Originally posted by arrakisYep, I'm with you (literally, in the US) and share yur pain.
Oh God... I forgot to mention the telemarketers...
I don't know how it works where you live, but in America, we will get a call during the evening... and when we answer there's NOBODY there!
That's because the telemarketers use computer systems to call people 24 hours a day and LOG the time that the party actually answered! THEN, that list is given out to the brats and they call!
ARGH!!! I HATE telemarketers!!!
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Originally posted by arrakisIt's a lot better than it used to be. The "no call" list has really cut into the number of telemarketing calls we've gotten. It's one of the finest pieces of legislation ever enacted.
Oh God... I forgot to mention the telemarketers...
I don't know how it works where you live, but in America, we will get a call during the evening... and when we answer there's NOBODY there!
That's because the telemarketers use computer systems to call people 24 hours a day and LOG the time that the party actually answered! THEN, that list is given out to the brats and they call!
ARGH!!! I HATE telemarketers!!!
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Originally posted by rwingettAgreed. In fact, I'd say its one of the few pieces of legislation that has improved the quality of life in a long time.
It's a lot better than it used to be. The "no call" list has really cut into the number of telemarketing calls we've gotten. It's one of the finest pieces of legislation ever enacted.
That's another thing, I hate politicians.
Originally posted by elvendreamgirlActually, this reminds me of what is trully one of my biggest, and most frequent, pet peeves.
People who call and think they have a person when in fact they have the machine.
Sitting at a table in the restaurant and the table is all wet.
Now, when I answer the phone in my office, I'm one of the boys from the old school that answers with a professional monolouge. My voice is crips, clear, and cheerful. And subsequently, I am often mistaken for being a machine. People start pushing buttons to get to an extension, etc. Throught the years, I have altered my little greeting so that is should be blatently clear they are dealing with a REAL person.
"Good (morning, evening, whatever). Thank you for calling such and such hotel. This is so and so. How may I help you?" Unfortunately, it has done nothing to stop the assumption that I am a machine. So, after years of idiots calling me, I have resorted to simply having a little fun with it. It might go something like this:
"Good Morning! Thank you for calling such and such hotel. (here they start pressing keys for an extention. Beep! Boop! Beep!).........(long pause)........"If you would prefer to speak to a machine, press one now.......(and if they're so dumb as to stay on the line and STILL not have said anything)......if you would prefer to continue speaking to the live human being you are currently on the line with, press 123#456* while saying 'toy boat' as fast as you can repeatedly for twenty minutes". I have yet to be called by someone so dumb as to do this, but there is hope every day. 😉
People who say "He had a good innings" when referring to the recent death of an acquaintance. Like he was a f@cking cricketer? Like he spent his entire life batting against the Death XI? And I'm sorry, nothing under 100 is a good innings as far as I'm concerned. Now 501, that would be a good fricking innings!
Also (and in a less ranting style), people that are new to London and have not yet learned the etiquette of the underground. Actually, sod the less ranting idea, allow me to expound my distaste for these newbies.
1) When you approach the entrance to a station, please do not stand around outside it blocking people's way whilst checking maps or discussing with companions whatever t f you are discussing. People in London are in a hurry. ALWAYS. It is programmed into your brain through the imbibing of the nanobot infused water they pump here.
2) Upon reaching the ticket barrier, please have your ticket ready. If you do not there will be a queue of people behind you tutting and gritting their teeth, thinking murderous thoughts and generally wishing you would drop dead while you fumble around in your pockets for your ticket.
3) If your ticket does not work first time in the barrier, DO NOT TRY AGAIN, just back out, apologise to the person behind you and head to the nearest gate where a staff member will review your ticket and let you through. Easy, yes? If you try again, you hold up the people behind you (see point 2) and the likelyhood is the ticket will fail again and you'll double the ire against you which is steaming in the seething cauldrons of your fellow comuters' brains.
4) STAND ON THE RIGHT OF THE ESCALATOR!!!!! It says this very clearly all over the place, the left hand side is for walking, the right for standing. If you cannot uderstand this simple idea, take a bus!
5) If choosing to walk down an escalator, do not stop 10 metres before the end of it and wait for it to carry you to your departure point. Continue to walk all the way to the bottom and alight in a graceful and continuous manner. Failure to do this will mean that those behind you become bottlenecked and then a great melee of foot stamping occurs raising the collective intolerance and causing grazing.
6) Upon reaching the platform, please either stand near the edge to allow people to pass behind you, or stand well back near the wall and allow people to pass in front of you. If you do not do this, walking from one end of a platform to another is like slaloming and I want to get on a train, not practice for Ski F@cking Sunday.
7) Allow passengers to get off the train first. If I am departing a train and you try and access its inner realms before allowing me to step onto the platform, I will kick you in the shins or push you over. Unless of course you are bigger than me, in which case I will, being a Londoner, file my disgust under mute acceptance.
