Apostrophes

Do people really not know when to use these?

I see people forming plurals with them or even forming the singular third person form of a verb, eg "He want's the apple"
I saw a sign for a shop saying "Turbo's and Tyres" and another one saying "Curry's and more"
Where the hell did they get that idea from? Did they not go to school?

Oh dear, oh dear

No one ever seems to be able to use the possessive correctly either. I see people forming plurals instead. The other day I walked past a shop and it said "The countries best selling aqua shop" or similar.

Countries?????

Country's

Much better

There are many other things I could moan about to do with people and their use of the apostrophe, like "its" and "it's"
I could also write up on how to use the apostrophe, but I highly doubt it will be of much use. People are destroying the English language anyway, so I shan't bother. No one would take the time to read it either way

Manchmal denke ich, ich kann Deutsch besser schreiben als das, was viele Englische Leute Englisch schreiben können
(Sometimes I think I can write German better than what many English people can write English - I'm learning)

It's really not that hard to use them....

Just another grumble

So I was browsing Amazon for a decent=ish android tablet I can use as a target for some programming (I'm thinking about getting into that area since it's growing in demand exponentially....), and I was looking at the reviews to determine if they're any good or if there were any bad points.
Then I came across one review. It said something along the lines of this....
"I bought this tablet to replace my ageing iPad first gen"

Ageing??? Didn't they only come out two years ago???
I'm assuming he's one of the people who must be at the forefront of technology otherwise his gadget's not going to be fast enough to access Instagram and pam the web full of hipster-esque photos

I still have a Nokia 1600 and I wouldn't replace it with anything (unless it broke and was rendered useless). How can technology two years old be ageing? I still play things like the Sega Megadrive and the SNES.
I'd understand if he was a developer or programmer, but he didn't seem like the type, I mean, the iPad and Android have different programming techniques\SDKs\languages and so on and so forth, so I'm doubting that
Most of these people who bum gadgets never seem to know anything about the innards or what goes on behind the fancy graphics on screen.

But speaking of people like that, I find that the workers in Maplin are like that. It's supposed to be the biggest high street electronic specialist in the UK
Pfffff.... They never have anything I'm after. I walked in to find some SMD LEDs (I was going to mod my Xbox controller), but hen I couldn't find some, I asked the guy. He stood there like "Errrr...." and had to get their catalogue out and look through. I'm thinking that he wasn't too sure what they are. But they didn't have them in the end. The same with male to female prototyping wires. I'm just going to resort to Ebay from now on. It's a lot cheaper too. 50p for a single LED? Fuck that, I can buy a pack of 20 for 99 US cents with free shipping of Ebay and they're fine

Enough moaning, my dear boy. I'm going away today and still haven't packed....

Youtube

I'm currently learning German, and one of the ways I like to test myself is to find a video on Youtube in German (usually with subtitles also in German so I can match the pronunciation to the words) and see if I can understand it or not. But on nearly every video I go on, even other languages, there's whiny English speaking people bitching about how it's not in English
Here's what I usually see
"AERHIGAEHRGPARHGAPIRG! That's all I'm hearing"
or
 "You should speak in English"
or just bitching about the language or people


I like video games and one of my favourites is Fallout 3, so naturally I went to look for a German video of it. There were people saying things like "Why are they speaking German in the US?", "Why can't people only speak one language?" or just referring back to the world wars. I don't know if people have noticed, but the world wars were over half a century ago. Yeah it sucked, but it's a new generation now. It's not a Nazi country any more. What about when the people who colonised America killed all the natives or when the British conquered like a third of the world or the Spanish inquisition or whatever it was? How come those countries aren't still hated on for what they did?

But anywho....
If they can't understand the language, then why are they watching a video in it?
Are they too dumb to know how to search for something similar in their own language? Maybe they're just butt hurt that they don't have the mental capacity larger than that of a red cabbage to learn another language. Or maybe they're just trollin'. I can never tell if people on Youtube are trolling or just thick. I'm going with thick.

