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Skriven 2006-07-07 12:41:00 av Greg Sears
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       THINGS THAT ANNOY ME


1) DISK BOXES.  To be exact, not the actual diskbox, but the diskbox
   locks.  Ever used them?  If so, than why?  You should try to pick
   your disk box lock, because its not hard.  In fact, its easier than
   turning a tap on.  Choose something to pick it with, like a knife, or
   a piece of lego, of some cheese.  Its quite amazing what you can pick
   them with.  Its so simple, so why do the diskbox companies put locks
   on the diskboxes, when anyone can pick the lock, with the stupidest
   of objects.  Its not as if you need to lock your boxes anyway.  Like,
   as if FAST might come round, but after seeing that all your diskboxes
   are locked, turning, and going out the door, because they can`t get
   the evidence.  Bit of a crap idea diskbox locks really, arn`t they...

Mind you, if you have ever lost the keys, its easy to get into, isn`t
it? Bit of a decoration then, arn`t they?  (But they do make the diskbox
more expensive I suppose) so you have to shell out more money.  Huh. Oh
well, they annoy me, because they`re useless!

2) SUNROOFS IN CARS (sort of) - Actually I'm talking about the piece of
   plastic that some cars have round their sunroofs, that prevent the
   wind from getting in the car if the sun roof is open like on the
   following diagram;

                                              _
                     ___________              _\__<--Stupid Plastic
                    /            <-SuN rOoF--->   \
                   /                               \
                  /       SIDE VIEW                 \__________________
                 (                                                     )



Bit of a cool diagram, I know, but I have to explain it.  What is the
point of the plastic.  I`ll tell you, shall I?  To stop the air rushing
in the car.  Now I`m sure that you don`t have to be Einstein to see that
if you don`t want lots of air rushing into your car, then you can CLOSE
THE SUNROOF A BIT.  Its not a very hard concept to grasp.  In fact i'll
repeat it for all the car companies who read this. YOU CAN CLOSE THE SUN
ROOF A BIT.  There, you don`t really need the bit of plastic do you?
Bit of a waste of time wasn't it?  Makes the car look stupid too,
doesn't it?  Yes, it does... Nice one Mr. Car Designer.  Another useless
thing you put on your car, so as to change nothing really, but to up the
price of the car.

Another slightly annoying this about cars, is the stupid car alarms.
Try setting them off, in a shops car park, or something, its really
funny, because most of the alarms sound the same, so setting off one,
could result in half the population of the shop belting out to check if
their S reg Cortina`s being knicked (as if).

Another thing which is immensely stupid about some cars is the
electronic opening doors button that the owners carry around with
themselves, so they don`t have to open their doors, they can just press
their little button and voila, its open!  The owners don`t seem to
realize that it so easy to break into one of these machines.  A simple
piece of electronics emitting a variable high frequency, will allow you
to walk down a high street and watch all the car doors unlock, then
lock.  Unlock, then lock.  Its so easy to make, you can even make it
wait for a time, then go through the range once.

Place this in a carpark, and watch all the owners come back to their
cars, and wonder why its unlocked! Ha ha ha.

3. DISK LABELS - Yes, the most annoying, time consuming thing (Probably)
   in the computer scene, labelling those stupid little (3.5 inch to be
   exact) basts of a disk.  Just going out, buying 200 disks, and
   sitting there, labelling them all, and trying to do a good job of it
   too, which is a bit hard as it isn't the most exciting thing to do...
   "Darling, why don't you come to bed and satisfy me?"

"Sorry Darling, I've got another 753 disks to label..."

...And then the most annoying thing is to copy something onto them and
then realize that the disk label wasn't stuck down properly and so it
comes off in the drive, and lodges a disk in the drive, proving almost
impossible to dislodge..." Pass the anesthetic, doctor"

And then, to label it something like "Pirated game, disk 4" in the
biggest pen you could find and the find the disk is knackered, so you
have to go down the shop, and ask for a replacement.  But of course,
first you must scrape all the label off, which of course wont come off,
because you spent all last night sticking them on as well as possible
(apart from the one that got stuck in the drive), so out comes the
knife, and you end up virtually taking your disk apart to get rid of the
label and you ruin it so much that the shop wont replace it for you
because you've been "misusing it, sir" Aaagh!

4. Complete sampled songs. WHAT IS THE POINT of sampling a whole song
   and putting it onto disk?  The sad, sad people who sampled all of
   "bart man", or "oceanic - insanity".  What on earth makes these sad
   people put a complete song onto disk.

  Its not as if they've done a lot of work.  Duhh, sampler on, song on,
record.  WOW what great effort, their names deserve to go round the
globe 7 times (I don't think).  They have shown they have no musical
talent, so well done guys, why do you admit it?  SAD SAD SAD etc. (And
listening to the CD's slightly better quality and you don't keep having
to "Insert disk 18"...)

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