yes! they are still in my flickrs
― the sun just sent me a text (gbx), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 03:16 (fifteen years ago) link
that was a really good story, i was into it.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 03:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/488866445_49ed9f3629.jpg?v=0
― the sun just sent me a text (gbx), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/213/488866533_d421665ac4.jpg?v=0
― the sun just sent me a text (gbx), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 03:18 (fifteen years ago) link
whats that penis sticking out of dude's head
xp nev mind
― choom gangsta (deej), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 03:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/211/488863262_072763a23b.jpg?v=0
loadin BBs, dog all smelling stuff
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/228/488863370_2796a5f60b.jpg?v=0
this guy hated his job so much
― the sun just sent me a text (gbx), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
if you had the neighbor i did, you wouldn't answer the door either. voted ban deeznuts.
― VISION QUEST TO KNOCK YOU UP (John Justen), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/488922812_e88dcc1458.jpg?v=0
L-R: my car (covered in bird shit), sad bored salesman waiting for his ride, box with his vacuum cleaner
― the sun just sent me a text (gbx), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 03:20 (fifteen years ago) link
also i love the vacuum dude story
― VISION QUEST TO KNOCK YOU UP (John Justen), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
if you had the neighbor i did do ;_;
― VISION QUEST TO KNOCK YOU UP (John Justen), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i hope SOMEBODY ended up buying that vacuum from that poor dude
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 03:52 (fifteen years ago) link
peopel be just pressing every buzzer on box all the time. fuck answering a buzzer.
― intersting moran (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I have an entryphone and a buzzer, though the latter doesn't always work. I'll *usually* pick up the phone unless it's the middle of the night. If it's random nutjobs, I can always hang up. Maybe it's rude to hang up on an entryphone, but I think it's pretty rude to ring the doorbell of random strangers.
Usually it is actually the dude come to read the meters, though. Which I like because otherwise they charge me an arm and a leg if they estimate.
― I Am Bored Of This Screen Name (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean maybe it's also worth pointing out here that i'm the type of dude that always answers the phone whether i recognize the number or not.
― omg grapeHOOS superman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
"maybe it's a new friend!!!"
who doesn't answer their door when someone rings/buzzes/knocks wtf
― omg grapeHOOS superman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 04:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i barely answer my phone when i recognize the #
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link
how does you barely answer???
― intersting moran (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link
"hel..."
yes. i say "hell" into the phone and then hang up. it's weird that ppl keep calling.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
what fresh hell is this?
― buzza, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Our entryphone buzzer is REALLY farking loud so we actually can't not hear it. I think that's half the reason we don't respond to it.
― Pope Bend + Dick XVI (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
99% of the time it will be someone i don't know and/or don't want to see. the other 1% can call my fucking phone (which gets reception. or if it doesn't OMG WTF I AM NOT ABLE TO BE GOTTEN A HOLD OF THE VERY SECOND YOU WISH O WHAT A WORLD WHAT A WORLD). the whole point of having a private dwelling is so you can choose who you want to have contact with and when.
― expletive for lady parts (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 06:00 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^^^
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 06:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I honestly can't think of a single time in the past 10 years when someone I actually know has unexpectedly turned up ringing my buzzer.
This really makes me wonder why, 90% of the time, I have still bothered getting up and checking who's buzzing. Like a whole accumulated 10 hours of my life spent going "who is it?" and getting dead air or incomprehensible mumbling in return, or trying to convince people that seriously, I would know if a dude named Marco lived with me, and he doesn't, unless your friend Marco is a cockroach.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 06:38 (fifteen years ago) link
oh man poor marco, his family treats him so bad.
― VISION QUEST TO KNOCK YOU UP (John Justen), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 06:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i cant think of a time someone i DONT know has actually knocked on my door
― choom gangsta (deej), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 08:33 (fifteen years ago) link
say hi to the other inmates for me
― Pope Bend + Dick XVI (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 08:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Open package and give 'em a HELICOPTER
― A bright pair of newcomers called BROS (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 08:43 (fifteen years ago) link
it's true tho brooklyn drop-bys are another bag altogether. altho the last few times it was my boyfriend locked out.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 08:45 (fifteen years ago) link
an acquaintance of mine has been showing up unexpectedly (and unwelcome-ly) at an increasingly frequent rate over the past year or so. when i tried ignoring the doorbell, he went round and banged on the window, and then came back every half hour for another couple of hours. it's never anything important, and he never bothers to ask if it's a good time before coming over. this happened three days in a row last week, at which point i felt compelled to e-mail him to let him know that he really must ask me first before coming over. very sick of having my evenings regularly interrupted by his surprise visits.
