So here at work we have a Quality Assurance log where you note down errors of products that previous workers produced. I have this one guy who when he relieves me writes me up for items, that I'm very clearly doing correctly, he just doesn't understand the procedure. Every time he does it, I annotate that it is correct, explain why, and then list the reference to the guidance that shows why. Then the next day he does the same exact thing again.
Today I got tired of it, and left a nasty (but still polite) note in the log. This just drives me nuts. While I don't exactly appreciate it when people point out I did something wrong, when it's legitimate I can at least accept it, and strive to do it better. When I'm repeatedly told i'm neglecting my duties though, even though I am not, it just pushes my buttons the wrong way.
Oh, people who leave toilet paper floating in the toilet, that drives me insane as well.
What bout you guys?
Automatically Appended Next Post: And yes, I know this is probably the umpteenth time this thread has been done, but I needed to vent damnit.
You know what really grinds my gears? When other people pawn their jobs off on me. I remember working in stock at a store and someone calls me on the walkie and asks me to pull an item. Something they're perfectly capable of doing themselves since I had to work on a time table and we never really made it because of that kind of thing. Bonus points to the douche who stands by the item they want waiting for me to come pick it off the shelf. Seriously. They were that lazy.
LordofHats wrote: You know what really grinds my gears? When other people pawn their jobs off on me. I remember working in stock at a store and someone calls me on the walkie and asks me to pull an item. Something they're perfectly capable of doing themselves since I had to work on a time table and we never really made it because of that kind of thing. Bonus points to the douche who stands by the item they want waiting for me to come pick it off the shelf. Seriously. They were that lazy.
That would warrant a workplace accident in my eyes.
"Seriously boss, I have no idea how the shelf fell on him."
This grinds me to no end. I work the grill and close it on MON and WED with a co-worker. By myself it takes an hour, 25 minutes with 2 people. My boss says the co-worker needs help closing, despite him having it down and being the one to taught me. but on Tues/THURS, when he isnt there and i ask for help, i get the "You have done it before" And being told to do an hour long job in 15 minutes.
I don't like it when people say "literally" before a factual sentence. They never say "Metaphorically" before a metaphorical sentence, do they? What really gets me is when people say "literally" before a metaphorical sentence as in "I could literally eat a horse right now".
People that don't wipe down exercise equipment after using it, and people that cough into their hands rather than their shoulder (or don't cover their cough at all).
Oh, and people that don't re-rack weight, or re-rack them in the wrong order.
TheCustomLime wrote: I don't like it when people say "literally" before a factual sentence. They never say "Metaphorically" before a metaphorical sentence, do they? What really gets me is when people say "literally" before a metaphorical sentence as in "I could literally eat a horse right now".
Funny story, a linguist I know got into a three hour internet debate today over whether dictionaries should include two definitions for 'literally.' Yeah. It was as pointless as it sounds.
So many I can relate to, when the muscle heads dont re rack and just walk off without wiping down I can get behind that its infuriating.
When someone wont stop talking to you no matter how many times you tell them to feth off or drop the hint you dont want to chat
but mine right now, is work related. A person I work with, we work sundays together and get in the same time, but for the first four hours I am the only person who does work (unless I am cannot do any thing else) I have answered three phones at once, been checking in drivers four or five at a time and trying to talk with managment inside and letting them know where stuff is going. After all that, she is a pretty obvious racist towards the Middle easterm, Slavic and hispanic drivers that all come in....just infuriates me and she doesnt get fired because she is a cancer survivor and everyone feels bad....those are basically my full timers words....iMad
Our bar-code scanning medication administration system at my hospital.
Step 1: Open the computer chart for the patient and look at the medication order and see the following note: 10mg dose, give two 5mg pills. Step 2: Scan the first pill, get interupted by popup from the program: "Order is for 10mg, that's two 5mg pills". Hit acknoledge while getting angry. Step 3: Popup disappears, now you have dialog window "You scanned one 5mg pill, one additional 5mg pill needs to be scanned for this order to make 10mg". Ignore pulsating vein on your forehead as you scan the second pill. Step 4: New popup window "Thanks for scanning the two 5mg pills. Now can you please type in how much medicine you are giving even though you just got done scanning two 5mg pills after we told you three times that you need to give that much medicine". Throw computer down the stairs...
Blacksails wrote: People who walk slowly and/or take up space in the worst possible place in a high traffic area, like at the bottom of stairs or in front of a door.
I don't think there's much that can infuriate me so quickly as that.
Lose my mind.
Once, while on Chantix, I may have screamed at some teenage girls that 'it's called a sidewalk, not a sidestand!'
Nothing sends me into a slow spiral into blackest hate like having to do something over again. (I mean because either I or someone else screwed something up, not tasks like dishes that inherently have to be done repeatedly--although eventually those can drive me nuts too...) For some reason, a sudden unexpected blow to the head (standing up and hitting a cabinet or somesuch) will send me into a violent rage. Not uncontrolled, but I once threw a chip display across a convenience store. (To mollify the craziness of that--the store was empty, closed, and I was working there.)
When people (My little brother) go in my room and take my laptop without my permission. Seriously, i wouldnt mind too much if he asked first, but even when he does he rarely accepts "no"
My college computers. There are so many broken monitors, nonfunctional keyboards, etc, despite the fact that we are in the IT department.
One of my tutors, a woman named Sheena. She dosnt actually teach us anything. Infact, to quote our first web development lesson: We sat down and she told us too "Design a proffessional website" and that was that. For 1 and a half terms .
The couple across the road whom think that its acceptable to get drunk and then argue and scream at each other so loud that they can be heard clearly across the road, and wake me up when i struggle to sleep in the first place and have college the next day. Even worse these arguments take place at around 10:30 too 02:00 and can last for hours. That said and done, watching one beat the other (Usually her beating him) can be fun.
Any mention of the game. P.S. you just lost.
Gamers whom dont wash, and think that stinking like something from the sewer and think that that is acceptable. Thankfully my club is devoid of them .
D6 gaming, for being complete asshats and bringing cut-and-paste tournament meta lists to what was suppossed to be a friendly series of games. That said, we at RedSteel still outnumber them, and have better attitudes.
Also, one of their members posting very insulting remarks about us on their facebook page.
djones520 wrote: So here at work we have a Quality Assurance log where you note down errors of products that previous workers produced. I have this one guy who when he relieves me writes me up for items, that I'm very clearly doing correctly, he just doesn't understand the procedure. Every time he does it, I annotate that it is correct, explain why, and then list the reference to the guidance that shows why. Then the next day he does the same exact thing again.
Today I got tired of it, and left a nasty (but still polite) note in the log. This just drives me nuts. While I don't exactly appreciate it when people point out I did something wrong, when it's legitimate I can at least accept it, and strive to do it better. When I'm repeatedly told i'm neglecting my duties though, even though I am not, it just pushes my buttons the wrong way.
Oh, people who leave toilet paper floating in the toilet, that drives me insane as well.
What bout you guys?
Automatically Appended Next Post: And yes, I know this is probably the umpteenth time this thread has been done, but I needed to vent damnit.
