Things people need to just SHUT UP about.

[ninja555]

well, so many to choose from, so lets go with the big one,
-"so I here you like mudkips"
-tiger woods
-tween shit(twilight, jonas brothers, etc)
-nazis
-ww2

 

[philosophicalbastard]

I am really sick and tired of people being so cynical. Seriously whatever happened to all the "always look on the bright side of life" and "enjoy the little things" crap that many types of media try to shove down your throat?

 

[Hussmann54]

Thinking of the Tiger Woods thing.....

Michael Jackson. See I have mixed feelings. On one hand you have the little boy touching and the baby dangling....

On the other you have an amazing Musician and vocalist.

BUT FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY! SHUT UP ABOUT IT! HE IS DEAD! GET OVER IT! PEOPLE DIE! Seriously Ronald Reagan didnt make this much hype. Im sick and tired of turning on the news and hearing this about him, and that about the family. I dont care how hard it is for people to cope and I understand that death hurts and that it is a difficult process to go through but it has drawn on too long! Seriously his fans need to shut up....

Ok I got that out...

 

[plastic_window]

What? Ipods are my favorite!

This brings me to mine, someone hating something because it's popular.

Spoiler: Here's why I dislike my iPod and Apple... This is a pretty big rant

The interface (the circle/button arrangement) is nowhere near as accurate as my old iriver's far simpler method, so selecting a specific song takes longer and is more irratating than need be, in my opinion.

iTunes requires my entire library of songs to constantly be converted which is time-consuming and completely unnessecary, my iriver could take songs that I'd downloaded or ripped in any format without converting them, and played them all fine.

Another issue with iTunes is that, although I can download things there that I can't anywhere else (the Bionic Commando Rearmed soundtrack, for example), these specific files simply won't play on anything that isn't made by Apple, so I can't play me entire playlists on my 360. I realise this is just buisness protocol, but it still irritates me.

The sound quality of my iPod is also far inferior to my iriver's. Aside from the fact that it shipped with those awful white headphones while my iriver shipped with Seinheissers (spelling's probably off there), my iPod was still noticably lacking in sound quality when I compared them using the same headphones.

Sure, in the end, it was my iriver that eventually screwed me over, and the company that failed to provide any answeres where I'm sure Apple would. And I'm not saying that my iPod is terrible, it's just that Apple's control over the market is so well-established that many better devices are swept under the carpet and forgotten, like my iriver. Every time I compare my current mp3 to my old one, it cannot do anything better than what I had.

The company behind iriver also don't sell any mp3 players (as far as I'm aware) above 7 gigs or so, and that isn't enough room for all my music.

In the end, Apple's monopoly is down to its popularity, so I suppose I must annoy you a lot for resenting my iPod. For that, I'm not sorry. I don't dislike it because it's popular, I dislike it because it has monopolised a market with a product that is inferior in many ways to the products that are, mostly, failing to compete financially with it.

It is unfair in every sense of the word, but hey, that's economics. Or at least, what I understand about economics.

What about a Zune? much better, not to mention cheaper, than an ipod.

I guess that's my bad for totally forgetting about the Zune. Mind you, I didn't see any of them stocked anywhere I looked.

Anyways, at this point it's a little late to buy a Zune. When my iPod breaks down I'll check them out, but for now I'm kinda stuck with my choice for now.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Grammer.

MW2.

People not being politically correct.

 

[Jonny49]

Just celebrities in general. Those who read things like OK! magazine constantly are on my moron list.

 

[Red Right Hand]

Earlier this year I would have said Jade Goody or Michael Jackson. YES THEY DIED IT'S SAD - SO WHAT?
Now the things I feel people need to shut up about all revolve around me and stupid things I've done.

See I didn't think it was sad at all that Jade Goody died. Is it wrong that a small part of me thought "HA fuck you *****." Maybe if she hadn't milked the public over her cancer then it would have been slightly more sad, but i mean, come on! Just shut the fuck up and die with some fucking dignity.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

Earlier this year I would have said Jade Goody or Michael Jackson. YES THEY DIED IT'S SAD - SO WHAT?
Now the things I feel people need to shut up about all revolve around me and stupid things I've done.

See I didn't think it was sad at all that Jade Goody died. Is it wrong that a small part of me thought "HA fuck you *****." Maybe if she hadn't milked the public over her cancer then it would have been slightly more sad, but i mean, come on! Just shut the fuck up and die with some fucking dignity.

Exactly. Both of these. OK, the Michael Jackson one was kinda bad I guess, but Jade Goody milks everything for all it's worth and everyone forgets that she was a proven racist *****. I hate things like that, when people forget somethng way worse because the person has died. So no, you are not a bad person.

 

[Ninjamedic]

Dream Theater

Huh. I haven't seen any threads on them. They are very good, you know.

