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Going to the beach can make for a pretty boring day. You lay on a beach blanket until the sun bakes the first two layers of skin off of you and then you go for a dip in the water. Pretty mundane stuff. Here's a list of ways to make your next trip to the beach a little more fun.1. Make sand sculptures of questionable body parts.2. Wait for someone to go into the water and then throw your beach

Have you ever heard that tell-tale rattle that tells you the vacuum cleaner has slurped up another lego or Barbie shoe? Have you sworn you will never buy another toy with 57 tiny little parts again? Do you harbor the secret suspicion that your kids would never miss some of their toys if they disappeared? Have I got a craft project for you!First, you need a bunch of tiny annoying toys. I didn'

Since the Disney Teen Idol Factory’s Miley Cyrus model has developed a “slutty photos” malfunction, the company is ramping up the marketing on its male prototypes, The Jonas Brothers. Like Cyrus, the band has sold millions of albums but you probably can’t name a single one of their songs unless you spend a lot of [...]

Acting Sweet To Get A Man, Then Changing Not Giving Enough Space Wanting Too Many Things Not Saying What She Means Bad sex Boring sex Constantly Talking About Other Men Being A Drama Queen Cheating Engaging In A Power Struggle "holier than thou" attitude Jealousy Insecurity Demeaning his interests and hobbies Discussing their relationship with her friends. Nagging. Pretend to be vi

When I was in undergraduate school, I lived across the hall from two lovely chaps -- Paul and Scott. During the course of our freshman year, Paul got weirder, Scott came out, and my roommate, Jenel, and I tried desperately to stay out of their room.Because it smelled bad.The chaps never did their laundry, so it mildewed and molded and stunk to high heaven. I remember standing in the middle of thei

Just about everybody. It's going to be a long day. Time to put on some headphones and crank up the "Loud and Angry" playlist on the ipod. --------------------------------- Ok, let's add to this... People who annoy me today... People who drive slow, then when they see you want to pass, they move over and then speed up. What's the deal? You trying to suggest that I don't need to pass you becaus

Setting up a new wordpress eBay affiliate site today and spent some time setting it up, but the key thing I forgot to do was to what?? Guess………. Change the Permalink structure! So I’m there getting the different ebay category codes and making the posts then checking each post making sure its the right product I [...]

There is no humor in naggers or other people that I think are trying to piss me off on purpose like these ingrates do. Whoever decided to fill sports/water drinks right up to the top Holy crap these things suck. Don’t even think of trying to open one while driving or you end up with a third [...]

Finally somebody significant commented on the UAC in the latest OS Vista Microsoft pushed out. Windows Vista's User Account Control, popularly known as UAC is the latest addition to the list of annoyance that Microsoft has rolled out. The product manager, David Cross pointed out at the RSA 2008 conference, "The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious."For once, I'm also serious about the issue. The issue of helping users to prevent malicious script from running in the background with UAC by limiting application software to standard user privileges until authorizes by an administrator was beside the point. What it ended up doing was to really irritate me that I have to resort to googling it and turning the whole application off."We needed to change the ecosystem,

UAC is among the most hated feature of Windows Vista. At recent RSA security conference 2008 in San Francisco, Microsoft's David Cross said: "The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious".In fact, the logic is that the annoyance should encourage application vendors to eliminate as many unnecessary privilege escalations as possible by causing users to complain about all the UAC 'Cancel or Allow' prompts.Microsoft's strategy is actually quite successful. Personally, I never care about security privilege when developing software before this UAC stuff. Since the release of UAC, I noticed my applications will crash and throwing ugly error messages becuse of this UAC thing. As a result, I have to change my software development behaviour to avoid the UAC prompts.However

I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “At the 2008 RSA security conference, Microsoft’s David Cross was quoted as saying, The reason we put UAC into the platform was ‘to annoy users. I’m serious.’ The logic behind this statement is that it should encourage application vendors to eliminate as many unnecessary privilege escalations as possible [...]

Forget to say please or thank you every time you are given anything (even a bill!) Refuse to talk about the weather. Mildly disagree with them. Jump a queue. Keep saying ‘after you’  rather than going through the door that’s been opened. Offer postive ideas and solutions to everything they moan about. Ban the colours beige and magnolia. Weep loudly in public. Admit [...]

