One thing that's fucking tilting me is my stupid friends who change their facebook profile pic to a giraffe because they're too stupid to recognise an obvious trick question when they see one. It makes me want to not be their friend any more.
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One thing that's fucking tilting me is my stupid friends who change their facebook profile pic to a giraffe because they're too stupid to recognise an obvious trick question when they see one. It makes me want to not be their friend any more.
on a related note, i used to hate reading people's facebook profiles in fear of finding out that they're having more success than i am. i recently got married, got a pretty cool job, and am finding myself comfortable reading those profiles now. i am still not sure if it's my being spiteful now, or if i was just really insecure then, or a bit of both.Quote:
I hate meeting people I met from the past, but that's because I'm now unemployed and single, so when they say things like "you still with x?" or "what you doing with yourself these days?" I just want to punch them and tell them to fuck off. Of course I smile and say I'm enjoying life, which is true, but I know deep down they're thinking "so you turned into a bum?" and I'm thinking "I wish I was at home with a spliff".
in fact i was just doing the facebook stalking and googling people thing before I read ong's quoted post above.
I don't mind on facebook. Honestly, I'm not jealous of other people's success. I consider happiness to be success, and I'm happy, so I consider myself more successful than those in an unhappy relationship or a job they hate. My first serious girlfriend recently got married after winning £10k on a TV programme and has a better job than when I was with her. I'm happy for her, genuinely. I'm not jealous of any of my former friends, that's for sure. But I certainly feel sometimes that old friends judge me because they consider that my life has gone backwards since I knew them. All that does is make me happy I'm not their friend any more.Quote:
Originally Posted by eugmac
Don't worry about it. The problem has been contained. They are kept in Facebook and Twitter.Quote:
Originally Posted by rong
dont forget tumblrrrrrrrrr and 9faaaaaaaaaaaag
and reddit
Confirmation emails for flight or hotel purchases that take anything more than ZERO time to show up in my mailbox.
People who expect emails to arrive at faster than light speed.
Lol mine is wife leaving every light in house on
People who place material needs above human concerns.Quote:
Originally Posted by kirky33
You're refrigerator is on 24/7 and the consumption dwarfs what your lights use. Also, if you're using an electric grill or an electric clothes dryer, then even the refrigerator's constant drain looks pretty small.
So just a heads up... your wife isn't costing you much of anything in comparison to other household costs, and whatever peace of mind it buys her is probably worth it for you both.
That's that or she's just lazy and leaves lights on like my whole family in the morning before they go to work.
Doesn't a 100W light bulb left on 24 hours a day for a month cost about $5 - $7? Or is that a dad myth? Multiple that $7 by however many lights (I know they're not all 100W) get left on in the house and I think that's a legitimate bitch.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
Other than a bathroom mirror, who the fuck uses 100 watt bulbs? Are you lighting a baseball field in your home?
omg thank youQuote:
Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
it's so frustrating at how sensible stances like this are, yet nobody ever listens to them
humans: chimps with bigger heads. but don't tell them that, they might get mad and throw something
I dunno, maybe he used 100W because it was easier to do the calculation? Just regurgitating what I've been told.Quote:
Originally Posted by jyms
I guess the key point though is that light bulb left on in an unoccupied room is totally needlessly wasted energy. Your fridge is keeping your subsistence fresh and edible - a pretty fair use of energy. Also, I do believe efforts to conserve energy and natural resources is in fact a very human concern, from a species-survival point of view.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
How much energy cost is there in turning lights on/off? Accounting for life of bulb too. I've heard that a lot of lights last super long if they're never turned off, and I've heard the surge of turning a light on costs a bit more energy than letting run for a while. No idea if those are true though
Not true, Mythbusters covered it.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
I'm all about being environmentally friendly and ecologically conscious. That's why I don't give a rats ass about end-level consumers when it comes to this topic. We're talking about the ~6% of the total electrical energy being used that is in households. Turning off your lights in rooms you're not using while you're at home is such a minor portion of your electrical useage that it's scandalous to mention it in the same breath as "energy conservation for survival of the species".Quote:
Originally Posted by eugmac
I DO think that topic is important, but picking on households is such a misdirected effort. I mean, if you leave your lights and utilities on while you're gone for vacation, that's a bit different, but only for the fiscal bottom line of the household... not for the environmental future of the planet.
