Random BS people say that you get fed up with.

[shootthebandit]

Im surprised that noone has mentioned yet about the idiots that say "youve had four pints of strong lager/cider at 6% (ish) and ive had one shot at 30%. 6 x 4 is only 24 so ive had more than you

Its remarkable how many fucking imbeciles have said things like this and tried adding the percentages. When i was at school i tried explaining to a class mate that their is more alcohol in beer than there is in spirits purely because the standard measure is a pint whereas a spirit is about 30ml. He then proceeded to tell me that if you had a pint of vodka it would have more alcohol than a pint of beer (obviously he wasnt wrong) but i replied by saying "try drinking half a bottle of smirnoff" needless to say it shut him up. My maths teacher even worked out the percent of alcohol in each glass and he still didnt believe me

Anyway to cut a long story short percentages on alcohol do not add up you thick fucks

 

[Imp_Emissary]

I'm gonna be "that guy" and jump in with the response everyone's been expecting, but has somehow not been posted yet.

It's "I could NOT care less", not "I could care less". By this point we shouldn't have to fucking explain why the fuck this is. If you're an adult and you don't know how to properly use the word "Not" by now then I'm going to politely ask you and the rest of your inbred, window-licking kind to line up, side by side and proceed to cap the person to your right. I will then proceed to castrate and parade the last remaining one of you around the world as an example of what not to fucking to do.

Also, to a lesser extent, people who are too thick to know how to use the various versions of the words Their/They're/There and Your/You're. Which is, unfortunately, still too common, even on these forums.

You shouldn't have to explain it because David Mitchell has a handily provided rant explaining it:


OT: People who end words with an "uh" sound piss me off no end. Or people that just can't speak fucking English properly. Struggling to think of examples right now though.

HA!
That video made me laugh. Thank the queen for me!

That said, I think the phrase "hold the fort down", would come from the idea that you don't want to let the fort get "blown up". That's what came to mind for me anyway.

As for what people say that bugs me? Well, first look at the first thing I wrote in this post.
"HA!"
I said that because the post I quoted made me laugh. I didn't/don't, LOL. I really don't like it when people write LOL instead of just laughing(you know by writing "Ha ha ha" or some variation of it). If you didn't laugh that much, and you don't want to spend what little time it takes to write "Ha ha ha" then why not just write "HA!"?
It's just as long.

But that isn't what really gets to me. People are lazy. I know because so am I. The L and the O are right next to each other, and you got to get back to doing nothing. I get that.

However, people who SAY LOL in real life instead of laughing. WTF! STFU! GO!

Just Laugh, You Bastards[/sub]

 

[Mid Boss]

"Minimum wage jobs aren't meant to be lived on. Get a REAL job!"

A fallacy spread by the rich who almost certainly inherited their fortune and have never lived a moment anywhere close to the poverty line. Because there are as many high paying jobs as you can ever want if you'd just apply for them then you too can be rich.

I want whatever it is that they're taking. Because just being retardedly rich can't possibly make you this out of touch with reality.

But what's even worse are the corporate ass kissers, who should know better because they live down here at the bottom with the rest of us, that defend them anyway hoping that someone will give them a pat on the head.

 

[Poetic Nova]

People that don't know the bloody diffirence between gothic and metalhead. Oh and people who think that you are a satanist when you are either of them.

 

[lacktheknack]

Im surprised that noone has mentioned yet about the idiots that say "youve had four pints of strong lager/cider at 6% (ish) and ive had one shot at 30%. 6 x 4 is only 24 so ive had more than you

Its remarkable how many fucking imbeciles have said things like this and tried adding the percentages. When i was at school i tried explaining to a class mate that their is more alcohol in beer than there is in spirits purely because the standard measure is a pint whereas a spirit is about 30ml. He then proceeded to tell me that if you had a pint of vodka it would have more alcohol than a pint of beer (obviously he wasnt wrong) but i replied by saying "try drinking half a bottle of smirnoff" needless to say it shut him up. My maths teacher even worked out the percent of alcohol in each glass and he still didnt believe me

Anyway to cut a long story short percentages on alcohol do not add up you thick fucks

...

...

