Like me telling you how to play football(soccer) because I've been playing it all my life, thinking I'm better than you because I've been doing it that bit longer.

This.

Also, stupid things like: "Well, I've been a [insert_professional_title] for 30 years and I've never heard of [insert_any_idea_but_preferably_new] before."

What's wrong with that? They've got decades' of experience behind them. Refusing it just because of your pride/arrogance is, well, kind of stupid.


Okay, this I get.

From what I gather, the sharing of experience isn't the problem so much as the unneeded smug superiority.

Just thought of another one. Other college students can relate: People that [censored] text in class. Seriously, you're paying one HELL of a lot of money to be in that class, why are you using that time to text? Also, sticking your phone under the table and staring down at it doesn't mean you still aren't being obvious about it.

I actually had a student get kicked out of one of my classes a couple weeks ago for refusing to put her cell phone away when the professor asked. There were literally only 15 minutes left in the class, and this person decided to get into a 10-minute argument with the professor that ended in her getting kicked out (resulting in a zero for everything done that day), and a writeup with Judicial Affairs for insubordination. All for an extra 15 minutes of texting. People are such morons. So sad that college professors are forced to treat people like children sometimes.

I get where you're coming from on the texting thing but here's why I don't agree.

In college you're very likely paying for your own education, you're an advlt. If the texting isn't an outright distraction to other students learning (obviously loud sounds are, but most I've seen have silent/vibrate on, hardly a distraction and I have an attention span similar to that of my 5 month old daughter) what's the problem? If that person is wasting their time and fail then [censored] it, let them fail and waste their time and money. If they perhaps know the stuff and pass with flying colours then awesome. Almost all professors I've ever had never cared for texting if it was on silent or vibrate, unfortunately it was the one or two uptight professors who wanted to treat students like it was high school and wished to parent or conduct a behavioural engineering class that made an issue out of nothing, and really that's just as much a distraction to class as much as an idiot with loud text tones.

Aggressive drivers get on my nerves too. Ie, you indicate to pull out, they know you're pulling out, you pull out and then they kick off!

Here's the thing though, this was in a dark lecture hall with a video playing. A bright screen in the middle of the room can be very distracting, for the very same reasons movie theaters tell you to put your cell phone away.

Regardless, if a professor tells you not to do something, mouthing off to them is something you simply don't do.

If someone talks during a movie despite being asked to be quiet I should be allowed to kill him.

Just to throw this out there, but are you seriously saying that people who smoke OUTSIDE are going to seriously harm other peoples health when they walk nearby and maybe get 1-2 seconds whiff of smoking, and are you actually comparing it to ACTUAL second-hand smoke? Second-smoke and the ill-health that is derived from it only occurs in a situation where you are inhaling a significant amount of second-hand smoke, such as in a car, or in an enclosed building, or maybe if you're standing in the middle of a group of smokers in a smoking section. You WILL NOT get sick, or contract any ill-health problems from walking near a smoker(or even through a cloud of smoke) in the great outdoors, unless you deliberately stop and start inhaling the stuff as much as you physically can until the person stops smoking. It's OUTSIDE. The air currents are pulling it every which way, diluting the chemicals in the smoke, and the completely insignificant amount that you will get will do nothing detrimental to your health.

The above comes from someone who does not smoke(anymore that is). You are deluding yourself and making a mountain out of an anthill in this situation, sorry.


I don't know where you're from, but the only roundabouts I've ever come across specifically have stop signs at each entrance to the roundabout. I'm sorry if you think it's a bad idea to obey the law, but I'll be damned, if there is a stop sign, I'm going to stop for it, and if you rear end me, I fully expect you to be paying for all of my car repairs that said rear-ending has necessitated. Do you also get mad at people who drive the speed limit and tailgate them too?

Ooh this one definitely. Even the smallest spot of spaghetti sauce on a shirt or even my pants bothers me.

None of the roundabouts where I live have stop signs, at most they just have reduce speed signs.

We just have yield signs.


As for the whole texting while in a college environment, I do it. There is a time and a place to doing it though. I don't distract other people, and when I do text, I'm still paying attention. People bring laptops to class and sit and just search on there for the whole class, that is stupid to me, but it doesn't affect me so it doesn't bother me. If people want to text/play on their laptops, let them, so long as my education is not being affected. A light during a movie wouldn't bother me. I've sat through movies in a huge lecture hall where people had their laptops out.

people that svck at video games at my house and when I try to help them they get pissy.

