Author Topic: More things that annoy me.. (Read 235519 times)

BlackLight · « **Reply #1875 on:** January 16, 2017, 04:47:29 PM »

Quote from: DocSavage on January 16, 2017, 04:23:05 PM

Why are brick and mortar stores still around?

You don't expect the same selection as you get online, but every store I walk into these days has nothing! Maybe half a dozen choices, if even that. They advertise things on store websites that aren't even in stock, nor listed as in store pickup only.

I've even walked into a few electronic sections of stores looking for laptops as gifts, and they had nothing at all, literally. Not a one single thing.

I don't know how they stay in business, but I sure am motivated to stick with online ordering exclusively.

Because while some people enjoy having things, others enjoy shopping for them.

Also, sometimes the difference between getting something today and getting it the day after tomorrow is important.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1876 on:** January 16, 2017, 05:15:36 PM »

Because I'm shopping, another one:

Unless you're elderly or infirm, stop parking in the fire lane. Walk the twenty-forty steps, you lazy bum.

BobbyR · « **Reply #1877 on:** January 16, 2017, 06:59:05 PM »

Now that one is a good one

DocSavage · « **Reply #1878 on:** January 17, 2017, 05:23:13 PM »

Bound to happen on sheer volume.

Lower back pains.. Wonder if anyone is lucky enough to get through middle age with a pain free back.

Muscled get pulled simply taking a wrong step now.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1879 on:** January 19, 2017, 12:49:19 PM »

What do you think of gmo products?

Like corn starch in your yogurt/snacks, as many products use?

BlackLight · « **Reply #1880 on:** January 19, 2017, 03:12:57 PM »

Quote from: DocSavage on January 19, 2017, 12:49:19 PM

What do you think of gmo products?

Like corn starch in your yogurt/snacks, as many products use?

I wouldn't say they're safe by definition, but certainly not bad for you, by definition.

Memphis Meats is a company that's trying to grow meat directly from animals cells, rather than farming an animal for slaughter. Assuming they eventually succeed in making it commercially available, I could see myself switching to that over farmed animal protein.

BobbyR · « **Reply #1881 on:** January 19, 2017, 07:55:55 PM »

don't care one way or the other

FreebirdSTF · « **Reply #1882 on:** January 20, 2017, 03:14:22 PM »

I am fairly apolitical so I'm growing tired of Twitter being swallowed up by that discussion. I got on here to talk wrestling with you folks, not listen to you scream about politics 24/7.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1883 on:** January 20, 2017, 03:31:04 PM »

Quote from: FreebirdSTF on January 20, 2017, 03:14:22 PM

I am fairly apolitical so I'm growing tired of Twitter being swallowed up by that discussion. I got on here to talk wrestling with you folks, not listen to you scream about politics 24/7.

Sorry. Only brought it up because I noticed warnings on food labels. And yeah, then noticed e everyone online talks about it when I searched (I don't normally follow social media..)

I figure it's all getting broken down anyways, and mutations in nature. Sweet potatoe was made with bacteria dna in nature.

But I'll stop now.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1884 on:** January 21, 2017, 11:03:38 AM »

Kickstarter.

Collects money for basically doing nothing. The only reason people use it is "brand recognition".

Confirms the worst traits of people (E.g. people aren't rational. Sure, that's human nature, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.)

DocSavage · « **Reply #1885 on:** January 29, 2017, 02:48:32 PM »

Whoever steals office supplies.

You know how it works. Someone takes something, doesn't return it, so that guy steals from someone else and so forth and so on, until nobody has anything.

Some asshole at wherever starts that cycle going, over and over again.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1886 on:** February 01, 2017, 01:56:13 PM »

flies/insects.

There's snow and ice everywhere, and as I was scraping it off my car, a fly buzzed along and landed on the hood.

Not something I expected to see in this kind of weather. How hardy are those pests?

DocSavage · « **Reply #1887 on:** February 01, 2017, 08:15:27 PM »

They said technology was going to make everyones lives easier.

BULL & SHIP.

You know what's easy? Getting a bill in the mail, cutting a check, and mailing it. Nothing easier.

Registering for an online account, figuring out a username and password, and all that goes with it, that's a hassle. (And try teaching a 60-70 something year old how to do all that, if you want another excuse to drink a lot. )

Maybe what they meant to say was technology will make life easier for administration, because as far as I can see they're the only one who benefits from this vaunted modern convienences..

BlackLight · « **Reply #1888 on:** February 01, 2017, 08:24:44 PM »

Less a complaint and more of an observation - I think celebrities have more twins per capita than normal people. My guess is that they can afford more than one kid, they know they'll want more than one kid, so they engineer mutiples so they only have to deal with one pregnancy.

