So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[LizzieMaine]

Only bullion I got --

 

[Zombie_61]

Yeah, those Nazis were full of bull...ion.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Don’t get me started. I’m out of the country for six months, and we are still getting bills for accounts that we cancelled six months ago. What part of “we are leaving your wonderful country” don’t you understands?

 

[Fifty150]

These vending machines were on campus when I was a kid. Disgusting. Chicken bouillon coming out of the same nozzle as coffee and hot chocolate. As I recall, it tasted just like the seasoning packet from instant noodles.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

"Is there anything else I can help you with?"

The web site has got me nowhere. The chatbot is clueless. I've spent what seems like a half-hour navigating a phone menu which seems designed to frustrate and finally I get a human on the phone.

Now this person genuinely wants to help, but the system he or she works in has been designed by evil persons. So after about an 90 minutes on the phone we come to the point where the service desk rep realizes that the issue will have to be passed up the chain.

Now we come to the truly, really, amazingly bad part of the help desk script the rep has been trained (and doubtless required) to recite,

"Is there anything else I can help you with?"

No, there isn't I've just spent nearly two hours of frustration with the goal of solving the problem we've been dealing with. The only reason I would invest that much time is to solve this problem which we have both seen is beyond your capacity to resolve. So, is there anything else you can help me with? How about lowering my blood pressure? Can you do that? Can you cure COVID? Can you end world hunger? IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU CAN HELP ME WITH!!!???

 

[GHT]

Is there anything else I can help you with? That question ranks alongside: "You're call is important to us," when you've been hanging on for an eternity. Another classic is: "Thank you for the feedback."
Have you noticed how your age can go against you? The implication being that you're a doddering old fogey, who doesn't have a clue.

Who composes these puke inducing remarks? Some marketing graduate who has charged a ransom for what is perceived as a few words of wisdom. Spare me from imbeciles.

 

[Edward]

These vending machines were on campus when I was a kid. Disgusting. Chicken bouillon coming out of the same nozzle as coffee and hot chocolate. As I recall, it tasted just like the seasoning packet from instant noodles.

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In our office building, we used that have a machine that did coffee and tea - all out of the same nozzle. I didn't realise how accustomed I'd become to my tea tasting faintly of coffee until they replaced the machine with a fancy coffee pod thingy, and brought back proper tea bags for those of us who prefer the superior beverage.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I never realized how annoying I find the phrase "fresh cracked egg" until I heard a bunch of fast-food-breakfast commercials. Given how much of a messy and unsanitary job it can be to "fresh crack eggs," I'd just as soon, if I am going to be served my eggs thru a window, that they be prepared from pre-beaten processed liquid poured out of a sealed plastic bottle.

 

[Zombie_61]

I never realized how annoying I find the phrase "fresh cracked egg" until I heard a bunch of fast-food-breakfast commercials. Given how much of a messy and unsanitary job it can be to "fresh crack eggs," I'd just as soon, if I am going to be served my eggs thru a window, that they be prepared from pre-beaten processed liquid poured out of a sealed plastic bottle.

Oh, but that's exactly how they're served--it all comes down to interpretation. "Fresh cracked egg" could just as easily be short order grill slang for a plastic bottle filled with imitation egg goop that was just opened by the person whose responsibility it is to pour it onto that grease-covered hot plate. It's like ordering "Adam and Eve on a raft"--you're going to get two eggs on toast, not a guy named Adam and a woman named Eve cooked and served on a floatation device.

 

[Fifty150]

"fresh cracked egg"

I've never heard that. I must be hanging out with the wrong crowd.

 

[Fifty150]

People who can't drive? People who can't park?

No such thing.

They know how to drive. They know how to park. They drive bad and park bad on purpose. They know exactly what they are doing. They know that what they are doing is wrong.

Even worse are people who don't know how to walk. People who jaywalk. People who cross on a red light. People who will step off the curb, directly in the path of your car as you are backing into a parking space, so that they can jaywalk.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Back to the Irish Spring topic! Maybe interesting to you, if you visit Germany and want to get a deodorant.

I found a men's deo-roll on from german Rossmann drugstore, "Fresh" with a green cap. And yes, indeed very "green", very (synthetical) grassy. I like it. It has kind of an early 90s vibe, when fragrances in such products were simpler and more straight.

