Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

mietze · Mar 6, 2018, 2:48 AM

I have no idea where they get their size from. Neither their dad nor I are tall people. His parents aren’t either, and while I don’t know a ton about my bio family supposedly my mom was 5’0” and my dad 5’3”.

Eldest was 5’5” at 10, now topped out at 5’8”. Twins were both 5’9” at 14and just now starting to sprout up. So basically, the only child shorter than me (or hubby) is the 3 year old. Who turns 4 in a couple days eeeeeeeeeeeek!

surreality · Mar 6, 2018, 3:19 AM

...or my husband. The skinny asshole.

insomniac7809 · Mar 6, 2018, 7:24 AM

@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@mietze

Jesus Christ, who are you cooking for, the Gronkowskis?

"3 growing teens"

I still remember this once, the High School marching band was at a restaurant after a game, and the father of one of the girls I was sitting with offered to cover the bill for the whole table.

You could hear him get the bill, but anyone offering eight high schoolers as much free food as they can order deserves what they get.

Auspice · Mar 6, 2018, 8:04 AM

Hella depressed. I have chocolate and ice cream in the house...

..but my stomach has been too messed up to be able to enjoy it.

Curse you, universe!

Packrat · Mar 6, 2018, 8:58 AM

@mietze I remember having the reverse, my father is 6'4" and I always assumed I would grow to be the same kind of height.

Then I stopped at 6', in retrospect I am kind of glad given this means I fit in beds and stuff, but it was disappointing as a teenager!

Arkandel · Mar 6, 2018, 2:02 PM

I purchased a DeVinci bicycle from a local bike store in Toronto - Velotique - which came with free annual tune-ups during the off season. I also bought all of my bike-related gear from them - helmets, rack, bags, lock, expendables... everything.

When I called on March 2 this year to ask about the free tuneup, I was told it's only offered 'until the end of February', so I could no longer do it. On March 2...

I'd understand if I brought the bike in during May in peak season, but being told it was too late two days after February ended seems like nickel and diming. I certainly don't think better of Velotique for that, and I don't know they'll have my business any longer after that.

Tinuviel · Mar 6, 2018, 2:03 PM

@arkandel And then some guy keeps yelling at you whenever you try and use your bike inside or in arbitrary locations...

Arkandel · Mar 6, 2018, 2:04 PM

@tinuviel ... Hrm?

Tinuviel · Mar 6, 2018, 2:09 PM

@arkandel Go play Pokemon, then come back.

surreality · Mar 6, 2018, 2:43 PM

OK, so, this should have been a post in 'Things I Love' because OMG new computer! Coming today!

The reasons it's not there:

We really didn't plan to get it now, and had to mad-ass-scramble to get funds together for this.
The earliest it was going to be coming was the 9th -- but they really expected it to be more like 'shipping on the 21st'.

This all sounds like 'ok, hassle, but still good, right?'

The reasons it's not:

It's coming today. Why is this a problem?
We have a shit-ton of desk cleaning to do before there's a place to put the fucker.
We thought today, I misread it, it was supposed to be tomorrow, we eased down on panic for roughly 30 seconds before... it's early, nope, today.
We planned to clean out the space for it last Fri-Sat, so we'd be prepared in case it did arrive on the 9th! ...but the power was out and this room is a pitch-black maze of needles and power tools and tangled yarn in the dark. You could literally trip and die in here at least a hundred different ways with all manner of embarrassing things to have been impaled to death on (from metal t-squares to giant creepy dolls to yarn swifts to... everything, because this studio is fucking chaos) in your obituary.
This room is full of fussy little shit.
Last night's 'brief nap' at early o'clock ended with sunlight.
I just saw the tracking information: I have an hour before the thing gets here, tops.
It will be hours before we can even move shit enough to get to the goddamned double-protected outlets to plug in the necessary new power strip.

Ffffff....

Arkandel · Mar 6, 2018, 2:55 PM

@surreality You know the computer will happily wait in its box even if you need an extra day or more to set it up, right?

surreality · Mar 6, 2018, 3:22 PM

@arkandel I know, but that's so painful!

