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Just now felt like starting up a gripes thread. Anyone with a gripe they wish to share, feel free to spout off.

Here's mine:

I want to buy cinema tickets for tonight. So I go online. Previous all you had to do was go into their secure site and enter your credit card details - and then pick the tickets up (with appropriate ID of course) at the counter.

NOW, you have to join their poxy club. To do this they expect me to enter my full name, address, mobile number, birthday, occupation, and even salary!!!
Just so I can buy a bloody movie ticket!

I don't see why they need to need to know where I live, what I do, how old I am and how much I earn.

Quite frankly, they can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. Got more chance of whistling YankeeDoodleDandy out of their arses before I give them this info.

Guess I'm doing something else tonight.


So anyone else here want to sound off on something that's irritated them as of late?

So anyone else here want to sound off on something that's irritated them as of late?

Drivers over the age of 60.

It's bad enough that this country is going to ruin itself trying to give these people their promised entitlements (and the fact that those who will recieve these entitlements seem to have no problem with this)...

...the least they could do is get their asses off the road. Honestly, if you're too timid (or blind) to do better than 10 mph UNDER the speed limit, you really shouldn't be driving, at all. :mad:

Just now felt like starting up a gripes thread. Anyone with a gripe they wish to share, feel free to spout off.

Here's mine:

I want to buy cinema tickets for tonight. So I go online. Previous all you had to do was go into their secure site and enter your credit card details - and then pick the tickets up (with appropriate ID of course) at the counter.

NOW, you have to join their poxy club. To do this they expect me to enter my full name, address, mobile number, birthday, occupation, and even salary!!!
Just so I can buy a bloody movie ticket!

I don't see why they need to need to know where I live, what I do, how old I am and how much I earn.

Quite frankly, they can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. Got more chance of whistling YankeeDoodleDandy out of their arses before I give them this info.

Guess I'm doing something else tonight.


So anyone else here want to sound off on something that's irritated them as of late?
Communists.






Some Pillock(I don't know who yet) kept bumping up my Beard thread and it got sent to chat.:(

Drivers over the age of 60.

It's bad enough that this country is going to ruin itself trying to give these people their promised entitlements (and the fact that those who will recieve these entitlements seem to have no problem with this)...

...the least they could do is get their asses off the road. Honestly, if you're too timid (or blind) to do better than 10 mph UNDER the speed limit, you really shouldn't be driving, at all. :mad:

I heard that old age is going to surpass drunk drivers in death tolls on the highways sometime in the next 30 years. Or something.

Actually i have a good one.

This year is the year of the veteran in New Zealand.
A year to pay homage to those who served for this country in peace and war.
On Friday there was a military display at Wellington's Stadium, a stadium that holds around 35,000 people, guess how many people turned up? maybe 4,000.
All year and especially around ANZAC Day the 'Year of the Veteran' has been talked up.

Why is it that with record numbers of people turning up to ANZAC Day Memorial services no one turns up to this?
It was advertised in the paper and on Radio for a few weeks maybe more, i never saw any TV ads though...
It was a military pagent and included displays by police dogs and the Army conducting a mock battle.

One of the guns actually jammed.:p
heh...

I heard that old age is going to surpass drunk drivers in death tolls on the highways sometime in the next 30 years. Or something.

It wouldn't surprise me, to be honest.

I'm working a long shift tomorrow, which is a public holiday, and no buses are running until 9am, which is when I start.

That means I have to walk some 8km+ to work, because I can't afford public holiday rates in a taxi. And then I have to work for 10 hours on my feet.

Grr.

Just now felt like starting up a gripes thread. Anyone with a gripe they wish to share, feel free to spout off.

Here's mine:

I want to buy cinema tickets for tonight. So I go online. Previous all you had to do was go into their secure site and enter your credit card details - and then pick the tickets up (with appropriate ID of course) at the counter.

NOW, you have to join their poxy club. To do this they expect me to enter my full name, address, mobile number, birthday, occupation, and even salary!!!
Just so I can buy a bloody movie ticket!

I don't see why they need to need to know where I live, what I do, how old I am and how much I earn.

Quite frankly, they can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. Got more chance of whistling YankeeDoodleDandy out of their arses before I give them this info.

Guess I'm doing something else tonight.


So anyone else here want to sound off on something that's irritated them as of late?
I know what you mean about this. I hate any company/organisation (except for anything to do with the government) that asks for anything more than my name and one piece of contact information (and maybe my date of birth) to register for anything. They don't need to know it! I'm always tempted to put a fake name and address on anything that asks for more.

