The Bitching Thread

[LaZie]

I've read and heard its not that uncommon to get a dead/stuck pixel. You're just lucky and I am also unlucky. Its just 1 tiny pixel, but it gets on my nerves just looking at it. I need a perfect monitor!

[animus]

Go poke out the other five!

[darkshadow]

I've read and heard its not that uncommon to get a dead/stuck pixel. You're just lucky and I am also unlucky. Its just 1 tiny pixel, but it gets on my nerves just looking at it. I need a perfect monitor!

Actually, none of the shitty dell monitors at my school ( we have a lot) have dead pixels, nor do mine or my friends, but those are LG's. I think you are the unlucky one ;(

[LaZie]

Well I have a 3 year warranty. When its coming close, i'll do some modifications

[Buffalobiian]

My $40 earbuds don't work anymore. It's got a couple of design faults in it which I noticed straight away. For some reason, the manufacturers thought it was a good idea to make the cord out of rubber instead of plastic. The rubbing transmits the sounds all the way up into your music. Even though it's got sound canceling silicon plugs, you still get another form of sound interference.

Rubber also means it gets yanked around alot when something brushes past, as opposed to plastic. That, combined with a poor design at the tail/pin junction meant the internal wiring is now busted after 2 months of use.

I'm just hoping there's some sort of warranty, though I doubt it. Bitch.

(FYI, these were Griffin tunebuds, and Griffin offers a 1 year limited warranty, which I'm not sure my local retailer will acknowledge. )

I went back today and got a refund after I couldn't find a satisfactory replacement (they didn't have that model in stock). There were quite a few people at the refund/customer service desk too. QC slacked off during Xmas stockup? Who knows.

So I walked off to the Hi Fi shop with my refunded $40 and got a different pair (with reinforcements at the end of the cable) for $80

I never thought I'd be willing to pay that much for earbuds. I guess once you get used to in-ear phones, you can't go back. 2 years warranty is nice though. At least I know I'll be guaranteed a fair amount of usage out of these.

For some reason, rubbery cords seems to be a feature of in-ear type earphones. Does it insulate sound better or something? There's still the rubbing sound transfer, but it's not as bad as the previous pair. Having to wear them deep(er) in doesn't help neither, since the tight fit guarantees the rubbing will be transferred to noise in your music.

Oh well, guess it's a necessary drawback for clear yet portable sound.

[Kraco]

Goddam some neighbour of mine has acquired a whatever device making the most infuriating noise. I have no idea what it might be. Kind of like drums but since there's no melody whatsoever, it can't be (unless the person is totally retarded, which isn't impossible). And it just goes on and on and on. Fuck, it's driving me insane.

If I suddenly disappear from the forums, it's because I took my katana, dealt with the neighbour, and the police took me away.

[Nadouku]

Goddam some neighbour of mine has acquired a whatever device making the most infuriating noise. I have no idea what it might be. Kind of like drums but since there's no melody whatsoever, it can't be (unless the person is totally retarded, which isn't impossible). And it just goes on and on and on. Fuck, it's driving me insane.

Some people never seem to like headphones for some reason and tend to play their "musics" at full blast. It's already bad enough to hear the music, but to hear the same beat again, and again is just insane. I can relate to you on that note.

[Deadfire]

More or less Sore,

Got in shit, (showed up late) and had to extra hard PT with my instructers (military). To make matters worse I have to do the normal PT as well.

[RyougaZell]

Goddam some neighbour of mine has acquired a whatever device making the most infuriating noise. I have no idea what it might be. Kind of like drums but since there's no melody whatsoever, it can't be (unless the person is totally retarded, which isn't impossible). And it just goes on and on and on. Fuck, it's driving me insane.

If I suddenly disappear from the forums, it's because I took my katana, dealt with the neighbour, and the police took me away.

Get the most annoying song you can find a-la-rickroll, place the sound system by the window, get some earplugs and then turn on the sound at max whenever they do that.


