pet peeves

[Peter_SSs]

As for what really chaps my @ss?. . .
Pinheads who don't hit their turn signals until they're already turning the wheel.
Honestly, I don't need a signal to tell me you're turning: I can see that you're turning.
What I want is a signal telling me you're GONNA turn!
~HalfAce

Oh!!! That's gotta be one of my top 5 too! It really frosts my .... when they're coming from the left and you want to turn left and there's traffic coming from the right but there's enough time to get out there if you could go *now*. But noooooo, Mr. Dipstick-on-the-left has you pinned there and then - like you said, signals his turn 10 feet from the corner - and now it's too late 'cause the car coming from the right has closed the gap and you get to sit for another couple of minutes! [Brits please mentally reverse all the left and right stuff.] Oh, makes my blood boil just thinking about it!

Count me in too! After all, how hard is to flick the bl**dy lever a few seconds earlier? Maybe their instruction manual has that lever labelled "I have turned a corner" of "I have just changed lanes"

 

[SydneyGeek]

(Good point about the vegetarians' consideration for the rest of us too.)

A guy on Sydney radio had a rant about this a while back. His comment was,
"I've said it before... salad is what food eats!"

Denis

 

[HalfAce]

"...salad is what food eats!"

Like I always say:
"If animals weren't meant to be eaten, they wouldn't be made of meat!"

 

[SydneyGeek]

Another line I liked from the same guy:

Hand out sausages to everyone at the barbeque and, if they protest, say
"Don't worry, it only contains vegetarians!"

Denis

 

[Patience]

Excel wise, limit on nested IFs. Automatically putting a space in my defined names, then returning an error value...

Can't think of a reason you would need, really, more than 3 or 4. If you need more than that then there most likely a much better way to do it...and usually, but not always, what you really need is a VLOOKUP.

Well you would be right, but some of the raw data I receive from our accounts department is so ridiculously inconsistent I need to test about 20 fields to get a single answer... But that is why they pay me, I suppose. If accounts weren't so unhelpful I would be out on my ear!

 

[Lewiy]

Excel wise, limit on nested IFs. Automatically putting a space in my defined names, then returning an error value...

Can't think of a reason you would need, really, more than 3 or 4. If you need more than that then there most likely a much better way to do it...and usually, but not always, what you really need is a VLOOKUP.

Well you would be right, but some of the raw data I receive from our accounts department is so ridiculously inconsistent I need to test about 20 fields to get a single answer... But that is why they pay me, I suppose. If accounts weren't so unhelpful I would be out on my ear!

I hope you're not having a dig at accounts departments here............

 

[Domski]

I hope you're not having a dig at accounts departments here............

I thought it was generally open season on accounts departments

 

[al_b_cnu]

Excel wise, limit on nested IFs. Automatically putting a space in my defined names, then returning an error value...

Can't think of a reason you would need, really, more than 3 or 4. If you need more than that then there most likely a much better way to do it...and usually, but not always, what you really need is a VLOOKUP.

Well you would be right, but some of the raw data I receive from our accounts department is so ridiculously inconsistent I need to test about 20 fields to get a single answer... But that is why they pay me, I suppose. If accounts weren't so unhelpful I would be out on my ear!

I hope you're not having a dig at accounts departments here............

My pet peeve's nested quotes

 

[Lewiy]

I hope you're not having a dig at accounts departments here............

I thought it was generally open season on accounts departments

I'll have to remove my high vis jacket and start watching my back then.

Why is it that the hunted always seem to be unaware that they're the hunted until it's too late

 

[Patience]

Excel wise, limit on nested IFs. Automatically putting a space in my defined names, then returning an error value...

Can't think of a reason you would need, really, more than 3 or 4. If you need more than that then there most likely a much better way to do it...and usually, but not always, what you really need is a VLOOKUP.

Well you would be right, but some of the raw data I receive from our accounts department is so ridiculously inconsistent I need to test about 20 fields to get a single answer... But that is why they pay me, I suppose. If accounts weren't so unhelpful I would be out on my ear!

I hope you're not having a dig at accounts departments here............

My pet peeve's nested quotes

Muahahaha!

I wasn't having a dig at accounts departments, no, just the one in my company! Promise!