I mean I know it's winter and all but if people could just refrain from hawking up vast globules of phlegm onto the pavement it'd be great, especially when I have to wheel a suitcase through it all. It's not that far to the gutter, hoik it out there.
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Friday, 25 January 2019 01:39 (five years ago) link
when singaporean rules seem fine
― Hunt3r, Friday, 25 January 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
contemplated whether caning for spitting, but exclusion of death penalty altogether, is a best social model. i mean it works at my house so
― Hunt3r, Friday, 25 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Was dropping off a hire car today, there's a little feedback form where you give them a mark out of five and I overheard the following conversation with a customer who must have only given four:
Employee: Was everything ok for you?Customer: No it was fine, car was nothing special but ok.Employee: Did you have any problems?Customer: No, I just never give 100%. Employee: Is there anything we could have done better?Customer: Not really, unless you gave it me for free.Employee: How about we give you a 20% discount next time?
Fuck both of those fucking fuckers.
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Monday, 28 January 2019 09:21 (five years ago) link
People who come into work when they're sick - like really sick, not just the sniffles or a red nose or whatever - are annoying BUT the real savages are the managers and bosses who
(a) don't immediately send their sick asses home
(b) cultivate, either consciously or unconsciously, an office environment where work and deadlines are more important than personal health
also most deadlines are bullshit
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 28 January 2019 12:28 (five years ago) link
I had a boss once who would never give out 5's on the annual employee evaluation form because "nobody's perfect!"
It's a flawed system of ranking, sure, but once you get past that, treat it like ABCDF then.
― pplains, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
IRCGAF tbh
― david waster phallus (darraghmac), Monday, 28 January 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
our performance evaluation system is based on a scale of 1-3. my previous supervisors used to give everyone 2s. when i switched supervisors in the past 2 years i've been all 3s. i have not improved as a worker in any way. cool system.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 01:20 (five years ago) link
People in supermarkets who take a packet of crisps or a sandwich or whatever from the shelves, eat it while they're going around the store and then present the empty wrapper to the cashier for scanning. Yuk.
I mean, this is just about permissible if you have a toddler in tow and you need to shut them up with a snack or something, although you really should be armed with snacks for them already. But otherwise, don't do it. I mean, I've even heard of people eating a banana in this way and giving the (price-tagged) peel to the cashier. Can't you wait?
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 21 February 2019 08:59 (five years ago) link
I've heard of people doing this because they're diabetic or just one of those hangry types. I dunno.. It's not something I do, but I would do it if desperate. I wouldn't feel comfortable about it
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 21 February 2019 09:18 (five years ago) link
I've never seen this tbh.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 February 2019 10:06 (five years ago) link
I see it quite a bit. ok for kids imo but your own hunger should motivate you to do the shopping faster (and pick up loads of unhealthy impulse buys to open in the car)
― kinder, Thursday, 21 February 2019 10:32 (five years ago) link
Tesco have boxes of free fruit for young kids to take and eat now
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 February 2019 10:37 (five years ago) link
Who doesn't just bring along snacks for their kids when they're going places with them? My EDC is a box of chocolate milk and some graham crackers.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 21 February 2019 10:51 (five years ago) link
well yes of course but sometimes you get stuck out longer than you anticipate and all your supply of snacks has been eaten/bribed with/dropped on the floor.I have not done this savage move btw! And the Tesco thing is great.
― kinder, Thursday, 21 February 2019 11:12 (five years ago) link
They sell bananas by the pound at my store, so presenting just the sticker would be a bold move.
― pplains, Thursday, 21 February 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
Yes produce is generally by weight; also self-check thingies go exclusively by weight, and wouldn't recognize a half a box of graham crackers or whatever.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 21 February 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
the local versh of krogers in CO (king soopers) allows each kid one free bakery sugar cookie upon request (not really tho, kids pretty much just take one. amazingly i've yet to see the policy abused, though what i don't see is plenty).
