ALL OF THESE SHIRTS
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
wow, the chest sayings. that must have been some brainstorming session.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
oh god carl
those are terrible
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FDHjuUQLL._SL246_SX190_CR0,0,190,246_.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2047/2326633259_0ee29a1f80.jpg
― Domo Arigato, Demi Lovato (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
I might wear a shirt that says PREGNANT AND FAT OH AND FUCK YOU.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
lol @ hyphen
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Hf3HeseTL._SL246_SX190_CR0,0,190,246_.jpg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515TsHfbmLL.jpg
HAND'S
― Domo Arigato, Demi Lovato (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
lol didn't we have a thread about how british people use "yummy mummy" and it's gross
― mh, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
ONE TASTY MOTHER
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
So wait, an apostrophe in "hand's" but not in "whos?" What a world, what a world.
― Domo Arigato, Demi Lovato (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
carl you should get one that says FUCK YOUR STUPID TSHIRT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
A red, glowing uterus/tubes graf with neon-look LOT FULL underneath.
― aldi young dudes (suzy), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5184/5624448227_7b21c8fe56_z.jpg
^ would wear
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
why, how original, you have a tongue piercing, and now you stick your tongue out in every photo taken of you for eternity, amazing
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
Grandads, eh, who'd ave em
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
when you need just one red light to rearrange yrself or scratch yr foot or whatever and all you get are endless green lights
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:13 (ten years ago) link
- Telemarketer pretending to know my boss (but calling her "Liz," which would make her rip his throat out if she heard it) and saying he knew she would be pretty upset when he told her that I was screening her calls. He told me "Buddy, listen, take a deep breath."
- Recorded telemarketing call where the guy kept stumbling on his words and going, "and uh..."
- Server crashed at work AGAIN. Partners were up in arms. "Unacceptable! We must have computers that work! This will not stand!!1" IT consultants have been telling them since 2008 that the server should be replaced SOON. IT consultant today: Yup, it's working exactly as expected.
― potatoes-in-law (Je55e), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
When employees at my job send email from their computers, the sender's name is noted as Pleasant Plains.
If employees use a mobile device or go through the website that hosts our emails, the sender's name is noted as 'Pleasant Plains'.
Makes searching in the archives of my Thunderbird very... unpleasant.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
when someone i don't usually correspond with writes, "hi la lechera, how are you? _______" followed by a request for something i am not capable of giving (sometimes advice i am not qualified to give or a request to help someone else who i don't know personally)
it's ok to just totally ignore the "how are you" because obvs the person doesn't actually care, right? but if the "how are you" is intended to indicate an interest in my life (when there has been none for years upon years) it is having the exact opposite effect.
i'm not irrationally angry so much as hellbent on never telling people who ask how i am in this fashion how i actually am. i just ignore it and answer the question they are actually asking.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 August 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah I don't like that either, happens alot with business emails I get
some salesreps just have a steez of trying to be overly familiar to ingratiate themselves.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 August 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
I have to write sales emails (aaagh kill me) and stick to "hi la lechera, hope your (name of current season) is going well, but seriously let me just get to the point"
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Thursday, 29 August 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Some time in the late 90s there was an annoying beer ad that featured lots of presumably italian-american young men repeatedly saying, "hayooDOO-in?" as a greeting to one another in a bar, as they assembled to drink the cowpiss beer being advertised. Not long afterward I noticed that more and more people started greeting me with "how's it goin'?" or "how you doin'?" instead of "hi", until by c. 2005 this sort of greeting seems to have infected over 80% of the people who make an effort to greet me. I expect it to remain firmly entrenched for at least another dozen years.
― Aimless, Thursday, 29 August 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
this is fine! it's "hi la lechera, how are you" (particularly in writing, not so much irl) because i expect more from most people who would write to me than "hi how are you" i expect something a little less robotic/2nd grade letter writing tips -- not a genuine interest in my life because i don't really want to talk about that, just "sup -- here's my q"
― no fomo (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 August 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
my 90 yr old grandpa writes better emails than that
― no fomo (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 August 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
and he writes to me once a year on my birthday!
