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
*ringing
Yeah work desk phones obv slightly different, especially if its your actual job to answer a phone, haha.
Even then tho Ive sometimes let a call through to the keeper cos I'm in the middle of something. They'll call back/send an email if its urgent.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
surprised at the ppl who hate their friends and loved ones itt
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
if you really love someone you should absolutely recognize them as a disgusting savage at least occasionally
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
My friends and loved ones know I hate phone calls, lol
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 02:59 (five years ago) link
solidarity Trayce
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 04:53 (five years ago) link
And I do this for a living! (answer phones. At least partly anyway)
(I still hates it)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 05:31 (five years ago) link
There is a lady in the garden next door who's keeps yelling MIAOW MIAOW at her cat every 20 seconds. She doesn't live there but her cat's come over a few fences and she's trying to get him back.
I heard her saying, "I know it's annoying, but this is how I get the cat to come back to me." She's been yelling it for an hour now. The cat has not come back.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
Like, the cat is literally at the bottom of the garden, ignoring her.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 10:25 (five years ago) link
it sounds like she has a lot to teach you
― ogmor, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 10:30 (five years ago) link
lol, true
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link
MIAOW MIAOW!
― ogmor, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
Meanwhile the cat's thinking like "That's not even my dialect of Cat, beeyotch. And anyway what you are saying is meaningless; you're just mimicking the sound. Christ, get one dictionary."
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 11:03 (five years ago) link
not even a question mark on the miaou ffs
― repartee is deft (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 11:08 (five years ago) link
¿MIAOW?
― ogmor, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 11:30 (five years ago) link
Other day I went to visit my friend who happens to be homeless.
Approached a frat bro who was with a group of his friends and asked him for a smoke.
Bro: “why don’t you try knocking on people’s windows?”
His friend gives me a smoke instead.
I ask the group if they can make sure my friend is okay because she is homeless and especially vulnerable as a woman.
Bro: “we got that covered already”
Talked to my friend today and she said he mocked my voice and manner when I walked away. Of course not to my face because I would’ve rolled the ducker
― Ross, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
people who say “do you like the corrs? i like the corrs” when what they mean is “i like that one song they did 23 years ago that you hear when you go to the chemist”
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 13 July 2018 09:42 (five years ago) link
you could have stopped at 'i like the corrs' tbrr
― look, you’re just gonna get gravy on the baby sometimes 🤷♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 13 July 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link
They play music in the chemistsssssss?
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 13 July 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link
it’s called “chemist warehouse radio”
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 13 July 2018 10:16 (five years ago) link
Everyone who looks at this awful weather and is like “oooh I love the heat!” Fuck you, this weather is awful and I would take a million more snowed-out Lidl-broken-into-Marches over a second more of this hell.
― gyac, Monday, 23 July 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
The guy on our network server who spells his name with a space at the beginning so his folder appears at the very top.
― pplains, Monday, 23 July 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
Good one. “=“ also works
― calstars, Monday, 23 July 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
Asterisks work too. I have a folder on my desktop that's labeled *DO NOT DELETE* so that a) it'll always stay in the top right corner of the screen and b) I won't accidentally delete it.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 23 July 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
The space is just being sneaky. It takes you, oh, an extra five seconds to figure out what's happening.
― pplains, Monday, 23 July 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
They've started playing I Heart Radio channels in the halls at work, and whoever programs the I Heart the '70s channel can suck my balls.
In 2018, I should not be hearing "American Pie" every. single. day.
Also, evidently Paul McCartney only recorded 3 songs in the '70s: Maybe I'm Amazed, Band on the Run, With a Little Luck.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 02:56 (five years ago) link
they should really throw "jet" in there
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link
people on Twitter whose argumentative retorts include mentioning how few followers their adversary has in comparison to their own follower count. i've never had this happen to me b/c i don't actually argue with people on Twitter but whenever I encounter it I just can't believe a grown person would actually pull the "you're not even popular, especially not compared to me!" card.
(this post was prompted by observing this behavior from Jonah Goldberg, who is, as always, the worst).
― evol j, Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
People who walk on the left hand side of the sidewalk
― calstars, Thursday, 2 August 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
In the U.S., yes. Mightn't it more or press parallel the driving convention elsewhere?
― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 August 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link