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people = stupid
Mar. 20th, 2008 10:06 amToday's annoyances:
- people who say stupid things like, "Facebook's privacy controls are broken, because even though you restrict something to be viewable by undergraduates only, non-undergrads get to see it, because they lied about who they are". Well, duh, did they expect Facebook to go round to these people's universities and verify their enrolment details? Use a bit of common sense! You can't expect the world to verify every single fact for you.
- people who drive vehicles, generally. I get fed up at the way they think they take precedence over everybody else and don't like taking responsibility for the danger they put people in. I found out yesterday that Douglas Hill, a sci-fi author I enjoyed reading when I was young, was killed last year by a bus hitting him on a zebra crossing. Pedestrians have right of way on a crossing, so if you hit someone on a crossing and kill them, you should lose your license unless you have a damn good excuse. I don't want to hear any bullshit like, "the poor driver was so upset"; they should have been more careful.
- unreasonable demands of the police. When they recently found that lost girl at her stepdad's uncle's house, 3 weeks after she was abducted, there were complaints that they should have found her sooner because apparently it's common for the family to be implicated. The mother has 7 children by 5 different fathers! That's a lot of relatives. Meanwhile, the police devoted 10% of their operational strength to searching for this one girl - that's all the police responsible for approximately 207 thousand people normally. So if anything, the police were doing too much.
Those are my complaints: what are yours?
- people who say stupid things like, "Facebook's privacy controls are broken, because even though you restrict something to be viewable by undergraduates only, non-undergrads get to see it, because they lied about who they are". Well, duh, did they expect Facebook to go round to these people's universities and verify their enrolment details? Use a bit of common sense! You can't expect the world to verify every single fact for you.
- people who drive vehicles, generally. I get fed up at the way they think they take precedence over everybody else and don't like taking responsibility for the danger they put people in. I found out yesterday that Douglas Hill, a sci-fi author I enjoyed reading when I was young, was killed last year by a bus hitting him on a zebra crossing. Pedestrians have right of way on a crossing, so if you hit someone on a crossing and kill them, you should lose your license unless you have a damn good excuse. I don't want to hear any bullshit like, "the poor driver was so upset"; they should have been more careful.
- unreasonable demands of the police. When they recently found that lost girl at her stepdad's uncle's house, 3 weeks after she was abducted, there were complaints that they should have found her sooner because apparently it's common for the family to be implicated. The mother has 7 children by 5 different fathers! That's a lot of relatives. Meanwhile, the police devoted 10% of their operational strength to searching for this one girl - that's all the police responsible for approximately 207 thousand people normally. So if anything, the police were doing too much.
Those are my complaints: what are yours?
