More things that irk me

[Plaidman]

Whoa now. Who ever said that they were BETTER then you because they didn't like your joke?

They just didn't find you funny, and was offended.

They never said they never offended anyone in their own life. In some people's minds, your not telling a joke, your insulting them.

Just like you may feel we do to you at times, simply because we don't agree with your methods.


and ditto on Andara comment.

[DrFaroohk]

Whoa now. Who ever said that they were BETTER then you because they didn't like your joke?

They just didn't find you funny, and was offended.

They never said they never offended anyone in their own life. In some people's minds, your not telling a joke, your insulting them.

Just like you may feel we do to you at times, simply because we don't agree with your methods.


and ditto on Andara comment.

It's not that anyone said flat out they were better than me..it's a tone. An inflection. I pick up the meaning in it. The same as you can tell if someone's being angry, sarcastic, or joking, or whatever. They're tone says a thousand things. Like "Ha, I'm so important I never have time for jokes. You're just screwing around because you suck but I'm really important and way better than you and joking is just plain WRONG!"

[Plaidman]

Wow... and I thought I was paranoid.

Sometimes a joke is just a joke, and sometimes it just falls flat, or just isn't funny to someone.

Maybe they heard that joke a trillion times. I mean, do you laugh everytime a kid asks you "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!"? I mean, you must not have a sense of a humor if you don't laugh, because to some really little kids that is just the funniest thing of all. Or is it A: Not funny and B: You've heard it a billion times and even C: You have more important things on mind to laugh at a joke that's only funny to the person saying it.

[DrFaroohk]

Wow... and I thought I was paranoid.

Sometimes a joke is just a joke, and sometimes it just falls flat, or just isn't funny to someone.

Maybe they heard that joke a trillion times. I mean, do you laugh everytime a kid asks you "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!"? I mean, you must not have a sense of a humor if you don't laugh, because to some really little kids that is just the funniest thing of all. Or is it A: Not funny and B: You've heard it a billion times and even C: You have more important things on mind to laugh at a joke that's only funny to the person saying it.

Well once again there's a difference. Sure I don't laugh when some kid tells me the why did the chicken joke...but I wouldn't get all high and mighty about and say "Hey, this is no laughing matter! Millions of chickens are brutally murdered every year!"

[DrFaroohk]

So I got another irk: Sometimes you ask someone a question, and rather than just answer it, they give you a big lecture on how they don't want to answer questions, but really, the time they spent giving you the lecture was about twice as long as it would have been just to answer it.

Sadly, a lot of online places are like this. I used to read this usenet group for robert jordan (author) and it was just awful. You couldn't post anything without people getting all bitchy and whiny. They complained to me once because I wasn't formatting my posts properly, so I just asked "How do I fix it". They could have just said "Go into options, select format, and adjust your line lengths to 50 instead of 95." or something like that. But no. Rather than a 15 word solution that would have taken 30 seconds to type, no no no, they had to write me these big long lectures about how it's my responsibility to find my own solutions in life and blah blah blah.

Spend a dollar to save a dime....lol....

[ExRetailDrone]

I have an irk that has been growing the longer I work at the video rental store.

We have to make calls that almost seem like collections calls. We call people who have overdue rentals until they either bring the item(s) back or it(they) are charged to the account, which happens after they are so many days late. That's annoying as is, but most people don't answer and I just leave tons of voicemails, which I can deal with.

However, getting to the point where I can leave a voicemail on most cell phones takes For. Ev. Ver.

"Your call has been forwarded to an automated voice messaging system. <name of person or automated reading of phone number> is not available. At the tone, please record your message. Once you are done recording, you may hang up, or dial <number depending on carrier> for more options. To leave a call-back number, press <number depending on carrier>."

Seriously? Seriously!? All that just to leave a farking message. It's even more enjoyable when right after I dial the number and hear the ringing on the other end, someone walks up to the counter, and then I have to tell them to please wait while I spend 5 minutes (slight exaggeration) listening to this stupid automated lady before leaving my 10-second (no exaggeration) voicemail

[Plaidman]

All ya gotta do, when that happens, is leave a recording of Stewie beating the crap out of Brian while screaming for your money.