I'm working a long shift tomorrow, which is a public holiday, and no buses are running until 9am, which is when I start.

That means I have to walk some 8km+ to work, because I can't afford public holiday rates in a taxi. And then I have to work for 10 hours on my feet.

Grr.
No bike?

You'll get paid at least time-and-a-half, though, won't you?

What's annoying me at the moment?

Kanabia playing God in the dungeon. :p

No bike?

Nope.

You'll get paid at least time-and-a-half, though, won't you?

250%, I think, plus a bonus because it's not normally a rostered shift of mine.

I'm not whingeing about the amount of work, because it's really good money. Just the shitty public transport. :p

Nope.
Silly Kanabia.

250%, I think, plus a bonus because it's not normally a rostered shift of mine.

I'm not whingeing about the amount of work, because it's really good money. Just the shitty public transport. :p
250%! :eek: On minimum wage in this country, that shift would get you £135...without the bonus.

Stop complaining! Get a taxi and pay for it with your wages!

Silly Kanabia. ;)

250%! :eek: On minimum wage in this country, that shift would get you £135...without the bonus.

It's about $350, I think, but my lunch break is unpaid.

Stop complaining! Get a taxi and pay for it with your wages!

I don't get those wages until next Wednesday, though, which is the crux of the problem. :p

It's about $350, I think, but my lunch break is unpaid.
Oh noes! :rolleyes: :p

I don't get those wages until next Wednesday, though, which is the crux of the problem. :p
Hmmm...ask the cabbie if he'll accept an IOU...

Oh noes! :rolleyes: :p

Heh, I just mean i'll only be paid for 8 and a half hours, or something.


Hmmm...ask the cabbie if he'll accept an IOU...

'sif. :p

Heh, I just mean i'll only be paid for 8 and a half hours, or something.



'sif. :p

Ask the cabbie if he'll accept sexual favours.

Ask the cabbie if he'll accept sexual favours.

:p

I was talking to a cabbie once who was telling me all about the people that offer him a blowjob in exchange for a ride, but he apparently always says no. He was funny.

:p

I was talking to a cabbie once who was telling me all about the people that offer him a blowjob in exchange for a ride, but he apparently always says no. He was funny.
You should've offered him a blowjob. ;)

Heh, I just mean i'll only be paid for 8 and a half hours, or something.
I checked on xe.com, and apparently you'll be getting the equivalent of £140 for a day's work. Bastard. :)

No gripes as of yet, but I have to do some computer software stuff later on, so my gripes for today are cut out for me.... >.<
Plus, I haven't even looked into the dungeon thread, so yeah. :rolleyes:

I want to buy cinema tickets for tonight. So I go online.
Your first mistake, right there.

Buying online movie tickets here is an exercise in futility and non-thought-through marketing.

Here, they *want* you to buy online tickets so they have less work with you in the theater, but they also
1) give you only a small number of seats to choose from
2) make the purchasing process screwy and annoying
3) still make you be there half an hour early to get your tickets
and
4) charge MORE for tickets bought online - like, WTF? :rolleyes:


I'm working a long shift tomorrow, which is a public holiday, and no buses are running until 9am, which is when I start.

That means I have to walk some 8km+ to work, because I can't afford public holiday rates in a taxi. And then I have to work for 10 hours on my feet.

Grr.
Why don't you ask your parents for a ride? :confused:

my gripe is technologically illiterate people complaining about stuff they don't know about. i recieved an email from a user of a site i built angrily proclaiming that the site is unusable in firefox and the web designer (me) should have known what they were doing, yadda yadda...

i know the site works just about fine in FF and opera (not quite perfect, but things display and work just fine), but i go and check anyway just to be sure... and lo and behold, the site works just perfect. the user also snottily said at the end of their email that 15% of users in europe use FF, blah blah blah, which is fair enough, but for this particular site our own statistics show that less than 5% of users coming to the index page use FF, and less than 1% opera.

stupid bastard.



i also hate other drivers, roadworks, old people in supermarkets, and just people in general :)

My nation died.

Dammit.

Parcelforce - what the hell is the point of a so called delivery service which only tries to deliver when you are at work. do they still think it is the 1980's and everybody is home unemployed?

I know what you mean about this. I hate any company/organisation (except for anything to do with the government) that asks for anything more than my name and one piece of contact information (and maybe my date of birth) to register for anything. They don't need to know it! I'm always tempted to put a fake name and address on anything that asks for more.

