What annoys you the most ?

[highwayman274]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

Those annoying red light cameras

At the risk of igniting a massive backlash . . . I think red light cameras and "speed on green" cameras are a good thing; and those who complain about them are being a bit hypocritical.

Think about it . . . most of us are risk takers to some degree. Many of us enjoy a good wager; unless the odds really favor the "house". We willingly buy lottery tickets (in spite of the astronomical odds against winning) yet we don't complain when our wager is lost.

Playing the "traffic lottery" is also a risk / reward proposition. We get to run yellow lights, and/or blast through green lights at well over the posted speed limit, and in most instances we win . . . there is no consequence. But once in a while we get caught, and have to pay-up. So why complain . . . just play the game and enjoy the thrill!

On the other hand, once in a while we end up t-boning some poor soul, or being t-boned ourselves. Unless we are willing to accept the costs that come with that, maybe we shouldn't play the game. God knows few of us would be willing to step up and willingly say "I did this, and I accept full responsibility".

As far as I'm concerned, there should be a camera at every major intersection, and others in every school zone & playground zone.

Just say'n . . .

[TommySwiftJr.]

My whole life annoys me. Why should I focus on the details.

[trailmaster]

Originally Posted by highwayman274

At the risk of igniting a massive backlash . . . I think red light cameras and "speed on green" cameras are a good thing; and those who complain about them are being a bit hypocritical.

Think about it . . . most of us are risk takers to some degree. Many of us enjoy a good wager; unless the odds really favor the "house". We willingly buy lottery tickets (in spite of the astronomical odds against winning) yet we don't complain when our wager is lost.

Playing the "traffic lottery" is also a risk / reward proposition. We get to run yellow lights, and/or blast through green lights at well over the posted speed limit, and in most instances we win . . . there is no consequence. But once in a while we get caught, and have to pay-up. So why complain . . . just play the game and enjoy the thrill!

On the other hand, once in a while we end up t-boning some poor soul, or being t-boned ourselves. Unless we are willing to accept the costs that come with that, maybe we shouldn't play the game. God knows few of us would be willing to step up and willingly say "I did this, and I accept full responsibility".

As far as I'm concerned, there should be a camera at every major intersection, and others in every school zone & playground zone.

Just say'n . . .

What you say is mostly true, but another reason these cameras were installed is because specific traffic intersections had too many fatal accidents involving pedestrians. Several years after the cameras were installed studies were done which showed that there was no improvement. There were still just as many accidents happening, which is why our major in Chicago had 25 of the cameras removed!

[9876543210]

trailmaster,

Originally Posted by trailmaster

Potentially any site can have viruses, malware, and spyware on it!

A brief story.

Maybe 10 years ago I was visiting a friend when another friend showed up. After a bit he needed to check his mail through his webpage (he owned a small company) but was having problems. Since I'm the usual goto person for this type of stuff I volunteered to help.

He was using IE so I suggested he change to Firefox with Adblock Plus and NoScript. He agreed so I installed them and started showing him how to use them. As a part of the training we went to his personal website to make sure he could access his account. When we got there I was showing him the NoScript bar at the bottom of the window and he had two scripts trying to be run.

He knew about the one script but not the other. He then called his web master and asked about the second script. The web master knew nothing about it either.

Turns out the second script was trying to inject some malware into every visitor to his webpage. Whoever put the script in figured out a way around the web masters security (which was, apparently, pretty lax).

So you're right, any web page can contain malware. Even a small one that almost nobody uses.

[trailmaster]

Originally Posted by Wendigo

Purely a personal choice and one that comes to the fore on a frighteningly regular basis on what is largely an adult site, members who do not appear to know what nudity actually is

Bear with me here a minute

The Modern Models section
It clearly states underneath
Pornstars, hard- and softcore models who started their career after 1995.

Now to me the words pornstar hardcore and softcore imply regular nudity, does that seem a reasonable assumption?

Yet so many people insist on posting in Modern Models those models who have never posed in less than lingerie or bikinis or fashion models who may have done the odd artistic nude images but their work is almost completely mainstream. Those models belong in the Modern Celebrity section, there are plenty homes for the lesser known models.

