Random BS people say that you get fed up with.

[mlbslugger06]

When people make any statement which dissolves them of any responsibility or accountability by saying "Who am I to question, say, or argue...etc." You have a mind capable of reason! Think and develop some self-esteem. If you can't defend what you believe, why you act or who you are, who can?

 

[Alex Ford]

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.

that depends on what you call a computer. for all intents and purposes Macs right now are nothing but smart tvs gone extreme. I mean if we call that a computer, we may as well call our phones PCs, consoles PCs and so on. I understand that when you have PC with OSX its a PC. but a MAC is hardly a PC.

Could you specify what disqualifies Macs from being PCs?
Having used both Windows and OSX quite a lot I can assure you, that aside from some OS specific software
there is basically nothing one OS can do that the other cannot.

 

[Da Orky Man]

"Young people are what's wrong with the world," news flash Cato the Elder was decrying the youth of Rome over 2000 years ago and blamed them for the decline of the Republic, hence I've started to realize that it's just old people in general moaning and complaining.

where is your rome empire now? oh, thats right, it fell.
im joking of course, but you picked a pretty poor example. especially when many historians thing that 2000 years ago was the time when the empire actually did start to decline.

NO worries then. Cato the Elder lived between 234 BC and 149 BC, a good while before the supposed date of the start of ecline.

I'd also like to point out that, two thousand years ago, the Roman Empire was only about 40 years old. The year when Rome stopped being the Roman Republic and became the Roman Empire is usually set at 27 BC, when Octavian was granted the title of Augustus, and became the first Roman Emperor.

I'd alo like to ask exactly why the Empire was said to have started declining at a mere 40 years of age. Its greatest extent was at 117 AD, as seen here:

Spoiler: Somewhat large image

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Roman_Empire_Trajan_117AD.png/1024px-Roman_Empire_Trajan_117AD.png

It didn't start really losing influence until the end of the reign of the last 'good' Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, when the Empire passed to Commodus.

'Good' Roman Emperors: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/209020/Five-Good-Emperors

 

[EyeReaper]

I hate it when people quote memes and think they're funny because of it. If you want to be funny, tell a joke, not say the same sentence everybody has heard a thousand times. Also, the people who say or do something really stupid/hurtful, and think they can pass it off with a "loljk" or something similar. the people who do this really need to learn to think before you speak.
One last one, any time someone tries to justify piracy. "Oh, EA doesn't deserve my money" Well maybe you don't deserve EA's games then.

 

[The Funslinger]

When people don't use plastic bags to, "Save a plastic tree." I hear people say this all the time, and you know what?

PLASTIC DOES NOT COME FROM TREES!!!

There, I feel better now.

Maybe they just really like those fake Christmas trees you can buy

 

[The Funslinger]

People who are overly obsessed with political correctness are also highly irritating. It is one thing to show respect to others, it is another thing to sanitize society into a bunch of vapid idiots who are unable to articulate anything meaningful or thought-provoking.

Whenever I meet these people, I go out of my way to say the most politically incorrect thing I possibly can to them.

And that's saying something as I have a blisteringly dark sense of humour.

 

[DiamanteGeeza]

(PS. Is it just me, or are other people getting a really annoying video advert that covers a good portion of the forum text entry box?)

Its for everyone and the official response was go get yourself premium if you dont want ads.
im fine with ads when they are in thier place. vidoe advert poping on top of a forum and advertisement inside video IS NOT.

My thoughts precisely. It makes it tough to write a long post (perhaps that's the point! LOL) because you can't see half of what you're typing, and if you accidentally move your mouse over the damn thing it takes over your entire screen! Awesome.

 

[Noswad]

Some person, "I don't think someones looks are important it's all about your personality"

Me thinking, "12 months ago when i was 3 stone heavier you wouldn't give me the time of day so please just piss right off. Everyone judges people by there looks me included when you say this you just sound conceited."

And trying to be topical (for UK at any rate) "Porn is ruining our children's minds"

So we're just going to ignore everyone who has grownup with the internet, no sure when internet porn became a thing but i'm pretty sure it's not turned everyone who grew up with it into a mass rapist.

 

[ForumSafari]

[citation needed]

This on online 'debates' because it's normally spouted by people that will never understand actual evidence, don't provide their own and are actually not even asking for evidence. What they're really saying is "I disagree with you but can't easily refute it, I'll request evidence and hope you don't bother to go looking on my behalf, then if you do present any I'll tell you it's biased".