Without knowing the original barsoap exactly, but this deo-roll is surely very similar and relatively strong. Could be a good match with the very green duschdas "Wiesenfrische" (meadows freshness) shower gel.

The little things in life.

 

[GHT]

Let me say it: I love Christmas. Love it. It is a wonderful time of the year. And though I have little doubt many of you will give me grief for it, I’ll admit to being a willing victim to a certain degree of Christmas commercialism. I would apologise, but I am who I am. I have long failed to treat Advent as a penitential season in the way that a proper Catholic should. Saying I grew up that way is a poor excuse, I know, but there’s some incredibly strong nostalgia involved. Give me old movies about Rudolph and, at least one run-through of Christmas classics by Bing Crosby and as much conceivable time as possible for a real, naturally pine-scented Christmas tree to be set up in my living room without starting a brush fire, and, as Bing so eloquently sings: "It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas."

But Christmas is celebrated late in December, hijacking the pagan festival of Yule tide. What is ticking me off big time is that no matter which radio station I tune into, all I hear is: "Last minute Christmas shopping." Last minute? Whilst December's date is still in single figures. It's a plot you know, baulk against it and you are immediately labelled: "Scrooge!"

Bah Humbug!

 

[Harp]

I too love Christmas, and all the date stands for; secular commercialism aside, a Catholic most grateful
for parochial grounding. The inevitable question rises as to whether Alistair Sim or George C Scott is the real
Ebeneezer Scrooge.

 

[GHT]

The inevitable question rises as to whether Alistair Sim or George C Scott is the real
Ebeneezer Scrooge.

Did you ever see Alistair Sim as the headmistress in the St. Trinians films? Absolute classic! Sim is also known for famously refusing a knighthood.

 

[Harp]

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Did you ever see Alistair Sim as the headmistress in the St. Trinians films? Absolute classic! Sim is also known for famously refusing a knighthood.

I know little about the man other than his portrayal of Scrooge and An Inspector Calls.
...interesting tidbit about his refusal of knighthood.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Is there anything else I can help you with? That question ranks alongside: "You're call is important to us," when you've been hanging on for an eternity. Another classic is: "Thank you for the feedback."
Have you noticed how your age can go against you? The implication being that you're a doddering old fogey, who doesn't have a clue.

Who composes these puke inducing remarks? Some marketing graduate who has charged a ransom for what is perceived as a few words of wisdom. Spare me from imbeciles.

"Thank you for your feedback" is perhaps the most passive-aggressive phrase in the English language, a whey-faced middle-manager's way of telling you to STFU in a manner fully in keeping with the HR policy manual.

My own pet loathing in the corporate/official sector is for signage or Internet language that tries to convey simple information in a fake-chummy, falsely-cordial, overly-familiar manner. "Your Safety Is Important To Us! Please Don't Use This Door" is stupid and obnoxious when you should be saying "CAUTION -- NO EXIT!" Or, "We Care About The Community! Please Wear A Mask When In Our Establishment So That Everyone Can Feel Safe and Protected! Remember, We're All In This Together!" when better you should say, in solid black capital letters NO MASK -- NO ENTRY.

 

[ChiTownScion]

"Thank you for your feedback" is perhaps the most passive-aggressive phrase in the English language, a whey-faced middle-manager's way of telling you to STFU in a manner fully in keeping with the HR policy manual.

Unless you are a parent, grandparent, or doting aunt/ uncle, there's really no need to pack up a preschooler and drop a few grand to Do the Mouse in either Anaheim or Orlando. We did it when my son was four... and once was enough. But evidently there's a Disney Corp approved phrase that is meant to proffer the proverbial middle finger to difficult guests.

This Disney theme park greeting secretly means 'f**k off' (thesun.co.uk)

 

[LizzieMaine]

Looks like I'm working till 10 PM Christmas Eve this year. Unless, of course, something goes wrong with the projector. Perish forbid.

 

[tonyb]

Tone is important.

Rather than saying “f*** off” to a customer, try saying “how might we help you f*** off?” That way the customer has AGENCY in the outcome.