http://pfft.net Things that make you go PFFT! Read stories (fiction, nonfiction, editorials) about what people find annoying, bizarre, stupid, or just plain ridiculous in life. Or register and submit your own. en-us Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:26:15 GMT PFFT! editor@pfft.net webmaster@pfft.net http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://pfft.net/image/ico.gif http://pfft.net/ 16 16 60 Q: Explain the writer's word choice in paragraphs 1 to 3 A: The writer chose the words they chose because they thought they sounded good. I don't get why that's not the end of it. Surely there is no deeper reason? Unless, perhaps, the reason is the writer was tired and wanted to get the paragraph finished so wrote any old rubbish? Q: Think about the passage as a whole. What kind of tone do you think the writer is using? A: I think the writer is using a sarcastic tone. There, I've told you exactly what I was asked. Full marks please. What? You asked me what kind of tone I thought the writer was using. You can't tell me I'm wrong because you don't know what I'm thinking. I just don't understand why in an English exam these kind of questions pop up. And before you say "you'd never get questions written like that in an exam, they'd be worded differently" then stop right there. I just sat my SQA Standard Grade English this year. These questions just annoy the hell of out me! Pfft! http://pfft.net/stories/20090907105100.html http://pfft.net/stories/20090907105100.html http://pfft.net/comments/20090907105100.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:26:15 GMT School angusi Right so, I moved away to university last year, leaving everything and everyone behind. I didn't move far and planned on keeping touch with people. Sadly my life style was quite busy as were the lives of my friends from home and connections wore thin. I talk to people from home occasionally, however rarely see anyone. Recently I moved into a new house with some friends I had made at university and thought things were going to be good. As it is the summer most people went home but I, as did a couple of others, decided to stay here as not to spend too much money. Turns out that the only people staying with me over summer are in relationships, leaving me home alone and with nothing to do. As the connections with people from home are near enough lost I rarely have visitors, and for some bizarre reason this includes my parents Over the past few weeks I have made plans with friends from home, and from university, to meet up and spend the day together, however in most cases these plans have fallen through and ... http://pfft.net/stories/20090904160640.html http://pfft.net/stories/20090904160640.html http://pfft.net/comments/20090904160640.html Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:06:43 GMT General How long ago was it that I was writing about Tort Reform? Aaaaah yes... very clearly it was FIVE years ago. I just love it when there's a very real solution to a problem and it gets completely ignored (like for the past five years). Why make it less expensive for doctors to practice medicine when we can so easily create new legislation to tax the American public for services most of them won't use? Why would we even consider Tort Reform as a viable option when it is so CLEARLY punching us in the face as an obvious solution. Yes, it would be nice to walk into a hospital when you have a cardiac arrest and not have to pay for the services rendered even if you have no insurance, but that is Cuba. We who live in America are free. We can run out in our mid-size SUV's and get a pound of coffee when we are running low. That is FREEDOM. There is no legislation for stupidity, but we keep trying to legislate stupidity out of the people. It won't happen, never will happen, and the more we try to do that the wor... http://pfft.net/stories/20090801211027.html http://pfft.net/stories/20090801211027.html http://pfft.net/comments/20090801211027.html Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:19:34 GMT Health Care jhyde so i think its very annoying how i come on here to let off some steam about my complete DUMBASS boyfriend. and then alright cool, im thinking, they only ask me like three things on here its not like yahoo where you have to tell them your whole life background. then they send you a password that doesnt even work. and deny your request a few times. and then youre stuck with a dumb username because you already tried with the good ones and by the time youre f i n a l l y on here you dont care about your boyfriend youre just aggravated with this website. lol. http://pfft.net/stories/20090716232556.html http://pfft.net/stories/20090716232556.html http://pfft.net/comments/20090716232556.html Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:09:00 GMT Tech acp2508@yahoo.com (justme09) Although it’s brought me that much closer to transforming into worm food, I’ve found that turning sixty is not without its compensations. While it’s true, for example, that my member isn’t getting a proper supply of blood anymore—and that I can no longer write my name in the sand and must settle for my initials—I can still have lots of fun with it. Thanks to an ever-enlarging prostate gland that’s threatening to devour my bladder, my urine stream now bifurcates at the exit point. This means that I can whiz into the toilet and the adjacent bathtub at the same time—which is a kick. My urologist says that while he can make no promises, there’s a good chance that in the not too distant future I’ll be capable of trifurcating. This will enable me to whiz into the toilet, the bathtub and the laundry basket simultaneously. I can’t wait. And by making it possible to legitimately deflect questions that have always rankled the hell out of me (“Isn’t it time you threw out those Smurf jars