Dumb things that annoy you

[Sweet Brew]

So, I spent all of yesterday trying to fix this glitch in Thaumcraft, it's the classic "Missing aspects" one where you already scanned stuff so you can't get them back.

I was trying all this computery stuff and messing with the actual files, trying to fix it only to find out all I needed to do was type /tc aspect sweetbrew all 10 and bam, it's all better...
There goes a full day of my life!



Ugh, I have no idea why...but I've been getting so darn tired as of late...
It seems my insomnia is gone (For now, it hides for a couple weeks sometimes) buuut...now I'm dead tried...
Yesterday I slept for 12 hours and today when I got out of bed it literally hurt to get up I was so tired and I was having a hard time walking...

If I had the choice between this, or insomnia I'd choose this...so it's actually an improvement.

[Chishio Kunrin]

Stop telling little girls "He's mean to you/he hit you because he likes you/has a crush on you"!

Yeah, I understand that boys can be rowdy and rough, but when you like someone, you treat them right. And little boys should learn that most little girls can't match that rowdiness and can't handle it as well as they can. Some girls can, but a lot can't or don't want to.

Either way, the big point here is: Stop teaching little girls that a boy shows that he likes or loves her by being mean and hitting her!!

It's stupid, weird, and wrong, and I don't understand how it got started! It may seem "innocent" at a young age, but when you think about it when they're older, it changes. Why must it be any different when they're kids? At what point do you tell boys "Don't hit girls" and tell girls "It's wrong for him to hit you"? You should always tell them that, from the beginning.

I'm just glad that I knew enough not to believe that stuff by the time someone said it to me for the first time. I was at daycare, and a boy hit me in the mouth and knocked out one of my loose teeth. I was told that he hit me because he likes me, and I remember thinking "That doesn't make sense."

And you know what? It really doesn't make sense.

[Midnight Breeze]

I keep hearing about this so called 'baby boomer retirement crisis'. Apparently boomer households have a median retirement savings of only $12,000 and are now lamenting that there's no way social security will be enough to maintain their lifestyle in retirement.

Am I seriously supposed to feel sorry for the generation that hugely benefited from the most prosperous economy in world history, but chose to blow it all on mcmansions, luxury cars and elaborate vacations instead of saving a dime for the future?

Yeah, I'm not sympathetic. The boomers dug their own graves and I ain't paying to bail them out.

[Chishio Kunrin]

Apparently, there are people who think cube-shaped watermelons are genetically modified.

No, guys, cube-shaped watermelons are not the product of GMOs. You don't actually need to breed them specially to make them grow into a cube shape.

All you need is a plastic box.


That's literally it. A plastic box. You put it around the watermelon bud, and since the watermelon can't grow past the sides of the box, it fills up the shape of the box, thus ending up cube-shaped.

That's also how Disney World gets their Mickey Mouse head pumpkins. They put a plastic container shaped like Mickey's head around a pumpkin bud.

[Stardust Dragon]

Apparently, there are people who think cube-shaped watermelons are genetically modified.

No, guys, cube-shaped watermelons are not the product of GMOs. You don't actually need to breed them specially to make them grow into a cube shape.

All you need is a plastic box.


That's literally it. A plastic box. You put it around the watermelon bud, and since the watermelon can't grow past the sides of the box, it fills up the shape of the box, thus ending up cube-shaped.

That's also how Disney World gets their Mickey Mouse head pumpkins. They put a plastic container shaped like Mickey's head around a pumpkin bud.

So simple it's brilliant. Wow. 

As for the GMO scare...anything to rile up people on the internet.  Just earlier today I watched as a forum descended into madness from a very clearly trollish post, awestruck at how easily people fell for it. 

[Sweet Brew]

Apparently, there are people who think cube-shaped watermelons are genetically modified.

No, guys, cube-shaped watermelons are not the product of GMOs. You don't actually need to breed them specially to make them grow into a cube shape.

All you need is a plastic box.


That's literally it. A plastic box. You put it around the watermelon bud, and since the watermelon can't grow past the sides of the box, it fills up the shape of the box, thus ending up cube-shaped.

That's also how Disney World gets their Mickey Mouse head pumpkins. They put a plastic container shaped like Mickey's head around a pumpkin bud.

My bro keeps saying it'd be fun to make a cube pumpkin and then carve the face to look like a minecraft pumpkin for a Halloween decoration.

That'd be odd, but cool.

And now I want star fruit...though they naturally grow like that...