I have a solution. It involves a rock about the size of a grapefruit. You know what to do.
d-usa wrote: Our bar-code scanning medication administration system at my hospital.
Step 1: Open the computer chart for the patient and look at the medication order and see the following note: 10mg dose, give two 5mg pills. Step 2: Scan the first pill, get interupted by popup from the program: "Order is for 10mg, that's two 5mg pills". Hit acknoledge while getting angry. Step 3: Popup disappears, now you have dialog window "You scanned one 5mg pill, one additional 5mg pill needs to be scanned for this order to make 10mg". Ignore pulsating vein on your forehead as you scan the second pill. Step 4: New popup window "Thanks for scanning the two 5mg pills. Now can you please type in how much medicine you are giving even though you just got done scanning two 5mg pills after we told you three times that you need to give that much medicine". Throw computer down the stairs...
An engineer with no balls wrote that program! I'm not talking about a female engineer, but rather an engineer that was told to put all that gak in by committee and said "Sure!"
Companies not putting your favourite character from their background into a real computer game, and instead farming it out as some crap mobile phone game.
Blacksails wrote: People who walk slowly and/or take up space in the worst possible place in a high traffic area, like at the bottom of stairs or in front of a door.
I don't think there's much that can infuriate me so quickly as that.
Lose my mind.
Oh!!! this really winds me up too. Why do slow people always seem to take up the whole footpath? And talking about stopping in stupid places, I've had someone step off an escalator in front of me, and then just stop dead while their tiny mind tried to figure out what to do next. I mean seriously? Here's a suggestion for what to do next... "Get out the fething way of the escalator!". This is always what you need to do next after getting off an escalator, no exceptions! There is no need to stop and think about it, or get your bearings.
Where I live is quite a busy main street, and it always seems to be cluttered with people milling around in the way, and stopping in bottlenecks. I often fantasize about being able to walk around with a cattle prod. Just making the world a better smarter place, one zap at a time.
I could probably write a book of work related peeves. But suffice to say: no good deed goes unpunished.
Groups of 3 or 4 people that all walk side by side, taking up the whole fething aisle or walkway.
Also, slow drivers in the fast lane.
Also, slow drivers in the fast lane that won't get out of the fething way.
And air port security. feth you for making me wait an hour in line to go through your fething metal detector or scanner while you and Biff, the 450 lb man that couldn't stop jack gak from getting through the check point, discuss who's going for lunch.
Massive backpacks on public transportation. If the bus or subway is half-full then no big deal, but rushhour with something sticking out 1 foot from your back... GG.
Rain on your wedding day.
A free ride when you've already paid.
Winning the lottery at 98 then dying the next day.
Good advice you can't take.
Death row pardons that come 2 minutes too late.
Black flies in my wine.
No smoking signs when I need my smoke break.
10,000 spoons when a sing knife is required.
Traffic jams when I'm running late already.
1 people that don't use their blinkers. I mean there right there. USE THEM
2 smelly people who refuse to shower. It should be socialy acceptable to tackle said individual, tie them up and drag them through a car was a couple times to learn their lesson.
3. Slow people in the fast lane. MOVE OVER!!!
4. That group of overly load and obnoxious women that I get sat near whenever we go to Applebee's. I don't need to hear your lif story from accross the isle.
5. Lazy coworkers.
6 parents that ignore their children in a store. That's great that you can tune your kid out when he/she screaming at the top of their lungs. I don't though. Be a parent.
7. Cheaters/liers. You know who you are
8. Politicians. All of em
9. People that sneeze into there hand and offer a handshake right after and get angry when you wont shake there hand.
10 the total lack of customer service training of any kind for employees. Example. . I go to a Gamestop and ask an employee about a particular game. The response I get is I don't know man I don't play video games. Really?
And the big one for me is people avoiding work/passing the buck on someone else. Feth me, you're training to do an EASY claims process, WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR OTHER PEOPLE?
d-usa wrote: Our bar-code scanning medication administration system at my hospital.
Step 1: Open the computer chart for the patient and look at the medication order and see the following note: 10mg dose, give two 5mg pills. Step 2: Scan the first pill, get interupted by popup from the program: "Order is for 10mg, that's two 5mg pills". Hit acknoledge while getting angry. Step 3: Popup disappears, now you have dialog window "You scanned one 5mg pill, one additional 5mg pill needs to be scanned for this order to make 10mg". Ignore pulsating vein on your forehead as you scan the second pill. Step 4: New popup window "Thanks for scanning the two 5mg pills. Now can you please type in how much medicine you are giving even though you just got done scanning two 5mg pills after we told you three times that you need to give that much medicine". Throw computer down the stairs...
Pretty sure that that is all intentional to make sure you are dosing the patient correctly.
Another one, The TA in this particular class insists on stalking around the classroom and staring at everything your doing. she leans her head over your shoulder, gets intrusively close and makes little comments like "get on with your work" "are you doing your work" etc.
To compound matters this unit is an autofail because weve finally started work on it, with only a term to go. Long live the incompetence or Preston College!
I really hate people paying more attention to their cellphone than the people they are with. Even if I see it happening to someone else, it makes me mad.
When people put a roll of toilet paper on backwards.
backs who are wearing Scrum-Caps... it's called a scrum cap for a reason, and you don't do it!!!
Also, backs who knock the ball on.... This is doubly so if it's due to their hair in some way.
Ignorant Americans who see me wearing my All Blacks cap and think that somehow, even though I'm white as freshly fallen snow, I'm somehow a gangster or thug with some kind of Black Panther group...
People at work who "demand" that I do work that I am no longer authorized, or is otherwise impossible for me to do (Im in a medical retirement process, therefore there's a bunch that Im not supposed to, nor can do)
Also, I agree with most of the gym related ones... especially in regards to racking the weights.
Ohh, since we're on gyms now.... d-bags who are CURLING IN THE SQUAT RACK!!!
- People who are incapable of making decisions. If you have survived to adulthood, and you are presented with a few options I expect that you are able to identify the one that best suits your needs
- People who cannot ever get to the point. If every interaction I have with you constantly meanders from story to story without ever getting to the actual initial purpose for the conversation please do not be surprised if you have lost my attention. Brevity is good.
- People who think that a team is there to cover for them doing nothing
- Sudden changes of plan that are actually worse than the initial plan
A few of mine have already been listed, so I'll just mention a minor one that bugs me...
People who sign their name at the end of a forum post on the internet.
I mean, why? You want us to know who made the post? All we have to do is glance to the left a little. Your name is right there, directly above your avatar. We have no trouble seeing who wrote your message. You might say that the system was designed with that purpose in mind.
So why do you guys insist on "signing" your posts? You aren't writing a letter to the editor; you are posting on the internet. Spelling and grammar are optional here. And at any rate, your "signature" is pointless, since the only purpose for its existence is nullified by the fact that your user name is already attached to every post you make.
backs who are wearing Scrum-Caps... it's called a scrum cap for a reason, and you don't do it!!!
Since I can't block for them, I want my Fly and Centres to have as much protection as possible.
Double points if those guys will assist on a ruck.
