Pointless Advice

And a couple of threads here at the TFP .

 

Don't date anyone from work. that'll surely fuck up your life at some point.

 

What's that old saying about not excreting in you food supply?

 

Don't shit where you eat.

Truth.

 

never jump into a long-running thread comprised of relatively common tropes. you'll have to wade through 12 pages of history to be sure you're not repeating something already posted back on page four.

 

Give hugs freely

 

When you've got to poop, poop. Don't put it off all day, and for god's sake don't postpone it till the next morning.

 

thunder only happens when it rains. players only love you when they're playing.

 

I love the players, and you love the game

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Every baller on the streets is searching for fortune and fame
Some come up, some get done up, except the twist.

 

i prefer to just stand there.

 

If you want it, you've got it.
Hey. If you want it, baby, you got it... Crabs.

 

Or when they tell you to get out of the way.
Or when they tell you they want chocolate milk.
Or when they tell you they need their feet rubbed.

 

Hard lesson re-learned again today.

When you have a perfectly good iTunes program on your computer, and a dialog box from Apple pops up and says, "New version of iTunes, install now?" the right answer is NO.

Trouble is, they will ask again and again and again until (in a weak moment) you give in and click "yes".

You think, how bad could it be? Presumably they worked the bugs out this time.

But then you're in for many MANY hours of completely wasted time, trying without success to get iTunes to work again.

After each increment oftime uninstalling (which takes many steps, each of which requires a lot of waiting, and sometimes just fails) and reinstalling (also very time consuming)(, you get the big happy-face announcement that you have "successfully" installed iTunes.

But try to run it, and you'll see this charming little dialog box pop up:



So I guess I don't get to listen to my own choice of music any more.

No matter how cynical you may be about Apple and its products, you're never cynical enough.

 

I just updated my iTunes a few days ago and now all the music I play through it is popping and clicking.
At first I thought there was something wrong with my soundcard, the cable for my headphones, or the drive.
It was none of the above.
I downloaded VLC media player and all the files play just fine so it's the damned iTunes.
Played with the settings, nothing.