clarification- never cover a sneeze with bare hand, but if you must...
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
Also surprise new entry that just happened - woman sitting in train aisle seat with head buried in her phone, headphones on doing her best to ignore me asking for the window seat! Was literally standing there a couple of minutes. Categorise this as any prick on public transport tbh! Shout out to the woman opposite who leaned over and literally waved her hand in the woman’s face to get her to stop ignoring me so I could sit.
― gyac, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
my favorite sign in office kitchen was "Please do not pour aquarium gravel down sink," which was only made more wtf by the fact that all of our kitchens have disposals.
Aquarium gravel will fuck up a sink disposal. Trust me.
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
^^^^^^^
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
Why are office workers even handling aquarium gravel on the regular?
― too gashly (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v7WLkdqLky0/maxresdefault.jpg
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 00:37 (five years ago) link
I had to witness more bird-on-bird cannibalism today. Wasn’t close but the live one 100% FLEW OFF with the pecked-apart torso of the dead one which is just so fucked up, I mean what if that got dropped on you? Birds are disgusting fucking savages. Fucking ugh.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 05:05 (five years ago) link
Speaking of birds, walked to a nice park at 5.39 am today to watch the sun rise and crows cawed at me violently to leave upon entrance. It was so uncomfortable I left, I mean, early in the morning they own this city
― lost in sublimation (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link
I agree on birds except the carnivores. Those are dope.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 21 June 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
can we not edgelord birds theyre cool not evil
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 21 June 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
We eat other mammals, birds can eat birds dude. Also birds are awesome.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
if you take the view that they are dinosaurs, does this enhance their coolness
― ~ cows come home (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
yes bcz it means they survived the meteor which is more than we will
― mark s, Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
what does edgelord mean as a verb?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
i googled and did not find a satisfying answer
Actually it’s a good point. If I saw a human sitting on a patio chair holding a big piece of steak in his/her mouth, and then she/he jogged off at my approach while maintaining a no-hands, all-mandible grip on the steak, I’d post about that here too.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 June 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
we are holding the birds to too high a standard here
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 21 June 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link
birds got no hands Tombot, don't be speciesist
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 22 June 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
i got hardmanned about edgelording on the intermemes and all i learnt was that birds are evil not cool
― Hunt3r, Friday, 22 June 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
I didn’t say evil or uncool I just pointed out that they are savages of the disgusting variety the no-hands argument doesn’t work for anything, hands are not the things we use to be civil, you can still be thoughtful and decorous with no hands at all.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 June 2018 03:09 (five years ago) link
and is it anything like 'big bird' as a verb?
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 June 2018 03:36 (five years ago) link
xp hm you specified "a no-hands, all-mandible grip" as the creepy thing tho
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 22 June 2018 03:36 (five years ago) link
A sentient, non-disgusting, civilized handless individual would be able to disclaim such an action by saying something to the effect of “I beg your pardon for what I am about to do” before grasping their fellow mammal’s flesh in their jaw and galloping forth. Such a display of remorse would also imbue me, and perhaps any other unfortunate witnesses, with at least a modicum of confidence that the utterer would do their best not to drop the carcass flesh on some other poor soul. Perhaps the bird I saw tried to communicate this. But he failed. And for that, I condemn his entire order.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 June 2018 04:16 (five years ago) link
Maybe because he failed to fully master the grammar of sign language? With no hands it's a tough call. On the other hand I recently met a corella who when preparing to spring out and attack, muttered "what are you doing, Robbie?" under his breath.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 22 June 2018 04:20 (five years ago) link
Your choice of user name betrays your biases in this debate
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 June 2018 04:26 (five years ago) link
aha but my 12 year old daughter chose it for me! Oddly prescient of her.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 22 June 2018 04:38 (five years ago) link
people when you don't respond right away to texts and say "hey why didn't you respond" - no manners, fuck
― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 05:51 (five years ago) link
People who may or may not be one’s brother-in-law sending overnight non-emergency messages for an hour when you’ve told them not to after the first volley woke you up, that get more ALL CAPS and ranty the more you ask them to cut that shit out.
