people who stand in front of the buttons in the lift, when there's nobody in it.
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 April 2015 11:04 (nine years ago) link
aps as a person with horrible feet I am full of empathy and identification with your post.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Thursday, 30 April 2015 12:25 (nine years ago) link
is this some sort of Schrodinger's Elevator?
― pplains, Thursday, 30 April 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
a pressing question.
― estela, Thursday, 30 April 2015 13:35 (nine years ago) link
Just trying to get a rise out of garda.
― pplains, Thursday, 30 April 2015 13:36 (nine years ago) link
My favourite sign of all time was the one in an airport departure lounge.
On the wall: "No Smoking".
Then the same message, below. In braille.
So, blind people have to feel the entire wall(s) before they can know that they are allowed to smoke or not?
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 April 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
blind smokers have it twice as bad
― ultimate american sock (mh), Thursday, 30 April 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
nobody as colloquialism for v few people :)
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link
blind smokers always claiming they didn't see the sign. get out of this one chumps.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
SMOKING IS NOT ALLOWED ANYWHERE WITHIN MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. AND DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT PARKING IN THE WHITE ZONE, BLIND PEOPLE.
― pplains, Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Is there a reason that I can't rewind through an MP4 file without losing the sound. I've just had the same thing happen on a 2nd episode of the same show, I went off to do something else while the show was running so tried to rewind by about 10 minutes only to find that it was now playing silently. That is after having heard the dialogue in what I'd assume was the right place when it was first playing.Wound up having to rerun the first show from the beginning after trying to restart it and fast forward only to find out that sound was seriously out of sync.Anyway finding this weird and not fully understanding the technology. Rewinding seems to be working ok on other file formats.
Oh yeah probably crucial point is that this is trying to show files held on a memory stick through my tv. Has tended to work ok for months though there have been some instances of things being out of sync where I'm not sure if it is down to faulty file or faulty set up. Also not sure if how full the memory stick has any bearing on this.
Major drag since I'm now going to have to work out how to watch this show which I was about half way through without just having to watch it or at least play it in real time from the start.Is it an MP4 issue that crops up elsewhere?
― Stevolende, Saturday, 2 May 2015 11:22 (nine years ago) link
jfc i hate hate hate people who are posting that "May the 4th be with you shit". I suppose it's a nice vacation from the other insidious memes they usually share but come the fuck on
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 4 May 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b3/74/98/b3749884390859774810072ec3e2b861.jpg
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 4 May 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
That's more like it.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Monday, 4 May 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
Today would've been my grandmother's 96th birthday.
How I envied her today.
― pplains, Monday, 4 May 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
IA, being on hold version:
Music is fine but for god's sake, don't have some half-tuned radio station blaring static into my ear while I'm holding. Also it's too loud. It's pretty much always too loud.A recorded message is fine, too, but maybe have a recorded message that is longer than 15 seconds if you're planning to repeat it on a loop because holy shit I've been on hold for 16:37 minutes (thanks, phone with a timer on it! Also holy shit I've been on hold a long time) hearing the same 15 second loop of advertising for the business that I am already trying to reach and I'm about to run and jump in the river. Don't tell me that if I don't want to hold, I can go to the internet. I KNOW I CAN GO TO THE INTERNET. I'm calling because I can't/don't want to go on the god damn internet.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
Don't tell me that if I don't want to hold, I can go to the internet. I KNOW I CAN GO TO THE INTERNET. I'm calling because I can't/don't want to go on the god damn internet.
YES THIS
― kinder, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
i have taken to shouting "i want to talk with a human" whenever it asks for any verbal information at allsometimes it will take you directly to an agent! i have no patience for phone call sorting systems.
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
yeah! I do that, too
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
they can tell when you're about to break
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
I do that, too!
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
I also do the "I would like to speak with a human" thing (and I think once I just said "HUMAN").
What really makes me ia is the faux-conversational tone of the recorded responses in those call sorting dealies. "OK! Let me get you that information! Ah, here we are!"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
"thank you for calling-" "AGENT""please dial one-" "AGENT AGENT AGENT AGENT"
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
My advice is don't speak to those things. Hit 0 0 0 0 0 - and if that doesn't work then be silent until they send you to a customer service rep.
― Vic Perry, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
yelling at machines is fun and it means that when i get to talk with a human, i am ready to be nice
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
i guess the thing that genuinely makes me ia is when the human behaves like a machine and keeps using my first name too much
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, a lot of times if you don't push any buttons or do anything at all there'll be a long pause, like they're trying to wait you out, and then finally they'll say "Please stay on the line while we connect you with an agent" or whatever.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
I love getting mail to myself "Or Current Resident". Makes me feel special.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
That little convention is the source of the name of the band The Residents, so they say
re: humans: I start laughing when somebody thanks me after every single sentence I say. This is kind of a call center in India thing mostly.
Also, have you ever had a call where they wouldn't do what you want (adjust a charge, issue a refund, whatever) and so at the end you said, no, I'm not satisfied, but the operator has no other scripted way to end a call, except to ask you one more time if you are "satisfied with our customer service" and they don't know what to say next? It's as if the social contract has suddenly been torched and there's nowhere to go.
― Vic Perry, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
Duel
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Customer Satisfaction Surveys At Dawn
― Vic Perry, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
I could watch:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger re-enacting a bunch of his movies- Jimmy Kimmel and Jack Black re-enacting that shitty rock ballad video from the 90s- Kristen Schaal and Mikal Cronin re-enacting "Torn" video from the 90s- U2 "busking in a NYC subway"
Eff all of these.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Some companies' automated phone systems don't put up with shit like this - you either answer their questions the way want (and very possibly still never get to talk to a human) or else you get "I'm sorry you're experiencing difficulties. Please try your call again later," and then they hang up. The US Postal Service is the worst for this, but UPS, too, and some government agencies.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Gethuman.com
― Jeff, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
when jimmyjohns.com asks for your email address and starts giving you the OMG INVALID EMAIL ADDRESS red letter warning message after you enter one keystroke (cos there hasn't been an "@" sign added yet).
I KNOW LET ME FINISH IT JEEZUS
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
when you go to click in a search bar or w/e on a webpage and then right as you do that it all shifts down slightly & you end up clicking on a banner or a help link
hate hate deathray hate
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
if I search google for something on ilx, i.e. "site:ilxor.com/ILX something", it ruins my browser's autocomplete for "site new answers," but I can't retrain myself so easily
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 9 May 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
people from the southwest u.s. using "proper" to describe dance music they like.
― Mademoiselle Coiffures (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
is that where MC Hammer lives now?
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
fucking people on ILX who use "autistic" as a pejorative term. Serves me right for reading a Star Wars thread tbf.
― xelab, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Websites that only give you the parameters for creating a password after you've already input a password that doesn't pass muster. This happens ALL THE TIME anymore. I smash you all.
― Doggy McBaby (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
xp hey, don't blame us SW fans for Shakey
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
british people that use "proper" to describe dance music they like are annoying, too
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 12 May 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
there are about fifty things british people when describing dance (or other) music that makes me cringe
referring to artists as "the mighty <x>" is cringeworthy for me
― ultimate american sock (mh), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
the correct (American) way is to say "the mighty mighty..."
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
bosstones?
― Mademoiselle Coiffures (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
that's the impression that i get
― ☂ (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
no excuse for "proper" ever
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
I only believe music should be described in the hardwax store style
― ultimate american sock (mh), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
https://ofmustandmash.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/staustell-proper-job3.jpg
― kinder, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link