want to call it) and thus do not understand the conventions, like navigation. (Contributed by my above-referenced partner)

That's all for now. We're ashamed that we can muster only about one-third of Brian Seiler's nerd rage.

[Sockpuppet]

I get all nerd-rage-y about copyright protection, and why you shouldn't illegally download movies/games/music/etc.

Naturally, this makes me quite the hit at parties.

[Waltzer]

Swine flu.

[Shadarr]

1) When my parents, not-very-savvy co-workers or anyone else uses Google instead of the address bar to get to web sites. They don't appear to know the difference.

I especially like people who, every time they want to check their email, go to Google and type in Hotmail.

[Omniscia]

You've been watching History Channel, haven't you?

Not recently. I was thinking specifically of AMC HD.

[mystery]

You left out all the Wow stuff that gives you nerdrage!

It takes 15 FUCKING MINUTES to fly from Darnassus to ANYWHERE.

[Major Icehole]

I really really get bent out of shape when people confuse Star-Wars with Star-Trek.

If that's not nerd rage, nothing is.

[jerri blank]

I get bent out of shape when people hyphenate unnecessarily.

[cesare]

People who post questions about girls and relationships on gaming forums, or comment extensively about their incredibly meaningless, boring lives, or who look for sympathy from strangers by posting sad sap stories that most people roll their eyes at but 20% of the population feels the need to chime in about because they've got that "there there, things will be ok" impulse.

IT'S A FUCKING GAME FORUM. Going to a game forum for serious life advice makes as much sense as going to a cooking forum and asking them how to fix a ruined hard drive/CPU (depending on your region). You're pre-selecting a subset of humanity who overall has shitty fucking social skills and asking them for advice on social situations? Seriously? A collection of introverts, weirdos, socially awkward types, pompous douchebags with delusions of grandeur, and people who READ INTERNET FORUMS TO LEARN HOW TO INTERACT SOCIALLY? Seriously?!

I imagine going to ANY forum to learn how to behave or to get social sympathy is sorta ridiculous, but it seems especially out of place on gaming forums.

[Bahimiron]

Ooh, but what about broadcasters who think 4:3 480p video stretched to fit a 16:9 display = HD?

Son of a bitch, I don't even know why Sci Fi and TBS bother with HD channels. On TBS they seem to think that stretching SD content makes it HD and on Sci Fi they'll take a widescreen show and show it in SD with black bars on the top and bottom on their HD channel. Nothing makes me happier than watching something on my HDTV that has black bars on every fucking side. Sure, I could zoom in on it, but it's already a shitty SD signal, so zooming in is just going to make it a super shitty SD channel.

Oh, also my current peeve is purebreed fanatics who use the term 'mutt' as a perjorative. Fuck you, you inbreeding, deformity-fetishizing shits. You insist that your breeders are better than backyard breeders because they 'care about improving the breed', but they still care about bullshit like conformation and breed characteristics that serve no purpose but to appeal to a specific human athstetic, even when those characteristics lead to animals that can't breathe, can't support their size or have bones that eventually fail. The best things for dogs as a species would be is if they made intentional breeding illegal for two years, allowed it for one, then made it illegal for another two. Dissolving the AKC couldn't hurt, either.


People who play FPSes with gamepads! :P

People who give a shit about what other people are playing their games on.


Swine flu.

Thieves.

[Ex-S Woo]

When game journalists and enthusiasts who clearly do not have a technical background muse about the the technical aspects of how software/games are developed.

Nothing else makes me skip a podcast faster than this type of discussion :)

[Lunch of Kong]

When game journalists and enthusiasts who clearly do not have a technical background muse about the the technical aspects of how software/games are developed.

Oh, XS, that sort of thing is trivial to implement these days. Just trivial.

[sam and the firefly]

I guess these are just grammar nerd rage really, but they're more common in game writing/forums than anywhere else: "a good value" and "addicting".

Sets my teeth on edge.

[russellmz00]

if you point out something is wrong you're expert on (whether amateur hobbist or you study professional), people who say it doesn't matter or roll their eyes. (a bradley ifv is NOT a tank)

alternately, when know-it-alls point out some meaningless error and get annoyed when you roll your eyes and point out it doesn't matter. (yes, it's HORRIBLE that the street sign font in the background of this movie that takes place in the 1930s is wrong)

[Equis]

Writers and Directors who sacrifice proper character development for "THIS IS COOL!!" moments, especially on characters with depth and story to them already.

[croman]

Anything and everything having to do with Twitter.

[EvilIdler]

What? Why? I have a domain but I don't use it for email because I haven't seen the need.

Like I said - true nerd rage :)

(I do se a lot of "businesses" using Hotmail, too - that is entirely wrong, and not even allowed by the EULA)

[Rasputin]

The person who once asked me, "Does this use the AOL Internet or the Big Blue 'E' Internet," and all similarly basic questions ESPECIALLY when asked by my family.

[Hunty]

When films take liberties with the geography of a city I know. Such as when they're speeding across a bridge in a car chase and then end up on the wrong side of the river in the next shot, or whatever.

The word "oftentimes".

[dermot]

I have a colleague who constantly uses the word 'methinks' in correspondance. Drives me fucking insane. The same bloke also *insists* that a server with a GigE interface should be connected to a GigE switch port even when said server never exceeds 10Mbps of network traffic.

And I second the wifey criticism earlier in the thread. I have absolutely no issue with my wife watching One Tree Hill or America's Next Top Model or any of the other awful awful shows that she loves; I get that they entertain her and that it's her way of unwinding after a stressful day at work and so on but it annoys me when she accuses me of wasting time on the internet or playing Xbox.

Nerd rage works both ways though. I very deliberately say 'mute point' in certain company because I *know* that it will bother someone.

[Rob_Merritt]

People who refer to videogames as "tapes." It made some sense when they were a cartridge but they have been on disks for 16+ years!

[WarrenM]

People who start email threads on touchy subjects, generate tons of replies, and then bitch about the thread and pray that it will die so they can get back to work.

Oh, and "methinks". Fuck off, already.

[Brad Grenz]

Here's one. Attempts to create philosophical arguments to justify vegetarianism/veganism. It was becoming a pretty popular subject at the undergrad philosophy conference I attended three strait years before graduating last May. I took great pleasure in going to those sessions each year and playing whack-a-mole with with their bad ideas.

[Omniscia]

I sometimes counter-argue that my steak/jacket/shoes/etc won't be any less dead if I don't buy them, so my eating/wearing it, I'm honoring the source creature's sacrifice and ensuring it did not die in vain. Better for a bit of its protein to live on in me than to wind up in a landfill.

But then, I don't eat that much meat (or wear that much leather), and when I do, I try to get it from a humane source.

[dermot]

I sometimes counter-argue that my steak/jacket/shoes/etc won't be any less dead if I don't buy them, so my eating/wearing it, I'm honoring the source creature's sacrifice and ensuring it did not die in vain. Better for a bit of its protein to live on in me than to wind up in a landfill.

But then, I don't eat that much meat (or wear that much leather), and when I do, I try to get it from a humane source.
I read that as 'human'. Puts a slightly different spin on it.

My usual reasoning in this type of situation is that if nobody ate meat, we'd have to turn *all* of the land over to crop production to be able to produce anywhere near enough food to feed everybody; there'd be no economic imperative to retain *any* of the animals that veggies and vegans are so enamoured of and even creatures as common and mundane as cows would be rarely seen outside of petting zoos. "So you see [takes a bite of rare steak before continuing to speak as a small dribble of blood runs down his chin] really I'm eating them for their own good".

I thought of something that's more along the lines of raging *at* nerds: when people try to explain away every plothole or WTF moment in Star Wars by referring to some shitty book that offers an explanation.

[WarrenM]

I read that as 'human'. Puts a slightly different spin on it.
I did too and had to go back and read the sentence again. My second reading wasn't nearly as awesome.

[Timemaster Tim]

Top posting!

That makes you a usenet nerd.

[Bahimiron]

When films take liberties with the geography of a city I know. Such as when they're speeding across a bridge in a car chase and then end up on the wrong side of the river in the next shot, or whatever.

