Educating Annoying Ignorances

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Eventidal said:
Anti-furry ignorance is one I'd like to destroy. People act like every furry is some messed-up zoophile or something. It's just plain wrong, and statistically most furries aren't even into the "yiff" stuff anyway....
Too-right! I am a very un-furry furry (if that makes sense) but I love furs and a vast majority of my friends are furs.

Also, for the record, whenever I hear / read the word "yff" / "yiffy" / "yiffing" it makes me want to smash things because it's one of the most annoying, twee words ever!

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Syzygy23 said:
What, did Jesus get your sister pregnant and refuses to pay child support now or something?
Of course not, that would be ridiculous!

I don't have a sister!

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Also, I saw a sign which said "get results 140% sooner!"

So I get my results before I even ask for them? I don't think we should be messing with powers like that.
 

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Vhite said:
I can relate to that. I dont like when people say that anime is only made in Japan or asian countries. Thats probably because one of my favorites is French.
I can relate to that. I don't like it when people think that manga isn't manga unless it was made in Japan. Frédéric Boilet might be French, but his comics give me more of a manga feeling than many Japanese mangaka.

And let's not forget that the only really established meaning of the word manga is "comics." Not "big-eyed comics," or "comics read right-to-left," just "comics." So when I get into an argument about that kind of thing, I tell people that. And add "So when I say that the word "manga" can be used about this comic, I've got over one hundred million Japanese people who agree with me. You think you know this stuff better than the entire population of Japan?"
Yes, but you don't live in Japan, do you? One word can mean different things across cultures. "Pants" means pants in American English but means "underwear" in Japanese. Consider even the different meanings that words like "biscuit" and "pudding" have in British English.

So yes, while "manga" means "comic" in Japanese, as a loanword it means "Japanese comic."

Separate issue: Midi-chlorians does not equal "The Force," they are just the middle-man between living things and said "Force." George Lucas, no matter what else he may have done to ruin the Star Wars franchise, he did not retcon a mystical energy field into microscopic bacteria.
First of all, I agree 100% on the Star Wars thing. Secondly, I'll admit that you're right about the loanword thing too, because it still means that people have a way too limited definition of what "manga" means. I've had it with people who think that it has to look like Sailor Moon to be manga.
 

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Eventidal said:
Anti-furry ignorance is one I'd like to destroy. People act like every furry is some messed-up zoophile or something. It's just plain wrong, and statistically most furries aren't even into the "yiff" stuff anyway. The really freaking creepy ones (AKA the only ones that ever show up on TV by some magical media manipulation) and the people who post dirty stuff in completely unnecessary places make us all look bad. Then a bunch of furs come out of nowhere when someone bashes the fandom or makes a joke at its expense (which I usually join in the laughter about, myself...) and they make terrible fools of themselves trying to argue with others.

Whenever I see the whole "kill it with fire" thing because the term "furry" happened to come up, I Ultra-Facepalm. It's just ignorant, and stupid at that. There are quite a few creepy furs out there, but that's nowhere near the majority of us.
Agreed. A friend of mine said that she thought that furries are mentally ill. I asked why, and she said that wanting to have sex with anthropomorphic animals isn't really healthy. I told her (and by "told her" I mean "yelled at her") that for most furries, it's not a sex thing.
 

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Thaliur said:
I know that wasn't your point, but you just drew my attention on the phrase "twice smaller". What's that even supposed to mean? Smallness can't be measured. There just isn't a value or unit for it. You might be able to define one by saying that smallness=1/size, as we do with resistivity or conductivity depending on the situation, which would mean that "twice as small" actually means "half as big", but even that would be incorrect, because you actually said "twice smaller". So the object would be smaller than the other one by two iterations. Since I live in a metric country, the basic iteration for length would be a meter. That would result in (since you were comparing to fists) about -1.8 meters (for a large fist). That is not possible, so, as an engineer, I presume the next likely iteration: 1 millimeter. So you can shoot something a little smaller than a fist (keeping with the "large fist" I proposed, about 18mm) if it is not moving.

