I should probably point out that a hood thump was unlikely if the driver was some kind of large meathead. Best deployed when driver was some kind of annoying preppy mom.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Friday, 31 May 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I have the benefit of being bigger than most people
― iatee, Friday, 31 May 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
I was more amused by the drunk spitting bro more than anything else.
― Jeff, Friday, 31 May 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
iatee r u secretly swole, always imagined u as a weedy little nerd like me
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Friday, 31 May 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
'Thieves Like Us' was a key song for me. Getting over & coming to love its 'lol 1980s' sound was a point of no return. Love it unreservedly.
― Millsner, Friday, 31 May 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
that's quite a subtle way of telling us that posting on the wrong thread makes you irrationally angry
― crabby pate (electricsound), Friday, 31 May 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
I actually saw a cop give someone a ticket for this the other day and was so happy
I have seen cops just hang out at Bay/Bloor (busy-as-hell intersection in downtown Toronto) and hand out a ticket every time someone did this, which was literally every single time the light was green. It was so AWESOME.
― franny glass, Friday, 31 May 2013 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
savages itt
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
you know what's cooler than pedestrians CARS
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Saturday, 1 June 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
lately I've started slowing down when I'm in crosswalks with no signal and a car is creeping forward
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Saturday, 1 June 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
being given a fork instead of chopsticks because i'm white
just now i passively-aggressively asked for chopsticks in chinese just to drive the point home, but fucked it up and ended up going 'chopsticks chopsticks' in english, which made me even more ia
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 June 2013 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2013 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
and i just dropped a dumpling and vinegar went everywhere, so now i'm feeling a massive dick
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 June 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
wait whose dick
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
lol!
― ☉.☉☂ (unregistered), Saturday, 1 June 2013 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not super swole but I'm 6'2 and in pretty decent shape so I'm big enough to not find very many strangers intimidating. I will probably just get shot tho.
― iatee, Saturday, 1 June 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
People who park on pavementsd so pedestrians can't walk by on th epavement and are forced to go in the road. Tends to make me want to walk down the inside anyway preferably with a sharp object protruding. Not that I do that, just feel the inclination to.
Plus furthermore having cars semi blocking pavements with wheely bins adding further to the blockage which is a normal situationon a Friday in one of the estates I have to walk through to get to the training centre.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
A car will NOT sustain damage from somebody bangs on it unless they're kicking it or really pounding on a door panel, which I don't think iatee or carl do/did.
I have done it, and for maximum obnoxiousness, I knocked on the cars like you'd knock on a door.
― Je55e, Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:32 (eleven years ago) link
guy parked outside my house, what makes you think i want to listen to the same shitty club music xm radio station they play in the gym
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Saturday, 1 June 2013 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
I've never hit a car! I'm afraid of getting beat up!
― carl agatha, Saturday, 1 June 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i would never do that. i always assume asshole drivers are aggressive people who might hit you or worse.
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Saturday, 1 June 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
gah last night these douchebags were trying to plow through a very large crowd after they got stuck in that above position on 14th st (a bad place to be stuck blocking the box) and some other proud pedestrian not only banged on their car but refused to move and tried to get the asshole drivers to get out of their car. my friend was quick thinking enough to get their license plate.
― iatee, Saturday, 1 June 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
I've banged on the back of cars if they almost hit me. I think I've scared the shit out of some people doing it. I think they thought I was a flash mob.
― Jeff, Saturday, 1 June 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
I've banged on cars, mostly the ones who run red lights. I've had maybe two guys yell at me afterward, but what are they going to do, leave their car in the middle of traffic during rush hour?
― pplains, Saturday, 1 June 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
what are they going to do, leave their car in the middle of traffic during rush hour?
Concealed-carry permits are getting easier and easier to come by these days.
― Thank you for talkin' to me Williamsburg (WilliamC), Saturday, 1 June 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
I know, you'd think those asshole drivers would think of this when they cross me.
― pplains, Saturday, 1 June 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
― Thank you for talkin' to me Williamsburg (WilliamC), Saturday, 1 June 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
people who make a blatant swallowing noise halfway through a sentence. makes me incandescent with rage.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 1 June 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
I'm confident in my speed to run away from any potential conflict. They'd have to leave their car behind and chase me for miles.
― Jeff, Saturday, 1 June 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
I dig scooters but i hate stupid scooter riders. One dude yesterday rolling down a busy 4 lane road holding a coffee in one hand, weaving all over the place & darting in front of cars not signalling. And stupid girl today who parked her scooter on the sidewalk directly in front of handicapped parking (when there were parking spaces and other more suitable areas to park a scooter) so no handicapped ppl could actually use that widened portion of the sidewalk INTENDED for their use
some ppl are idiots
scooters are still cool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
i had barely parked in a parking spot and was straightening the car, and some shitbag in an suv tried to pull straight into the next spot and kept parping her horn at me. very, very long time since i've actively wanted to jump out of the car and scream at someone
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 June 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
and then the parking machine swallowed all my money because governments are too special to give change
fuck today is what i'm saying
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 June 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
bleh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
My complete irrational anger – because it's completely irrational – is aimed at the motorcycle parked in my crowded lot, taking up a whole space when he could, you know, park in the fire zone or the handicap ramp area.