Today I read a great post on Travelrants called Ten things that annoy me about booking holidays online. Darren made a list of 10 things that annoy him while booking holidays online. It’s clearly the kind of feedback/information people that work for Online Travel Agencies or Hotel Portals would love to gather from their visitors. That’s [...]

Promoters for major music festivals realize that beating the others to the punch as far as announcing lineup and ticket sale dates could mean the difference in tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many fest heads need to plan early which festivals they want to go to, so the sooner a lineup is announced, the better the odds (if the lineup is good) are in favor of that festival - like Coachella, partly because it's so early, usually April. Therefore, fest promoters rush to get the lineup out with the hopes that many people will plan to go to their festival rather than a competing festival. Unless you are geographically close to many festivals - say if you live in the northeast or mid-Atlantic - or happen to have a lot of time and money, many festival lovers have to pick and choose. So,

LPGA players, miffed at a drug-testing procedure that took hours for some last week at the Fields Open in Hawaii, were slightly less than amused to find out the whole thing was merely a trial run and not the real thing. Some of the players, in Singapore for the HSBC Champions, were whispering that the test had been compromised in some way, a charge flatly denied by LPGA officials."That's absolutely not true," Jill Pilgrim, the tour's general counsel, told Golf World. "We decided in advance to do a trial run so we could see the process in a real-time situation. The only thing we did not do was send the samples to the lab," she said, adding that the players were not told it was merely a trial. "We learned some processes we need to tweak, such as seeing how the notification process works," P

Ah… sweet, sweet revenge! This little gadget can be your secret weapon in office warfare. The annoy-a-tron is simple, yet effective. This gadget is extremely small and has a magnet so that it can be concealed in a variety of places. What does it do? It simply produces a tone (that’s a sound for the laymen) at random intervals. You can select from 2KHz, 12KHz or alternating to really throw your opponent off. Just turn it on, hide somewhere in close proximity to the mark… and watch them lose their mind trying to find the source of the sound. The Annoy-a-tron takes one CR2032 battery (included) and measures approximately: 2.5″ x 1.25″ x .3″. It will run for 3 to 4 weeks on a single battery. Let the battle begin!

Is it just me, or is there no bigger turnoff than businesses just being flat out irritating in their marketing and promotional methods? For example, an ad I keep hearing on the radio… It starts with Neil Armstrong’s famous message to Earth. “The Eagle has landed.” Then, “That’s one small step for man, one…” the message was interrupted by an announcer saying, “We interrupt this broadcast with an important announcement.” The “important announcement” turned out to be quite trivial… a chain office supply retailer now offering a complete line of Dell ink cartridges. It was an attempt at humor, but a pretty lame one. You know, it’s been said before that humor doesn’t sell. In reality, it can often do even worse than that. It can “unsell.” Anyone who’s not in a humorous mood or who doesn’t get the joke will most likely just be irritated. And people don’t buy when they&r

A list of ways to annoy bathroom friends… 1. Stick your palm open under the stall wall and ask your neighbor, “May I borrow a highlighter?” 2. “Uh-oh, I knew I shouldn’t put my lips on that.” 3. Cheer and clap loudly every time somebody breaks the silence with a bodily function noise. 4. “Hmmm, I’ve never seen that color before.” 5. “Damn, this water is cold.” 6. Grunt and strain real loud for 30 seconds and then drop a cantaloupe into the toilet bowl from a high place and sigh relaxingly. 7. “Now how did that get there?” 8. “Hummus. Reminds me of hummus.” 9. Fill up a large flask with Mountain Dew. Squirt it erratically under the stall walls of your neighbors while yelling,”Whoa! Easy boy!!” 10. “Interesting….more sinkers than floaters” 11. Using a small squeeze tube, spread peanut butter on a wad of toliet paper and drop under the stall wall of your neighbor. Th

Juliana gave me this meme. I have to list 5 things that annoy me the most.Here's the list:1. Looong TV commercials.2. People who ask personal/nosy questions.3. Not respectful of personal privacy.4. Very competitive attitude.5. Self-righteous, holier-than-thou attitude and very judgemental people.