― modernism, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 09:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, you people have some shitty friends. I do have a friend who... vvveerrryy occasionally drops by, because she lives down the road (this is such a novelty in a large city like London) But she usually does text first.
I love it when random friends drop by - OK, wait, it is the visit that is random, not the friend.
But it's rare. I'd get annoyed if it happened ALL. THE. TIME.
― I Am Bored Of This Screen Name (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm the first flat in the building and fuckers always buzzing my buzzer to get let in. I do not answer. I just watch them on the videophone until they go away.
― sister s (ledge), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i only answer the buzzer if i'm expecting someone food
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 12:24 (fifteen years ago) link
You phone out for Pizza.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.perryroth.com/100104/images/ny_doorman.jpg
you rang?
― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
In keeping with my lack of a cell phone, I generally yell "Go away."
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
save your voice: http://stagingrockland.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/doormat9.jpg
― expletive for lady parts (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Beware of Morb
― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://s2.thisnext.com/media/230x230_no_border/Traditional-Irish-welcome_2D14561F.jpg
― Meat ROFL (suzy), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
the other aspect of mobile phone ubiquity is that many people don't have landlines, so if their phone's not working for whatever reason (dead zone, ringer off, whatever) there is no alternative to just droppin on in
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
If someone rings the bell when I'm not expecting anyone, I can look out the bay window in the living room and see them on the steps and decide whether I want to engage with them or let them think I am not at home.
― La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l’on n’a pas (Michael White), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I've come to believe that hiding from the doorbell is just one more avoidant personality trait that doesn't help anyone, least of all myself.
― Meat ROFL (suzy), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I just don't want to have to walk down the stairs when I can tell somebody to fuck off from right over their head.
― La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l’on n’a pas (Michael White), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
A shop near my old work which is run by ESLs has a mat out the front that says NOT WELCOME and they just lay a bit of paper over the word NOT.
― Pope Bend + Dick XVI (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
small old shadout mapes lady just at the door was a lovely old dear, but probably the worst saleswoman ever. Didn't even bother telling me what she was selling, just a forlorn "Hiya luv, do you wanna buy owt?"... it could have been anything. Yes, weapons grade plutonium please. and some pegs.
― tomofthenest, Friday, 25 June 2010 08:36 (thirteen years ago) link
shadout mapes
Read the books and seen the movie but I still had to google that - impressive.
― StanM, Friday, 25 June 2010 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
bet she had a PS4 and you've missed out
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:15 (thirteen years ago) link
standard fantasy trope- you always buy what a wizened old lady is selling, and you never take up a wizened old guy's invitation to fight him.
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
She was selling the spice.
― StanM, Friday, 25 June 2010 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.cuckoocomics.com/animation_art/D_image/WitchApple.jpg
― all the geir, no idea (ledge), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
fuckin mormons or some shit
― death kebab of DEATH (Pillbox), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
ha ledge as soon as i typed that i fukn knew someone would go there.
don't be silly, tho- that's shit's only a story
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Attention people canvassing door to door for nebulous kids' charity, ignoring the 'no pedlars' sign in a private block less than 500 feet from the world's most famous paediatric hospital: UR DOIN IT RONG.
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:33 (thirteen years ago) link
hey dm, what area of Dublin do you live in. I'm curious b/c I used to live in Rathmines & I honestly can't remember a single peddler dropping by - then again, I did live on the fourth floor, so I actually prob missed out on a bevy of incredible bargains.
― death kebab of DEATH (Pillbox), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:34 (thirteen years ago) link
sban
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
uh, am I wrong about you living in Dublin? sry whatevs
― death kebab of DEATH (Pillbox), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
:) it's a 'thing'
i'm out in the sticks way out west.
i doubt v much that somewhere plush as rathmines would be a profitable calling ground for door-to-door sellers alright.
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:42 (thirteen years ago) link
If "plush" entails a nightmare of broken & leaking plumbing & a "furnace" that our deadbeat landlord actually once "fixed" w/ rubber bands & a ballpoint pen before once again disappearing for weeks at a time w/o heat in the dead of winter, then I'd hate to endure the conditions in some of the seedier areas! At least out there you can burn peat chips or something ;)
― death kebab of DEATH (Pillbox), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:48 (thirteen years ago) link
no sympathy for jackeens, if ye want to live on top of each other that close to the brits ye have it coming imo.
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:50 (thirteen years ago) link