I can't watch Fringe because of this. Driving from Cambridge to Saugus in five minutes? Saying that a scene takes place at Boston College and then showing the B line train pass by what is clearly Comm Ave at around, oh, St Paul St? Being on warehouse docks with the bay in the background and saying into your phone "I'm in Watertown!"? Really? Guys? You don't have a map you can consult?


I have a colleague who constantly uses the word 'methinks' in correspondance.

People who say 'aye' in any situation other than roleplaying.

[Aeon221]

I read that as 'human'. Puts a slightly different spin on it.

My usual reasoning in this type of situation is that if nobody ate meat, we'd have to turn *all* of the land over to crop production to be able to produce anywhere near enough food to feed everybody; there'd be no economic imperative to retain *any* of the animals that veggies and vegans are so enamoured of and even creatures as common and mundane as cows would be rarely seen outside of petting zoos. "So you see [takes a bite of rare steak before continuing to speak as a small dribble of blood runs down his chin] really I'm eating them for their own good".

I thought of something that's more along the lines of raging *at* nerds: when people try to explain away every plothole or WTF moment in Star Wars by referring to some shitty book that offers an explanation.

Vegetarians still eat eggs and milk. Well, most of us do. So it's ok, there'd still be a use for cattle and chickens in the future!

[deccan]

I read that as 'human'. Puts a slightly different spin on it.

My usual reasoning in this type of situation is that if nobody ate meat, we'd have to turn *all* of the land over to crop production to be able to produce anywhere near enough food to feed everybody;

This part isn't quite true enough. Since meat is so expensive to produce (in terms of biomass and water required), if everyone switched to crops and veggies, I'd imagine we'd free up lots of land for other uses.

[Matt Bowyer]

When I'm watching football and someone -- usually Phil Simms, the cretin -- mentions that "when Willie Parker carries the ball over 25 times, the Steelers are 20-1" or some bullshit like that. What's the implication? Oh, just hand the ball to Willie and they win! Guess what, you moron? CORRELATION ISN'T CAUSATION! Do you know WHY Willie Parker has 25 carries? Because the Steelers are up by three scores and they're killing clock! His number of carries relate to the Steelers winning because Big Ben threw for two scores in the first half and Troy picked off a pass and forced a fumble! Are you even WATCHING, you brain-dead oaf?

Of course, Phil Simms thinks statistics are for losers and he'd never trust any numbers to make any decisions for him, by God, you've got to know about the kid's heart!

Maybe I just have Phil Simms nerd-rage, but then I think about Joe Buck and just who in the hell thinks he's even a little bit good, he's an obnoxious little tit! Raaaaaaage!

I'm very popular on Sundays.

[Bahimiron]

Guys, we have threads for limp wristed vegetarians and bloodthirsty barbarian meateaters to flail at one another over who is living the right lifestyle. This doesn't need to be one of them. This is a thread for airing your grievances, not offering up your concerns for discussion.

[Omniscia]

Speaking of things nerds do that enrages me, I can't stand those gawky little dweebs (I knew several in high school and university) who go around quoting Monty Python sketches in their entirety all day long.

Mimicking something that was previously adjudged to be funny doesn't make you hilarious by association. Just sad.

[WarrenM]

Speaking of things nerds do that enrages me, I can't stand those gawky little dweebs (I knew several in high school and university) who go around quoting Monty Python sketches in their entirety all day long.
Is this equivocal to the situation where 3 or more nerds are watching a movie/game/whatever and someone gets badly hurt, someone just HAS to call out : "I'm not quite dead yet!" ?

Followed by a volley of super awesome and funny quotes from the black knight scene.

[Omniscia]

Yeah. Those people.

[Hunty]

Mimicking something that was previously adjudged to be funny doesn't make you hilarious by association. Just sad.

Not a phenomenon confined to Monty Python - I think it can in fact be applied to pretty much anyone who quotes any sort of cult comedy show in either way too much detail or with too much frequency. Particularly if they do it in a fucking awful accent trying to impersonate the original actor.

[Omniscia]

Oh, I know. It's just that the Pythonites seem to be the most common and the loudest among those I've encountered.

[Mr_PeaCH]

As a Pythonite I just have to say...

I didn't expect a sort of Spanish Inquisition.

/ducks

[dermot]

Guys, we have threads for limp wristed vegetarians and bloodthirsty barbarian meateaters to flail at one another over who is living the right lifestyle. This doesn't need to be one of them. This is a thread for airing your grievances, not offering up your concerns for discussion.
Just remembered another one: people on forums who insist on trying to stir threads back to the original poster's intended topic of conversation.

[Hans Lauring]

Guys, we have threads for limp wristed vegetarians and bloodthirsty barbarian meateaters to flail at one another over who is living the right lifestyle. This doesn't need to be one of them. This is a thread for airing your grievances, not offering up your concerns for discussion.

Ah, but nerds like dermot who start to educate me on a subject with smug arrogance and then gets the facts completely reversed is one of the few thing that does enrage me.

Well that and fellow journalists who writes about new findings and statitics without understanding any of the numbers and jumping to whopping conclusions regarding causation.

Or journalist giving nutcases equal representation in some weird misplaced sense of fairness and being objective.

Well basically just stupid fellow journalists...

Oh, and anybody posting "print is dead" or "do people still read XXX".

[dermot]

Ah, but nerds like dermot who start to educate me on a subject with smug arrogance and then gets the facts completely reversed is one of the few thing that does enrage me.
I did what now?

[Erich]

*Yawn*ing and *sigh*ing.

[WarrenM]

Let me also add : people who post comments like "*getting the popcorn*" in the middle of a discussion. Die.

[Hans Lauring]

I did what now?

Not directed towards me, but against those daft vegetarians.
When in fact stopping all meat production would free a lot of land leaving plenty for the cows to roam wild and look confused.

[Demon G Sides]

*Yawn*ing and *sigh*ing.

you must HATE FoRmAt.

[Hans Lauring]

Let me also add : people who post comments like "*getting the popcorn*" in the middle of a discussion. Die.

http://www.glhowe.com/TCFF/11.jpg

[Bahimiron]

Just remembered another one: people on forums who insist on trying to stir threads back to the original poster's intended topic of conversation.

So did I. People who needlessly derail a perfectly good thread to talk about something that there are plenty of other threads to talk about.

Hey, guys, who wants to hear about my frop bog?

[Adam Altmann]

When I'm watching football and someone -- usually Phil Simms, the cretin -- mentions that "when Willie Parker carries the ball over 25 times, the Steelers are 20-1" or some bullshit like that. What's the implication? Oh, just hand the ball to Willie and they win! Guess what, you moron? CORRELATION ISN'T CAUSATION! Do you know WHY Willie Parker has 25 carries? Because the Steelers are up by three scores and they're killing clock! His number of carries relate to the Steelers winning because Big Ben threw for two scores in the first half and Troy picked off a pass and forced a fumble! Are you even WATCHING, you brain-dead oaf?
Of course, Phil Simms thinks statistics are for losers and he'd never trust any numbers to make any decisions for him, by God, you've got to know about the kid's heart!
Maybe I just have Phil Simms nerd-rage, but then I think about Joe Buck and just who in the hell thinks he's even a little bit good, he's an obnoxious little tit! Raaaaaaage!
I'm very popular on Sundays.
Phil Simms is bad, but Troy Aikman makes me regularly explain to the television what a dipshit he is. John Madden's comments were at least entertaining in their absurdity...but those two guys, Aikman in particular, make me nerdrage (and this is tied to my previous post in this thread) because they're on television being broadcast to millions of viewers, and saying things that are completely idiotic.

pathetic things that drive me insane? Not that many, actually, but the one that does is WAY pathetic:

people that misread the rules and believe it's possible to slide their regiments around while charging in Warhammer.

Yeah.
I've given up trying to play Warhammer/Warhammer 40K in gaming clubs. The best luck I've had is getting friends to play with me. People who try to abuse the rules to win-at-all-costs turn me right off. I just want to play the game and have fun. I don't give a shit if I win. However, after about the second time you try to egregiously twist things in your favor, I just say "You win! Congratulations!" and forfeit the game.