I listened in to Rob Toth teleseminar and I think it was a useless teleseminar because the tactics that he is speaking about and selling are already in use and it is quite old. I have personally done all of his tactics that he has proposed in his new product and I have gotten results from these tactics. Good results may lead to bad things, such as annoyed readers. If you can recall, I had a scroll bar at the top of my blog about my new revolution theme contest, grabbing the attention of many readers to participate. This has helped a lot with my contest and new traffic. I also received some emails about the annoyance of the bar. Luckily I only had it for 1 week, the week of the contest. Once I took it down the emails stopped. Rob Toth, has the right concept and idea. Grab your readers’ attention and try to offer a second chance sale to those that are not interested, maybe even upsell something to the buyer. His new product BuyNowWizard does all this and maybe even annoys the buye

Francine gave me this meme. I have to list 5 things that annoy me the most.Here's the list:1. Nosy people (need I say more?).2. Friends or acquaintances that pretend they care but in reality they are just using you. The same is true with friends that will only get in touch with you when they need something.3. The very unpredictable weather here in NY. You can never plan ahead because of errors in forecast.4. People that pretend to be close to you wherein fact you only see them once a year or once in every two years(does that make sense?).5. People that have the tendency to compete and will move heaven and earth to prove they "have" it. In reality they're just simply "trying so hard".That's it Francine. Mataray ba? Now, I'm asking these ladies: Thira, Crystal and Recel.

Earth to Ron Paul Supporters: Ron Paul is not the second coming of Jesus Christ, no matter how nice it would be if we could persuade the social conservatives this was the case.I do not agree with Ron Paul on every issue. However,he is the only presidential candidate who has anything worthwhile to say. And since Representative Paul is the most libertarian minded candidate to run for the nomination of a major party since Barry Goldwater in 1964, and the only true conservative in the race, I have been an enthusiastic supporter since before day one.But cripes do a lot of my comrades in arms annoy the ever living daylights out of me.For the greater good of the cause many Ron Paul supporters need to take off the tin foil hats and shut the fuck up. While I appreciate their efforts to promote the campaign, way too many of them are among the most annoying people to walk the face of the earth.They do not realize their overzealous insanity is turning off many undecided voters, as well as

Following in the footsteps of the Annoy-O-Tron we wrote about last week, we have another gadget that can make a grown man cry! Some of you guys wrote in $10 was too rich for your blood. We heard you loud and clear and this one is only $8.95 This tiny little remote is ready for secret missions. Secret missions to annoy the shit out of unsuspecting people, that is! Another great find from ThinkGeek.Are you a little brother who is sick of watching American Idol or similarly stupid shows?Bored out of your mind in a waiting room?Or maybe you are just an Asshole?Well than this tool of annoyance is for you! This little universal remote is the newest (secret shhh) weapon in the Ninja's arsenal and we assure you in the right hands it can be used to quickly assassinate dangerously annoying TV shows or turn on equally annoying TV shows to over come your victims. Simply point the Ninja Remote at the intended target (a television set) and press the mute button for a few seconds - once the TV mutes

Spelunking - This word comes from the caving community, the weird guys who like to go down small wet holes at the weekend (fnar, fnar). They may be weird, but their sport is kind of dangerous and possibly exciting. Now the geek community have appropriated the word to describe, er, groping around in new technology or source code. It seems to be a desperate attempt to make IT sound much more interesting than it really is. Look, computing is not cool, get over it. Grok - What is wrong with 'understand'? It's been in the English language for quite some time and everybody (including normal, non-geek people) knows what it means. Also see above. Regards - Email and the web have always seemed pretty informal to me. There was a time in about 1990 when I ended emails with some kind of sign off, but now I find my name is plenty to mark the end of a message. So when I see 'regards' (or worse 'kind regards'), I think that the person sending that message has some kind of problem. In

We got this letter this morning from Jill in No-wheresville."Alright let me start out by saying there is this woman who works in my office, who is SUPER annoying. She annoys everyone around her. She has her own office but comes over to "Visit" with everyone spreading the urgency to kill her. Now I don't want to resort to violence is there a Techie way I can annoy her?"We have something that sounds like it might be what you need. For $10 this will be hours and hours of fun loving entertainment / revenge We found this over @ thinkGeek:The ThinkGeek Annoy-a-tron would be useless against an army of Snowbots, but it's very effective at disturbing that guy in the sales department or your "friend" down the hall. With its thin design and embedded magnet for easy hiding, the Annoy-a-tron can be placed in a variety of locations. Select one of the three sound choices (2 kHz, 12 kHz, or alternating) and push the switch to the on position. Place it in a proper hiding spot and let the "fun" begin.