Oh, and since we're talking about rugby: players that can't seem to learn that the techniques required to be good at American football are not the same as those required to be good at rugby.
dogma wrote:People that don't wipe down exercise equipment after using it, and people that cough into their hands rather than their shoulder (or don't cover their cough at all).
Oh, and people that don't re-rack weight, or re-rack them in the wrong order.
Meh, the commercial gym I go to hasn't had its weights racked properly since opening day. It's a complete lost cause at this point for anyone to bother. Gotta love walking around half the gym because 2.5 lb plates are apparently mythical relics. Also concerning the gym, people who curl in the squat rack, especially when there is only one good power rack, 4 flat benches, and several other straight bars available to use.
Easy E wrote:I really hate people paying more attention to their cellphone than the people they are with. Even if I see it happening to someone else, it makes me mad.
It really hacks me off when I see kids out eating with their parents and every single one of them over the age of 3 is glued to an electronic device.
And people who keep stuffing trash into an already overflowing receptacle. Janitors are people too, show them some modicum of respect at least.
People who honk the very second a light changes from red to green. I'm sorry not everyone has your elite COD reflexes, please take a chill pill.
People who order pizza delivered and take five minutes to come to the door.
Blacksails wrote: People who walk slowly and/or take up space in the worst possible place in a high traffic area, like at the bottom of stairs or in front of a door.
I don't think there's much that can infuriate me so quickly as that.
Lose my mind.
This.
This so much.
Especially when they are looking at their phones or are just ambling. Especially when with a group of friends to form a line across this particular space. "Quick, fellow idiots, deploy the donkey-cave formation, no-one shall pass!"
Meh, the commercial gym I go to hasn't had its weights racked properly since opening day. It's a complete lost cause at this point for anyone to bother. Gotta love walking around half the gym because 2.5 lb plates are apparently mythical relics.
They like to hide between 45s and 25s or, if you're really luck, between 35s.
Anyway, I used to manage a gym, and failing to re-rack weights properly is like dropping a pair of jeans on a t-shirt display; but worse. You not only make life harder on the staff, but inconvenience your fellow members.
Blacksails wrote: People who walk slowly and/or take up space in the worst possible place in a high traffic area, like at the bottom of stairs or in front of a door.
I don't think there's much that can infuriate me so quickly as that.
Lose my mind.
This.
This so much.
Especially when they are looking at their phones or are just ambling. Especially when with a group of friends to form a line across this particular space. "Quick, fellow idiots, deploy the donkey-cave formation, no-one shall pass!"
What's even worse is when they are walking the opposite direction and don't move to let you by.
Also, I agree with most of the gym related ones... especially in regards to racking the weights.
Ohh, since we're on gyms now.... d-bags who are CURLING IN THE SQUAT RACK!!!
Holy feth, this. I don't understand how hard is can be to put weights back there they belong, in proper order. Apparently it's pretty fething difficult. I've never encountered the curling issue (yet), but that's also pretty silly. I'm also getting tired of people trying to get me to join a CrossFit gym. I DON'T WANT TO DO IT.
Easy E wrote: I really hate people paying more attention to their cellphone than the people they are with. Even if I see it happening to someone else, it makes me mad.
1) Ask one of these phone addicts a question
2) Wait for an eternity for them to stop checking their phone to realise that the world around them still exists
3) Repeat the question because they've forgotten it (or most of it) or never heard anything more than being addressed
4) Get half the answer before the phone buzzes/beeps/twitches and they go back to staring at it
5) Ask them AGAIN only to have them complain that they heard you the first time and stop repeating the question (they will then return to the phone rather than answer the question)
But only how, and when, we tell you to. Ignore the fact that we're not qualified in anything other than the methodology we're pushing, that's unimportant.
Actually, I'm going to add "branded exercise regimes" to my list of pet peeves.
Drivers who do not understand that indicators are there to show what way you are turning. I've been known to pull alongside a lady on the motorway and hurl abuse at her for pulling out in front of me 3 times -.-
I went on a date with this really cute girl during college. On our first date we met up with her friends who she called "N***A". It drove my crazy almost instantly for so many different reasons. In my area it became a word all ethnicity's started using as a greeting to sound "cool".
Also the phrase "a butt load"
None of us are perfect but at least try to sound like a human being. I never understood the "gangsta" mentality.
I find those words useful if you're really trying to exaggerate the size of something.
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Rotary wrote: I went on a date with this really cute girl during college. On our first date we met up with her friends who she called "N***A". It drove my crazy almost instantly for so many different reasons. In my area it became a word all ethnicity's started using as a greeting to sound "cool".
Also the phrase "a butt load"
None of us are perfect but at least try to sound like a human being. I never understood the "gangsta" mentality.
Sometimes being able to say taboo words relieves tension as it allows you not to worry about offending someone as much, allows you access to a wider vocab, it allows you to be more honest about you feelings, etc.
mega_bassist wrote: I'm also getting tired of people trying to get me to join a CrossFit gym. I DON'T WANT TO DO IT.
You don't want to be a member of a gym which uses the same rhetorical techniques as L. Ron Hubbard?
please clarify. er what? Mind you my only knowledge of cross fit is switching up between rum and whiskey.
It's basically a high-intensity workout regiment that incorporates several types of exercising, like powerlifting and calisthenics. While it's awesome in theory, I've seen videos of instructors giving poor advice/training since their classes can get so large, exercises that that be hard on the body, especially when not done correctly. You're basically working till exhaustion, and that creates opportunities for injuries/improper forms, and injuries. And their memberships cost a feth-ton (hehe). The last time I priced stuff out, they're about 60-80 a month for a membership.
One thing that's always annoyed me a bit is when some members of the Irish American community take being 1/64 Irish sooooooo seriously, it might be a bit insensitive of me but it always grated on my nerves.
gianlucafiorentini123 wrote: One thing that's always annoyed me a bit is when some members of the Irish American community take being 1/64 Irish sooooooo seriously, it might be a bit insensitive of me but it always grated on my nerves.
Hoo boy. Blood quantum. That's always a real picker upper for conversations.
please clarify. er what? Mind you my only knowledge of cross fit is switching up between rum and whiskey.
CrossFit is a company that has branded an exercise program which has existed for many years. This would be fine, were it not pressuring gyms that use its program to pressure people that have no business using it into into signing on, because you can only attain "Elite Fitness" by way of CrossFit.
For example, this...
...is not productive, or safe (Why is there a dog in there?), at all.
I don't lift, but all I could think of watching this was how bad their form was, those people are going to wreck themselves and the guy filming sound just like this guy
I use a variety of public transport on a daily basis to get across the capital; bus, tube and mainline.
During rush hour keep moving, if you don't you're a hindrance. People with huge luggage and tourists standing around bewildered just get in the way. If you don't know what you're doing please travel outside commuting hours.
People who smell. It's not just BO, there's this guy who gets on the bus smelling like he bathed in beer. Alcoholics and pot heads are pretty unpleasant to share a carriage with.
Children running around trains. They're all excited after school, but running around carriages and platforms isn't safe, especially not crossing between carriages on the tube when moving. Those doors are for emergencies only and if you go under the train we're all delayed.
