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Indy Parise

02-13-2005, 09:20 AM

1. When people say something is "Funny as Hell"
well apparently you all find something humourous about eternal D@mnation

2. When people say that life is short, life is the 2nd longest thing you ever do(depending on your religion

3.When your at the movie theatre with a friend and he/she says "oh did you see that" no idiot I spent $20 to stare at the ceiling what did you come here for

4. When someone will search the whole room for a remote because they refuse to manually change the channel

5.When people say "It's always in the last place you look" well i'm not gonna keep looking for something after I've found it

6. When people say " can I ask you a question" well you didn't give me a chance there did ya buddy

if any of this offends you I am sorry (actually number 6 i do allot and number 1 I do occasionally) ;)

Magda

02-13-2005, 09:37 AM

I don't find "funny as hell" disturbing at all considering I really don't believe in hell (or heaven, but that's a different subject all together).

You should see my list of things that annoy me just at work. It's amazing how stupid human beings are.

Aaron H

02-13-2005, 11:48 PM

monkey

02-18-2005, 07:11 PM

I've been to Hell.

It's quite an amusing place.

You just gotta have a sense of humor.

intergamer

02-18-2005, 09:32 PM

apparently you all find something humourous about eternal D@mnation

Well, I do anyway. Hahahahahahaha hell and people are all burning for their sins hahaaha!!!!!!!!111ONE

Finn

02-18-2005, 10:04 PM

I love it when I'm in full uniform and standing in the middle of it all and someone comes up to me and asks..."do you work here?" You know, that actually happened to me too during my current duties...

Magda

02-18-2005, 10:17 PM

Sometimes I wish people wouldn't inquire whether or not I was an employee, especially when I'm busy. (Isn't it obvious anyway when I have a name tag and shelving books at the time?)

intergamer

02-18-2005, 10:31 PM

Sometimes I wish people wouldn't inquire whether or not I was an employee, especially when I'm busy. (Isn't it obvious anyway when I have a name tag and shelving books at the time?)

It really is a stupid question. Why preface "do you work here?" Why not just ask the question? It's because people are afraid of embarrassment if the individual in question doesn't really work at the store. Yet the response to "Do you work here?" will be worse than the response to "Where are the canned goods?" whether said individual works at the place or not.

monkey

02-19-2005, 08:58 AM

Last time I was in Hell I asked Satan the same thing..........do you work here?

He got annoyed.

vaxer

02-19-2005, 10:43 AM

It really is a stupid question. Why preface "do you work here?" Why not just ask the question?

I'll tell you why. Once I went to the doctors and this lady was sitting behind a sort of counter in the waiting room so i thought she was the medical secretary. I started telling her my name and at what time muy appointment was scheduled. So she starts looking at me thinking "WTF..." and started laughing...as well as the whole waiting room. then I sat in embarrasement for about 30 minutes until the doctor finally came.

BlackWhskyBlaze

02-19-2005, 11:02 AM

Last time I was in Hell I asked Satan the same thing..........do you work here?

He got annoyed.
That's good for him!

BlackWhskyBlaze

02-19-2005, 11:12 AM

Hey, I use to work at a bike shop, and heard some really ignorant ones.
Now when there are three people in the garage turning wrenches, and motorcycles everywhere, you don't ask... "Hey, do yall work on bikes here?"
We shoud have had a Guillotine back there for occasions like that, but then again, we would have probably disposed of more heads than old tires.

monkey

02-19-2005, 12:29 PM

guillotine????

Yikes!!!!

Rumpled Fedora

02-19-2005, 01:32 PM

I love it when I'm in full uniform and standing in the middle of it all and someone comes up to me and asks..."do you work here?"
I've been a smart ass a few times and said, "No, ma'am/sir, I jumped one of the other guys, beat him up, stole his outfit, and now I'm working in his stead for free. Anything I can't help you with?":whip:

Ha, the only thing that could make that better is if you added "Here's your sign..." to the end of that. :rolleyes:
<small>For all you Bill Engvall fans</small> ;)

Tennessee R

02-20-2005, 01:05 AM

I dress in dress clothes about anytime I go anywhere, and usually, if I go to Best Buy, I happen to have a blue shirt on, or in a Food Lion, or Kroger, etc. etc. and people are always asking me "Where are cameras?" "Where can I find the bread?" Or the like. It really got ammusing, for a time, that I would always seem to pick the colour shirt, or whole outfit that the employees would wear.
This is not something that annoys me, I actually find it ammusing.

BlackWhskyBlaze

02-20-2005, 06:31 AM

Magda

02-20-2005, 09:23 AM

That's evil.

