Pet Peeves

[Blackout]

Posting about your friends suicide on LinkedIn for whatever purpos is about as low as it gets. Why do people do this?

The disease of social media exhibitionism knows no bounds. Posting bullshit or holiday/baby pictures is, in hindsight, mildly embarrassing. The kind of shit that you're describing is lower than whale manure. It's gone from 'look how cool I am' to 'look how great and sorted and happy my life is' to 'look how this has affected me emotionally'.

This shite Facebook are developing is the next logical step in providing cunts with a parallel life. It would be great if those shadowy Russian hacker special ops could sabotage FB and Twitter.

Literally seen another post on LinkedIn with a lad who was apparently jumped and told everyone to "watch themselves" along with a disgusting picture of his gammy eye. Yeah mate you will drum up loads of biz with that...

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The gas thing is Melbourne is probably the most multi ethnic place I've ever been to and people seem to rub along on a day to day basis without a lot of friction. An important part of a civilised society is people generally keeping their opinions to themselves in public and being polite to one another. If you're at the stage in life where you have to be told by a billboard while sitting at traffic lights not to be a twat to people, it's probably too late. Likewise if you're the type of stuck up cunt who loses it at people working in the service industry- specifically in a country where the servers all call you mate and say stuff like "too easy"- then a note on the door asking you not to be a dickhead is a bit of a fart in the wind. In the case of the notes on shop doors it feels like virtue signaling. In the case of the billboards it feels a little more like social engineering.

Don't know about there specifically, but throughout the developed world the various manifestations of COVID measures, etc., spawned a wave of people being total dicks to hospitality staff in shops, restaurants, etc. Could be related to that?? Agree that it's hardly likely to touch the biggest offenders though!

[Caomhaoin]

I dunno, it'd take a lot to provoke rudeness in the average person to frontline lads in retail, call centre staff, waiters etc. If you do happen to be an entitled prick who behaves like that because you got the sweet potato fries instead of carrots and zatziki, you're unlikely to be swayed by 'reminders' on the front door.

It's all a bit big brother.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

it'd take a lot to provoke rudeness in the average person to frontline lads in retail, call centre staff, waiters etc.

lol

Tip the average person even slightly more towards their irritable side, by whatever reason, making them have to wait for a couple extra minutes, they didn't have time to have breakfast yet, whatever, and the chances of them being a prick to a randomer explodes.

[Caomhaoin]

Irritability and being a complete cock are different things though. People being proper Karen's without very good reason? Nah, not for me Jeff.

Goes the other way too though. When I was at the World Cup in 2006 in Germany, a bargirl was unbelievably rude to me because I couldn't understand what she was saying to me in German. Proper screeching at me. It was a beer tent though, what was I going to do? Sellers market!

I think it was at that Opeth/Paradise lost show back in 05/6 the girl at the merch stand nearly lost her fucking mind because she was trying to eat a Chinese take away and lads had the gall to ask her to sell them shit. Highly amusing

C'mon boyz, out with yer Karen/Irate customer stories.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I know irritability and being a complete cock are different things. That's why I said, if you increase someone's irritability then the chances of them acting like a complete cock explode. And this is what has been widely reported from customer-facing industries since the beginning of the pandemic; an explosion in the number of people acting like complete cocks.

[StoutAndAle]

C'mon boyz, out with yer Karen/Irate customer stories.

When I was a 15, I used to work Saturdays in a local hardware shop. Proper old school place - hammers, files, saws, tap & die - not a part of a chain. One of my jobs was to answer the phone and take enquiries.

Ring ring!

"Hello? Mom and Pop Hardware"

"Yeah. How's it going? How much are ye're lawnmowers?"

"Lawnmowers? We don't..."

"The ride-on ones not the small garden jobbies"

"We don't sell lawnmowers"

"Yes, ye do. I've seen 'em"

"No. We definitely don't"

"Ye fuckin' do. I seen 'em there last week. Loads of them. Ride-ons"

I was only working in this place a month or two at this point but I was pretty certain we didn't sell lawnmowers.

"I think you might have the wrong num..."

"What's your fuckin' name, pal?"

"Stout"

"Right you are, Stout. I'll be in to see you PERSONALLY and we'll discuss this with your manager and see how he likes his staff smart mouthing me."

"I wasn't smart mou....."

He hung up. I was now a bit worried. So I asked one of the lads if we sold lawnmowers.

"We do in our holes. This isn't a bleedin' garden centre"

About an hour later this midget of a man walks in and I recognise his voice. "Which one of ye is Stout?". A lad nods in my direction.

"Right, come over here to me like a good little man" I can feel myself heating up but I wander over. "And find the manager" he says to the other lad.

"Hello. I'm Stout"

"Now then. My dear fellow you said to me that you don't sell ride-on lawnmowers."

"Yes"

"Can I help?" asks the owner who has now appeared on the scene.

"This young fella here told me not an hour ago that you don't sell ride-on lawnmowers. But tell me, what do you call THOSE?!" says the tosser indicating across the car park.

The boss and myself both look out the window and then back at the sneering cunt in front of us.

"Dog trailers." says my boss

"Hah?!" asked the midget

"The place next to us makes mini trailers for transporting greyhounds." says the boss "And I think that you owe Stout an apology"

Yer man left the shop fairly red faced with a few of us barking across the car park at him.

[ldj]

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[Eoin McLove]

If you give me her address I can post over a few signs 

[Necro Red]

Been in retail donkeys years and have seen it all lads. Especially during the pandemic, people fighting over toilet roll and everything. It has brought out the worst in people in my opinion. People shouting at staff if you can believe

[Eoin McLove]

Is it that it has brought out the worst in people or that it is just a good excuse for society's dregs to have a public get together? But yeah, I get your point. The bog roll wars were so fucking stupid, maybe many otherwise rational people lost their minds entirely. Thankfully I didn't see any of that over the past couple of years on my shopping trips, and that has to be colouring my view to a certain degree.

[Blackout]

I'm getting fed up of people who are just cunts getting a free pass with the "mental illness" card.

[open face surgery]

Everyone wants, or claims to have, a disorder these days.

[Caomhaoin]

Seth Rogan. What an absolute spastic.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nme.com/news/tv/seth-rogen-claims-white-supremacists-are-review-bombing-santa-inc-3110961%3Famp

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Seth Rogan. What an absolute spastic.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nme.com/news/tv/seth-rogen-claims-white-supremacists-are-review-bombing-santa-inc-3110961%3Famp

He is a bit of a spastic. But the trailer on YouTube was also targeted by people who were, let's say, uncannily well-versed in infamous anti-semitic literature and not afraid of quoting it towards its original purpose, so he's not exaggerating quite as much as it may seem. Was all commented on here last week, with much glee, by KC. Maybe he should have blamed "anti-semites" rather than "white supremacists."

Also, this should clearly be in the bin thread of PC and Perpetually Offended blah blah.