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People who use Incredimail on business email.
People who reply to emails without attaching the original copy leaving me having to go through my files trying to remember why I contacted them in the first place.
Anyone tailgating in the slow lane (usually at night and with those super annoying blueish headlights)...
People in my office who bath in cologne/perfume....
People who send link exchange emails followed by a reminder email demanding that I reciprocate their link...
"Link Exchange Request - REMINDER!"
"Last February 13, 2007 I sent you an email regarding on your Link Status. Your link - www.mysite.com has been added to our links page and it's up here:
[mfaspammy-site.info...]
And in return, we require that you have to add a link to us."
And finally, My EX-Wives:)~
draggar - two queries:
The guy who was just standing in front of me yelling at Blockbuster because they wouldn't rent out a movie to him that hasn't been released yet.Did it work? I only ask because everyone who can't get a recent movie from Blockbuster is one more person actively looking for a pirated copy.
The lady in front of me at the grocerey store who demanded that they sell her a 36 ounce bottle of ketchup for the price of the 8 ounce bottle.
Nope.
Were the 36 ounce bottles mistakenly labelled with the 8 ounce price? In many countries (US included, so far as I know), the consumer is legally entitled to be charged the lowest advertised price. If the shopkeeper is trying to avoid following that part of the law then I want that shopkeeper on the list of people to be shot toward Dawn, not the customer who knows her rights.
They had a newspaper ad that advertised that 8 ounce bottle was on sale. It's a large chain grocerey store, the customer was the person who needs to be shot toward Dawn. The customer knew their rights, and knew they didn't deserve it, but still wanted to get it.
Another one: People who click the Submit button twice. (Couldn't resist). :)
People who tie up traffic in parking lots waiting for a space when there's a vacant one only 3-4 spaces farther away.
People who send link exchange emails followed by a reminder email demanding that I reciprocate their link...
"Link Exchange Request - REMINDER!"
How about people who send ANGRY reminders? What's up with that? Do they really think copping a 'tude and DEMANDING that I return their link is going to make me any more likely to do so? If I ignored your first message... take a hint!
My bumper sticker:"My Belgian Malinois is smarter than your honor student". The sad part is that it's usually true.
I used to have one that said "My Shetland Sheepdog is better behaved than your honor student". Also frequently true.
[edited by: MamaDawg at 2:50 pm (utc) on Mar. 10, 2007]
People who are irresponsible with dogs, including poor training, grooming, upkeep, and those WHO DO NOT CLEAN UP AFTER THEIR DOGS.
(I am in Germany and this is - still - sociably acceptable behavior).
[edited by: zCat at 8:26 pm (utc) on Mar. 10, 2007]
Tell ya what, I'll go to the bathroom in a cup and leave it right in front of them and see how long that argument lasts. :)
If the information I needed was on the label, I could read it myself. If all they are able to offer in the way of help is to read the label, then the answer to the question "can I help you" is clearly "No!".
Drove me crazy. REAL conversations never begin that way, a screaming red flag that an unsolicited sales pitch is coming.
Idea, I guess, was to start the call with warm chit-chat. Might work for selling magazines to lonely widows at home. But 100% off-putting in a business setting.
Telemarketers seem to have finally figured this out in recent years. Almost never get a "How are you today?" anymore.
I just hate it when I walk into a clothes shop intending to browse through the displays and I am immediately accosted by a spotty 16 year old sales person zooming in on me immediately. "Can I help you with anything sir?"
"Yes. I would like a pair of brown and pink striped hipsters with turn ups (trouser cuffs) in size 40" waist."
Do I look like someone who is incapable of asking for assistance when I need it?
It's not their fault. I know they are told to do this so I would shoot the people who instruct them.
I am immediately accosted by a spotty 16 year old sales person zooming in on me immediately. "Can I help you with anything sir?"
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Restaurant gripe: Am I the only one who critiques bad menus as if they were bad websites? Dark brown 10 point text on a light brown BG. Some restaurants have adopted the 90s web penchant for "kewl" reversed color text.
My personal hate is the stare salesperson who asks if they can help and then, after being asked a question about a product on display, will proceed to read me the information on the label.
If the information I needed was on the label, I could read it myself. If all they are able to offer in the way of help is to read the label, then the answer to the question "can I help you" is clearly "No!".
I would do some of that, but explain to the customer what each thing on the label ment and what the advantages were plus get into what wasn't on the label.
When I used to sell electronics and computer equipment, I'd know what was important and wasn't on the labels, like the brighness of the bulb in scanners, what software came with them, cost per page on printers etc..
Most labels are chock full'o useless information anyway. :)
Me: you wish!
;)
Can you actually be regaled with cigarette smoke?
Possibly, I was unable to think of a better word.
Obviously to torment non-smokers one more day. Who knows, might not get a chance tomorrow :)
I'm already on the list. What's one more item..
I gather that you haven't shopped for clothing since the 1960s.
People who erroneously claim that trendy old BDW has not shopped for clothes since the 60's.
Killing themselves slowly while killing everybody else too.
Not here in Scotland they don't. They're not allowed to smoke on any public premises and England will fall into line with this in July.
Following on from the above lets add ...
People who fart in non smoking bars knowing that since it is no longer masked by the stale tobacco smell people will have to suffer it.
Those few people who decide they absolutely have to drive in the outside lane of the motorway all the time, even if they normally drive at 60mph.
People who drive in my blind spot.
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Actually, this list might go on too long, so it might be best to shoot everyone on the road. Sorry if you're one of the good ones.
Sweezely, unless you're driving a Lambo or a semi, you shouldn't have a blind spot [linquist.net]. :)
Hi there, can I speak with a aaaaa... "your domainname" dot com.
so i replied, have you spoken to "mydomainname" dot come in the past 3 days, and she says yes.... and i say, 403 dash Forbidden
not just shot, but first fired.
so i replied, have you spoken to "mydomainname" dot come in the past 3 days, and she says yes.... and i say, 403 dash Forbidden
Well that made me laugh! :)
People who send unsolicited fax spam in a white-on-black font.
Cretins who design fax machines to hold your black-and-white faxes hostage because the yellow cartridge has somehow found itself out of ink.
People who go on about how you can just have your faxes sent to the PC instead. Our office needs the all-in-one machine for certain things, darn it!
and people that pack things like shaving razors in plastic so hard you need a knife to get in.
[edited by: Visit_Thailand at 12:32 pm (utc) on Mar. 14, 2007]
They should be shot twice, just to be sure.
It's pronounced "DAY-tah," not "DAH-tah," darn it!
I mean, c'mon! Don't you watch Star Trek?
and people that pack things like shaving razors in plastic so hard you need a knife to get in.
Be careful not to cut thru the warranty postcard and the rebate documentation. LOL