You left out all the Wow stuff that gives you nerdrage!

That's less nerdrage, and more getting pissed off when people are being selfish, self-entitled douchebags. Whenever someone says they "deserve" some stupid purple loot, or tries to explain how their ability to min/max their 'toon in a video game (that isn't that difficult to begin with) makes them superior to someone else, I want to punch them through the internet.

[Rob_Merritt]

FLASHING BABY ADS!

(I'm looking at you Vance Vance revolution)

[Adam B]

you must HATE FoRmAt.

Stupid capitalization.

People who cannot understand fundamental grammatical rules. It's/its, their/there/they're, whatever. Yes, it's nitpicking. I'm also right, fuckers.

Twilight. Anything and everything remotely related to Twilight. The fact that I know several ladies in real life that luurrrrrrv it does not help this at all.

Oh god, the biggest one: People who name their characters something -- usually in an MMO -- but the actual spelling of the word was already taken by some unoriginal fuck and so they misspell it. Seffiroth. Ragnarrok. And even better, people who use alt-codes to use foreign characters to get the name they want. And it's always something terribly awesome, like Àragorn. I hate you all so much.

I'm well beloved in our server's trade channel.

[dermot]

Not directed towards me, but against those daft vegetarians.
When in fact stopping all meat production would free a lot of land leaving plenty for the cows to roam wild and look confused.
Heh, I thought it was obvious that I was being facetious. It's not like I *really* expect the entire population of the Earth to give up eating meat overnight. Or ever.


So did I. People who needlessly derail a perfectly good thread to talk about something that there are plenty of other threads to talk about.

Hey, guys, who wants to hear about my frop bog?
Ooh, yes please!

Back on topic:

People who doubleclick on icons in the quick launch bar.
People who continue clicking on the icon even after it's obvious that the application is starting.

[Bahimiron]

People who doubleclick on icons in the quick launch bar.

That's the nerdiest nerd rage there is! And I share it. Along with nerdrage toward people who doubleclick links. And refer to Word as Office. And Outlook as Windows. And Windows as Microsoft.

Also, while I'm no fan of banner ads in general, I fucking hate the ones that involve a repeated animation of people dancing. They're almost always for mortgages. For a while there they were silhouette people doing line dancing, and I hated that, but the new trend seems to be poser characters doing some kind of hideous rave dance.

Oh, and a very personal one. I hate it when people talk about their vacation in Florida and they say something like "We went to Disney World and Epcot." Epcot is in Walt Disney World. You're thinking of Magic Kingdom. Which is also a part of Walt Disney World.

[OrfBC]

you must HATE FoRmAt.

FoRmAt Is a HeLpFuL gUY bUt YeS ThIs WhOlE uPpErCaSe-LoWeRcAsE tHiNg Is A bIg OnE fOr Me.

[AaronSofaer]

Almost all of the students in all of my classes, and all of the work that we get assigned.

Everyone on WoW that's incompetent at the game but expects to be carried through Ulduar because they show up to the raid to contribute their shitty DPS/tanking/healing. Learn to play, fuckers, I do more damage than you as HEALING spec.

Anyone that exploits bugs in PvP. Fuck you, I hope you get banned, even though you won't because even in games about PvP, nobody gets even a slap on the wrist for exploiting in PvP.

[mouselock]

Nothing makes me happier than watching something on my HDTV that has black bars on every fucking side. Sure, I could zoom in on it, but it's already a shitty SD signal, so zooming in is just going to make it a super shitty SD channel.

Then clearly you've never had the joy of cleaning out the DVR to make room for that same "HD" movie to be recorded, only to come back and realize you've recorded a SD movie in "HD" format at roughly four times the size.

I ran across this last night on FX HD which was showing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In SD. Letterboxed. Cropped.

The awesome thing is when you don't even actually get 480P content this way, but instead shitty 480i content.

[dermot]

That's the nerdiest nerd rage there is! And I share it. Along with nerdrage toward people who doubleclick links.
Yes! And related to that: people who sit there staring blankly at the browser window oblivious to the fact that the page they requested has long since loaded in a background tab.

[Adam Altmann]

Oh god, the biggest one: People who name their characters something -- usually in an MMO -- but the actual spelling of the word was already taken by some unoriginal fuck and so they misspell it. Seffiroth. Ragnarrok. And even better, people who use alt-codes to use foreign characters to get the name they want. And it's always something terribly awesome, like Àragorn. I hate you all so much.

I am with you on this one. It's been my experience that Alliance side is about three times worse for this than Horde. I also HATE any Tauren name having anything to do with cows, beef, whatever. I hate you people. No, I really do.

[Adam B]

Ooh, another one! People who mess with the router at work because there's a hiccup in the DNS or whatever and they think they can fix it. Stop. Touching. The network settings. Please.

[madkevin]

My two biggest work-related irritations are: 1) people who refer to technology as a "priesthood" because they don't understand it. I get that technology can be confusing, but as far as I know you don't actually have to join an order of monks, assume various vows, and learn Latin in order to search Wikipedia.

2) But my absolute number one nerd-rage thing is people - and by "people", I mean my boss - who say a given piece of equipment is broken, when what they really mean is that they don't know how to use it.

[ceolstan]

People who write/say, "the data shows" instead of "the data show." "Data" is plural. Use plural verb forms.

Similarly, I really dislike it when I hear/read "I wish I was" or "if this was true" instead of "I wish I were" or "if this were true."

[Harkonis]

'turrent' instead of 'turret'
and 'rouge' instead of 'rogue'

[Adam B]

rediculous
needs nerfed

I'm so glad I quit my WoW forum habit.

[WarrenM]

"lightning" instead of "lighting"


People who write/say, "the data shows" instead of "the data show." "Data" is plural. Use plural verb forms.
Seems debatable (http://www.answers.com/data).

[mlatin]

People who refer to videogames as "tapes." It made some sense when they were a cartridge but they have been on disks for 16+ years!
"Discs"

[dermot]

My two biggest work-related irritations are: 1) people who refer to technology as a "priesthood" because they don't understand it. I get that technology can be confusing, but as far as I know you don't actually have to join an order of monks, assume various vows, and learn Latin in order to search Wikipedia.
Our CEO refers to techs and engineers as 'assholes'. I work for an ISP - I'm surrounded by assholes. I am, in fact, one of the senior assholes. On the one hand it's kind of infuriating that the CEO of a telecomms company can be so dismissive of the people who keep the machine running but there's also something perversely endearing about it.

Another work related one is when our frontline support teams latch onto something as the sole cause of every problem they encounter for a period of time. "There's a problem with DHCP". "There's a problem with RADIUS". "I think there's a problem with the DNS servers". "I think we've got some MTU issues on the L2VPN between Here and There".

[Jazar]

Grammar Nazis! Rage Against the Rage!

[dermot]

People who refer to videogames as "tapes." It made some sense when they were a cartridge but they have been on disks for 16+ years!
How did it make sense when they were on cartridge? Carts are arguably even further removed from magnetic tapes than discs are!

[CLWheeljack]

Archetypical != Prototypical != Typicial

[Ninyu]

We were doing inventory on the company laptops spread throughout the country. We sent an email asking people to send us their Dell Service tag numbers. My co-worker gets an envelope in the mail with a service tag inside it. Apparently, this woman thought that she was supposed to rip off the service tag and mail it to us.

She did a good job ripping it off. It was completely whole.

*sigh*

[John Many Jars]

How did it make sense when they were on cartridge? Carts are arguably even further removed from magnetic tapes than discs are!

Sure, but the casings vaguely resemble those of 8-track tapes, and you fit them into a slot the same way. (This one's for people who were clueless in 1975 and still are.)

[FoRmaT]

FoRmAt Is a HeLpFuL gUY bUt YeS ThIs WhOlE uPpErCaSe-LoWeRcAsE tHiNg Is A bIg OnE fOr Me.

Grrr.

http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/haduken.jpg


Dear Tom,

can you change my nick to "The poster formerly known as FoRmaT"? Kthnks.