[Lync Volan]

My Ice cream is too hard to scoop when i pull it out of the freezer, it takes about an hour to become softer and i shouldn't even be eating sugary things like ice cream

[DawnsEmbrace]

I just woke up from a dream where my computer got infected with an OS changer, and I had to wipe it to factory settings again.
I don't even think OS changers are a thing.  I hate my brain.

[Jcfraven]

I just woke up from a dream where my computer got infected with an OS changer, and I had to wipe it to factory settings again.
I don't even think OS changers are a thing.  I hate my brain.

That's actually an interesting idea for a virus or prank software xD.

[Chishio Kunrin]

My cat Callie apparently still has something against my computer speakers. She just did something she hasn't done in a while: Got under the desk, stood on her hind legs, put her paws on the wall, and then dragged her paws down. When she does that, she pulls the speakers wire, which pulls the speakers off the desk. They're actually a little messed up now from her repeatedly doing that.

[Howitzer]

Every single person at school always talks about streaming music (Spotify, Pandora, I-heart etc.) and complain about the skip limit or that they had to sit through bad songs. If only technology nowadays had something to fix this. Oh yeah, there is. It's called DOWNLOADING the songs! No connection issues, all your favorite songs, no ads, and a lot of songs for a little space on your precious Iphone 6.

[Midnight Breeze]

Every single person at school always talks about streaming music (Spotify, Pandora, I-heart etc.) and complain about the skip limit or that they had to sit through bad songs. If only technology nowadays had something to fix this. Oh yeah, there is. It's called DOWNLOADING the songs! No connection issues, all your favorite songs, no ads, and a lot of songs for a little space on your precious Iphone 6.

Lolnope, you said IPhone....

[Chishio Kunrin]

So, people are discussing the sneak peek for RWBY Volume 3 Episode 3, and someone suggested the same thing I'm thinking, that Winter Schnee might allude to the Snow Queen, and this other person comes in and says that the RWBY crew said the character models resembling fairy tale characters is a coincidence.
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Where in the world did you get that from?! Because I can tell you right now, they never said that. The only thing they said regarding the characters and their classic story allusions is that they won't follow the same story as who they allude to. That, and they're not based on them, but they allude to/reference them.

The classic story character allusions are 100% intentional, and I don't see how this person could even think or believe that it's all purely coincidence considering the staggering amount of characters whose allusions are blatantly obvious.

- Ruby Rose - Little Red Riding Hood. She wears a red hooded cape, the Red Trailer featured her facing wolf-like Grimm, and Monty even outright called her Little Red Riding Hood, saying that, in the beginning of planning for RWBY, he fell in love with the idea of Little Red Riding Hood carrying a giant scythe.
- Weiss Schnee - Snow White. If you translate her name literally, it means White Snow (it's not proper German grammar, but eh, there's no Germany in Remnant). The White Trailer featured the song Mirror Mirror, which heavily references Snow White ("Mirror, tell me something. Tell me, who's the loneliest of all?"). Monty said the pendant on her necklace is an apple. Her family's company mines for Dust, which comes in the form of crystals (like how the dwarves were gem miners).
- Blake Belladonna - Belle, from Beauty and the Beast. Not quite so much to say here, though one really substantial thing is that, in the Volume 1 Director's Commentary, Miles stated the reason they gave her a candelabra was because they wanted to try to surround her with "Belle things." Also, she loves to read books.
- Yang Xiao Long - Goldilocks. Monty even referred to her as Goldilocks many times. There's a lot of emphasis on her long, messy golden-blonde hair. The Yellow Trailer features her in a club owned by Junior, whose real name is Hei Xiong. Hei Xiong translates to Black Bear. A black bear nicknamed Junior - he's the baby bear. She starts a ruckus and pretty much ruins Junior's club. The DJ was even wearing a bear mask. Some say that the twins, Melanie and Miltia, are kinda like the hot and cold porridge, with their color schemes.
But wait, there's more!

