I know that twitter is all about being on top of the very latest of information, screw anything older than about an hour, but it annoys me sometimes when I see how hard it is to see what happened a couple of days ago. That means that most of the companies that put their updates on twitter for me to read ultimately have me not reading their updates because they're lost in the sea of other posts. I really prefer RSS. shakes cane, yells at cloud Get off my lawn!
Irk videos are criminally under watched. How this series isn't one of the most popular things on YouTube alludes me. No sarcasm, this is genuinely awesome and Ask Irk reminds me a lot of Strongbad Emails. Oh and just so you know, I would buy Irk merch in a heartbeat -- hint hint.
@Superjimtendo Irk's videos are okay. But if you want some REALLY funny videos, check out Ask a Ninja. Dunno if theyre still around on youtube,tho. They first came out like 10 years ago.
I feel liberated from having to complain about Twitter, (or their hashtags) since i have never been a user. Don't have a facebook account, either (nor myspace or flikr or instagram, or any of that... Yeah, haha - so good luck creepin' on me, cyberstalkers!), but i do wonder if everyone born after 1990 has ADHD. Because i see them constantly checking these social media things and constantly updating information on there as though they are all textbook OCD narcissists. Don't they know nobody cares?! And i can somehow feel the collective intelligence being sucked from our society as we inch our way towards the realization of the movie Idiocracy. Oh the horror...
@pepsiwine Are you sure they're checking their social media things? Yesterday as I was walking to my car after lunch, I pulled out my phone to add honey to the shopping list. I thought how if someone saw me doing that they might think I was checking social media. But I was born significantly before 1990 so probably not.
@SSteve You're precisely correct - that's how you can tell if they're checking their social media things: if they were born after 1990 and they're on their phone then they're doing social media or posting pictures of their latest duck face. If they're born before 1990 then they're typing things into their "Reminder List" to supplement their declining memory abilities. I know this because that's about all I use my iPhone for - that wonderful Reminder list.
@SSteve And I predict that social media things are the new lower-back tattoo. That shit's gonna come back to haunt you kiddies in a few years. Oh - and get off my lawn.
@pepsiwine Did you know you can tell Siri to remind you to do something when you get home? e.g. "When I get home remind me to put the clothes in the dryer."
@Teripie Another characteristic of a post-1990 birth: the attention span of a puppy. More than 5 words and these millenials find themselves being easily distracted by shiny things and squirrels. Here's the tl;dr for those with special needs: #AquiredADD
@SSteve I don't want Siri announcing out loud when i walk in the grocery store for me to remember to buy the super, jumbo, extra value combo pack of maple brown sugar frosted Pop Tarts. Some reminders need to be kept on the downlow.
@clyde2801 I can't believe they deleted my first quote from the movie because someone got a bug up their butts. I think they didn't even freakin understand it was a quote. Idiot.
@clyde2801 Yeah I just noticed that. Well a lot of times the squeaky, ignorant wheels are the ones that get the grease. Plus people are really sensitive these days about the "R" word - even if it's just being quoted from a movie. But I am a little surprised it was deleted - I thought people on here were a little more progressive and enlightened than that. Oh well, just make like a Taylor Swift and "Shake it Off"!! :-)~
@Teripie Hey, nice job trolling and judging a conversation you weren't even a part of! You're gonna make a good scapegoat when your time finally comes. But until then...
@pepsiwine Out of context, that comment looked like pure trolling. @Teripie was trying to keep someone from being really, really crappy to you. I guess you could take that badly, rather than just explain what it was, but that seems like the wrong way to go with it.
@Thumperchick Hey it's cool either way. A lot of the tone gets lost in written words anyways, so it's best to always assume there's no rude intentions on here. However her followup quote DID happen to be: "@pepsiwine Unfortunately I did not do a tl;dr. I just posted that because I think that's what you derserve." But maybe I misunderstood what she was trying to say with that. Plus the other comments on here were quotes from the movie - no one was being cruel to me - we were all just having a good time, but I think some onlookers maybe didn't pick up on that. Anyways, sorry if I offended. Hope all can be well!
@Thumperchick Thank you for improving my offensive quote! But am I confusing that with the line from the doctor saying his tard ex-wife is now a pilot? -brought to you by Carl's Jr.
I don't know if this is the same thing, but it bothers me when tv shows have a hashtag in one of the corners. Because even if I was the type to tweet about something I'm watching - and I'm not - it just wouldn't be enough to hashtag the NAME OF THE SHOW.
We oldsters hold no monopoly on inflexible thinking. Sometimes in the front pocket of the illest, freshest hoodie is where you'll find the most old-timey pocket watch of all, the pocket watch of prejudging. Hmm? #wordsofwisdom #torturedmetaphorsthatdontreallyadduptoanything
Church, Irk.
(And for the record, tortured metaphors that don't really add up to anything are among my favorites. It's language, goddamnit, not math.)
