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people who get annoyed or angry when somebody has a stutter or other speech impediment deserve to be put in the fuckin pear wiggler
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Man I feel like "old man yells at cloud" for coming here to post about how much automation annoys me BUT IT loving DOES IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE! I needed to make an order from our local wholesale warehouse. (Not Costco, but basically Costco.) I've been ordering delivery for years, since COVID, basically. The place is a good 40-minute drive from my house because it's in a town full of rich assholes who blocked any attempts for a direct route there, to keep the dirty out of towners (read: poors) from being able to go there, but I digress! I got all my stuff into my cart and went to check out. The checkout button just redirected to my cart. Over and over, until it kicked me to a page saying basically "poo poo's hosed, son, call our customer service number." Which already irritates me cuz why do you think I'm ordering online in the first place? I don't want to have to make a phone call, eew. But fine whatever. I dial the number. There is no option to talk to an actual human, and none of the automated options cover "your site is loving broken, let me buy my poo poo." Even mashing 0 didn't connect me to a human. Even more irritated, I did what the system was pestering me to do and asked it to send me a link to their chat bot. I figure maybe eventually the bot will forward me to an actual human... Except the link they sent me didn't work. Might have been blocked by my phone browser or something, but no it just didn't work. Just "this page failed to load. Please check our Internet connection." My Internet is FINE, you stupid website! So not just irritated but actually MAD now, I dug up their email support and begged them to have an actual human read it and help me. Motherfuckers I am trying to give you money! I am actively begging to be allowed to pay you. PLEASE PAY SOME ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS FOR THIS poo poo I loving BEG YOU. Or at least have the option to talk to a human being! It's slightly annoying when the option is buried 10 menus deep and you have to hold for 10 minutes to talk to anyone, but at least the option EXISTS in that case!
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Apr 12, 2024 14:46
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Hardcordion posted:Does no one do the polite double-beep thing where you guys live? Where I'm from if you want to use your horn in a more friendly way you give it two quick taps. It's the automotive equivalent of loudly clearing your throat. Same *a-HEM* cadence.
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Apr 12, 2024 15:55
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My internet has been intermittent for days so I finally called my IP. They confirmed the connection issues are on their end, said they'd send someone to service it in three days, and now the connection is no longer intermittent, it's completely nonexistent. So glad I called.
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They need to make movie seats bigger with the rampant obesity overtaking America, 70% of the audience is coming up on 300 pounds Fat
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Apr 14, 2024 01:14
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oldpainless posted:They need to make movie seats bigger with the rampant obesity overtaking America, 70% of the audience is coming up on 300 pounds I work in an office on the third floor and I'm shocked how difficult it is for people to walk up a few stairs. It takes like 15 seconds but you still see them wait forever for the elevator to come down and bring them up to take a 2 second ride. I'm not talking about disabled or elderly, just regular sized people.
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Apr 14, 2024 02:39
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Mu Zeta posted:I work in an office on the third floor and I'm shocked how difficult it is for people to walk up a few stairs. It takes like 15 seconds but you still see them wait forever for the elevator to come down and bring them up to take a 2 second ride. I'm not talking about disabled or elderly, just regular sized people. It's equally crazy to me that any employee would pass up a chance to decompress waiting for/in the elevator.
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Apr 14, 2024 02:54
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Mu Zeta posted:I work in an office on the third floor and I'm shocked how difficult it is for people to walk up a few stairs. It takes like 15 seconds but you still see them wait forever for the elevator to come down and bring them up to take a 2 second ride. I'm not talking about disabled or elderly, just regular sized people. I feel the same way, though I understand why people may not walk the 5 floors I do. I pretty much only use the elevators if I'm walking with a coworker because I get the stinkeye when I suggest the stairs lmao
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Apr 14, 2024 05:09
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Punkinhead posted:It's equally crazy to me that any employee would pass up a chance to decompress waiting for/in the elevator. Standing around waiting for something makes me anxious and restless, I decompress better if I'm moving and would rather keep moving along a more time-consuming route than sit and wait for a faster route--let alone sit and wait for a slower route.