Not here so much, but other people I know are completely obsessed. I've tried to like them and understand what the obsession is about but... nah.

Ill top you, MY DAD AND BROTHER AND TWO COUSINS, and they always say im obsessed with games.

 

[Mushroomfreak111]

Perfectly normal, some celebrity had a new haircut came BEFORE some guy murdering his ex wife and two children... I mean what the fuck...

 

[Megacherv]

in the vein of tiger woods... just celebrities in general. Theres too much focus on them and we think that they need to appeal to a certain standard, and then criticize them for their lifestyles, whether they're illegal or not.

I onced had an argument with a 14 year-old girl over MSN, about the fact that politics are more important than Susan-fucking-Boyle (who at the time was the most talked about person ever).

 

[Sigel]

2012.

Seriously, like, half a dozen of my friends are going nuts over this shit. My high school english teacher is stocking her garage with canned food and bottled water for the end of the world.

I can't wait to barge into her classroom on jan 4th or whenever school starts again. Point my finger at her and yell...

[HEADING=1]HA![/HEADING]

A-freakin'-men. The 2012 hype is really beginning to annoy me. I've got this one insanely annoying girl in my class who refuses to believe the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (because she knows so much more than an ass-tonne of PhD holding scientists) and maintains that Nibiru (a fictional planet this 2012 bullshittery has latched onto) is hiding behind Jupiter and will fly past us.

At first she maintained that, as is the current craze with this ridiculous hype, the incoming planet's gravitational pull would flip our planet's geomagnetic field. When I pointed out to her that geomagnetic reversals are a steady occurrence and have been so since the formation of our magnetic field with no proven effect upon the biosphere she changed the trajectory of her fictional planet and starting claiming it'd hit earth. When I showed her the long, long list of facepalm-worthy, whiny, plebeian fears that the poor (probably pill-popping by now) astronomers at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry have answered (one of which outright stated that there was no such thing as this Nibiru/Planet X bull claims and that any large masses such as this approaching our solar system would be spotted tens of thousands of years before they came close, even with our current technology) she started claiming they were working for the government. Can't win with conspiracy theorists.

Another thing I wish people would just shut the fuck up about is anthropogenic global warming. Humans contribute 3.6% of carbon emissions (that's not some crazy right-wing lie, that's New Scientist's data). Even if we manage to cut the 19% of worldwide human emissions required by the Copenhagen summit that still amounts to roughly 0.7% of total carbon dioxide emissions. I'm not saying CO2 doesn't have a causal affect upon climate (it's demonstrably proven that it does), nor, for the same reason, am I arguing that cutting CO2 won't change the climate, I'm arguing that it's illogical to claim that our race's piddling little contribution to total CO2 emissions can be solely responsible for global warming (which is occurring) and whilst everyone and their mother is out demonising this single gas as if it is the fifth horseman of the apocalypse we're not looking at what else could be the cause of the warming or any other mitigation strategies than "Oh em gee buy this car because it doesn't produce as much carbon!111"

In the midst of all this hysteria we miss out on simple and interesting solutions to any potentially damaging warming (which, despite the media's overreaction, hasn't yet occurred), such as Myhrvold et al's Nitrogen Dioxide delivery system for artificial cooling.


EDIT: (there's a lot that annoys me, I'll just throw in one more)

Gender. That's another thing I want people to shut the fuck up about. The American media is obsessed with gender. I can't watch a damn television show without seeing men being thrown into one of the following stereotypical roles: competitive, immature, aggressive (this one has some truth to it at least, I'll explain later), sex obsessed, unemotional/emotionally insensitive and so on. Even more irritating (and nonsensical) is the fact that women are always portrayed as the tonic to these masculine gender defects. However, women don't get off scot-free either; women in the media are usually portrayed as one of the following: irrational, innocent/naive (may not sound like a bad thing, but innocence and infantilization go hand in hand and no-one wants to be denigrated to the position of a child), stupid and, more often than not, unpleasant/bitchy.

This is really annoying because a spiffing brilliant 46 study meta-analysis by Hyde et al (2005) of the University of Wisconsin discovered that there were no statistically significant differences between genders in any behavioural or cognitive areas other than aggression (moderate to strong correlation with males, especially when aware of observation (0.58-0.64 correlation on all types of aggression)), sexual attitudes (men don't tend to see masturbation as 'wrong' and don't tend to consider casual sex to be 'wrong' either (interestingly, despite the media portrayal, Hyde et al found that sexual satisfaction (amount and pleasure gained) leaned very slightly more towards women than men)) and lastly motor-skills and complex shape manipulation (being able to mentally rotate and manipulate 3-D shapes, just seems that women aren't usually created in such a way as to be neurologically geared towards this sort of task). A recent study of testosterone has also shined doubts upon its efficacy in causing aggression, as it was found that women in a blind trial were significantly more likely to exhibit aggressive/competitive tendencies when told they'd been given testosterone (when in fact none had been administered) than when they actually received testosterone. Basically, gender has jack shit to do with anything; the way your life has treated you is the most crucial factor in what makes you different from other people in nearly all aspects.