The same happens all the time. People even say "twice larger" or something like that if they mean "twice as large". Supposing their basic increment in this case was the size of the object, what they actually said was "three times as large".
Twice simply means two times, times implies multiplication not addition. When you say "3 times 2" you mean 2*3=6 not 2+1+1+1=5. Iterations have absolutely nothing to do with it. If I would have said "smaller by two" or "smaller by twice" (which makes no sense) then you'd have a point about two iterations. But if you really want to nitpick I meant objects that are twice as small or half as big or whose size is 50% of the original size (but you already knew that).
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Now I'm no medic, but from what little I know of first aid external bleeding can usually be stopped pretty quickly and efficiently and people can survive amputated limbs, no such luck with torso injuries. While a leg injury could potentially be deadly so could the common cold, just because something is as possible doesn't mean it is as likely.
I got a pretty good education on emergency medicine, and internal bleeding, no matter in which bodypart, is almost certainly deadly unless the injured person undergoes surgery within a few minutes. It does take a while before someone goes unconscious from a leg wound, though, so even with a badly damaged leg artery, they can still be quite dangerous, despite being doomed to die. I think that's what he was referring to.
And that's why I said external bleeding not internal, or do my eyes deceive me and my memory fails me? A shot to the leg is less likely to cause internal bleeding than a shot to the torso. And there is always the option of applying a tourniquet when we are talking about a wounded limb (and if the wounded gets to the hospital in less than 2 hours he may actually keep his limb attached), which is impossible on a torso. If wounded soldiers in the middle of the desert can survive limb wounds long enough to get to a hospital (though not everyone does) then I doubt it is much harder in an urban setting where an ambulance is just a phone call away.

Edit: As I have already pointed out several times, in real life someone with a badly damaged leg artery would be lucky to make a shot, let alone one that hits anyone.
 

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People who care about things they consider ignorant but are really their petty, terminological definitions of things that may fall under a single term in the eyes of another?
 

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But every day I will get customers asking for "Sony iPods" or "generic iPods." Every single time.
I've always found is really bizarre that customers ask for "generic" versions of complex electronic devices. This isn't medication or something! You can't just slap together the same ingredients and have something that's identical, yet not the original brand! Manufacturing the exact same product would be an expensive venture (hence, not cheaper) and would violate multiple patents. Did you mean "compatible" or "3rd party"?
 

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Arsen said:
People who care about things they consider ignorant but are really their petty, terminological definitions of things that may fall under a single term in the eyes of another?
This. So, very very much of this.

I know an awful lot of very specific terminology about a lot of things, for example, I know the difference between a Schooner and a Sloop (I dunno why I know that, or why I'm using it as an example, but hey ho), and yet to the majority of people they're just boats, the differences ultimately being irrelevant.

And yet, I know there's someone out there who would feel the need to point out the difference to someone who, ultimately, doesn't care.
 

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Here's a good one:
People who believe in religion are not nut jobs, nut jobs who are religious just make us look bad
 

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Urgh76 said:
One that seems to have an actual affect on me almost daily is the ignorance of people not being able to understand that although a show has been made for small children, if it's extremely well made, we can all enjoy it immensely

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Though it being plastered everywhere is annoying.
 

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Atheists who attack organized religion, well, religiously. They talk about how they get religion rammed down their throat, completely unaware that they are doing the exact same thing.

I myself don't believe in god or the after life and all those other religious things but I don't think you should put someone down for being religious. Don't like religion? Don't be religious.
One reason I immediately and involuntarily cringe whenever someone tells me they are an atheist is because of all of the hyper aggressive militant atheist I encounter online and real life that attack me both on the intellectual and personal level.(I encounter just as many conservative Christian nut jobs as well but none were as aggressive) It does not matter how smart I am, it does not matter how decent of a person I am, I have a different belief or lack of belief from them and thus I am an unsympathetic outsider worthy of nothing but their scorn.

