Recent content by ignatiusjreilly

Could you be more pacific?

This is me exactly. It annoys me, but not enough to say anything, but then it annoys me that it keeps happening because I don't say anything about it. Wash rinse repeat

If I am heating something up for between 1:00 and 1:39 I will press "60" or "99" to save an extra button push. I guess that's a pet peeve about myself. I also remember reading a profile of someone once that said they will always double the number up on their microwave time (44, 77, etc) to save...

Devices that overcomplicate their core tasks. When we got married, I told Mrs. R that I refused to register for any toaster that didn't just have a button that you could press to toast bread. (My parents ended up buying a popup toaster that they put next to their souped-up toaster oven because...

IMO attaching words like "Resources" and "Solutions" to plain language is offensive. It's fine to be referred to as "People" or "Humans", but once you call someone a "human resource" you're commoditizing them. I'm OK with "Chief People Officer", though.

That's not how you're aspossed to spell it

I've never had to fire anyone, but I agree that with unpleasant conversations it's always best to cut to the chase. I once applied for an internal promotion. I knew I wasn't going to get it, and I honestly didn't really want it (I only applied because I thought it would look bad for me not to...

People who say "wala" instead of "voila" :stirspot:

Two that moved way up my craplist in the past couple days: 1. School assignments that are really work for the parents rather than the kid. My third grader had to do a diorama of a book, and while 'm all for letting the kid take the lead even if it means doing a crappy job, there were some parts...

FYI, I think a lot of time when that happens it's because different elements on the page load at different speeds. So for example, the button initially appears at the top of the screen, but then an ad loads and it pushes the button further down. Still, it seems like some enterprising coder...

Hate the game, not the player

Also credit card readers. Stick your card in and you get a flashing message that says, "DO NOT REMOVE CARD". Then the screen changes and you think it's going to tell you to remove your card. But instead you get a different message that also says "DO NOT REMOVE CARD". Why not just wait until it's...

I wonder if they have Gronk's Premier League equivalent in their ads

Try UKAA

Once every 1-2 weeks. The only reason I use cash is to pay my cleaning lady and put money on our laundry cards