People who talk too much, to you, or whatever. SAVE ME!!!!!

people who start ten threads a day: C/D?

people who are douches: C/D?

mwah

^^^ why don't you start a poll about it?

(that was originally directed to Mr. Que, but whatever...)

also on my comp the AIM dock icon bounces when you get a msg? mhmm. so everytime she says anything bounce bounce. and yes i tried to turn it off in preferences and it won't work.

Use Adium.

I have a coworker who clearly has no idea how to stfu. When I work a full shift with her it's literally 8 hours of play-by-play on the particulars of her complicated social mileu and it's like dude I seriously seriously do not give a fuck about how your ex's bff is having drama with his own ex that you are now getting sucked into because "these fucking Arabs just pull me into all their bullshit cause they need me I'm like their mama bear and conflict manager" arrrrrrrrrrrrghliiojusdfa jhonasdo fij

this is driving me nuts lately

also chronic interrupters/non-listeners but that's another thread

One of my coworkers does this. I've finally gotten to the point where he doesn't even try to talk to me (never make eye contact, where headphones when in common spaces, etc), but he loudly harangues all of my other coworkers the whole day long and they put up with it. Somehow they are able to tune it out?

Ahh, I'm sort of a non-listener, but it's not for lack of trying. I constantly space out and have to come back to earth and go, "what? sorry, was somewhere else for a minute there." I hate it.

But yeah, non stop talkers, there's always at least one if not four or five of these at work I have to deal with from time to time. The absolute worst are the chatboxes whose names you don't even know but recognize your face from being around the store and just walk up to you and start yacking at length about the stinking banal minutia of whatever happened in their dept that day. Who the fuck are you and why should I care.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ionnic1/run-dmc.jpg

"hi!"

u back?

"wz in the shower, thought you might have rang, anywayz, c u sn, x"

her: hey gotta go, I'll be back in an hour or 30 minutes or somethign
Sent at 10:56 AM on Thursday

her: hey! I'm not back yet - I need to go buy all the newspapers in town because they put the worst pictures of us in them
Sent at 11:28 AM on Thursday

...

"I'm sorry, I can't talk right now"

simple

Surmounter, you could always block her, no?

i could i suppose, i could.

this morning 2 women were playing tennis on the court right next to mine. they seemed very nice, but they were chatting about everything from theater to the salad dressing the blond just found that she like swears by.

sometimes people just need to keep their eye on the ball.

although i did enjoy the salad dressing part, i only wish i overheard which one it was!

Can you tell if you're blocked? Are there feelings to be hurt?

no you can't tell. but sometimes it's tricky if you have like mutual buddies you know? or some people have some other screename they use. aim politics are very intricate.

just block the bitch already.

;-)

<3

people who start ten threads a day: C/D?

-- Mr. Que, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 21:05 (Yesterday) Link

Better half OTM as usual.

block her when you don't want to talk to her, unblock her when you want to talk to her

it's a question so he can't be OTM. :-P

OTM in pointing out OH THE IRONING

2x

i know, it's so ironic that i type a lot, and have friends who talk too much. i almost can't take it. the astuteness of your irony makes a mockery of me in the most OTM way possible :D

stfu surmounter

no, but thanks for the tip. you know what's funny about the internet? i can not stfu, if i don't want to, and you'll have to keep on living with that. EAT ME

its worse when they want to hang out with you ever single day :/

Srsly if you want to shoot yourself in the foot by making an issue out of how irritating and not-very-bright seeming you can be on the internet, be my guest. It doesn't seem like a good self-preservation strategy, though.

Maybe it's a creative way of telling natural selection to get fucked, what do I know.

Laurel, are you talking to me? I'm not sure why you go out of your way to be nasty, especially since I'm always really friendly with you, and I met you in person and thought you seemed like a really nice girl.

If you want to take it there, though, that's fine, I don't have to treat you with respect.

Personally, I don't find myself irritating, and I do think I'm bright. But that's just me.

people who start ten threads a day: C/D?

-- Mr. Que, Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I guess the answer is: Dud???

yeah that's my vote

People who feel compelled to read and comment in each of the ten threads when they find the starting of them so unappealing: C/D?

(roundabout way of sticking up for Surmounter, in case that's not clear)

Here's the thing: I read and post on ILX quite rarely these days precisely because of surmounter and his ilk. So any suggestion that I frequently make a big deal of such a thing is misplaced.

you don't post on ILX because of me and my ilk? what kind of ilk is that?

AIM:blocking::ILX:killfile

luckily i project a semi-hostile aura so no one really interacts with me unless they have to. the people that know me better i never mind talking to, unless i can't in which case i say "sorry, busy" and they understand.

aura? wtf?

Yeah, it's fine, I mean at this rate I'm going to be killfiling him sometime next week anyway. It's more a matter of just putting in my vote for his behavior being ill-conceived and something I would like to see less of in any community I engage with. Not like it's going to change anything.

chicago kevin's gone new age

i refuse to acknowledge that line.

xpost.