wi... http://pfft.net/stories/20090601073430.html http://pfft.net/stories/20090601073430.html http://pfft.net/comments/20090601073430.html Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:07:07 GMT Health Care rlevin@earthlink.net (RobertLevin) So I've been trying out a new phone lately and I found something worth honorable mention. I particularly enjoy having the internet on my phone. Actually the more like a laptop the phone is the more I like it. I am currently on a Touch Pro made by a company now called PPD I think but formerly and more widely known as Audiovox. When I first saw this phone I thought that the manufacturing was very cheaply done due to the sliding mechanism that hides the keyboard. I was wary of poor workmanship but after having the phone for several weeks now I think that fear was unfounded. It has been absolutely wonderful. I can satisfy all of my internet cravings with this one horrifically expensive device. I probably could have bought a laptop more cost-effectively. The only thing I can't do is Skype people. Not bad at all really. I could get rid of a regular PC altogether... almost.... It's an exciting world we live in. http://pfft.net/stories/20090314200538.html http://pfft.net/stories/20090314200538.html http://pfft.net/comments/20090314200538.html Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:31:45 GMT Tech jhyde Well, my last post was when i was in college, and now i have rised through the education system to reach university. It's going well so far, getting good grades and such. It's the living i'm struggling with myself. I'm one of these people that enjoy a drink, in a pub, nic and simple. I hate clubbing and i don't enjoy getting absolutely plastered. This becomes a problem with my housemates apparently. They do enjoy all those things, and feel that i MUST join in otherwise i'm a loser. as a person, i feel that i'm a good guy and fun to be around (just going on what i've been told also) so i don't see why i have to fall into this stereotype of being a lazy, useless student, who drinks away their money. I'm struggling enough as it is, what with the cost of generally living and text books. Ahh well, 5 more months and i am out of this house and with me mates, and the problem may arise over again. http://pfft.net/stories/20090210114717.html http://pfft.net/stories/20090210114717.html http://pfft.net/comments/20090210114717.html Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:55:07 GMT School Phibble I had a buddy set me up with MySpace last year. She gave me a password, uploaded photos to it, made me a decent looking default homepage, she even found me some friends to make sure I wouldn't be lonely in the new MySpace world. She did everything for me so I wouldn't have to lift a finger. I think I logged in twice. Once to add a couple pics, and another to check for anything new, just to see if I could get the hang of it. It never really caught on. I had a friend send me an email to join Facebook a couple weeks ago. I had to do all the account set up myself. I even picked out a profile picture and added a couple buddies myself who I knew were facebook junkies. I was whole-heartedly addicted to it for like five days. I uploaded photos, sent out gifts, hearts, and privatized my profile so only my friends could find me. I was far more productive on Facebook than I was on MySpace. I ask teenagers I run into which one they like better. MySpace is always the hands down response. They think it's m... http://pfft.net/stories/20090117224122.html http://pfft.net/stories/20090117224122.html http://pfft.net/comments/20090117224122.html Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:20:36 GMT Tech jhyde I will start this off by saying that the information I have is not based on any wide-spectrum report across the entire wireless industry. This is merely my perception from my side of the field. I work for a cell phone company that offers unlimited texting for a monthly fee. Typically, the repeat offenders in the text world are teenagers, and the reason they are considered "offenders" and not just "texters" is because they do it with absolutely no notion of what it could be potentially costing themselves, or namely, their parents. These offenders browse the internet, IM their buddies, download ringtones (a new one every week!), and in general try to impress their friends with their cool phones. I absolutely love it when these offenders come into the store expecting me to do something for them because their phone keypad is worn out, or the battery doesn't hold a charge, or it states inbox full when they just deleted like 900 texts, and it never has anything to do with the 10,000+ text messages they do pe... http://pfft.net/stories/20081212225012.html http://pfft.net/stories/20081212225012.html http://pfft.net/comments/20081212225012.html Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:27:11 GMT Tech jhyde This REALLY makes me go PFFT! So, at High School. Got a Health test. Doing not bad in my other Health stuff. We got to write an essay on the effects on drinking alcohol. So, we start. I read through the questions. What the fuck?! Ths is nothing like what we were told to revise! Anyway, I get on with it. I start explaining stuff that my Mum told me (She is a nurse). So I finish it off and stuff, then, the week later we get the results. 