I like it.

Luisiana Jones

02-20-2005, 09:47 AM

I hate my new government. :mad:

Ps.sry thats not open to argument, thats just how i feel :p

Tennessee R

02-20-2005, 12:22 PM

Yeah, BlackWhskyBlaze, that's a good idea. ;) May have to try that next time.

BlackWhskyBlaze

02-20-2005, 01:10 PM

Damn, I'm going to Hell.

Luisiana Jones

02-20-2005, 01:48 PM

LOL thats as Funny as Hell :p

Indy Parise

02-24-2005, 09:33 PM

A few more things

1. When people think that the more you press an elevator button the elevator will come faster

2. When peple say " You just wanna have your cake and eat it too" what good is a frickin cake if you can't eat it.

Aaron H

02-24-2005, 10:11 PM

Tennessee R

02-24-2005, 11:54 PM

Really? Tonight, I went out to eat with a friend that used to work (Or else still does) at Best Buy, and her husband I know still does.
And, I'm almost always wearing khaki part dress pants (Isn't that what most at Best Buy wear? or is it whatever?), and blue is one of my favorite colours, so a lot of the time I have on a nice blue shirt. A nametag would complete the ensamble. ;)
By the way, does this mean that I'm doing your job? (j/k) ;)

And this is not off topic, because this thread is about things you aren't particularly partial to, and the "Geek Squad" thing that they have a Best Buy is not my favorite. With the people thrown back onto their VW beetle with sunglasses. Somehow, it just doesn't appeal to me. Maybe when you become president of the company, you can do something about that?

Aaron H

02-25-2005, 12:03 AM

I love the Geek Squad! (I'm in computer sales [non-commission I might add]) Perhaps its the geeks who work at your Best Buy that turns you off. Our guys are great.

Man this is really going off topic.;)

Magda

02-25-2005, 08:07 AM

Strider

02-25-2005, 07:05 PM

Magda

02-26-2005, 12:38 AM

And when it's obvious that you are in pain, they ask if it hurts.

westford

02-28-2005, 08:51 AM

It really annoys me when your at the dentist and they put all that stuff in your mouth and then they start asking you things. How are you supposed to reply? I don't know if any of you have ever had that experience but it's very irratating.
Yeah, I remember that happening when I was getting impressions of my teeth made when I was a kid. I'm sitting there with these gum shield things full of cold putty in my mouth, and the dentist starts asking me how I'm getting on at school...
"Mmmu, guh bah fu..." :rolleyes:

It annoys me when I'm on the Tube going to station X and then there's a sudden announcement saying "This train will now only go as far as station Y, change there for station X" and you have to get off the train and wait for the next one (on a freezing cold platform, of course). Naturally once you've been on the second train for 5 mins, it stops for 15 minutes to let another few trains go past.

Neolithic

02-28-2005, 03:35 PM

It annoys me when I'm on the Tube going to station X

Oh man, the Tube in summer is nasty. I don't remember any air-conditioned trains at all.

People knocking on my door on the weekend trying to convert me to their religion...
That's annoying! :mad:

TombReader

02-28-2005, 05:16 PM

One thing that irritates me and proves that people are idiots is the fact that when I stand in front of the door at work waiting to be let in (before opening time), people still come up to the door jerking it to get it open. Yes, people, I am standing there for nothing and even though I did tell you that we're still closed, you don't have the fecking brain cells to process that.

Had that happen to me too.The flip side is when you've locked the doors after closing and people knock and ask if you're closed,despite the door being locked and all the lights turned out.I just want to tell them that we all got accidentally locked in and do they have a coat hanger we can borrow.

TommyJohnson

02-28-2005, 05:47 PM

1. When people say something is "Funny as Hell"
well apparently you all find something humourous about eternal D@mnation

2. When people say that life is short, life is the 2nd longest thing you ever do(depending on your religion

3.When your at the movie theatre with a friend and he/she says "oh did you see that" no idiot I spent $20 to stare at the ceiling what did you come here for

4. When someone will search the whole room for a remote because they refuse to manually change the channel

5.When people say "It's always in the last place you look" well i'm not gonna keep looking for something after I've found it

6. When people say " can I ask you a question" well you didn't give me a chance there did ya buddy
Oh man! Did you see that?
This thread is funny as hell!
Can I ask you a question, Indy Parise? Where did you put the remote control? I searched the whole room, but it isn't in the last place I looked.
Come on...life is short, I can't waste my time by manually change the channel!!

:whip:

Magda

02-28-2005, 10:31 PM

People knocking on my door on the weekend trying to convert me to their religion...

