Long situation last week cos I was trying to make sure a direct debit got paid. So paid it early then had things confused by there being a bank holiday in the interim between paying it and direct debit. So it got paid, cleared then got taken again. Looks like it would have been easier if I rang them and told them it had been paid, but I noticed the night before it got taken the 2nd time that my online account had it credited. & I assumed that if it was cleared then it would register as not needing to be taken again. Then I ring them to get it straightened out and get told that I should ring my bank and get it stopped at that end which was bad advice and should really have been ignored. So i ring the bank and their phone which had been a freephone last time I'd noticed now charges me €2 for being put on hold. & I'm trying to work out if there is any point in cancelling the direct debit but go ahead with it and now need to make sure taht gets set up again before the service gets cut off or a deposit is asked for. & I'm stil waiting to find out if further lessons are going to need to be learned from this mess. Bollox.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 9 June 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
tagging, ok, fine, good to organize things
hashtagging, RAGE AT MY ENTIRE GENERATION AND THE WHOLE WORLD
― j., Sunday, 9 June 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
also
'manifest your destiny'
― j., Sunday, 9 June 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
- when people leave the sounds on their phone turned on. Not just the ringer, which is bad enough and really, anybody who keeps the ringer on their phone turned on when out in public is a disgusting savage, but text message alert sounds and email alert sounds and, god help me, the key clicks and other skeumorphic noises. Or game sounds. Sitting in a public waiting room and playing a game on your phone with the game sounds on should be an imprisonable offense.
― carl agatha, Monday, 10 June 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
I just have to wonder what people are thinking when they are like, "Yeah, my phone makes a clicking noise every time I press a key. That's great! I hope everybody on the train enjoys the nonstop noises coming from this device as much as I do." Or are they super duper clueless? I guess a least a percentage of them are deaf/hearing impaired and don't know the phone is making noise and I apologize to those people for this angry post.
― carl agatha, Monday, 10 June 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
yeah people who play phone games with loud game sounds on the subway make me want to grab the phone from their hand and throw it out the window
― iatee, Monday, 10 June 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
someone who's doing that is so clearly oblivious that they probably won't even notice
huh where did my slot machine game go, where am I
― iatee, Monday, 10 June 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
lol
― carl agatha, Monday, 10 June 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
Any accident befalling people who play slots on their phones can't come quickly enough. World, save yourself from shiny-shiny cartoon-eyes moron-magnet phone games.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Monday, 10 June 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
The Stamps.com rep said I could have a scale delivered to an alternate address by calling the USPS with my tracking number.
The USPS' automated system offers no options for changing delivery address, and it makes it pretty much impossible to get to an operator. If I give the tracking number, it tells me that no further information or assistance is available, then "Thank you for using the US Postal Service. Goodbye."
If I say I don't have the tracking number: "Please call back when you have the tracking number. Thank you for using the US Postal Service. Goodbye."
Or, "I'm sorry, I didn't recognize your response. Thank you for using the US Postal Service. Goodbye."
― Je55e, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
they definitely told you USPS, and not UPS? I didn't think the postal service allowed much functionality with their tracking numbers anyway, except to determine delivery. But I've been wrong many times
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 June 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
Yes, USPS for sure b/c it's from Stamps.com.
It turns out the only packages you can re-route are ones sent by Express Mail, and mine was sent by Priority Mail.
― Je55e, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
jerks
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 June 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
Anyway, the absolutely infuriating part was being given one shot at getting help, then being told goodbye.
― Je55e, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
Please follow these important steps: Goodbye
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 June 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
the bagging area on the local supermarket robo-tills was so packed with their plastic bags that there wasn't enough space to balance all my purchases. it won't let you continue until everything you've swiped so far has been put on the scales.
(really not sure why it does this and it annoyingly means you can't put stuff directly into a backpack, say. which i always do.)
― koogs, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
The use of the phrase "part-exing" in the We Buy Any Car advert. What, is "part-exchanging" too long a word for you?
― ailsa, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
To get a human at the USPS, start pressing 0 and don't stop. I learned that when I was trying to track down missing packages.