Roundabouts here don't have stop signs, just give way markers. Worst I had was someone who changed his mind after he'd already gone and actually stopped on the roundabout itself. Needless to say I ran into the back of him. Fortunately for me, my car was okay; I can't say the same about his, though. I suppose it's not really surprising that his insurer didn't try to make a claim against me.

Kinda ironic that I'm sitting in the front row during a lecture and posting on the forums lol. Smartphones don't make any noise when typing.

EDIT: roundabouts only have give way signs here. If you stop when no cars are coming you get points off for hesitation during the car test.

Half of the fun in a video game is learning how to play it and getting better. If I had someone pvssyring over me how to do some puzzle I had not figured out or how to do some trick I had not figured out how to do or generally how to play better over all depriving me of the enjoyment of figuring it out myself I'd get pretty grouchy too just let them play and they'll be fine.

Makes sense.

That annoys you?

Dutch roundabouts have pedestrian crossings (the zebra crossings) on the entrance roads onto a roundabout, so if you're on a roundabout, and want to get off but someone is crossing the road, you have to stop on the roundabout to give them the right of way.

They all have stop signs as well..

not the most intelligently thought out traffic solution, I know.

Use capslock ALL YOU LIKE, this is WRONG, and this is MEDICAL REASSURANCE , erm, sorry, got caught up in the capslock frenzy, medical reassurance that you are certainly not qualified to give, and if you were a practitioner giving this advice to a patient you could easily be sued for it given all the medical literature and patients like myself that show otherwise. Second hand smoke is in fact carcinogenic, the smoke breathed in, even if diluted as I already pointed out (thanks for the pointless lecture), while not in most cases going to be a catalyst that begins mutated cell growth or even bronchitis and other respiratory ailments/infections, can easily be what inflames it into that situation, which you seem to hilariously poo poo off as "nothing detrimental to your health".

As for mountains and anthills, I was merely having a debate with someone, this issue wasn't even one brought up by me, but as someone who has suffered due to second hand smoke from smokers who were too dumb to realize the effects of their smoke, flat out didn't care, or were pretend doctors telling people they'll be perfectly fine because it's "OUTSIDE" (without capslock emphasis), the body doesn't really give a flying [censored] about any of those explanations, it reacts to the smoke. If you're one of those who had absolutely nothing happen to you (I've had an uncle smoke for damn near 40 years and doesn't yet have lung cancer, yay I guess it's perfectly healthy ), hey, awesome, but you're talking to someone who did, and there are many, so it's another horrible presumption assuming people are like you and will be supposedly unaffected as you, and this is why smoking laws had to be created, and sadly will likely be broadened further.

Of course it makes sense, I was replying to the guy who said roundabouts had stop signs in his country.

It wasn't really an annoyance of mine, but I get what the guy meant.
Even though they are [x] years experienced doesn't mean they're always correct, and it's when they fail to come off ther high horse that's annoying.

"Cloud computing" marketing trend.

....stop, please stop. It's not ready for prime time.
....and no, I don't mean stuff like uploading/sharing your game pics on Steam.

Yeah, I'm done debating with you. I've studied the subject matter at hand fairly extensively, it's one of the reasons I stopped smoking, because I didn't want to harm my daughters, and none of the literature ever pointed towards any ill-health effects coming from passing near/through smoke outside, just the situations I pointed out. As Old Andy pointed out, you're much more likely to derive ill-health from car exhaust then you are Second-Hand smoke outside. Either point out the literature you've read(and it needs to have scientific studies that back it or I'm not believing it) that shows your point, or drop it, because the burden of proof is on you since you're the one making such a big deal out of this.

On another note, I do however agree that is quite rude to smoke directly in front of an entranceway to a building. Many places either have designated smoking areas off to the side for smokers, or just don't allow it near them, and it is an impolite thing to disregard those rules and smoke where people can't avoid it. I just dislike people constantly bashing on smokers all the freaking time, every-time I see an Ad on TV talking about how god awful the tobacco companies are, it makes me want to pull my damn hair out.

Hahah. That sounds... Hahahahah. That's a bit wonky, yes.


I missed that.


Okay. Got it.