...further, we're expecting another storm tonight. Anybody wanna start placing bets on 'how many minutes it will be up and running before the power goes out for another 2 days'?

'Before it even gets set up', also a legitimate option in the pool.

Auspice · Mar 7, 2018, 6:07 PM

Oh my god you goddamn idiot how many goddamn times can I tell you that you have to contact the fucking publisher about the fucking book. We have been emailing back and forth about this for almost two fucking weeks now I have given you their email, their web contact form THEIR FUCKING PHONE NUMBER.

I CANNOT HELP YOU ANY FURTHER YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT. If I knew what school you went to I would be making damn sure to let everyone in the world know that they have absolutely no standards for their medical degree program because you are the most obtuse, useless excuse for a medical student I have come across in the past year.

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Okay. I feel better now.

SG · Mar 7, 2018, 6:12 PM

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

So in my comic class, I had to learn how to letter comics.

I've always been curious--what's with the random bold words in comics?

Auspice · Mar 7, 2018, 7:07 PM

@sg said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
So in my comic class, I had to learn how to letter comics. 
I've always been curious--what's with the random bold words in comics?

For that answer, we'll turn to The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics!

As Dennis O'Neil puts it:

"...this word is spoken with emphasis, a bit louder than normal. Once, it was standard practice for editors to make several words in each balloon bold, sometimes without regard to the content of the dialogue. The idea was to provide the reader with eye candy--to vary the presumed monotony of ordinary lettering. There may have been a bit of validity in that theory, but only, I think, a bit; and when illogical words were emphasized, the practice may have slightly damaged the literary and narrative quality of the work."

Nowadays, the writer tends to select the bold words as we might select italicized ones in standard print (in a comic, the italics will get lost visually), but in older comics it is mostly as above. The editor doing it willy-nilly because "it looks cool."

SG · Mar 7, 2018, 7:11 PM

@auspice aw, dang. I was hoping for the inside scoop on some sort of secret CIA code or something.

Auspice · Mar 7, 2018, 7:25 PM

@sg said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice aw, dang. I was hoping for the inside scoop on some sort of secret CIA code or something.

Nah, no sekrit code. It just began as a 'there's too much bland text. Toss some bold words in there for visual interest!' and became 'bold words that are emphasized.'

I mean some of them still make no sense because comic scripting is sort of like the wild west.

In the world of scripts, you have a sort of scale:
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Comic Scripts (this is no man's land, I mean this is a single panel from one of Alan Moore's* scripts).
/The wild fucking west

*But he is a wizard / Rasputin impersonator after all.

Sonder · Mar 7, 2018, 7:30 PM

My beautiful, huge, gorgeous fancy Oranda goldfish OJ died yesterday and I am very, very sad.

Auspice · Mar 8, 2018, 6:23 AM

So the other week I dealt with a 'feedback' email from a user that was just laden with abusive language and profanity. I basically said: 'We appreciate your feedback if not the abusive language it was delivered in.'

Got chewed out for doing so and told 'Saying that isn't needed. Just thank them for the feedback.'

Fuck that noise. Part of being a team lead is going to bat for my team and I know it bothers some of them when they get abusive language and threats, even in an email. I was actually downright polite. I've shut people down in the past and told them we'll gladly assist them when they can be polite about their request.

I fucking hate when companies are OK with their front line agents being treated like shit.

Sonder · Mar 8, 2018, 6:23 AM

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

So the other week I dealt with a 'feedback' email from a user that was just laden with abusive language and profanity. I basically said: 'We appreciate your feedback if not the abusive language it was delivered in.'

Got chewed out for doing so and told 'Saying that isn't needed. Just thank them for the feedback.'

Fuck that noise. Part of being a team lead is going to bat for my team and I know it bothers some of them when they get abusive language and threats, even in an email. I was actually downright polite. I've shut people down in the past and told them we'll gladly assist them when they can be polite about their request.

I fucking hate when companies are OK with their front line agents being treated like shit.

As someone who has to deal with this shit and who supervises the people being abused, FUCK THAT. The customer is not always right and that shit should never ever be rewarded. It feels really bad when you get abused at work and your bosses tell you to suck it up.

Fuck that.