People with rucksacks getting them trapped in doors on the tube. Why so often people with a rucksack can't be aware that they need to give themselves more space I don't know. Instead they forget and step into a carriage and stand right on the door edge looking surprised when the doors close around their bag. Also the same people are always hitting others when turning around and the like.
djones520 wrote: So here at work we have a Quality Assurance log where you note down errors of products that previous workers produced. I have this one guy who when he relieves me writes me up for items, that I'm very clearly doing correctly, he just doesn't understand the procedure. Every time he does it, I annotate that it is correct, explain why, and then list the reference to the guidance that shows why. Then the next day he does the same exact thing again.
Today I got tired of it, and left a nasty (but still polite) note in the log. This just drives me nuts. While I don't exactly appreciate it when people point out I did something wrong, when it's legitimate I can at least accept it, and strive to do it better. When I'm repeatedly told i'm neglecting my duties though, even though I am not, it just pushes my buttons the wrong way.
Oh, people who leave toilet paper floating in the toilet, that drives me insane as well.
What bout you guys?
Automatically Appended Next Post: And yes, I know this is probably the umpteenth time this thread has been done, but I needed to vent damnit.
I'm not denying the lack of safety in CrossFit. I don't support it or practice it. I'm just saying that video is a little over the top from what I've seen/watched on it.
Also, that's a damn shame. A little safety goes a long way. I hope other people read/watch that, and learn from it.
mega_bassist wrote: I'm not denying the lack of safety in CrossFit. I don't support it or practice it. I'm just saying that video is a little over the top from what I've seen/watched on it.
mega_bassist wrote: I'm not denying the lack of safety in CrossFit. I don't support it or practice it. I'm just saying that video is a little over the top from what I've seen/watched on it.
Then we're on the same page.
Must've missed my earlier rant/explanation of it
Anywho, I'm glad other people are actually recognizing the issues with, and not jumping on the bandwagon. Keep up the (safe) lifting!
gianlucafiorentini123 wrote: One thing that's always annoyed me a bit is when some members of the Irish American community take being 1/64 Irish sooooooo seriously, it might be a bit insensitive of me but it always grated on my nerves.
1/16th Irish here. Totally get why that would annoy some people - personally, I reckon I'm pushing it at that...
I hate the "X vs Y" threads that keep popping up on Dakka. Usually X vs 40K. Silly threads with even sillier arguments usually.
Another vote for slow people, especially when I'm in a rush or walking late at night. Yes, these people travel slowly at night too.
One more thing. I don't like it when people blow bubbles when chewing gum. Yes, we get it, you are chewing gum. You don't need to let everyone know that.
gianlucafiorentini123 wrote: One thing that's always annoyed me a bit is when some members of the Irish American community take being 1/64 Irish sooooooo seriously, it might be a bit insensitive of me but it always grated on my nerves.
1/16th Irish here. Totally get why that would annoy some people - personally, I reckon I'm pushing it at that...
100% straight off the boat Irish and if I'm honest it doesn't trouble me too much. The exception being the Plastic Paddies who try to be more Irish than the Irish
mega_bassist wrote: I'm also getting tired of people trying to get me to join a CrossFit gym. I DON'T WANT TO DO IT.
This... combined with another bit.... So, as I'm leaving the military, I'm looking for a good gym to join, and I have certain "needs" in that regard. Being that I'm a 230lb. Hooker, I don't do crossfit, I power lift, and I get my cardio in by lifting more.
So, when I go onto the magical portal known as google and type in "power lifting gym [city name]" and the 2nd one on the list has Power in the name I get all excited. I email them to inquire about their price rating scheme, at which point they inform me, "ohh, well we're a crossfit gym, but if you wish to lift after your desired crossfit class, we have trainers and instructors that can help you with ALL your fitness needs"
It's false bloody advertising is what it is. If you are a crossfit gym, let me know it in the damn name! Don't waste my time contacting you for you to tell me you're a sleazy snake oil merchant
Speaking of snake oil, did you know that it's an excellent way to reduce aches and pains after a rigorous power* exercise? Speak to your local gym trainers about post-workout snake oils.
this is the most ridiculous thing to get annoyed about, but there's a rack at my college meal hall next to the seating area with some tobasco sauce and other spices on it. There's also a nice sign saying "these spices are for everybody, please keep them on the rack".
Would you like to guess what the odds of actually having tobasco on that rack is at any given time? The limit of x as x ->0 is pretty much a reasonable statement.
It's just so stupid and selfish. Can you not put the tobasco on before you sit down? There's a counter right there. How about...actually taking it back when you're done? Now there's an ides...*gasp*
dementedwombat wrote: this is the most ridiculous thing to get annoyed about, but there's a rack at my college meal hall next to the seating area with some tobasco sauce and other spices on it. There's also a nice sign saying "these spices are for everybody, please keep them on the rack".
Would you like to guess what the odds of actually having tobasco on that rack is at any given time? The limit of x as x ->0 is pretty much a reasonable statement.
It's just so stupid and selfish. Can you not put the tobasco on before you sit down? There's a counter right there. How about...actually taking it back when you're done? Now there's an ides...*gasp*
It's pretty much the same thing in a deployment military chow hall... i cant remember how many times i sat at the one table with a bottle of flavoring, and whenever someone walked up, I knew instantly what he/she was after, lol
Dang. Also there's one other thing I think you might appreciate (then I'll be done I promise).
There's a fountain on campus dedicated to alumni of the university that have died in all the various wars from WWI up through the present day. It is a school tradition to take your shoes off and run through that fountain every time there's a home football game that we win...
When I found out about that I kinda wanted to punch a guy. Just saying.
gianlucafiorentini123 wrote: One thing that's always annoyed me a bit is when some members of the Irish American community take being 1/64 Irish sooooooo seriously, it might be a bit insensitive of me but it always grated on my nerves.
1/16th Irish here. Totally get why that would annoy some people - personally, I reckon I'm pushing it at that...
Heh! American's are crazy with that 'heritage' stuff. I had a girl from Florida once tell me in IRC that she shouldn't rightly like me, because I'm English and she's "Irish" (Though she'd never set foot in Ireland in her life).
As it happens: I'm half Irish, have an Irish passport, even the English half of my family has Irish roots, and do love those potatoes!... I still don't consider myself Irish enough to go around calling myself "Irish" or putting on the accent. The term 'plastic paddy' would spring to mind.
I guess it fits a larger peeve, which is "Anyone trying to fake being something that they're not".
I needed one of these. The word appropriate should be banned. I'm sick of hearing it, it is the word of killjoys and un-fun people everywhere. Anyone who says it needs their tongue torn out and fed to a hungry honey badger. I wish people would stop trying to appear morally superior and just get on with realising that other people have different opinions. I thought my gears were completely worn down untill i saw a tweet on a tv program that said " That's not appropros"
Seriously, in what fethed up world does some witch live in where they think they need a 'cooler' version of appropriate, is it not enough to be a killjoy but now they have to be one in a 'cool' way?
feth appropriate and feth appropro.
Also feth advertising people who keep insisting to people that if a word is shortened it is somehow cooler, it fething isn't . Apropros isn't fething cool and neither is fething za.