Actually... I have a neighbor that does the same as yours. He think he can play the trumpet and goes making screeching sounds every two or three days. His family is well hated around all the neighbors too.

[Xelbair]

Noise dosen't annoys me - unless its after 22 and its techno. The drunken neighbors are a pain, especially if they drink a lot. The one next doors gets drunk pretty often and once she nearly set attic on fire!

[Buffalobiian]

I used to play my piano at like, 1am in the morning

Then we agreed on the limit of 10:30pm.

[XanBcoo]

My neighbors (upstairs AND to the side) used to play loud music on Thursday and Friday nights. Those guys moved out, but if it ever happens again, my plan is to place my bass amp against the wall and just have at it. I'm sure nothing they can play would be as obnoxious as me thumping out random notes at max volume.

Get the most annoying song you can find a-la-rickroll, place the sound system by the window, get some earplugs and then turn on the sound at max whenever they do that.

I would chose that one song that goes like "Ding ding ding ding ding I'm a super girl" or whatever.

[Buffalobiian]

Had a nightmare last night. Chased by a giant python. Managed to cut it's head off. Then I was being chased by the head of a giant python. Managed to wake before I either got eaten or had a heart attack.

As you can imagine, I sighed in relief (and had a big WTF? look).

[Nadouku]

Well, laughing at inappropriate times is a bitch. Everyone gives you a weird expression and you have to deal with it til the event is over. My brother is always laughing at the wrong time and it's brought us a great deal of stress (laughing at church due to the priest's accent is not terribly funny).

[XanBcoo]

(laughing at church due to the priest's accent is not terribly funny).

I can attest to the fact that laughing in church is possibly the worst time to laugh. Not because it's disrespectful, but because when you know you can't laugh, it makes you want to laugh even harder.

Things that usually aren't very funny become painfully funny when you know you're not supposed to laugh.

Edit: Like on Friday, my professor talked for 14 minutes after the bell rang. He would not shut up and didn't pause for breath once. Me and some girls were choking back laughter. I tried so hard not to laugh it hurt my chest.

[The Heretic Azazel]

There's nothing wrong with laughing at church, corrupt clergymen are laughing all the way to the bank anyway.

[Nadouku]

There's nothing wrong with laughing at church, corrupt clergymen are laughing all the way to the bank anyway.

Heh, I can agree with that. I just don't like the ackward stares given to us.

It started to rain ice again, and all the roads are slippery. Spreading salt out doesn't help much, but it's a start. However, almost everything outside of our house is frozen, so we can't go anywhere for today.

[Ryllharu]

My car got hit in the parking lot (my employer has made the spaces incredibly narrow to allow more people to park there). I lost about one and a half square inches of paint in various forms of scratches.

I had thought that I had some protection coverage when I bought the car, barely a year old, but of course, collisions, parking lot damage, and vandalism are the few things specifically excluded.

[itadakimasu]

bastards...

I got a new car on saturday and I'm trying to park away from other cars.

One time, I had just parked and was still in my car and this lady got into her big suv next to me and just threw the door open into my car and didn't act like she notice and even when I confronted her she still acted like she didn't care that she was an asshole.

door dings suck because it's not bad enough for insurance to cover and yet so annoying.

[Buffalobiian]

I kicked my computer so hard I bled.


Apparently, the bit of plastic here which forms a double-hinged door on the Antec P182 acts as a pretty effective razor when enough force is met with the right direction.

I actually hit it with the inside of my left pinky toe, meaning it had no choice but to forcefully drag over the "blade", taking a nice slice of skin with it. At first I ignored it, till I saw some blood stains on the carpet.

The toe, if anybody's interested

It's not sharp at all, but pretty thin and sturdy. Hence effective.

It's a bitch because sometimes when I walk I tend to stretch the wound, reopening it, leaving it prone to infection. Especially in nice, sweaty summer.