Comments on: Instructional instructions http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/ funny (if not necessarily "passive-aggressive") notes from pissed-off people Thu, 16 May 2013 14:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Malaysian http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-382300 Malaysian Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:31:03 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-382300 This being from Malaysia, I sincerely doubt that show of PA was intentional. This being from Malaysia, I sincerely doubt that show of PA was intentional.

]]> By: Susannie http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-382144 Susannie Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:01:51 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-382144 Yeah, me too. I recently realised that my away-messages ended with: Have a nice summer.. Yeah, me too. I recently realised that my away-messages ended with: Have a nice summer..

]]> By: Burly http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-381756 Burly Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:36:52 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-381756 #Kate! Welcome to America! If you are in America, you are entitled, nay, EXPECTED to sue Everyone who didn't tell you not to put the “L” earbud into your right ear before you sat directly in front of the air conditioner to make lemonade out of the water coming from it. Except me. #Kate! Welcome to America! If you are in America, you are entitled, nay, EXPECTED to sue Everyone who didn’t tell you not to put the “L” earbud into your right ear before you sat directly in front of the air conditioner to make lemonade out of the water coming from it.
Except me.

]]> By: Smiley4099 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-381710 Smiley4099 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:59:28 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-381710 Also, if you've ever tried listening to "Sergeant Pepper's Lonley Hearts Club Band" with ear buds, the singing comes out of one ear and the instruments come out of the other. Also, if you’ve ever tried listening to “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonley Hearts Club Band” with ear buds, the singing comes out of one ear and the instruments come out of the other.

]]> By: Canthz_B http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-381655 Canthz_B Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:36:12 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-381655 As good a description of stereo as any. Also, sometimes the sound transitions slowly from one side to the other, making it feel like say the drums have just gone through you. There's a song by Parliament or Funkadelic (Theme from the Black Hole?) that ends with a transition that makes it sound like a spaceship has just flown over your head from left to right. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6kXBYtOvMU" rel="nofollow">found it!</a> Cool. As good a description of stereo as any.

Also, sometimes the sound transitions slowly from one side to the other, making it feel like say the drums have just gone through you.

There’s a song by Parliament or Funkadelic (Theme from the Black Hole?) that ends with a transition that makes it sound like a spaceship has just flown over your head from left to right.

found it!

Cool.

]]> By: unholyghost2003 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-381648 unholyghost2003 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:31:24 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-381648 OK, as a hearing impaired person who does not have 100% hearing loss in my "deaf" ear I have an answer for both of you! (the easiest description is ... you know when you are really stuffed up and you can't hear anything? That is what my "deaf" ear is like all the time. I can tell there are sounds but I can't hear words or anything and there are some pitches I can't hear on my "deaf" side at all. It is lots of fun to watch me try to find the beeping smoke alarm, since this means I have no sense of the direction a sound is coming from) Rattus, While I am not sure this is true for the iPod brand earbuds many other types of earbuds have a slight contour that makes them seat more comfortably and firmly in their designated ear. (BTW I am also deaf in my left ear ... crazy) also (and this gets into the answer for CB) depending on the album/song you DON'T always get the same sound from each earbud. I noticed this listening to the same pieces of music on my earbuds and on speakers ... some pieces of music divide up the main melody and the counter point between the left and the right, usually the right gets the main melody and the left gets the counterpoint. OK, as a hearing impaired person who does not have 100% hearing loss in my “deaf” ear I have an answer for both of you! (the easiest description is … you know when you are really stuffed up and you can’t hear anything? That is what my “deaf” ear is like all the time. I can tell there are sounds but I can’t hear words or anything and there are some pitches I can’t hear on my “deaf” side at all. It is lots of fun to watch me try to find the beeping smoke alarm, since this means I have no sense of the direction a sound is coming from)

Rattus, While I am not sure this is true for the iPod brand earbuds many other types of earbuds have a slight contour that makes them seat more comfortably and firmly in their designated ear. (BTW I am also deaf in my left ear … crazy) also (and this gets into the answer for CB) depending on the album/song you DON’T always get the same sound from each earbud. I noticed this listening to the same pieces of music on my earbuds and on speakers … some pieces of music divide up the main melody and the counter point between the left and the right, usually the right gets the main melody and the left gets the counterpoint.

]]> By: matt http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-381647 matt Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:14:00 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-381647 These instructions are here to save your ass not kiss it These instructions are here to save your ass not kiss it

]]> By: matt http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-381646 matt Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:10:50 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-381646 case in point: packet of screws in korea labled "screw China" case in point: packet of screws in korea labled “screw China”

]]> By: Canthz_B http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-381643 Canthz_B Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:02:07 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-381643 I've never thought of that. I guess I've always just taken stereo for granted. I know I hate it when the left earbud dies and I only get sound in one ear, but I'd sure like to know why it's always the left one that dies! I’ve never thought of that. I guess I’ve always just taken stereo for granted.
I know I hate it when the left earbud dies and I only get sound in one ear, but I’d sure like to know why it’s always the left one that dies!

]]> By: Rattus http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-381641 Rattus Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:48:19 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-381641 Okay, apparently I'm a complete moron, but what is the purpose of right and left earbuds? I just got my first iPod a few months ago and I'm deaf in one ear, so I just put one random bud in my right ear. Should I be using the one labelled R all the time? Okay, apparently I’m a complete moron, but what is the purpose of right and left earbuds? I just got my first iPod a few months ago and I’m deaf in one ear, so I just put one random bud in my right ear. Should I be using the one labelled R all the time?

]]> By: Kate from Iowa http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-381639 Kate from Iowa Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:14:57 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-381639 What did she say again? I'm having hearing problems because no one told me not to put the "L" earbud into my right ear before I sat directly in front of the air conditioner to make lemonade out of the water coming from it. What did she say again? I’m having hearing problems because no one told me not to put the “L” earbud into my right ear before I sat directly in front of the air conditioner to make lemonade out of the water coming from it.

]]> By: Kate from Iowa http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-381638 Kate from Iowa Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:09:32 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-381638 Dina it made me laugh so hard I had to share. I sent it around to some friends, most of whom had the reaction "well, did you do any of them?" *sigh* One of them however, pointed me to this site a few months ago, so they're not all lost causes. Dina it made me laugh so hard I had to share. I sent it around to some friends, most of whom had the reaction “well, did you do any of them?” *sigh*

One of them however, pointed me to this site a few months ago, so they’re not all lost causes.

]]> By: Kate from Iowa http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-381637 Kate from Iowa Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:03:56 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-381637 Poor Tim and his rupture! Poor Tim and his rupture!

]]> By: The Elf http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/02/09/instructional-instructions/comment-page-1/#comment-381621 The Elf Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:22:57 +0000 http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=17622#comment-381621 What? They don't believe in concussive maintenance? What? They don’t believe in concussive maintenance?

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