Spoiler: List • show

- Jaune Arc - Joan of Arc. Does this even need explaining?
- Nora Valkyrie - Thor. She wields a giant hammer, her symbol is a hammer with a lightning bolt through it, she has a whole electricity thing going on (especially in Volume 3, wow).
- Pyrrha Nikos - Achilles. Her nickname is "The invincible girl" because she's a tournament champion who everyone believes is untouchable. Achilles once disguised himself as a red-haired woman named Pyrrha.
- Lie Ren - Mulan.
(Team JNPR's theme is "People who dressed as the opposite gender in their story." We all know Joan was dressed like a man and Mulan had to disguise herself as a man. Thor once had to disguise himself as the goddess Freyja, to steal back his hammer Mjolnir. And I mentioned what Achilles did, above.)
- Cardin Winchester - Henry Beaufort, the Cardinal of Winchester. There was even a small arc in Volume 1 where he was bullying Jaune. At one point during that arc, he sends Jaune a voice message on his scroll (hologram tablet), and it says that his ID is 1374-BEAUFORT.
- Velvet Scarlatina - The Velveteen Rabbit. She's a rabbit Faunus (she has rabbit ears), her name is Velvet, and Scarlatina is another name for scarlet fever, which is the illness that the boy in the storybook comes down with.
- Ozpin - The Wizard of Oz. The initials for the wizard's full name spells out OZPINHEAD, and Ozpin is the headmaster of Beacon. Hohoho.
- Glynda Goodwitch - Glenda the Good Witch. Yeah... that one's... pretty obvious.
- Peter Port - Peter and the Wolf. His name is Peter, and the first story he babbles on about to his students in Volume 1 is about how, when he was younger, he captured a Beowolf (wolf-like Grimm), took it to his village, and was hailed as a hero.
- Bartholomew Oobleck - Bartholomew and the Oobleck. Yep, another obvious one.
- Cinder Fall - Cinderella. Yes, villains can allude to protagonist characters. She wears glass heels, and her symbol is a pair of high heels put sole-to-sole so that the empty space between them forms a heart. There's also the fact that her name is Cinder.
- Roman Torchwick - Romeo Lampwick/Candlewick (different versions switch between those two last names), from Pinocchio. Lampwick is the boy who convinces Pinocchio to participate in all the bad stuff when they get to Pleasure Island.
- Mercury Black - Mercury, the Roman god, whose Greek counterpart is Hermes. There's his name, and there's also the fact that his symbol is a winged boot.
- Adam Taurus - Beast, from Beauty and the Beast.
- Penny - Pinocchio. Once you get to know her, it's pretty obvious. Not to mention one of her lines in Volume 2 was very Pinocchio.
- Sun Wukong - Sun Wukong, from Journey to the West. He wields a staff, he has a monkey tail, his Semblance (special ability) is that he produces clones (the original Wukong could create clones of himself from his hair). The original Wukong has the ability to see through disguises and illusions, and Sun has actually seen through one character's disguise.
- Scarlet David - Peter Pan, specifically from the sequel novel Peter Pan in Scarlet. In that novel, Peter Pan has taken Captain Hook's place, pretty much becoming the new Captain Hook. Scarlet has a pirate theme going on, and he does a Peter Pan type pose after being thrown in the air in the episode he first truly makes an appearance in. His last name, David, is a reference to the fact that Peter Pan is based on the author's brother, David.
- Sage Ayana - Aesop, according to Monty. One of Aesop's fables, according to Miles and Kerry.
- Neptune Vasilias - Neptune, the Roman god, whose Greek counterpart is Poseidon. His weapon transforms into a trident! His symbol is the head of a trident in a shield (it's located on the tongues of his shoes). Vasilias means "leader, prince, king, or emperor," and Neptune/Poseidon is known as the King of the Sea.
- Qrow Branwen and Raven Branwen - It's possible that these two allude to Bran the Blessed and Branwen, respectively. In Welsh, Branwen means "blessed white raven/crow." Branwen is the sister of Bran the Blessed, and it seems that Qrow and Raven are siblings.

And that's just the characters whose allusions we know or are pretty certain about!

[Chromastone64]

So, people are discussing the sneak peek for RWBY Volume 3 Episode 3, and someone suggested the same thing I'm thinking, that Winter Schnee might allude to the Snow Queen, and this other person comes in and says that the RWBY crew said the character models resembling fairy tale characters is a coincidence.
....
......
..........
Where in the world did you get that from?! Because I can tell you right now, they never said that. The only thing they said regarding the characters and their classic story allusions is that they won't follow the same story as who they allude to. That, and they're not based on them, but they allude to/reference them.

The classic story character allusions are 100% intentional, and I don't see how this person could even think or believe that it's all purely coincidence considering the staggering amount of characters whose allusions are blatantly obvious.