Thats what I always do. They cant do anything about it if you enter the wrong information so usually the only correct piece of info I enter in those registration forms is my email address, so they can send me the verification email.

Why don't you ask your parents for a ride? :confused:

They don't do early on public holidays. :p

I checked on xe.com, and apparently you'll be getting the equivalent of £140 for a day's work. Bastard.

Heh, doesn't happen often. I usually get $70 for a normal shift.

They don't do early on public holidays. :p
Not even once? For their firstborn? Who will promptly promise to do the dishes for a week?

They don't do early on public holidays. :p


Heh, doesn't happen often. I usually get $70 for a normal shift.

Does Australia have a minimum wage?

Does Australia have a minimum wage?

For full-time workers, it's somewhere between $28,000 and $29,000 a year.

For part-timers, not sure. I know I don't qualify for the full amount under the companies award scheme until I turn 21, but per-hour it's more than a full-time worker anyway.

They don't do early on public holidays.
Not even once? For their firstborn? Who will promptly promise to do the dishes for a week?

Sod that. My brother is the dishwashing monkey. :)

So I get up Saturday morning to go get a new license, my previous one expired a the end of October, I look in my mirror at home, my mirror in the car, and the mirror in the tag agency and I look great! so, why do I look drunk, sick and alien in my driver's license picture?

do they have some type of soul stealing camera?!

i lost my repeat prescription form for my antidepressants, and have just one day left :(
got to go to the doctor and admit that i was stupid and lost the sodding thing, woo...

Your first mistake, right there.

Buying online movie tickets here is an exercise in futility and non-thought-through marketing.

Here, they *want* you to buy online tickets so they have less work with you in the theater, but they also
1) give you only a small number of seats to choose from
2) make the purchasing process screwy and annoying
3) still make you be there half an hour early to get your tickets
and
4) charge MORE for tickets bought online - like, WTF? :rolleyes:
mistake? well have to agree with you now. Thing is - I live and work on one of the outlying islands which is a 40 minute ferry ride into town. Since I wanted to go to the movies tonight but didn't want to waste the time to travel in there only to find it booked out on-line is the only way I can do it before hand.
Or at least it was. Not anymore.

Still went to the movies anyway. Went to see 'The Prestige' which wasn't bad. One of those 'some earlier scenes make more sense when you see the end of the movie' type movies.

So I get up Saturday morning to go get a new license, my previous one expired a the end of October, I look in my mirror at home, my mirror in the car, and the mirror in the tag agency and I look great! so, why do I look drunk, sick and alien in my driver's license picture?

do they have some type of soul stealing camera?!

Well, actually ... yes. Those cameras are specifically designed to take the worst possible picture. All government agencies are required to use them. That's why all pictures turn out like this (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/nolte1.html).

People who run redlights and nearly kill me.
Being late for work/class.
German homework that lacks clear instuctions.
French people with really nasally accents.
John Madden, in all of his various incarnations.
Gubernatorial candidates named "Ken Blackwell".

people who have an opinion on something with no reason for it. when they try to explain why they go of topic and start to bizare situation.
i dont mind people having a different opinion to me. they just should be able to explain why.

i have a gripe. against my brain. first it makes me sleep in so i miss an important lecture, then it makes me sit in front of my computer all day instead of going to the library like i really need to, then it made me forget what time i start work tonight so i decided that it wasn't worth now going to the library for just half an hour so i'll just have a cup of tea, then just after i'd made the tea my brain remembered that i'm not starting work til 7 so i can spend at least an hour getting some work done in the library, except that now i have a cup of tea to drink so i'm still going to have less than an hour in the library. on top of that, my brain is so lazy it can't work out how to make lunch/dinner out of what i have in the fridge so it's making me stop at the corner shop on the way into work to get a sandwich i can't really afford. stupid brain.

Ukkuhr-Makhai made me wet myself with excitement.

What's annoying me at the moment?

Kanabia playing God in the dungeon. :p
Kanabia always was a Godmoder.

I can't find a god damn hotel in Philly that isn't booked. :mad: :(

I can't find a god damn hotel in Philly that isn't booked. :mad: :(

Why are you going to philly?

Why are you going to philly?

I need to buy chocolate. *nods*

My gripe? There aren't enough threads here on NSG with attack chickens.

http://pictureserver.funnyjunk.com/pics2/ninjakid.gif

My gripe? There aren't enough threads here on NSG with attack chickens.

http://pictureserver.funnyjunk.com/pics2/ninjakid.gif

I agree, we need more of those.