One last thing. I hate, hate it when people dismiss something as "Just being a theory". A theory, scientifically speaking, is as close as we can get to 100% certainty about something.
TheCustomLime wrote: One last thing. I hate, hate it when people dismiss something as "Just being a theory". A theory, scientifically speaking, is as close as we can get to 100% certainty about something.
Well I doubt everything that what you hear people call a theory is actually a scientific theory...
TheCustomLime wrote: One last thing. I hate, hate it when people dismiss something as "Just being a theory". A theory, scientifically speaking, is as close as we can get to 100% certainty about something.
If it hasn't been proven it is not 100% certain and should only be regarded as a theory, anything else is not science. If you start regarding scientific theories as fact what happens when one is proven false? It may be ok to regard them as true, but it has to be held foremost that they are not proven. Sorry for jumping on your pet peeve, but growing up with two chemists as parents who took great pains to explain whenever something was a theory it wasn't proven has certainly left it's mark.
I'll add people who regard scientific theories as proven to my pet peeve list.
I guess it fits a larger peeve, which is "Anyone trying to fake being something that they're not".
So anyone with a hyphenated -American that they identify as??
No. Saying you are Irish-American is not the same as pretending to be Irish when you aren't.
Bullockist wrote:If it hasn't been proven it is not 100% certain and should only be regarded as a theory, anything else is not science.
Since proving something 100% would mean proving it beyond "unreasonable doubt" I would argue that it is impossible. I think the main issue is one of equivocation. I might be paraphrasing Richard Dawkins here, but to non-scientists/laymen the word 'theory' can be used interchangeably with words like 'guess' and 'assumption' and other unsubstantiated ravings. His argument was that scientific 'fact' is a much closer translation. I tend to agree, especially when you consider that some things we call 'facts' can also end up being wrong.
Also, slow drivers in the fast lane that won't get out of the fething way.
Mine is the reverse. People driving two inches from your rear bumper when you're overtaking a convoy of trucks, clearly can't go out of the way and are already speeding.
On the plus side, this is an easy pet peeve to get revenge for .
I slow down to just barely faster than whatever I'm overtaking for people like that.
Rotary wrote:I went on a date with this really cute girl during college. On our first date we met up with her friends who she called "N***A". It drove my crazy almost instantly for so many different reasons. In my area it became a word all ethnicity's started using as a greeting to sound "cool".
Yep, that's what happens when you let white people listen to rap
Again I only bench press wiener dogs. Whats the issue with the pic?
If the guy behind bails (drops the weight because he cannot complete the lift) forwards, or the guy in front bails backwards, there is a chance the weight will hit one or the other. This is always bad, but if one or the other is in the middle of a repetition it is much worse as he is much more likely to be injured. No two lifters engaging in any similar lift (both are attempting a full snatch) should be that close together. Indeed, many gyms don't allow that sort of exercise at all due to liability issues.
Also, the presence of unsecured weights around the lifting platform is bad. They can either become projectiles due to a bail, or direct the weight being lifted in unpredictable ways during a bail; as Ogar unfortunately discovered.
TheCustomLime wrote: One last thing. I hate, hate it when people dismiss something as "Just being a theory". A theory, scientifically speaking, is as close as we can get to 100% certainty about something.
If it hasn't been proven it is not 100% certain and should only be regarded as a theory, anything else is not science. If you start regarding scientific theories as fact what happens when one is proven false? It may be ok to regard them as true, but it has to be held foremost that they are not proven. Sorry for jumping on your pet peeve, but growing up with two chemists as parents who took great pains to explain whenever something was a theory it wasn't proven has certainly left it's mark.
I'll add people who regard scientific theories as proven to my pet peeve list.
In the realm of science there is no 100% certainty about anything. A theory is a hypothesis that has been tested rigorously and has not been disproven. This is as close as we can get to certainty. What you may be thinking of is a hypothesis.
And to address another poster, that is certainly true but too often people do use that phrase in the context of a scientific theory. That is what bothers me. The certainty they desire is simply not possible.
Again I only bench press wiener dogs. Whats the issue with the pic?
If the guy behind bails (drops the weight because he cannot complete the lift) forwards, or the guy in front bails backwards, there is a chance the weight will hit one or the other. This is always bad, but if one or the other is in the middle of a repetition it is much worse as he is much more likely to be injured. No two lifters engaging in any similar lift (both are attempting a full snatch) should be that close together. Indeed, many gyms don't allow that sort of exercise at all due to liability issues.
Also, the presence of unsecured weights around the lifting platform is bad. They can either become projectiles due to a bail, or direct the weight being lifted in unpredictable ways during a bail; as Ogar unfortunately discovered.
Thanks for clarification. That indeed sounds bad.
At the Frazzled household most of the time when doing wiener dog lifting exercise, I am surrounded by a large safety system ( sitting on a sofa) thus insuring the safety of all parties. We have to watch though because if I put TBone on the sofa, if I am not on alert he will spring awake and attempt to leap off into space after Ghost Julia and this doesn't end well (I cradle him down and up). I usually have a large cushion on the ground just in case but am very careful to always keep a finger on him. I have caught him in mid flight a few times.
I guess it fits a larger peeve, which is "Anyone trying to fake being something that they're not".
So anyone with a hyphenated -American that they identify as??
No. Saying you are Irish-American is not the same as pretending to be Irish when you aren't.
My argument to that would be, if a person is born in a country, that makes them of that country. eg, if they are born/live in England, Ireland or USA, that makes them English, Irish, or American. If you're a black person in the US, and have had family members in this country for 2-3+ generations, that makes you American, not African-American... you were not born there, you've probably never been there, you'd probably die if you went there now.
Now, if you are "fresh off the boat" as it were, sure, I can see calling yourself Italian-American, Irish-American, African-American, Asian-American, etc. but if you don't fit that bill, then quit claiming to be something you're not.
Ensis Ferrae wrote: My argument to that would be, if a person is born in a country, that makes them of that country. eg, if they are born/live in England, Ireland or USA, that makes them English, Irish, or American. If you're a black person in the US, and have had family members in this country for 2-3+ generations, that makes you American, not African-American... you were not born there, you've probably never been there, you'd probably die if you went there now.
Now, if you are "fresh off the boat" as it were, sure, I can see calling yourself Italian-American, Irish-American, African-American, Asian-American, etc. but if you don't fit that bill, then quit claiming to be something you're not.
When I go for citizenship I might start calling myself Irish-American
When I go for citizenship I might start calling myself Irish-American
See, if you're applying for citizenship then you are obviously from a different country, so if you are indeed from Ireland, I have no issues with you calling yourself Irish-American
People who work out at my gym and show no improvement as the months go on. Just unsub and stop taking up parking spaces in the parking lot, and using my stations.
People who are late. Be early, or on time, or don't bother coming. Time is a person's most precious resource in life, wasting it is tantamount to theft. In that regard, tardy folks STEAL FROM ME.
Ensis Ferrae wrote: My argument to that would be, if a person is born in a country, that makes them of that country. eg, if they are born/live in England, Ireland or USA, that makes them English, Irish, or American. If you're a black person in the US, and have had family members in this country for 2-3+ generations, that makes you American, not African-American... you were not born there, you've probably never been there, you'd probably die if you went there now.
