When I saw that story on the news, I said to Jim, “The bubblewrapping of childhood continues.”
Sears, I love your clothes, your prices, your online shopping, and your convenient location for me. Your in-store marketing over the intercom is driving me out of my mind, though. I’m already in your store, buying stuff - leave me the hell alone!
And Wal-Mart, similar rant - when the screen on the shelf started yelling at me about salad dressing or some such shit, it took my mood down from normal to, “Hmm, I wonder what kind of fine I’d get for ripping that thing off the shelf and throwing it on the floor? Jail time?”
Well, producing *that *many reports of a size *that *big will take a big chunk out of our supplies, as well as eat up about half my day, because we’re a small office and anything that large I’d normally order from a larger office and have overnighted. But SURE, I’ll waste MY time, on a day when I didn’t technically have any to spare, which means the other projects I was GOING to work on will be delayed, because you DON’T WANT TO CARRY THE SHIT ON THE PLANE but COULDN’T BE BOTHERED TO PLAN THINGS EVEN A DAY FURTHER AHEAD OF TIME.
People who think it’s okay to pull a left on red (in the US, this is usually completely illegal as far as I know) because it’s 11PM at night and oh the roads look clear of anyone else for say 300 yards.
Left on red (after stop) is legal in my state if you are going from a one-way street onto another one-way street. Sometimes there are special signs urging people to do this because many won’t dare.
Fuck you, Microsoft Word. If I wanted a line all the way across the page, I’d have typed it that way. Fuck you and your fucking not helpful “helping”. Especially now that you won’t let me delete the fucking line I didn’t want in the first place.
Hitting Ctrl+Z (Undo) after one of those “helpful” autoformats will generally get the thing to go back to the way it was. You can usually also take the time to find that autoformat option in the menu and delete it the hell out.
For me the rant about K-Mart could be replaced with “I like your clothes, your prices, and your convenient location, but why do your lines have to be so slow that it takes just as long for 1 customer to be rung up as it does for 3 to be rung up at any other big box store?”
I can answer that one - have the only open lane manned by a disabled person. The KMart we used shop at had three women, all significantly challenged, as cashiers. Never at the same time, though. Now, I think it’s great with EEOC and all, but to have one lane open with a cashier who has disabilities that makes it difficult to communicate and/or move easily - yeah.
The cashier that seemed to be there the most often had one arm and a severe speech impediment. If you tried to bag things yourself, she would become very upset and come close to shutting down.
To the idiot driver who was blocking traffic while waiting to make a left turn: THAT’S WHAT THE CENTER TURN LANE IS FOR! How did you manage to pass your driver’s test without understanding that if you need to turn left, pull into the center turn lane instead of stopping in your lane and blocking all traffic in that direction?? Geez.
So the Irish terrorists are trying to get noticed again. Except they’re rarely referred to as terrorists in the media. Strip a guy down, tie his hands, shoot him in the back of the head and leave his body in the street. A day before that we had a car-bomb go off. Are they considered civilised terrorists because they give a 12 minute warning?
If the perpetrator was a Muslim then the media would be frothing at the mouth and whipping up a shit storm.
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(No, I don’t advocate extreme measures. I’m happy letting the police handle it. I’m just annoyed at the media (and most of the English public) for the double-standard).
I have doodles and funny cartoons around my desk. I USED to have a couple neat toys. I don’t anymore because of everyone’s goddamn insistence on touching them.
My Little Cthulhu? “Oh, he’s so cute! What is he?” Touch touch grope grope caress touch.
MLC’s head got covered in grimy pawprints and one of his wings broke off.
Black cat from Trigun? “Oh, kitty!” Feel feel feel touch touch sniff lick.
Even my empty Hershey mesh candy container gets molested. Empty! There is no reason to touch an empty candy container! What pisses me off the most is that when people are done masturbating it, they obliviously put it back ON MY MOUSE CORD.
When the candy container was removed, people STILL came over to touch my stuff: scissors, pens, tape dispenser, Post It notepads, three-hole punch.
You collect the wrong ‘toys.’ What you need are traps! Mouse traps, rat traps, roach traps! All set to fire, naturally. And you want a plant on your desk? Cacti! The type with the really skinny needles that break off easily and are impossible to see once they’ve embedded themselves.
And if people really LICK your stuff (gross!) a rock collection featuring lumps of arsenic and such would be nice…
I encountered this behavior once and honked at the guy as I went around him in the right lane. Apparently his left turn just wasn’t that important because he followed me to the next stoplight and proceeded to bitch me out for being so rude. :rolleyes:
I like it when they’re halfway in the lane, halfway out so their car-butt is just right there in my lane. So, you are at least nominally aware of the turn lane, yet so terrified of it that you wanna keep a metaphorial foot (or butt) in my lane?
