Y'know what really grinds my gears?

[hippynumber1]

Two chemists are sitting in a cafe.  The first chemist who orders first says "Could I have some H₂O" while the second says "I'll have H₂O₂ H₂O, too". Then the second chemist dies.

FTFY!

Cheers

Ah! Now it makes sense and is quite funny!
Jim

[Richmond Clements]

People who tag their photos #nofilter.

I still don't know what the purpose of this is, but it always makes me think that they're saying "Yeah, check out my amazing photo. You might think I used filters to make it look this good, but I didn't!".

Well, yeah. That's exactly why. I do it to let people know that very thing - like the amazing sunrise I posted this morning.

[Hawkmumbler]

I've said it once and i'll say it again. Fucking Gamergate can piss off.
I just got a torrent of abuse on Youtube (commenting on a video posted by a friend) on the subject of further harassment against Anita Sarkeesian.

Now I don't like Sarkeesian particularly, I find her a little stuffy and full of herself, but I'll stand by her on the need for feminism in the gaming community as, i'll be honest, it's become rampant with stay at home gaming trolls who are filled with a sense of male entitlement and mysogyny.

But the second I agree with any such sentiments, I get personally targeted through my Youtube and Twitter accounts as a "Feminazi" or a "Faggot".

I'm done. I don't want to live on this planet anymore. The fuckboys ruined it for me.

[The Legendary Shark]

They can only get to you if you let them. It's your planet as much as anyone's.
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[ZenArcade]

Exactly....why let some sad, wearying losers dictate your emotional state. Fuck that for a lark. Z

[Professor Bear]

Flag the comments, as Youtube and Twitter have increasingly strict guidelines about abusive behavior - the only reason it endures to the level it does is that sorting through the sheer volume of it takes time.  Don't be driven off or forced into silence.

A mate recently kicked her son out of the house for smashing things and being verbally abusive because she didn't get him a sufficiently good mobile phone contract - on her own dime - for the iPhone - that she paid for - after a lean couple of months enforced on the family (of 5) by his spending all the money on the family bank card on online games, which caused her to have to beg for food and miss paying the rent.
That's the kind of entitlement you're up against from a generation raised on the internet without any social filters: they're not the barbarians at the gates - half of them can't even spell - they're just pond life you should be pitying whilst enjoying the access to those who believe in fairness and whose opinions are worth your time that the internet provides.  It's a magnificent communications tool that can enlighten and educate, and that doesn't change because some 12 year olds want to use it to look at badger porn while calling strangers a faggot.
If nothing else, just give 'em enough rope until they hang themselves like those Twitter twats who got banged up for rape threats over whose mug went on a fiver or whatever it was about.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Yeah don't let the bastards get you down Hawkmonger. Bit shocked to hear that anyone on this forum got trolled though. But some people out in Internet land believe it's their right to attack or insult anyone who mildly disagrees with them.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Gamers, eh? The most toxic online community that isn't an outright hate group.

It's like they don't understand the catharsis in vicariously shooting everthing that moves and blowing up everything that doesn't.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Though I'm not much of a gamer, I believe that the number of fuckwits in the community seems higher than it actually is - the vast majority of gamers are normal, decent people who have social lives and thus can express their opinions and emotions to other people in the standard, healthy way; while the nasty little shitsuckers that seem to clog up particular sites have few, if any, real friends and substitute social interactions with vindictive bile-spewing to faceless avatars on the internet.

[JamesC]

Yep as usual it's a minority of noisy idiots that give everyone else a bad name.
I'm yet to find a really decent, well moderated gaming Forum. Most of the ones I've been on devolve into name calling and PC vs Console flame wars on most threads.

[TordelBack]

I'm not so sure about the 'friendless basement dweller' being at the root of all this, and more to do with tree-houses full of signatories to the G.R.O.S.S. charter. I suspect it's less about the lonely unwashed and more about those who mistake their priveleged existences for less than their due, and like the boards of companies, golf clubs and parties the world over fear even the slightest hint that the Other may get inside the gates and start touching their stuff.

[radiator]

I know I should be more patient, but I get frustrated with people who are timid with (or in some cases wilfully ignorant of) technology and refuse to educate themselves about it* and say things like 'I'm just not very technical'.

I'm trying to get everyone to send me birthday message video clips for my girlfriend's upcoming birthday, and if a video file is too big to send via facebook on their phone, it's simply beyond certain people**. I was also recently alarmed when my sister asked me how to go about backing up her photos - she had been walking round with all of her photos on her phone for the last five years without ever having backed them up. Neither her nor her husband (who is apparently really into gadgets and tech) had any idea how to even get the photos off their phones and onto their computer. To be clear, I'm talking about people in their 20s, 30s and 40s, not their 70s or 80s.

*Are these people aware that there is literally a blank page - Google - you can type a question into and have answers within seconds? Add to that the fact that computing has got infinitely easier in the last 15 years - and there's really no excuse not to get up to speed and join everyone else in the 21st century.

**And don't even get me started on how many people filmed their videos in portrait. 

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

**And don't even get me started on how many people filmed their videos in portrait. 

People who do that don't bug me, the very fact that it is possible annoys me. The only device callibrated to show videos in portrait is a smart phone. No other screens are in portrait. Youtube does not offer a player that shows videos in portrait, no video software outside a smartphone does. Pretty much everyone agrees moving pictures look wrong and off in portrait. When there's to big black strips taking up a great deal of the screen, it just looks shitty. Why is it even possible to film in portrait?

I don't see at as a people problem, it's a technology one. Y'know what grinds my gears? When technology does stuff without asking you first. Imagine everytime you tilted you're phone while filming, a prompt appeared asking if you wanted to film in portrait. You'd say "Of course not, you stupid smartphone!"

[JamesC]

Radiator, just remind yourself of how many people can't cook their own meal or wash their own clothes and the fact that some people can't back up digital files or film in the correct orientation won't seem half as bad.

[The Legendary Shark]

It does seem an odd thing to get upset over. Sure, anybody can learn how to save files properly but, by the same token, anybody can learn how to dismantle, repair and rebuild any type of machine; how to draw or paint; how to write to a professional standard; how to design and construct a house; how to manage a farm or grow all your own food; how to extract medicines and remedies from natural resources; how to sink wells and purify water and any number of other things - but who has the time?
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There are a great many things to learn and a great many things to do - we can't all be good at everything; I guess that's why there are seven billion of us, so we can share the load.