What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[sdp]

that used to happen a lot in forums, you would write these walls of jericho worth of arguments over something that all these years later matters absolutely nothing but you still wrote them passionately, and either the browser crashed, the internet went away, it logged you out or any many reasons and you had lost everything. This is much more rare now since browsers usually keep a history of what you typed so while it can still happen it's far rarer.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

When eBay has you logged in already, always does, you write up a product review for something you bought (because there was only one and all that numbskull wrote was the word "perfect" and zero details) and when you hit submit... it goes to a login page... then returns you to a blank review page, all your thought out writing gone, and no massage about it being submitted.

Wtf eBay. I think I've been through this once before...

I just write "Good experience, would buy from this seller again." Every time.

It's Maximum Honest and I'm Maximum Lazy.

[IndigoErth]

Likewise, but I'm not talking about the buyer feedback (those aren't an issue and I always leave those), I'm talking about the product reviews seen at the bottom of the page for some items, unrelated to individual sellers.

I have rarely cared to leave a product review, but felt this kind of needed it, as the one person who left one was pointless in doing so and sellers of this item aren't leaving much detail either.

As hard it was for me to find a Jeep cab cover for my vehicle that actually fit my needs, while most covers are designed for top off emergency coverage if it rains, I figured it might be helpful to let people know that this top does in fact fit over the installed top and covers the windows so that it can cut down on the amount of sunlight exposure that can damage the vinyl windows.

Which was my reason to hunt all over the internet for this in the first place. I'm never going to stop the UV damage (that my last and now recently replaced top had a severe case of), but if it can slow it down by having that cover on when home... then great.

[Leo656]

Lookit you, bein' a good egg. Good for you.

When I wanna make the world a better place I just walk around outside with no shirt on. But I guess what you're doing is cool, too.

Since you kept it vague, I'm going to just assume it's a "wand massager", and that your review was some variant of "No, really, it's not for THAT, I have a pinched nerve in my neck. Seriously."

...See, this is why I require details. Because my imagination is nuts.

EDIT: OH, you Edited. Jeep cover, huh? Well... that's MUCH less fun.

[IndigoErth]

lol Hey, it's at least a nice looking cover!

Here, you can all look at my baby that turned 20 this year.

I was even gonna include this pic with the review, but never mind, eBay is rude and lost everything I typed up.

[Leo656]

I only get physically aroused by vintage Camaros and the Mach 5.

But I guess that's a nice-looking Jeep, as Jeeps go.

[IndigoErth]

It certainly is, thank you.

Twice I've had people ask if I wanted to sell, one via note on the windshield, another asked out a car window. Nope, they can't have it. I had wanted that thing since I was a kid and not about to part with it. Some people want these older models, not those new ones, but there's other old TJ's out there in need of a new home and mine is already in its permanent one.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

My rant today is dangerous idiots with questionable credentials in medicine. Specifically, one particular "Dr" who claims to be a specialist in endocrinology, when he is just a GP. And keeps screwing with Mr Ds insulin regimen every time he's in the hospital, and always ends up f**king it up. Either super high, or dangerously low, but he keeps doing it no matter how many times we tell him to leave it alone. And now hubster is about to make a complaint to the administrator about him.

[Hamato Yoshi]

Newmars agent : "The West , Ward , Newmar signatures are real , ive seen 100s"

No , they're not , its fake crap from Piece of Past - very good fakes but bogus nonetheless , why is it that every time one of his items are discussed its deemed a fake ?

The owner is a notorious con man that should've been in jail yrs ago

[IndigoErth]

When you can't figure out how to spell sophisticated because all you can hear in your head is frigging Spongebob saying phosisticated.


Also attention whores (particularly the very entitled "look at me!" idiots on DeviantArt) on who are disgustingly egotistical and self important for absolutely zero reason and make you wonder why we ever stopped sacrificing some people to volcanoes.



7/9 -- Kind of annoyed at the Weather Channel.

After midnight southeast Maryland and the lower part of my state both started getting tornado warnings from TS Elsa when it was to the southwest and pushing into those areas. So of course at 1 a.m. they stopped coverage and just put on repeats of tv shows.

