Monday, 30 July 2012

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....

Thursday, 26 July 2012

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

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

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