Shit that pisses you off, part II

[muteKi]

My old HeartGold save, after completing the pokedex, apparently got corrupted during a mishap on the GTS. Probably due to the fact that it's a pirate -- the GTS was too full of traffic, the error message said. Rather than go back to the front desk of the thing, the game crashed. The save file ended up being corrupted when I closed the game.

It's disappointing. On the other hand I decided to get a genuine copy this time (though it's a bit more money to do so). :/

I'm upset because I had a bunch of nice pokemon in my party, some of whom I'd had from nearly the beginning of the game. I'd grown rather attached to them, I have to admit.

[Catalyst]

The other day I managed to track down a book I'd been searching for over two years at a local bookstore. Almost walked away from it too, but I just had a feeling that it was in there. I check the back and lo-and-behold I find Primal Rage: The Avatars, for only 3 bucks. I'd felt like I'd gone super saiyan. I mean, last time I checked that book till went for $20 bucks and up online so there was no way I'd be getting it that way. I stopped by my friends to check really fast how much it's going online (it didn't really matter, because there no way in hell I'm passing this book on). When I get there my friend sees that I've found it for $30 bucks on amazon. Claims it's not worth checking up because the book is obviously not worth this much. I tell I know it is worth around that high, and proceed to show him an ebay listing for the book at $20. He goes on to try to educate me on how the book is obviously not worth that much, and that I might have overspent on it. Now this individual hardly reads and knows next to nothing about this book, while I've been searching for it a couple of years already and am constantly book shopping. Uhh. Sometimes this individual just pisses me off so much.

[camanchi]

When you're walking home from a sweet night at the pub and it's really late/early. Not much further than ten feet in front of you, several gunshots go off and a crowd waiting outside what I assume is a club scatter, and two guys start punching each other. We stop, step off to the side of the fleeing people, to, you know, see if anyone is going to start running at us shooting.

More shots go off in the mob in the middle of the road and a white trucks speeds away, nearly hitting someone who is fleeing across the street.

A group of men walk past us on the sidewalk as amore shots go off and we decide it's time to go back the other way and take a detour. We walk hurriedly, but do not run. They are screaming shit about "that's what happens when *random exclamation*!!" They are walking AWAY from the scene as well and say "Look at the white people running." They were not white. Most people in this, uh, group of people, running/fighting/shooting/running away were not white either.

I am not racist. This still pisses me off. If you ever pull the race card for a stupid reason, you annoy me. I really wanted to say that.

So, if we don't run into a mob of people randomly shooting approx. 10 shots and between each other and swearing/fighting we are "white people running away?" Should I run into this group and single handedly stop the fight? Give you a million dollars? Do a cabaret? What the fuck do you think someone is going to do when they walk into what appears to be the middle of a mass shooting? Sing kumbaya?

I needed to rant.

[dooz]

So, wait. You were concerned about racism during a possible murder? Seriously?

[camanchi]

Obviously we were concerned, but we remained a lot calmer than half the people there. There was nothing we could do about the fight. When I'm very buzzed and feeling confident, yes that was the first thing that pissed me off as we were walking away.

It was one of those Storm Trooper fights. Lots of shots were fired, but whoever was firing them had the worst aim known to man. It was mostly scare tactic shots, some fired into the ground to intimidate some of the people there who were involved in the fight.

[ryochan]

Catalyst: Wait, so you're saying your friend said you overpaid for the book when you spent $3 on it, and the average on-line price (which is where the book generally shows up) is $20 or better? If that's the case, it isn't that your friend knows next to nothing about the book, it's just that he:
A. Doesn't give a shit
B. Is not very bright (and potentially not very good at math)

Next time tell him, "Imagine how many Dollar Meals you can get with the money I saved"

[Catalyst]

Probably, B. Ehh, I think I'm over it, he just pissed me off over somethin else. It's weird that you mention the Dollar Meals, since he works in front of a McDonnys yet hardly ever has cash for food. His fridge is barren, because I assume he splurges his money on games, clothes, or instruments. That being said I feel less guilty that I might clean him out at our poker night this week.

[muteKi]

Fun stoy btw, my mother apparently got pulled over for supposedly not stopping at a red light -- she had, she tells me, and the only reason the police officer didn't see this was that he was making a u-turn at the time (he claims he saw her from his rear-view mirror).

Naturally she intends to contest the ticket. Given how easy it is to actually get the court to rule in one's favor to overturn traffic violations, they make it insanely difficult to actually schedule an opportunity to contest it. Sure, you can pay them online, but if you want to contest it you have to show up at the offices about an hour before they open to line up, then it's a potential additional hour or so of waiting until they simply put you down for a court date.

