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Iron Crowned posted:As a side note: People who assume that "clearance" means "75% - 90% off of everything that is tangentially Christmas themed." That's usually not people being stupid but people thinking they're being really clever in a way that'll get them extra discounts. Never underestimate the ability of a cheapskate to mangle logic into tortured forms that mean that the store has to sell them everything at a massive discount. Incidentally these people are pretty common and are exactly why  UP TO 94% OFF OF EVERYTHING IN THE STORE actually works.
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Brawnfire posted:Usually I see horns employed to remind people to actually drive instead of whatever else they're doing in an unmoving vehicle at a green light  BOOTY-ADE posted:Guessing you're the type who doesn't pay attention at intersections while you're texting & get honked at for ignoring green lights or open opportunities to go? Because that's yet another valid reason to have horns whether you agree or not.
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My peeve is Netflix's rating system. How the hell did it figure out a 55% match rating for motherfuckin Frasier? I've watched that show from start to finish at least a hundred times. It's my go-to for background noise or for when I'm tired and just want something familiar. I know every line by now. How did that get a 55? I also never watch any comic-related shows or movies but Black Panther and GotG2 both get over 90%. How is this poo poo even determined??
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I've never been honked at while driving but get blasted constantly when I'm on foot and just walking down the sidewalk.
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We can’t so easily dismiss the possibility you all just don’t know how to walk.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I've never been honked at while driving but get blasted constantly when I'm on foot and just walking down the sidewalk. Are you hot?
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Jan 3, 2019 02:17
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Phones. How the gently caress are they so loving bad at everything? Why is it that they're slower and less reliable than any computer was twenty years ago? Why do I have gigabytes of free storage space, but no room to install or update apps? How is every single one of them so poo poo? If some company put out a phone that was even half way decent they should be able to dominate the market instantly.
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Jan 3, 2019 02:27
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Tiggum posted:Oh no, you might be delayed by up to three whole seconds, what a loving tragedy. Lol gently caress off mate
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Brawnfire posted:Who pulls out a checkbook at the express checkout lane?!? You had six items for less than twenty bucks, do you really need to do this? Or they insist on paying in EXACT CHANGE but all their change is in a tiny coin purse somewhere inside their enourmous bag/backpack and then they gotta slowly, excruciatingly count out pennies and- oh no! looks like they didn't have exact change after all, haha! Can you break a 100? No? well, can I just leave my items here while I go to the atm? honestly people are such dicks
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oldpainless posted:Are you hot? I'm usually wearing a coat with a hood so I doubt they can really see me, I think it's just dipshits being dipshits. The same people that roll down their windows to scream at me as they drive past. Most of the stores near me have finally stopped accepting checks. On top of accepting them being a net loss from wasting time processing them and holding up the line and pissing off all of the customers, they finally realized that the only reason anyone ever pays with a check anymore is to commit check fraud.
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I think every single noise in the outside world is about me. You wouldn't believe how much I hate birds.
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FluxFaun posted:Or they insist on paying in EXACT CHANGE but all their change is in a tiny coin purse somewhere inside their enourmous bag/backpack and then they gotta slowly, excruciatingly count out pennies and- oh no! looks like they didn't have exact change after all, haha! Can you break a 100? No? well, can I just leave my items here while I go to the atm? The only reason I need access to a physical bank branch is to get quarters to feed the apartment laundry machines. I rarely go anywhere you need cash to pay because they don't take cards. Even the local 'extra-cheap because you can't use credit cards' grocery takes debit cards.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I'm usually wearing a coat with a hood so I doubt they can really see me, I think it's just dipshits being dipshits. The same people that roll down their windows to scream at me as they drive past. ...where the hell do you live?
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Haifisch posted:The day cash is eliminated entirely can't come soon enough. It's a huge pain in the rear end for everyone involved. Come to Australia, it's predicted we'll be a cashless society in 3 or 4 years. Cheques are obsolete and actual cash is going that way too. Paying for stuff is really fast and easy as you just tap your card and only need to enter your pin if it's over $100. No fees for small amounts too so you can tap to pay for your coffee. Some coffee and food places don't even accept cash anymore.
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Aphrodite posted:...where the hell do you live? do you really think this doesn't happen, or
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Aphrodite posted:You use the horn after you did the safety thing to tell the other person they're an rear end in a top hat. They either know and don't care, or think you're the rear end in a top hat for honking at them.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Guessing you're the type who doesn't pay attention at intersections while you're texting & get honked at for ignoring green lights or open opportunities to go? Because that's yet another valid reason to have horns whether you agree or not. Because I don't like idiots who honk their horns for no reason I'm the type who doesn't pay attention at intersections, and someone who texts and drives. Project much?
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artsy fartsy posted:My peeve is Netflix's rating system. How the hell did it figure out a 55% match rating for motherfuckin Frasier? I've watched that show from start to finish at least a hundred times. It's my go-to for background noise or for when I'm tired and just want something familiar. I know every line by now. How did that get a 55? It seems like it's totally random when I get "Because you watched [movie]" with a list of movies and TV shows that are not even tangentially related to the movie that I watched.
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MightyJoe36 posted:It seems like it's totally random when I get "Because you watched [movie]" with a list of movies and TV shows that are not even tangentially related to the movie that I watched. I love that feature just for the off the wall poo poo it can throw at you. My wife and I watched Bird Box recently, so clearly we'd also want to watch How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Or I watched Jason Goes To Hell, so it follows that I would also want to watch Balto.
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Helith posted:Come to Australia, it's predicted we'll be a cashless society in 3 or 4 years. Cheques are obsolete and actual cash is going that way too. Paying for stuff is really fast and easy as you just tap your card and only need to enter your pin if it's over $100. No fees for small amounts too so you can tap to pay for your coffee. How do you buy drugs? E-transfer?