Please let us hope that 2016 is the year this simple message gets through; it makes it so much easier for all of us.

I beg to differ on one point. When you use the words pornstar hardcore it does not mean just nudity. It means showing sex between men and women, men and men, women and women, anal sex, and blowjobs. Only the word softcore means nudity and usually nudity without showing the pubic area!!

[trailmaster]

Our foreign members should get a kick out of this.
One of the most annoying things in my adult life is the METRICSYSTEM. Nowadays children who attend elementary or grammar school learn the basics of reading , writing, arithmetic, computers, and now this annoying metric system. When I was in elementary school 55 years ago I never heard of the metric system, and it was never even mentioned until I was at college in my Physics class ( my most hated course ). The metric system has to be used in Physics because it is used in the math equations that define the principles. Now more and more in the U.S. metric equivalents are used. When I was young, people used, say for distance; the inch, the foot, the yard, and the mile, not this annoying centimeter, meter and kilometer. My car has a gas tank capacity of 19 gallons ( metric equivalent is 76 liters ). I can imagine 19 gallons. I cannot imagine 76 liters. And for temperature I always liked Fahrenheit, not that annoying Celsius, or as some people call it Centigrade. 0 degrees Celsius=32 degrees Fahrenheit. This never made sense to me. I know that there are two equations which can convert F to C, or C to F. 50 or 100 years from now everything in the U.S. will be metric. I am glad I won't be alive to see that. That annoying METRIC SYSTEM.

[SanteeFats]

I live in Cally and we still have most every thing in good ol" US measures. So I am a bit cornfused, does Illy have most every thing in metric

[cicciobuki]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

Our foreign members should get a kick out of this.
One of the most annoying things in my adult life is the METRICSYSTEM. Nowadays children who attend elementary or grammar school learn the basics of reading , writing, arithmetic, computers, and now this annoying metric system. When I was in elementary school 55 years ago I never heard of the metric system, and it was never even mentioned until I was at college in my Physics class ( my most hated course ). The metric system has to be used in Physics because it is used in the math equations that define the principles. Now more and more in the U.S. metric equivalents are used. When I was young, people used, say for distance; the inch, the foot, the yard, and the mile, not this annoying centimeter, meter and kilometer. My car has a gas tank capacity of 19 gallons ( metric equivalent is 76 liters ). I can imagine 19 gallons. I cannot imagine 76 liters. And for temperature I always liked Fahrenheit, not that annoying Celsius, or as some people call it Centigrade. 0 degrees Celsius=32 degrees Fahrenheit. This never made sense to me. I know that there are two equations which can convert F to C, or C to F. 50 or 100 years from now everything in the U.S. will be metric. I am glad I won't be alive to see that. That annoying METRIC SYSTEM.

But we metric people find the opposite annoying

Stones, gallons, inches, shillings, and so on, you have to remember alot of different terms and the relationship with eachother.

1 bottle of milk is 1 liter (well, usually the standard bottles are).
1 liter water is 1 kilogram.
etc.

As for Fahrenheit, i'll admit it has the cooler name, but Celsius is just a lot better. Water freezes? Zero! Easy!


Edit: by the way, what term do you use to devide inches? (your millimeters, so to speak)

Edit 2:
i converted 2 millimeter online and got this:
2mm= 05⁄64in
... what?

[sandhunter]

Originally Posted by cicciobuki

Edit 2:
i converted 2 millimeter online and got this:
2mm= 05⁄64in
... what?

5/64 is 1/64 less than 3/32 that's not hard is it ?

[Wendigo]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

I beg to differ on one point. When you use the words pornstar hardcore it does not mean just nudity. It means showing sex between men and women, men and men, women and women, anal sex, and blowjobs. Only the word softcore means nudity and usually nudity without showing the pubic area!!

I was merely making my point as simple as possible, almost Janet & John style to try and explain why I find it hard to grasp why so many members keep posting images of what are clearly bikini or lingerie models in a section clearly devoted to nude models (soft or hard)