Random thing that annoys me

[Sparticus]

Some idiot that lives in my neighborhood. I used to like him as often we'd talk. He needed weight lifting advice [how to bulk up] and I obliged. But since that time -this Spring, he's become very cold to me. Sometimes I feel like picking him up and throwing him. Ok ok I gotcha's all! No I don't want to do that...but just for once I want to snubb him...heck I've achieved things he'll never in a 1,000 years...
Besides...I'm left handed... we are special people...

 

[pacman]

The Fortran programming language annoys the hell out of me. You can only have 72 characters in each line because that's how many characters can fit on a punchcard. Not only that, it uses a weird labeling system and the column that you put your labels in matters to the point where if you get it wrong, code will not compile. Basically Fortran is a punchcard programming language and the code that I'm debugging at work contains a math library that has a lot of subroutines written in Fortran.

Oh, and go-to loops are evil.

 

[Geordie]

I had said it elsewhere, but I feel so annoyed I have to repeat this somewhere:

I feel like a failure. I had given my feedback, but I guess my friends and family will only receive it until they really 'see' it.

 

[Soup]

@Geordie: I was shocked & saddened to read that you feel like a failure. I remember you mentioning this in other threads as well. I know it may be challenging for you to understand this, but you are WAAY too young to talk about yourself in these terms. Even back in about 500 BCE Confucius (hardly a paragon of liberalism!) gave a person until the age of 40 yrs before anything so final & judgmental could be said about him & those were in times when few people even lived past 30! Nowadays, with people living past 100 (AND in good health) becoming commonplace, it is not unusual for people to discover the path that is right for them at the age of 65 & 70! A few years ago, a man graduated with his medical degree from Mc.Gill (ivy league) at age 72.

You may be living in a social context that pressures its young people to excel in a very narrow range of fields at a very young age. As a teacher, I've seen many parents who are this way, expecting their child to get top grades in maths & science, be top athletes all while mastering the piano or the violin. Most (not all) of these parents have been Asian. I've also seen their kids sneaking pills to keep themselves going at such a frenetic pace & suffering from nervous disorders for fear of not measuring up to their parents' expectations. These kids also have high rates of suicidal ideation & (secret) drug abuse problems. These kids may appear successful but as a teacher I know better. Most haven't a clue as to who they truly are, what their values are & what they want in life. They have no sense of self & no opinions or tastes of their own: they merely repeat whatever convention their parents have drummed into them. SURE their grades are high but often their ability to think critically & creatively & solve real world problems is non-existent.

Top universities here have (since the 1990s) shifted their emphasis away from merely looking at grades to interviewing individual students & requiring them to write about their experiences in the real world (such as volunteering or working). They were producing many graduates with great grades BUT poor life skills, unable to think critically & work well with colleagues or patients. They were lousy doctors & lousy engineers etc. Universities now seek students who are well-rounded: not mere robots with perfect grades but no life experience outside of the short leashes their helicopter parents kept them on.

Please please stop judging yourself so harshly & seeing yourself through a narrow (inaccurate) lens of what a successful person is. Having a good career is only one small aspect of success. Many people with apparently good careers live lives of quiet, miserable desperation. Their personal lives are in a shambles, their kids are miserable, they are having an affair with their idiot secretary, their wife is talking divorce & they're in a financial mess from trying to appear wealthier than they are (to impress others who are probably in the exact same mess living the same lie!).

I am NOT just talking out of my @$$ or trying to condescend to you. I live in one such upscale neighbourhood & I've seen people who appeared affluent & successful lose everything rapidly only to learn just how dire their situation was. One guy 2 blocks over lived in a gorgeous house (a Chinese engineer of some kind). They had a Benz & a BMW in the driveway. Their 2 kids went to private school. One day, he came home, shot his wife & kids then drove to THIS casino Casino de Montr?al - Casinos du Qu?bec & hanged himself! There have been dozens of casino suicides here only 15 mins from our manicured suburb. Apparently, he had a drinking problem nobody knew about. He was also a gambling addict. He had been skipping work to go gamble. He got fired & the investigation revealed that he was about to lose all he had. He could not face his humiliation & so he did what he did. NOBODY knew about his very personal distress. Success & failure are not so easy to discern from the outside looking at common social bench-marks. Many of these 'successes' are the worst failures imaginable. Better if he had been a happy, well-adjusted factory worker!