You'd think they'd at least keep that red box with the radar, etc in the lower corner and show any warnings. Nope. Nothing. DE and MD, what do they matter. Maybe also south Jersey, unless early morning coverage restarted by that time.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

People who make the EXACT SAME MISTAKES over and over again, and NEVER LEARN. Like literally doing the same thing time and again, even after people have told them MANY TIMES, not to do something. I am referring here to a certain coworker, whom I love dearly, but who is incredibly dense in some ways. Every day, we get orders where she hands them the card back and sends them to the next window even though their card was declined, meaning that we then have to ask them for payment AGAIN, at the pick up window.

[The Deadman]

When people go "excuse me, do you work here?". Like no, the name tag, uniform, walkie doesnt give it away.

[IndigoErth]

"No, I'm just a spy trying to infiltrate and blend in with [company name]'s staff. Shh, don't tell anyone."



Speaking of work grinds...

My company has been switching over to thin cardboard packaging for some of the products we sell at Walmart. I was immediately skeptical, knowing that's going to make it harder when the asshats decide to open stuff, because they're bound to destroy them. At least the plastic was typically able to be fixed and resealed, or taped shut if necessary.

So of course I visit that store today and sure enough someone has finally proven my skepticism of this.

Did they simply unseal the FLAP in the back of it? Noooo, of course not. They had to act as if they have no idea how life works and tore the crap out of the top and front of the packaging -- WTF is wrong with you, person, who does that? -- so it's entirely unsalvageable, pulled one sheet out that looks exactly like the example (even in size) printed on the front, then threw it down. No one is ever going to buy it effed up like that, so it's a complete waste now.

I hate seeing things like that, that just have to be marked out and chucked in the trash when the actual product is still perfectly fine all because of some jerk. Someone else could have actually enjoyed buying and using it. Plus it's of course a loss of money for our company.

There was another smaller card pack they or someone else also had to open, and the way these new ones are assembled is a pain in the ass, but at least that one could be put back together and taped shut.


Also, I hope an a-hole on the road yesterday driving the way they did, wasn't far off from hitting me, and dare start trying to flip me off and have a fit because I had the audacity to honk at them for it... I hope the Covid fairy visits them.

Creep even pulled off into a small parking lot and then got behind me. I don't know if they thought they were up to something or trying to prevent me from seeing their plate number what. I did try to catch it, but the ass is lucky I have a bad memory for numbers.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

And the addendum to yesterday, that this same coworker has a bad habit of selling items we're out of, even when we tell her NOT to, because we're OUT! Like we can tell her something is not available, but as soon as a customer asks for it, she puts it on the order anyway. So then we have to tell the customer we don't have it, and take it off the order, and they get mad.

[IndigoErth]

Petty annoyance, but why do people who don't know the answer respond to questions on Amazon products...?

All three answers to a question I just looked at basically said "don't know, have never used it" (about a specific variation of a product) and no other comment. If Amazon is soliciting them for responses, I wish people would realize they don't have to.



7/23 -- Open window to get annoying fly to go outside. Fly refuses. Second fly joins it inside. Always the way.

[The Deadman]

This post office delay ******** needs to end already. Bought something from Discovery during Shark Week and it shipped 2 weeks ago. Hasn't arrived yet.

[AquaParade]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Petty annoyance, but why do people who don't know the answer respond to questions on Amazon products...?

All three answers to a question I just looked at basically said "don't know, have never used it" (about a specific variation of a product) and no other comment. If Amazon is soliciting them for responses, I wish people would realize they don't have to.



7/23 -- Open window to get annoying fly to go outside. Fly refuses. Second fly joins it inside. Always the way.

lol! That's pretty funny, although annoying.

Mine has probably been said here before, but people not using their blinkers always annoys me. It's not hard.

[Leo656]

Some people apparently don't know who Billy Zane is anymore.

What the f*ck.

[Jephael]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Some people apparently don't know who Billy Zane is anymore.

What the f*ck.

I always found it funny that he looked a lot like the actor who played the band leader in That Thing You Do.

[Sage Ninja]

people who can't be bothered to wear headphones or ear buds while on their electronics in cramped enclosed public places. Just...(f)uck you so much...