A small part of my brain died while reading this post.

Although it does remind me of Gambler's Fallacy. Apparently, some people think that, if a coin flips heads five times in a row, the chance of it flipping tails somehow increases. Uh.

Combine that with Pessimist's Bias (you notice things much more if they go badly) and you have the average thread on XCOM.

 

[The White Hunter]

I'm gonna be "that guy" and jump in with the response everyone's been expecting, but has somehow not been posted yet.

It's "I could NOT care less", not "I could care less". By this point we shouldn't have to fucking explain why the fuck this is. If you're an adult and you don't know how to properly use the word "Not" by now then I'm going to politely ask you and the rest of your inbred, window-licking kind to line up, side by side and proceed to cap the person to your right. I will then proceed to castrate and parade the last remaining one of you around the world as an example of what not to fucking to do.

Also, to a lesser extent, people who are too thick to know how to use the various versions of the words Their/They're/There and Your/You're. Which is, unfortunately, still too common, even on these forums.

You shouldn't have to explain it because David Mitchell has a handily provided rant explaining it:


OT: People who end words with an "uh" sound piss me off no end. Or people that just can't speak fucking English properly. Struggling to think of examples right now though.

HA!
That video made me laugh. Thank the queen for me!

That said, I think the phrase "hold the fort down", would come from the idea that you don't want to let the fort get "blown up". That's what came to mind for me anyway.

As for what people say that bugs me? Well, first look at the first thing I wrote in this post.
"HA!"
I said that because the post I quoted made me laugh. I didn't/don't, LOL. I really don't like it when people write LOL instead of just laughing(you know by writing "Ha ha ha" or some variation of it). If you didn't laugh that much, and you don't want to spend what little time it takes to write "Ha ha ha" then why not just write "HA!"?
It's just as long.

But that isn't what really gets to me. People are lazy. I know because so am I. The L and the O are right next to each other, and you got to get back to doing nothing. I get that.

However, people who SAY LOL in real life instead of laughing. WTF! STFU! GO!

Just Laugh, You Bastards[/sub]

You know, oddly enough...


I'm inclined to agree, in a limited form such as a tweet or a text, lol is a perfectly reasonable way of approving a joke and confirming mild amusement.

In a forum post it'd be nice if people would use full written english of some description.

 

[The Danger]

"There's no such thing as objective truth."

That claim is either true or false. If true, then it cannot be true, since it claims that no statement can be objectively true; therefore, there is such a thing as objective truth. If false, then there is such a thing as objective truth.

It's a very simple contradiction, and such things ought to be recognized as the absurdities that they are. What bothers me is how many people who contradict themselves in this or similar ways (e.g. "there is no such thing as right and wrong") imagine they're being hip, cutting-edge intellectuals, when really they're committing the kinds of fallacies you learn to avoid in the most basic level of instruction in such matters.

 

[Aris Khandr]

"It is just a theory." If you are discussing anything scientific and utter that phrase, stop and go learn what the scientific definition of "theory" is. It doesn't mean "a guess". Yes, there is a theory of evolution. There is also a theory of gravity. The "theory" is explaining the reason why something happens. The fact that it happens at all isn't up for debate.

Actually, a theory isn't saying that "This did happen like this", a theory is saying, "We have evidence that supports this theory, but we cannot list it as a fact".

To use your example of gravity... there is both a law and a theory of gravity. The law of gravity tells us that between two objects of mass, they will be brought together through gravity through a certain known equation.

The theory of gravity is still up in the air. We can calculate gravity yes, but WHY does mass attract itself and cause gravitational pull?

So pretty much, theory =/= law. A theory does have evidence supporting it, but it IS NOT proven.

I never said the theory itself was proven. Just that a theory is about something that we already know for a fact happens. We could find out that evolution or gravity as we understand them are wrong tomorrow. But all that will change is our understanding of how it works, not that it happens. That things evolve or that gravity exists isn't debatable. We can debate the 'how's and 'why's of it, but the actual happening? No. So when people say "evolution is just a theory", they're wrong.

 

[Lionsfan]

I don't really see it a lot on other places, but I see it on here every now and again. Bolding their puns.