You have so many admirable qualities. It may take you some time to discover what you ultimately want to become but do it on your own terms & on your own time-scale & measure your success according to YOUR personal values & aspirations: not those dictated to you by family, culture or society.

 

[Craig]

When you tell people that you have Asperger's syndrome and they immediately assume that you're stupid and socially inept, I often tell people this before we play a bored game, or a round of Magic together as a way of prepping them for an even greater fall. There's nothing sweater than the fall of a Neural Typical that just 30 minutes ago thought he was your superior, and then spends the rest of the day wrestling with their pride at having lost to the poor inferior Autistic child. :spin:

 

[Loomis]

The Fortran programming language annoys the hell out of me.

Oh, and go-to loops are evil.

We didn't know that back in those early days. They seemed like such a convenient way to go to a subroutine.

I remember submitting my punch cards and coming back the next day to get the output. If it did not compile you had to do it all again and come back the next day and Formatting the output was a real pain.

 

[Biblio-Love]

A random thing that annoys me is when people make a weird noise with their mouth.

 

[Geordie]

Even back in about 500 BCE Confucius (hardly a paragon of liberalism!) gave a person until the age of 40 yrs before anything so final & judgmental could be said about him & those were in times when few people even lived past 30!

(Laughs)That's true!

Same quote by Confucius, 'Forty and not mystified' from my understanding of the direct translation of this quote. This is where I got the pressure. (Giggles) Do something well when one is young, and maybe get wisdom out of it. And forty, in eastern culture, is a state of mind for middle age. Given the hyper-competitiveness of today's society, though, this still holds true.

I need some time to think through this.

Inferior autistic child? We feel it this way, because society has so much stereotypes and misunderstanding. Let us be honest. But let us be honest and forthcoming about what we are.

 

[Chopstick]

I am annoyed by people who sit next to me on the bus even when there are other seats available. And people who are "like" totally hooked on "like" using the word "like" as a vocalized pause.

 

[nonsensical]

A huge pet peeve of mine, though it's a first world problem, is when I'm sitting at my desk listening to my iPod and then when I stand up to go somewhere, my cord gets caught underneath the corner of the desk and rips the headphones out of my ears. It hurts and I start cussing the desk out and I get so infuriated at it. Lol, next time it happens I'll have a meltdown, I swear.

lol! You have no idea how many times that happens to me, too! It's like these damn cords are possessed with a mind of their own and were sent here with the sole purpose of pissing us off!

 

[nonsensical]

People who breathe heavily, smell like farm animals or stare at me.

 

[umbrellabeach]

I hate waking up to loud trucks or lawn mowers right outside my window in the morning. Why do city people feel the need to be so loud so early?

 

[Geordie]

Now, thinking of how I felt a week earlier, what annoys me is that I had self-doubt, and I didn't know there could be something in me to pull things through.

 

[Soup]

When I go off by myself & someone takes it as a sign that I want company:

"I SAW YOU THERE ALL ALONE SO I FIGURED I'D COME TALK TO YOU & KEEP YOU COMPANY!" -not to bright person.

Why does this person suppose I went off by myself in the first place? I HAD company all around me: this person is standing on my escape hatch!

 

[Nolan1971]

Then when you do want company nobody is around Go figure!

 

[King_Oni]

Then when you do want company nobody is around Go figure!

That sounds so familiar, heh.

 

[Geordie]

Dress codes.

Why should someone dictate what we wear, especially when the weather is warm enough for all sorts of clothes to be worn - or maybe not worn?

I don't get the 'don't wear white after Thanksgiving' thing.