― suzy, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 06:11 (five years ago) link
fuck, suzy..
― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 06:29 (five years ago) link
What he doesn’t know is that I’ve screenshotted the entire convo and my mom’s getting cc’d later today. She already wants to give him $100 and a one-way Greyhound ticket to Detroit plus a restraining order, just to keep it interesting.
― suzy, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 08:12 (five years ago) link
suzy, yeah!
― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
Another one: anyone who tags their SO and posts that both are *drinking adult beverages* as a FB status.
― suzy, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
trash
― Ross, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
anyone who feels the need to announce their current activity as a FB status
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
suzy that's tolerable unless it's 'cheeky' in which case arghghgh
― kinder, Thursday, 5 July 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
American prayer-chain GOP voter types
It made me temporarily store barf in my mouth
― suzy, Thursday, 5 July 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
People who keep talking to you on the phone after you've said 'I can't speak, I'm rushing to get somewhere'. 'Oh yeah, where are you going?' etc
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link
people who answer their phones when they're not free to speak
― there’s gonna be a hot time in the ol’ tub machine tonight (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 10:45 (five years ago) link
boom
― repartee is deft (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link
people who call me
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
9 times out of 10 you should be answering the phone imo, even if just to say you're tied up. could be something important for someone to bother actually making a call these days, and what are you doing that so important that you can't answer the phone? fuck all, that's what. feel like there's a thread in this. i want no part of it.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 13:12 (five years ago) link
My wife does this thing when on the phone with her mother: she says "I'm going to let you go" when what she means is "I desperately want to get out of this conversation."
It used to annoy me slightly because it's disingenuous - clearly the other person doesn't want to be let go - but it may be kinda brilliant in that it switches the agency and makes it seem like the talkative person is being given the right to get back to his or her life, and makes it seem like it was their idea all along.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
is she irish, thats p much a standard here
― repartee is deft (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
scumbag city council pigfuckers who want to overturn overwhelmingly popular ballot initiatives
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
Classic (i.e. terrible) experience on London Transport.
I have a sort-of hearing disability - extreme hearing damage, made from a mix of tinnitus and hyperacusis (oversensitivity to loud noise). It's not technically a legal disability, but it *is* disabling in the literal sense, and I am considered "work disabled", which means my workplace is legally obliged to make sure I'm ok when I'm at the office.
Anyway, I was in Camden Town to see the (excellent!) Goscinny exhibition at the Jewish Museum. When I got back to the station, it was closed for entrances as usual - people getting off can leave the station, but you can't get in - you have to walk to Kentish Town or whatever instead.
Just for the hell of it, I'd asked if they'd make an exception for me and let me down the stairs. "I have a hearing disability and Camden is very noisy," I said. Of course they said no, which wasn't very surprising.
What *was* unusual was the response I got afterwards. One staff member said to me, "It's pretty noisy in Camden market - what are you doing here in the first place?" That was a bit rude, so I asked to speak to the manager. His response was: "You realise it's noisy on the train as well, don't you?"
I guess the suggestion was - as a person with a chronic health issue, I was asking for trouble just for being outdoors in the first place?
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
Having a communication device on your person doesn't obligate you to respond to anyone at anytime who wants to communicate with you
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
Chuck, have you got a Disabled Person's Railcard? You can get it for hearing issues.
― kinder, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
Interesting! It looks like you can only get it for being deaf. My hearing is screwy, but I'm not actually deaf - it's the extra sounds that make it screwy, not the lack of them, of that makes sense. But I'll check out-thanks! I don't really need a discount but it might be useful to swat at TFL people if I need help.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link
What is this horseshit? Fuck off with this "must be available to everyone at all timea!!11!" crap. Once of a time you happily left voicemail messages and waited on a callback. Or wrote a fucking letter.
Dont call me in the middle of dinnertime then send me 3 txts cos I dared not answer my phone because heaven forbid I might be doing something else.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 00:34 (five years ago) link
this was a call on my work phone. I get people riding me for things all day while I'm trying to work but the name never comes up, just the number, so I'm kind of obliged to answer it, but more often than not it's nothing that couldn't be written in an email
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link