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Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys
It's aaaaaall downhill from here

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Glottis
May 29, 2002

No. It's necessary.
Yam Slacker

Tree Bucket posted:

It's aaaaaall downhill from here

This is a phrase that has always amused me. Is downhill good or bad?

Poopbutt
Aug 15, 2022

Glottis posted:

This is a phrase that has always amused me. Is downhill good or bad?

Not much, what's downhill with you?

Bodnoirbabe
Apr 30, 2007

Glottis posted:

This is a phrase that has always amused me. Is downhill good or bad?

Most people like going downhill. It's when you get to say "Wheeeeeeee!"

JosefStalinator
Oct 9, 2007

Come Tbilisi if you want to live.




Grimey Drawer
Terry is a comrade and more proof he is good

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Bodnoirbabe posted:

Most people like going downhill. It's when you get to say "Wheeeeeeee!"

When I were a lad we used to climb hills just to go downhill.



TBF I've also done later, sometimes.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Glottis posted:

This is a phrase that has always amused me. Is downhill good or bad?

Good point. I used it to mean bad, but really it means good? Or at least easier.
I guess if Terry issues increasingly strident demands for the liberation of the proletariate, culminating in copied and pasted swathes from various manifestos, the memes should be like a lot easier to make.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

When I were a lad we used to climb hills just to go downhill.

Don't know why but your messed-up grammar makes me trust you more.

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

Thank you for your service, Terry

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

Rename it to the 4-axis praxis.

sick of Applebees
Nov 7, 2008

TremorX posted:

All previous Terries were leading up to this Terry, this is peak Terry

Would you say we're at the end of his-terry?

Phosphine
May 30, 2011

WHY, JUDY?! WHY?!
🤰🐰🆚🥪🦊

Do actual real humans ever text like this? Just split what is like a single text of two sentences up into seven texts with time between?

It is an asynchronous form of communication, you do not need to write "hey" and wait for them to pick up before you compose the rest of your message!

It would be like if I quoted this and just posted "hey can I ask a question?" and waited for someone else to post yes before I wrote the rest of the post. What.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Phosphine posted:

Do actual real humans ever text like this? Just split what is like a single text of two sentences up into seven texts with time between?

You don't have that one friend who does that?

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule



gently caress off, and gently caress off Terry, it's the Orcas time now.

Beeswax
Dec 29, 2005

Grimey Drawer

Phosphine posted:

Do actual real humans ever text like this? Just split what is like a single text of two sentences up into seven texts with time between?

It is an asynchronous form of communication, you do not need to write "hey" and wait for them to pick up before you compose the rest of your message!

It would be like if I quoted this and just posted "hey can I ask a question?" and waited for someone else to post yes before I wrote the rest of the post. What.

Seems to be enough of a thing for there to be a campaign against it

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

GhostDog
Jul 30, 2003

Always see everything.

Phosphine posted:

Do actual real humans ever text like this? Just split what is like a single text of two sentences up into seven texts with time between?

It is an asynchronous form of communication, you do not need to write "hey" and wait for them to pick up before you compose the rest of your message!

It would be like if I quoted this and just posted "hey can I ask a question?" and waited for someone else to post yes before I wrote the rest of the post. What.

At work there's lots of colleagues who initiate contact on Teams just typing "Hi" or "Hello" and then waiting. loving interrupting what I'm doing and then putting the onus on me to ask them want they want from me. Also gently caress Teams for not having an option to turn off the flashing.

Edit: I know it's suppsoed to be polite, I hate it anyway.

GhostDog has a new favorite as of 09:51 on Jun 22, 2023

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

Phosphine posted:

Do actual real humans ever text like this? Just split what is like a single text of two sentences up into seven texts with time between?

It is an asynchronous form of communication, you do not need to write "hey" and wait for them to pick up before you compose the rest of your message!

It would be like if I quoted this and just posted "hey can I ask a question?" and waited for someone else to post yes before I wrote the rest of the post. What.

Hi

To answer your question

Yes

People do message like this


I work with a person who uses Slack like this, to the point where I've ended up muting him just to avoid getting half a dozen audio notifications any time he wants to ask a question.

Gravitas Shortfall
Jul 17, 2007

Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.


GhostDog posted:

At work there's lots of colleagues who initiate contact on Teams just typing "Hi" or "Hello" and then waiting. loving interrupting what I'm doing and then putting the onus on me to ask them want they want from me. Also gently caress Teams for not having an option to turn off the flashing.

Edit: I know it's suppsoed to be polite, I hate it anyway.

This bugs the hell out of me like "how are you" we are in a work environment where you would only be messaging me if you want something, I know you don't actually give a poo poo about my day.

That said I like to open with "hey do you have time for a quick question" because they're free to reply "no" and that's fine.

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something
I get emails at work like that from one person. I have to order things for them occasionally, and they'll send me 6 emails basically going.

