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Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:06 pm

I hate people who use the last word off and abbreviation, it dosent make sense

example: That child has ADD disorder

that means there technically saying attension defesit disorder disorder, THERE REPETING THEM SELFS NEEDLESSLY

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Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:30 pm

To add another thing to my list; Audacity.

You guys SERIOUSLY need to learn to GoldWave. It is FAR superior to Audacity. It's only an evaluation version that's available for free, but you can get around that....
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Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:54 pm

Old people who hate kids for everything I mean the water rocket had a foam nosecone! It landed on his roof very softly and he said that he thought it came through his roof when he was reading the paper. and if there was any dammage he would sue my parents. What a tard I bet it hit his roof like a footstep.
Oh and people who exsplain everything to me like I know nothing sometimes I know more on the subject than the person exsplaining.
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Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:59 am

dark2023 wrote:I hate people who use the last word off and abbreviation, it dosent make sense

example: That child has ADD disorder
It happens. It's known as RAS syndrome.
RAS stands for Redunant Acryonym Syndrome. Whoever came up with it has a funny sense of humour. :P
In that case, the doubling is actually it's correct name.

One of the examples where people don't realise it's an example is SCUBA - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, so adding the word "Apparatus" or "Equipment" is doubling, but SCUBA has essentially entered the language as a word in it's own right.
Mind you, not everyone realises the word "Laser" is an acronym either.

I don't particularly understand it when it's pronounced as an acronym (but it may be understood when it's pronounced as a word like "PIN number"), but you can hardly correct every instance of it, so fussing is moot.

While we're at these pedantics, ADD is strictly an outdated term. It's more properly known as ADHD, and in that case, less people add an extra "disorder" after it.
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Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:08 am

Whats an acronym? whilst we are at it, a.d.d. is always doing drugs, a.d.h.d. is always doing hard drugs- for the record.

P.S. What DOES laser mean?
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Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:42 pm

CasinoVanart wrote:Whats an acronym?
Umm... assuming you're being serious, an acronym is making a word out of the first (and sometimes extra letters) of a phrase - sometimes conjoining words are omitted though.

PIN is the acronym of "Personal Identification Number"
P.S. What DOES laser mean?
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

That's why when someone spells it Lazer, they should be beaten - the only exception is when it's in the phrase "Oh hai, I upgraded mah lazor!!!!" and when a cat is involved.
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Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:47 pm

Ragnarok wrote:
dark2023 wrote:I hate people who use the last word off and abbreviation, it dosent make sense

example: That child has ADD disorder
It happens. It's known as RAS syndrome.
RAS stands for Redunant Acryonym Syndrome. Whoever came up with it has a funny sense of humour. :P
In that case, the doubling is actually it's correct name.

One of the examples where people don't realise it's an example is SCUBA - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, so adding the word "Apparatus" or "Equipment" is doubling, but SCUBA has essentially entered the language as a word in it's own right.
Mind you, not everyone realises the word "Laser" is an acronym either.

I don't particularly understand it when it's pronounced as an acronym (but it may be understood when it's pronounced as a word like "PIN number"), but you can hardly correct every instance of it, so fussing is moot.

While we're at these pedantics, ADD is strictly an outdated term. It's more properly known as ADHD, and in that case, less people add an extra "disorder" after it.
you realize you just did it to yourself right? :lol: :D
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Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:00 pm

Mr.Sandman wrote:you realize you just did it to yourself right? :lol: :D
Yes, the examples where I did it were deliberate... so there!
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Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:22 pm

I hate threads that for some reason I need to read all 84 goddamn pages of before I post something important and then realize what I had to say was irrelevant :evil:
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Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:56 pm

Oh, like, you post only to find out that the question had been answered a few times? I hate that!
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ammosmoke wrote:Oh, like, you post only to find out that the question had been answered a few times? I hate that!
Especially when there's a thread like "where do I get a sprinkler valve" and there is at least a page or two of answers that all say home depot, sprinkler section etc. And people keep posting the same thing.
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Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:01 pm

Getting the tip of my middle finger caught between a falling (fell about 5") four jaw chuck and the lathe bed.

The chuck survived without a scratch. Not so my finger.

F'n hurts!
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Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:45 pm

I can imagine. How big is the chuck?

I cutting some plate out at work and had some slag drop through a hole in my pants into my boot. A little different, but pain is pain
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Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:41 pm

Luckily ( :? ), it was only a 6" chuck. 30-35 pounds.

The finger tip is swollen pretty good and turning a "lovely" shade of purple.

As to the slag...How many four letter words did YOU use? :wink:

I lost count. Bet you did too.
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Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:07 am

when you jam the threads of your newly arrived hybrid trying to unskrew the unioin cap, and then having to find a guy with a vice to get it off lol

but boy is it powerful even as a 170psi burst disk, lead slug through one side of a vcr player
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