Regards,

Patrick

[jpinard]

People who take advantage of others. Especially the wealthy who feel a sense of entitlement to big yachts, giant houses, overpriced cars... and then they claim they need to pay their workers almost nothing to get by.

[WarrenM]

People who can't just let a reference slide by without making it obvious to the world at large that THEY GET IT!! Either by adding a few more lines or just flat out stating what it's from. Just let the joke slide by in silent dignity, OK?

[Tim James]

I'm amazed that in 2009 you all still regularly encounter people that say "the CPU" or screw up computer words. My mom can't always remember how to get to her digital camera pictures, but even she's not that bad.

Bad day for me to think of nerd rage stuff I guess because I've got nothing. Apostrophe's for plural's make me twitch when I see them but never kick me off into rage.

[MarchHare]

Let me also add : people who post comments like "*getting the popcorn*" in the middle of a discussion. Die.

Along those same lines, people who write stuff like, "You just made me spit Mountain Dew all over my monitor" or "You owe me a new keyboard".



Oh god, the biggest one: People who name their characters something -- usually in an MMO -- but the actual spelling of the word was already taken by some unoriginal fuck and so they misspell it. Seffiroth. Ragnarrok. And even better, people who use alt-codes to use foreign characters to get the name they want. And it's always something terribly awesome, like Àragorn. I hate you all so much.


Argh, I hate that too.

One of my most reliable idiot-filters in WoW is to never group with anyone in a guild whose name is written in all caps with a space between every letter, <L I K E T H I S>. Why are so many guilds named like that? Do people really think that looks cool?

[Omniscia]

Or who use a lot of Xs to bookend their name, e.g. xXx_SePhIrOtH_xXx...

[Pogue Mahone]

Or who use a lot of Xs to bookend their name, e.g. xXx_SePhIrOtH_xXx...

Ah now see, I kind of appreciate that naming convention -- if for no other reason than it's an immediate visual indicator that I'm dealing with a teenager.

[Omniscia]

Or possibly a younger kid pretending to be a teenager.

[Pogue Mahone]

Or possibly a younger kid pretending to be a teenager.

Either way, I know I probably should ignore them.

[Hans Lauring]

I'm amazed that in 2009 you all still regularly encounter people that say "the CPU" or screw up computer words. My mom can't always remember how to get to her digital camera pictures, but even she's not that bad.

What?
I work on a pc magazine and we have an entire (bar one) graphics department, who does this (guess how many were trained on Macs).

[Hans Lauring]

Oh, and people who sign every post.


I mean,
Respectfully,






but not
- Tom





(allthough it is kinda silly)


-Hans

[Tim James]

What?
I work on a pc magazine and we have an entire (bar one) graphics department, who does this (guess how many were trained on Macs).I guess since at work I talk to engineers and CS nerds, and in my personal life it's either young people or hobbyists I know through the Internet, then as long as most of my relatives are okay then I'm pretty much covered. Lucky me, no nerd rage to cut years off my life. :)

[Zylon]

People who register on a forum dedicated to a specific work (game/book/movie/etc), and pick as their username one of the characters from that work. Bonus rage for misspelling it.

So on a Deus Ex forum, some idiot will have named himself "JC Denten", and so forth.

[dermot]

People who register on a forum dedicated to a specific work (game/book/movie/etc), and pick as their username one of the characters from that work. Bonus rage for misspelling it.

So on a Deus Ex forum, some idiot will have named himself "JC Denten", and so forth.
Bonus rage if they aren't the first to register the name so they append their year of birth. Double bonus rage if they also mis-spell that - JCDenten91.

[Zylon]

Also, people who build ASCII art into their usernames.

Hi, I'm ~~xX{ZyL0n}Xx~~!!

[Hans Lauring]

Also people who say/write 'it was obvious I was joking' when caught saying/posting something stupid.

[Tim James]

Bonus rage if they aren't the first to register the name so they append their year of birth. Double bonus rage if they also mis-spell that - JCDenten91.Come on now, what kid born in '91 is going to be that excited about Deus Ex? :)

[Tyjenks]

Does accounting/nerd rage count?

I am an auditor. I do not do taxes. You would think that would be understood simply by definition of the word. Not the case. "Hey, can you help with my taxes?" "You must be glad April 15th is over, huh?" No dammit!!! I am still busy!!! And don''t ask me about your fucking taxes either!!!

SHUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTT THE FUCK UP

[Ergo]

After reading this thread, I am now afraid to post anything. Ever.

[Lunch of Kong]

I dunno about nerdrage, but its almost certain that substituting it's for its generates some moograge.

[jabroni]

Along those same lines, people who write stuff like, "You just made me spit Mountain Dew all over my monitor" or "You owe me a new keyboard".
Another forum one that gets me is people who agree with someone else by saying something hilarious like, "Now now, facts and logic aren't allowed in this discussion!" LOL!

[dermot]

Also people who say/write 'it was obvious I was joking' when caught saying/posting something stupid.
Is this a joke?

[Lynxara]

Also people who say/write 'it was obvious I was joking' when caught saying/posting something stupid.

I start raging when people use this as an ass-covering technique after saying/posting something cruel or derogatory. Especially when the original comments were pretty clearly not meant to be humorous.

[Hans Lauring]

No, I really do fly into a blinding white hot rage over stuff I read on a forum written by anonymous people.

http://davidlynch.de/seconddog.jpg

[Tim James]

After reading this thread, I am now afraid to post anything. Ever.I thought the thing about nerd rage is it's so impotent that it doesn't really matter in the end. We get mad and then go back in our caves.

But I could be wrong, these things have been thought out so much these days.

[cliffski]

People who leave the default fucking beeping noises on their phone/camera
People who install everything on the internet on their PC's then express surprise that it goes slow.
People who email me about "the game" without saying which one
People who adopt mocking and sneering tones when assuming that as an indie developer I live on food stamps and never sell any copies
People who think I'm doing what I do as a way to "break into the real games industry"
Programs that include a taskbar icon and are always running for no fucking reason
Any app that puts any file, ever, in the root directory or the windows directory.
The useless cunts who programmed the web-integration for adobe PDFs.
Companies that sell 'photo printers' that only work with the 23 terrabytes of bundled shit
People who send me email from an address that I can't reply to
People who send html email spam with a curt text message informing me how my email client must be configured wrong.
People under 40 who boast about not even knowing how to turn on a computer, as though this is something to brag about rather than a precursor to unemployment and poverty.
People who say they are "not technical" as an excuse to never fucking learn anything
People who are scared of internet banking, but trust ATMs and waiters with card readers.
People who think adding NOSPAM in the middle of an email address actually works.
Captchas that I can't read.
LEDs that are on for no reason other than to annoy me.
People who seriously think this is the year of the linux desktop
People who use the word 'strawman' in every argument.
Americans who assume the whole world has the same international dialing code as they do.
Emails where the legal disclaimer is longer than the email text.
People who still use fax machines.
Phone calls that could have been an email
People I've never heard of wanting to connect to me on linkedin
Richard Stallman and his kind

[Kalle]

Blue LED's.

No, I don't want your fucking piece of crap hardware to project a blinding blue glare directly into my fucking eyes when I'm using it or, even worse, when it's on standby. Nor do I want it to illuminate an entire room, I have a perfectly good ceiling light for that.

[Demon G Sides]

God, Blue LED's suck. My roommate's harddrive has one that fucking flickers. not flashes, no, rhythmic flashing I can get behind. It just... flickers. Its so fucking annoying. Then it whirs on activation, and that's just fucking annoying.

[Chordian]

In most MMORPG, players that type k or kk instead of ok. The letters o and k are close to each other and very easy to type fast.

[Zylon]

IDK MY BFF JILL

[Orinoco]

People who can't just let a reference slide by without making it obvious to the world at large that THEY GET IT!! Either by adding a few more lines or just flat out stating what it's from. Just let the joke slide by in silent dignity, OK?

+1

tl;dr

[Major Malphunktion]

In most MMORPG, players that type k or kk instead of ok. The letters o and k are close to each other and very easy to type fast.
Hm..I like KK.

