What bugs you and what would you do about it?
- Thread starter YukonJack
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Wouldn't that be fun. What really happens is people are rude to the cashier and then when they get home, they call the store and tell the mgr. the cashier was rude. Try helping someone use a coupon in the self check out. They scream at you and tell you that you are confusing them (they cannot do coupons, the cashier must do them and approve them) and grab their stuff and huff on over to a different cashier. People don't realize what dumb asses they look like when they throw a temper tantrum in front of the cashier.
That's my rant for the moment. :lol:
People can fix this like we did on canada.com by simply saying things like: Yukon Jack said: =========0000000 etc. etc. and then give their short response and everyone will know who they are referring to.
I am not sure, but wasn't it an issue at the end at Canada.com, that post numbers were no longer being numbered ?
It was but I wasn't referring to the numbers. The posts here are all numbered too. Just in a different way. Don't you remember how we used to say:
Sirrup said: lalalalala and lalalala and so on and so forth and then we would go on with what we had to say. On here, what YJ is talking about is when someone uses a quick response instead of quote. I know there have been times when I have done that and by the time I get my quick response posted, someone else has posted and it's out of order. Now I usually say - Sir Francis said: and at this point I type in the point I wish to refer to and then I say what I have to say.
Yes I know exactly what you mean but I thought Canada.com had the same issue at the end..
That said, you can do exactly what Yukon Jack is doing..
PS does any know you can scroll down to see old text in the new "version" of this site past the text box and "upload" and "submit reply" button and can even cut and past text ?
That said it does not list the post # however so those must be noted prior and you can only view the page you are on..
Damn Rider fans!
Ooookaaayy, I'm a Rider fan, gotta be one 'cause my wife went to school with and was close to one of 'em, ( and he's a big feller) and her family is friends with his family and, well, okay, got to hold the Grey Cup, but, no we don't paint our faces green, or anything like that, but I'm still a Rider Fan, whether I like it or not.
Shaw sells digital now and the box. The picture quality is not the same. I know that high def. is not fully "here". Each item just keeps improving the picture. My brother has Blue Ray. He says that with each new thing (high definition for example), add blue ray and again the picture gets better. As him and his wife say, I guess what we have to decide is, how much more clear do we want it.
People who don't keep appointments, like tell you they are coming over or will phone you, so you wait around for them and they don't materialize and or let you know they can't make it.
Maybe one or two people chained to desks in the basement at Sony... I began to get really pissed about this when I found out that "HDTV ready" really means "Not ready for HDTV signals, you need another box." It's all !#$!#@$!@$ marketing terminology. After weeks of digging around I finally figured out that what I wanted was a tv set with 1080p in the specs, no mention of upconversion, and an internal digital tuner that didn't require an extra external box to decode anything. And in another few years I'd bet the #!$!@$s will change it all again. They should define a standard and stick to it for the average lifetime of a tv set.
Digital camera specs really vex me too. I bought a Canon AE-1 SLR camera in 1976, and it served me well for 30 years, during which I bought several additional lenses for it. When I started to investigate digital SLRs a few years ago, I discovered I could not buy a Canon camera body my lenses would fit onto, everything I owned was useless, top quality lenses I once paid many $hundreds for, all still in pristine condition (I take VERY good care of my equipment), were suddenly worth nothing, I had to start over again if I wanted to go digital. Photo gear for non-professional but knowledgeable photographers like me who want top quality equipment used to be something you could buy once in a lifetime. Now they're like personal computers, obsolete the moment you buy them. At the very least, people who make cameras should provide a way to use their older lenses with them. Most of them don't, and ought to be shot and pissed on for it. It's all marketing hype; megapixels really don't matter at all for 99% of photographers, a 3 megapixel camera will provide perfectly satisfactory print images up to at least 8x10, and you can't even buy a 3 megapixel camera anymore, except possibly as a camera of seriously poor optical quality built into a cell phone.
Other things that seriously bug me, that I really can't do anything about because the civil rights and free speech laws quite rightly prevent me from following my instincts:
Creationists, and their tarted up cousins, Intelligent Designers; they're either ignorant or stupid, possibly both.
New Age mystics; see above.
Kevin Trudeau, a multiply-convicted felon still promoting his crap about things "they" don't want you to know.
Jenny McArthy, the "vaccination causes autism" diva.
Oprah Winfrey. Gawd, where to begin...
Dr. Phil. See above.
Late night cable tv. Jesus, what a wasteland of woo-woo BS.
Conspiracy theorists. Learn to think, you fools, try to understand probability and evidence.
Religious fundamentalists, of any stripe. Your scriptures are transparent fables, your claims are demonstrably false, you have nothing sensible to contribute to any discussion.
Hmmm... maybe I've turned into a cranky old man. The list of things that bug me is endless.
As Buckminster Fuller once said, "I was never a radical in my youth for fear I would become a conservative in my old age."
Not much really annoys me but people who get upset by the silly and inconsequential things in life make me want to slap them to bring them to their senses.
My way around the TV marketing scam is to not buy one.
Not much really annoys me but people who get upset by the silly and inconsequential things in life make me want to slap them to bring them to their senses.
My way around the TV marketing scam is to not buy one.
The clogged grocery aisle is a big one with my wife. She goes crazy. She'll walk right up to the people and physically move their cart. It freaks me out! I'm waiting for the day when she gets into a dust up in the frozen food section and I'll have to bodily remove her from Safeway.
Another thing that is really annoying is all the know-it-alls you encounter, they really piss those of us off who really do.
Why get involved with it all? When Oprah comes on go out and mow the lawn.
Re #37.
JLM, do not take this personally, but another thing that bugs me is when I see words that really do not belong in any civil discourse.
Words that are the vernacular to bodily functions, but not describing your feelings and/or lack thereof.
And, appearently - according to your post - necessary to express your opinion.
Try to find a less descriptive/offensive synonym.
JLM, do not take this personally, but another thing that bugs me is when I see words that really do not belong in any civil discourse.
Words that are the vernacular to bodily functions, but not describing your feelings and/or lack thereof.
And, appearently - according to your post - necessary to express your opinion.
Try to find a less descriptive/offensive synonym.