55%. PFFT! I go ask the teacher why I got that. He says "I don't know half the things in your report." He grabs it and reads out a bit. "I don't know what this is, can you explain it?" So I do, but he still looks baffled. So yeah, I got a D in that test, dragging me down HELL low. But, what I dont get is, I'm losing marks for teacher stupidity. PFFT!!! http://pfft.net/stories/20080925025955.html http://pfft.net/stories/20080925025955.html http://pfft.net/comments/20080925025955.html Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:39:19 GMT School You say you're a man and this is how you behave. If you know you wanted to end it, be the man you claim to be and come straight out and say it. I dont know if this is the new trend but if so I clearly didnt get that memo. I've been seeing this guy and there I was thinking that things are blossoming and soon we'll be in couple's paradise, boy was I wrong,as the so called "gentleman" just bounced. No phone calls, no text messages, nothing. If I call no answer. What kind of man are you, LOSER!!! if we're seeing each other and I was so blind to see that there was a problem, if that was the case the least you could have done was to bring it to my attention before you just excused yourself from the relationship. What makes it really really bad is that I really have it in for him. How sick is that? http://pfft.net/stories/20080909195458.html http://pfft.net/stories/20080909195458.html http://pfft.net/comments/20080909195458.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:45:20 GMT Relationships I married an out of towner. I was originally thinking that he would come and live with me in my town and all would be bliss. I was delirious and I admit it. Logic came in somehow and I decided that it would be good for me to uproot and move to his town, I would eventually get the hang of it and I would be just fine. I packed up a few of my belongings and headed out for the big city, 1900 miles away. I realized at the time that I was leaving behind an entire house full of memories, furniture and various crap, a brother, a sister and all my extended family, connections etc. I wondered at the time if it was really worth it, and when I got pregnant a mere three months later, had decided that it really wasn't. Truth be known I'm lazy and while I thought about leaving my husband, saying goodbye to my one bedroom apartment, and going back to my town where I thought I was appreciated and understood, my husband bought a house and I moved in happily. I thought it was a good idea. I thought it was the onl... http://pfft.net/stories/20080622194440.html http://pfft.net/stories/20080622194440.html http://pfft.net/comments/20080622194440.html Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:56:39 GMT Relationships jhyde So Xmas is gone and surprisingly, there wasn't an hassle between the religions. So it has been a hell of a year, stuff has happened, and things went wrong. But hey, we got through. Just a Merry Xmas everyone that uses Pfft! and to the editors too. And also Bring on the next year! And the Pfft!'s we'll get there too. Didn't think it was gonna be a !PFFT did ya? NO I have been kicked out of my room, because my grandma is staying! Great fun that is!!! I'm am forced to sleep in the backroom, the stuffiest of all rooms in the house. Yeah, my brother gets his way, cuz he's successful. But I ain't sour about it, but I have ammo whenever he even tries to complain. Ah well it's Saturday today, and she goes on Tuesday, but I ain't at home tonight. I'm at a mates house and I planned to get smashed. Yeah, Granny's old, but there is only so much you can say before you get bored and an awkward silence falls over the air. http://pfft.net/stories/20071229010230.html http://pfft.net/stories/20071229010230.html http://pfft.net/comments/20071229010230.html Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:18:04 GMT General Phibble Why should my GPA have to suffer because I was forced into a group to do an assignment. This is exactly what happened to me. I attend a university that seem to think group work is it. I was placed in a group with people that from the first day never clicked. There were those of us who tried to keep the peace and thankfully because of the few of us we were able to get the presentation together (with lots of tension). The major problem though was presentation day. Am still in shock and can't believe what happen. Every group member had a part to present and should have know they had to learn it and work on their presentation skills. Infact only a few of us presented the rest, just read and showed no interest in the thing. The instructor was not at all pleased as was visible from her facial expressions during the presentation and her comments after. I think in cases like these where it is obivious that somepersons did put the extra effort into the presentation then appropriate marks should be awarded. ... http://pfft.net/stories/20071207154821.html http://pfft.net/stories/20071207154821.html http://pfft.net/comments/20071207154821.html Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:20:19 GMT School I wanna scream but would anyone hear me? I wanna run but would anyone come look for me? The depression is back and there's no one to run to, no one to talk to, no one to console or comfort me. So I ended my final exams today before the winter break, and it was supposed to be such a happy day filled with excitement and anticipation about the upcoming holidays. Instead I realised the same thing is gonna happen this holiday I will be spending it alone with no one to share it wtih. It sucks to be alone during the holiday season. Being alone any other time of year is bad but during the holiday season its even worse. I mean all these warm commercials, songs and promotions to stimulate togetherness and then you realise oh! I have no one but myself. Its really bad especailly at the parties and other season activities, when all couples come together and act so in love and happy.(blahhh!!!!!) But to those of you who are like me and may be alone, look on the bright side we are financially free this time of yea... http://pfft.net/stories/20071207151320.html http://pfft.net/stories/20071207151320.html http://pfft.net/comments/20071207151320.html Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:44:39 GMT Relationships