Things that piss you off that shouldn't

[bickster]

6 minutes ago, limpid said:

So are PayPal factoring for the chargebacks for those three days? Doesn't seem worth it to me.

I only do customer present transactions so never have any experience of chargebacks. Fraudulent use with CP transactions are the banks problem

I always assumed that the three days was where they made their money which reduced the transaction charge but that could just be me being wrong

[mjmooney]

2 hours ago, bickster said:

that could just be me being wrong

Put it in your diaries, folks. One to tell your grandchildren about.   

 

[Genie]

3 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Put it in your diaries, folks. One to tell your grandchildren about.   

 

Maybe he’s JRM, yes he’s wrong but for the right reasons  

[Xela]

2 hours ago, mjmooney said:

Put it in your diaries, folks. One to tell your grandchildren about.   

 

[Chindie]

This could almost be it's own thread.

Obviously, I'm a bit of a geek. I love lots of low media pop culture - comics, superhero movies, the Lord of the Rings, Discworld, gaming in various guises. My hobbies besides gaming are nerdy - I collect figures, I build Gundam models, I'm slowly learning 3d modelling to make custom figures. I'm a real geeky guy.

Because of that I consume a lot of media about these pursuits, and it's become a complete shitshow. A YouTube search for the latest big show on the Marvel world will quickly be infected with diatribes complaining how it's rubbish because it's 'woke'. Why is it woke? It's got a female character who is strong, or is got a diverse cast, etc etc. I saw one get recommended recently on She-Hulk, the current Marvel series, that declared the Marvel universe 'is dead' because there's a scene of She-Hulk twerking. I'm not actually watching the series so I didn't know the context, but on investigation it turns out the show, which is basically a sitcom and has a similarly light hearted tone to it's comic inspiration, had a joke scene at the end of an episode where She-Hulk and a friend twerked. So it's nothing. But it's being used to push this right wing conservative agenda that just boils my blood.

There's dozens of these things. The new Lord of the Rings series has had a cottage industry going for months peddling the same shit because there's black people in it. Star Wars is woke because there's a powerful black woman in it. And so on. And it's obvious it's all a cynical cash grab to get views and clicks, but worse than that it's incentivising pushing this right wing culture war narrative, using the popularity of these brands together with the popularity of YouTube and the flaws of the algorithm to normalise this rubbish.

And the really scary thing is it's a quick journey, via YouTube, to the nonsense spouted by the likes of Jordan Peterson and his conservative Christian crap packaged up as new guru philosophy and life guidance, to James Lindsay and his increasingly anti-intellectual right wing nonsense that claims, amongst other madness, that even acknowledging diversity is a communist plot to enable paedophilia and the overthrow of the world order. And so on - the ur-atlas to all of these words removed being Rogan.

This shit really got going with the Gamergate crap a few years back, but it's infiltrated wider and wider pop culture discourse in a deeply cynical and groom manner in the last couple of years, and is getting worse. We need to combat the dangers of 'the algorithm', with its ability to perverse discourse, and there's an increasing problem with socialised media that it becomes very easy to become a propaganda agent posing as a movie commentator or games critic.

It makes me **** angry.

[Stevo985]

On 03/09/2022 at 16:24, maqroll said:

The suit and tie/black trainers with white soles look...never looked good, still doesn't, and never will. The sooner this trend ends, the better.

Not with a tie.

But a casual suit with a tshirt instead of a shirt and the trainers works, imo

[villa4europe]

33 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Not with a tie.

But a casual suit with a tshirt instead of a shirt and the trainers works, imo

As if the suit with trainers wasn't bad enough, with a tshirt?! 

That's a massive nope from me

Trying too hard 

edit - 

thats what i mean, from my experience of working in an office there's not a single circumstance that would require you to wear that, its not smart enough to meet a client and then its too formal to just sit in the office all day in, just buy better jeans 

Edited September 5, 2022 by villa4europe

[Stevo985]

26 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

As if the suit with trainers wasn't bad enough, with a tshirt?! 