I wish I had met more atheists like you instead of the aforementioned ones because I feel an irrational fear or aggression whenever someone mentions that they are an atheist because I have been conditioned to feel (not believe) that atheism and an atheist's lifestyle surrounding it is their sole pursuit in life and everything else comes second.

The constant, unprovoked preachings I have received from many atheists and intellectuals (that I have now distanced myself from) have left me fairly bitter and with a very skewed understanding of what I do and do not believe right now combined with a desire to avoid actual theological discussion altogether to avoid debates that seem designed to make me solely see the other person's point of view neglecting my own and in turn preventing my own spiritual self discovery.

I am a Deist by the way in case you were wondering.
Don't worry, we hate those guys too. We try to distance ourselves from them as much as gamers try to keep away from the ones who think they are really Ezio Auditore.

I don't think it's because they're atheists, though. I think it's a personality thing and that even if they were Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or a member of the church of The Fonz they'd still be the same.

Personally I don't care what you believe, but I guess people can be religious nutjobs even if they aren't religious.


OT: I could care less about peoples spelling and grammer when their writing and if you disagree your wrong
 

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But every day I will get customers asking for "Sony iPods" or "generic iPods." Every single time.
I've always found is really bizarre that customers ask for "generic" versions of complex electronic devices. This isn't medication or something! You can't just slap together the same ingredients and have something that's identical, yet not the original brand! Manufacturing the exact same product would be an expensive venture (hence, not cheaper) and would violate multiple patents. Did you mean "compatible" or "3rd party"?
3rd Party would definitely be a much better term to use, but we're dealing with people's ignorance here so... ;)

But I do totally agree. Why buy an off-hand version when you have to realize it's not the same thing? These are the same customers who complain to me about having to buy a new gaming controller every month cause they never last. I inquire as to which controllers they're buying and every single time they respond with the cheaper 3rd party controllers. Then I get the pleasure of trying to explain to them how not only are their controllers not lasting as long, but also generally not working as well also. And then I watch as they buy the same cheap piece of garbage they just got done complaining about. Yes, I should be excited because not only am I guaranteed another purchase from them come next month, but the 3rd party accessories usually have a much higher mark-up too! But no, I always feel like I'm letting the world down.
 

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Trezu said:
i also highly dislike it when parent's and with there kids and there in a museum. then you see a big sign that say's 'DO NOT TOUCH THIS BOAT'

[Kid touches boat Alarm goes off. Kid runs up to his mum]

then the mum says stuff like 'oh its not your fault, the Alarm is faulty [lie]. don't worry its not your fault.'

it annoys me so much, you gotta let your son know that he did something wrong and he has to receive a punishment for doing the wrong thing.
Don't punish the child. Punish the parent for letting the child do something the child had no clue they weren't allowed to do. But yes I agree, the parent needs to "teach" their child on rights and wrongs, not just leave it up to someone else to do. Parents need to take more responsibility for their offspring.

And this reminds me of something similar. The First Lady Obama is fighting for healthier lunches in schools. And she has been getting a LOT of flak for it from people saying government shouldn't be getting involved in a parent's responsibility. BUT, if parents were doing their job to begin with, this wouldn't be an issue at all. I am far from being political, but to me everyone up on their soapboxes against this just seem like uncaring, anti-Obama hypocrites.
 

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1.When people are reading something out loud and they find a word they dont know how to pronounce or whatever, so the just say a completely different word that is spelled like it. i.e, they say insure instead of insulate

2.When one of my friends spend or want to spend ridiculous amounts of money on an off-the-shelf PC, so I point out why its unnecessary and they just say something like "Wow, nerd." I want to punch them in the face every time.

EDIT: 3.When I say something that even remotely disagrees with their religion and they immediately respond with "You're going to Hell."

Me: Well I think that evolution has a lot of evidence going for it.

Friend: Well you're going to Hell.

