[Rules p.1] Things that annoy you guys. 100 percent. Not gonna lie

Green Gecko wrote:Speaking to someone like that isn't going to fix anything.

I love this, though. I was stood outside Newcastle station at about 11pm on a Saturday recently and this guy was screaming down the phone come pick me up, you banana split, why won't you pick me up, you'll just leave me to sleep on the street, get in the car and come get me, you strawberry floating twats, you're all bastards, etc etc. Like, if you spoke to me like that you'd never be setting foot in my house again never mind getting a lift. I very much enjoyed the whole thing, and he hadn't convinced whoever he was speaking to (I think from various clues a parent or close relative) by the time I got picked up.

Green Gecko wrote:Legit actually screaming into the phone.

They were probably screaming at a recorded message after being put on hold for an hour.

By that point, most people feel like having a meltdown.

Won't @ you cos wall of text but yeah it can be super funny too. I guess I'm blessed with the choice of how I perceive such things.

I feel you, while it's a tiny bit alarming I can see the funny side of it too. Just knowing that whatever this person wants they are almost certainly not going to get it, and just watching the whole train wreck unfold. It's a good way to safely learn how NOT to do things too. There are moments where I'm less sensitive where I can quietly hear something (as listening is not a choice for me, my brain automatically does it - which is both illuminating and sometimes distressing as I learn about so many random problems people have) and pleasantly play editor/arbitrator/political analyst on the whole exchange. Honestly, that's probably how I learnt to do a lot of gooseberry fool because I barely spoke when I was younger but I heard strawberry floating everything. Quiet kid in the house with loads of arguments etc.

The biggest irony for me is just knowing that person would probably get a lot closer to whatever the real problem is or the result they want if they start listening instead. Which I fully understand is beyond some people, it's kind of like, "If you just knew this one neat trick..." Like, seriously, let someone get a word in and amazing things can happen.

It's spectacular when instead you have someone just screaming expletives and yet pretty funny, maybe just knowing how hopeless it all is. It's a healthy response to laugh I think.

It also provides respite in those moments knowing that some people can't handle their own gooseberry fool at all and totally fly off the handle like that. Like, quiet and calm people get grief for being passive, lacking confidence, being a doormat or whatever and then where are they when you need them . It's sometimes the case that someone who's quiet/calm 99% of the time is just holding it all in and it's interesting - for me - to imagine if this person is normally like that or they've finally lost it. That's when it has maximum comedic effect.

Maybe there's an element of, "this guy is just saying everything I've wanted to say but won't". Because nobody is an emotionless husk, they feel all this pain and anxiety and anger etc. but interact with it and express it differently.

I don't think anyone in their life can genuinely claim they've never got upset about something, only the behaviour changes. Like people can be cruel, wicked, mean and straight up abusive or manipulative etc saying almost nothing, that is genuinely possible (neglect, stonewalling, ostracising etc.), but experiencing "extreme" conversations to varying degrees can feel a bit less isolating i.e. we all have our crap to deal with and I'm relatively happy knowing I'm in a calm place and I don't have to deal with whatever massive crisis that guy is probably perceiving and/or experiencing.

Being left somewhere without a lift, that happened to me when I was around 17, but I don't recall saying anything besides being a bit cheesed off the guy nicked my jacket as well. Of the literally 2 or 3 people I've interacted with IRL regularly and whom seem to have had some kind of issue with me, it was one of those guys. Neither I nor anyone else could really explain it (this was back at college when I actually had a good amount of friends). The same guy once took my guitar off a friend and threw it down a hill for no obvious reason... I had to understand he was a jerk and frankly hardly anyone liked him anyway.
Anyway, we were expecting a lift when he drove off himself and just one other person in a 5 seater car headed back to my hometown at about 1am. Leaving me wandering around with two mates who were on acid and constantly trying to do stupid gooseberry fool. I had to baby them all night, so I ended up walking into college the next day (same city), art class, completely zoned out of my mind having had no sleep. My mate went to the library and apparently the letters started crawling around in his books, the other guy went straight to work on a cashier and was just tripping out all day. Bit of a dick move just zooming off like that leaving 3 of your "mates" (obviously this guy wasn't really someone you could call a friend at all, he was a knob) incapacitated. Good thing I was sober, just strawberry floating knackered.