That's a massive nope from me

Trying too hard 

edit - 

thats what i mean, from my experience of working in an office there's not a single circumstance that would require you to wear that, its not smart enough to meet a client and then its too formal to just sit in the office all day in, just buy better jeans 

Not a fan of those particular items. That doesn't look like a very nice suit or very nice trainers. And I wouldn't go for the tucked in shirt myself.

 

Nothing wrong with wearing something like this

I'd add you probably need a tapered leg on the suit trousers. With a baggier fit they'd look ridiculous

[villa4europe]

Personally I'd lose the jacket, if that's just chinos I think you're OK but the jacket adds a formality that doesn't work

there's no scenario where that is needed at my work, you're both underdressed and overdressed at the same time, its in no man's land and you'd look a clearing in the woods 

edit - and i say this as someone who looks like this all summer

and this all winter

Edited September 5, 2022 by villa4europe

[Stevo985]

4 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Personally I'd lose the jacket, if that's just chinos I think you're OK but the jacket adds a formality that doesn't work

there's no scenario where that is needed at my work, you're both underdressed and overdressed at the same time, its in no man's land and you'd look a clearing in the woods 

I think it's fairly commonplace these days.

And you'd lose the jacket when you're in the office. It's more a walking around thing.

The most uncomfortable part of a suit is the shirt and tie. I think it's very unusual these days for people to work in suits and ties.

This keeps the formality of the suit but gives you some comfort

[rodders0223]

You know most problems can be solved just by a bit of communication, an email, a phone call, a gentle reminder - or even, get this, giving the information and the resources in the first place.

No. No. No. Too easy. Too simple a solution. We don't want things resolved, ahead of time, for the good of everyone and not least the companies,  I'm going to sit on it for a month, not tell anymore, or chase, on enquire and then escalate it.

Cheers Geoff!!
If you'd told me a week, a fortnight ago, a month ago, I'd have processed it , it's simple and no sweat to me - we'd all be happy and we wouldn't incur extra costs and extra time wasted on other parties.

I don't mind a "gentle prod" and I definitely don't mind being giving the information in the first place you Representative for Wellingborough.

I'm not mystic **** meg!

[bobzy]

2 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

Not with a tie.

But a casual suit with a tshirt instead of a shirt and the trainers works, imo

No no no no no.

[Tayls]

Suits are shit. Nobody really wants to wear them. Sooner we move on from having suits in our lives the better. Let people wear what they want to wear during this short time on earth. What’s with the whole top button thing as well?  

Nothing wrong with looking smart, btw, but **** ties and top buttons being done up. 

[villa4europe]

40 minutes ago, Tayls said:

top buttons being done up. 

on a shirt no

on a polo shirt yes

that polo shirt is designed to be buttoned up

[Tayls]

1 minute ago, villa4europe said:

on a shirt no

on a polo shirt yes

that polo shirt is designed to be buttoned up

Never. Nobody wants to have that around their neck, ever. It makes people look like that South Park character with the balloon head. 

[villa4europe]

Just now, Tayls said:

Never. Nobody wants to have that around their neck, ever. It makes people look like that South Park character with the balloon head. 

or you just get one that fits  

[Mark Albrighton]

[rjw63]

This thread has turned into

[choffer]

Put a pair of trainers (not for wearing with a suit) in the shopping cart. Promptly forgot about it but an hour later I get an email saying “go on, buy those trainers, here’s a 20% discount code”. 
Brilliant, I think. Go back to the open tab, add the discount code and “I’m sorry. You cannot use that code on this order” 

[ender4]

19 minutes ago, choffer said:

Put a pair of trainers (not for wearing with a suit) in the shopping cart. Promptly forgot about it but an hour later I get an email saying “go on, buy those trainers, here’s a 20% discount code”. 
Brilliant, I think. Go back to the open tab, add the discount code and “I’m sorry. You cannot use that code on this order” 

Name and shame the website.