So I'd rather this guy drive a car? He's got to park it somewhere legal, right? Probably my most irrational of them all.
― pplains, Saturday, 1 June 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
I try to be a polite motorcycle parker by a) parking near the back of a spot so drivers know the spot is taken before they get their hopes up and b) by leaving enough room for another motorcycle or parking next to an existing motorcycle who has done the same. I've come out of stores or the gym to find two other bikes in the same spot with me.
― joygoat, Sunday, 2 June 2013 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
D'aw.
― pplains, Sunday, 2 June 2013 07:07 (eleven years ago) link
I'm IA at my own internal clock. Every time I set an alarm now, I wake up 15-20 minutes early -- but I really wanted those few minutes of sleep!
― Thank you for talkin' to me Williamsburg (WilliamC), Sunday, 2 June 2013 12:07 (eleven years ago) link
And when I'm too hot with the AC set on 76, and too cold when it's set on 75.
― Thank you for talkin' to me Williamsburg (WilliamC), Sunday, 2 June 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
^both way too hot imo
― no man is an islam (onimo), Monday, 3 June 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
* voicemail systems that make you listen to a playback of your message before you have the option to delete and re-record. it normally takes me at least 3 tries to record a message I'm satisfied with, and having to listen to all my screw-ups is an excruciating waste of time.
― ☉.☉☂ (unregistered), Monday, 3 June 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqXYTu6un78
― ☉.☉☂ (unregistered), Monday, 3 June 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
This dude I know always speaks in this half-stoned drawl, asks questions, then basically walks away half way through the answer, citing his short attention span. Yesterday he pressured me into letting him and his friend play my guitars. He's never played electric, so he kept asking questions. "So what does this do?" Oh, you turn that and ... "Huh, this thing called treble, what does it do?" Well, you use it to ... "Do you have another amp?" Yeah, right over ... "What is that plug for?" Etc.
Then he asked me how to get Jerry Garcia's tone, which I rudely dismissed as "crappy" (out of annoyance, I admit), and he got all "hey, man, it's not cool to say it's crappy, it makes me feel really bad." I was all, you're playing guitars in my house, which I didn't want to do with you, so sorry if I'm snippy.
I almost hit him.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 June 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
― no man is an islam (onimo), Monday, June 3, 2013 9:53 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agreed. 68 max
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 3 June 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
I'd be in my winter clothes year round if I set it on 68, and my light bill would bankrupt me.
― Thank you for talkin' to me Williamsburg (WilliamC), Monday, 3 June 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
I know you want my money, medical provider, because you have sent me a bill. But how about you don't make it so difficult for me to pay you? Some suggestions:
- take my copay at the time of my office visit like I asked you to, because the copay is always the same and I always have to pay it eventually and no, I really don't want you to bill the insurance company and then send me a bill, just take my money. Take it. Take the money.
- have billing office hours that correspond to normal working hours instead of your weird hours of 10-2 with a lunch break so I can call and talk to a person and pay my bill. Also answer the phone during business hours, for the love of god.
- return my calls when I follow instructions and leave a message telling you I would like to pay my bill and please call me back so I can do so.
- get into the 21st century and allow people to pay their bills online because you are like the second largest medical provider in the state, maybe the largest, I don't fucking know, and your competitors allow for online bill paying, dammit.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
Tell 'em that online bill paying is even possible down in Upper Dingus, Mississippi.
― Thank you for talkin' to me Williamsburg (WilliamC), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
I swear my copays were like my personal property taxes where I assess for the next year and pay for the last one.
"Mr. Plains, you owe us $25 for your last visit."
"That's fine. So $50 altogether?"
"No, I think you're caught up now."
"...."
Repeat
― pplains, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
Those doorknobs even made me fill out paper work twice - once on paper, and once electronically on an iPad type thing because they are switching to electronic records. Then why am I filling out the paper records, too? *sob*
I like that doctor, but hate his entire office staff. Unfortunately, I have pretty much seen and hated every local gastroenterologist who doesn't focus on weight loss surgery so I'm stuck with this place until the next crop of GI residents open their own practices.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
I take it you're not talking about the Official Doctor of ChiLX? He is part of the system you're talking about, and in his office, the switch to electronic records involved exactly one step: me giving them the email address I want associated with my account.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
No, a gastroenterologist per my above post. Albeit one Dr. ChILX referred me to.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link