crunchy on 12/9/2008 at 06:36
In the same vein as the "Things I hate" thread.
Toasters with those adjustable settings that go from light to dark. What the fuck is the dark setting for? I have used the toaster when the setting was accidentily left on the medium setting and the bread came out totally black and unedible. If you used the dark setting I can only assume that the bread would burst into flame, fill the kitchen with smoke and setting off the smoke detectors. Who the fuck is going to eat the charred remains of that piece of toast?
Car speedometers that go upto and beyond 200 kmh in a total shitbox of a car that shakes uncrontrollably if you get anywhere near 130 kmh. Mind you my uncle is a total lunatic and would push any car to those speeds.
Women that demand that the toilet seat be put down. What's up with that shit? (no pun intended) Why don't you put the toilet seat back up when you are finished? If us males have to adjust the seat whenever we take a piss and the seat is down then why the fuck can't women do the same? Are your royal highness all too mighty to actually exert a bit of effort and adjust the seat yourselves?
Aja on 12/9/2008 at 07:11
some people like burned toast
car manufacturers want consumers to think their car can go faster than it actually does
because they have to sit down and you don't, but you easily could and in doing so would probably save your own piss from splattering all over the wall and the counter
jtr7 on 12/9/2008 at 07:44
Heh heh.
I wonder sometimes if the dark setting is calibrated at a low altitude with higher relative humidity where it just begins to smoke at the darkest setting?
I wonder how many people try to see how close they can get their speed to the highest number, and I wonder about this rumoured "governor" device I've heard about which limits what an engine is capable of doing?
Along these lines, I wonder why volume knobs can be turned past the point the speakers are capable of handling? And I can only imagine it's for signals and recordings that are below the standard amplitude, and if the user is careless enough to blow the speakers, well...they'll probably just go spend more money.
As a janitor at a university, I can assure you that women can piss all over the seat, floor, and walls like any guy, and every building has at least a few that do so on a daily basis, amongst even more disturbing things, otherwise I would be inclined to agree on a matter of percentages--like boogers on the walls. They manage to get much more urine and blood on the underside of the seat. More women leave evidence of eating while sitting in the stall, more makeup on counters and floors, perfume spills, hair in the drains, and engage in colorful vandalism with used tampons. The thing that guys do that cannot be undone is spatter the partitions. Urine eats the paint, and the paint cannot be cleaned with harsh chemicals like the tiles and grout can.
demagogue on 12/9/2008 at 08:34
Things I don't understand but want to:
- the evolution of natural language ... once I get that down: AI natural language interpretation and generation. The actual code you'd need to do something like that.
- neural correlates of consciousness. What's the actual neural architecture correlated with "red"?
- the electro-magnetic force and light ... Even after reading books on it and some lectures, I'm still fuzzy on what exactly it actually is. Field lines and exchanges of photons, but ...
- For that matter quantum field theory and string theory, but I figure I should get EM down first.
- people's perception of law's existence and its authority, not abstractly but very concretely, the feeling of an action being right or wrong
- economic behavior, in particular that basic feeling of utility, of "i want X this (Z%) much", that's at the bottom of so many theories without itself being defined. For that matter, that feeling a person naturally has that a strategy is best, and it turns out to exactly match the Nash optimal strategy although they obviously didn't do the math.
Tonamel on 12/9/2008 at 09:10
Quote Posted by jtr7
I wonder about this rumoured "governor" device I've heard about which limits what an engine is capable of doing?
My hometown uses governors on the school buses. It was an exciting day when we were on a field trip, and got the new bus that hadn't had one installed yet.
I don't understand how some people find enjoyment in various kinds of games. Particularly "Escape the room" games. How exactly is hunt-the-pixel or click-the-curtain-18-times-to-shake-loose-the-stick good design? Or captivating gameplay?
Vivian on 12/9/2008 at 12:04
Viscoelastic behaviour in vertebrate muscle and in vertebrate bone
Mr. headbone on 12/9/2008 at 12:21
Those Cialis/Levitra commercials when the guy says "Please seek medical attention if erection lasts longer than 4 hours". I guess that is the point of taking Cialis/Levitra IS for an erection to last that long. The guy should say "Please seek medical attention if you take Cialis/Levitra and AFTER 4 hours nothing happens. :p
Volca on 12/9/2008 at 13:22
The usage of stupidity in advertisements (Although I know it could be based on memetics)
TF on 12/9/2008 at 14:28
cant I telling ? for example ; in street fighter game , you are doing adoket with ryu , who is saying adoket ? like
this...I need this dubbing videos
TBE on 12/9/2008 at 15:50
I hate those medical advertisement commercials where the fake doctor talks to the patient and tells them every side effect of the medicine and come see me if you have any of these conditions, and you shouldn't take this medicine if you have any of these other medical conditions like heart disease, ulcers, colitis, liver damage, uncontrollable laughter, etc. Like this blurb on a television commercial will get you out of legal battles later down the road? Why do the drug companies feel the need to include all this legal stuff in the ad, when they know that the doctor that prescribes the medicine, and the included papers in the drugs will have all this information already?
Erection lasting more than 4 hours? What about like your entire junior high school years? Oh my gosh!