Now, if you are "fresh off the boat" as it were, sure, I can see calling yourself Italian-American, Irish-American, African-American, Asian-American, etc. but if you don't fit that bill, then quit claiming to be something you're not.
Ahhh I see. Sorry, I actually thought you were being sarcastic before and meant completely the opposite of that. I agree and I find it strange.
However I do sort of understand. I imagine the original immigrant populations in America might have been quite insular in a lot of ways, like tiny colonies. If you grow up speaking Italian, with Italian parents, and all your friends and everyone on your street is Italian... Then culturally you're probably very Italian, even if this all happens in America. I can understand how even generations later people might still consider themselves Italian growing up in that kind of community. Even though they would slowly become distinct from Italians in Italy.
It's slightly different to someone who has Italian ancestry but otherwise grew up in a non-Italian culture.
Also: My damn college. To get the piece of software that i need for an assignment i need to register to another section of their site, DESPITE ALREADY BEING A REGISTERED STUDENT
Mate, you're just coming to terms with the fact that most of the educational system in the UK is about as reliable as 5th ED Deepstrikes in Cities of Death. Trust me, I was there about ~8 months ago. You'll be fine
Bullockist wrote: I thought my gears were completely worn down untill i saw a tweet on a tv program that said " That's not appropros"
Seriously, in what fethed up world does some witch live in where they think they need a 'cooler' version of appropriate, is it not enough to be a killjoy but now they have to be one in a 'cool' way? feth appropriate and feth appropro.
Also feth advertising people who keep insisting to people that if a word is shortened it is somehow cooler, it fething isn't . Apropros isn't fething cool and neither is fething za.
Rant fething over.
You do know that apropos is not an abbreviated form of appropriate, right? They aren't even from the same original sources. They happen to be synonyms, however, so it is completely apropos to use apropos instead of appropriate.
edit: Personally, my pet peeve is making judgements based on incorrect or insufficient facts.
Bullockist wrote: I thought my gears were completely worn down untill i saw a tweet on a tv program that said " That's not appropros"
Seriously, in what fethed up world does some witch live in where they think they need a 'cooler' version of appropriate, is it not enough to be a killjoy but now they have to be one in a 'cool' way?
feth appropriate and feth appropro.
Also feth advertising people who keep insisting to people that if a word is shortened it is somehow cooler, it fething isn't . Apropros isn't fething cool and neither is fething za.
Rant fething over.
You do know that apropos is not an abbreviated form of appropriate, right? They aren't even from the same original sources. They happen to be synonyms, however, so it is completely apropos to use apropos instead of appropriate.
edit: Personally, my pet peeve is making judgements based on incorrect or insufficient facts.
gianlucafiorentini123 wrote: One thing that's always annoyed me a bit is when some members of the Irish American community take being 1/64 Irish sooooooo seriously, it might be a bit insensitive of me but it always grated on my nerves.
1/16th Irish here. Totally get why that would annoy some people - personally, I reckon I'm pushing it at that...
Heh! American's are crazy with that 'heritage' stuff. I had a girl from Florida once tell me in IRC that she shouldn't rightly like me, because I'm English and she's "Irish" (Though she'd never set foot in Ireland in her life).
As it happens: I'm half Irish, have an Irish passport, even the English half of my family has Irish roots, and do love those potatoes!... I still don't consider myself Irish enough to go around calling myself "Irish" or putting on the accent. The term 'plastic paddy' would spring to mind.
I guess it fits a larger peeve, which is "Anyone trying to fake being something that they're not".
YES. This has always bothered me to no end. It makes it even better when they attempt to prove their Irish heritage by describing themselves with hateful stereotypes of Irishmen.
Ask them to name three geographic locations in Ireland next time. They wont be able to. This is of course only slightly less annoying than when a run of the mill white American describes his or her heritage as 1/8 Dutch German Irish French Swedish English Scottish....and the cherry on top Native America. We get it. You are a white suburbanite like all the rest of us.
Also I work in a whole foods industry that has a large number of crossfire people. There is no doubt that it is an effective workout, but the extremes in which some of these people worship it are worrisome. The group closest to me has come to the point of cult worship whereas the "coach" ( cult leader) tracks peoples diets and "encourages" people to to things outside of the gym together as a group.
Strombones wrote: Also I work in a whole foods industry that has a large number of crossfire people. There is no doubt that it is an effective workout, but the extremes in which some of these people worship it are worrisome. The group closest to me has come to the point of cult worship whereas the "coach" ( cult leader) tracks peoples diets and "encourages" people to to things outside of the gym together as a group.
I've heard that Crossfit has similar cult-ish worship (and they never shut up about it either)
Strombones wrote: Also I work in a whole foods industry that has a large number of crossfire people. There is no doubt that it is an effective workout, but the extremes in which some of these people worship it are worrisome. The group closest to me has come to the point of cult worship whereas the "coach" ( cult leader) tracks peoples diets and "encourages" people to to things outside of the gym together as a group.
I've heard that Crossfit has similar cult-ish worship (and they never shut up about it either)
Much truth. One of my friends has been a die-hard CrossFit "trainer" for two years, and he posts his workouts on Facebook all the time. Not to mention he tries to get me to go to the gym every damn time we hang out.
PrehistoricUFO wrote: People who work out at my gym and show no improvement as the months go on. Just unsub and stop taking up parking spaces in the parking lot, and using my stations.
Bullockist wrote: Fraz how many pounds is the wiener that you lift? Sounds mighty heavy.
TBone the Magnificant is about 14 at this point. His goal is to die eating steak and I am happy to oblige him. Rodney is about 17 now. He's a nervous little fatty.
TheCustomLime wrote: One last thing. I hate, hate it when people dismiss something as "Just being a theory". A theory, scientifically speaking, is as close as we can get to 100% certainty about something.
If it hasn't been proven it is not 100% certain and should only be regarded as a theory, anything else is not science. If you start regarding scientific theories as fact what happens when one is proven false? It may be ok to regard them as true, but it has to be held foremost that they are not proven. Sorry for jumping on your pet peeve, but growing up with two chemists as parents who took great pains to explain whenever something was a theory it wasn't proven has certainly left it's mark.
I'll add people who regard scientific theories as proven to my pet peeve list.
In the realm of science there is no 100% certainty about anything. A theory is a hypothesis that has been tested rigorously and has not been disproven. This is as close as we can get to certainty. What you may be thinking of is a hypothesis.
And to address another poster, that is certainly true but too often people do use that phrase in the context of a scientific theory. That is what bothers me. The certainty they desire is simply not possible.
Your missunderstanding the scope of the word "Theory" in scince. As many people do when dismissing people who say "It's just a theory". Theorys run a wide gammet of possibilities. Theorys are nothing more than ideas that have not been proven wrond. Some are well proven and accepted.
For example boyle's law is a theory we well understand and are reasonable certain what is going on. Something may change that, but we are pritty sure we understand what is happening.
The Big Bang theory is something we know approzimatly what happend and had a good idea of a model with no actual evidence of it until a few days ago. The expansion model is now the prevailing theory and we have most evidence of it being true, but there are still people who dissagree.