Me: I don't believe in Hell.

Friend: When the Second Coming happens you'll go to Hell.

Me: I just died a little inside.
 

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MajorTomServo said:
Velociraptors, and the fact that they were feathered.

No one ever seems to depict them with feathers though. Friggin Jurassic Park.

At least Pokemon gets it...

Well, that and the fact that Velociraptors are actually that size of large chickens. The dinosaurs depicted in Jurassic Park are closer to Utah Raptors, but Utah Raptor is a hell of a lot less threatening sounding then Velociraptor. Which is probably the main reason behind the name switch in the book.



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There are many ways of being human, and our species has evolved to the point where specialization is more preferable over the generalization that was once needed for survival. So while it may be annoying gaps in knowledge is perfectly normal, because human culture has developed to the point were we are or more able to rely on others for things we have no interest in, in order to specialize in things we are interested in.

Another point I found interesting about this thread is that the things people are finding annoying that people don't know is usually things related to the field in which they themselves have chosen to specialize in. The techie finds it annoying when people generalize name brands as specific types of device, while the mechanic finds it annoying that people know nothing about the cars the hurl down the road. It is a good illustration how humans tend to believe that their way of doing things is right, or more important then others' way of doing this.
 

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Hipsy_Gypsy said:
kickyourass said:
I don't know exactly how common either of these are anymore, but just a few years ago I couldn't seem to escape them.
*A-chem*
British is NOT shorthand for English, there are three whole other countries in there.

On a similar note, for the love of God DO NOT make the mistake of thinking the WHOLE of Ireland is part of Britain, ESPESSIALLY if you are talking to someone actually from Ireland.
Ohh, it bugs me when people say "North of Ireland" as opposed to "Northern Ireland" because the north of Ireland consists of counties Donegal and Monaghan, haha. Mind you, I'm a wee bit tolerant of people saying I'm Irish, but usually only whenever they're referring to the whole island. I'd prefer to live down south anyway! That reminds me; I'm suppose to be heading to Kent in the summer months as part of a film crew but I've been hearing things about how the mainlands won't accept Northern Irish money. It's absurd though, because it's the same currency. Apparently Scottish folk have the same problem. I hope that doesn't happen but it'll be their own fault if I hand them all my change! Where are you from, out of curiosity?
There's actually a comedy sketch somewhere about that very problem.
I'm from America, why so curious?
 

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RoBi3.0 said:
Another point I found interesting about this thread is that the things people are finding annoying that people don't know is usually things related to the field in which they themselves have chosen to specialize in. The techie finds it annoying when people generalize name brands as specific types of device, while the mechanic finds it annoying that people know nothing about the cars the hurl down the road. It is a good illustration how humans tend to believe that their way of doing things is right, or more important then others' way of doing this.
Again, as I stated every one, and I mean EVERYONE, has ignorance. This is just a place to vent on what ignorances annoy you personally in your life. Which makes sense most would involve daily aspects of their life.

i.e. I work in electronics retail so most annoyances I encounter will be electronics related. I don't spend any time at all in bars so I have no annoyances drink related. I play on-line through Steam and PSN so I'm not going to encounter XBox Live annoyances, though I know they're out there.
 

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When people say they are agnostic. That doesn't mean anything. I can be agnostic about colors, because I have no preference in them, you have to say that you are religiously agnostic for it to mean anything.
 

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Connor Lonske said:
Not tech related, but people who think pansexuality is the same as bisexuality(it's not), or those who haven't heard of pansexuality and are like "what" or "that's stupid" or even "you're going to hell for you sexuality, why don't you change??".

And some of these people I've even seen here on the Escapist. It's insane.
Can I ask, what -is- the difference?

As far as I'm aware...

Bisexual = Attracted to males and females.
Pansexual = Attracted to all genders.

Which is kind of the same thing. :/


I'm not trying to be confrontational, I literally just want someone to explain what the difference between the two terms is! :(