Really? :rolleyes:
My apologies for glossing over the disclaimer after you’d already made a blanket claim in a previous post.
I dunno CarrieD. I call a local shop and ask for a medium pizza and they will always ask me if I mean a medium *cheese *pizza. Of course, being bored with that, I now ask for a medium cheese pizza.
And don’t get me started on their: We don’t have smalls, we have two sizes, medium and large…
I couldn’t disagree more with that. I suppose I wouldn’t, if it were 1988, instead of 2008.
If I were to ask for a VHS at my local movie rental establishment, I’m pretty sure they’d have to first find the key to the attic of the place because who the fuck still watches anything on VHS? Or at least who rents anything on VHS?
The “on video” portion of the question I would see as a harmless, yet superfluous, addendum.
If someone asked me, “Do you have any milk in the 'fridge?” I wouldn’t say, “Where the hell else would I keep the milk?”
How is that a stupid question? Asking for a “medium pizza” is like going to Subway and asking for a “footlong sandwich.”
I live in New York. Which means, that if I call up a local pizza place, I’ll probably have the following conversation.
“Hi. I’d like to order a pizza for delivery.”
“Address and phone number?”
<information provided>
"One regular pie, 20 - 30 minutes.’ <click>
Regardless of the actual pizza establishment you call, you gotta be *damn fast *on the interjection, or you’re getting a regular pie. This holds true for almost any non-chain pizza place I’ve tried. The one place that gives you more than .4 seconds to indicate a pizza topping preference is the one I now buy all my damn pizza from.
Here’s what I’ve actually received on occasions when I wasn’t damn fast on the interjection and received a “regular pie”:
14" cheese pizza
12" cheese pizza
14" pepperoni pizza
12" pepperoni pizza
14" sicilian with sausage and green peppers
14" thin crust with olives and mushrooms
Deep-dish with green peppers, onions and what I devoutly hope was ham
All different pizza places. Apparently the term “regular pie” is kind of a flexible concept. Although the sizes all seem to be either “regular” or “large”, if size options are available at all. Lots of the pizza places in my area don’t feature sizes for their pizzas. Pizzas come in one size only.
The place where I asked for “just black olives”, the assholes gave me a crust, some sauce and some black olives. No damn cheese. And then were surprised when I called them back, angry as hell.
Ha! “There is no sanctuary!”
I couldn’t disagree more with that. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone refer to DVDs as “videos”. If someone’s renting a DVD, they say “I’m going to rent a DVD”. Yes, the acronym DVD does have the word “video” in it, but literally no-one I have ever met refers to them as such. For a number of years stores have carried multiple formats, so if someone comes into a store asking if they have something “on video”, there’s really only one sensible conclusion to be drawn. Yeah, so stores carrying VHS are rarer these days, but so what? Doesn’t that make the question all the more pertinent?
It’s pretty weird for the OP to berate people for a) not understanding that multiple formats exist, but also b) understanding that multiple formats exist. So some guy wanted a VHS and called it a video, big deal; if only everyone were that stupid.
By the way, somebody who goes by “Mr. Pimpin” keeps texting my mom by mistake. I don’t know who he is, but “shit be bangin’ up at [his] place”. She can’t wait for the next one. She calls him her Secret Admirer.
You should have kept bolding. I said “everybody who isn’t a self-important prick.”
Watch this:
Customer: “Hi. Do you have Made of Honor on video?”
Clerk: “Sure, it’s right here.” indicates DVD
Customer: “I saw that, but I’d really like to have it on video.”
Self-important Prick: “A DVD IS VIDEO!!!”
Everybody Else: “Oh, I see. I’m sorry, this movie is not available on VHS/is only available on DVD.”
If you do not recognize the first three lines of this exchange as a request for a VHS movie, you are retarded.
Kids who were given their parents’ old VCR for their bedroom. People who can’t see paying extra for something when they’ve got this thing here that “works just fine”. Poor people? I really don’t know.
Great. That takes into account about 1% of the video viewing public. So why would anybody assume anyone asking for a video meant, because dagnabbit, I gots me a VHS player.
Do we have to keep a eye out for the Betamax owners too?
If I drove into a gas station and asked them to fill it up, I would clarifiy my request by saying “unleaded.”
From my own experiences … when I’ve asked my kids if they want to go rent some videos, not once were they expecting to waltz out of there with a VHS tape.
Yes, I usually say “let’s go rent a DVD,” but if I do happen to say “let’s go rent a video,” DVD is assumed because … boing … that’s what they rent at the Video store these days.
The ambiguity of “video” is because when the DVD format was new, they would advertise a new release to the home market as being “on video and DVD”. This bit of stupidity would have been avoided if they had simply said “on VHS and DVD”, but it cemented in some’s minds that the word video=VHS.
IMHO, because of this, you can’t blame folks for using the terminology that way, even though from a technical/English standpoint it’s pretty bad.
:smack:
I meant to say I wouldn’t clarify it.
Damn it, I commit that same typo all the time.
You have kids? Oh, right, well then you’re only saying this because you’re old, dude.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Pretty much everyone (read: 99.9999% of people) refers to them as DVDs. So if someone comes into a rental store, and asks specifically if they have something on video, do you really believe it’s a reasonable assumption that they are talking about DVDs? If a young person had come in and asked the exact same question, would the OP have assumed they were an idiot and didn’t know what they were talking about? Probably not. So the point is that in this case, the misunderstanding is entirely based on the OP’s assumption that old people are stupid, and don’t know what they’re talking about. Not the customer’s fault at all. The milk example doesn’t apply precisely because there’s nowhere else you would keep it. Video stores have rented multiple formats for years now, so should expect the distinction.
Good point, Charlie Tan. It used to be “Digital Video Disc” back in the day, though, so I suppose everyone insisting “video” refers to DVD is a fogie. 
I think the bottom line is when there is ambiguity and the clerk knows there is ambiguity, it is up to the clerk to do their job properly and work out the ambiguity with the customer rather than entrap the customer with aforementioned ambiguity. If you know people often ask for video when they mean VHS, the proper response to that would be, “We only have DVD format movies here - I can get you that movie in that format, but if you’re looking for VHS, I’m sorry but we don’t have any movies in that format.” If as a clerk (generic) you think people can’t tell when you are being an asshole just for the sake of being one, you are sorely mistaken.
Oh yeah? How do you know I don’t keep it in the ice-box?
How about a cool, wet sack?
Seems you have higher regard for an old rifle than for the old man who might have carried it. Nice.
Who goes to a movie rental store these days anyway? Netflix, On-Demand, Internet…