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Apr 14, 2024 06:10
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The longer you wait, the more likely Charlie is to pop out of the trees  But seriously I know what you mean. I like to feel like I'm doing something
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oldpainless posted:They need to make movie seats bigger with the rampant obesity overtaking America, 70% of the audience is coming up on 300 pounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxQLPizz9sI
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Mu Zeta posted:I work in an office on the third floor and I'm shocked how difficult it is for people to walk up a few stairs. It takes like 15 seconds but you still see them wait forever for the elevator to come down and bring them up to take a 2 second ride. I'm not talking about disabled or elderly, just regular sized people. I’m the regular sized normal looking person. You can’t tell by looking at me that my knees are super arthritic, until you look closely at me going up or down stairs.
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Apr 14, 2024 12:34
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Every time I paste text in Google Slides, it adds two carriage returns after whatever I pasted. Why. Why would I ever want that.
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Muscle Tracer posted:Every time I paste text in Google Slides, it adds two carriage returns after whatever I pasted. Why. Why would I ever want that. \n\r
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There are multiple posters on this forum who regularly refer to their 'bestie', and it irritates me every time i see it. What kind me grown adult does this. Who has a 'bestie', and even if you do, why not just call them your friend, or even your BEST friend if you really have to loving hierarchically rank your pals like you're in loving primary school.
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Apr 16, 2024 07:09
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i refer to all non best friends as "my hoecake-rear end friend" im gonna have a bbq with some hoecake-rear end friends in a few weeks when it gets warmer
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Apr 16, 2024 07:22
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I refer to all my friends as "my associate".
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Apr 16, 2024 08:58
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One of my most intimate acquaintances.
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I don’t like bestie either. It’s not even that it’s childish it just sounds weird to me.
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Apr 16, 2024 09:37
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Gonna have lunch with a gump-rear end friend of mine today
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What's up my worstie?
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We’re all old, and bestie has lost its denotation. It just means friend now. That’s my pet peeve, watching language move away from me as I march toward the grave.
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Using "girlfriend" to refer to platonic friends that happen to be girls seems to have died off, at least.
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I am peeved when corporate folks just mangle their metaphors horribly. Today I was told (read): "Friction holds us back. Frictionless propels us forward." Somebody doesn't know what happens to wheels in a low-friction environment!!
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Apr 16, 2024 16:30
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Muscle Tracer posted:I am peeved when corporate folks just mangle their metaphors horribly. Today I was told (read): "Friction holds us back. Frictionless propels us forward." Somebody doesn't know what happens to wheels in a low-friction environment!! That's such a "you're either with us or against us" thing to say anyway, what a toxic rear end message.
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Apr 16, 2024 18:27
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The song I Am Mine. "north is to south what the clock is to time"; no it isn't. It's not. What the gently caress are you talking about? The clock is the opposite of time? It isn't.
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Apr 16, 2024 19:14
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Every direction is time if you're standing on a clock. If you keep moving forward in time you will eventually cross the Time Pole and start moving clockward.
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Although I have always turned it off and kept it off on my account, Youtube is turning on autoplay for every video I'm clicking tonight. Is it a weird quirk in their system? Punishment for using NoScript? Who knows, but when I choose a setting I expect it to stay set to my preferences, Youtube.
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Apr 17, 2024 02:54
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Virtue signaling corporations telling me that I need to work harder to save the planet while selling me a one-ounce bottle of something wrapped in five pounds of plastic. My "green" employer telling me I need to "do my part" while making me sit in traffic for 4 hours every week to attend the same Zoom meetings that I was attending when I worked remotely.
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holy poo poo someone actually used "virtue signalling" correctly I'm... so proud... 
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MightyJoe36 posted:Virtue signaling corporations telling me that I need to work harder to save the planet while selling me a one-ounce bottle of something wrapped in five pounds of plastic. I worked in bottle recycling at large-scale brewery for a few summers and I remember watching gallons and gallons of caustic and waste water flowing directly down the run-off drain and being pissed at Sesame Street for getting on my rear end for the wastefulness of a leaky faucet.
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Every loving day at 18:54 the alarm goes off for half a minute from this lovely Scion TC that is usually parked either in front of my place or across the street every loving day like to the point i want to get a couple of bricks and leave one on the hood with a note under it saying "fix your loving car alarm, i have another brick" stringless has a new favorite as of 06:11 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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I can hear Mass getting out across town and I realize there's only so many songs you can actually play on church bells but 5 PM is too early for Lullaby and Goodnight, Catholics.
