I'm a fairly placid person
but in the last 3 days I have discovered:

1) my (admittedly old) camera has fucked up a good 40% of my beautiful holiday photos. I would mind less but some of them you can see would have been belting shots had my camera behaved itself.

2) I have managed to break my 5 month old £200 dvd player, simply by asking it to load Iron Man (it froze and never recovered, won't even turn on now). I have receipts but no box and am waiting for Philips to get back to me, but I'm not hopeful of getting it sorted for free.

3) I took my 18-month-old ipod out of my bag this morning to discover my lunchbox had leaked something nefarious on it and now the screen is broken. It still plays music, but I have to have it on shuffle as I can't use the screen, so can't see to pick a specific artist.

Today, placid I am most certainly not. I may have to replace approaching £500-worth of electronics which I absolutely cannot afford to do, and the fact that two of these things are pretty damn new has me in a simmering pool of rage and teary-eyed frustration.

/rant.

So. What's really pissed you off lately?
(berk, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 9:54, 43 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

Nothing
I'm as happy as I can be. In work.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 9:57, Reply)

People whining about
electronics
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:01, Reply)

*shrugs*
Sorry. Complaining makes me feel better - you didn't have to read it.
(berk, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 11:05, Reply)

Is this not why most people have contents insurance?
The camera, too bad I'm afraid.
Dvd player, Philips have a responsibility to sort it out for you and either fix it or get you a new one. The box does not matter, so long as you have the dated receipt.
Ipod, stupid thing to buy in the first place. Get it replaced with a creative.

Technology making you close to tearful is ridiculous. MTFU
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:02, Reply)

tend to have an excess on insurance, or it will make premiums higher
otherwise people would claim things left, right and centre

might be wrong obviously
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:06, Reply)

Sure, but the excess is bound to be less than the cost of replacing all or most of said items
Mine is only £50
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:08, Reply)

mine's more
but my insurance is super hardcore. I could take everything I own abroad, break it or lose it and it'd all be covered.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:22, Reply)

What's your address?

( Cawl, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:24, Reply)

So can I
Mine covers party damage as well. They'll also pay my deposit when I move out of here if my landlord decides to be a cunt.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:27, Reply)

Or a Meizu

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:10, Reply)

Or a uhrusg.

( Cawl, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:12, Reply)

or a good old fashioned tape playing walkman
Or a Discman is you're really cool.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:13, Reply)

Dicktard?

( Cawl, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:14, Reply)

spastics reply in the wrong place

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:15, Reply)

Nah.
It's my new favourite word.
( Cawl, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:19, Reply)

What's one of those?
I got nothing when I googled...
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:14, Reply)

Oh.
I thought we were playing the "make up words game".
( Cawl, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:15, Reply)

Oh.
I thought we were playing the 'list alternative mp3 brands' game.

/Gullible
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:16, Reply)

That game sucks.

( Cawl, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:19, Reply)

So does your face.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:22, Reply)

nice
*salutes*
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:23, Reply)

Oh...
You went there.
Damn.
( Cawl, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:24, Reply)

Or a Zune
They're surprisingly good.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:14, Reply)

Tears of impotent rage
not the other upset kind. It's just stuff, I know, and I'm trying to MTFU - any one thing breaking you just go 'meh' and deal with it. Three things in as many days has just really bothered me. As for insurance, I'm covered, yes - but I've already claimed this year and I think finding out what another claim would do to my premiums might annoy me further.
(berk, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:51, Reply)

At work, in a meeting.
One of the designers from a company is here.
He sent us sketches of a piece of furniture, very detailed, with measurements and colour samples.
We've made a 3D render of it and everything.
He took one look at it and said "sorry, but that's horrible".
I could've strangled him.
( Cawl, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:06, Reply)

My new porno
It's really shit. I've seen better on BBC1!
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:10, Reply)

Why did you spend £200 on a DVD player?!?
I am angry this morning because I was nearly run off the road by another cyclist.

He cut me up and nearly pushed me into a set of roadworks. I was so flustered I couldn't even muster up a decent swearword so I called him a dicktard :(
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:11, Reply)

"dicktard"?
That's pretty poor...
( Cawl, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:11, Reply)

Tell me about it
I need to think of an armoury of words before I get on the bike.

Suggestions?
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:44, Reply)

Dicktard?
Oh dear, you're losing it.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:14, Reply)

Did I ever have it to lose it?
:(
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:45, Reply)

Maybe once
but it went downhill pretty fast.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 11:28, Reply)

well, £175
It wasn't just a DVD player in fairness, it was one of those home theatre majobbies with lots of sexy features/functions. It was probably too much in retrospect but I had 0% on my credit card at the time and I'm a bit of a gadgetwhore. Plus it was pretty...

Myself, I think dicktard is a perfectly acceptable swearword. If you spot him again tomorrow call him a hamtoucher.
(berk, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:39, Reply)

Nora,
I got a Blu-Ray just before Christmas for £215.

You need to have some man-put on your tech.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:48, Reply)

I'm slightly peeved that I have stupid tanlines from forgetting to put on sun cream yesterday
I say tanlines, I mean BURNLINES
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:16, Reply)

AGAIN?
You dicktard!
( Cawl, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:17, Reply)

Stop trying to make a new meme out of it.
It's Kaoltarded to the MAX
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:22, Reply)

Meme?
Nah, I'll get bored of it in a few minutes.
Seriously though, isn't that the second time you've been foolish enough to get burn-lines?
( Cawl, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:23, Reply)

First
First two times they were tan lines, but one was caused by my earphone wires, so looked a bit like a real life Ipod advert.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:27, Reply)

Did you know
That you can get a PS2 for like £30 in the local "For Sale" section of your paper. Probably with some quality video games as well.

This cheap electronic item plays DVD's superbly, and doubles as a fun games console.

Okami FTW
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:21, Reply)

This would indeed be woo and yay
but I never really got in to gaming. Playing DVDs isn't a problem, I have a laptop...it's the fact that it's 5 months old and it's broken that's pissed me off.
(berk, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:44, Reply)

What kind of stuff
do you eat for lunch, that has the capability of eating through your iPod screen?

I've had mine four years, and it has several dings in the back, the odd scratch on the screen and has suffered a near death experience with the hard disk. But I fixed it, and it's still going strong. Even the battery's not bad yet, and most of the time I use it wired into my car stereo so it's getting charged constantly, which isn't supposed to be good for batteries.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 11:10, Reply)

It was salad dressing
So it got a bit soggy. I shall stick to eating stodgy, non-liquid foods in future...
(berk, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 11:54, Reply)