 

[Phasmal]

`You don't need to identify as a female gamer! Gamer has no gender!`
Nooooooooooooooooo
`Gamer` should have no gender, but it does. Male.
I wouldn't be called `dude, bro, guy, son, man, boy` otherwise.

If everybody stopped auto-penising everyone else, then I'd be fine with a gender neutral term.
Til then....

Some person, "I don't think someones looks are important it's all about your personality"

Me thinking, "12 months ago when i was 3 stone heavier you wouldn't give me the time of day so please just piss right off. Everyone judges people by there looks me included when you say this you just sound conceited."

Sort of also this.
Hate it when people are called shallow just for being attracted to one person and not someone else.
Someone can have a really nice personality, but if the spark of attraction just isn't there, it's doomed to fail.

 

[Adam Locking]

"If you don't like it, don't buy it."

Inoffensive enough on its own, but when it is followed up 5 months later by the same person:

"This game is a masterpiece, it just didn't sell so well because entitled fanboys didn't buy it due to some stupid reason"

I actually start foaming at the mouth a little. The implication is that people everywhere should buy everything, even if they don't like it, because reasons, and are not allowed to complain about it before or after.

 

[Cat Cloud]

When people try to explain that cats with no fur are ugly. Excuse you, they are gorgeous demigods that have decided to take form on earth in order to grace its people with happiness and affection that they would otherwise be unable to experience.

I hate it when people take their ill informed opinions as fact! Almost makes me want to lose faith in humanity, sheesh!

 

[The Funslinger]

If everybody stopped auto-penising everyone else, then I'd be fine with a gender neutral term.
Til then....

"Auto-penising".

That sounds like simultaneously the best/most terrifying smartphone app or facebook trend in the world.

 

[Resonantscythe]

People telling me I'm in good shape
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<.<

On Topic:

People using the word n00b in the gaming community...
Seriously, because I have one bad game doesn't make me a n00b if I've been playing it for 2 year, geez! -.-

newb= novice N00B=unskilled

People who think that evolution isn't true. This is especially frustration as someone who was raised Catholic, because people automatically assume my stance on the matter, grouping me in with the imbeciles.

 

[Traun]

"If it wasn't for the Church we would be so much more advanced"

No, no it wouldn't. Asia didn't have Christianity, why aren't they more advanced than us? The Native Americans didn't, the Africans did. In fact the Church is one of the best things that could have happened to the medieval European.

 

[tsb247]

When people don't use plastic bags to, "Save a plastic tree." I hear people say this all the time, and you know what?

PLASTIC DOES NOT COME FROM TREES!!!

There, I feel better now.

Maybe they just really like those fake Christmas trees you can buy

That's what I should tell them. I should tell them that plastic bags come from all of the recycled plastic Christmas trees that grow in the wildlands to the north.

The sad part is that a good portion of people I see would likely believe me.

 

[Strazdas]

However, I have never, EVER been harassed solely due to my being a guy or my masculine sounding username. You get what I'm saying? Because it's pretty damn obvious and self evident.

DUe to certain series of illneess in my youth, my throat is "damaged" and i got very deep voice (think so deep some voice programs filter it out as "Background noise"). One girl in a "onlaine vidja geim" started harassing me for it telling me that its sexy and shes going to drag me into her cave and so on. She did it to a few other guys, but we just brushed it of as "ok so shes not the regular girl" and left it at that, but if you take it at face value it was harrasment, we just didnt care.

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.

that depends on what you call a computer. for all intents and purposes Macs right now are nothing but smart tvs gone extreme. I mean if we call that a computer, we may as well call our phones PCs, consoles PCs and so on. I understand that when you have PC with OSX its a PC. but a MAC is hardly a PC.

Could you specify what disqualifies Macs from being PCs?
Having used both Windows and OSX quite a lot I can assure you, that aside from some OS specific software
there is basically nothing one OS can do that the other cannot.

first google result for PC [http://altair.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Pc.jpg]
First google result for MAC [http://blog.kace.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mac1.jpg]
See whats missing?

PC is the box that is your computer. if we take the broad definition, then your watch is a PC, your gfridge is a PC, your car is a PC, half the items you own arep robably PCs. the term looses meaning.
it has nothing to do with software (operating system).

NO worries then. Cato the Elder lived between 234 BC and 149 BC, a good while before the supposed date of the start of ecline.

Ah, then yes i agree. i didnt knew when he lived as i didnt knew about him, but that does make your point much more reasonable.