If you have to bold it and point it out to everybody, it's not that good of a pun to begin with

 

[Ratties]

Anybody who feels the need to give advice when nobody asked for it. I am just telling a story you dumb ass, I don't need some kind of lecture on how I could have done things differently. People that feel the need to be teachers to everybody can shampoo my crotch.

 

[The Danger]

"Well, that is, like, your opinion."


....


FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU [censored]

Comes up everytime someone tries to bring an actual argument into an discussion, be it a movie, music, a game, a book, anything. Not just some hollow phrases, an actual ARGUMENT. Something that can convince people or at least can be refuted. And always, ALWAYS there's this one cnutcraetuer who thinks he goes all Zen with this "It's just your opinion and everyone is entitled to his/her opinion". Well, it's not Zen, it's not wise, not intelligent nor any other thing you deluded yourself into thinking. It's bloody stupid.

OF COURSE it's my bloody opinion, you dolt, that's why I am presenting it. If it wasn't my opinion, I wouldn't frigging bring it up.
And while we're on that topic: a)You don't know what the word "entitled" means, otherwise you wouldn't fart out such BS and b) I'm pretty sure you don't actually have an opinion. An opinion is FORMULATED. There is an actual thought-process behind it. Most likely the thing that you have floating around in your think-box is an IMPRESSION at best.


Aaaah, that felt good. ^^

How DARE you question the wisdom of His High Dudeness!?!? Shame on you, sir! Fie and shame!

(Edit: I'm a noob and couldn't shorten the quote without messing it up :/)

 

[Vale]

People with a positive attitude. "Oh, you'll get better, eventually you'll be a proper human being etc"
I just want to SCREAM MY PAIN INTO THEIR SOUL
*ahem*
People who believe in non-substantiated things. "Well, y'see, the Great Snake God left this land a thousand years ago etc"
I just want to SCREAM MY RAGE INTO THEIR MINDS BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SOUL
*ahem*

This would surely get me banned were I to continue. Which is fair enough, really. But! I dun wanna.

 

[LITE992]

Ad hominem. Attacking somebody personally does not refute their argument.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Ad hominem. Attacking somebody personally does not refute their argument.

Yeah, well...you're ugly!

On a serious note, people who dismiss opinions with some thought behind them (as in "I think x is good because of y and z") with anything along the lines of "No, you're wrong". Opinions cannot be wrong, damn it! You can say that the opinion was, perhaps, ill-formed, or you can disagree with an opinion, but you cannot say that the opinion itself is wrong. Unless there is some objective data to disprove it. What I'm talking about is more along the lines of someone saying why they like a movie, only to be told "That movie sucked, and you suck for liking it!"

 

[Imp_Emissary]

Spoiler: Baron BJ's stuff.

I'm gonna be "that guy" and jump in with the response everyone's been expecting, but has somehow not been posted yet.

It's "I could NOT care less", not "I could care less". By this point we shouldn't have to fucking explain why the fuck this is. If you're an adult and you don't know how to properly use the word "Not" by now then I'm going to politely ask you and the rest of your inbred, window-licking kind to line up, side by side and proceed to cap the person to your right. I will then proceed to castrate and parade the last remaining one of you around the world as an example of what not to fucking to do.

Also, to a lesser extent, people who are too thick to know how to use the various versions of the words Their/They're/There and Your/You're. Which is, unfortunately, still too common, even on these forums.

You shouldn't have to explain it because David Mitchell has a handily provided rant explaining it:

Spoiler: Your stuff.

OT: People who end words with an "uh" sound piss me off no end. Or people that just can't speak fucking English properly. Struggling to think of examples right now though.

HA!
That video made me laugh. Thank the queen for me!

Spoiler: My LOL stuff.

That said, I think the phrase "hold the fort down", would come from the idea that you don't want to let the fort get "blown up". That's what came to mind for me anyway.

As for what people say that bugs me? Well, first look at the first thing I wrote in this post.
"HA!"
I said that because the post I quoted made me laugh. I didn't/don't, LOL. I really don't like it when people write LOL instead of just laughing(you know by writing "Ha ha ha" or some variation of it). If you didn't laugh that much, and you don't want to spend what little time it takes to write "Ha ha ha" then why not just write "HA!"?
It's just as long.

