Comes up in vague political discussion a lot -- "what does this say about priorities?" GTFO, unless you are actually making a choice between one thing that YOU want and another, you are not actually talking about priorities.
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 August 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
gaaah surewest dvr sucks ASS so much. I've complained about it before but to wit, just last night
- checked scheduler to make sure Breaking Bad would record on Sunday. It showed that there was a conflict. but there's nothing else scheduled to record O_o --- checked the settings of the season pass, and it showed 'Channel: 0', like it had wiped or forgotten the settings. it's been on the same channel for how long? ragh.
- set it on Sunday to record Broadchurch this week. noticed last night it hadn't recorded. I set it to record 'first run only' so I don't end up with a dvr full of repeat airings'...but the info on the show shows original air date as March of this year. Which is when it aired IN THE UK. so I have to set it up to record reruns as well as first runs because the stupid system thinks it's a rerun
raaaaaaaaaaaagh if surewest didn't have fibre optic interwebs I would throw the thing in the fucking trash.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 August 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
I don't know that this "irrational" anger, but anyway: Working on some marketing stuff at work for a new partnership deal we're about to launch. Back at the start of this I asked the product manager if they wanted to take a stab at the copy (the audience for this is kinda specialized) and they said, "No, Marketing can write it. Here's the partner's media kit and website for reference."
Great. I submit a draft to the product manager and his team, who proceed to take a steaming dump all over it. "We don't like this in-your-face appeal, we don't like the positioning, blah, blah, blah." Hey, dickhole, I gave you the opportunity to write the copy and you said "No." If you then have requirements for how you want this product positioned, TELL ME IN ADVANCE, but don't come back at me with this garbage.
The icing on the cake? He pedantically takes issue with a particular word choice, condescendingly noting, "By the way, Partner X is a website, not a publication." I then pull up the media kit HE SENT ME and C&P the second sentence in it: "Partner X is the leading publication for . . ."
It's 2013, Old Dude, people have been using "publication" for online outlets for at least a decade. If you're gonna step to me, you best step hard.
― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Friday, 9 August 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
xp Broadchurch was not that good by the end
― kinder, Friday, 9 August 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
Oh no. That is sad to hear.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Friday, 9 August 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
i don't believe u kinder
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 August 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
also I guessed the end and I never guess these things :(Olivia Colman is still awesome though
― kinder, Friday, 9 August 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
They way you've described these people, Phil, I suspect their title really is called Partner X?
― pplains, Friday, 9 August 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
It's actually Racer X but I signed a confidentiality agreement.
http://api.ning.com/files/oYfLznIexMLDzyxDCUOvyeLRCKu89kp7psWuMIrR4FgnAZcjywSrSbp3ejD0bhjt6BgsnWKqkfApuUSPP4eFFQ__/bioband1.jpg
― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Saturday, 10 August 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
IA that I read a single NYT article yesterday and it said "you have read 5 of your 10 articles for this month!" and I thought "huh, already?" and today I clicked on a single NYT article to find "you have read all 10 of your articles for this month! subscribe to read this article"
last time I checked 5 + 1 < 10
― slippery kelp on the tide (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 11 August 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
Not anymore...thanks, Obama!
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Sunday, 11 August 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Ha. I suppose it didn't specify what number base it was using. I have possibly read 10 articles in base 6.
Should probably bear in mind too that I might get angrier actually reading the articles than unexpectedly not being allowed to read them (see quiddities thread for reminder).
― slippery kelp on the tide (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 11 August 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
i just open them all in incognito window
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link
i'm not gonna pay just so i can hate-read the style section
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
that tbf is a terrible negative attitude
― Dr Peter Who? (darraghmac), Monday, 12 August 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
What you want is a really good negative attitude.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 August 2013 10:31 (ten years ago) link
Someone tagged me in a really bad user-created someecard that doesn't even have anything to do with me, and now it shows up in my facebook photos
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Monday, 12 August 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
untag yourself.
