Society & Culture Things That Shit Me (Part 6)

[Caesar]

So Caesar, how did the flight go with the babby nearby?

Yearning for one of your own now?

I was very grateful for my noise-cancelling headphones.

 

[Ochre]

The one thing i can't tolerate from Damon is his use of symbols and faces in the title line, like he's giving us a foreshadowing of the nature of his upcoming posts. Goodeee!!!!!!!!!!!

If you have to put a face before a post to tell us its going to be funny, then it probably isn't going to be funny. The same with the stupid 'post' picture. What does that even mean? That your upcoming post is going to be a post? Thanks a million for that Damo, i would have been very confused if not for that!

Please fix it Damon, it really does shit me. I know its petty but goddamn!

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[Quadzilla]

Insurance companies that allowed me to add a spouse's car to my policy without speaking to her (and have us both as drivers to each of our cars) but then I want to cancel my contents insurance on same policy and need speak to spouse at same time to cancel!!!!!

... both of us in different states due to work?????

 

[quin_stick]

When it starts to rain when your out in the open, people who continue to stand in the rain when you can easily get under a shelter. a) you dont look tough and b) you're getting wet, therefore you'll probably end up smelling bad and looking stupid

 

[Catfish Alley]

When it starts to rain when your out in the open, people who continue to stand in the rain when you can easily get under a shelter. a) you dont look tough and b) you're getting wet, therefore you'll probably end up smelling bad and looking stupid

Sometimes it's nice to stand in rain. Probably especially in Perth because you don't get much of it. I don't get people who freak out when a few drops come down. Also, why does the rain smell bad in Perth?

 

[Power King]

Gotta laugh at the blokes that cop the rain because of the belief that umbrellas are for females.

It ain't sexy playa.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Gotta laugh at the blokes that cop the rain because of the belief that umbrellas are for females.

It ain't sexy playa.

Don't think anyone believes it's being sexy. Some people just don't care about a few drops of rain. I'll only pull out my umbrella if it's becomming heavy. They are a pain. Wind turns them inside out, you have to leave them out to dry and people seem to try to gouge your eyes out with them.

 

[mdc]

Sometimes it's nice to stand in rain. Probably especially in Perth because you don't get much of it. I don't get people who freak out when a few drops come down. Also, why does the rain smell bad in Perth?

Rain doesn't, certain fabrics do when wet.

That said, I quite like a stroll in the rain too, so long as I'm not on my way anywhere important.

Has probably been covered, but people who won't try new foods/drinks really shit me. What is the worst that can happen?

 

[The Passenger]

umbrella's shit me no end.

 

[Team Mo']

Saw a lady jogging laps whilst holding an umbrella above her head. Ridiculous IMO...

 

[charcoalchicken]

Saw a lady jogging laps whilst holding an umbrella above her head. Ridiculous IMO...

haha that would have been funny to see

 

[MarcMaverick]

Saw a lady jogging laps whilst holding an umbrella above her head. Ridiculous IMO...

HAHAHa Was her name Mary Poppins?

 

[GiantForce]

Juila Gillard not giving us a bloody public holiday.....does she want support or not? Giving us a public holiday would see her support go up a little......it'd stop falling atleast!

 

[The_Todd07]

The second there is even a few light drops of rain, everyone in Europe will produce an umbrella from nowhere.
The most amusing part was the "looky-looky" men that magically traded their usual handbags and sunnies for umbrellas as soon as the first drop falls

 

[Damon_3388]

Scenario: You're a single bloke who is out with friends. By around 1am, you've settled at a venue and you're keen to just spend a good hour or so on the dancefloor, enjoying the music and possibly catching the eye of an attractive female (from your observations, there's a fair few at this venue at this time of night as well). Your friends are going back and forth between getting drinks, sitting down, talking to other people they know, taking a piss, going out for a smoke, and just generally wandering around, but you're happy to just stay on the dancefloor for a bit. You're having a good time overall, and you want to dance near people (to get a bit of a look at the females, as well as not standout like a sore thumb as a loner in open space), but a few things about the crowded dancefloor shit you:

• People's seeming inability to give you even an inch of personal space/room to dance.
• Along similar lines to the above point, particular groups of people and/or couples that you seemingly can't escape from, making you feel like some awkward loner who is trying to "get in with their group", when you're actually trying to move away and give yourself some room to dance, as well as giving them enough personal space too.
• People who are dancing near you and constantly solidly bump into you, but somehow don't feel that they're doing it. I'm someone who apologises or nods after giving someone the slightest nudge, so to get repeated solid elbows/bumps from people with no acknowledgement or recognition that they're doing it is quite annoying.
• People who wave their drinks around excessively, and show total indifference once they spill a significant amount of their drink on you/near you. Dance and have a good time by all means, but have some control over the beverage you've got in your hand. I mean, don't you want to actually drink some of it, instead of having half of it end up on the floor or on someone else? It's always someone with an open glass (as opposed to a bottle or can), and it's always full too.
• People who just aimless wander through the middle of the dancefloor, with no intention of actually stopping and dancing or catching up with friends they'd left earlier, causing you to constantly have to move out of their way (and invariably into someone else's way/space).

A few of these problems (particularly the bumping, the waving of drinks and the people walking through) still exist when you're out there dancing with your group of mates too. Are these problems only "things that shit me" because I'm always 100% sober while dancing, or are these things that people who drink/use drugs get annoyed at too?

 

[Shell]

Two things.. well really three that happened over the weekend:

- doing my grocery shopping while I observe this little shit (ie. an 8 yo boy), knock over half the chips a hoy display. (well when I say half, I mean about 5 packets). Cue father just lazily glance back and keep on walking- while saying nor doing anything.