There's nothing wrong with Twitter as long as you are very selective in who you follow. You won't get overwhelmed with crap and generally only stuff of reasonable interest shows up in your timeline. But if you follow hundreds and include tweets from celebrities you're going to get inundated. Serves you right.
I check on Twitter twice a day. Thats enough with only 32 followed.
Tivo > commercials. I don't even use that 30-second skip because I am a fast-forwarding motherfucker. (Anyway, it needs to be 29 seconds to account for reaction time.)
When I see these questions, I always guess that either it doesn't bother Irk as much as the question asker, or it bothers Irk an incredible amount. Because if it bothered him more than it should, it'd not be in this series.
I guess everything in the world falls somewhere on this spectrum: Doesn't Bother Irk Much -> Bothers Irk As Much As It Should -> Bothers Irk More Than It Should
https://twitter.com/WeAreMeh
@lichme and twitter was the only way for me to reliably check today's deal while it loaded in my browser!
We must all abandon our pocket watches of prejudging.
Where were you going with that irk?
No really
How old are you, Irk? (And I don't mean how old is @matthew -- I want a full back story for the puppet, please.)
I guess I should have put this in the Ask Irk thread.
@christinerenee Yes, yes you should.
@joelmw You should have told her beforehand, darn it. What do you have to say for yourself?
@duodec
@christinerenee Puppet? PUPPET?!? Are you trying to tell me that Irk is a puppet? Lies! Meh heretic!
@joelmw Are those… giant goat crêpes?
@brhfl So are you suggesting he (I?) took a big crêpe?
@brhfl cabrito tostada
@joelmw If only there were someone I could blame for such groan-inducing wordplay!
@brhfl I'll grrrr own it. :-)
I know that twitter is all about being on top of the very latest of information, screw anything older than about an hour, but it annoys me sometimes when I see how hard it is to see what happened a couple of days ago. That means that most of the companies that put their updates on twitter for me to read ultimately have me not reading their updates because they're lost in the sea of other posts. I really prefer RSS. shakes cane, yells at cloud Get off my lawn!
@kazriko RSS! Yay!
Irk videos are criminally under watched. How this series isn't one of the most popular things on YouTube alludes me. No sarcasm, this is genuinely awesome and Ask Irk reminds me a lot of Strongbad Emails. Oh and just so you know, I would buy Irk merch in a heartbeat -- hint hint.
hashtag irkhoodies
@Superjimtendo Irk videos where he's talking (Ask Irk and Maybe it bothers me more than it should) are the highlight of my viewing of Meh videos.
@Superjimtendo Irk's videos are okay. But if you want some REALLY funny videos, check out Ask a Ninja. Dunno if theyre still around on youtube,tho. They first came out like 10 years ago.
@Superjimtendo #Spelling out the word hashtag is the new hashtag.
@Superjimtendo Do you have any advice on how we would go about criminalizing not watching Irk videos? That could help.
i went to an iron maiden concert wearing a hoodie.
I feel liberated from having to complain about Twitter, (or their hashtags) since i have never been a user. Don't have a facebook account, either (nor myspace or flikr or instagram, or any of that... Yeah, haha - so good luck creepin' on me, cyberstalkers!), but i do wonder if everyone born after 1990 has ADHD. Because i see them constantly checking these social media things and constantly updating information on there as though they are all textbook OCD narcissists. Don't they know nobody cares?! And i can somehow feel the collective intelligence being sucked from our society as we inch our way towards the realization of the movie Idiocracy. Oh the horror...
@pepsiwine
@clyde2801 @JonT. Is this kind of nastiness necessary?
@clyde2801 I like money.
@pepsiwine @clyde2801 Fuck you, I'm eating.
@clyde2801 @deichernc @JonT Go away, 'Batin.
@AnnaB Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.
@pepsiwine Are you sure they're checking their social media things? Yesterday as I was walking to my car after lunch, I pulled out my phone to add honey to the shopping list. I thought how if someone saw me doing that they might think I was checking social media. But I was born significantly before 1990 so probably not.
@SSteve You're precisely correct - that's how you can tell if they're checking their social media things: if they were born after 1990 and they're on their phone then they're doing social media or posting pictures of their latest duck face. If they're born before 1990 then they're typing things into their "Reminder List" to supplement their declining memory abilities. I know this because that's about all I use my iPhone for - that wonderful Reminder list.
@SSteve And I predict that social media things are the new lower-back tattoo. That shit's gonna come back to haunt you kiddies in a few years. Oh - and get off my lawn.
@pepsiwine Did you know you can tell Siri to remind you to do something when you get home? e.g. "When I get home remind me to put the clothes in the dryer."
@pepsiwine Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
@pepsiwine tl;dr
@clyde2801 Welcome to Costco. I love you.
@Teripie Another characteristic of a post-1990 birth: the attention span of a puppy. More than 5 words and these millenials find themselves being easily distracted by shiny things and squirrels. Here's the tl;dr for those with special needs: #AquiredADD
@pepsiwine Jesus, how could I have forgotten that one?!?