― kate78, Monday, 12 August 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
delete your facebook
― i too went to college (silby), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
move to a potato farm
hate it when I go to a quiet place in our office to read and suddenly everyone in the buidling decides to stand nearby and have loud unignorable conversations
jerks >:(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
Shit yeah, I have a co-worker that seems to always come and sit with me and talk bollocks at me when I've taken the smallest hidden-away corner of the canteen and am sitting with my nose in a book. Do I fucking *LOOK* like I mind if you sit with me? Oh, and don't ask what I'm listening to because chances are you *won't* have heard of whatever it is because you've never heard of anything that isn't Take That or Paolo Nutini, and the fact that you're asking means that I'm pretty much not listening to it now anyway.
― ailsa, Monday, 12 August 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
anyone who asks anyone what they're reading while that person is reading needs to go piss up a fking rope
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
And then LAUGHS NERVOUSLY when you explain what it is that you're reading because it's not by JK Rowling or Stephanie Meyer.
― ailsa, Monday, 12 August 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
yes x 1000
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
And then tells other people about you and makes you feel like some sort of freak for reading, I dunno, like Martin Amis or something. This isn't complicated or weird stuff, you guys!
― ailsa, Monday, 12 August 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
I get the feeling she'd be sorely disappointed if she heard my "weird" music and realised it was just music and not, y'know, a tribe of chanting hippies ritually disembowelling animals to the sound of backwards guitars and screaming.
― ailsa, Monday, 12 August 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
years ago a friend loaned me a Brian Greene physics book that I started reading at work and seriously for like months afterwards got 'LOL EGGHEAD' from coworkers as though I was reading some hardcore advanced theorem textbook. I wanted to explain "um but see I'm reading this because I DON'T UNDERSTAND PHYSICS AT ALL and this makes it easy for spongheads like me" but they were all such uncurious ignorant weirdos about it it wasn't even worth explaining
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
i am interested in what ppl are reading
sorry
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
Okay but don't judge me when the answer is "Star Trek book."
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
I like being asked in a natural conversational way --- some ppl just hate quiet rooms and have to barge in all BLAH BLAH WHAT ARE YOU READING
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
This place is commonly referred to around my office as "Pplains' desk."
― pplains, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
:(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
Hey, I asked for the window. My bad.
― pplains, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
a tribe of chanting hippies ritually disembowelling animals to the sound of backwards guitars and screaming.
this is my new favourite band
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
Deerhoof?
― schwantz, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
I was thinking No-Neck Blues Band but that could work.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
. . . and grooving with a pict
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:15 (ten years ago) link
- seeing 360 new answers in the Breaking Bad thread while I'm still working through Season 4- trying to make my eyes glaze over every time I see the words "Breaking Bad" in any form of social media
― Rummmpatitum, Rummmpatitum Traboo, Traboo, Traboo (onimo), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 12:47 (ten years ago) link
Why is telemarketing not illegal? Seriously. WHY. Why.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
freedom of speech. But there's this thing called the federal do-not-call list:
so put your number on this paper:https://www.donotcall.gov/
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
Oh, it's on there.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
two years ago, I wanted to get free Fandango tickets, so I did this TrialPay thing where all I had to do was submit a request for an insurance quote, did it, and thought nothing of it, got the freebies.
Of course, since I had to use my real info to qualify, I started getting emails/calls for insurance a few days later, and I figured "big deal, I already have insurance, they'll die down in a few days".
Two years later, I still occasionally get calls from people trying to sell me insurance. SOMETIMES 'FREE' ISN'T WORTH IT.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
- when a friend who has my email address opts to Facebook message Jeff instead of email me to catch up. This is a friend of mine from way back in the day, too, not a mutual friend or Jeff's friend first or anything.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
ppl who cut off 1/4 of a donut and leave the rest
JUST TAKE THE FUCKING DONUT, YOU MARTYR
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
hahahaha
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
I take a whole doughnut and the 3/4 one to restore balance.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
xp OTM
Especially because you know they had their filthy pee paws all over that donut to cut it into bite size pieces.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
exactly!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
i even called someone out today who I saw cutting a donut
I was like 'Oh so you're one of THOSE people. Seriously. Just take the donut. No one's going to eat the remainder.' and she was all 'but I don't want a whole one' and I just wanted to throw it at her.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link