Full Version: Annoyances
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Apropos of nothing, I wonder who is the top poster on this thread.
| QUOTE (Abbylovi @ Jan 31 2006, 10:56 AM) |
| Apropos of nothing, I wonder who is the top poster on this thread. |
| QUOTE (bloviatrix @ Jan 31 2006, 10:46 AM) | ||
I seem to recall you writing the exact same thing last year. Which means it must be pretty awful.  |
Yup. An annual event. Not awful, just annually annoying.
Yeah, well, you have to weight that result to make it meaningful. 
That's 2.5% of my posts. Poor Nero has 10% of her posts in Annoyances. Shall we send her some flowers?
That's 2.5% of my posts. Poor Nero has 10% of her posts in Annoyances. Shall we send her some flowers?
| QUOTE (GG Mora @ Jan 31 2006, 11:10 AM) | ||
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Ack, I'm the 8th most annoyed person on this site!
Do the same for the Cheerful thread, GG? I couldn't figure out how.
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Jan 31 2006, 11:17 AM) | ||||
Ack, I'm the 8th most annoyed person on this site! Do the same for the Cheerful thread, GG? I couldn't figure out how. |
If you go to the forum in which a particular thread resides and click on the number in the “Replies” column, you'll get the stats for that thread. It doesn't work in mixed forum indexes (like “Active Topics” or “New Posts”).
Hey, me and Hollywood are just carrying that Katie Holmes thread. 
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Jan 29 2006, 02:14 PM) |
| Yeah, well, you have to weight that result to make it meaningful. That's 2.5% of my posts. Poor Nero has 10% of her posts in Annoyances. Shall we send her some flowers? |
Woo hoo, I finally made the top 50 of something.
I'll chip in for flowers for Nero.
Yeah, that would annoy the hell out of me too.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Jan 31 2006, 04:14 PM) |
| That's 2.5% of my posts. Poor Nero has 10% of her posts in Annoyances. Shall we send her some flowers? |
You were that kid who told on the other kid to get himself out of trouble, weren't you.
Daisy- I was just in Staples where they were selling mini fan-heaters for $30. I borrow my co-workers sometimes when she's out of town and it makes such a huge difference.
I've been holding back.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Jan 31 2006, 04:23 PM) |
| Hey, me and Hollywood are just carrying that Katie Holmes thread. |
Yes, I did a pie chart once documenting it.
sweet! I made the top ten by sneaking in just ahead of the Professor.
I'm in the top five. 
I am grateful that all the venting I am able to do here makes me so cheerful in my day to day dealings.
I am grateful that all the venting I am able to do here makes me so cheerful in my day to day dealings.
Have I mentioned my boobs lately? 
| QUOTE (NeroW @ Jan 31 2006, 06:19 AM) | ||||
Where does it go when you're drunk? |
everywhere.
| QUOTE (Liza @ Jan 31 2006, 10:18 AM) |
| Have I mentioned my boobs lately? |
If only. The gap would be much appreciated.
the cheerful thread maintains a 242 post lead on this one. fucking cheery bastards.
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Jan 31 2006, 08:27 AM) |
| Thanks, GG. I'm the most cheerful!  |
Competitive bitch! (I'm second, tra la la la la. I blame Logan.)
i note with chagrin that i'm in the top 15 in cheerful. but most of those entries must be complaints about that thread being more active than this one. really people, look at the world we're living in.
Unfortunately in my case it's because I have to remind myself why I should be cheerful a lot more often than why I should be annoyed.
How many times will I have to ask Bobolink to remove me from their mailing list before they actually do it?
Did you click on the link at the bottom of the email that says "Manage your subscription"? They use e-marketing software so when you do it, that should automatically unsubscribe you.
Bless you.
| QUOTE (tanabutler @ Jan 31 2006, 12:42 PM) | ||
Competitive bitch! (I'm second, tra la la la la. I blame Logan.) |
Nah, just glad there is some evidence to offset "8th most annoyed."
edit: And who callin' bitch, ho?
Just found out that Mr. Scorched is getting "laid off" on March 1... for an incredibly bogus reason.
Holy Crapola, that stinks.
Oh, crap, Anita! Wha' happen?