- Ruby Rose - Little Red Riding Hood. She wears a red hooded cape, the Red Trailer featured her facing wolf-like Grimm, and Monty even outright called her Little Red Riding Hood, saying that, in the beginning of planning for RWBY, he fell in love with the idea of Little Red Riding Hood carrying a giant scythe.
- Weiss Schnee - Snow White. If you translate her name literally, it means White Snow (it's not proper German grammar, but eh, there's no Germany in Remnant). The White Trailer featured the song Mirror Mirror, which heavily references Snow White ("Mirror, tell me something. Tell me, who's the loneliest of all?"). Monty said the pendant on her necklace is an apple. Her family's company mines for Dust, which comes in the form of crystals (like how the dwarves were gem miners).
- Blake Belladonna - Belle, from Beauty and the Beast. Not quite so much to say here, though one really substantial thing is that, in the Volume 1 Director's Commentary, Miles stated the reason they gave her a candelabra was because they wanted to try to surround her with "Belle things." Also, she loves to read books.
- Yang Xiao Long - Goldilocks. Monty even referred to her as Goldilocks many times. There's a lot of emphasis on her long, messy golden-blonde hair. The Yellow Trailer features her in a club owned by Junior, whose real name is Hei Xiong. Hei Xiong translates to Black Bear. A black bear nicknamed Junior - he's the baby bear. She starts a ruckus and pretty much ruins Junior's club. The DJ was even wearing a bear mask. Some say that the twins, Melanie and Miltia, are kinda like the hot and cold porridge, with their color schemes.
But wait, there's more!

Spoiler: List • show

- Jaune Arc - Joan of Arc. Does this even need explaining?
- Nora Valkyrie - Thor. She wields a giant hammer, her symbol is a hammer with a lightning bolt through it, she has a whole electricity thing going on (especially in Volume 3, wow).
- Pyrrha Nikos - Achilles. Her nickname is "The invincible girl" because she's a tournament champion who everyone believes is untouchable. Achilles once disguised himself as a red-haired woman named Pyrrha.
- Lie Ren - Mulan.
(Team JNPR's theme is "People who dressed as the opposite gender in their story." We all know Joan was dressed like a man and Mulan had to disguise herself as a man. Thor once had to disguise himself as the goddess Freyja, to steal back his hammer Mjolnir. And I mentioned what Achilles did, above.)
- Cardin Winchester - Henry Beaufort, the Cardinal of Winchester. There was even a small arc in Volume 1 where he was bullying Jaune. At one point during that arc, he sends Jaune a voice message on his scroll (hologram tablet), and it says that his ID is 1374-BEAUFORT.
- Velvet Scarlatina - The Velveteen Rabbit. She's a rabbit Faunus (she has rabbit ears), her name is Velvet, and Scarlatina is another name for scarlet fever, which is the illness that the boy in the storybook comes down with.
- Ozpin - The Wizard of Oz. The initials for the wizard's full name spells out OZPINHEAD, and Ozpin is the headmaster of Beacon. Hohoho.
- Glynda Goodwitch - Glenda the Good Witch. Yeah... that one's... pretty obvious.
- Peter Port - Peter and the Wolf. His name is Peter, and the first story he babbles on about to his students in Volume 1 is about how, when he was younger, he captured a Beowolf (wolf-like Grimm), took it to his village, and was hailed as a hero.
- Bartholomew Oobleck - Bartholomew and the Oobleck. Yep, another obvious one.
- Cinder Fall - Cinderella. Yes, villains can allude to protagonist characters. She wears glass heels, and her symbol is a pair of high heels put sole-to-sole so that the empty space between them forms a heart. There's also the fact that her name is Cinder.
- Roman Torchwick - Romeo Lampwick/Candlewick (different versions switch between those two last names), from Pinocchio. Lampwick is the boy who convinces Pinocchio to participate in all the bad stuff when they get to Pleasure Island.
- Mercury Black - Mercury, the Roman god, whose Greek counterpart is Hermes. There's his name, and there's also the fact that his symbol is a winged boot.
- Adam Taurus - Beast, from Beauty and the Beast.
- Penny - Pinocchio. Once you get to know her, it's pretty obvious. Not to mention one of her lines in Volume 2 was very Pinocchio.
- Sun Wukong - Sun Wukong, from Journey to the West. He wields a staff, he has a monkey tail, his Semblance (special ability) is that he produces clones (the original Wukong could create clones of himself from his hair). The original Wukong has the ability to see through disguises and illusions, and Sun has actually seen through one character's disguise.
- Scarlet David - Peter Pan, specifically from the sequel novel Peter Pan in Scarlet. In that novel, Peter Pan has taken Captain Hook's place, pretty much becoming the new Captain Hook. Scarlet has a pirate theme going on, and he does a Peter Pan type pose after being thrown in the air in the episode he first truly makes an appearance in. His last name, David, is a reference to the fact that Peter Pan is based on the author's brother, David.
- Sage Ayana - Aesop, according to Monty. One of Aesop's fables, according to Miles and Kerry.
- Neptune Vasilias - Neptune, the Roman god, whose Greek counterpart is Poseidon. His weapon transforms into a trident! His symbol is the head of a trident in a shield (it's located on the tongues of his shoes). Vasilias means "leader, prince, king, or emperor," and Neptune/Poseidon is known as the King of the Sea.
- Qrow Branwen and Raven Branwen - It's possible that these two allude to Bran the Blessed and Branwen, respectively. In Welsh, Branwen means "blessed white raven/crow." Branwen is the sister of Bran the Blessed, and it seems that Qrow and Raven are siblings.