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As someone who's been out of school for close to a decade, I was surprised to encounter this again but: lovely teachers. My team has had a high-schooler around the last 2 weeks on work placement, where she shadowed us a bit, made a website, and made a little game. Today, at the end of the period she had a little presentation to show off what she made for us, a couple of the HR ladies, and her teacher that came in to visit. A bunch of us tried the game once she'd shown it off, very quick and simple 3D platformer. Then we asked the teacher if he wanted to try and it was just a blunt no, even after some prodding. Like loving hell my guy, one of your students made a small game, you're here on the clock (and you got cake and etc), and you can't loving try a little game for 2 minutes? Maybe he was just terrified of not looking competent or whatever? Maybe he just hates games? You're supposed to be way more familiar and supportive of her than us (some rando IT dudes), and you just loving shut her down like that infront of strangers? No loving wonder she was worried about doing a presentation about what she'd done, if this is the kind of reception she gets for anything at school. I dunno, just left a real sour note in my mouth at the end of the day.
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Bad gym rules are a pet peeve of mine. I moved about a year ago and the only gym near me is the equivalent of a Planet Fitness (complete with lunk alarm!) and the rules seem to be less about proper gym etiquette and more about pushing away more serious lifters and keeping only the New Year's / beach body crowd. Obviously the worst offender is the aforementioned lunk alarm which, for the uninitiated, is an alarm that goes off when someone drops a weight, which, for the uninitiated, is a cool and normal thing to do in most cases. The actual thing to avoid is letting a weight stack drop in a machine which a ton of people do and big surprise, there's a never ending rotation of broken machines, but apparently that's fine. Don't let a plate of loving raw iron fall on the padded floor though, that's bad! Mandatory towels also seem arbitrary. I think that it's meant to remind people to wipe their machines after use but every gym that I've been to in the last 20 years have had spray bottles with disinfectant and wipes. The problem is that mandatory towels make people believe that vaguely waving their sweat drenched towel close to their bench is sufficient which it has never been but especially not since 2020. I've also always been a bit puzzled by the "Absolutely no personal trainer" rule. Every gym I've been to has had that rule, even those that didn't offer trainers or programs. Luckily I've never seen it enforced but it seems really weird to me. Finally, not a rule but a trend I've noticed in cheaper gyms: they never have enough 45s but they have a million 35s, which is a plate that I had never seen before going to Planet Fitness. It's not a huge deal but it kinda fits with the idea of driving away more serious lifters who will always run out of 45s (because of bros leg pressing 900 lbs with no ROM) and aren't used to counting with 35s.
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Dumb question, but what does dropping weights even mean/entail? I don't lift, so I have no idea what that involves. Like you're taking the weights off a machine and just dropping them on the floor like thud? Or is it when you're lifting a barbell and when you put it down it kinda clangs on the floor a bit? The former I could see as being reasonable, the latter would be like, what? Weightlifting is hard and noises happen!
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Silver Falcon posted:Dumb question, but what does dropping weights even mean/entail? I don't lift, so I have no idea what that involves. It's most common in the deadlift and a lot of the Olympic lifts, where it's arguably less safe to lower the bar slowly. This is less true of the deadlift but it's definitely the safe option in Oly lifts like the snatch, which end with a very heavy bar above your head. I think gym rules are a bit weird to get peeved about but some of that is deffo a bit overbearing. I'm lucky enough to have space for a home gym and 500lbs of freeweights, I never have to worry about gym etiquette or the various meat heads you meet in them.
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There's also people that will set up on some dumbbell exercise and just dump the DB when the set is done. Which can bend or break the handles if they land on a corner. Which any gym would discourage. Also it seems like the planet fitness type rules are there to keep people away because they are. Commercial gyms make most of their money from absentee members who pay their monthly fee just to say they have one.
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Mister Speaker posted:I think gym rules are a bit weird to get peeved about but some of that is deffo a bit overbearing. I'm lucky enough to have space for a home gym and 500lbs of freeweights, I never have to worry about gym etiquette or the various meat heads you meet in them. Honestly I kinda know I'm in the wrong and it feels like complaining that there's no deadlifting platform at Curves (Does Curves still exist?) but I don't really have a choice of gym at the moment so I decided to yell at the Internet for a bit.
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