String theory is the biggest supported theory in its field, but is mostly just people making stuff up that fits the observations and hoping oneday we will be able to design an experiment.
A Theory is nothing like a fact at all, and people making arguments about scintific theorys like that is a pet peeve of mine. Even many scientists don't understand this and get trapped too much in the dogma. Too many great discoveries have been missed for many years because people have said "This can't be right because it contradicts X" and dissmised it as an error rather than double checking.
PrehistoricUFO wrote: People who work out at my gym and show no improvement as the months go on. Just unsub and stop taking up parking spaces in the parking lot, and using my stations.
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This kind of attitude is what drives a lot of people away from gyms, and is really pretty terrible. A lot of people going are already self-conscious about it. This kind of elitism only perpetuates the issue.
I know I gained a bit of a weight when I got out of the military, and I was quite a bit self conscious about going back to the gym. Granted, that turned into confidence as I improved, and now I'm in the best shape I've ever been. If I had run into your kind of elitism at the time, things may have turned out different.
So being on the other end of the spectrum now, I would never judge anyone, as long as they are going. You don't know the person, and they have their own goals on what improvement could be in. Really, as a body builder yourself, you should know that everyone is different.
As for my Pet Peeve, seeing someone get promoted who is completely incompetent for a job, just because he is a leads brother. This guy is being promoted to a very critical position, that he is not qualified for. It's just absurd. Everyone is just going to watch this guy fall on his sword. The sad thing about is is while I'm a Chief Eng, I'm on a separate program so I can do nothing about it. really annoys me.
Actualy, thats a bit of a peeve for me. Going to the gym and getting scouled at by the hardcore gym goers for using "their" machines. Pisses me off when you are doing your thing and they glaire at you until you move or try and give you advice on how to "improve" when they have no idea what your trying to do. Always seems to be the body builders and never the runners/arobic fitness people oddly.
So being on the other end of the spectrum now, I would never judge anyone, as long as they are going. You don't know the person, and they have their own goals on what improvement could be in. Really, as a body builder yourself, you should know that everyone is different.
Frankly why would someone care about other people? Unless they are being loud or otherwise annoying, you shouldn't even notice them.
Its not a competition. If it is you need to go roid rage on your own.
Thats one reason I like the gym I attend (other than its right downstairs and has excellent accomodations). Most of the people there are normal and three quarters are over 35 working people.
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Steve steveson wrote: Actualy, thats a bit of a peeve for me. Going to the gym and getting scouled at by the hardcore gym goers for using "their" machines. Pisses me off when you are doing your thing and they glaire at you until you move or try and give you advice on how to "improve" when they have no idea what your trying to do. Always seems to be the body builders and never the runners/arobic fitness people oddly.
As GC would say: "thanks I'm good." (Translation " OFF!")
Sasori wrote: As for my Pet Peeve, seeing someone get promoted who is completely incompetent for a job, just because he is a leads brother. This guy is being promoted to a very critical position, that he is not qualified for. It's just absurd. Everyone is just going to watch this guy fall on his sword. The sad thing about is is while I'm a Chief Eng, I'm on a separate program so I can do nothing about it. really annoys me.
I hate that!!!! In a prior job, which will remain nameless to protect the guilty, there was a very similar set up in place. More than a few department's organizational trees were actually family trees. I seen numerous people who were unable to do an entry level job satisfactorily get promoted to oversee others. The grapevine was that their family's friends sat on the interview panel, coached them before, spoon fed them easy questions, and treated any applicants in a way that would make the Imperial Inquisition blush.
Steve steveson wrote: Actualy, thats a bit of a peeve for me. Going to the gym and getting scouled at by the hardcore gym goers for using "their" machines. Pisses me off when you are doing your thing and they glaire at you until you move or try and give you advice on how to "improve" when they have no idea what your trying to do. Always seems to be the body builders and never the runners/arobic fitness people oddly.
Months ago I had an encounter with a man-child at the gym I use. There was a bench for sit ups that had been vacant for most of the time I was there. There was no towel on it, no water bottle to indicate that someone had just taken a break. Just a few weights scattered around, which was not atypical. I finished on the treadmill and started to use the bench and one of the weights. Out of nowhere some guy older than my dad appears, face red as a baboon's arse, and starts pointing past me shouting "MINE!!". I look past, don't see anything and say excuse me. Man-child continues pointing at something and then snatches the weight out of my hand. I said "I'm sorry, I didn't realize that you were using the abandoned weight. You could have just said" and then the 'charming individual' stomped off
Bullockist wrote: Fraz how many pounds is the wiener that you lift? Sounds mighty heavy.
TBone the Magnificant is about 14 at this point. His goal is to die eating steak and I am happy to oblige him. Rodney is about 17 now. He's a nervous little fatty.
TBone needs to man up on the eating front, I've had cats that weigh more than him, Rodney however is well on target to be a beanbag with legs.
Sasori wrote: As for my Pet Peeve, seeing someone get promoted who is completely incompetent for a job, just because he is a leads brother. This guy is being promoted to a very critical position, that he is not qualified for. It's just absurd. Everyone is just going to watch this guy fall on his sword. The sad thing about is is while I'm a Chief Eng, I'm on a separate program so I can do nothing about it. really annoys me.
I hate that!!!! In a prior job, which will remain nameless to protect the guilty, there was a very similar set up in place. More than a few department's organizational trees were actually family trees. I seen numerous people who were unable to do an entry level job satisfactorily get promoted to oversee others. The grapevine was that their family's friends sat on the interview panel, coached them before, spoon fed them easy questions, and treated any applicants in a way that would make the Imperial Inquisition blush.
this is why I am glad I am not involved in the corporate world, I think I'd end up stabbing someone with a stapler.
People who don't put a full ream of paper in the printer. The tray is one ream. It is made to fit that much in. Don't just open the paper and shove 1/3rd of the ream in. Put the whole thing in like you are supposed to rather than having to fill the printer 3 times as often and leaving paper on the side taking up space and getting dammaged.
TBone needs to man up on the eating front, I've had cats that weigh more than him, Rodney however is well on target to be a beanbag with legs.
He is a mini. His fightin weight was 8lb prior to the cancer. Cut him some slack though. He was supposed to be dead Fall of 2012, but is just too mean to die.
Rodney yea he's a fatty and a 4 legged vulture (he has in fact driven a vulture off of a roadkill to have a snack). He's the original Tyranid and will eat all forms of biomatter. Little bastard can jump on a table and grab your bag of barbeque in seven seconds. I know. I KNOW!
Pet peeve time: People who buy live animals and then want a replacement after a considerable period of time. FFS people! It is not a tv if you do not treat it right it will die and there is NO warranty. Guaranteed to make me go from civil to rabid in 0.2 seconds.
Rodney yea he's a fatty and a 4 legged vulture (he has in fact driven a vulture off of a roadkill to have a snack). He's the original Tyranid and will eat all forms of biomatter. Little bastard can jump on a table and grab your bag of barbeque in seven seconds. I know. I KNOW!