People that pretend they don't know some nerdy thing, but they do...like all the Trekkies right now pretending they don't know har har what a mind meld is or har har what a Romulan is.

TV stations that edit a geek movie or show and cut out a pivotal or at least memorable scene:
Young Frankenstein- the Frau Blucka joke- the final horse whinney - when Igor does it- yeah someone cut that- it is like the final punchline of an ongoing joke.
Star Wars- cut the whole luke watching the setting suns scene..yeah that is you know only repeated two more times in the sextet,Made a big deal in the Family guy parody (ladies and gentilemen john williams!!) so I know I'm not the only one that had an emotional response to that scene.

Sadly both of the above happened at the station I was working at.

[Major Malphunktion]

Blue LED's.

No, I don't want your fucking piece of crap hardware to project a blinding blue glare directly into my fucking eyes when I'm using it or, even worse, when it's on standby. Nor do I want it to illuminate an entire room, I have a perfectly good ceiling light for that.

I have a plug in lighter in my car that I had to put tape over because of this...blows your night vision completely.

[RickH]

Listening to the salesmen at Best Buy, Micro Center, or Radio Shack lie to shoppers about PCs.

[Tyjenks]

Does accounting/nerd rage count?
I just received an email from a Nun who had to fill me in on some programs she is involved in that will be in our notes to the financial statements. I thanked her.

Her reply, "Your Welcome."

Can I rage at a nun?

[Robert Sharp]

IT'S A FUCKING GAME FORUM. A collection of introverts, weirdos, socially awkward types, pompous douchebags with delusions of grandeur, and people who READ INTERNET FORUMS TO LEARN HOW TO INTERACT SOCIALLY? Seriously?!


Even though I know cesare is just trolling, this one actually does get to me sometimes (not this time, because it's overdone). People who assume that if you play video games you must be an introvert or socially awkward. It's an anachronism that may never have been true, actually. And Qt3 isn't just a gaming forum. It hasn't been for a long time, if it ever was.

[slikster]

This part isn't quite true enough. Since meat is so expensive to produce (in terms of biomass and water required), if everyone switched to crops and veggies, I'd imagine we'd free up lots of land for other uses.

And destroy the ecosystems of wild animals that live in cattle pastures/bush to make way for crop land. I'm not talking about the clearing of rainforests for pasture, but the land that can be used for pasture in it's native state. Weather you realise it or not, this is what you are talking about.

[Angie Gallant]

My worst case of nerd rage was after being informed by a comics nerd that Lovecraft stole Arkham from Batman.

[Bahimiron]

I have a friend who, no shit, cold cocked a guy for suggesting that Warhammer ripped off Warcraft a few years back.

Now that's nerd rage.

[jerri blank]

Damn, cliffski - how have you avoided spontaneous combustion so far?

Okay, more nerd rage - people who post in all lowercase letters piss me off. Bonus points if they're doing it in an online registration form for a conference I'm running, because I have to go in and fix it so that I can merge the data onto name tags. I'm always tempted to just leave it as is so they can walk around the conference pretending to be ee fucking cummings.

[Equis]

My worst case of nerd rage was after being informed by a comics nerd that Lovecraft stole Arkham from Batman.

Mine was when a film nerd accused William Gibson of ripping of the Matrix for Neuromancer.

[FoRmaT]

God, Neuromancer is unreadable. I have started to read it a few days ago, and I am totally lost. I have no idea what the heck is going on. That book jumps all over the place. Maybe it's because of the language barrier, I don't know.

Also, re: Nerd Rage. I HATE MY DAMN GERMAN KEYBOARD!!!!! Put the Z and Y where they fucking belong! Give me a "." in the numeric kepad, and no ","! Don't make the caps key affect the numeric keys!

[Jazar]

Does accounting/nerd rage count?

I am an auditor. I do not do taxes. You would think that would be understood simply by definition of the word. Not the case. "Hey, can you help with my taxes?" "You must be glad April 15th is over, huh?" No dammit!!! I am still busy!!! And don''t ask me about your fucking taxes either!!!

SHUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTT THE FUCK UP

Heh. Talking with others I've noticed this hapens with just about every profession.

"Computers? Hey my scanner never seems to work can you take a look?"

"Lawer? You know, I would like to make a will. Can you do this for me?"

"Therapist? Hey *cough*, my kid just told me he was gay. How do I deal with that?"

[Marged]

Heh. Talking with others I've noticed this hapens with just about every profession.

"Computers? Hey my scanner never seems to work can you take a look?"

"Lawer? You know, I would like to make a will. Can you do this for me?"

"Therapist? Hey *cough*, my kid just told me he was gay. How do I deal with that?"

I'll leave it to your imagination the things people tell me when they find out I work for Planned Parenthood.

[mystery]

People who overuse emoticons or standard online abbreviations. For example, people that use "LOL" like punctuation.

I was ruminating over how much I hated this while watching this week's "How I met your mother" when Barney, who's been sending texts the whole episode and ending each little comment with LOL, writes: "Yea, my parents went through a messy divorce as well. L.O.L."

[Hans Lauring]

As a journalist I only have to defend every bad journalist ever...

[WarrenM]

Blue LED's.
Don't get me started on DirecTV. I love the service but their DVR has a circle of blue LEDs on the front of it like the eye of Sauron, staring into your soul while you watch TV. I have NO idea what idiot thought that was a cool looking design.

http://hr20.dbstalk.com/images/r22_200/R22_solo_sm.jpg

[Marged]

People who overuse emoticons or standard online abbreviations. For example, people that use "LOL" like punctuation.


Ooh, I have been guilty of that. e.g.:

me: thank you :)
anyway you were wrong about me but it didn't matter :)
extarbags: i was right about the most important parts :)
me: well good :)
let's stop using periods :)
and only use smiles :)
extarbags: fuck that :)
me: i love you :)
extarbags: well let's see:) i love you too :) that was a very satisfying lunch :) also, i remain excited about our nuptials :)
nope :) not working for me :)
also :)
happy purim :)
:D

[Lunch of Kong]

I'll leave it to your imagination the things people tell me when they find out I work for Planned Parenthood.

Best place to pick up singles, by far!

[Lunch of Kong]

As a journalist I only have to defend every bad journalist ever...

I guess that's what it must sometimes feel like to be a policeman in the U.S.

[Tyjenks]

I kinda loathed emoticons for a long while, but I make so damned many jokes that end up being via email, forum, or text, that I want to clarify many times that I am not trying to be a complete dick.

[EvilIdler]

Our CEO refers to techs and engineers as 'assholes'.

His name isn't Oliver, is it?

[Bahimiron]

I kinda loathed emoticons for a long while, but I make so damned many jokes that end up being via email, forum, or text, that I want to clarify many times that I am not trying to be a complete dick.

Oddly enough, I only use emoticons when I'm being a dick.

[Zylon]

I kinda loathed emoticons for a long while, but I make so damned many jokes that end up being via email, forum, or text, that I want to clarify many times that I am not trying to be a complete dick.
It's still cool to hate on anime emoticons though.

^_^

Agh, kill it!

[WarrenM]

People who post nothing but links into threads. What about it? Do you have an opinion about the link? What is it that you want to spark here ... discussion? debate? Are you just sharing? WHAT?!

[Omniscia]

That's not too far off from people starting threads and simply posting a link and urging people to "Discuss"...

[robsam]

People who post nothing but links into threads. What about it? Do you have an opinion about the link? What is it that you want to spark here ... discussion? debate? Are you just sharing? WHAT?!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon

[Jazar]

People who post nothing but links into threads. What about it? Do you have an opinion about the link? What is it that you want to spark here ... discussion? debate? Are you just sharing? WHAT?!


On that note: Thread/Topic titles that are completely meaningless. If your title is just "OMG! I can't believe this!!!"

Then I check it and it has to do with your sprinkled doghnut I WILL MURDER YOU!

It's not as bad here because of the mouse over preview but if you have that + only a cryptic link I WILL DOUBLE MURDER YOU.

[Creole Ned]

People who post nothing but links into threads. What about it? Do you have an opinion about the link? What is it that you want to spark here ... discussion? debate? Are you just sharing? WHAT?!
This and emoticon abuse for me.

