I just want to go to the bathroom without my four-year-old following me. For Christ’s sake, kid, KEEP PLAYING WITH YOUR BARBIES. Leave me the hell alone!
Yes I don’t live in Madison, Wi anymore, but come on a restaurant named Hollander servicing Belgian food is just wrong…:eek:
My two mantras at work: “I get paid by the hour” and “what are they going to do, fire me?”
Yeah, it has not been a good month at work for me.
OMG. Just like a cat! I wonder what it would be like to go to the bathroom and not see furry paws reaching under the door. Or pushing it open. Always fun when one has guests.
Yes! My 18 month old will be happily playing by himself until I sit down to do my business and then all of a sudden I am the most interesting thing in the world.
An additional child related rant: Why do children’s toys need to be so fucking loud? Even the ones that are supposed to be soothing seem like they are about twice as loud as they need to be. On the ones volume multiple settings, I can’t believe any adult ever opts for the louder one.
Anti-Rant:
I have complained here before about the illegible words on the screen during my church’s Praise Song time, especially from the Choir Loft. Well, they’d changed some software, and now the screen in the back had white words (all-caps), black backgrounds, while the front screens had the usual decorative crap.
The Choir was very pleased with the readable words.
Now, if we could just sing songs with actual melodies . . . and memorable words.
That’s the price you pay for singing 7-11 Hymns…
Seven words repeated eleven times.
“ThankYouLordJustReallySooooMuch” might be easy-to-remember, but might not be “memorable words”…
– (smug High Churcher, who just got home from a Schubert Mass with full orchestra, brass and tympani)
What the hell is a straight-up JFK conspiracy article doing on the front page of Salon? I know they’re 90% clickbait bullshit anyways, but this is more off-the-deep-end than they usually are.
Did you seriously just push a pregnant lady out of the way to beat her to the open seat (a reserved one at that) on the a crowded train?
I’m pissed enough at everyone doing their “if I look at my phone hard enough, I can pretend I don’t see the enormously pregnant woman teetering around and looking a little green”. The whole “I’m on a middle row so I don’t have to care” thing is cute, too. But to actively take an open seat from someone about to sit in it?! Seriously?!
At least she had to crane her head to the extreme left for the entire trip so she could resolutely pretend she didn’t realize.
I blocked their clickbait bullshit months ago. It’s a shame really, because at one time I enjoyed their articles. They might still be good but I’ll never know because they have exceptionally bad title editors (or whatever their social media monkeys are called) that I just couldn’t continue to tolerate.
On another note, PLEASE, for the love of all that is holy in consumerism, sign the backs of your credit and debit cards because if you don’t, I can’t accept them as payment.
I don’t care if you’ve never signed your cards and never had any trouble before. I don’t care that 99.9% of cashiers don’t care enough about fraud to check the signature.
I don’t care if you have seven other cards --all unsigned-- in your wallet.
I don’t care that you wrote “see ID” instead, the card is still not valid without a signature. (And, no, I don’t believe your bank advised you write “seeID” rather than sign it. )
I don’t care if you have fraud protection. My employer’s fraud protection is following the rules outlined in the merchant agreements which state that the signature is to be verified and that the card is invalid without a signature. FWIW, it states exactly that on the back of your card right under that empty white box for “Authorized Signature”.
Look, what you don’t know is that the rules changed recently and some retailers are now on the hook for fraudulent transactions. Do you have any idea how much money is lost to fraudulent transactions? IIRC, is in the neighborhood of $70 billion annually. But guess what! I don’t make the rules, I just follow them.
If you don’t like signing your cards, your beef is with the credit card industry that has decided to adopt chip-and-signature rather than the more secure chip-and-pin. So stop being an asshole to me and just sign your damn card or bitch to your card issuer about it.
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I know you edited your post purplehorseshoe, but it says right on the back of the card: ‘Not valid unless signed’.
I just got a new Discover Card card that is PIN chipped… and for the life of me I can not see anywhere to sign it. Between the sets of numbers (including my security number) that I have blanked out? That’s about a thumbnail and a half wide. On the holographic strip above there? Neither spot appears pen write-able… with the former being such a small space my signature wouldn’t be legible (not that it is anyway). http://mistymage.com/straightdope/001a.jpg <–says nothing about needing a signature.
I was at the bank the day I got this and asked the ladies there and none of them knew either. So, just now I signed it and you can barely see it’s signed: the gray “Discover Discover Discover” tiled over that small strip blended in with my black ink minuscule signature. I didn’t attempt to write on the hologram part.
Now I just have to remember my PIN. If I told you guys it… you’d remember it for me, right? :smack:
I don’t have an answer for you other than your pin is an acceptable verification as far as merchant liability goes. I have yet to figure out how American express expects merchants to verify signatures captured with no signature on the back of the card. Near as i can tell, if the card issuer does not provide a space for a signature on the card, the merchant is relieved of liability for that verification method.
FWIW, I found this from here:
“DISCOVER” or “DISCOVER NETWORK” appears on a tamper-evident signature panel. Some cards contain an ultraviolet image that repeats the word “DISCOVER” in the signature panel.
Thanks, that’s where I signed. I had looked over the Discover site a couple of times but never checked under the Merchants tab.
My new card has a Brown Tabby or maybe a non-crossed eyes Siamese as the background… looks like a mix between 2 of my kitties. Much more fun than the original gray card. Not that I use it much to look at it… it’s used more for online places that don’t take PayPal.
GodDAMN but that seems terminally stupid. How did that get greenlit from the get-go? “Let’s make this important item invalid unless you visually give away the required security feature we created for you!”
I maybe misunderstanding you but how is a signature panel a security feature without a signature?
The security feature is cashiers looking at the signature on the receipt and seeing if it matches the signature on the card. If your card isn’t signed, your signature on the receipt is pointless.
I once had a cashier refuse an unsigned card, so I signed it and handed it back.