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 23 February 2019 06:45 (five years ago) link
Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent twenty-one years as a risk taker before becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical, and (mostly) practical problems with probability. Although he spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet, he is currently Distinguished Professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 March 2019 02:58 (five years ago) link
I mean, at age 23 I'd have tried for the flâneur café-meditator bio but would never have thought to combine wanderlust with stated risk-taking
the platonic ideal bio for an edgy recent graduate is at most half as grandiose, he really went for it
― mh, Saturday, 2 March 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
i'd heard that he predicted the 2008 crash, for which i'd reluctantly grant him 'risk taker'
never ever any excuse for flâneur tho
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 March 2019 03:56 (five years ago) link
predicting a crash means risk avoider right
― mh, Saturday, 2 March 2019 05:04 (five years ago) link
― nathom, Saturday, 2 March 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
And people facetiming in shops. The fuck.
― nathom, Saturday, 2 March 2019 12:49 (five years ago) link
Tesla driversBMW driversAudi driversThose tall van driversPrius driversAll drivers
― brimstead, Sunday, 3 March 2019 06:36 (five years ago) link
TAXI DRIVERS
― kinder, Sunday, 3 March 2019 09:38 (five years ago) link
disk drivers
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Sunday, 3 March 2019 09:50 (five years ago) link
minnie drivers
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 3 March 2019 10:23 (five years ago) link
screwdrivers
sattle drivers
adam drivers
swervedrivers
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 3 March 2019 11:24 (five years ago) link
got home from gym and decided to bypass the spot in front of my neighbor's house and parked at the end of the block because i could just pull in. after i parked i saw her leave her house and get in her car and move it up two spots to be in front of her house, then go back inside. utterly despicable behavior. our houses are like 12 ft wide.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Saturday, 9 March 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
Maybe I'm missing something. What harm did she do by moving her car? Aside from maybe wasting her own time and effort?
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 9 March 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
she didn't do any harm at all it was just so stupid
― forensic plumber (harbl), Saturday, 9 March 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
i had to get air this morning and stopped at a gas station. guy was parked right in front of the air thing with his car running. i waited a second thinking he'd get out and use the air. he did not. i had to pull in front of him, then turn the car around because the hose would not reach both tires i wanted to check. he was like, talking on the phone. there was plenty of room at this gas station for him to not sit in front of the air machine. i'm still mad at him.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 01:09 (five years ago) link
what an assI parked near the air hose because the lot was pretty full once and someone pulled to the side behind me and I was overly apologetic and asking if they needed me to move! nah, they were just parking over there
― mh, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 02:56 (five years ago) link
People who get on an elevator and press the door closed button
― calstars, Friday, 5 April 2019 23:25 (five years ago) link
time is money
― j., Friday, 5 April 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
Cinema-goers who laugh at every single line of dialogue in the film, whether it's funny or not. I feel I've brought this subject up here before but anyway it bears repeating.
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Friday, 5 April 2019 23:42 (five years ago) link
― calstars, Saturday, 6 April 2019 10:25 (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
mine is people who get in the lift and have time to wait for the door to close
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 6 April 2019 00:15 (five years ago) link
I say slam that button
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 6 April 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
It’s not a ‘door closed’ button, it’s ‘door CLOSE,’ it’s an imperative, a command. I thiink you fail to see its functional role, this is why you fail to get with the goddamn program. it’s go time, get your stick and into the game.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 6 April 2019 03:18 (five years ago) link
Lol SUBMIT SUBMIT BUTTON eh?
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 6 April 2019 03:19 (five years ago) link
I gotta say, I stayed in a hotel this past weekend where the elevator door closed immediately when I selected my floor, and it was super gratifying.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 6 April 2019 03:28 (five years ago) link
I think it'd be cool if the door just stayed open, like one of those paternosters.
― pplains, Saturday, 6 April 2019 03:33 (five years ago) link
extreme dopamine hit tbh xp
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 6 April 2019 03:34 (five years ago) link
God, it felt good
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 6 April 2019 03:37 (five years ago) link
If I get in a lift and there's nobody else in there I will stab the door open button until there is. Having a lift to yourself is a wasteful luxury.
(I'd take the stairs but it's 5 floors)
― koogs, Saturday, 6 April 2019 05:43 (five years ago) link
having a lift by yourself is an opportunity to DANCE.
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Saturday, 6 April 2019 07:04 (five years ago) link
To Radio 4?
― koogs, Saturday, 6 April 2019 09:02 (five years ago) link
(actually I'm not sure that's true. One of them certainly has radio 3 in it, because I can hear it from my desk, but I think the others are 1, 2 and 1xtra)
― koogs, Saturday, 6 April 2019 09:04 (five years ago) link