Things that frustrate us all
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Instructional or educational vbideos with blaring background music, needless whooshy noises, and or repetition of the same bleeping thing twice or thrice in a row as if the target audience is a gaggle of toddlers - and you know they're not because the subject matter is usually the sort of thing a 4 year-old can't begin to comprehend.
At the moment, people who keep on telling you about things they've been watching on youtube that prove certain beliefs are wrong. Especially, when you don't have those beliefs anyway - and then they go on for hours and hours, preferably in a loud voice.
Repetition is entrainment, the politically correct term for brainwashing. It's why being bombarded by advertisements over and over works. Corporations spend billions of dollars to advertise because hearing the same thing over and over manipulates and works. They do it to children in school too. The multiplication table and whatever passes for history in the current agenda. It's everywhere you look.
Phantom traffic jams. Basically, impatience and bad lane discipline in dense traffic. Instead of keeping distance and allowing traffic to find its own pace, some drivers put their foot down, close the gap and then force everyone to stop as they weave lanes, triggering a wave of break lights. Argggh.
Also. Starbucks. Those unmarked coffees on the end are mine are they? Seems you’re only welcome if you’re a telepath. And the dour snarky staff have ensured my custom goes elsewhere for at least another ten years. Maybe they’ll be paying their taxes by then.
Also. Starbucks. Those unmarked coffees on the end are mine are they? Seems you’re only welcome if you’re a telepath. And the dour snarky staff have ensured my custom goes elsewhere for at least another ten years. Maybe they’ll be paying their taxes by then.
Did that happen here? You should tell EricF. Maybe he can do something about it. It's perhaps just a layout problem.
tongue lacerations from lollipops (or any hard candy) 
That's unfortunate about Starbucks. All the ones in my area write your name on the cup and call out your name when your order is ready.
My latest frustration: telemarketing calls that look like they're coming from my area code.
Kor
They called out everyone else’s name, which is why I was puzzled that mine wasn’t. There was nothing on the cups. Even macdonalds indicate what’s in the cup. Oh well.
My grumble for the day, leaving work aside. Plastic bread bag melted to the glass hob. Not my Oops.
ETA: Almost forgot. The Thomas Movie that we absolutely pinky promised we’d take the littlest to see over the summer, is showing for one week only, on the one week in August that we could not get off work. Blast our tiny cinema!
Get flyer in mail.
Some kinda sweepstakes from a semi-local car dealer
Pull these tabs to see if won.
"Holy crap three 7's = $5000. Not the top prize, but yay!"
Call this number to claim prize.
Still a little iffy, ask operator "So this is a winner, yeah? Not some kind of 'entry to win' thing?"
She says "yes, it's a winner. Come to our event to claim prize."
Yeah, they'll probably try to sell me a car, but I just bought one, so I'll take the money and run.
Make appointment, go to event.
See other people, say "hey, what'd you win?"
"$5000."
Crap.
Sure enough, opposite page, in fine print. What you win is a chance to win IF the 10-digit confirmation code on your flyer (not in contest area) matches the one on their poster - of course not. But we'll let you play our nearly-impossible scratch and win game instead. It's a classic bait-and-switch.
Actually the wording isn't that clear, and makes it look as though only winning the top ($25,000) prize entitles you to have a go at another top prize. Somebody probably shoulda sued.
Left a "The Reason You Suck" speech on their FB page (probably deleted/blocked by now) and am telling all my friends never to shop there.
Considering sacrificing a goat to the Evil Gods in the hopes that the place burns down.
Some kinda sweepstakes from a semi-local car dealer
Pull these tabs to see if won.
"Holy crap three 7's = $5000. Not the top prize, but yay!"
Call this number to claim prize.
Still a little iffy, ask operator "So this is a winner, yeah? Not some kind of 'entry to win' thing?"
She says "yes, it's a winner. Come to our event to claim prize."
Yeah, they'll probably try to sell me a car, but I just bought one, so I'll take the money and run.
Make appointment, go to event.
See other people, say "hey, what'd you win?"
"$5000."
Crap.
Sure enough, opposite page, in fine print. What you win is a chance to win IF the 10-digit confirmation code on your flyer (not in contest area) matches the one on their poster - of course not. But we'll let you play our nearly-impossible scratch and win game instead. It's a classic bait-and-switch.
Actually the wording isn't that clear, and makes it look as though only winning the top ($25,000) prize entitles you to have a go at another top prize. Somebody probably shoulda sued.
Left a "The Reason You Suck" speech on their FB page (probably deleted/blocked by now) and am telling all my friends never to shop there.
Considering sacrificing a goat to the Evil Gods in the hopes that the place burns down.
I can't count the number of times when I was on a short list to win a million Euros... I just throw these in the trash without reading any further.
Yeah, like I said I had my suspicions, and normally I would just chalk this up to a learning experience, but the lady on the phone lied to me. Of course, their job is "sell cars" and if I'd known the truth I never would have gone out there to listen to their pitch just on the off chance I'd win.
What size was it? A friend of mine got a free vacuum cleaner but it was the size of his hand. I don't know what people are supposed to do with that? It's not even big enough to clean inside your car.
It was a portable fourteen inch telly, the old CRT type. We didn’t even need it, and gifted it to the first person we found that had more rooms than TVs.
We opted out of the free trip to Spain to attend a free presentation on the benefits of committing to a lifetime of giving away a lot of money every year for something we didn’t need, couldn’t use and could never sell. Don’t know why, but it just didn’t appeal.
CRT! I didn't know they still made them.
I really hate noise. And when it's so hot my tolerance threshold falls close to zero.
Today they started to cut the tarmac open with a huge saw. Right in front of my window. Argh! I urgently need to get a away. Could some pond please become hypoxic, or a population of fish die? Or maybe a tiny oil / sewage / manure spill? Anything that gives me a reason to escape!
Today they started to cut the tarmac open with a huge saw. Right in front of my window. Argh! I urgently need to get a away. Could some pond please become hypoxic, or a population of fish die? Or maybe a tiny oil / sewage / manure spill? Anything that gives me a reason to escape!
We have them every week. I'd be really pissed if they cut back to twice a month!
GROSS! Every two weeks? With the heat here, that would be impossible. Our neighborhood has trash pick-up twice a week and recycling picked up once a week, like clockwork.