be the change you wanna see in the world etc etc
Yup yup yup yup yupQuote:
Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
From the species survival perspective, the only solution is technological progress to such a point that artificial meat is the same as regular meat yet cheaper, and solar energy and battery tech (or perhaps biofuel) are so economical that they're better than coal and oil. Also we'd probably have to plant a trillion trees or something
Anything households do will have no effect, especially since conserving energy just makes it that much cheaper for others to consume. The solution is technological, not behavioral. It certainly feels good on the household level though, and can make individuals' lives better. Keeping plants in each room probably does more than anything else you could do for climate change, and it also makes your air cleaner and optics more pleasing
ps today's tilt trigger is windows vista service packs. and protools
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japan managed to cut their entire country's electricity usage after the tsunamis as a national effort to deal with losing 25% of their power supply. Just sayin'.
and that savings came from households as i understand it, so that industry could continue business as usual.
A lot better to have a few light bulbs on heating the house than the furnace kicking on every few minutes. Today the high was 40 degrees here.
My tilt is seeing so many promos on FullTilt and not being able to play for real money since I am a U.S player. I know a year from now, the environment will be a lot friendlier.
TIL wuf is not humanQuote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
This. I hate it when people shoot down a suggestion because it's not an end all solution to an entire issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by rpm
Edit: I mean, does it have a non-zero positive benefit? Yes. Does it take minimal effort on your part? Yes. Then why not fucking do it?
Agreed and these things are definitely in the works, I'm convinced that heavy funding of such research is enough to get us there fast enough. But there is no need atm because the status quo works for the moment for big oil and big money. And I don't mean there is some kind of conspiracy going on, it's just a fact that things never get moving unless they really need to. Same with the environment. We as mankind will have to use our technological advancement to restore the planet soon enough. We're already past the point of no return of fucking up the planet according to pretty much every way this is being measured. And I do think we are capable of this no problem. But the environment hasn't quite gotten bad enough to really motivate big money to go there. Once the big ecological disasters start happening this is bound to change.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
I totally agree with the sentiment, but it's a bit off topic. I'm not arguing that turning off your lights when you're not using them is bad. I'm arguing that it's probably not nearly as bad as a bunch of other things you do in a day. So letting a single non-issue get you worked up is just a matter of bad scheduling of your time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Galapogos
My point is that there's an imbalance between what people 'think' they're doing and the actual impact. Sometimes that imbalance can end up in people having an argument that is more wasteful than the topic they're arguing about.
E.g.
If you pick up an American penny off the ground, then you are wasting money. It costs you time and energy to carry that penny around, and you'll never get a return on that investment. It is a waste of money to bend over and pick up a penny. It is a waste of money to put a penny in your car and use that penny to buy gasoline, since you'd spend more than a penny in the extra fuel burned by transporting the penny to the gas station.
So if you pick up pennies because you think it's free money, then you're mistaken. If you pick up pennies to help keep your surroundings litter-free, then it makes sense.
You dig it?
I dig you, you crazy bastard.
Yeah that's my main position on it as well. It's like how a month or so ago I commented here about how my sister stresses a lot about money and buys a bunch of expensive organic food. She doesn't listen to me when I tell her that the benefit she gets from eating organic is probably smaller than the benefit she would get by not spending so much on food
I hate this new trend that a lot of news type websites are starting to adopt where they make it so arrow keys will load up the next/previous stories. When I'm reading something on the computer I'm always hitting keys that shouldn't be doing anything for the hell of it. Two of those keys I have drilled into my head that are safe are the left/right arrow keys.
Now every time I try to read an article I end up jumping to the ones next to it because of this stupid little habit. I don't see how this arrow key feature is beneficial, no one reads these sites in the order that these articles appear. They look for the next interesting article in the list somewhere and click on it to go directly there.
Microsoft Windows Updates closing applications I am working in without asking or saving and shutting down to apply patches that I didn't even want.
