The Vent and Rant Thread

[Wetdogeared]

Fer farks sake.

How many models of GPS do they make?

I guess one for every combination of every option:

• Display size
• Battery life
• Includes maps other than your own continent.
• QWERTY or ABC keyboard.
• Waypoints
• Tracking
• Routes
• Accepts data cards
• Voice recognition
• 3D building view
• Multi-destination routing
• Waterproof
• Bluetooth (for handsfree mobile phone)
• MP3 player
• FM transmitter
• FM traffic compatible
• MSN Direct compatible
• Audio books
• Lane assist
• Eco route

And these were last years options. Newer models have even more options.

Plus the retailers usually stock models that their competitors don't so that we can't price compare or use their price match guarantee.

Using a bit of statistics, that's 20X19X18X17X16....larger than my calculator will go.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

Fer farks sake.
....

Plus the retailers usually stock models that their competitors don't so that we can't price compare or use their price match guarantee.

....:

Yep, that's SOP these days and it drives me crazy -- minor differences but it has a different model number so you can't compare easily!!!


Grrrrrr~!~~~

[kindlekitten]

[QUOTEHigh heels are supposed to make our derrieres look better and, as you probably already know, how our derrieres look is pretty important to women. [/QUOTE]

Originally Posted by pholy

And to men, too!

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

men and fashion commentary . putting women through hell since the first needle was sharpened

[vivaldirules]

Hey, I think high heels are silly and/or cruel. But I do rather enjoy the sight of a nice derriere. What do you want me to do about it?

[kindlekitten]

wear some?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

wear some?

[wodin]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

wear some?

I did that back in the seventies. Kept hitting my head on door lintels.

[Wetdogeared]

Originally Posted by wodin

I did that back in the seventies. Kept hitting my head on door lintels.

Duck. [hits the floor]

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by wodin

I did that back in the seventies. Kept hitting my head on door lintels.

I won't go there... I won't I won't I won't!

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

Duck. [hits the floor]

(takes off high heels and gets down on knees)


THWACKKKK!!!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

I won't go there... I won't I won't I won't!

come on! Go! Go!!

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Hey, I think high heels are silly and/or cruel. But I do rather enjoy the sight of a nice derriere. What do you want me to do about it?

stop looking ?

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

stop looking ?

Pfffttt!!! Look, I truly believe in brahmacharya but I'm about ten thousand years from achieving it. Until then, I look.

[GeoffC]

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

...
But we don't win many medals and are consequently bitter about our lack of success; one of our commentators dismissed the Winter Olympics as a festival of sliding .

Like most sports commentary is a Festival of Inane Chatter?

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i never heard of hurling until now, so i looked on the wikipedia page. it looks not only insane but frankly terrifying.
...

Absolutely magnificently insane, yes? Try finding an exerpt from a game - it's like insanity multiplied by crazy multipled by infinity multiplied by sport.

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

now curling and Oz just are not two things one would normally put together

To be a bit more transparent, I'll mention that him and I think the rest of the team were ex-Canadian (and perhaps a token Kiwi).

Originally Posted by kazbates

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High heels are supposed to make our derrieres look better and, as you probably already know, how our derrieres look is pretty important to women.

To me, high heels make women look disfigured and bizarrely self-handicapped, and I've no notice of their backsides, but I doubt most women give a fig what I think (and rightly so too).

Personally, I'm a barefoot guy, attracted to barefoot people.

A minor... vent. Staff who work at Big W self-service should probably restrain themselves from rolling their eyes at me when their self-service machinery farks up. Both myself and The Loved One are somewhat familiar with both UI and systems development and support, what with about 40 years between us, and when we say that the system farked up (three times, in two different areas of self-checkout), it probably does not do the service staff or customer relations anything constructive to respond with "You must have done something wrong", and then to roll your eyes at my explicit-but-calm contrary advice. That is why I turn to you, look you in the eyes, and state very clearly, without rancour or emotive emphasis, "Do not roll your eyes at me". That's right. That's what I thought. My "unless you wish this to escalate" is implicit. Now fix it, and while you're at it, fix your miserable, arrogant, halfwit, feeble-minded attitude of "the customer is always wrong" and consider whether the words "customer" and "service" are keywords that you should perhaps place in the "Exclude" section when looking for a job.

Cheers,
Marc