So ninja'd but I love it, and you stated it more eloquently than I would have. I would also like to add unnecessary music hatred. Get f*ckin over it. If you don't like something, change the channel, leave the room, or stop talking to the person about their love for it, cause I got news for you, whatever music you love and consider brilliant, someone else hates it and thinks it shitte.

 

[cyber_andyy]

Anime and everything last century.

Seriously, people in my school have started to become obsessed with Pokemon, going "charmander!" and all this rubbish. Every time they say that i have to stop my self from stapling their lips shut.

 

[ECAaxel]

1.) 2012
*snip*
b.) Sun going boom (Which it WILL... possibly, or turn into a black hole)
c.) Sun going black hole (Which it WILL... possibly, or go boom)
*snip*

[pedantic]sorry to disapoint but it's not going to do either, it's mass is too small, it expand into a red giant and cook us then shrink to a white dwarf[/pendatic]

I get annoyed with the media when they
a)Try to over dramatise everything
b)speculate about something they know nothing about
c)Use sources/people in an argument who know really don't know what there talking about but think they do.

 

[cheese_wizington]

What? Ipods are my favorite!

This brings me to mine, someone hating something because it's popular.

Spoiler: Here's why I dislike my iPod and Apple... This is a pretty big rant

The interface (the circle/button arrangement) is nowhere near as accurate as my old iriver's far simpler method, so selecting a specific song takes longer and is more irratating than need be, in my opinion.

iTunes requires my entire library of songs to constantly be converted which is time-consuming and completely unnessecary, my iriver could take songs that I'd downloaded or ripped in any format without converting them, and played them all fine.

Another issue with iTunes is that, although I can download things there that I can't anywhere else (the Bionic Commando Rearmed soundtrack, for example), these specific files simply won't play on anything that isn't made by Apple, so I can't play me entire playlists on my 360. I realise this is just buisness protocol, but it still irritates me.

The sound quality of my iPod is also far inferior to my iriver's. Aside from the fact that it shipped with those awful white headphones while my iriver shipped with Seinheissers (spelling's probably off there), my iPod was still noticably lacking in sound quality when I compared them using the same headphones.

Sure, in the end, it was my iriver that eventually screwed me over, and the company that failed to provide any answeres where I'm sure Apple would. And I'm not saying that my iPod is terrible, it's just that Apple's control over the market is so well-established that many better devices are swept under the carpet and forgotten, like my iriver. Every time I compare my current mp3 to my old one, it cannot do anything better than what I had.

The company behind iriver also don't sell any mp3 players (as far as I'm aware) above 7 gigs or so, and that isn't enough room for all my music.

In the end, Apple's monopoly is down to its popularity, so I suppose I must annoy you a lot for resenting my iPod. For that, I'm not sorry. I don't dislike it because it's popular, I dislike it because it has monopolised a market with a product that is inferior in many ways to the products that are, mostly, failing to compete financially with it.

It is unfair in every sense of the word, but hey, that's economics. Or at least, what I understand about economics.

What about a Zune? much better, not to mention cheaper, than an ipod.

I guess that's my bad for totally forgetting about the Zune. Mind you, I didn't see any of them stocked anywhere I looked.

Anyways, at this point it's a little late to buy a Zune. When my iPod breaks down I'll check them out, but for now I'm kinda stuck with my choice for now.

Thank you for replying politely, you made a lot of valid points. I especially agree with the annoying licensing apple puts on all of it's songs from the Store (or whatever you call it). Which is why I use...other....means of aquiring my music. And although I agree with your statement about the scroll wheel being annoying (especially on the newer nanos) I use an iPod Touch, which is probably my most prized possession.

So I tip my hat to you sir, for not flaming me out.

 

[Teh Karn]

I know the kids at the Tiger Woods Learning Center feel ashamed now.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Dream Theater

Huh. I haven't seen any threads on them. They are very good, you know.

Not here so much, but other people I know are completely obsessed. I've tried to like them and understand what the obsession is about but... nah.

Ill top you, MY DAD AND BROTHER AND TWO COUSINS, and they always say im obsessed with games.

I can back him up.
ALL...THE...TIME...

 

[MindDemon]

Tiger Woods.

 

[4242564]

I think the whole Michael Jackson thing just needs to stop. I mean, you know everyone was making fun of him and calling him a pedophile up until the day he died, and then suddenly everyone says he was an outstanding individual.