On the one hand I got dumped in Brighton by some spiteful dick who just refused to give us a lift for no real reason, but that left me to take care of two people who were maybe better off keeping an eye on and I have the story to tell. They had some interesting hallucinations to explain.

Due to various mobility/travel issues I've been left in some very tight spots in my life and eventually find my way home like a lost cat, even if it takes entire days. Normally I'm so spaced out/knackered from whatever I was doing that day (gig, venue, party or whatever) I'm borderline serene being resigned to the fact I'm just not going to get home soon, so may as well stop moaning and get on with it. So if someone refuses to give me a lift, worse things can happen, I'll wait for a train all night if that's what it takes. The world keeps on turning. Like you're a bit strawberry floated if you literally have no money, no signal, no battery (been there, I ended up doing something so crazy to get home I could easily have been killed) but you have options.

If however people get principled/demanding about it, I can imagine the very quick escalation as someone fixates on whatever solution they want and the person on the other end of the bargain is exercising whatever power they have to say "no", for whatever reason. It's often stuff like that that gets someone absolutely nuclear, as they cannot see outside of this very black and white situation.

Do I want to listen to all of that and hypothetically solve their problems in the background of my mind while I'm trying to do some other gooseberry fool though? Probably not. Not their fault though. It's always potentially great material for a story or song or whatever. strawberry float I've just written however many words about it.

buying music

yes i know i am in the minority here, but Spotify are a bunch of banana splits, and i dislike streaming in general, so want to buy a recently released commercial album.
it is basically impossible - Amazon UK has it coming out on CD April 26th, more than a month after the streaming release.
my only option is to illegally download it or just wait
bizarre

Illegally download it and buy it. Your conscious is clear and you can listen to it while you wait for the CD.

Bonfire season started early. Literally just a bit of sun yesterday and someone decided to stink the close out with bonfire smoke.

Not only do these pop up more frequently than ever, they can take multiple attempts to complete. In this example it says 'select the bicycle', but I never know whether to select just the bike or include the individual on the bike. Often the item you're supposed to select is in-between multiple squares! 'Well 15% of that wheel arch is in that square...but it's obscured by a car and...argh!!!!'

Those things are another reason why the internet is a nightmare to navigate nowadays

Select the bicycles
*selects square showing human head*


I always knew KK was a bot!

The worst ones are where it's like select the crosswalks or stop signs or something and there's some pictures where you can just about see a sign or a marking and can't work out if it is one or not.

Tomous wrote:Illegally download it and buy it. Your conscious is clear and you can listen to it while you wait for the CD.

yes i probably will
btw was that typo conscious :p

Qikz wrote:crosswalks

<]:^D wrote:

Tomous wrote:Illegally download it and buy it. Your conscious is clear and you can listen to it while you wait for the CD.

yes i probably will
btw was that typo conscious :p

FFS

I meant couscous

<]:^D wrote:

Tomous wrote:Illegally download it and buy it. Your conscious is clear and you can listen to it while you wait for the CD.

yes i probably will
btw was that typo conscious :p

Spot the teacher!

Moggy wrote:

Qikz wrote:crosswalks

Yikes!

Victor Mildew wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Qikz wrote:crosswalks

Yikes!

The pictures are usually of places in America to be fair!

Zilnad wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Qikz wrote:crosswalks

Yikes!

The pictures are usually of places in America to be fair!

Hard yikes!

Zilnad wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Qikz wrote:crosswalks

Yikes!

The pictures are usually of places in America to be fair!

<]:^D wrote:buying music

yes i know i am in the minority here, but Spotify are a bunch of banana splits, and i dislike streaming in general, so want to buy a recently released commercial album.
it is basically impossible - Amazon UK has it coming out on CD April 26th, more than a month after the streaming release.
my only option is to illegally download it or just wait
bizarre

Worse is when there's no CD version at all (or only a ridiculously priced one with a load of unwanted tat) yet of course you can have it on strawberry floating vinyl for £25+ (yes please, I'll pay over the odds for an INFERIOR VERSION ).

If I absolutely must buy music digitaly I use either bandcamp or 7music as unlike Amazon they actually use FLAC (or ALAC for Apple wankers) instead of mp3.

bandcamp's great
although it got bought by some wankers so we'll see how that develops...