[SuzyCreamcheese]

OK, 2 gripes ( and these aren't issues with oldsters):
1.What's up with people who still think that because they're talking to someone long distance they have to shout to be heard? I just listened to a co-worker talking to someone for about 15 minutes. Everyone in the offices heard her. I even had my door closed.

2. People who still have no clue how to use their ATM cards to buy something. Come on, it isn't new technology. Get with the program or use cash.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

The Cheese

 

[mack]

My mother talks loud on the phone all the time, its is so annoying. Aaaagggg.

 

[JRB]

My mother talks loud on the phone all the time, its is so annoying. Aaaagggg.

It must be hereditary.

 

[MikeD]

Apparently, we talk loudly into cell phones because there's no side tone, unlike a land line or a VHF radio. Something to do with the requirements of the phone...then again, how hard could it be? I'm sure one of the cell-phone people will fill us in on the details.

 

[mack]

Apparently, we talk loudly into cell phones because there's no side tone, unlike a land line or a VHF radio. Something to do with the requirements of the phone...then again, how hard could it be? I'm sure one of the cell-phone people will fill us in on the details.

I dont have a cell phone, never! I couldnt think of anything more annoying other than my posts. But hey I try really hard Loco :eviltongu

 

[-dustin]

i don't know how to use my ATM to buy stuff. that's probably because i never knew my PIN.

 

[narlus]

if you never knew yr ATM card's PIN, how did you ever use it?

 

[MikeD]

I dont have a cell phone, never! I couldnt think of anything more annoying other than my posts. But hey I try really hard Loco :eviltongu

Huh? Didn't direct anything at you...and I was serious. Just recalling a radio article I heard on "cell yell," in which an expert attributed the phenomenon to the lack of a side tone on cells.

Side tone is the slight bit of your own voice you hear through the phone's speaker as you talk.

MD

 

[JRB]

if you never knew yr ATM card's PIN, how did you ever use it?

Or why do you have it???

 

[DHS]

i have to at work. the people i sell things too are deaf and old. and most the time stupid

 

[-dustin]

it's also my cash/check card. before i embraced the Visa cash/check card technology, it sat on my desk, while i thought it was only good at ATMs (i.e. never got used). my first 3yrs here at school, i paid for everything with checks or cash.

 

[BigMike]

Huh? Didn't direct anything at you...and I was serious. Just recalling a radio article I heard on "cell yell," in which an expert attributed the phenomenon to the lack of a side tone on cells.

Side tone is the slight bit of your own voice you hear through the phone's speaker as you talk.

MD

well, sometimes, all I hear in my cell phone is me talking.... about 2 seconds delayed. Whats that called?

 

[BigMike]

it's also my cash/check card. before i embraced the Visa cash/check card technology, it sat on my desk, while i thought it was only good at ATMs (i.e. never got used). my first 3yrs here at school, i paid for everything with checks or cash.

 

[narlus]

i can't remember the last time i wrote a check at a store.

 

[reflux]

I read an article online (nytimes.com?) the other day about cell phone jammers. Aside from keeping people from talking too loud, at least one guy interviewed from the article took it too the next level just to have some fun. It's a shame they're banned in the US.

 

[reflux]

i can't remember the last time i wrote a check at a store.

Werd, it's either credit or cash for me.

 

[MikeD]

well, sometimes, all I hear in my cell phone is me talking.... about 2 seconds delayed. Whats that called?

Ugh, I hate that...I've always heard people call it an echo.

No side-tone is a wierd thing, though...I sometimes used to lose side tone on the VHF radios I used, and it was like I suddenly went deaf.

MD

 

[BigMike]

Ugh, I hate that...I've always heard people call it an echo.


MD

Yeah, its TOTALLY annoying!

 

[Brian HCM#1]

I can't live without my ATM/CC. Its the best ever!!!!!!

 

[Skookum]

i just used my ATM for an ice scraper on the windshield of the flatbed worktruck this morning. So versatile these modern conveniences.....

 

[Austin Bike]

2. People who still have no clue how to use their ATM cards to buy something. Come on, it isn't new technology. Get with the program or use cash.

No, bonewipes that still write checks. The cafeteria at work takes checks and there is NOTHING more annoying in life than some idiotic secretary holiding up the line to write a check for $1.35.

We have lives you know. That should be a punishable offense.

Worse yet, when you're at the grocery store and AFTER they ring up the total...she....reaches....into.....her.....purse....and says "do you take checks"?

The time to ask that was 32 items ago. And at this point, if you MUST write a check, have the goddamn thing filled out. Oh, and your driver's license out, becuase that's another 5 minute excursion.

Men, if you write a lot of checks, ask your husband to give you a little spending money. You're all pansies.

 

[Austin Bike]

oh, by the way, that felt good.

 

[Wumpus]

Men, if you write a lot of checks, ask your husband to give you a little spending money. You're all pansies.

You coming out of the closet?

 

[chicodude]

He's saying that if your a guy and you write checks you're queer


I think

 

[Salami]

well, sometimes, all I hear in my cell phone is me talking.... about 2 seconds delayed. Whats that called?

Annoying as ****!!

 

[Ian F]

I can't live without my ATM/CC. Its the best ever!!!!!!

Werd! I've gone days without any cash in my wallet at all... My record is about a week... I track my expenses better with the debit card.

U-Scan-It check-outs + not having to deal with idiotic checkout workers = :love:

 

[johnbryanpeters]

OK, let us now complain about the azzoles buying or turning in lottery tickets.

They should be forced to wait until real customers have been served. :mumble:

 

[llkoolkeg]

U-Scan-It check-outs + not having to deal with idiotic checkout workers = :love:

Yeah...until you get behind some newbie 'tard who, upon seeing longer lines at the manned checkouts, decides today will be the day he plunges into a brave new world and learns how to operate the U-Scan-It. Seriously, the Home Depot in Frederick has to assign a live body to the two U-Scan-It checkouts just to help 'em off the short bus. One more creative way to understaff a retail establishment.

 

[llkoolkeg]

OK, let us now complain about the azzoles buying or turning in lottery tickets.

They should be forced to wait until real customers have been served. :mumble:

No shiite! I love being in a hurry, but in order to save $.05/gal. by paying cash, I go in to pay...only to have some cretin waylay the cashier with a kabuki theater fan-worth of lottery tickets or this snivelling character, who I'm sure you will recognize:

"...no, not the regulars...the 100s...no, not the light 100s, the REGULAR 100s...just to the left there...no, down one and one to the right two...YES- THOSE...I'll take two packs and six free books for matches."

 

[dh girlie]

well, sometimes, all I hear in my cell phone is me talking.... about 2 seconds delayed. Whats that called?

Delay...

 

[LordOpie]

How about this stupidity...

You call a credit card/cable/telephone company and they ask for all sorts of account questions in the automated system only to have to talk to an operator who asks for all that info AGAIN?!

 

[-dustin]

"...no, not the regulars...the 100s...no, not the light 100s, the REGULAR 100s...just to the left there...no, down one and one to the right two...YES- THOSE...I'll take two packs and six free books for matches."

sounds more like an incapable cashier.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

sounds more like an incapable cashier.

No, it's a cretin who smokes.

 

[SuzyCreamcheese]

No, it's a cretin who smokes.

Isn't that redundant?

The Cheese