And that's just the characters whose allusions we know or are pretty certain about!

TBH, I never would have guessed Ren and Blake's ones.
One thing I noticed in the intro though; when it showed the picture of Qrow, there was a lady in a robe who looked a little sick/frail. Now, I don't really keep up with RWBY news, so this is probably old/known already, but I assume that's Ruby's mum?

[Night Pony]

TBH, I never would have guessed Ren and Blake's ones.
One thing I noticed in the intro though; when it showed the picture of Qrow, there was a lady in a robe who looked a little sick/frail. Now, I don't really keep up with RWBY news, so this is probably old/known already, but I assume that's Ruby's mum?

http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/Summer_Rose?file=Summer_ProfilePic_2D_Sepia_Removed.png

This girl?

[Chromastone64]

Thank you

[Chishio Kunrin]

TBH, I never would have guessed Ren and Blake's ones.
One thing I noticed in the intro though; when it showed the picture of Qrow, there was a lady in a robe who looked a little sick/frail. Now, I don't really keep up with RWBY news, so this is probably old/known already, but I assume that's Ruby's mum?

Yeah, that's Summer Rose, Ruby's mother. In the Volume 1 opening, you see Ruby kneeling in front of the headstone marked "Summer Rose, Thus Kindly I Scatter" and a ghostly figure wearing a white cloak is standing on the other side of it. (I say ghostly because her legs fade into nothingness. )

Uuugh, Microsoft! I was in the middle of something, and then I had to walk away to cook some oatmeal for my mom, and when I came back, my laptop was restarting and applying updates! Did I give it permission to restart?! NO! It just did it on its own! Time to find the update settings and change it.

Oh, and speaking of oatmeal, I'm still a little irritated at how quickly my mom goes through butter knives, spoons, and bowls! And she refuses to just quickly clean them off when she's done! So my dad and I are the ones who will have to keep an eye out for freshly used bowls, spoons, and butter knives, and clean them off ourselves, so we don't have to later when she wants cereal, oatmeal, toast, or needs to spread her icing on her toaster strudels!

[Sweet Brew]

So, I'm going to get a lot of hate for this so I'm putting it in a spoiler...

Spoiler: Don't say I didn't warm you... • show

But I am so sick of hearing about Undertale.
Look, I know you guys/gals love the game...and I'm not saying it's a bad game but I hear more about that game than I do about Fallout4!
I'm not insulting the game.
I'm not saying it's a bad game.
What I'm saying is please, people... stop abandoning every other fandom in hopes of finding the holy grail of video games...

[DawnsEmbrace]

So, I'm going to get a lot of hate for this so I'm putting it in a spoiler...

Spoiler: Don't say I didn't warm you... • show

But I am so sick of hearing about Undertale.
Look, I know you guys/gals love the game...and I'm not saying it's a bad game but I hear more about that game than I do about Fallout4!
I'm not insulting the game.
I'm not saying it's a bad game.
What I'm saying is please, people... stop abandoning every other fandom in hopes of finding the holy grail of video games...

Welcome to every non-brony's perspective on MLP.
Honestly, I agree with your reasons.  I just haven't had the correct amount of overexposure yet.

[Jcfraven]

Uuugh, Microsoft! I was in the middle of something, and then I had to walk away to cook some oatmeal for my mom, and when I came back, my laptop was restarting and applying updates! Did I give it permission to restart?! NO! It just did it on its own! Time to find the update settings and change it.

Oh, and speaking of oatmeal, I'm still a little irritated at how quickly my mom goes through butter knives, spoons, and bowls! And she refuses to just quickly clean them off when she's done! So my dad and I are the ones who will have to keep an eye out for freshly used bowls, spoons, and butter knives, and clean them off ourselves, so we don't have to later when she wants cereal, oatmeal, toast, or needs to spread her icing on her toaster strudels!

Have Windows 10? If so, you agreed to effectively them picking and choosing when to do updates, since it's not actually an OS to them(alongside a lot of unrelated major things). This is why I love Linux, I don't have to deal with that, and I get a superior, secure, and actual, OS!

Honestly, Windows will likely never again be used by me unless I have to for a job or assisting someone. It's angered me too much, and it's too far gone to be an OS I could ever trust with anything ever again.