Email 1
I need you to buy something

Email 2 - 10 Minutes Later
It's this thing

Email 3 - 2 Hours Later
I'll get the product number for you in a bit

Email 4 - 2.5 hours Later
Here's a picture of it

Email 5 - The Next Day
Here's a pic of the product number (picture of meaningless numbers under the color-swatch dots)

Email 6 - Another Day Later
Did you order that thing? Is it in yet? WHERE IS IT?!

Email 7 - 4 Hours Later
Oh, I didn't send the proper product number? Okay, I'll send it to you in a bit...

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

I get emails at work like that from one person. I have to order things for them occasionally, and they'll send me 6 emails basically going.

Email 1
I need you to buy something

Email 2 - 10 Minutes Later
It's this thing

Email 3 - 2 Hours Later
I'll get the product number for you in a bit

Email 4 - 2.5 hours Later
Here's a picture of it

Email 5 - The Next Day
Here's a pic of the product number (picture of meaningless numbers under the color-swatch dots)

Email 6 - Another Day Later
Did you order that thing? Is it in yet? WHERE IS IT?!

Email 7 - 4 Hours Later
Oh, I didn't send the proper product number? Okay, I'll send it to you in a bit...

They wouldn’t find the body if someone did that to me.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

mystes posted:

Thank god nobody told them about nfts

They're very smart animals mystes, they're not interested in nfts.

boofhead
Feb 18, 2021

If someone messages me "hey how are you" I just wait til the end of the day then reply with "hey, I'm great thanks, and yourself?" then immediately turn my laptop off. If they instead ask if I have five minutes to talk about something, I say maybe, depends what it is, so just write your question as best you can and I'll get back to you on that

That said, I am generally only one middle or upper management tantrum away from flogging my CV on linkedin or daydreaming about going back on unemployment, so if you are essentially in indentured servant territory, YMMV

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Phosphine posted:

Do actual real humans ever text like this? Just split what is like a single text of two sentences up into seven texts with time between?
My SO is slightly better about this now but still does it every so often. Like some above have mentioned, I also have a couple of coworkers who do this on Slack. One does it while tagging multiple people either specifically or by tagging the relevamt group.

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

teen witch posted:

They wouldn’t find the body if someone did that to me.

Looks like they put everything in the subject line anyway

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

AtomD posted:

Looks like they put everything in the subject line anyway

drat

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

I get emails at work like that from one person. I have to order things for them occasionally, and they'll send me 6 emails basically going.

Email 1
I need you to buy something

Email 2 - 10 Minutes Later
It's this thing

Email 3 - 2 Hours Later
I'll get the product number for you in a bit

Email 4 - 2.5 hours Later
Here's a picture of it

Email 5 - The Next Day
Here's a pic of the product number (picture of meaningless numbers under the color-swatch dots)

Email 6 - Another Day Later
Did you order that thing? Is it in yet? WHERE IS IT?!

Email 7 - 4 Hours Later
Oh, I didn't send the proper product number? Okay, I'll send it to you in a bit...

The office manager at one of my past jobs would attach one sentence Word documents to her otherwise textless emails

ijyt
Apr 10, 2012

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1023638621179355167/1121255374239059998/87398446488.mp4

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

Azhais posted:

The office manager at one of my past jobs would attach one sentence Word documents to her otherwise textless emails

Before they learned how to do it properly and add a neatly cropped screenshot to a defect ticket, the testers would often take a full-screen screenshot, add it to a blank Word document, and attach the Word doc to the ticket. :argh:

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Glottis posted:

I'm almost OK with this Terry, because it contains an actual joke. Almost.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

teen witch posted:

They wouldn’t find the body if someone did that to me.

Was about to say I'd put them in a tube and sink it next to that other one.

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

When I worked with voice phone systems I would routinely have project managers send me an email, call me about the email before/while I read it, and then follow it up with a Skype message when I inevitably ignored the phone call.

At least no one will ever find the bodies.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005


Terry's good now

Deus Ex Macklemore
Jul 2, 2004


Zelensky's Zealots

You're one of my favorite people

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


Biplane posted:

Terry's good now

Nah, that type of shark can't dive that deep it's just more made up terry bullshit trying to capitalize on current memes.

PainterofCrap
Oct 17, 2002

hey bebe



Lib and let die posted:

When I worked with voice phone systems I would routinely have project managers send me an email, call me about the email before/while I read it, and then follow it up with a Skype message when I inevitably ignored the phone call.

At least no one will ever find the bodies.

Did you at least remember to put a cover on your TPS report this time

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

CainFortea posted:

Nah, that type of shark can't dive that deep it's just more made up terry bullshit trying to capitalize on current memes.

Well, gently caress. God drat you Terry.

Beeswax
Dec 29, 2005

Grimey Drawer

CainFortea posted:

Nah, that type of shark can't dive that deep it's just more made up terry bullshit trying to capitalize on current memes.

Neither can that type of submarine but I don't see people making a fuss about it

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

railroad graffiti

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Golden Dragon
Apr 9, 2007

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon

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