Things that frustrate us all

[Discofan]

phishing and blackmail mails. I just got one of each sort. The first tries to bully me into to transfering half a month's wages at once or I'll be sued for not paying a bill I never made. In order to pay I am supposed to klick a link. Ridiculous, of course, but also annoying as they have my address and phone number - a breach of privacy. A copy of this mail will go to the police's cybercrime department first thing on Monday.

The other mail claims I got hacked and must pay some bitcoins into an account or my computer will get shut down. Even more ridiculous but far less serious. The delete button will suffice for that one.

The problem is that the police can only catch the low budget stupid ones. The ones smart enough to send this crap from remote lawless places will never get caught. It goes with Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest. Plus the police have their hands full with more grievous crimes like cyber-terrorism and cyber-pedo-pornography. The Internet has become a lawless jungle of the worst kind.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

sadly, I have to agree to that analysis.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Yesterday got honked at repeatedly because I wouldn’t turn right on red on a walk signal when people were trying to cross.

Hey, asshole. Turning right on red means you can go when nobody else has right Of way. As a runner, people who cut off pedestrians by turning right on red during a walk signal can go **** themselves. I won’t be one of them.

 

[Discofan]

Yesterday got honked at repeatedly because I wouldn’t turn right on red on a walk signal when people were trying to cross.

Hey, asshole. Turning right on red means you can go when nobody else has right Of way. As a runner, people who cut off pedestrians by turning right on red during a walk signal can go **** themselves. I won’t be one of them.

In my country, it could cost you your driver's license. There's been a recent crackdown on these infractions.

 

[auntiehill]

Yesterday got honked at repeatedly because I wouldn’t turn right on red on a walk signal when people were trying to cross.

Hey, asshole. Turning right on red means you can go when nobody else has right Of way. As a runner, people who cut off pedestrians by turning right on red during a walk signal can go **** themselves. I won’t be one of them.

I've had people honk at me when I stopped at a crosswalk to let children cross the street. People are assholes.

 

[NovaStar]

People who don't put things back where they belong in public places. I work in a library and apparently people don't know how to properly place a DVD. I'm tired of finding Star Trek put between Final Destination and Final Fantasy

 

[Avro Arrow]

People who don't put things back where they belong in public places. I work in a library and apparently people don't know how to properly place a DVD. I'm tired of finding Star Trek put between Final Destination and Final Fantasy

Well, if it was TFF, they could at least make an argument for being close!

 

[Random_Spock]

People who don't put things back where they belong in public places. I work in a library and apparently people don't know how to properly place a DVD. I'm tired of finding Star Trek put between Final Destination and Final Fantasy

Can relate. Seen similar things at my library, only with books.

Which leads me to people not taking good care of the libraries DVDs and CDs. It's why I don't bother renting any of them, even the new stuff. It's all been scratched to heck.

 

[Discofan]

Well, if it was TFF, they could at least make an argument for being close!

Believe it or not but that was what I was thinking when I read his statement.

 

[Sibyl]

Lost Internet tonight just as I was about to start uploading something for show on another forum.

Just got it back four hours later.

 

[KimMH]

Home sick again. Haven’t lost consecutive days due to illness in a long time. I’m gonna have so much crap to catch up to when I get back.

 

[Sibyl]

Home sick again. Haven’t lost consecutive days due to illness in a long time. I’m gonna have so much crap to catch up to when I get back.

I hope this does pass for you, soon.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Try to enjoy it. The crap can wait. What counts is that you recover and get some strength back. No work is worth ruining your health for it.

And I also hate emails that offer sex toys

For a while I got almost daily "we guarantee to enlargen your penis". The mails stopped immediately when I wrote back that I'd like to see them live up to their promises in my particular case (I'm female).

 

[Discofan]

When it's dinner time and you don't feel like eating...

 

[Butters]

When it’s dinner time and you don’t feel like cooking.

 

[Kor]

When it's dinner time but you're so busy with household chores that you just never get around to eating.

Kor

 

[Gary Mitchell]

When it's dinner time and you don't feel like eating...

When it’s dinner time and you don’t feel like cooking.

When it's dinner time but you're so busy with household chores that you just never get around to eating.

Kor

You guys gotta eat something. Have a sandwich.

 

[Butters]

Great. Another sharpe fragment of tooth pushing through my gum, snagging and scratching my tongue.

 

[Discofan]

You guys gotta eat something. Have a sandwich.

Looks like there are at least two kilograms of bread in that sandwich!!

 

[auntiehill]

You guys gotta eat something. Have a sandwich.

I would totally eat that if it was sourdough.

My greatest feat of restraint today: when the dumbass rater, whose job revolves entirely around reading skills, asks me, "It says my accuracy needs improvement. What does that mean?"