start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

Just trying to get a rise out of garda.

My favourite sign of all time was the one in an airport departure lounge.

On the wall: "No Smoking".

Then the same message, below. In braille.

So, blind people have to feel the entire wall(s) before they can know that they are allowed to smoke or not?

blind smokers have it twice as bad

nobody as colloquialism for v few people :)

blind smokers always claiming they didn't see the sign. get out of this one chumps.

SMOKING IS NOT ALLOWED ANYWHERE WITHIN MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. AND DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT PARKING IN THE WHITE ZONE, BLIND PEOPLE.

Is there a reason that I can't rewind through an MP4 file without losing the sound. I've just had the same thing happen on a 2nd episode of the same show, I went off to do something else while the show was running so tried to rewind by about 10 minutes only to find that it was now playing silently. That is after having heard the dialogue in what I'd assume was the right place when it was first playing.
Wound up having to rerun the first show from the beginning after trying to restart it and fast forward only to find out that sound was seriously out of sync.
Anyway finding this weird and not fully understanding the technology. Rewinding seems to be working ok on other file formats.

Oh yeah probably crucial point is that this is trying to show files held on a memory stick through my tv. Has tended to work ok for months though there have been some instances of things being out of sync where I'm not sure if it is down to faulty file or faulty set up. Also not sure if how full the memory stick has any bearing on this.

Major drag since I'm now going to have to work out how to watch this show which I was about half way through without just having to watch it or at least play it in real time from the start.
Is it an MP4 issue that crops up elsewhere?

jfc i hate hate hate people who are posting that "May the 4th be with you shit". I suppose it's a nice vacation from the other insidious memes they usually share but come the fuck on

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b3/74/98/b3749884390859774810072ec3e2b861.jpg

That's more like it.

Today would've been my grandmother's 96th birthday.

How I envied her today.

IA, being on hold version:

Music is fine but for god's sake, don't have some half-tuned radio station blaring static into my ear while I'm holding.
Also it's too loud. It's pretty much always too loud.
A recorded message is fine, too, but maybe have a recorded message that is longer than 15 seconds if you're planning to repeat it on a loop because holy shit I've been on hold for 16:37 minutes (thanks, phone with a timer on it! Also holy shit I've been on hold a long time) hearing the same 15 second loop of advertising for the business that I am already trying to reach and I'm about to run and jump in the river.
Don't tell me that if I don't want to hold, I can go to the internet. I KNOW I CAN GO TO THE INTERNET. I'm calling because I can't/don't want to go on the god damn internet.

Don't tell me that if I don't want to hold, I can go to the internet. I KNOW I CAN GO TO THE INTERNET. I'm calling because I can't/don't want to go on the god damn internet.

YES THIS

i have taken to shouting "i want to talk with a human" whenever it asks for any verbal information at all
sometimes it will take you directly to an agent! i have no patience for phone call sorting systems.

yeah! I do that, too

they can tell when you're about to break

I do that, too!

I also do the "I would like to speak with a human" thing (and I think once I just said "HUMAN").

What really makes me ia is the faux-conversational tone of the recorded responses in those call sorting dealies. "OK! Let me get you that information! Ah, here we are!"

"thank you for calling-" "AGENT"
"please dial one-" "AGENT AGENT AGENT AGENT"

My advice is don't speak to those things. Hit 0 0 0 0 0 - and if that doesn't work then be silent until they send you to a customer service rep.

yelling at machines is fun and it means that when i get to talk with a human, i am ready to be nice

i guess the thing that genuinely makes me ia is when the human behaves like a machine and keeps using my first name too much

Yeah, a lot of times if you don't push any buttons or do anything at all there'll be a long pause, like they're trying to wait you out, and then finally they'll say "Please stay on the line while we connect you with an agent" or whatever.

I love getting mail to myself "Or Current Resident". Makes me feel special.

That little convention is the source of the name of the band The Residents, so they say

re: humans: I start laughing when somebody thanks me after every single sentence I say. This is kind of a call center in India thing mostly.

Also, have you ever had a call where they wouldn't do what you want (adjust a charge, issue a refund, whatever) and so at the end you said, no, I'm not satisfied, but the operator has no other scripted way to end a call, except to ask you one more time if you are "satisfied with our customer service" and they don't know what to say next? It's as if the social contract has suddenly been torched and there's nowhere to go.

Duel

Customer Satisfaction Surveys At Dawn

I could watch:

- Arnold Schwarzenegger re-enacting a bunch of his movies
- Jimmy Kimmel and Jack Black re-enacting that shitty rock ballad video from the 90s
- Kristen Schaal and Mikal Cronin re-enacting "Torn" video from the 90s
- U2 "busking in a NYC subway"

Eff all of these.

My advice is don't speak to those things. Hit 0 0 0 0 0 - and if that doesn't work then be silent until they send you to a customer service rep.

Some companies' automated phone systems don't put up with shit like this - you either answer their questions the way want (and very possibly still never get to talk to a human) or else you get "I'm sorry you're experiencing difficulties. Please try your call again later," and then they hang up. The US Postal Service is the worst for this, but UPS, too, and some government agencies.

Gethuman.com

when jimmyjohns.com asks for your email address and starts giving you the OMG INVALID EMAIL ADDRESS red letter warning message after you enter one keystroke (cos there hasn't been an "@" sign added yet).

I KNOW LET ME FINISH IT JEEZUS

when you go to click in a search bar or w/e on a webpage and then right as you do that it all shifts down slightly & you end up clicking on a banner or a help link

hate hate deathray hate

if I search google for something on ilx, i.e. "site:ilxor.com/ILX something", it ruins my browser's autocomplete for "site new answers," but I can't retrain myself so easily

people from the southwest u.s. using "proper" to describe dance music they like.

is that where MC Hammer lives now?

fucking people on ILX who use "autistic" as a pejorative term. Serves me right for reading a Star Wars thread tbf.

Websites that only give you the parameters for creating a password after you've already input a password that doesn't pass muster. This happens ALL THE TIME anymore. I smash you all.

xp hey, don't blame us SW fans for Shakey

british people that use "proper" to describe dance music they like are annoying, too

there are about fifty things british people when describing dance (or other) music that makes me cringe

referring to artists as "the mighty <x>" is cringeworthy for me

the correct (American) way is to say "the mighty mighty..."

bosstones?

that's the impression that i get

no excuse for "proper" ever

I only believe music should be described in the hardwax store style

https://ofmustandmash.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/staustell-proper-job3.jpg

Proper groan here NV

*skanks*

Websites that only give you the parameters for creating a password after you've already input a password that doesn't pass muster.

Especially if, when it bounces it, it also BLANKS ALL THE FIELDS YOU JUST SPENT 10 MINS INPUTTING ARRGHHH.

xxp

i'm not proud