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:do you really think this doesn't happen, or I live in Canada, so...
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:How do you buy drugs? E-transfer? As a boring old who stopped doing drugs long ago I haven't bought any in Aus, but you can link your bank account to your email address or phone number in your banking app and set up a PayID which means you can do instant transfers of money between 2 people, so yeah you could totally pay your dealer by e-transfer from your phone.
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Hey everyone who plays words with friends - don't nudge me. Ever. I'll play this stupid game that I know you all are cheating on when I loving feel like it. You nudging me guarantees that I will not play my move for at least 24 hours. You have no idea how mad I get when I get a buzz on my phone at 2am and it's this cheating gently caress whining that I haven't played a word for 12 hours.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Hey everyone who plays words with friends - don't nudge me. Ever. I'll play this stupid game that I know you all are cheating on when I loving feel like it. You nudging me guarantees that I will not play my move for at least 24 hours. You have no idea how mad I get when I get a buzz on my phone at 2am and it's this cheating gently caress whining that I haven't played a word for 12 hours. Why the gently caress would you ever let a game buzz your phone?
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Helith posted:Come to Australia, it's predicted we'll be a cashless society in 3 or 4 years. Cheques are obsolete and actual cash is going that way too. Paying for stuff is really fast and easy as you just tap your card and only need to enter your pin if it's over $100. No fees for small amounts too so you can tap to pay for your coffee. But yeah, I've only used a cheque once in my life and it was a Bank Cheque which is as good as cash (at least to the person I made it out to). All my job payments in the last 15 years have been direct deposit (except my first job - one of the aforementioned Asian-owned eateries - paid below minimum wage in cash and not reported to the ATO), rent payments have either been direct deposit, BPAY or a rent card.
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Now THAT is the Oz that I am conditioned to squint sideways at (Also worked at an ASIAN eatery in  for two years and no one was sneakily evading the taxes an Honest Business would pay, maybe Australia is different buttttttttt)
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I don't think I've ever even seen a cheque
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Tiggum posted:It's not just Asian restaurants, but it is a lot of Asian restaurants. Also fish and chip shops. They're about the only places you ever need cash any more. I’ve seen exactly one place in North America that was cash only, it’s a lovely burger place in my hometown, so that’s whatever I’m more concerned about the idea that the perfidious asian who doesn’t speak proper is THE cash only operator, because they want to avoid taxes?
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Haifisch posted:I'd ask who even carries a checkbook with them, but I'm guessing this was a 5000 year old crone. My complex apparently chose an incompetent payment processor because I always pay my rent on the first (and get a confirmation email) but sometimes get a letter on my door on the morning of the third. It’s not even a weekend/non-business day thing.
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I still carry a small amount of cash in my wallet.  OTOH, I've written 1 check in the last three years.
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Podcasts that spend 20+ minutes of each episode going over listener emails. Yeah, mailbags can be great, but not as a large chunk of every episode, limit them to one 40 minute episode per month of only the best emails. Instead you get 20 extra minutes of low effort chaff every week that is for an audience of exactly the same people who sent in an email. I understand how it happens, when you're starting off, you get a couple actually useful emails and want to share them. As the popularity builds, the wheat dwindles, and then you get a 30 minute sessions of "Please wish my friend happy birthday in your overused joke voice!" or "Please go on tour to Bumblefuck, Turkmenistan." It also seems to contribute to the hosts shoving their heads even farther up their rear end every week. It really does make some podcasts boarder on unlistenable.
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Iron Crowned posted:Podcasts that spend 20+ minutes of each episode going over listener emails. I always wonder how often someone submits a Jumbotron message to MBMBAM only to learn that their SO just skips that section.
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My bank's bill payment service will automatically send a check out if I fill out a form online so yeah, I haven't actually had a checkbook in like 20 years.
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docbeard posted:My bank's bill payment service will automatically send a check out if I fill out a form online so yeah, I haven't actually had a checkbook in like 20 years. What a bizarrely roundabout way of doing things.
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Tiggum posted:What a bizarrely roundabout way of doing things. Mine can do that too. I only did that for a while when I was ordering from a place that only took PayPal or checks. The place I was ordering from got confused the first two times I did it, and resulted in me getting a couple of free things.
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Tiggum posted:What a bizarrely roundabout way of doing things. I pretty much just use it for my rent (because I too rent from someone who can't/won't deal with electronic payments). Yeah, it's roundabout but from my perspective as the end user it's convenient as gently caress. They'll also do electronic transfers to places that support them, though most of those places I tend to deal with directly because if something goes wrong I'd rather be able to tell the electric company that their payment processing system is run by gerbils than try to sort out where things went awry between them and my bank.
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Tiggum posted:What a bizarrely roundabout way of doing things. One time a friend needed to pay me $50 for something. He filled out a form on his bank's site that resulted in a check being mailed to me, then when it arrived I deposited it by pointing my phone at it and sending an image of it to my bank. Banking is loving weird.
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Indecisive people drive me nuts. It's the first warmish day in 2 months, and my partner and I are going hiking. I think. She's been sitting in a bathrobe at her computer for 3 hours trying to decide where we should go, and I've been sitting around in my hiking boots with a packed bag this entire time. Pretty soon I'm going to eat the lunch I made for the trail right here in the apartment. We've got about 4 hours of daylight left. It doesn't make any difference at all where we go, but it's her turn to choose and I'm being respectful of that. For 3 hours she's been weighing factors like "What if it's muddy?" or "I can't decide if I want to hike next to water". If this process wasn't limited to hiking, menus, and Netflix I don't think our relationship would survive! Good thing I love her SO GODDAMN MUCH AUGHHHHH
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Just a thought, but maybe she doesn't want to go hiking.
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