I'd alo like to ask exactly why the Empire was said to have started declining at a mere 40 years of age. Its greatest extent was at 117 AD, as seen here:

just like you, i rounded the numbers. its more like 1850 years than 2000, jsut like its more like 2200 for Cate the Elder.
But there are thoeries that the expansion was the cause. they expanded too much and had too large territory to secure, and they simply couldnt. for example the whole war in ENgland and its wall took a lot out of them for little gain. YOu could argue that downfall began before the largest territory because territory gain was part of the downfall.

Buying new speakers? They will say; "You can't hear the difference in sound between one pair of speakers and another"

Well, to be honest ive seen plenty of people buy pimp speakers, conenct them to a decade old booster thats fit only for laptop speakers and pretend to tell the difference, when there is no real difference since the booster is too crappy and is limiting the quality.
also most people confuse Boss with quality.

"If it wasn't for the Church we would be so much more advanced"

No, no it wouldn't. Asia didn't have Christianity, why aren't they more advanced than us? The Native Americans didn't, the Africans did. In fact the Church is one of the best things that could have happened to the medieval European.

While church did have some advances (astrology, scholar) during the middle ages when Chistianity ruled europe Chinese were the most advanced country in the world. half of technological advanced in that period seen in Europe (for example high pressure ovens) were in fact brought from China and invented in china long ago. Chinese had A LOT of advancement and went over Europe in technology. Heck, even Arabs have outspit europeans in that time. Native americans had huge cities that could rival any european castle in their architecture, as well as african nation castles were amazing.
what happened is europeans came, decided to murder everyone, then add enlightment and exploitation and we are in the lead again.
actually, China lost the race due to their isolationism. they once send a group of ships out into the world. largest ships in the world mind you. half of african nations bowed to them and admited Chinas emperor as the supreme ruler. however the captain got malaria, died of it, and the emperor went isolationist again because "World is dangerous". back then china could ahve conquered the world had they wanted. but instead they decided to build great wall of china and close themselves in. heck, they ivnented gunpowder, but still used swords when we came with guns that they themselves made. they simply didnt use thier advances to their favour.
we would be much more advanced if christianity wouldnt have had ruled europe. how much is questionable, as we cant predict future, but it is undoubltedly true statement.

 

[Traun]

we would be much more advanced if christianity wouldnt have had ruled europe. how much is questionable, as we cant predict future, but it is undoubltedly true statement.

Then pray tell, why don't the Chinese have space ships? Or the Africans? Not only do they NOT have a Church, but their own belives are not dogmatic in a way that'd hinder scientific progress? Point is the Dark Ages are not a result of Christianity, it is the result of internal strife, foreign invasion, plagues and more. Had the Church, an organization that sponsored the arts AND sciences, not to mention did massive charity work and provided a somewhat central authority, not existed, the conditions of the continent would have been worse.

There have been many Dark Ages in history - the Greeks had two I believe, the Natives have at least one, there were a few in Asia. They are not the result of dogma, but of turbulent political environment.

And in the turbulent Dark Ages the Church was the one stable authority.

 

[Guffe]

People using the word n00b in the gaming community...
Seriously, because I have one bad game doesn't make me a n00b if I've been playing it for 2 year, geez! -.-

newb= novice N00B=unskilled

Well I'm still on the side that one bad game doesn't make one an unskilled player if we use your description of the word.
Everyone has a bad day or a bad game every ones in a while, unskilled is if you don't get better at a game from play number 5 to 2 years later. Having bad stats in 1 match doesn't make one a noob.
So even with your description I think the noob term is used wrongly a lot in the gaming commnity.

 

[Strazdas]

we would be much more advanced if christianity wouldnt have had ruled europe. how much is questionable, as we cant predict future, but it is undoubltedly true statement.

Then pray tell, why don't the Chinese have space ships? Or the Africans? Not only do they NOT have a Church, but their own belives are not dogmatic in a way that'd hinder scientific progress? Point is the Dark Ages are not a result of Christianity, it is the result of internal strife, foreign invasion, plagues and more. Had the Church, an organization that sponsored the arts AND sciences, not to mention did massive charity work and provided a somewhat central authority, not existed, the conditions of the continent would have been worse.

There have been many Dark Ages in history - the Greeks had two I believe, the Natives have at least one, there were a few in Asia. They are not the result of dogma, but of turbulent political environment.

And in the turbulent Dark Ages the Church was the one stable authority.

i already did, had you bothered to read, you wouldnt have needed to ask the question.
Sure there were dark ages. and from different causes. the middleages dark ages in europe was caused by Christianity merging with state power.