FreebirdSTF · « **Reply #1889 on:** February 02, 2017, 07:38:32 AM »

Quote from: DocSavage on February 01, 2017, 08:15:27 PM

They said technology was going to make everyones lives easier.

BULL & SHIP.

You know what's easy? Getting a bill in the mail, cutting a check, and mailing it. Nothing easier.

Registering for an online account, figuring out a username and password, and all that goes with it, that's a hassle. (And try teaching a 60-70 something year old how to do all that, if you want another excuse to drink a lot. )

Maybe what they meant to say was technology will make life easier for administration, because as far as I can see they're the only one who benefits from this vaunted modern convienences..

My grandparents were paying bills online before I was, and it's pretty much one of the simplest things ever.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1890 on:** February 02, 2017, 10:07:52 AM »

Quote from: FreebirdSTF on February 02, 2017, 07:38:32 AM

My grandparents were paying bills online before I was, and it's pretty much one of the simplest things ever.

You're lucky to have pc literate grandparents then.

Mostly everyone in my immediate family can barely operate a modern cell phone, and I'm the go-to guy to sort their shite out.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1891 on:** February 02, 2017, 04:54:28 PM »

My 94+ year old grandfather can't walk through the stores anymore, so he makea out a list and I get it for him.

Up until then, he refused to use those electric carts. Always used a regular cart to balance himself, and stuck his walking cane in it.

I look around and see so many people using those electric things.. A lot of them look overweight..

I dunno, call me heartless or cynical, but I wonder how many really "need" to use them? And how many are maybe a little bit lazy..

Prime · « **Reply #1892 on:** February 02, 2017, 05:04:30 PM »

I'm heading for the elevator to head downstairs to the cafeteria. I'm slow, I've got a fucked up knee and I'm hobbling. As I come around the corner from my office area, I hear the bing of the elevator, and there's two people still to walk into the elevator. I call out to them to please hold the door, and I get there as fast as I could, only to find the door is sliding closed. I swing my hand in to jig the sensor and the doors opened, and I say "I guess no one heard me call for the door to be held?" Crickets. Arrogant cocks from the law office on our floor.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1893 on:** February 03, 2017, 08:23:55 PM »

Probably snickering about it afterwards, too.

So anyways... You know those self checkouts with the little conveyor with the sensors that check what you're sending down? Why do people send 50-100 items and back up the belt? Why even use the self checkout for a weeks worth of groceries, when the regular checkouts would be faster and more convienent with two guys doing all the work for you?

You see a conveyor backed up, and you have one or two items, you're kind of stuck waiting for the jerk to clear it..

BlackLight · « **Reply #1894 on:** February 04, 2017, 11:46:55 PM »

When you're at a movie, and you have to pee, but the film you're watching has a tacked-on, lengthy epilogue. So, you have to pee badly, you know there's at least a 75% chance the post-climactic scene(s) will contain nothing memorable, but for some reason, you're rooted to your seat until the credits start rolling.

In addition - Jobs That Should Be Banned: Bathroom Attendant at upscale restaurants. I'm sorry, sir, but absolutely no one requires your presence by the sink while we make use of the facilities. I've long since mastered the fine art of washing and drying my own hands. And I don't need anyone to hand me a breath mint - if you leave them in a glass bowl with a spoon on the counter, I can figure it out from there. At this point, employing a Bathroom Attendant is like hiring an Elevator Operator - it's more of a curiosity and an ironic gesture than anything else.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1895 on:** February 05, 2017, 11:14:13 PM »

Breakfast quirks.

Cake and ice cream = a no no. But donuts, danish, and waffle = well balanced meal.

I just have coffee now anyways. Cream, no sugar.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1896 on:** February 06, 2017, 09:46:19 PM »

That you can only drink so much until you die.

Damned human limitations.

Beer_Baron · « **Reply #1897 on:** February 09, 2017, 12:51:58 AM »

When you go to the olive bar at the grocery store and fill a container with "pitted" kalamata olives, but the VERY FIRST ONE you eat has a completely intact pit in it and you bite into it full force. I can excuse the times when there is a small pit fragment, because I'm not one of those pretentious twats who expects everything to be perfect all the time. But it's still annoying to my teeth when i slam them unsuspectingly into a solid object.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1898 on:** February 09, 2017, 05:14:18 PM »

Touch phones are unreliable pos.

Everything from dodgy signals to touch screens screwing up a call if you accidentially brush it with your cheek or something.

DocSavage · « **Reply #1899 on:** February 11, 2017, 08:01:43 PM »

One of those days when you just keep getting to the light a half second too late, ending up behind the guy going 50 in the slow lane and 49 in the fast, getting behind that guy in line who keeps talking on the phone as he slowly, methodically takes out his wallet... and then stops mid draw for no reason, and just stands there.

Pretty all the little things going wrong in every way it can.