Aimless, it wasn't that "wassup?" thing of a few years so?
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 August 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
No, I remember this, there was a "how you doin?" commercial as well.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Thursday, 29 August 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
neither of those things are what i am talking about though(not that it matters)
― no fomo (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 August 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link
― Aimless, Thursday, August 29, 2013 3:49 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is because of "friends," not a beer commercial
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 29 August 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
IA at ppl who write overly conversational waaaaaay too long instructions It's cool when explanations are needed but don't be chatty and don't lump a whole bunch of steps into one paragraph.
I'm learning a whole bunch of new tasks that were written up by my predecessor and no shit it's written like some kind of Martha Stewart special. "So now that we're done with that we then take the ...'
And this is just, like Excel stuff. boom boom boom step BY step do you not understand how LITTLE I want to read your flowery too-long explanations JUST GIVE ME THE STEPS FFS
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 August 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
It's like Yelp went into the instruction manual business.
― aldi young dudes (suzy), Thursday, 29 August 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
it's "hi la lechera, how are you" (particularly in writing, not so much irl) because i expect more from most people who would write to me than "hi how are you" i expect something a little less robotic/2nd grade letter writing tips -- not a genuine interest in my life because i don't really want to talk about that, just "sup -- here's my q"
better
QUERY:
― j., Thursday, 29 August 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
u ppl sure are cranky about how you're greeted huh
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 August 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
Today I am. Not usually.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 August 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
its ok it is the irrational anger thread tbf
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 August 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
I learned in my workplace personality type class that some people require small talk or feel communication is rude without it, so perhaps this person is one of those or is hedging in case you are
― mh, Friday, 30 August 2013 00:15 (ten years ago) link
my workplace personality type class
wut
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 August 2013 00:28 (ten years ago) link
i'm an autumn
― j., Friday, 30 August 2013 00:31 (ten years ago) link
^^ IA
― carl agatha, Friday, 30 August 2013 01:00 (ten years ago) link
hi how are you = feeble small talk (a) i am not that kind of person (b) this person should really know that by know since we have known each other for 15 years (c)
that is my already faded gripe in a nutshell
― no fomo (La Lechera), Friday, 30 August 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
by NOW not by knowughsorry
― no fomo (La Lechera), Friday, 30 August 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
I hate that too, and even worse is 'I hope you are well?' The question mark is super-enraging.
― ljubljana, Friday, 30 August 2013 01:13 (ten years ago) link
People who phone my mobile when I'm at work, number withheld, and do not let it ring for long enough to get from my desk to somewhere where I can actually take a call
now I get to spend the rest of the day wondering if I missed something urgent when it was probably just someone trying to sell me a conservatory (would look nice on my 2nd-floor flat, I agree)
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 12:04 (ten years ago) link
if someone calls you on your mobile phone from a number you don't know and do not leave a voicemail it means it was completely unimportant
― space is deep (mh), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
I would agree except 1. I don't have voicemail set up and 2. the last withheld number I managed to answer in office hours was a health service I'm supposed to have an appointment with on Friday, so I suspect the missed call may be them either reminding or rearranging - the latter would be nice to know about.
on the other hand, it probably was just a sales cold-call. (yeah, I'll ring to confirm my appointment the day before, I just don't want to annoy my boss by arranging and rearranging time off)
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
95% of the calls I receive on my phone come up as Unknown.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
maybe you should set up your voicemail, just a suggestion
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
so basically you're just angry that people don't just let the phone ring 30 times when no one picks up and it doesn't go to voicemail
xp I suppose that would be the logical course of action and the real problem is that voicemail makes me IA.
30 times would be great because then I could stand somewhere other than an echoey bathroom but more than 4 times or to have some visible way of calling them back 0.2 seconds after they rang off to ask what they wanted would have been nice.
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
I've never had a sales cold-call leave voicemail! Voicemail is pretty much the go-to place for people who absolutely need to contact me
― space is deep (mh), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link