What's bugging you? (2010)

[Jimbo]

I was able to convince the bartender in the small town I'm staying at to put on the Tour de France, only to find out Dish doesn't carry Versus network.

[Baldkin]

Thank you, Stallis, for deciding to do obnoxiously loud street work and line painting at midnight on a weeknight, instead of, y'know, blocking off a street for 3 hours during the day.

[splitterpfj]

Back pain.

[pitchleague]

I just finished with my last afternoon of the summer spent sitting in the AZ sun, drinking beer (and an occasional water), spitting sunflower seeds, reading Baseball Weekly (I refuse to call it Sports Weekly), and listening to jazz.

 

I'm having trouble holding back the tears.

[hawing]

What bugs me tonight is writing like this, from the Brewers' gameday program for the Houston/Arizona homestand:

 

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs129.ash2/39766_1535378150107_1404434242_1397179_3101448_n.jpg

 

Presumably the word they wanted was "meteorically."

The Gameday programs have been in sore need of a copy editor for some time. I would be happy to offer my services, gratis. I'm not kidding.

[Invader3K]

Maybe they meant that he rose like a Hurricane.

[JimH5]

How can you rise "somewhat" meteorically?

 

That whole sentence is somewhat in need of a red pen through it.

[GAME05]

that stuff bugs me, too, hawing. i used to be a copy editor. for something that gets printed with the Milwaukee Brewers logo, there should be more pride and effort in the work (read into that what you will).

 

not to mention, how is it possible for something to be "somewhat" meteoric?

 

Steven Wright joke: If a word was spelled wrong in the dictionary, how would you know?

[1992casey]

What's bugging me is that I can't see the poorly written sentence that hawing apparently posted. There's nothing after the colon. I have no clue why.

[Baldkin]

What's bugging me is that I can't see the poorly written sentence that hawing apparently posted. There's nothing after the colon. I have no clue why.

Try this link

[hawing]

Casey, I emailed a copy of the photo directly to you.

The sentence might have been better if the writer had just said "rose like a Hurricane."

[1992casey]

Thanks for the e-mail, hawing. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

It's now bugging me that I didn't think to jump over to a different browser to view this page. The photo would have shown up. I have its host blocked in Firefox because it slows down so many web sites.

[DuWayne Steurer]

I'll tell you what's bugging me. I have on a few occasions (including today) had a family member or friend ask me to do something extraordinarily unethical (and illegal) with information that I have access to from my workplace (or in many cases, actually don't have access to). Before it was little stuff, but the request I received today was horrendously over the top.

 

Obviously I can't and won't go into greater detail, but for someone who's supposedly close to me to ask me to do something so blatantly illegal, which could threaten not only my employer, my job status, and could well land me in jail were I to actually follow through has me so righteously pissed that I can't even think straight concerning this issue.

 

I feel obligated to take this information to the authorities, and that puts me in a terrible position as well.

[pitchleague]

how do meteors rise? I thought they fall hard into the atmosphere or all the way down to the earth.

[Invader3K]

I'll tell you what's bugging me. I have on a few occasions (including today) had a family member or friend ask me to do something extraordinarily unethical (and illegal) with information that I have access to from my workplace (or in many cases, actually don't have access to). Before it was little stuff, but the request I received today was horrendously over the top.

 

Obviously I can't and won't go into greater detail, but for someone who's supposedly close to me to ask me to do something so blatantly illegal, which could threaten not only my employer, my job status, and could well land me in jail were I to actually follow through has me so righteously pissed that I can't even think straight concerning this issue.

 

I feel obligated to take this information to the authorities, and that puts me in a terrible position as well.

Kind of had the reverse happen to me one time. This woman called my sister (we run a business together), at her personal cell phone number, which she only had access to because she worked for a city utility company. It was regarding an issue with her son's account. Fortunately my sister basically told her to call the regular office business number and not to bother her on her personal cell again.

[Ando Calrissian]

That since my iPhone is synched at work for calendar purposes I can't sync it at home for music purposes.

[Baldkin]

That since my iPhone is synched at work for calendar purposes I can't sync it at home for music purposes.

I stopped using itunes to sync my ipod for my music... switched over to media monkey.

[heresrobin]

That gameday program should read West Virginia too, not Virginia. Right?

[TooLiveBrew]

Ugh, nice catch robin

[hawing]

Oh, man, heresrobin is right. I remember another Gameday gaffe in the last year or two where either the phrase "AA Nashville" or "AAA Huntsville" was used.

 

I could see - maybe - misspelling "meteorically" and accepting the spell check's first suggestion ("meteorologically" perhaps?) without thinking. But dagnabbit, if you are writing for the Brewers, get the farm levels right.

[Nottso]

Catch words and phrases bug me. They bug me a lot. Especially when they catch on all over the place. Corey Hart does not bat "in the 2 hole." He bats second. Perhaps players and managers use this type of jargon, but when others use it it is just ridiculous. Much like "getting a blow" or "taking a blow" in football as opposed to taking a break. Thank God "outlier" seems to be losing steam and hopefully will soon have run its course. Unforunately, "classless" continues to thrive; especially amongst 12 year olds, which makes it all the more annoying.

[logan82]

Having to turn on the heat and defroster so I can see through my windows in the middle of summer.

[hawing]

Nottso, you'd probably enjoy Lake Superior State University's annual banished words list.

 

As for what's bugging me, besides the errors in Gameday programs, dew points in the 70s, or worse yet mid-70s. They bug me a lot.

[Diskono]

Can we get rid of marketing buzzwords too? I would have no problem sending anything related to web 2.0 straight to the cloud, never to be heard from again.

[Invader3K]

You mean like this?:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Web_2.0_Map.svg/800px-Web_2.0_Map.svg.png