Here's a top 16 of things that annoy or irritate you about your colleagues. Check with yourself and make sure that you're not one of them. If you have something what annoys you about your colleagues, feel free to post them in the comments. Just make sure your co-workers don't know it's you.

Adam and Caitlin Nations are working their way through college. They were attracted to each other in part because of their interest in being missionaries. The bride, 21, and groom, 20, even have wonderful role models when it comes to marriage: Both sets of parents married at a young age and have stayed together.If only all wedding stories could be so idyllic.The reality is that the weekly "I do, I do" feature by M.C. Finotti sometimes raises hackles. That's true, in part, because her stories provide an unvarnished reflection of how local people meet, love, marry and have children - and not necessarily in that order.One recent story was about a groom who had been twice married and twice divorced. For his third marriage he used index cards to describe in terms of "Hot, Hotter, Very Hot and Super Hot" his love for his bride. One reader found it all deeply disturbing."So distasteful that I wanted to shower after reading such solemn stuff," Sam Pringle wrote, urging that the weekly wedding

I knew it couldn’t be true. YouTube yesterday started to roll out what it said were ads that would not be annoying. The ads are similar to those TV video blurbs that sometimes appears at the bottom of your TV screen advertising some upcoming show. Let me tell you, I don’t know [...]

Atheist Hussy and The Rad Guy Blog found the following list from The Richard Dawkins forum (phew, everyone happy?) I've adapted my favourite 66 from the original 281.1) Ask them why they are bitter against God.2) Tell them that if there's no God, they might as well go out and kill people.3) Ask them to pray with you.4) Invite their children to go to church with you.5) Insist that there is a God, and show them where in the Bible it says so.6) Hide Chick tracts in clever places around their office.7) Tell them that the universe is too complex to "just exist," and must have been created by a God who "just exists."8) Make up statistics.9) End a discussion with "Well, I know you're smarter than I am, but I know I'm right."10) Accuse them of persecuting you.11) Post inane arguments on the Internet, and never follow up on them.12) After losing the argument say, "I pity you."13) Accuse them of willfully ignoring the "obvious truth."14) Tell him you don't care what you say or prove, you wi

The Dresden Files leaves, not with a magic induced bang, but with a cowardly SciFi Wire whimper. What can the people at the SciFi Channel be thinking? Why would they scrap one of the few good shows they have? The Dresden Files was a great show. Painkiller Jane is crap, why is that still around? That’s [...]

All of us have our pet peeves when it comes to surfing the net for information. I am going to post about what I reckon are my Top 10. Let's start with my #1! Website Annoyance #1: Pop Ups Pop ups come in many flavors: entry pop ups, exit pop ups, pop-unders, delayed, small, big, multiple, flying, scrolling, always on top, browser stopping, surf interrupting, must be cleared to move on, and the

Danica Patrick, a slightly above-average race car driver who happens to be a woman, still has not won a single event in which she has competed. That's not stopping the media from blowing smoke up her well-toned ass though. Last week we mentioned how she got all up in Dan Wheldon's face for what she thought was bad driving on his part and Wheldon responded with this:From the AP:"She's messing with the wrong person if she wants to get feisty. I'm a lot tougher than she is on track."Wheldon, who has 13 wins including winning the 2005 Indy 500, gave what I believe to be an appropriate response to Danica challenging him. If Danica wants to be treated like any other driver, i.e. like the men treat each other, that's the kind of thing she's going to have to deal with, just like any other mid-pack driver.The media just won't give up on its glamour girl though, and still wants to sugarcoat her image to make her out to be more than she really is.From the same article:Some are already tryi

When I got to work this morning this is what I found: Yep, that is my desk – with every conceivable item on it wrapped in newspaper (even my sense of humour, which coincidentally I’ve been looking for for ages)! Word is that it was the handiwork of Darryn, the Dancing Queen, Gosling and Riaan. But apparently as soon as they started everyone else jumped on board as well. I usually get to work quite early so we even had a few Stars arriving way before they usually do (all for nothing because I had a lie in this morning - *insert sounds of evil laughter*). Their intention was probably for me to walk in and start freaking out, screaming and shouting like a harpie (which probably would have been my reaction a few days ago) – But Friday’s are happy days so I didn’t give it to them – there were quite a few disappointed little faces. Sorry boys, but you’ll have to try a lot harder next time. Oh and Riaan, Darryn and Andrew (I don’t car

