[Closed] What's annoying you currently? II

Pet peeve time.

I find it spectacularly annoying when there's a best- or favourite score thread on a film score board and sooner or later there's always some doofus exclaiming "I can't believe no one has mentioned X yet!", X being some score this particular doofus likes. This is annoying for several reasons:

1.First of all, how can it be difficult to believe something that is blatantly obvious? You can easily search through the thread and clearly see that the score in question is not there. It's like looking at the sky and exclaiming "I can't believe the sky is blue!". I know this phrase shouldn't be taken literally, and is meant as an utterance of surprise, but it still irks me.
2.My second problem is that this person seem blissfully unaware that there are about 100.000 film scores in the world, many of them with impressive music. That he seemingly expects that his favourite score should be mentioned within a few posts is unrealistic to put it mildly.
3.Thirdly, it's annoying when people assume that their personal taste should be shared by everyone. "This is my favourite score, so it's unfathomable that it isn't mentioned immediately in a thread about favourite scores". Argh!

Please stop doing this.

Another pet peeve of mine is the popular usage of the term "overrated". It basically means that some highly praised score doesn't deserve the praise it gets. Basically what people are saying when they use that term is "I don't care much about this score, so all those people who do, are wrong". I know people like to use the term because it sounds objective, as if there's real weight behind it, but it's nothing more than a personal grievance about not liking a popular score.

Peter

I share your frustration in this. Also when certain people take it as personal insults when other people don't like the same stuff they do - the no. 1 disease at FSM.



If I understood you correctly, I agree. How a score is rated in a given forum is a relatively objective (or perceivable) fact. For example that many people like Jerry Goldsmith at the FSM board. Or Michael Giacchino here. Then the next step is using your own evaluation in relation to that. If you can't understand the appeal, you can rate it overrated. It's all subjective.

Overrating is overrated

But I do so like to impose my opinion.

Halellujah!

I'm shocked nobody mentioned James Horner yet!

FICTION.

PC issues!

My computer returned from repair a few days ago, but the fan problem is actually WORSE now than I when I sent it off! I've booked another send-in, but it's really a hazzle. Annoying.

Also, the new Opera browser can't seem to get its head around video files on the net. It's impossible to play youtube videos - it only tells me to "go update", but when I do (update the flash player, that is), that still doesn't do anything. Also, other sites (like web TV on NRK, our national channel) tell me that some "program accesories are missing!" Damnit, will it never end.

The other annoyance is a sty. Not much can be done except to not touch it and let it heal.
Thomas

Yup, I have that version too. Just updated it a few days ago.

Thanks. The only thing I could really gather from that thread was that Opera is currently working on the issue, so it will hopefully be resolved soon.

It's more of an inconvenience in that it's not really very important - if you only view videos infrequently. Opera are on it and will update it when ready.

Opera as a browser is one of the best alternatives to IE (and Firefox) but it doesn't have the plug-ins that something like Firefox has (so if can't get too bloated?) I've been using Chrome for day-to-day browsing. I just updated it yesterday so I'm wondering if there's been any improvements or whether it's just an update to fix some bugs.

I can view videos in YouTube. I'm using Opera 10.51 build 3315.

Any luck, Thor?