8) MOVE DOWN THE CARRIAGE!!! London has somewhere near 8 million inhabitants. Most of these need the tube to get around, there is always going to be one more person that needs to get on.
9) If you must carry a large rucksack on your back, please develop the spatial awareness to realise you are no longer mere inches deep, but in fact in excess of 20. Consequently, when you turn around, you now swing a wide arc, the outside edge of which is moving fairly quickly and is quite annoying, sometimes painful, when it catches an unwary commuter in the face.
10) Do not put your bags on the seat next to you in the vain hope that no-one will ask you to move them. If I am on that train, I will specifically root you out and demand you move them. Seats are for people, bags are not people. Seats, people - bags, floor. Simple.
11) And last but not least, when in the summer, it gets to be somewhere in the region of 110 degrees underground and people are packed together, the trains have ceased to run because all the electronics have melted, and you are stuck in a tunnel for ten minutes, WEAR F@CKING DEODORANT!!!!! You smell, heat makes you smell even more, it is vile and I hate you!
*gasp for breath and wipe spittle from chin*
Oh, also, peole that think Burbery is fashionable, just die, please.
Eating:
1.People who burp in your face,especially annoying when I myself am eating.I really don't want to smell what you ate 😠
Traffic (mostly from a motorcyclist's point of view):
1.People who are in a hurry.If you have to be somewhere at 11,and it's a 20-25 minute drive,don't leave at 10.45 or 10.50.Instead,leave at 10.25 or 10.30,plenty of time.If for some reason this is impossible,then accept that you'll be late.But stop risking my life for the odd chance you'll make it on time! 😠
2.People who honk their horns when I stop to let pedestrians cross.Honorary mention for the ones that honk when there's a frikkin' pedestrian crossing.I may not look like one,but yes,I'm a gentleman in traffic.It's because I'm never in a hurry.
3.People who drive off a parking lot or their driveway,and just wait,wait,wait,'till you've finally reached them,and only then drive onto the street,forcing you to do all sorts of weird manoevers not to slam into their rear.You could have driven onto the street when all was clear.Or,if you insist on waiting,you could've waited 5 seconds longer. 😠
4.People who do not signal.If you're going to turn into a street on your left hand(right too,but in that case I agree I'm a bit at fault as well *grin*),and you insist on NOT using your signals,then at least look in your mirror to see if I'm not busy passing you.Failing to do so has already wrecked 2 of my bikes.Not to mention the damage to my body 😠
5.When it's 4am,in the middle of the week,no traffic at all,and you're heading down the road at 120Km/h(speed limit is 90),when suddenly,a blue flashing dot appears in your mirror,and you know you're busted 🙁😠
Work (note that we do heavy physical labour,and we have to work as a team,if one is slacking,the rest has to work a lot harder):
1.People who stand around doing nothing,except when the boss happens to show up.Then they work like crazy 'till he's gone.Of course,the boss is too stupid to realise this and after a while those peeps get the best jobs because they're such hard workers and they deserve it.😠
2.People who try to boss you around when they actually have no say over you.Usually these are the same people as in point 1 😠
3.When you have a better,more efficient way of getting the job done,but your boss insists you do it his way 😠
4.Continuesly malfunctioning tools/machinery.This makes me go berserk.I know there's a budget,but buying better tools/machinery,or having the old ones properly fixed,would actually save money.WHY CAN'T YOU FRICKING' UNDERSTAND 😠
5.People pushing you to get something done in a hurry.Look,constantly nagging,looking over my shoulder,frantically running around like a headless chicken,and basically getting on my nerves,really doesn't make me get the job done any sooner.On the contrary,I'd say 😠
6.A boss who demands you adress him as sir,boss,or some other title.Sorry,but to me you're just Jim/Joe/Jack/Danny or whatever.Heck,I call our manager JP,and why would I not?
TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT! 😠
7.When I'm not allowed to sing.Why is that?I know my voice is terrible,but it makes the rest laugh,and I'm having fun.It helps create a better work environment!
Television:
1.Was there a movie in between the commercials??Hm,must have missed it 😕
Home:
1.Nothing here that I hate,unless I'm watching a movie on the tele 😉
Sex:
1.Don't recall,been too long 😳
Come to think of it,these are actually not so trivial 😠
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Originally posted by StarrmanThis is the reason I don not go to London unless absolutely necessary, even then I travel by taxi if possible and ask the driver not to speak to me.
People who say "He had a good innings" when referring to the recent death of an acquaintance. Like he was a f@cking cricketer? Like he spent his entire life batting against the Death XI? And I'm sorry, nothing under 100 is a good innings as far as I'm concerned. Now 501, that would be a good fricking innings!
Also (and in a less ranting style), p ...[text shortened]... wipe spittle from chin*
Oh, also, peole that think Burbery is fashionable, just die, please.