One of the reasons that I started blogging was to meet other writers. Many of the writers who I’ve met through this blog have been have been really cool, and open-minded individuals. It’s when I move into the general populus of writers, that I get into trouble. The more writers that I encounter, the more I find that they are a drain on my personal drive to be a successful writer. My annoyance always mounts when it comes to the subject of Self-Publishing. I was talking to some writers about my novel and immediately found myself on the defensive because: I’ve hired a professional to proofread my novel. I firmly believe that Self Publishing is a viable alternative if you are willing to create a product that is as professional as a book published by the “big houses”, and you are willing to promote your novel to death. The general consensus seems to be, if you can’t get your novel published traditionally, then it’s not good enough and should be sh

I just got back from a week vacation in Costa Rica, where my hot hunk of a boyfriend and I basked in the sun, ate all the food our bodies would allow, and were simply lazy, which I am very good at. However, the actual process of traveling...airplanes in particular....turn my stomach. For a few reasons, really...The first being, any slight little problem at all, and we are all screwed. There is no pulling over to the side of the sky to check things out. Ya Ya, I know planes are safer than cars, but at least you have a good chance at survival in a car. I think it is more of a control issue for me. The second, is all the morons that always seem to fly on the same plane that I do. And not to be a rotten apple, but seriously, idiots really annoy me. Probably the thing that gets me the most is the retards that hold up everyone, standing in the middle of the aisle, trying to cram a huge suitcase into the overhead compartment. What the hell is so valuable in that thing, that it cannot be che

We've been in our flat apartment for just over a year now, I think, and during that time we were mostly neighbourless. The apartment to one side was occupied briefly, but the owner was hardly ever home, for months at a time, and she's just sold the place. The apartment on our other side was put up for rent, and only recently did anyone move in. We had grown accustomed to being alone and quiet in our corner of the building. Then Slammy McDoor-Swinger moved in next door.Here's the top 5 things that make the Wench pray for a small localised holocaust and/or nuclear blast:1. They're not particularly friendly2. They don't turn off the hallway light.3. They don't lock the hallway door.4. They slam their doors.5. They park halfway in our parking space.These may seem like small petty things, and they are, but they really get on the Wench's nerves. Only the parking really annoys me, as we only have one space (which we own), the car park is always pretty full and they're taking up two. O

This week, it's back to high school for our contestants, most of whom aren't that far out of high school yet and some of whom act like they're still in third grade. You remember how last week, I picked Samantha for the dark horse contestant, citing her great photo? Totally off-base. (Just like when I predicted Romance for the final two on I Love New York and the little freak got ousted the next week.) I should probably quit trying to guess these things. Instead, I'm going to focus on yelling at Renee to shut up. Hell, I might even design a little icon for the Renee STFU tally. But that'll have to wait until next week; right now, let's go back to school. I'll be stuffed in my locker if you need me.As this is the second elimination episode, it's time for the contestants to learn how to walk. (I'm getting to know this show far, far too well.) They're put on a bus and taken to a high school football field, where Miss Jay Alexander attempts to coach them on the finer points

I've become an angst-filled sports fan lately. So today I'm going to unleash some rage and vent with all of my faithful readers. 55 things that annoy me about sports. Why 55? Because I couldn't stop at 50. Feel free to air your own grievances in the comments section, and we'll take the best and add them on in a future post, making it the uber-list of beefs from annoyed fans.1. Bill Belichick dressing like a hobo. At least wear a hoodie with sleeves! While I'm at it, kudos to Mike Nolan and Jack Del Rio for their suits this weekend. And since the NFL is a copycat league, expect to see all 32 coaches in suits, since the 49ers and Jags both won. 2. "...this is ouuuuuur country..."3. The Lions on Thanksgiving every year. Is this not the worst tradition in the history of mankind?4. Celebrities in the Monday Night Football booth. Especially when they aren't even football fans. Christian Slater, I'm looking in your direction.5. Stuart Scott. Your act is so played out. Boo-ya.6. "Thrown