j'accuse!!!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
I have a Barclaycard which has a "rewards scheme" where you earn cashback on purchases at participating retailers which you can only spend at said retailers, except the only one in my town is Yo! Sushi (plasticky chain sushi restaurant). So I have like 45p in reward points and when I go to pay for my sushi the credit card machine says "do you want to use your reward points?" and I click "yes" repeatedly and nothing happens until I click "no".
I got a letter last month saying they were cancelling the reward scheme.
One thing which is better about the UK now than when I first got my debit/ATM card in 1998 is that back then you could get hit with fees for using another bank's ATMs and now basically every bank or major supermarket ATM is on the same scheme. There are little portable ATMs out in pubs, corner shops and fast food joints to trick you into paying a fee but if you don't get drunk and go "ehhhh, this one's closest" it's pretty easy not to pay ATM fees in the UK if you have a UK bank account.
I don't miss wondering if I'd rather walk a mile or pay a 10% fee. I do miss getting £30 out and it lasting all week, though. Possibly only because I was a student and got free dinners and £1.20 vodka+mixers at the student bar.
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
I have a friend who always bitched about ATM fees and I used to get IA trying to explain why it was smarter to take $100 once a week instead of $20 five times when there was a $2 charge for each transaction.
― joygoat, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
US ATMs suck, I got hit with two separate fees when I used a non-Wells Fargo ATM on vacation because I checked my balance then got cash.
― kinder, Friday, 15 June 2012 21:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
Glaring WTF moments in translated subtitles. (usually during National Geographic/Discovery/History type things where it's not possible to turn the subtitles off)
someone says "menial job" -> dutch: "a man's job"someone says "dachshund" -> dutch: "chihuahua"someone says "three weeks" -> dutch: "four weeks"
― StanM, Saturday, 16 June 2012 11:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
(I suppose a woman's job would be a womenial job then)
― StanM, Saturday, 16 June 2012 11:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
in the last 5 minutes (air crash investigation and something about an oil tanker)
"43 passengers" -> dutch: "42 passengers""30 years at sea" -> dutch: "20 years at sea"
People are really being paid for this? Translating must be really really really cheap.
― StanM, Saturday, 16 June 2012 13:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
They DID say 43 and it was translated as 42, but on the other hand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_1771 (first line of the article: 43, summary box: 42)
― StanM, Saturday, 16 June 2012 13:25 (11 months ago) Permalink
people who bounce when they walk.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 16 June 2012 16:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
people who hassle me for the way i walk
― relatively joan rivers (electricsound), Sunday, 17 June 2012 00:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
People who go to concerts and stand motionless as if miserable.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 17 June 2012 00:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
Also cosign esoj!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 17 June 2012 00:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
People that don't clap when in a room, facing a band. I don't care if you are motionless during the whole song, but christ, I even clap if I don't like the music. It's just common courtesy. You know we're LIVING in a SOCIETY!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
Depends on how bad the band are. If they're just a bit shitty, then yeah, come on, you can clap them for coming out to play, but if they're fucking awful then why bother pretending?
― emil.y, Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah. I mean personally I will probably clap no matter what. I'm just saying, worse than people just standing there motionless -- standing and watching the performance the whole time -- is when a song is done, some people are clapping, and they just don't show any response. It's too difficult to put down your beer or uncross your arms to clap.
Eh, fuck all audiences. sometimes.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
- the amount of different light bulb fittings there are, I have at least five different types at home.
If we can sort mobile phone chargers we can fix this shit.
― "What a book!" Terry Bland (onimo), Sunday, 17 June 2012 13:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
I just made a FB post grumbling about how sick I am today. WHY WOULD YOU "like" THAT. WHY?
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Monday, 18 June 2012 06:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
you have no idea how much i am struggling not to go like that now
― mousy dong (electricsound), Monday, 18 June 2012 06:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
I was expecting such a response ;P
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Monday, 18 June 2012 06:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah i don't actually go up to people who bounce when they walk and tell them to stop. That'd be crazy. i'm just idly staring out of the window or w/e and then past they go BOING, BOING, BOING. And before I know it my brain is doing the sort of uncontrollable somersaults normally associated with gross injustice, while my heart goes into fight or flight mode. I know it's off. Justifiable anger it ain't.
― Fizzles, Monday, 18 June 2012 06:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
the way i walk is just the way i walk
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 18 June 2012 14:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://youtu.be/yuxss1kBQWw?t=2m10s
― pplains, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
Thought that would be a link to something like this:
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 18 June 2012 17:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
Has anyone else noticed that while walking, some people lift their heels differently from others? I have noticed this since grade school and I have only ever talked to one person about; that was in 9th grade and he thought I was crazy. I tried googling it once but I couldn't come up w/ specific enough terms.
Anyway, the thing I'm talking about is that while walking, some people lift the heel of their trailing foot in one motion and others do it in a two-part motion. (Sometimes those people bounce, but not usually, in my observation.) The two-part motion goes: lift heel about 1/2 of full height, infinitesimal pause, lift heel to full height.
It seems like maybe the first part is the heel lifting and the second part is the weight shifting to the front of the foot?
Please somebody tell me you know what I'm talking about!
― Je55e, Monday, 18 June 2012 17:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yes, definitely. Have noticed the weight shift! I'm extra-noticing of walks.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 18 June 2012 18:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
i am interested in the different kinds of mechanisms behind walking but i can't work out quite what the distinctions are, which is a shame for me because i completely destroy every pair of shoes i get within a few months. it seems that how i walk is by jamming my heels into the ground as violently as possible.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 18 June 2012 18:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
Holy shit, thank you Laurel. You broke a 22 year stretch of isolation on this matter. There *are* others like me out there. I feel like we should frolic about this. In a glen, perhaps.
