So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Zombie_61]

How 'bout those shoppers who leave their shopping carts in the middle of parking spaces?

I have actually seen people walk farther to put their empty cart in the wrong place than they would have walked to return it to the proper place. You just can't fix stupid.

 

[Joe50's]

How 'bout those shoppers who leave their shopping carts in the middle of parking spaces?

it buggs me when people live fast food and dirty diapers in buggys.
i went shopping once with someone who had siatica and it flared up badly and they could barely walk and so i parked the buggy in spot next to the car since they needed to get home asap and helped them to the car and someone flagged me down and gave me a piece of their mind. I ignored him and he went away the moment i was done helping my friend get their things in the trunk and turned around the person flipped me off and told me to show people some decency. deep down i wanted to say same to you too sir because cussing someone out in public isnt very nice either considering you dont know what they could be going through. needless to say i now make sure to put the buggys in the stalls.

 

[Trenchfriend]

No "Right has right-of-way", there??

One of the most curious german roundabouts, with industrial-railcrossing:

 

[Fading Fast]

When you put your account number / ID number / or whatever info the company wants into the phone for the voice operator to "identify you so that we can best direct your call" (even though you'll actually direct your own call by listening to a long series of menus and picking a series of options) and, then, when you finally get to a person, they have to take the information again.

Really, your automated system can torture me for ten minutes, take everything down (and call it back to me in a awkward computer generated voice), decision tree me up the wazoo (a term that is disappearing - I'll post over on that thread), but then your representative can't tell who I am?

 

[Trenchfriend]

Hey, boys from marketing:
What's going on, with all these offered new mens-Cardigans for autumn or wintertime, which I can see in clothing-store?? I still got enough nice turtleneck-pullovers and all is fine for the next time, so why should I buy Cardigans, now in 2016?

What will come next, marketing-boys? Twinsets for men, or what?

 

[Trenchfriend]

Ok ok, I know, that you 50+ best ager-girls are all so nice and attractive and today, many 20+ would be happy to look like you, but must it absolutely be an extra-slim fitted white summer-jeans?
Do you want me to stumble over the curbside, or what?? Woohoo!

Thank god, I worn my sunglasses...

 

[swanson_eyes]

Ok ok, I know, that you 50+ best ager-girls are all so nice and attractive and today, many 20+ would be happy to look like you, but must it absolutely be an extra-slim fitted white summer-jeans?
Do you want me to stumble over the curbside, or what?? Woohoo!

Sorry. lol

 

[Fading Fast]

Hey, boys from marketing:
What's going on, with all these offered new mens-Cardigans for autumn or wintertime, which I can see in clothing-store?? I still got enough nice turtleneck-pullovers and all is fine for the next time, so why should I buy Cardigans, now in 2016?

What will come next, marketing-boys? Twinsets for men, or what?

And I'm still adjusting to the fact that white jeans have made a comeback. I thought the '70s had put a nail in that coffin.

 

[Trenchfriend]

And I'm still adjusting to the fact that white jeans have made a comeback. I thought the '70s had put a nail in that coffin.

In old Germany, the white summer-jeans was always there, as far as I know.

BUT, the blue denim-jacket got a great obvious comeback in the first half of 2016!

70's, long before my time??

 

[Fading Fast]

In old Germany, the white summer-jeans was always there, as far as I know.

BUT, the blue denim-jacket got a great obvious comeback in the first half of 2016!

Over here in the US, the classic blue denim jacket never went away - it's a style icon that transcends the vagaries of fashion and is always in - but white jeans went out of fashion until recently.

Away from everything else, white jeans seem to hard to keep clean.

 

[swanson_eyes]

If I wore white pants of any kind I'd immediately spill coffee on them. I do have sand-colored pants and somehow I've managed to keep them pretty clean. But if they were white, game over.

 

[LizzieMaine]

White denim to me says only thing: Department Of Street Cleaning.

 

[Fading Fast]

If I wore white pants of any kind I'd immediately spill coffee on them. I do have sand-colored pants and somehow I've managed to keep them pretty clean. But if they were white, game over.

I understand as I wear off-white / tan / sand / stone colored chinos all the time and have no problems, but put something pure white on me and they get dirty before I leave the apartment.

 

[Trenchfriend]

White denim to me says only thing: Department Of Street Cleaning.

Aah, great!!
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...f19d0650b907f398d6cbdfae503102f2o0&ajaxhist=0

 

[Trenchfriend]

If I wore white pants of any kind I'd immediately spill coffee on them. I do have sand-colored pants and somehow I've managed to keep them pretty clean. But if they were white, game over.

I don't know really why, but in summertime, german girls seem to know only three sorts of pants: Rosé, mint-green and crystal-white.

 

[skydog757]

I heard a news report on a hot air balloon crash stating that there was a "significant loss of life"; is there such a thing as an insignificant loss of life?

 

[GHT]

I heard a news report on a hot air balloon crash stating that there was a "significant loss of life"; is there such a thing as an insignificant loss of life?

Is there such a thing as a news report that is not over dramatised? Journalists are supposed to have a good command of language, but in the case of English it would seem that, ambiguity rules.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Too many newswriters at this point in time have absorbed cop-speak.

 

[Fading Fast]

What scares me are the inaccuracies I regularly find in news articles in my area of expertise. It makes me think, if they are making this many outright mistakes, along with a lot of "not really right" and "gives it the wrong angle" errors in a field I know, how many errors, etc. are there in articles on things I don't know about?

As we've said before, you have to check and cross check the news and try, as best you can, to verify things and to be skeptical of things you haven't. It's all very exhausting. Headline errors are just where the problems start.

 

[LizzieMaine]

What worries me even more is that increasingly what you get, especially in small market papers, are thinly-rewritten press releases. The usual work flow is that some source in a story hands out a release, the reporter calls for "further comment" and is handed over to a Public Relations Specialist who gives them a slightly rearranged comment that says nothing beyond what was in the original release. The reporter then calls another source with a different point of view, which gives a similarly pre-digested comment, and that's the story that gets published. On to the next one. The laziest possible assumption for a reporter is always that (1) There are "two valid points of view" on every story and (2) spokespeople for both sides can be trusted to give out honest information on every story.

Give me a reporter any day who makes a few mistakes here and there over one who doesn't even try to probe beyond what's handed out by the flacks.