― carl agatha, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
my wife is part of an informal mom's group in the neighborhood, and they text like FIENDS. This annoys both my wife, whose phone is blowing up all the time with nonsense, and me, because I tend to stay up later than my wife and they continue to text and text and I hear her text alerts every two minues. Also, we don't have an unlimited text plan, because we kept my wife's grandfathered unlimited data plan, which we figure is worth more than unlimited texts.
Anyway, to make things worse, she texted them to ask if they could stop texting her so much, because she's running out of texts, and several of them responded "I have unlimited texts." "Me too!" "Me too!" "Yeah, I also have unlimited texts!" DURRRRRRRR!
Anyway, the real reason to be irrationally angry is that the phone company forces you into this position in the first place.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 June 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
You can solve one of those problems and make the world a better place by turning off the text alert noise.
― carl agatha, Monday, 10 June 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
yeah, I just don't want to do that and then forget to turn it back on and then my wife misses texts the next day
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 June 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
American cellphone calling plans drive me nuts. Who has any control over incoming calls or texts? Why are you expected to pay for them in any case?
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Monday, 10 June 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
there are many things about Verizon that make me, I think, quite rationally angry
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 June 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
yeah being angry at phone companies does not belong itt
― sjuttiosju_u (wins), Monday, 10 June 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
group texting drives me bananas; same with group messaging on FB, where you get maybe 2 useful messages and the rest is LOL OMG ME TOO ME TOO AHAHAH MEE TOO WEEE YAY HAHA WEE OMG ME TOOfuck right off with that shit, i'm turning off my notifications, removing myself from the conversation and wishing death on you and your family
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 June 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
^^^
― kinder, Monday, 10 June 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
OTM
yes, that is exactly what the moms' group texts are like! And anyone who knows my wife knows she does not suffer that kind of giddy nonsense gladly.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 June 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
gah you broke my stride
― kinder, Monday, 10 June 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
heh I don't really get IA but one thing that gets to me on fb is ppl who put kisses at the end of literally every post, so more likeLOL OMG ME TOO xxxME TOO AHAHAH xxxMEE TOO WEEE YAY xHAHA WEE OMG ME TOO xxxxxx
STOP IT YOU WEIRDOS
― sjuttiosju_u (wins), Monday, 10 June 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
that just means they are dtf
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 June 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
sim to people who "lol" to everything and include "lol" in messages that aren't humorous
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 June 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
I'm not bothered about the xx's but THANK [DEITY REDACTED] none of my friends text LOLs and other TLAs all the time.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Monday, 10 June 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
"it's a text, jeremy! if text kisses were real kisses, the whole world would be an orgy!"
xxp
xxx
― sjuttiosju_u (wins), Monday, 10 June 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
what is a tla and what's wrong with lol?
TLA: Three Letter Acronym.
Nowt wrong with LOL in the context of something actually being funny.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Monday, 10 June 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
oic compulsive lols yea that is annoying lol
― sjuttiosju_u (wins), Monday, 10 June 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's just as a nervous tic that bothers me. Whenever I've gotten into a g-chat or text conversation that devolves into that, I start to feel like neither of us are sure whether either of us are being sincere.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 June 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link
lmao i hate tlas rofl
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Monday, 10 June 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
lol true
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 June 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
*says nothing*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 June 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, June 10, 2013 4:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
No beef, but if I had a nickel for every time I've clicked on a newly-updated bookmark only to find a lolz from ya vg, I'd at least have $5.
Most of them are lolz to witty and wry comments I've said, so you got a pass, but just saying.
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
ILX lols mean something, maaaaan.
― nickn, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link
― Treeship, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 00:42 (ten years ago) link
Veg gives good LOLs.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
ahem the loling was not the point PP jeez
AND I COPPED TO IT RIGHT BEFORE YOU POSTED THAT SO THERE
:)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 01:16 (ten years ago) link
i hate typing on my phone and then the incessant lol'ing just kinda took over I'M SORRY but I am what I am
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 01:17 (ten years ago) link
- emails from twitter to tell me the people I already follow on twitter have tweeted
"P___ L___, J___ P___, and 6 others have Tweets for you"
― no man is an islam (onimo), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that one drives me nuts too.
― Home Despot (WilliamC), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
"Come abooooooard, we're expecting youuuuuuuuuuuuu"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link