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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #440 on: November 12, 2008, 10:18:04 AM »

Ear buds.  These are the worst headphones I've ever had, and I'm counting the ones where I had to tilt my head to side just to get sound to come out of the right speaker.

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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #441 on: November 12, 2008, 12:38:12 PM »

I really like the in-ear buds. They always seem to give superior sound quality! Some people apparently find them uncomfortable, though.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #442 on: November 12, 2008, 12:52:51 PM »

I wish I could find a pair like my old one. The ones I've got were really high-quality Sony ones from the mid ninties. Very comfortable and extremely good sound... but they're getting old and some of the glue is really dry, leading to separated membranes. They usually work fine but I'd love to get a replacement. Unfortunately I haevn't seen any earbuds for sale (so far) with the same shape (kind of this ear-ergonomic teardrop shape, so comfortable).

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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #443 on: November 12, 2008, 01:19:21 PM »

I have been using the same set of ten-dollar blue Sony earbuds for the past four years. Well, not the same pair. Provided I don't lose them first, they have a tendency to break after a year or so or being crammed into pockets and such - the sound goes out in the right bud and that's how I know it's time to retire the set. But they just keep makin' em, and I just keep buyin 'em.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #444 on: November 12, 2008, 06:21:36 PM »

The thing about earbuds is that, with a few exclusions (anything made by V-moda), you really do get what you pay for. The best pair I've ever used was a pair of Etymotic Research 6i buds that run around $80. They sound great, fit snugly and comfortably, and never broke. In fact, that one pair lasted me close to two years, which is pretty impressive when you consider that I generally go through three or four pairs each year.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #445 on: November 12, 2008, 06:24:36 PM »

The cat chewed through the cord on the last pair of earbuds I owned. That was pretty much the only thing that could destroy them, considering how tough the little buggers were. I had to switch to these ugly painful sports-phones that came with my walkman. Then the left phone cut out a couple of months ago. It only works if you twist up the wire now, so if I tried to use it, I'd end up swinging my elbow into things.

So two days ago, I bought some expensive new earbuds and now I'm happy. But not ecstatic.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #446 on: November 16, 2008, 04:56:36 PM »

English spelling demands that you capitalize the names of days as proper nouns. For some reason, this bothers me.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #447 on: November 16, 2008, 07:44:18 PM »

I mean sure, they WERE named after gods, maybe I'd capitalize it if it were still Tyr's Day, but it's not.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #448 on: November 16, 2008, 08:51:56 PM »

Having to say, "two thousand and eight."

In 2011 I will be bringing back, "aught-one."
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #449 on: November 16, 2008, 08:57:32 PM »

I don't know anybody who says the "and".  Well, fully anyway.  In fact I think this year is officially named in honor of an obscure fellow named Two Thousand Nate.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #450 on: November 16, 2008, 09:04:59 PM »

If I had to guess, I'd say Two Thousand Nate is eight this year.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #451 on: November 16, 2008, 09:09:11 PM »

Having to say, "two thousand and eight."

In 2011 I will be bringing back, "aught-one."

I thought "aught-one" referred to '01. So, technically, we'd be in "twenty aught-eight" right now, were you so inclined.

Anyway: our Left Item Log is a cheap three-ring binder full of paper along with twelve dividers (one per month).  Since it's each cashier's responsibility to record any items left by one of their customers, a huge number of people wind up using this binder.  What winds up happening is that one of these cashiers opens the binder up, finds the current date, writes down the items, and then closes the binder again--not stopping to move the pages back to their original position, meaning that now every page and divider to the left of the current date is bending and warping from being trapped between the metal rings and the front cover of the binder.  This happens every time someone uses the binder.  EVERY DAMN TIME.  It's been going on since March.  I know, I know--there are these hard plastic spacers you can buy which will automatically push the pages into position, but... no.  Fuck that, and fuck them for being too oblivious to realize that their perfunctory binder-closing procedures are the reason half the pages in there have their holes ripped out.  I shouldn't have to spend my own money or try to convince my manager to approve use of store funds over this.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #452 on: November 16, 2008, 09:19:13 PM »

I wonder if we'll be able to convince everyone that the proper prefix for 201X  is decity-X, after the root for ten, deca.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #453 on: November 16, 2008, 09:22:32 PM »

Are you saying that, in 2017, you'd rather say "twenty decity-seven" than "twenty seventeen"?
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #454 on: November 16, 2008, 09:40:55 PM »

If only so people don't call that decade the "teens", yes.

I'm a man with simple needs.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #455 on: November 16, 2008, 10:24:31 PM »

Are you saying that, in 2017, you'd rather say "twenty decity-seven" than "twenty seventeen"?
I'd totally rather say it that way right now.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #456 on: November 16, 2008, 10:36:36 PM »

Having to say, "two thousand and eight."

In 2011 I will be bringing back, "aught-one."

I thought "aught-one" referred to '01. So, technically, we'd be in "twenty aught-eight" right now, were you so inclined.

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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #457 on: November 16, 2008, 10:37:18 PM »

Diggety-four.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #458 on: November 18, 2008, 07:16:42 AM »

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« Reply #459 on: November 18, 2008, 09:17:30 AM »

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