That's right, after waiting for 2 hours you still don't get to contest the ticket yet. In today's incident my mother has informed me that they had a booked schedule for all of July and couldn't put her down for a date in August because apparently they didn't have a calendar for August ready yet. So she'll have to repeat this procedure AGAIN. This even comes after talking to a county clerk (after having waited in another line for a comparable length of time) in order to figure out what the procedure for getting a court date is.

Naturally, the court that handles this, at least at this level, is a low-level traffic court. And yet it's full through all of July already with people contesting tickets. What's the deal with that you ask? Actually, it's quite simple.

The police actually work on a quota system, so they have to give out a certain number of tickets per month. As you might imagine, in order to meet quota, a lot of the tickets that are given probably aren't legitimate. We know a few other people in town who also got unfair tickets (one of them, for example from an RV that ran through a yellow light due to its lesser maneuverability and braking). I've never been very fond of quota systems, and this sort of thing is a major reason; dishonesty tends to be the norm as emplyoees find they are under quota.

Naturally the comparative ease of paying for a ticket compared to contesting it ends up practically forcing a lot of people who get them to pay them. And since that's basically the equivalent of a guilty plea, the offices probably assume that all those citations were legitimate and don't see any reason to reform the quota system because it's apparently representative of the number of actual citable incidents on the road.

That's one theory, anyway. The other is that they're fully aware of this and are using it to make more money -- rather than save it by having a smaller police force (not like this town has a high crime rate to begin with) that doesn't have traffic cops patrolling constantly all over town, just waiting for someone to so much as look at one of their mirrors funny in order to pull them over. I'm not sure which one's more likely in this instance.

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Jun 29, 2010 1:41:53 GMT -5 muteKi said:

Fun stoy btw, my mother apparently got pulled over for supposedly not stopping at a red light -- she had, she tells me, and the only reason the police officer didn't see this was that he was making a u-turn at the time (he claims he saw her from his rear-view mirror).

I'm sorry to hear about that . That's pretty similar to how I got my first traffic ticket...I hate it when cops have nothing better to do, basically.

[Jave]

To the dipshit parents of Moncton:

You can quit giving me that dirty look already. I'm not trying to protect my dog from your kids, I'm trying to protect your kids from my dog. He will bite your kids if they get too close, and neither of us want that. I'm not trying to secretly imply that your kids are bad or inherently violent, nor am I secretly commenting on your parenting abilities... well, okay, frankly, I think you ought to be telling your kids not to approach strange dogs... but that's off the table. All I'm saying is that I go to a lot of trouble as is to detour around any kids at play that I see while walking my dog, the least you could do is show a little respect.

Sincerely, Jave
and Beau

[Deleted]

Our Minister of the Interior, who only last month was found guily of racial insult, telling us that "the public authority will always end up winning and overcoming".

Thank you, that's a relief.

[kimimi]

Ebay users who think that you'll drop the price of the stuff you're selling because they can't afford it. I don't mean the fine "Can you do free shipping?" or "I'll pay now if you knock $5 off" enquiries but the "Hi I want your game but I don't have $50 so can I have it for $25 instead?" muppets.

[TheChosen]

- I saw a complete copy of Fear Effect 2 today, and I lacked 2 euros to buy it. God it sucks being poor and having no income.
- This heat is KILLING ME! I took a nap today and wake up to find out that I've turned into a human mop.
- I have several mosquito bites around my legs. Combine that with heat and Im almost ready to flip out completely.

[camanchi]

I went to my bf's mother's Candle Party thingy (like Avon but with candles). I had a skirt on and didn't know it was being hosted outside on the back deck. My legs- but mostly just below my butt on my upper thigh- were COVERED with mosquitos bites. And around my ankles a lot too. It was so bad I couldn't wear shorts for a week because it looked like I had some skin disease. :/

[Haz]

I'm watching my sister play Borderlands (2nd playthrough as Hunter) and while she's doing good, she insists on using the scope or aim-down EVERY GODDAMN TIME she shoots anything with anything. While this would be understandable with a sniper rifle, the occasional rocket launcher or any long distance shot, she's in or near an enemy's face with a pistol or SMG doing that shit. It wastes time, especially when multiple enemies are around, not to mention annoys the crap out of me.

And by extension: Anyone who overrelies on that or a similar crutch in any FPS.