People who talk about themselves in the third person.
There's a bloke here, who I work with who seems to start every sentence with, "If you were to come to me and say...."

...then continues on with something along the lines of:

"...Robert, why don't we do [insert innane thing here]?", "I'd say, '...becuse Dchurch, we do [insert other thing here].

Well...if you WOULD say that, why don't you just fucking say it instead of telling what you WOULD say? Arrrggghhh!

It's slowly killing me inside.


There's that...and obviously the lack of indication by 99% of drivers (which I assume winds everyone up), and the slow, but sure, dumbing down of everything. I watched a programme on the TV about the (then upcoming) Curiosity mission to Mars. The narrator stated that it takes 9 months to get to Mars and if they were to ever come back from there, that it would take 9 months to get back...then concluded with "that's a round trip of 18 months."

Well, fuck me! I had no idea what 9 added to 9 would be. Thanks BBC!

I haven't had a TV for some time now. I think it had to go or my blood pressure would drive me to an early grave!
(dchurch bah, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 11:16, 8 replies)

And anyway, a "round trip of 18 months" is just plain wrong
... since, if you took off as soon as you'd landed, you'd arrive back in Earth's orbit at the wrong time - Earth wouldn't be there. You'd have to stay on Mars till the alignment was right.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 11:27, closed)

Technically you could do it. The transfer orbit on one of the legs would be much less efficient, but I think that there was a mission profile proposed that had approximately 1 month on the Martian surface (near enough an instant turnaround). I think that they proposed using a Venus flyby to save fuel on the way back, but it would still have needed a lot more fuel than a normal transfer.
(silene, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 11:48, closed)

I accept your point,
but a stay of one month still means more than 18 months total.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 12:07, closed)

Very true.
(silene, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 12:21, closed)

...but
is it the travel they're talking about solely? If so, and it takes 9 months to get there and 9 months to get back, then they are correct despite the length of the stay.
The narrator distinctly used the words 'round trip' so I guess this could be open to interpretation?
(dchurch bah, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 12:33, closed)

What about when people ask and answer their own questions?
Would I like to see that happen? Of course I would.

Is it the best thing that could happen? No, not necessarily.

Do you want to kick me until I'm dead? Of course you do.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 11:44, closed)

People see me
... and they see the suit, and they go: "you're not fooling anyone", they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old. That's the way- not orthodox, I don't live by "the rules" you know. And if there's one other person who's influenced me in that way I think, someone who is a maverick, someone who does that to the system, then, it's Ian Botham. Because Beefy will happily say "that's what I think of your selection policy, yes I've hit the odd copper, yes I've enjoyed the old dooby, but will you piss off and leave me alone, I'm walking to John O'Groats for some spastics."
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 12:09, closed)

and that's something else that annoys me
I know someone who has an answering machine message stating he is not available at the moment but if you'd like to leave him a message he'll get back to you. All in the third person. Aaaaarrrrghhhh!

Not liking this QOTW. The things people are writing about are starting to annoy me as well now.
(ed-z, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 12:22, closed)