You know what really grinds my gears?

[mjavon]

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I don't know why this annoys me so much, but a co-worker of mine pronounces the word "query" as "qwurry". I cringe every single time.

[VDusen04]

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What's with this apparent new trend in online videos where the video plays in a vertical rectangle flanked by 2 rectangles with blurred versions of the video playing? I find these annoying as the flanking blurred version distract me from the clear central video.

Yep, have never been a fan. As l3ulvl said, I see it most often with uploaded standard definition clips originally filmed in a different ratio.

However, I much prefer the black bars on each side so I can focus all my attention on the video itself. Never saw the point of playing blurred versions of the video on the side just to complete the picture. I try to imagine letterboxed movies trying the same thing. It'd be a disaster. If I upload a standard definition clip, I go with the bars every time.

[to finish this statement myself]

Sites that do this, such as ESPN, really annoy me.

The worst.

Well, maybe not the worst. But close. I may still reserve the worst for List articles that are in slideshow format, where a reader has to click to the next page to get from No. 25 to No. 24 (or even those that had five on a page before moving forward with a re-fresh).

I know why websites do it (so each page can count as a new impression for advertisers, spiking page views) but it's so disingenuous that I quit those lists out of principle the moment I see they're slideshows.

The sad part is, I've been a part of sites who've gone that route and even though 80% of readers drop out by the 10th slide, the total number of views still surpasses what a site would get by going single page (even when accounting for possible increased social shares that come from people being more satisfied with a single-page list than a multi-pager that they quit almost immediately).

[seasprite]

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Other people's toddlers

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Automatic video now doesn't bother me in the age of high speed internet. But man 15 years ago back when high speed internet wasn't every where and a lot of people still had dial up internet it did. Automatic videos and songs playing kept me from using Myspace. It would take me a good 3 minutes to open a single Myspace page because so many people had auto music playing with gifs and marquee texts all over their page.

Oh the dial up internet days..........brings back memories. I take my 177 down, 12 up internet for granted now. But back then, man it use to take 40 minutes to download Yahoo Messenger on dial up and that was just a 5MB file.

[KG]

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Stripping screws.

Mannnnnn

I had to replace an old kitchen faucet a few weeks back and the whole damn underside of it was rusted out. For like 90 minutes I battled with that thing while in the most uncomfortable position possible. Finally I just took the sink out and hit it a few times with a sledgehammer (my counter-tops are granite so they're pretty sturdy). I wanted to take it outside and go Office Space on it.

[Phobia]

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Mannnnnn

I had to replace an old kitchen faucet a few weeks back and the whole damn underside of it was rusted out. For like 90 minutes I battled with that thing while in the most uncomfortable position possible. Finally I just took the sink out and hit it a few times with a sledgehammer (my counter-tops are granite so they're pretty sturdy). I wanted to take it outside and go Office Space on it.

I know the pain all too well, I've had so many projects start out as "ohh it should only take 30 min", only to be met with constant problems extending the problem hours to days.

Agree on this gear grinder!!!

[l3ulvl]

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Automatic video now doesn't bother me in the age of high speed internet. But man 15 years ago back when high speed internet wasn't every where and a lot of people still had dial up internet it did. Automatic videos and songs playing kept me from using Myspace. It would take me a good 3 minutes to open a single Myspace page because so many people had auto music playing with gifs and marquee texts all over their page.

Oh the dial up internet days..........brings back memories. I take my 177 down, 12 up internet for granted now. But back then, man it use to take 40 minutes to download Yahoo Messenger on dial up and that was just a 5MB file.

That was brutal, I definitely don't miss the "click something, go watch TV for 5 minutes while it loads" days

[Smooth Pancakes]

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And God help you if someone in the house wanted to make a phone call right in the middle of a download.

[Redacted01]

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I know the pain all too well, I've had so many projects start out as "ohh it should only take 30 min", only to be met with constant problems extending the problem hours to days.

Agree on this gear grinder!!!

Had the same problem with the brakes on my old Mustang. We figured, a couple hours at the most. Well the rears had been on since the car came off the line, so those things were more than a decade old. The fronts, whoever did them before I bought the car had the calipers tight as hell. We wasted several hours alone just trying to loosen things up or at the junkyard/parts store getting replacements since it was easier just to destroy what was there and start over. Took over 12 hours.

[Speedy]

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Automatic video now doesn't bother me in the age of high speed internet. But man 15 years ago back when high speed internet wasn't every where and a lot of people still had dial up internet it did. Automatic videos and songs playing kept me from using Myspace. It would take me a good 3 minutes to open a single Myspace page because so many people had auto music playing with gifs and marquee texts all over their page.

Oh the dial up internet days..........brings back memories. I take my 177 down, 12 up internet for granted now. But back then, man it use to take 40 minutes to download Yahoo Messenger on dial up and that was just a 5MB file.

Myspace.

Lord, that was many moons ago.

I bet whomever created that is still kicking his/herself that Facebook beat them at their own game.

[PVarck31]

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Myspace.

Lord, that was many moons ago.

I bet whomever created that is still kicking his/herself that Facebook beat them at their own game.

I think the dude who created Myspace sold it right before it crashed for a **** ton of money. I could be wrong, but I think I remember seeing that somewhere.

[redsox4evur]

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I think the dude who created Myspace sold it right before it crashed for a **** ton of money. I could be wrong, but I think I remember seeing that somewhere.

Yea he sold it for $580 million to News Corp in 2005.

[l3ulvl]

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When someone in my building who I don't have a problem with gets arrested

I see 4 cop cars outside and get excited it's Downstairs Dickhead's turn, but no it's just someone that doesn't bother me

[TheShizNo1]

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And God help you if someone in the house wanted to make a phone call right in the middle of a download.

Mom's friends interrupted so many of my "videos" being downloaded.

[Speedy]

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Yea he sold it for $580 million to News Corp in 2005.

Facebook is worth more than Wal-Mart at like $250 billion (as of mid/2015). $580MM is a huge chunk of change but that's still a wide gap from the $230B Facebook is worth now.