Reply With QuoteThat makes you a usenet nerd.Originally Posted by jabroni
I did too and had to go back and read the sentence again. My second reading wasn't nearly as awesome.I read that as 'human'. Puts a slightly different spin on it.
That makes you a usenet nerd.
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?
People who say 'aye' in any situation other than roleplaying.
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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!" ?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.
Followed by a volley of super awesome and funny quotes from the black knight scene.
Yeah. Those people.
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.
Oh, I know. It's just that the Pythonites seem to be the most common and the loudest among those I've encountered.
As a Pythonite I just have to say...
I didn't expect a sort of Spanish Inquisition.
/ducks
Just remembered another one: people on forums who insist on trying to stir threads back to the original poster's intended topic of conversation.
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".
I did what now?
*Yawn*ing and *sigh*ing.
Let me also add : people who post comments like "*getting the popcorn*" in the middle of a discussion. Die.
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.
you must HATE FoRmAt.
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?
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.
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.
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.
FLASHING BABY ADS!
(I'm looking at you Vance Vance revolution)
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.
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.
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.
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.
FoRmAt Is a HeLpFuL gUY bUt YeS ThIs WhOlE uPpErCaSe-LoWeRcAsE tHiNg Is A bIg OnE fOr Me.
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.
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.
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