@clyde2801 Not Sure. (Lol)
@SSteve I don't want Siri announcing out loud when i walk in the grocery store for me to remember to buy the super, jumbo, extra value combo pack of maple brown sugar frosted Pop Tarts. Some reminders need to be kept on the downlow.
@pepsiwine "It's time for you (yes, you, @pepsiwine) to cool it with the ageism, kiddo."
@pepsiwine You got me good. Ow, my balls!
@joelmw
@clyde2801
@pepsiwine Unfortunately I did not do a tl;dr. I just posted that because I think that's what you derserve.
@clyde2801 I can't believe they deleted my first quote from the movie because someone got a bug up their butts. I think they didn't even freakin understand it was a quote. Idiot.
@clyde2801 Yeah I just noticed that. Well a lot of times the squeaky, ignorant wheels are the ones that get the grease. Plus people are really sensitive these days about the "R" word - even if it's just being quoted from a movie. But I am a little surprised it was deleted - I thought people on here were a little more progressive and enlightened than that. Oh well, just make like a Taylor Swift and "Shake it Off"!! :-)~
@Teripie Hey, nice job trolling and judging a conversation you weren't even a part of! You're gonna make a good scapegoat when your time finally comes. But until then...
@clyde2801 If by delete you mean, replace with the clip that clearly shows it's from the movie...
@pepsiwine Out of context, that comment looked like pure trolling. @Teripie was trying to keep someone from being really, really crappy to you. I guess you could take that badly, rather than just explain what it was, but that seems like the wrong way to go with it.
@Thumperchick Hey it's cool either way. A lot of the tone gets lost in written words anyways, so it's best to always assume there's no rude intentions on here. However her followup quote DID happen to be: "@pepsiwine Unfortunately I did not do a tl;dr. I just posted that because I think that's what you derserve." But maybe I misunderstood what she was trying to say with that. Plus the other comments on here were quotes from the movie - no one was being cruel to me - we were all just having a good time, but I think some onlookers maybe didn't pick up on that. Anyways, sorry if I offended. Hope all can be well!
@Thumperchick Thank you for improving my offensive quote! But am I confusing that with the line from the doctor saying his tard ex-wife is now a pilot? -brought to you by Carl's Jr.
@clyde2801 I didn't do it... I lack the flask of power.
@SSteve "When I get home remind me to put clothes on" sounds like more fun...
I can't even begin to elaborate on how much I dislike Twitter. So, thanks Irk. Once again you've rambled on in the most sensical way possible.
@lowerone This should show @Irk and his grandparents that no explanation is necessary or desirable.
@2many2no
@lowerone Gotta love Bruce:
What you talkin' 'bout, Irk?
@nadroj I was just going to say this. I'm still humming the damned song.
I don't know if this is the same thing, but it bothers me when tv shows have a hashtag in one of the corners. Because even if I was the type to tweet about something I'm watching - and I'm not - it just wouldn't be enough to hashtag the NAME OF THE SHOW.
And I want that 1% of the screen back.
Anyone else feel like Irk took over the Drinking Terrible video before this rant?
"my sensibilities were shaped in a byegone age."
I hope to reuse this baby:
Church, Irk.
(And for the record, tortured metaphors that don't really add up to anything are among my favorites. It's language, goddamnit, not math.)
There's nothing wrong with Twitter as long as you are very selective in who you follow. You won't get overwhelmed with crap and generally only stuff of reasonable interest shows up in your timeline. But if you follow hundreds and include tweets from celebrities you're going to get inundated. Serves you right.
I check on Twitter twice a day. Thats enough with only 32 followed.
I hate commercials. I go to great lengths to avoid them.
Tivo > commercials. I don't even use that 30-second skip because I am a fast-forwarding motherfucker. (Anyway, it needs to be 29 seconds to account for reaction time.)
When I see these questions, I always guess that either it doesn't bother Irk as much as the question asker, or it bothers Irk an incredible amount. Because if it bothered him more than it should, it'd not be in this series.
I guess everything in the world falls somewhere on this spectrum:
Doesn't Bother Irk Much -> Bothers Irk As Much As It Should -> Bothers Irk More Than It Should
@dave There may be some overlap in the first two categories.
@nadroj Even in the first and third, really…
@dave Hey Kids, now you too can look at the world through the lens of the new 'B.I. Scale'
@Bingo SAP has a BI solution for that.
I was born in the 1970s and I like twitter. I also don't hate hashtags, although I rarely use them and barely understand when I should use one.
So there.
@christinerenee #sothere
@brhfl Of course! Such a missed opportunity! One of these days I'll figure out hashtags.
ink, you reminded me of yoda in this one...
@Zestible Irk*
@Zestible It might be better as "Ink." :-)
Anyone else have a bit of trouble hearing Irk at times, because the music was too loud?
@Zelucifer if it's too old you're too loud.
@TerriblyHuang I am almost in my third decade, the hearing is the first thing to go you know!
@Zelucifer What?
@Zelucifer Imagine what it will be like when you're old enough to drink.
@nadroj It's going to be a long time before I'm old enough to drink again.