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Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:06 pm
by finji
fuck this 30 degree weather, when does winter come to Bristol? I'm from the north, and I want freezing temperatures NOW.

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:17 pm
by particle-jim
It really is far to hot today, my heritage is far too northern european to be dealing with this heat
1/4 scottish + 1/4 austrian + 1/2 english = built for winter

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:49 pm
by jameshk
Mehlovich wrote:working with Excel makes me want to kill my self slowly using a spoon.
All i've been doing all week, and i'll be doing it for the rest of the week. Sucks init :(

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:42 pm
by FSTZ
bigfootspartan wrote:Such a piss off man. Chin up though, the kids at a Datsik show probably couldn't appreciate you anyways :lol:
hey thanks man, I know.. it's more the opportunity to expose them to other shit besides the in your face bro'd out shit
ultraspatial wrote:
what a shit article.
"I like metal and anything else you can punch someone in the face to," he says.

and some wonder why it gets called brostep :lol:
yeah.. I don't endorse anything other than the fact that it's documented that I started the scene here.

that is a retarded thing to say LOL

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 7:19 pm
by Neptune
I've left my phone at home and now have to go back and get it.

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 7:37 pm
by bigfootspartan
So I needed some volunteering experience, as I'm probably the laziest person in my whole class, and am worried about getting matched when I apply for internship.

There was this opportunity to do the live sound for this "UC Idol" thing, basically an American Idol type thing at my uni. I figured 'I've worked on a lot of tunes, pissing around with Logic, this should be easy, just match the vocal levels to the instrumentals".

Last night we had the practice thing, I got the tunes off of the contestants, and played them. They sounded like complete shit over a decent system, and one contestant asked 'why do the cymbals sound like tingling bells, it doesn't do that on my iPhone.' I check the MP3, it is a 320, but apparently he recorded it off of YouTube. It turns out all the contestants did, so the highs sound like fucking jingle bells and make everyone's ears bleed. 'can't you fix that?' "not really"

Then, it came to trying to match the sound of the contestants to the backing tracks. Easy I thought. However, apparently these people have never sang on mics before. So they pretty much whisper the verses, then shout the choruses into the mics. On girl goes so far as to put the mic closer to her mouth during the chorus to make it "more emotional". Of course, I don't have a compressor, so the promotors keep saying "turn her up" during the verse then, " whoa not that much turn her down" during the chorus. I try explaining all this in vain.

Then, they wanted me to add reverb to the vocals. So I add a bit, not enough that you notice it being there, but enough that it sounds kind of natural. Bt nope, they want me to drown it in reverb. I try to explain my position but again, they don't listen. So I make it a bit wetter and they are all happy, until they realize that it sounds too busy and muddy, can't I make the voice clearer. Turn down the reverb and they say, yeah that's clearer but wheres the reverb, it makes it sound professional.

Since it was a train wreck practice, we're going at it again tonight. All I want is to pad my CV, I don't actually give a shit about it. It certainly doesn't help that I'm pretty easy going too, I guess maybe I need to grow a bigger backbone and just do what sounds good rather than what They keep asking for.

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:41 pm
by Pedro Sánchez
It's the end of September and I have a fucking fan on because of the heat, WTF.

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:46 pm
by autobot
My line manager is leaving our work :(

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:49 pm
by autobot
Also cant be fucked going outside to have a smoke but my flatmates get shitty about smoking indoors :roll:

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:04 pm
by yoowan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... ithin.html

"How the BBC fell for a Marxist plot to destroy civilisation from within"

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:05 pm
by magma
autobot wrote:Also cant be fucked going outside to have a smoke but my flatmates get shitty about smoking indoors :roll:
I'm a forced garden smoker now AND the landlord's just put the fucking rent up! :x :x

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:51 am
by hutyluty
lol my new housemates already up to his eyeballs in shit from residents of the drug consuming public in hull

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:11 am
by Mysius
:lol: What is Hull like? Its one of those places you never really hear anything about. Like Grimsby.

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:08 am
by ultraspatial
yoowan wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... ithin.html

"How the BBC fell for a Marxist plot to destroy civilisation from within"
That is the most stupid thing I've read in a while. He has no idea about what elitism actually is (either that, or he's giving stupid examples for the public). Medicine is not an elitist field, pretty much anyone can go to med school... The same goes for the military (as long as you don't have any disabilities, which is common sense considering those people put their and others' lives at risk).
At the time, Marcuse may have seemed like one of those fashionable Left-wing academics whose silly ideas you grow out of once you've got a job.
What a moron.
I have people who share the same views in my class and I gotta sit through and listen to that shit at seminars. :u:

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:34 am
by wub
magma wrote:
autobot wrote:Also cant be fucked going outside to have a smoke but my flatmates get shitty about smoking indoors :roll:
I'm a forced garden smoker now AND the landlord's just put the fucking rent up! :x :x


Balcony out front, roof terrace out back FTW 8)

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:27 am
by hutyluty
JT7 wrote::lol: What is Hull like? Its one of those places you never really hear anything about. Like Grimsby.
its not that bad actually, theres two massive council estates around but if you stay around the student area then its just like any other city

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:19 am
by antipode
wub wrote:My sloppy fingers combined with an over zealous spell check on my phone have resulted in the word 'plan' being substituted for 'anal', thus changing the context of the text I just sent.
:lol: :lol:

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 10:24 am
by brettheaslewood
soo tired. the 'im at work staring at a computer, and my eyes go blurry every 2 minutes' tired :(

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:10 pm
by particle-jim
Managing to get sunburnt even though i'm sat inside... fucking windows letting in UV rays!!!

Re: The things that pissed you off today ™ thread

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:50 pm
by Electric_Head
particle-jim wrote:Managing to get sunburnt even though i'm sat inside... fucking windows letting in UV rays!!!
you damn pale ppl