This. In the middle of watching rescue dawn. Wtf!Quote:
Originally Posted by chemist
This is mostly about being able to update the backdoors they installed for the government. This is 100% the case for skype too. Some guys did a test a while back where they communicated a secure web address that noone knew about over skype and within minutes it was being visited and scanned by an IP address registered to Microsoft. All of the software from the big US internet media companies is basically one enormous spynet. Less than two weeks ago Google found out that their entire backend, where they transport all of the data they have gathered from all of their services, had been hacked by the NSA. A few pissed off Google employees came out to curse at the NSA and said they had encrypted their whole backend to put a stop to this, but yeah it does show just how bad it is.
Iceland's energy comes mostly from hydroelectrical and geothermal generators, with fossil fuels making up 0.01% of their reliance.
Oh yeah things that tilt me... people who post random stuff in the tilt thread.
Onesies
Sitting down to take a dump and my cock touching the toilet.
^the worst
old style german toilets, for some reason, has a plate of sorts where your poo lands. when you flush, the water flows from the back of the toilet over the plate and your poo drops down the hole at the front. it means the bathroom stinks a lot more when you poo.
but the worst part of this is, your poo is elevated at such a high level that if you lay a very long one, there is a danger of the poo flopping in an awkward direction, making contact with your ballsack as it goes down.
fuckin germans would do that
websites that arent tablet friendly. particularly nasty are dropdown menus that require mouse hovering. here's looking at you, ftr.
iPad users that just expect the entire internet world to just work on their 500 dollar touchscreen.
300 dolllars thank u very much
Thrifty!
Losing on Fifa.
everything that isn't being asleep. today at least
Long-ball Eugene!Quote:
Originally Posted by eugmac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfaY9ewvpzk
Lol
FTR crashing my browser and losing all my unread tabs, twice today at least.
Is it FTR that crashes Firefox 10 times a day?Quote:
Originally Posted by chemist
I assumed something malicious was on my 7-year old machine that my free anti-virus ware was unable to detect.
I do always have a tab with FTR open.
I use firefox on a real old crappy machine but it never crashes
I have no ff issues with ftr either.
I think it was spoonits coffeemachine thread
or links from jack sawyer
(it is firefox though)
you might need to update your flash player
http://i.imgur.com/SdaVjVp.jpg
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by jyms
It is true I do usually click deny to the irritating message that says:Quote:
Originally Posted by spoonitnow
'You need to install this to enable others to download all sorts to your computer whilst providing you with no useful benefits'.
drying out slowly on first day back in a job I fucking hate
Also, songs that use the word 'baby'
Losing my passport and not having any photo ID when I need it for a placement which is on the 8th and they won't be open to talk to them about it until the 7th.
People chewing with their mouth open (surely we evolved past that about 2000 years ago you fucking cavemen)
Searching for the beginning of a sellotape roll.
People who just none stop talk when I've just woken up. Let me fucking wake up properly.
I approve of the above posts
will.i.am
kijiji/craigslist wankers
http://freeupload.mobi/image/show/72...8c08a2d3a8a692
Been here for about half hour now.
humanity really,
people who think they deserve something for nothing
people who always think they are right
people who move slow when you're in a hurry
I could go on...
whiskey-dick
Being poor this time of year EVERY YEAR.
Still... a holiday of gift-giving is awesome.
- When people talk about gas in terms of how much it costs them to fill up a tank and how long that tank usually lasts them
Just fucking tell me the size of the fucking tank and how many miles per gallon the car gets.
Sorry about that. I also talk really loud.Quote:
Originally Posted by Willishere
Fuel efficiency being stated as "miles per gallon" instead of "gallons per mile".
If you take gallons (volume - length x length x length) and divide by miles (distance- length), then you get a number whose units are length x length... or area. So if we used gallons per mile, we'd have a number with easy to understand units.
What would that number with those units represent?
Imagine your car's fuel tank is a very long, thin tube... a miles long tube... The tube holds exactly as much gas as your car needs to travel a distance equal to the tube's length. So a thin tube means low fuel consumption, and a thick tube means high fuel consumption.
Low gallons per mile (gpm) means low consumption, high gpm means high consumption. The units are area, which we all understand. That area is the cross-section of a tube which represents your vehicle's consumption.
It just makes so much more sense.
mean people and when restaurants dont have tartar sauce
I fail to see how that makes any of the information easier to understand and/or convey.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
Let's use an example. Say my car gets 31 miles per gallon and has a 12 gallon tank. That pretty much tells you everything you need to know. People can understand 31 MPG or that you can travel 372 miles on a full tank (not that I would try!), etc.