Although I've noticed many times that if someone posts a link and then includes a relevant quote from the link, people will *only* discuss the quoted bit and ignore everything else from the actual linked story/site.

[Munky]

It's still cool to hate on anime emoticons though.

^_^

Agh, kill it!

(T_T)

[Brendan]

System Analysts who expect senior developers to do their jobs. If you need me to tell you how the system works and you earn 50% more than I do there is something very wrong happening. Most of the time System Analysts are just failed programmers.Having said that the rare analyst who knows what they are doing are worth their weight in platinum.

[Tim James]

Oddly enough, I only use emoticons when I'm being a dick.Noted and monitored.

[anaqer]

I have a friend who, no shit, cold cocked a guy for suggesting that Warhammer ripped off Warcraft a few years back.

Now that's nerd rage.
Pfft. That's some tame shit. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/i-hope-you-like-text/)

[Adam B]

As a journalist I only have to defend every bad journalist ever...

Good god, isn't that the truth. I just stay the hell out of those threads most of the time.

[wisefool]

When friends and family volunteer my tech services and give away my cell number to their doorman, car mechanic, or fellow Church goer.

[EvilIdler]

Church goer.

On that note: They enrage me. Man in the sky will not unfuck your life!

[Tim James]

When friends and family volunteer my tech services and give away my cell number to their doorman, car mechanic, or fellow Church goer.That's a good one. This hasn't happened in a long time, but I used to rage when my wife or mom or someone would mention cars as an icebreaker, because even though I like working on mine and running driving events with it, I'm not a car nerd and hate listening to everyone's stories.

[Angie Gallant]

When I was working on Warhammer, there was a user who decided to write his character's background. His character is an orc. His story was one of seeking revenge against the dwarves that raped his mother. For fucks sake, WARHAMMER ORCS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY.

[Demon G Sides]

When I was working on Warhammer, there was a user who decided to write his character's background. His character is an orc. His story was one of seeking revenge against the dwarves that raped his mother. For fucks sake, WARHAMMER ORCS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY.

Just for clarifications sake (Since I've never played warhammer), how is this a nerd-rageable offense?

[Tim James]

At least the dorfs didn't give her a beating.

[DoomMunky]

Let me also add : people who post comments like "*getting the popcorn*" in the middle of a discussion. Die.I LOVE this!!


Okay, more nerd rage - people who post in all lowercase letters piss me off.
This enrages me. Seriously, take the fucking time to type some fucking capital letters. Email and web forums are not text messages, nor chat windows. FUCK this annoys me!

[Matthew Gallant]

Just for clarifications sake (Since I've never played warhammer), how is this a nerd-rageable offense?
There are no orc ladies, they are all boys born from spores.

[Adam Altmann]

Just for clarifications sake (Since I've never played warhammer), how is this a nerd-rageable offense?

In Warhammer, it's Dwarfs, not Dwarves. Also, Warhammer Orks (I'm nerdraging at Angie over the K.) are always male, and incubate in pods in the ground.

[Shadarr]

On that note: Thread/Topic titles that are completely meaningless. If your title is just "OMG! I can't believe this!!!"

Oh yes. The Rock Band forums are littered with meaningless subject lines and pre-ambles that are longer than the mouseover preview, so you have no fucking clue what the thread is about withought clicking on it. "I have an idea" is not a fucking subject, nor is "What do you guys think?"

I suspect it's the posting style of twitter kids, but I haven't done the research to confirm.

[Tim James]

I suspect it's the posting style of twitter kids, but I haven't done the research to confirm.Bad form on message boards existed long before Twitter.

[EvilIdler]

Civony ads! KILL THEM BEFORE I BLOCK ALL GOOGLE ADS!

[Tim James]

I noticed they got rid of the queen. Probably killed their margins answering FAQs about how you can get her in the game, as mentioned in the other thread.

[AaronSofaer]

When friends and family volunteer my tech services and give away my cell number to their doorman, car mechanic, or fellow Church goer.


Tell 'em you charge <some large amount of money> an hour.

[Skipper]

I somehow missed out on this thread but I could go on forever. I guess some things at random are:

- The use of email as: "I did something significant on this task." No you didn't. Pick up the phone and call someone or get the stuff done yourself. If your weekly status is "I sent the person an email but didn't get a reply," you fail.

- People who abuse phone texting. I'm not 12 and I certainly understand keeping me updated, but for god sakes you don't have to text play by play for everything you do.

- The "oh, well you work over here in IT I thought you could help me with a problem I have on my home PC" folks. Really at this point I should just show up and do the same thing to them. "Hey Bob, listen, I know you work in accounting and I really need to get my taxes done so if we could work on that right now that would be great. Also do you have all the forms here we need?"

- Project Managers. I know of two that I've met in total that were worth their weight in gold. But for those two I've known dozens that suck horribly that only add stress, confusion, and extra work to a project. Which I thought were all the things they are hired to help avoid. Even worse, many of them think that managing a project you work on also makes them your boss. No. I do tasks for your project, I don't work for you and I don't report my every move to you.

And my current rage of the month:
- People that refuse to pay attention to announcements, phone calls, emails, and even personal visits to remind them to stop using an application or product that is no longer supported, who then turn around and blame IT for loss of work time when the application or product fails. In fact, I could expand that to anyone that blames IT. I do the job of multiple people right now. Really, keep yelling about something insignificant because that reeeeeeeally makes me want to help you.

[Tim James]

IT rage probably deserves its own thread.

[Shadarr]

Bad form on message boards existed long before Twitter.

Fine, then Twitter is a separate thing that I hate. Especially when people talk about their Twitter feed in a blog post.

[Bahimiron]

Slow internet.

[Kalle]

In Warhammer, it's Dwarfs, not Dwarves. Also, Warhammer Orks (I'm nerdraging at Angie over the K.) are always male, and incubate in pods in the ground.

And I'm nerdraging at you for not being able to differentiate between the spelling of Warhammer Fantasy Orcs and Warhammer 40K Orks.

[z22]

People who 1) set their TVs to stretch 4:3 content to 16:9 AND 2) sneer at others' explanations of why this is wrong, because BIGGER is BETTER in any ratio.

OMG, AGREED! I actually told my brother that I would no longer go his house for our UFC PPV parties unless he either got a HD decoder or kept the TV at 4:3. They just don't see the 4' wide dwarves when ST is displayed in 16:9. OMG, kill me now!

[LesJarvis]

- The "oh, well you work over here in IT I thought you could help me with a problem I have on my home PC" folks. Really at this point I should just show up and do the same thing to them. "Hey Bob, listen, I know you work in accounting and I really need to get my taxes done so if we could work on that right now that would be great. Also do you have all the forms here we need?"

I've managed to segue this phenomenon into a decent supplementary income stream. Unboxing someone's new Dell or installing and running Malwarebytes for 50 bucks an hour under the table? Sure, why not?

Edit: Oh, uh, on the actual topic, I'll go with the 4:3 image stretched to 16:9. My brother in law does that, and it drives me crazy. Arguably even worse are the cable channels that do this deliberately with their HD simulcasts, most prominently TBS.

[z22]

Good ones folks, many of these made my day, and makes me wonder why such trivial things bother us. In an effort to avoid both embarrassment and wearing the flesh off my fingertips, I'm choosing not to post my (excessively long) list. I think I need help.

Oh, death to endless circular automated phone messaging systems. &*%^^%$$#%@#@#$$@#!!!!!!

[MarchHare]

People who post nothing but links into threads.

Further to this, people who post a URL with no description whatsoever in the "Best Youtube Videos" thread, forcing me to click the link only to find it's something I've already seen.

Posting a description like "This is hilarious" is equally bad, because it still doesn't tell me anything about the video.

[WarrenM]

Game reviews with clickable screen shots embedded in the review. Only, wait, the click actually takes you to the first page of their gallery of 150 shots and not a blow up of the one you wanted to see. Argh!