They have a habit of telling me that I am going to hell. :D

San Holo

03-01-2005, 01:54 PM

They have a habit of telling me that I am going to hell. :D
If you keep spending your weekends in Vegas,you just might. ;) :D ;)

TommyJohnson

03-02-2005, 04:13 AM

I wonder if Indy Parise read my post. I think it's pretty funny. :D

Indy Parise

03-02-2005, 04:21 PM

Yes I read it

Annoying little......

just kidding

TommyJohnson

03-02-2005, 04:56 PM

I was joking, of course.

I just put together a post that contains all the thing that annoy you! :whip:

Indy Parise

03-02-2005, 08:13 PM

I know.... Uhm I kinda lost my train of thought......D@mn

Indy Parise smashes his head on desk

Neolithic

03-02-2005, 08:45 PM

This is one that is more uncomfortable than annoying:
When you politely ask someone how they are and they respond with everything, absolutely everything that is happening to them, all their problems and concerns... it's an atomic bomb to any conversation... :rolleyes:

Indy Parise

03-03-2005, 06:08 AM

What about when people point to their wrist when they ask for the time. I know where my watch is buddy. Do I point to my crotch when I ask where the bathroom is.

Jay R. Zay

03-03-2005, 09:31 AM

i like this "oh, really?". "only four lessons today." "oh, really?" what am i supposed to answer? "no, i'm just kidding, four lessons - haha - you get the joke?" [edited for content] four lessons are four lessons. :confused:

or perhaps these people who never get to the point. i remember this one phone call:

me: hi.
him: yo.
me: hi buschi.
him: yo, jay r.!
me: yo.
him: yo!
me: yo..?
him: yo.
me: *cough* yo.......??
him: yoo!
me: okay. anything else i can do for you? because i'm pretty busy right now and...
him: YO! jay r.! i wanted to ask you if you'd like to come to my new year's eve party. ...

it's making me mad. :mad:

note: (:whip: Jay R. Zay) by Pale Horse...."That is for blasphemy."

Tennessee R

03-06-2005, 09:43 AM

The pointing to your wrist is not that bad, if you look at it in an Indiana Jones point of view.

If he was living in this age, where people wear watches on their wrists, and was in a foreign country, and happened to have forgot his compass watch, he would naturally use expressions, and visuals to complement the words. Of course, for a man of one language speaking to a man of the same language, it is a little silly, but people feel that they have to point to their wrist to call you to attention that they are not wearing any watch.

But, I see you point, very clearly.

So can you see this:

"Indy "11:00!!!!!"
Henry "I forgot my watch (points to wrist). Is that what time it ish?"

Indy Parise

03-06-2005, 09:53 AM

Actually isn't it

Indy:11:00
Henry: (looks at pocketwatch) what happens at 11:00
Indy: No dad 12, 11, 10, 11:00

Tennessee R

03-06-2005, 10:49 AM

That was a joke based on your annoyance about the watch.

Aaron H

03-06-2005, 04:08 PM

I found it funny.:cool:;)

Indy Parise

03-06-2005, 07:16 PM

ahhh I see, lol sorry. ;) :o :D :whip:

Indyologist

03-15-2005, 02:18 PM

Ha, the only thing that could make that better is if you added "Here's your sign..." to the end of that. :rolleyes:
<small>For all you Bill Engvall fans</small> ;)

What does the phrase "Here's your sign" mean? I know it has something to do with Jeff Foxworthy...

Some of my personal annoyances:

* People smoking in bus shelters
* Slow drivers in front of me
* Computers that take forever to download
* More, oh MUCH MORE...

Some really stupid things I've heard:

From my brother, eating banana bread: "Are there bananas in here?"
From my mother, after showing me how to make ice (why?), she points to the ice cubes and asks: "Now you know these go in the freezer, right?"
Another from my brother: He calls me on my home phone and asks me: "Jen, are you home?"
And, finally, one from me (yes, believe it or not I actually do say dumb things sometimes. Hard to believe, I know...). At the dentists' office, I spit in the sink and ask the dental assistant: "Where does the spit go?"

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

Joe Brody

03-15-2005, 09:17 PM

Some pointers for people that need help coping with life's little annoyances:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/15/nyregion/15annoyances.html?8hpib

First half of the article:

No Need to Stew: A Few Tips to Cope With Life's Annoyances
By IAN URBINA

Published: March 15, 2005

hen Seth Shepsle goes to Starbucks, he orders a "medium" because "grande" - as the coffee company calls the size, the one between big and small - annoys him.

Meg Daniel presses zero whenever she hears a computerized operator on the telephone so that she can talk to a real person. "Just because they want a computer to handle me doesn't mean I have to play along," she said.

