You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
We should hold an annual event called GLOWCESTERSHIRE in which we turn off all the streetlights and take to the streets with nothing but glowsticks and maybe flashlights or the camera flash on your phone as a last resort.
It'd be pretty cool, and there'd be live music and everything.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know what's frustrating? Most people are idiots.
The automated phone system for my local pharmacy asks you to enter your desired pickup time as hours followed by minutes. I want to pick up my prescription at 11 in the morning, so I enter 1100. The menu then provides a second prompt, instructing me to press 1 for a.m. or 2 for p.m.
First of all, the pharmacy isn't even open at 11 p.m. Second, if I wanted to enter 11 p.m., I'd have entered 2300, not 1100.
"But Centie!" you say. "That's completely unintuitive! I live in America, land of 12-hour time formats, so if I wanted 11 p.m., I'd enter 1100 too, and I'd never think to use 2300!"
Yes, you're right. And that's where the most people are idiots part comes in. Mind you, it doesn't tell you ahead of time that there's a separate a.m./p.m. prompt. So if you're the kind of person who enters an unqualified "1100" and expects that it may be interpreted as 23:00, you're a goddamn idiot. You're also probably the kind of idiot who insists on using date formats like 5/1/2000 for 1 May without caring that it's ambiguous or that it makes no fucking sense.
And on top of that, you're probably a stubborn jackass, since you refuse to take a step outside your little Americanized world and realize why my way makes more sense.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Should I be concerned that misanthropy feels good?
You know what's frustrating? Most people are idiots.
The automated phone system for my local pharmacy asks you to enter your desired pickup time as hours followed by minutes. I want to pick up my prescription at 11 in the morning, so I enter 1100. The menu then provides a second prompt, instructing me to press 1 for a.m. or 2 for p.m.
First of all, the pharmacy isn't even open at 11 p.m. Second, if I wanted to enter 11 p.m., I'd have entered 2300, not 1100.
"But Centie!" you say. "That's completely unintuitive! I live in America, land of 12-hour time formats, so if I wanted 11 p.m., I'd enter 1100 too, and I'd never think to use 2300!"
Yes, you're right. And that's where the most people are idiots part comes in. Mind you, it doesn't tell you ahead of time that there's a separate a.m./p.m. prompt. So if you're the kind of person who enters an unqualified "1100" and expects that it may be interpreted as 23:00, you're a goddamn idiot. You're also probably the kind of idiot who insists on using date formats like 5/1/2000 for 1 May without caring that it's ambiguous or that it makes no fucking sense.
And on top of that, you're probably a stubborn jackass, since you refuse to take a step outside your little Americanized world and realize why my way makes more sense.
In conclusion: I hate you all.
erm
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I still use Americanized date formats, though I can go either way
On the plus side the proper format would make me more British!
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
@Anonus: I just felt like ranting. Don't take it personally.
I've been giving relationship advice my friend lately, and it's pretty weird cuz I don't think I'm ever going to use any of it for my own endeavors anytime soon.
Oh well, it's good to wait on that kind of thing, I think. I'm young. I'll figure it out.
You know what's frustrating? Most people are idiots.
The automated phone system for my local pharmacy asks you to enter your desired pickup time as hours followed by minutes. I want to pick up my prescription at 11 in the morning, so I enter 1100. The menu then provides a second prompt, instructing me to press 1 for a.m. or 2 for p.m.
First of all, the pharmacy isn't even open at 11 p.m. Second, if I wanted to enter 11 p.m., I'd have entered 2300, not 1100.
"But Centie!" you say. "That's completely unintuitive! I live in America, land of 12-hour time formats, so if I wanted 11 p.m., I'd enter 1100 too, and I'd never think to use 2300!"
Yes, you're right. And that's where the most people are idiots part comes in. Mind you, it doesn't tell you ahead of time that there's a separate a.m./p.m. prompt. So if you're the kind of person who enters an unqualified "1100" and expects that it may be interpreted as 23:00, you're a goddamn idiot. You're also probably the kind of idiot who insists on using date formats like 5/1/2000 for 1 May without caring that it's ambiguous or that it makes no fucking sense.
And on top of that, you're probably a stubborn jackass, since you refuse to take a step outside your little Americanized world and realize why my way makes more sense.
In conclusion: I hate you all.
holy fuck I'm sorry the date format on my computer pisses you off so much.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I have a season 7 DVD of Spongebob Squarepants...no idea why I have it because I think it's not a good season and I heard seasons 8 and 9 are even worse.
Fox affiliates I have seen on/near their home turf:
KDVR (given)
WJBK
WUPW
WTVT
Expanding on this
My grandparents' house is in Michigan, around the Detroit and Toledo markets
I've managed to pick up stations from Cleveland there
Of the major network stations in the market, I've managed to get WKYC and WEWS. The last time I tried this was in 2010, and I think their signals cut out after a couple of minutes. I could never get WJW, and I think I could only get WOIO during the analog era, and just barely. Which is understandable, as it was a UHF station.
I remember having to settle for a half-working, blurry dot-matrix printer that I brought from home when I went to Tech, since I didn't budget for (and thus couldn't afford) an inkjet printer like everyone else had. This was at a time when $30 Walmart inkjets didn't exist.
And now I'm reading old PC Mags to see what things were really like then. A DeskJet or BubbleJet that could only do mono was $200-300 easily. If you wanted one that could do color, from either HP or Canon, it was more like $400.
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Oh well, it's good to wait on that kind of thing, I think. I'm young. I'll figure it out.
Still.
it's a good song.
so thank you, I suppose.
If this makes me a bad person then so be it
to be assimilated?
That's probably the nostalgia talking but still.
I never watched it
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
@Anonus: What do you think of Butch Hartman's work, per chance?