The Ranting Room

Worse than that are the people who use them in normal speech, I mean, wtf is all that about?

Not in reviews, IMQHYAO. 

This is quite true though:

• Godwin's Law - Dictates that the longer a thread, the more likely someone will post a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler^[10]

Edited by Geck0 - December 05 2007 at 17:34

Internet slang...

It annoys me!

The three that are especially annoying me at the moment (apart from LOL, LMFAO and the like), are IIRC, AFAIK and IMHO (and its derivatives).

Stop using them, they look unprofessional and outright daft!  Many millions of people who have never used the Internet will have no idea what you are talking about if you use such abbreviations.  Even some Internet literate folk will have trouble understanding you... I know I have in the past.

So stop it.

Even worse, are people who use them in reviews on this very site.  Why?  You write a very well written review, positing your thoughts on said album with aplomb and then you have to go and spoil it all by using "IMHO"... No, just no.

Do not be so lazy!


Edited by Geck0 - December 05 2007 at 17:24

NaturalScience wrote: I have been trying since Monday morning to contact a company about one of their products, asking for a data sheet as well as cost and lead time, and they keep stonewalling.  I've left several voicemails and e-mails, and finally talked to an actual person this morning who claimed he would get me the information "right away" - this was three hours ago.  I'm inclined to believe at this point that they simply don't want my business!  I would think the level of customer service at an engineering company should be a little above the (appallingly low) standards of the rest of this country, but perhaps not.

Is liking soup a prerogative of not-too-intelligent people? If so, I am seriously worried, because I love soup...

Seriously, though, most of those polls in the General Polls section are a bit odd to say the least. Occasionally there are sparks of genius too, as in the immortal "Petrucci vs God" thread, and in the other Chris opened about DT, whose title I don't remember now.

And another thing!

Why is it that on a website devoted to music which by its very nature must attract the vaguely intelligent, is there a poll with four pages of responses on "your favorite soup"??

Are peoples' lives that boring?

NaturalScience wrote: $16.50 a day for a train ride seems exorbitant to me.  Maybe it's not an apples to apples comparison, but you can get a 7-day pass for unlimited travel on Washington DC's Metrorail system for $32.50 - and that's not even the most cost effective way to use that system.  Do individuals have to pay the +$4000 in addition to the rail companies being highly subsidized by the government?  Cushy gig for that lot, isn't it?

darqdean wrote: fandango wrote: ^^ so, please excuse my ignorance here (I think I've been to London about 5 times in my life, always for day trips...) but why is it costing you an incredible £2000 a year, simply to get to work????  I just don't understand.... it's just maths ...   They calculate 5 x 52 x full price return fare x some bulk-buy discount (~4%) ...   so £2000 equates to a daily return fare of about £8.00 ... not withstanding the obvious fact that people don't work 52 weeks of the year.

$16.50 a day for a train ride seems exorbitant to me.  Maybe it's not an apples to apples comparison, but you can get a 7-day pass for unlimited travel on Washington DC's Metrorail system for $32.50 - and that's not even the most cost effective way to use that system.  Do individuals have to pay the +$4000 in addition to the rail companies being highly subsidized by the government?  Cushy gig for that lot, isn't it?

fandango wrote: Lee...I've just gone and got my last monthly paypacket... £785.44 net.   I think this MUST highlight the growing divide between the cost of living in London, compared with the shires....   ...the was an outcry here recently, when the bus fare into Hereford rose from £2.95 to £3.10 for a 21 mile journey (owing to a reduction in govt subsidisation....)

that has been the case here Dean for the last 40 years since the riots of the 60's drove the middle and upper classes out of the cities and into the suburbs... things here are beginning to shift back....  mainly because people tire of spending 2 hous one way stting in traffic to get to work... and another 2 hours getitng home.   Many cities here are buliding  for just those people in mind... to keep them close  to work so to speak