People are stupid.

Incredulously stupid.


 But the thing is, most of these people bitching can't even write a coherent sentence in English. It's all "i think your just dum" or "i cant evn understand wat their sayin"
There's a difference between your and you're. The same goes with there\their\they're. But I'll rant about the quality of the English written by the people on the Internet another day. It'd take up too much space

But seriously....

Dear Youtube users,
There's more than one language in the world. If you can't understand it, don't watch it

Yours truly
Disgruntled Danny



But I'm not finished yet with you, Youtube. Oh no....

I'm a music person. I like listening to music. I like writing music. I like playing instruments. I like producing music
You get the idea
One of my favourite genres is metal. More specifically death metal. You know, bands like Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Napalm Death, etc etc
But on every single metal video I see on Youtube, everyone's bitching about what genre it is
"Oh no, this isn't death metal, it's death core"
"This isn't metal. Posers"
"Blah blah blah, I'm butt hurt"
And so on and so forth....

Does it really matter what genre it is? If you don't like it, don't listen to it. Don't ruin it for others and start a flame war on the Internet trying to act "hard"
The one which annoys me the most is when they call others "posers" because they like a type of metal which they don't. They're not the ones trying to look the most metal by calling others names for not like the most uber br00tal music.
AARRGHHHH
People on the Internet annoy me



But there's something else about Youtube which annoys me more than the two things I've already mentioned.
Comments like "<Insert name> sent me here"

I
Don't
Give
A
Crap

And I'm sure no one else does. I don't give a flying potato which Youtube "celebrity" "sent" you to a video. They didn't send you there. you just clicked on something they clicked on. Sometimes the entire comments section on a video is filled up with comments like these. Nothing to do with the actual video. How original and useful. The owners of these videos must get annoyed by these comments. I know I would
Usually when I see them on a video, I flag them as spam
Because that's all they are
Just spam
They're just trying to jump on the cool bandwagon and think that by gaining a few "thumbs up" they're going to win some sort of life achievement
Are 99% of people on the Internet 12 year old kids?


I'm sure there's plenty more about Youtube I could moan about. But I'll spare you any more suffering

For now....

PPI

I don't know about other countries, but here in England we're bombarded with adverts, emails, signs, whatever else about Payment Protection Insurance or PPI
Every time the ad break comes on...

YOU CAN CLAIM PPI, HURRY UP, CLAIM IT, CLAIM IT, CLLAAAIIMMM ITTT
Here's what I imagine the lawyers are like behind the scenes

There's no escaping from them!!!! ARRGHH!!!

I constantly get bombarded by emails every. single. day.

But I thought of something. Why should these people claim their PPI back?
When you take out a loan\credit card\mortgage\whatever, you sign a contract, right?
In that contract somewhere was the parts about PPI, yes?
So they signed it agreeing to the terms?
They should've read the contract before signing it, so it's their fault. It's not "miss-sold", just not read about
Accept the consequences for not reading the contract and signing your soul over to the devil

Go away, PPI lawyers
Sincerely,
Me

Just a moan about Argos

So I saw an Argos advert yesterday.
It was on about how when you order online you have to wait a few days for it to turn up in the post.
But then it says "Order online with us and you can pick it up in store on the same day! 8D"
But what's the point????
I mean, you have to go to the shop to collect it, so you might as well just order it there, right?!

But there's probably idiots out there who'll defend Argos and go "Yeah, but it's convenient!"
Not really. You have to turn your PC on, wait for the internet to connect, load up the site, spend ages on the site, pay online (which is sometimes a pain in the arse with having to sign up, add your details, add your bank\paypal accounts, remember passwords, etc etc) and then go to the shop to get it. Yes... Because that sounds easier than just going to the shop....

*Tch*



Also, I never understood why you look through a catalogue in the actual shop? Why can't they just put everything on shelves? That way you get an idea of the size of it and can view it from all angles as well as seeing the packaging, which sometimes has details the catalogue doesn't