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Media!

When you think you must have accidently unsubbed from a thread and then find it had just dropped right down your list!

Or when you think you've replied to a thread posting, but you haven't, and it lanquishes somewhere down your convo list till someone else reminds you that you've neglected them for several days?

I hate it when you're walking closely behind someone, trying to overtake, and they are meandering all across the pavement so you can't get around them.

People going on holiday at inconvenient times.

I'm seeing two doctors to work on figuring something out, and the GP went on holiday for two weeks, and right afterward, the endocrinologist is going on holiday for two weeks, so it'll take yet another month to get any results!

People undertaking to do things for you they clearly haven't the slightest intention to do. Why not just say "No, I can't/won't", so people know where they are with you?

ing invoices (e.g. for various memberships) dropping through the leeterbox months before they're due, so they have to be kept in a convemnient place to:

(a) remind you to deal with 'em when the time comes
(b) Make any necessary amendments to the membership at the due time


I have January oes cluttering up my letter rack at present

People listening to my voicemail message all the way through and *then* hanging up so I still get a text/email saying I have a message waiting... If you don't intend to leave a message hang up as soon as you realise it's voicemail - how hard is that?!

But some voicemails are really funny! Is /yours?/

Toilet rolls in public toilets that tear off too far up, due to stiffness/heaviness of roll. You're left trying to push the thing round in the dispenser trying to find the end, which you can't see because the dispenser is opaque, so you have to feel for it and when you finally do find it, the next sheet tears off too high again, and you're back to searching for the end again ... meanwhile bottoms/hands/noses are drying/not drying/running ....

The solution to that problem is to turn the roll so that you have lots of paper hanging out before you tear ...

Aye- I would do that with a domestic 'open' loo roll, but most loo rolls in public toilets these days (UK) are locked away in a dispenser, so your only point of access is the trailing edge of the loo roll ...

>But some voicemails are really funny! Is /yours?/<


Not even remotely, I haven't actually personalised my mobile so it's just bog-standard "welcome to O2 voicemail..." or whatever and my work one is also completely bog-standard non-humourous "you have reached *pocketprincess* at the ... department..." and so on so there's no reason at all to listen all the way through... unless you intend to leave a message!

To be fair it's usually a minor irritation but the other day I had 6 or 7 in a row and I was really busy so it was like "GAH! People, stop wasting my time!! "

Hmm. Got me there.

People who don't leave a message on my voicemail because "it was in English and we weren't sure what it said" or "it was in German and we weren't sure what it said"

It was this: phone rings, nobody picks up. Disembodied voice of Sho says once in English and once in German, leave a message we'll get back to you*, then comes the beeeeeep.

How difficult is it to work out what to do???

* it's an extremely short bilingual message after my parents complained the previous one (pointing out that it was a machine and to leave a message) was too long *headdesk*

Well, my parents have a very long one in two languages and I've been trying to make them change it for ages now. It's pettily annoying, really. Why not keep just one language anyway? Those who call and don't speak French would guess the meaning, wouldn't they?

You'd think so... but my experience is that people just switch off their brains when they reach a machine.

my dad's is great it says: "if you're a cold caller, hang up now."

A cold caller? What is that? (Tell him that I would leave a message just to ask this question ).

I agree that the proximity of technology make some peopple switch off their brains. If it's electric, it must be complicated

Automated calls, usually offering the opportunity to win a brilliant holiday or some such.

When you speak to the operator asking if you can call them back (mostly to get a contact number to pass the the TPS) and get told "No, this is a time-limited offer." If it's time limited, why have you contacted me three or four times over the last couple of weeks?