But that isn't what really gets to me. People are lazy. I know because so am I. The L and the O are right next to each other, and you got to get back to doing nothing. I get that.

However, people who SAY LOL in real life instead of laughing. WTF! STFU! GO!

Just Laugh, You Bastards[/sub]

You know, oddly enough...


I'm inclined to agree, in a limited form such as a tweet or a text, lol is a perfectly reasonable way of approving a joke and confirming mild amusement.

In a forum post it'd be nice if people would use full written english of some description.

That one was also good.

I get what he means. It is hard to make LOL sound insincere. I don't really have THAT much of a problem with LOL being used when writing on the Internet(unless all you put down is LOL with nothing else, but that's not about LOL. That's about putting as little effort as you can into something, but I digress).

However, I will not forgive it's use in real life.
Don't worry, I'm not going to be going around yelling at people who use it.
>_> Not out loud anyway...

Thanks for the videos, and this little chat!

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

"It is just a theory." If you are discussing anything scientific and utter that phrase, stop and go learn what the scientific definition of "theory" is. It doesn't mean "a guess". Yes, there is a theory of evolution. There is also a theory of gravity. The "theory" is explaining the reason why something happens. The fact that it happens at all isn't up for debate.

"If you can't do better, you have no room to criticise." I may not be able to engineer a building, but I still know it is bad if the floor shifts while I walk on it. I may not have written a book, but I can still identify when a page is trying to choke itself to death on grammatical errors. The ability to do a thing is not a prerequisite for being able to tell that a thing is done wrong.

And to risk dragging this into R&P territory, "Because God said so," or any variation thereof. If that is the best argument you have, just stop. I'm going to lay a newsflash on anyone who does use that argument: If someone isn't of your religion, then your rules don't apply to them. I know you might think they do, but they don't. That's why those of us who aren't Jewish get to enjoy bacon, and that's why those of us who aren't Catholic can have steaks on Friday nights if we want them. I've got no problem with people following their own restrictions, but stop expecting that every else will too.

Yeah, I hate it when people confuse a theory for a hypothesis.

I also hate it when people rant about gays(specifically in my country, in the region in which I lived in and occasionally go on holiday to), you would not believe the shit I've heard, and when I do hear their "truths", I feel that the person who spoke has lost all credibility on everything and should not be trusted when they're citing "facts".

Basically, I stop caring at that point.

 

[Something Amyss]

I find it frustrating that some people don't call computers with OSX PCs. a PC is a personal computer, the operating system has no bearing on that.

It's branding.

People only used 5% of their brains and geniuses are people who can tap into all of 100%. In that case, why are headshots so damn deadly? If we are only using a small percentage of our brains then we can lose most of it and be perfectly fine.

While you're correct that it's erroneous, your reasoning is flawed. It doesn't state where the 5% (usually 10) is, and distribution is an issue. Plus, blood loss and trauma are real issues to any part of the body.

However, the reality is that we generally use only about 10% of our brain at a given time, which is still an oversimplification, but accurate enough for casual discussion.

 

[Souplex]

Whenever people insist on being wrong even though I've made it quite clear that they are.
When will people learn: I'm always right.

 

[Kolby Jack]

I'm generally a positive guy with a positive attitude towards most things, but I really don't like the phrase "never give up." It's true that giving up on something important to you should be the last thing you do, but it's still a perfectly viable option when everything else fails. To not give up at that point would just cause additional misery and suffering. The world doesn't work like Hollywood says it does. Just being determined won't allow you to win out in the end. It's just not realistic. If anything, teach your kids to try their hardest but know their limits. You can't do anything you want just because you want it really bad. The sooner people learn that, the sooner they can learn to make the most out of what they DO have.

Oh, also the misuse of the word "random." A more appropriate title for this thread would be "Specific BS things people say that you get fed up with." "Random" implies the things we're talking about are not chosen by us as things we get fed up with, which makes no sense; "specific" means a select few phrases we hate hearing. We aren't drawing "BS things people say" cards out of a rotating mesh cage, here.