What the hell, people. For what it's worth, I have no problem at all with Surmounter. I take threads like this as just kind of blowing off steam. It'd be annoying if it was melodramatic or attention-seeking (like a certain deeznuts), but it's more or less light-hearted, as with most of Sur's posts. I did chuckle at Mr. Que's initial comment, because it's true that Sur is rather chatty himself, but I have to disagree with all of the remarks about him being a "boring douchebag" or his behavior "ill-conceived."

i think he's just a young dude with a positive attitude, which i find kinda refreshing

^^^

for the record I got pulled out the "douche" after sur shot it at my better half. The boring part requires no such justification.

*Surmounter is not a boring douchebag

*Mr. Que may be a boring old douchebag--yet to be determined

*Cheddar is OTM, esp. w.r.t. bacon and pork products

stfu you

i think he's just a young dude with a positive attitude, which i find kinda refreshing

he's not an accredited zoologist, nor does he hold a degree in any of the environmental sciences. He is simply an enthusiastic young man with a sixth grade education and an abiding love for all God's creatures.

you might have heard it, but genuine lols at that

stfu nabisco

NABISCO OTM

as so often he is

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/shoddop.jpg

Whoah is that the John 11:35 of nabisco posts??? He'll be img-bombing with the best of them soon enough.

I like lots of threads because I chose a job that's not stimulating enough to keep me busy all day and I can't just sit here and sleep, unfortunately... but anyway it seems you guys all talk to much, D! ;)

I have a coworker - our office receptionist - who will start talking to you as you walk by and get UBER PISSY if you brush her off, and make sure you know for the rest of the day (in some case, weeks.) The bitch of the matter is that her desk is between everyone else's desk and the washroom/entrance so if you want to leave to catch a bus or rush to pee you damn ewll have to think of a quick snappy closing remark to whatever she says, and RUN to the door otherwise she will continue to talk for (I am not exagerrating) a full 5-10 minutes. Sometimes when I come in in the morning, she traps me there and my boss walks in a few minutes later and it looks like I'm late, but really I'm just a verbal prisoner. Ugh.

Today I got a ten minutes lecture on why tap water is so gross and she will only drink bottled water. We're in fucking TORONTO, not pulling water out of the well in our backyard near the pigpen, yanno? It's fuck 2008 lady, STFU!

/rant!

I wish I had criss-cross hair thatches like Archie does

http://staymybaby.com/osCommerce/catalog/images/baby-halloween-costume-octopus.jpg

stfu ugly baby.

If you cut the head off, do two more grow? It may be that we're seeing the infancy of a great legend, here.

if you cut the head off you get this

http://thedomesticdiva.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/shrimpbaby.jpg

get me a washtub full of melted butter, stat.

it's got nothing to do with the above picture.

I have the opposite work problem, which is that I am non-chatty and have apparently never gotten particularly great at office socialization -- spend a couple years in a job, and this becomes sort of a self-fulfilling thing where you're just not in the chat loop. Apparently there is something that goes on with my face/personality in office and school settings that reads as "aloof" and lets me slip quietly around doing my work without too much engagement.

Apparently there is something that goes on with my face/personality in office and school settings that reads as "aloof" and lets me slip quietly around doing my work without too much engagement.

this is what i meant to say in my original touchy-feely-new-agey post.

This actually worked out for me great in grad school, because when I'd talk to people socially they'd seem really pleased about it, and usually say something along the lines of "I would see you in X class, but you always seemed kind of serious and aloof, like you had something else going on." ("Something else" = "full-time job / extreme lack of sleep")

surmounter is a a++ poster

and so is mr. que for apologizing

i love surmounter!

also here's a hint: when you use Site New Answers, it really does not matter who starts how many threads.

i am worried i am this kind of person

ha, Mandee, me too.

when i get really nervous i just kinda blab at people!

in work/school situations i am chatty to avoid doing work. sorry, guys!

i like people who talk lots!

a. thank you for taking the pressure off of me to conversate
b. you might be more likely to overlook my occasional talk-your-ear-off moments

woah i really don't get how people can hate on surmounter, except laurel, bitch has sand in her vadge about everything.

valuable not-annoying quincie threads of ye olden golden past fwiw:

I Love Everything Marriage -- C/D?
I Love Everything Who here has his/her very own secretary/administrative assistant?
I Love Everything Bridal Showers - dud dud dud dud dud
I Love Everything Cicadas 2004
I Love Everything Two Weeks of Complete and Utter Bedrest
I Love Everything Podiatrists
I Love Everything RFI--Cream Tea

Who here has his/her very own secretary/administrative assistant?

hey dude why don't you fuck off

person i met last night who i thought would never ever be the sort of person who talks too much: bar doorman.

Mr. Que do you have your very own secretary/administrative assistant?

guess what everybody

no really, guess

come on GUESS

LET HER RIP

I sort of miss the days when I thought strgn was Jess.

Do you have to fart, Tombot?

no

http://kinderfresser.org/download/fun/pics/forum/thread-lock.jpg

I have to tell you guys something

SHUT THE FUCK UP

maybe we can all agree that we've had a shitty week! i know i have! must be something in the stars