- after the Geelong match- we go to our usual haunt Nixon to have a few drinks only to find it shut. Yet the hours on the door say 12pm- late?!?!?!?!?!

- so we go to some snob place next door, and the w***ers they have for security tell me to remove my cap- yet we're not even going inside, we're in the outdoors area out the front. Are you ****ing kidding me, it shits me so much when someone tells me to take my hat off. Why is it such a big deal anyway??? You can still see someones eyes/face if they have a cap on.

Hmmmmmm wonder if someone else from a particular culture, weaing a particular item of clothing would have been told to take it off, had they been attending that bar.

/end rant

 

[Simple Jack]

Yet the hours on the door say 12pm- late?!?!?!?!?!

This shits me so much.

What the **** is late? I have no idea what the owner/managers opinion on 'late' is, how should I.

What if I show up at 2am (technically 'early' I know), Am I going to rock up only to have had them leave at 11.

What if I show up at 10, not very late at all to me and the place closed at 9.

HOW HARD IS IT TO PUT A CLOSING TIME ON THE DOOR?

 

[Shell]

This shits me so much.

What the **** is late? I have no idea what the owner/managers opinion on 'late' is, how should I.

What if I show up at 2am (technically 'early' I know), Am I going to rock up only to have had them leave at 11.

What if I show up at 10, not very late at all to me and the place closed at 9.

HOW HARD IS IT TO PUT A CLOSING TIME ON THE DOOR?

Hahahaha, Ive always believed late to be at least 1am, even later than that.

Hey at least the place should be open if you rock up at 10pm- we were there at 3.45pm and it was shut?!?!?! And on a football match day. They would have lost alot of business doing that surely.

 

[fairlight_cmi]

Fuarking hate opening up a few tabs on Firefox, then hearing some sort of ad start playing that you have NOT TOLD TO START PLAYING. Surely this is some sort of invasion of privacy. Seriously **** off. Rushing through the list of tabs to find the culprit and switch it off INFURIATES ME. If the w***er who implemented this idea was in the same room I'd likely be in a cell tonight.

Example:

 

[The Passenger]

The second there is even a few light drops of rain, everyone in Europe will produce an umbrella from nowhere.
The most amusing part was the "looky-looky" men that magically traded their usual handbags and sunnies for umbrellas as soon as the first drop falls

****en oath. i noticed this very quickly when i moved to dublin.

for people who live in an extremely wet climate they sure seem to panic when it starts raining.

• People who wave their drinks around excessively, and show total indifference once they spill a significant amount of their drink on you/near you. Dance and have a good time by all means, but have some control over the beverage you've got in your hand. I mean, don't you want to actually drink some of it, instead of having half of it end up on the floor or on someone else? It's always someone with an open glass (as opposed to a bottle or can), and it's always full too.

agree with the rest of your post but it's something you don't normally noticed when your blind.

as for the above point, spilling drinks has probably saved me from even worse hangovers over the years

- after the Geelong match- we go to our usual haunt Nixon to have a few drinks only to find it shut. Yet the hours on the door say 12pm- late?!?!?!?!?!

- so we go to some snob place next door, and the w***ers they have for security tell me to remove my cap- yet we're not even going inside, we're in the outdoors area out the front. Are you ****ing kidding me, it shits me so much when someone tells me to take my hat off. Why is it such a big deal anyway??? You can still see someones eyes/face if they have a cap on.

too funny. me and a mate were going to go to the nixon after that game yesterday but saw it was closed so went next door to platform 28. i assume that's where you went as it had an outdoor area.

was a bit of a pouncy bar, but i've been to worse. as i was walking i had a feeling the security guards could be w***ers and not let me in cause i was in my black pants after working at the game and was carrying a bag rolleyes but they didn't say anything.

 

[Shell]

too funny. me and a mate were going to go to the nixon after that game yesterday but saw it was closed so went next door to platform 28. i assume that's where you went as it had an outdoor area.

was a bit of a pouncy bar, but i've been to worse. as i was walking i had a feeling the security guards could be w***ers and not let me in cause i was in my black pants after working at the game and was carrying a bag rolleyes but they didn't say anything.

Yup, that was the place.

Never going back there again.

Hahaha, I was the blonde Geelong supporter sitting near the main door outside, with the bad "hat hair".

 

[Hard Ball Get]

I always thought 'Late' meant; If we are doing good business we will keep the doors open for a few hours after midnight. If we are doing shit then we're shutting up shop.

 

[Damon_3388]

I always thought 'Late' meant; If we are doing good business we will keep the doors open for a few hours after midnight. If we are doing shit then we're shutting up shop.

Or as was the case at a packed bar I was at here in Adelaide on a warm Friday night back in December, "late" meant "the sound system is f**ked, and after struggling with it for an hour we can't get it to work again, so even though the bar is full of punters who are happy to stay, socialise and drink without music, we're shutting two hours early and kicking you all out in the street". Or in the drunken female owner's actual, more concise words, "f**k off the lot of you, we're closing!"

 

[SugarShane]

All these overnight cycling fans coming out now that Eyebrows McGee won that French bike race. Just as bad as all the Soccer fans that show up every four years and then forget about it for the next 3 and a half.

 

[Catfish Alley]

All these overnight cycling fans coming out now that Eyebrows McGee won that French bike race. Just as bad as all the Soccer fans that show up every four years and then forget about it for the next 3 and a half.

It's the same with tennis Grand Slams and Olympics. Doesn't really matter though. Worth celebrating achievement even if you don't follow a sport 24/7.