[Tim James]

Game reviews with clickable screen shots embedded in the review. Only, wait, the click actually takes you to the first page of their gallery of 150 shots and not a blow up of the one you wanted to see. Argh!Online news sites are a lot worse about this. They will have a little thumbnail that I really want to see more detail in but when you click, it takes you to a gallery of related photos that does not include that picture at all.

I don't understand.

[Angie Gallant]

In Warhammer, it's Dwarfs, not Dwarves. Also, Warhammer Orks (I'm nerdraging at Angie over the K.) are always male, and incubate in pods in the ground.

Warhammer Fantasy. They are only Orks in 40k.
Edit: And I nerdraged so hard about that that I didn't even see that Kalle beat me to it.

[Adam Altmann]

And I'm nerdraging at you for not being able to differentiate between the spelling of Warhammer Fantasy Orcs and Warhammer 40K Orks.


Warhammer Fantasy. They are only Orks in 40k.

Edit: And I nerdraged so hard about that that I didn't even see that Kalle beat me to it.



Dammit!

[Shadarr]

Oh, death to endless circular automated phone messaging systems. &*%^^%$$#%@#@#$$@#!!!!!!

The new "voice activated" phone systems, because they don't actually allow you to just say what your problem is, you still have to navigate through their layers of menu options, just with the extra annoyance of their shitty voice recognition software. Fortunately, pressing 0 usually still works.

[Angie Gallant]

I let my baby talk to those. She gets me to a human in less than a minute.

[Tim James]

The new "voice activated" phone systems, because they don't actually allow you to just say what your problem is, you still have to navigate through their layers of menu options, just with the extra annoyance of their shitty voice recognition software. Fortunately, pressing 0 usually still works.Oooh you guys are finally getting my creativity going.

I rage about calling my friends and having to sit through a 30 second explanation of how to use a voicemail system before I get to the beep. My favorite is whatever carrier sounds like the automated message is about to end, then two seconds later they throw one last thing in there: press 5 to leave a numeric message.

Don't they think about how annoying that is over billions of voice mails? If there is a way around this, I'd love to hear about it.

[Shadarr]

I hate my cellphone's voicemail that takes forever to actually play me the goddamn message. "New voicemail... from... 5... 5... 5... 5... 5... 5... 1... 2... 3... 4... received... today at... 2... 27... pm..." Just fucking play it. I have call display, I don't need the damn number read out by a robot version of the black kid on Malcolm in the Middle.

[Zylon]

Game reviews with clickable screen shots embedded in the review. Only, wait, the click actually takes you to the first page of their gallery of 150 shots and not a blow up of the one you wanted to see. Argh!
Sites where clicking on image thumbnails opens up the full-sized image in a smegging DIV layer on top of the page (with gratuitious "opening up" animation), instead of in a new window as god intended.

[DoomMunky]

I hate my cellphone's voicemail that takes forever to actually play me the goddamn message. "New voicemail... from... 5... 5... 5... 5... 5... 5... 1... 2... 3... 4... received... today at... 2... 27... pm..." Just fucking play it. I have call display, I don't need the damn number read out by a robot version of the black kid on Malcolm in the Middle.
I'm nerdraging a bit about the fact that you can turn that off and you don't know that.

Go through the voicemail options system for a bit and you should find an area where you can change the things played before, during, and after your message, as well as what prompts OTHERS hear when calling YOUR voicemail.

GOD!

[Zylon]

On that note: Thread/Topic titles that are completely meaningless. If your title is just "OMG! I can't believe this!!!"
Almost as bad-- Thread titles that are literally the first half of the first sentence. Eg.--

Subject: How do I....

Post #1
...shot web?

[Rod Humble]

To the great surprise of nobody, the expression "digital download" irritates the piss out of me.

ALL DOWNLOADS ARE DIGITAL.

I never thought of this. You are right, I will now get equally angry.

Oh my language nerd rage is sparked by misuse of the word "decimated" it means one in ten NOT obliterated dammit!

Also stupid auto installing apps on memory sticks to "help" me copy files.

Any web site that requires a pop up to work.

Corporate enforced password changers every 30 days that wont allow me to reuse passwords.

aaaargh!

edit:
and this of course
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWDWl_nEcoY

[russellmz00]

a "saved successfully" message in a green box after i hit submit that doesn't actually save and submit the timesheet my bosses told me to fill out.

an extra link that i have to click to actually make it submit.

the link is the same color as normal text.

the link is not underlined.

it's not as if hyperlinks are understood to be blue and underlined for over a decade or anything.

[RSofaer]

People who put "the" in front of technological things, as if it's somehow unique.

"I found it on the Google."

I like to say "the face book." Rage!

[shift6]

Is it too early to nerd-rage about internet dating sites? How many days must one have a profile before nerd-rage is allowed?

[Hans Lauring]

edit:
and this of course
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWDWl_nEcoY

Effing brilliant (I kinda hate people typing effing or f*ck og pr0n). How come I own the entire series and haven't watched it yet. I will rectify that.

[dermot]

I hate my cellphone's voicemail that takes forever to actually play me the goddamn message. "New voicemail... from... 5... 5... 5... 5... 5... 5... 1... 2... 3... 4... received... today at... 2... 27... pm..." Just fucking play it. I have call display, I don't need the damn number read out by a robot version of the black kid on Malcolm in the Middle.
The one that annoys me every time is when I dial in to the voicemail service on our POTS, the auto voice tells me that I have x new messages. Pause. "To listen to your messages, press 1".

Why the fuck do I have to press 1? Why else would I be dialling in to my *voicemail* other than to hear my new messages?

[Hunty]

Corporate enforced password changers every 30 days that wont allow me to reuse passwords.

Oh my word. This just happened to me and I hate it so much. See also websites with ridiculously draconian password security policies:

"Your password must contain a capital letter, no repeating letters, at least two numbers and have every input preceded by you humming the first two bars of Thriller." Brilliant. Now it's so secure even I can't get into it, because I can't fucking remember what it is. Fuck off.

All this talk of aspect ratios has me worried though. Has my TV been a stretchy nightmare that I somehow never noticed? How does one fix this? Surely I don't have to manually swap aspect ratio every time. Nerd rage neurosis!

[Hans Lauring]

All this talk of aspect ratios has me worried though. Has my TV been a stretchy nightmare that I somehow never noticed? How does one fix this? Surely I don't have to manually swap aspect ratio every time. Nerd rage neurosis!

Invite over one of the raging nerds for a beer and a ballgame... episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. Then take your beating as a man and have him fix it for you when he's finished.

[Hunty]

Invite over one of the raging nerds for a beer and a ballgame...

Good idea. If only we televised rounders here, my problems would be solved!

[Nellie]

IVR systems. Having spent several years designing and supporting them, any that take more than 2 key presses to get me where I need to go deserve to burn in the fiery wastes of hell.

Call centres on non freephone numbers that pick up my call, put me in a queue and then tell me for 20 minutes, at 10p a minute, that my call is important to them. Obviously not important enough to put enough fucking staff in your call centre to answer it though.

LEDs to indicate that something is switched off. My cable box lights up like a christmas tree when you turn it OFF.

LEDs generally. I know my computer, NAS, router and cable modem are on and working, I'm surfing the bloody internet, I don't need my office to look like Oxford street at christmas to indicate this to me.

[dermot]

A very specific type of nerd-rage: Cisco and their fucking IOS images and the fact that I can have two identical routers, each running an IOS that differs only by a minor revision but try as you might, you cannot take the config from one and apply it to the other without changing something that takes hours to figure out because Cisco hate me, yes me and are determined to make a liar out of me every time I tell a customer "sure, we've done that before, I have a sample working config that we should be able to alter to suit your requirements without too much hassle".

Nirvana in this instance is Juniper.

Also, run-on sentences.

[Jazar]

Almost as bad-- Thread titles that are literally the first half of the first sentence. Eg.--

Subject: How do I....

Post #1
...shot web?

Yes! That in my mind is one in the same. GAH

[Bahimiron]

Oh my language nerd rage is sparked by misuse of the word "decimated" it means one in ten NOT obliterated dammit!

I'm nerdraging because it's the other way around! It comes from decimus, tenth. The Roman punishment of decimation involved reducing a cohort by one tenth via the process of killin'. Get ten good buddies together, have them draw lots and the one guy with a short straw gets stoned by his friends. Very motivating.