― Je55e, Monday, 18 June 2012 18:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
How have you not noticed that I rail about people's walks in every IA thread or pedestrian thread or escalator thread or ANYTHING?!? I'm nothing if not predictable.
I promised myself a long time ago that no matter how short and stocky I was, or became, I would keep up the habit of walking like a fit/thin person. Which in my mind is to say, in a loose way, with the leg swinging from the hip and traveling straight through an arc, feet pointing straight ahead. Yes, my thighs rub. Yes, it would be easier to walk less gracefully. I just can't bear it, I see other people looking oafish and uncoordinated while walking and I never want to look that way.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 18 June 2012 18:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
Or waddling. I live in fear of being a waddling walker.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 18 June 2012 19:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
My walking IA is when women in high heels have terrible alignment or wobble and I can just picture their hips and knees torquing into dreadful shapes, or worse, imaging their little ankles snapping in half when they inevitably take a tumble.
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
Laurel, I think we have talked about that before.
Also?
I promised myself a long time ago that no matter how short and stocky I was, or became, I would keep up the habit of walking like a fit/thin person.
ME TOO. I recently went through a terrible phase where I seemed to be constantly whapping people with my hands when I walked and believe me, I got that under control right quick. But yeah, I am very intentional about how I walk. That's also because I live in fear of falling in some spectacular and damaging way so I'm very mindful of where my feet are going.
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
wide-armed walkers.
― If you live in Thanet and fancy doing some creative knitting (Fizzles), Monday, 18 June 2012 19:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
I'm glad the three of us are united in this irrational hated! It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and like I belong.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 18 June 2012 19:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
I have a new IA:
This person I know how uses "'n stuff" as a verbal tic similar to "like." It's so awkward and terrible. Just try it! Try to say a sentence and instead of saying "like" or "um," say "'n stuff."
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
XXXPHas anyone else noticed that while walking, some people lift their heels differently from others? I have noticed this since grade school and I have only ever talked to one person about; that was in 9th grade and he thought I was crazy. I tried googling it once but I couldn't come up w/ specific enough terms.
― Je55e, Monday, June 18, 2012 12:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Jesse I remember being in this weird chinese convenience store years ago. I was in a room that came off the main store looking at videos to rent when I heard a tell-tale click clack from the main store. I raced out looked down the aisles and finally saw exactly the person I already knew was there - my Mom. All from her walk. Of course she does claim that to walk correctly in heels one must walk toe-heel toe-heel.
― Has someone else's face gotten in the way of yr foot or elbow? (sunny successor), Monday, 18 June 2012 19:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
I had the worst tic of saying "stuff like that" or "things like that" when I was a teenager.
Completely agree that if you're saying ---- uh, stuff like that --- you had better be trying to fix it.
― pplains, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
girls in too-high heels who walk like praying mantises have been a peeve/amusement of mine for a long time
I don't always notice walkers but I have a weird thing about how people run. I don't even run myself, I just somehow always notice bad/weird form in ppl who run
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
How about when someone laughs at something someone said, then says "You're like," and repeats the thing that made them laugh? Total IA.
Even worse, though not as common, is when someone says something that makes someone else laugh, which in turn makes THEM laugh and say "I'm like," and repeat what they just said.
― cwkiii, Monday, 18 June 2012 20:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
Veg im the same!! and then i think to myself 'well at least theyre actually out there trying, lazy ass loser!' (but im still secretly grossed out)
― Has someone else's face gotten in the way of yr foot or elbow? (sunny successor), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
xp YES! That upsets me! Stop repeating what you just said to each other! Think of some new material!
I've been in social situations where this starts happening and I usually have to excuse myself until it passes.
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 June 2012 20:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
omg yes, they get caught in a loop of recapping what just happened until I'm like, um YOU WERE ALL THERE! I haaaate that.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
oops I just said 'I'm like' -- sorry!
Jesse I remember being in this weird chinese convenience store years ago. I was in a room that came off the main store looking at videos to rent when I heard a tell-tale click clack from the main store. I raced out looked down the aisles and finally saw exactly the person I already knew was there - my Mom.
Sunny, your post starts off spooky. I was hoping that you saw your mom emerging from a candle-lit, smoky room, her feet having been transformed into the hooves of a goat.
I have no real problems walking in high heels. I don't do it very often, but it's not that hard except for watching out for grates in the sidewalk and other obstacles.
― Je55e, Monday, 18 June 2012 20:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
xp It was used in acceptable context imo. :)
― cwkiii, Monday, 18 June 2012 20:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
I hardly wear high heels and when I do I'm paranoid the whole time that I'm walking awkwardly
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
xp :)
i never walk in high heels because her advice completely confused me as a child. I couldn't work out how you could move forward with this strategy. Seemed like moonwalking or something.
― Has someone else's face gotten in the way of yr foot or elbow? (sunny successor), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
i used to wear heels all the time in high school. now they're like little torture instruments in the sense that i can't walk down a set of stairs without feeling hobbled. i do keep heels in the office though, and change into them when i get here.
― rayuela, Monday, 18 June 2012 20:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
I like to drop an "and whatnot" into the mix every now and then, but not as a nervous placeholder, and only when it's completely nonsensical. "How many fried eggs would you like, and whatnot?"
― Biff Wellington (WmC), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
Would you like a, yknow, or whatnot?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:59 (11 months ago) Permalink