When subscription cards fall from magazines Andrew Kirk is reading, he stacks them in a pile at the corner of his desk. At the end of each month, he puts them in the mail but leaves them blank so that the advertiser is forced to pay the business reply postage without gaining a new subscriber.

Life can involve big hardships, like being fired or smashing up your car. There is only so much you can do about them. But far more prevalent - and perhaps in the long run just as insidious - are life's many little annoyances.

These, you can do something about.

To examine the little weapons people use for everyday survival is to be given a free guidebook on getting by, created by the millions who feel that they must. It is a case study in human inventiveness, with occasional juvenile and petty passages, and the originators of these tips are happy to share them.

"They're an integral part of how people cope," said Prof. James C. Scott, who teaches anthropology and political science at Yale University, and the author of "Weapons of the Weak," about the feigned ignorance, foot-dragging and other techniques Malaysian peasants used to avoid cooperating with the arrival of new technology in the 1970's. "All societies have them, but they're successful only to the extent that they avoid open confrontation."

The slow driver in fast traffic, the shopper with 50 coupons at the front of the checkout line and the telemarketer calling at dinner all inflict life's thousand little lashes. But some see these infractions as precious opportunities, rare chances for retribution in the face of forces beyond our control.

Wesley A. Williams spent more than a year exacting his revenge against junk mailers. When signing up for a no-junk-mail list failed to stem the flow, he resorted to writing at the top of each unwanted item: "Not at this address. Return to sender." But the mail kept coming because the envelopes had "or current resident" on them, obligating mail carriers to deliver it, he said.

Next, he began stuffing the mail back into the "business reply" envelope and sending it back so that the mailer would have to pay the postage. "That wasn't exacting a heavy enough cost from them for bothering me," said Mr. Williams, 35, a middle school science teacher who lives in Melrose, N.Y., near Albany.

After checking with a postal clerk about the legality of stepping up his efforts, he began cutting up magazines, heavy bond paper, and small strips of sheet metal and stuffing them into the business reply envelopes that came with the junk packages.

"You wouldn't believe how heavy I got some of these envelopes to weigh," said Mr. Williams, who added that he saw an immediate drop in the amount of arriving junk mail. A spokesman for the United States Postal Service, Gerald McKiernan, said that Mr. Williams's actions sounded legal, as long as the envelope was properly sealed.

Sometimes, small acts of rebellion offer big doses of relief.

"I've come to realize that I'm almost addicted to the sick little pleasure I get from lashing out at these things," said Mr. Kirk, 24, a freelance writer from Brooklyn who collects and returns magazine inserts.

When ordering a pizza from Domino's, Mr. Kirk says he always requests a "small," knowing that he will be corrected and told that medium is the smallest available size. "It makes me feel better to point out that their word games aren't fooling anyone," he said.

The Internet offers a booming trade to help with this type of annoyance-fighting behavior. For example, shared passwords to free Web sites are available at www.bugmenot.com to help people avoid dealing with long registration forms. To coexist with loud cellphone talkers, the Web offers hand-held jammers that, although illegal in the United States, can block all signals within a 45-foot radius.

Pale Horse

03-15-2005, 09:41 PM

Some pointers for people that need help coping with life's little annoyances:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/15/nyregion/15annoyances.html?8hpib

...

The Internet offers a booming trade to help with this type of annoyance-fighting behavior. For example, shared passwords to free Web sites are available at www.bugmenot.com to help people avoid dealing with long registration forms. To coexist with loud cellphone talkers, the Web offers hand-held jammers that, although illegal in the United States, can block all signals within a 45-foot radius.

I use bugmenot all the time, also, in terms of old magazine subscriptions, a great way yo get back at an ex-love is to sign them up for a thousand magazines, (well literally 100's,) but it can ruing their credit trying to fight all the subscriptions coming in. :p

Joe Brody

03-15-2005, 09:55 PM

I use bugmenot all the time, also, in terms of old magazine subscriptions, a great way yo get back at an ex-love is to sign them up for a thousand magazines, (well literally 100's,) but it can ruing their credit trying to fight all the subscriptions coming in. :p

That's too cold. Lesson here -- don't cross Pale Horse.

Indy Parise

03-16-2005, 04:57 PM

One more

when people think that for some reason you want to here their problems and come up to you and tell you. Examples of what I do to counter this.

Problem with person

Person1:"_______ is picking on me"
Me:" Kill her/him"

Problem

Person 1:____________________________Insert random problem here
Me:" lifes a b!tch deal with it"

I know it seems cruel but it works