I'm nerdraging a bit about the fact that you can turn that off and you don't know that.

Perhaps I can, but I can't change settings with my work voicemail, so I guess that theory goes out the window.

[jerri blank]

People who overuse emoticons or standard online abbreviations. For example, people that use "LOL" like punctuation.

I was ruminating over how much I hated this while watching this week's "How I met your mother" when Barney, who's been sending texts the whole episode and ending each little comment with LOL, writes: "Yea, my parents went through a messy divorce as well. L.O.L."

Yep, they nailed it. When I see that, I want to say, "I don't think LOL means what you think it means."

[Aeon221]

Decimate:

5: To severely reduce; to destroy almost completely.
1856+: James Froude, History of England from the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth - It [England] had decimated itself for a question which involved no principle, and led to no result.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decimate


1. to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.

http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=decimate&search=search


3 a: to reduce drastically especially in number <cholera decimated the population> b: to cause great destruction or harm to <firebombs decimated the city> <an industry decimated by recession>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimate


to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=20081&dict=CALD

[Bahimiron]

That's okay. I was just kidding. It was an internet meme. LOL. ^_^

[Omniscia]

Yes! That in my mind is one in the same. GAH

One and the same (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/oneinsame.html), please.

[WarrenM]

When people post a definition from dictionary.com as if it's some sort of trump card that will win them the argument.

[Omniscia]

I hate it when people rely on dictionary.com, period. At least use Merriam-Webster, if you don't have access to anything better. The URL's shorter, too: m-w.com.

[Brian Seiler]

Speaking of words, it's champing at the bit. Champing. Not chomping. I spend a lot of time yelling at my television on that one. And podcasts. And people that write on the internet. And random people on the street. And that sneaky tree in my back yard that refuses to learn English.

[Bahimiron]

I stopped using m-w.com because of shit like this (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agrestic).

[Skipper]

A very specific type of nerd-rage: Cisco and their fucking IOS images and the fact that I can have two identical routers, each running an IOS that differs only by a minor revision but try as you might, you cannot take the config from one and apply it to the other without changing something that takes hours to figure out because Cisco hate me, yes me and are determined to make a liar out of me every time I tell a customer "sure, we've done that before, I have a sample working config that we should be able to alter to suit your requirements without too much hassle".

Nirvana in this instance is Juniper.

Also, run-on sentences.

I feel your pain sir. But I don't partake of the Juniper kool-aid so I can't comment otherwise. Lets add to that Cisco rage though with the following:

I hate how the large majority of every freaking "why the fuck isn't this working" firewall problem I've run into in a corporate environment has been cause by inspection rules (formerly "fixup" which is some horrible joke of a name.) Oracle not working? Inspection rule. Email not working? Inspection rule. Skinny or SIP phones not working? Inspection rule.

If we're going to skewer the devs that make IOS images lets also skewer the devs that haven't changed the damned inspection rules in years to a point they just break things, and yet they are still enabled by default.

[Zylon]

Speaking of words, it's champing at the bit. Champing. Not chomping. I spend a lot of time yelling at my television on that one.
Mine is shows that use "Frankenstein" when what they really mean is "Frankenstein's monster". Even Late Night with Conan O'Brien did this, on their old "Frankenstein Wastes a Minute of our Time" sketch. That particularly bugged me, since I bloody well know the writers were smart enough to know the difference.

[mystery]

Speaking of words, it's champing at the bit. Champing. Not chomping. I spend a lot of time yelling at my television on that one.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction (http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/champing+at+the+bit). Chomp and Champ have the same meaning.

[Bahimiron]

That particularly bugged me, since I bloody well know the writers were smart enough to know the difference.

Americans who say 'bloody' or 'arse'.

[Brian Seiler]

The difference is that one is an appropriate metaphor and the other is not. The horse champs on his bit - he doesn't chomp on it. You chomp on a large cheeseburger in a McDonald's commercial. I wouldn't rule that sort of behavior out for a horse, but I don't think it's possible for any creature to do that sort of thing to a stick of wood that's been shoved into its mouth to help you swing its head around. To say "chomping at the bit" is suggesting that the person who is metaphorically a horse is eating a big bite of his lead and restraint like a tasty slice of cake.

[Lynxara]

At least "chomping at the bit" isn't "chopping at the bits," which is a version I've actually seen published online by people who should really know better.

[mystery]

Americans who say 'bloody' or 'arse'.

American Anglophiles in general. See "Frasier."

[CLWheeljack]

I'm not sure I understand the distinction (http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/champing+at+the+bit). Chomp and Champ have the same meaning.

Also, it doesn't matter. It's an idiomatic saying, so you should use the version that actually is the idiom.

[dermot]

People who say 'literally' when they're speaking figuratively. As in "I was champing at the bit. Like, literally".

[Zylon]

Americans who say 'bloody' or 'arse'.
"Arse" sounds stupid. We already have a word that means the same thing and is shorter (see also, "whinge").

"Bloody", on the other hand, has no direct equivalent. So toss off, wanker.

[dermot]

"Arse" sounds stupid. We already have a word that means the same thing and is shorter (see also, "whinge").

"Bloody", on the other hand, has no direct equivalent. So toss off, wanker.
Correction: you already have a word that is a distortion of an even older word. And 'arse' sounds much better.

[dermot]

I feel your pain sir. But I don't partake of the Juniper kool-aid so I can't comment otherwise. Lets add to that Cisco rage though with the following:
You should - JunOS is such an eye-opener after you've been working on IOS for a long time. Configuration changes that don't take effect until you commit them, the ability to commit changes with a rollback period; an OS that's common across all platforms and that doesn't have 50 bajillion versions that each enable/disable different features. A NetBSD-based underlying OS that you can actually open a shell in. Configurations that are organised into logical hierarchies and are actually readable. 5 or 6 different ways of getting config onto the damn things in the first place. I could go on. Most of our network is Juni and it kills me when I have to configure anything on a Cisco.

[Omniscia]

Uh-oh, the lines between nerd-rage and run-of-the-mill pedantry are starting to blur in here...

[dermot]

Oh yes, pre-emptively: English speakers from East of the Atlantic who make cracks about Americans pronouncing/spelling things wrong.

[Adam B]

I'm convinced that 90% of the people who use "whinge" just don't know how to spell "whine".

[Bahimiron]

"Bloody", on the other hand, has no direct equivalent.

What about 'frig'?

"I friggin' well know the writers know the difference!"

'Frig' is great.


So toss off, wanker.

Now this does have a direct correlation, 'cept what you're asking me to do is a little blue. I'm not Tyjenks, Z. I have self-control!


And 'arse' sounds much better

Naw.

[nKoan]

Frustrated FCC Unable To Stop Use Of Word 'Friggin' (http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/frustrated_fcc_unable_to)

[Demon G Sides]

What about 'frig'?

"I friggin' well know the writers know the difference!"

'Frig' is great.

Friggin' is an awesome word to use. Frig is just as good.

[Bahimiron]

Well, when I said 'frig' I meant all variations thereof.

"It's friggin' cold outside."

"Frig that, man."

"No one can match my friggitude."

"His friggiocity cannot be underestimated."

"Based on the remains, we can assume that a full-fledged friggification occured here. Gentlemen, it's time to frigulate."

[WarrenM]

'Frig' is a good substitute for 'fuck' in polite company. Allows you to get the point across without having to invoke the f-word and damage someone's sensibilities.

[DoomMunky]

American Anglophiles in general. See "Frasier."
I'd really rather not, thanks.

[Tyjenks]

"STAR TRAK"

Arggggggg!!! Idiot!!! Just stop talking until I leave the room.

[MarchHare]

"For all intensive purposes"

[Demon G Sides]

"For all intensive purposes"

Agreed. Intents and purposes people! COME ON.

[Brian Seiler]

"should of"

I have seen this in at least three different game translations. We won't discuss the internet.

[Zylon]

Allows you to get the point across without having to invoke the f-word and damage someone's sensibilities.
Frak? Frell? Fnord?