I bet after eating roadkill Rodney is big on trying to lick your face I had a cat who was kinda similar to Rodney , except she just wanted anything on my dinner plate. Once she stole a boiled potato from my plate with her claw , I shoved her nose in it thinking "that'll teach her" and she then proceeded to eat the whole thing. I think she did it just to spite me.
Steve steveson wrote: Your missunderstanding the scope of the word "Theory" in scince. As many people do when dismissing people who say "It's just a theory". Theorys run a wide gammet of possibilities. Theorys are nothing more than ideas that have not been proven wrond. Some are well proven and accepted.
For example boyle's law is a theory we well understand and are reasonable certain what is going on. Something may change that, but we are pritty sure we understand what is happening.
The Big Bang theory is something we know approzimatly what happend and had a good idea of a model with no actual evidence of it until a few days ago. The expansion model is now the prevailing theory and we have most evidence of it being true, but there are still people who dissagree.
String theory is the biggest supported theory in its field, but is mostly just people making stuff up that fits the observations and hoping oneday we will be able to design an experiment.
A Theory is nothing like a fact at all, and people making arguments about scintific theorys like that is a pet peeve of mine. Even many scientists don't understand this and get trapped too much in the dogma. Too many great discoveries have been missed for many years because people have said "This can't be right because it contradicts X" and dissmised it as an error rather than double checking.
My pet peeve is people that make claims like yours.
Theories can be facts. Evolution is known to have occurred and is still occurring so it is a fact. Since it is also a theory, our understanding of its processes can change the more we learn about it. The existence of dark matter is a fact. However, we are not exactly sure what it is or why it is that way, but we know it exists. It should be noted that string theory is a mathematical theory which is different from a scientific theory.
Also, to claim that there was "no evidence to support the big bang model until a few days ago" is categorically incorrect. The direct observation of gravitational waves is simply another piece of evidence to support the theory and inflation.
Bullockist wrote: If it hasn't been proven it is not 100% certain and should only be regarded as a theory, anything else is not science. If you start regarding scientific theories as fact what happens when one is proven false? It may be ok to regard them as true, but it has to be held foremost that they are not proven. Sorry for jumping on your pet peeve, but growing up with two chemists as parents who took great pains to explain whenever something was a theory it wasn't proven has certainly left it's mark.
I'll add people who regard scientific theories as proven to my pet peeve list.
What happens when a theory regarded as true gets proven wrong?
Science changes because that is the strength of science.
One of the best examples of this is the model of a Static Universe. It was the prevailing idea of the nature of the universe until Georges Lemaître proposed the idea of an expanding universe in 1927 (using Einstein's equations) and it was proven by observations made by Edwin Hubble in 1929. If someone can offer enough evidence to prove the big band theory incorrect, than the theory will have to change. That's how science works.
Steve steveson wrote: Your missunderstanding the scope of the word "Theory" in scince. As many people do when dismissing people who say "It's just a theory". Theorys run a wide gammet of possibilities. Theorys are nothing more than ideas that have not been proven wrond. Some are well proven and accepted.
For example boyle's law is a theory we well understand and are reasonable certain what is going on. Something may change that, but we are pritty sure we understand what is happening.
The Big Bang theory is something we know approzimatly what happend and had a good idea of a model with no actual evidence of it until a few days ago. The expansion model is now the prevailing theory and we have most evidence of it being true, but there are still people who dissagree.
String theory is the biggest supported theory in its field, but is mostly just people making stuff up that fits the observations and hoping oneday we will be able to design an experiment.
A Theory is nothing like a fact at all, and people making arguments about scintific theorys like that is a pet peeve of mine. Even many scientists don't understand this and get trapped too much in the dogma. Too many great discoveries have been missed for many years because people have said "This can't be right because it contradicts X" and dissmised it as an error rather than double checking.
My pet peeve is people that make claims like yours.
Theories can be facts. Evolution is known to have occurred and is still occurring so it is a fact. Since it is also a theory, our understanding of its processes can change the more we learn about it. The existence of dark matter is a fact. However, we are not exactly sure what it is or why it is that way, but we know it exists. It should be noted that string theory is a mathematical theory which is different from a scientific theory.
Also, to claim that there was "no evidence to support the big bang model until a few days ago" is categorically incorrect. The direct observation of gravitational waves is simply another piece of evidence to support the theory and inflation.
Bullockist wrote: If it hasn't been proven it is not 100% certain and should only be regarded as a theory, anything else is not science. If you start regarding scientific theories as fact what happens when one is proven false? It may be ok to regard them as true, but it has to be held foremost that they are not proven. Sorry for jumping on your pet peeve, but growing up with two chemists as parents who took great pains to explain whenever something was a theory it wasn't proven has certainly left it's mark.
I'll add people who regard scientific theories as proven to my pet peeve list.
What happens when a theory regarded as true gets proven wrong?
Science changes because that is the strength of science.
One of the best examples of this is the model of a Static Universe. It was the prevailing idea of the nature of the universe until Georges Lemaître proposed the idea of an expanding universe in 1927 (using Einstein's equations) and it was proven by observations made by Edwin Hubble in 1929. If someone can offer enough evidence to prove the big band theory incorrect, than the theory will have to change. That's how science works.
Theories explain facts, they can never be facts themselves. Theories however, can be made of facts.
Facts are always true and can not change. If a scientific theory is proven wrong, the theory changes, the facts remain the same.
People not understanding what a 'fact' actually is, is one of my pet peeves. My philosophy teacher spent an entire day trying to get me to understand what a fact is, I only got it it at the end Also, there is a difference between scientific theories and scientific laws.
Since I am now responding to this thread anyway, I might as well mention that my biggest pet peeve is people smiling for no apparent reason at all. Smiles should only be used when there is something funny to smile about. Otherwise it is just fake and annoying.
Since I am now responding to this thread anyway, I might as well mention that my biggest pet peeve is people smiling for no apparent reason at all. Smiles should only be used when there is something funny to smile about. Otherwise it is just fake and annoying.
What about using them to scare people? Can can be quite entertaining .
Iron_Captain wrote: Theories explain facts, they can never be facts themselves. Theories however, can be made of facts.
Facts are always true and can not change. If a scientific theory is proven wrong, the theory changes, the facts remain the same.
People not understanding what a 'fact' actually is, is one of my pet peeves. My philosophy teacher spent an entire day trying to get me to understand what a fact is, I only got it it at the end Also, there is a difference between scientific theories and scientific laws.
Since I am now responding to this thread anyway, I might as well mention that my biggest pet peeve is people smiling for no apparent reason at all. Smiles should only be used when there is something funny to smile about. Otherwise it is just fake and annoying.
No, my friend, theories can still very much be fact.
Scientific theories describe how something occurs not whether it occurs. More importantly, facts used to describe something in science are not absolute. Keep in mind what Stephen Jay Gould said, "Moreover, 'fact' doesn’t mean 'absolute certainty'; there ain’t no such animal in an exciting and complex world. The final proofs of logic and mathematics flow deductively from stated premises and achieve certainty only because they are NOT about the empirical world."
Instead of a philosophy teacher, I would suggest you have a scientist explain how facts and theories work in science.
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