Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!

APK · Nov 20, 2011

Man, I'm not even that nice of a guy, but I am running a serious streak of being the guy that girls talk to about guys rather than being the guy they try to hook up with.

StephenHero · Nov 20, 2011

APK said:
Man, I'm not even that nice of a guy, but I am running a serious streak of being the guy that girls talk to about guys rather than being the guy they try to hook up with.

Start cussing more.

lasbar · Nov 20, 2011

L'Incandescent said:
Is he a good father to your children?

Of course not being a black man.

wootx · Nov 20, 2011

Drunk girls throwing up in my living room. For the second time. The same girl. :fu:

Joffrey · Nov 20, 2011

Stop inviting her over. OR to really drive the point home, next time she comes over present her with her own personal barf bags

wootx · Nov 20, 2011

Ahahh that would certainly do the trick!

imageWIS · Nov 20, 2011

Tuna. Healthy but so very, very yucky.

Big Pun · Nov 20, 2011

5 inches of snow last night. :fu:

Had to haul my new heavy ass fridge through snow. On the bright side, I have my own fridge now.

Have this weird tingling sensation from elbows to fingertips, and knees to toes. No idea what it is, seeing Dr. Wednesday.

in stitches · Nov 20, 2011

customers who do not understand the concept of not interrupting me while im talking to other customers who there before them. ******* assholes.

L'Incandescent · Nov 20, 2011

I am editing papers for a journal. I request that authors submit their papers in the Chicago Manual of Style format. They send me e-mails saying "Here is the paper, formatted in Chicago style." But here's the thing: the papers are not in anything resembling the Chicago style. So I spend my weekend putting lots of papers into the Chicago format. And correcting quotations that authors get wrong. And correcting their grammar. In an office that is too cold because the university apparently doesn't think anyone works here on weekends.

imageWIS · Nov 20, 2011

L'Incandescent said:
I am editing papers for a journal. I request that authors submit their papers in the Chicago Manual of Style format. They send me e-mails saying "Here is the paper, formatted in Chicago style." But here's the thing: the papers are not in anything resembling the Chicago style. So I spend my weekend putting lots of papers into the Chicago format. And correcting quotations that authors get wrong. And correcting their grammar. In an office that is too cold because the university apparently doesn't think anyone works here on weekends.

Granted they aren't prefect, but they have software which greatly simplifies this process. I mean for them, you shouldn't have to fix other peoples mistakes.

L'Incandescent · Nov 20, 2011

imageWIS said:
Granted they aren't prefect, but they have software which greatly simplifies this process. I mean for them, you shouldn't have to fix other peoples mistakes.

As the editor, unfortunately I do have to fix other people's mistakes. But I know what you mean here; this is a fairly unusual case where I've got to get the manuscripts finished quickly. I don't have time to keep sending them back to the authors, who would probably fail to make the appropriate corrections anyway.

What really amazes me is that so many people get quotations wrong. How do you do that? And why am I able to notice it when the authors are not?

imageWIS · Nov 20, 2011

L'Incandescent said:
As the editor, unfortunately I do have to fix other people's mistakes. But I know what you mean here; this is a fairly unusual case where I've got to get the manuscripts finished quickly. I don't have time to keep sending them back to the authors, who would probably fail to make the appropriate corrections anyway.

The bolded just makes me go :facepalm:

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L'Incandescent · Nov 20, 2011

imageWIS said:
The bolded just makes me go .

Yeah, it really is a frustrating job. When I submit things for publication, I take care to get basic things like formatting and quotations right. Not so much to make the editor's job easier, but because I have some pride. Thankfully, editing is not something I do a lot of. (I'm just guest editing now.)

acidboy · Nov 20, 2011

Much as I'm excited to fly home and see my family and go back to my old routine I do not relish the thought of being inside a plane for 15 hours straight. Hey airplane manufacturers, instead of making bigger planes that can fit a gazillion people why not make faster trans-ocean planes that can cut travel time instead?

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