That seems better than trying to explain fuel efficiency as .0323 GPM or "a fairly narrow, long tube" and I still don't see why getting a number expressed as area is better. Help me out here.
People who use GOAT as an acrony. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
If you use GOAT as an acronym it means that you have run out of proper superlatives a long time ago. Pace yourselves with your hyperboles.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lukie
Taken from this linkQuote:
Quiz time: Which of the following would save more fuel?
a) Replacing a compact car that gets 34 miles a gallon with a hybrid that gets 54 m.p.g.
b) Replacing from an S.U.V. that gets 18 m.p.g. with a sedan that gets 28 m.p.g.
c) Both changes save the same amount of fuel.
The correct answer is b. In fact, going from 18 m.p.g. to 28 m.p.g. saves more than twice as much fuel as going from 34 m.p.g. to 54 m.p.g. (198 gallons vs. 94 gallons), according to two management professors from Duke University.
Maybe not so crazy after all. I think it's one of those things where one is so used to doing something a certain way that changing it seems really off the wall. It seems to be a good idea but still something I wouldn't change... mostly because, well, it's one of those things where I'm so used to doing it a certain way that changing it seems really off the wall :p
I hate pretty much every person who commented on that article. In fact, it tilted me a little bit.
Just found out Jurassic 5 are playing at my local tonight. The Mrs is out and I'm on kid duty :-(
Motorized shopping carts and (sometimes) the people operating them. HOly shit who the hell thought it would be a good idea to give a senile old man A MOTORIZED CART TO PLOW AROUND STORES WITH? I get that it is a sensitive issue and all with disabilities and what not but let's not go causing more of them when people get run over.
Yeah I had to make it a little dramatic to get my point across.
Needing a piss in the middle of the night but knowing am gonna be freezing my ass off if I get out of bed.
Paying £5k pa for a 45 minute train journey to work, only for it then to be late every day and having to stand up for most of it.
Adults opposite me on the train that can't wait until they get home for dinner, so choose to pick their nose and eat it constantly every time I do get a seat.
Twats on the train that make no effort to pretend that they aren't reading my newspaper/book or watching my video over my shoulder.
Fucking idiots that want to get on the tube with a double bass during rush hour.
There's a theme here...
Four power cuts, 1 second in duration, over the course of 15 minutes, when I want to play poker.
Fuck you electrical problems.
Unless it's a solar storm, which would make it cool.
I just don't get this. I cannot remember the last time I woke up before I get up, needing a piss, even though I drink tea right up to bedtime. Maybe that's because I always have a piss before going to bed, and have an adult bladder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cobra_1878
Get a piss bottle or something if it's that cold.
£5k for a season ticket? wtf? It's 45 minutes from my town to Birmingham, and that trip costs around £7 return. That would be around £2k just paying daily. I'm guessing you're in London? God I fucking hate that place.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bean Counter
Losing a penalty shoot out 2-1, just lol.
Non-Cleveland fans complaining about anything sports related.
David fucking Moyes.
I've seen B'ham lose a penalty shootout 2-0. Fortunately that was against Liverpool and so we were happy we even took them to a shootout.
David fucking Moyes will come good. I don't think there's a manager alive who could eaily step into that job. He needs at least two seasons before he can be judged fairly.
Yeah all the David Moyes hate is a bit strange. Even though he's been pretty inept tactically in a few games. Anyway Rooney RVP and Mata going to get us top four, throw in a good CL run and it won't have been too bad a season.
motherfucking layovers
checked baggage fees
Thing that tilt me is when I lost at the end of the tournaments with AA from cards like 98.
And I tilt when I lose to much money on cash games is situation like first that I said ( with two aces).
catholics
women
can't live with them, can't live without them
I just ate a new brand of (oven cook) pizza. It was so delicious that I didn't need any of the mayo or sweet chilli sauce which I had rather generously dolloped on my plate prior to trying the pizza. This is tilting not just because I wasted the delicious sweet chilli sauce, but because the fact that the pizza was so delicious all by itself that had a negative (albeit posaitive overall) connotation at all.
Something about not being able to remember what tilts me, tilts me.