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Jan 31 2006, 12:11 PM) | ||||
Nah, just glad there is some evidence to offset "8th most annoyed." edit: And who callin' bitch, ho? |
Who you callin' ho, Miss Priss?
Short version is that his boss hired another person to be his peer and then decided he didn't need two of them. And then offered him a -very- junior position instead, and was mystified that he didn't want the demotion.
That sucks.
| QUOTE (Scorched Palate @ Jan 31 2006, 03:52 PM) |
| Short version is that his boss hired another person to be his peer and then decided he didn't need two of them. And then offered him a -very- junior position instead, and was mystified that he didn't want the demotion. |
Sounds like Constructive Dismissal (at least to this lay person). He should talk to a lawyer.
Fly
Anita, I'm so sorry. Been through a husband's layoff, and it sucks big time.
Been through a husband's layoff, and it sucks big time.
Serious annoyance. Everything I entered into my Quicken accounting program since August 8 has DISAPPEARED completely. And it's not the first time this has happened.
If you guys want an address where you can send me flowers, PM me.
| QUOTE (tanabutler @ Feb 2 2006, 12:12 AM) |
| Serious annoyance. Everything I entered into my Quicken accounting program since August 8 has DISAPPEARED completely. And it's not the first time this has happened. |
Intuit are as evil and incompetent as Microsoft.
| QUOTE (tanabutler @ Feb 2 2006, 12:12 AM) |
| Serious annoyance. Everything I entered into my Quicken accounting program since August 8 has DISAPPEARED completely. And it's not the first time this has happened. |
I remember the good days, years ago when there was still such a thing as customer service in the software world, when Intuit had a forum on AOL with a representative to answer any and all service questions -- FOR FREE!
there's an extremely annoying discussion about an annoyance taking place on the "reasons to be cheerful" thread. this is the kind of bullshit that keeps the "cheerful" thread ahead of this one. will an admin please split and merge all posts that actually belong here from that thread and into this one? thanks.
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Feb 2 2006, 12:32 PM) |
| there's an extremely annoying discussion about an annoyance taking place on the "reasons to be cheerful" thread. this is the kind of bullshit that keeps the "cheerful" thread ahead of this one. will an admin please split and merge all posts that actually belong here from that thread and into this one? thanks. |
Hydrocodone sounds like a reason to be cheerful to me.
Mmm, prescription opiates.
i have a bunch lying around upstairs. does anyone have any heavy machinery they need operated?
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Feb 2 2006, 12:50 PM) | ||
yes, but in the annoyances thread. |
Because the prevalence of diseases that they detect in the normal population is low but the rate of false positives is high. For example, the prevalence of malignant lung nodules in the population is 1%; the rate of false positives for CT lung screening is around 10%*. So when you screen 100 people you'll pick up 10 false positives that have to be biopsied with attendant morbidity for every true positive.
*These figures aren't exact but they're in the ball park.
That makes no sense.
Note: I kind of enjoying the buzzing feeling, thank you.
Note: I kind of enjoying the buzzing feeling, thank you.
| QUOTE (Stone @ Feb 2 2006, 01:03 PM) |
| That makes no sense. |
It doesn't?
Does to me.
(Stone is....stoned)
(Stone is....stoned)
what does that "attendant morbidity" mean? that you can die from the biopsy procedure to confirm?
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Feb 2 2006, 01:09 PM) |
| what does that "attendant morbidity" mean? that you can die from the biopsy procedure to confirm? |
Morbidity is something going wrong, a complication -- infection at the biopsy site, adverse reaction to anesthesia, pneumothorax (air around the lungs), etc.
Some of these will result in death but that should be rare.
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Feb 2 2006, 01:16 PM) | ||
Morbidity is something going wrong, a complication -- infection at the biopsy site, adverse reaction to anesthesia, pneumothorax (air around the lungs), etc. Some of these will result in death but that should be rare. |
I love seeing a line like this when flipping through a client's medical records.
Patient is a pleasant, morbidly obese 54 year old white male . . .
| QUOTE (Ron Johnson @ Feb 2 2006, 04:24 PM) |
| I love seeing a line like this when flipping through a client's medical records. Patient is a pleasant, morbidly obese 54 year old white male . . . |
What the hell are you doing with my medical record?!
Oh wait... I'm only 53.
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