Things that make me want to headbutt everything

khfreek · 02-03-2009, 06:11 PM

How does your girlfriend put up with you?

WolfAtTheDoor · 02-04-2009, 02:23 AM

it's a mystery

TheBig3 · 02-04-2009, 08:48 AM

Best New Poster since Hookers with Machine Guns scared them all off.

WolfAtTheDoor · 02-10-2009, 08:02 AM

9: Paypal and, to a lesser extent, ebay.

Okay, so. About 2 months back now I repeatedly tried to sell my xbox 360 over ebay. THREE sellers in a row turned out to be frauds, and their accounts terminated, but of course it would have been extremely petty for me to claim the money back that I had paid ebay to put the item up for auction in the first place. I just wanted to sell my console.

So, eventually, I sold my xbox to a customer who seemed legit. After a few setbacks, I informed him that I would be posting the Xbox to him a few days later than expected. So, I did so, and he sent an email to me when it had arrived claiming that the xbox was broken and that he was going to send it back to me. I said to him how no way was the Xbox broken when I sent it to him, but still received the xbox back anyway to check on it, as the 'customer is always right' etc.

Needless to say, the 360 was in full working condition just like I had presumed, so I told the customer that I felt it unfair that I would have to now give a refund after all of this, and that as the seller, surely I should at least have SOME rights.

Needless to say, I didn't have any rights whatsoever. Paypal gave a date for the case to be settled upon, and if it wasn't settled by then, it would intervene. As I was given no options other than clicking 'yes' or 'no' to 'has your item has been returned', and after already explaining in the open case form how I felt this whole scenario was completely unfair, I decided that I'd have to sit it out and WAIT for paypal to intervene.

After waiting a good few weeks, and having absolutely nothing happen other than seeing the words 'case pending' on my paypal account, I signed in a couple of days ago to notice that the money had been taken out. No explanation given. And, just to piss me off that little bit extra, I now had an outstanding fee of 4.68 owed to paypal.

But it gets better. I'm now attempting to buy evil dead 2 for 5 pound from ebay. But I can't do it. Why? Because it says I need to resolve the balance I owe to Paypal. However, when I click on the red link saying 'restore your balance' on my account overview, it takes me to a page that contains the words 'oops... you have an outstanding balance owed to Paypal. To resolve this issue click on the red link saying 'Restore your balance'. So now I'm going backwards and forwards, unable to actually restore my balance because it continuously sends me to the same two ****ing webpages, neither of which are helpful whatsoever.

I ****ing hate Paypal.

WolfAtTheDoor · 03-17-2009, 12:20 PM

10: What Skins Has Done.

By the sounds of it, I might be the only British teenager on this forum... therefore I might be talking to a brick wall with this whole rant. But seriously. It annoys the **** out of me.

For the uninformed, Skins is one of those gritty Channel 4 dramas, one that is based around what I'd like to call a 'Hyper-Real' group of teenage lives. I call it Hyper-Real because the situation these teenagers get involved in are completely exagerrated (see a party going on under a manhole cover, a girl literally RUNNING her way to New York) yet the characters involved still have elements to them that are relatable.

Unfortunately, as the shows Hyper-Real (I am going to keep using this word) lifestyle actually seems relatively appealing, since the show aired, many teenagers seemed to have jumped over backwards to make their lives as viciously entertaining as the ones seen on screen. Back when the first series was just airing I was 16, and EVERYONE wanted a Skins party. People would even start calling themselves Skins if something particularly reckless/ridiculous had happened. I saw many a myspace photo with a group of people lazing over one another, glowsticks around their necks, with caption reading something along the lines of 'OMG me n *insert ridiculous nickname here* r SOOOOOOO skins'. Silly fools. Silly, ignorant fools.

Unfortunately, I seemed to fit into this trend without even realising it, as I was a particularly keen party goer and my commitment to this cause meant that my friends would label me as 'trying hard to be Skins'. I don't know at what point the lines blurred between wanting to get drunk, and wanting to be part of a television show.

Now, though, I am at the age where everyone realises how silly this all was and everyone has given up. Unfortunately for me, I have joined a new college, and as such I am in the year below. Which means everyone is 16 in my classes. And the third series of Skins is now broadcasting.

Oh, the ****ing pain.

PinkCigarette · 03-17-2009, 12:43 PM

Oh man, do I ever hate Skins. One of the most retarded shows and trends ever.

On the racist issue, the problem now is, it's gotten to the point where minorites get what they want because if they don't come out as the "winner" of a situation, they'll just call you a racist and everyone will look at you like you're a piece of ****.

There was a situation here about a year ago where an Indian man was pulled over and ticketed because he wasn't wearing a helmet while riding his motorcycle, which is the law here, because he wears a turban. He said that the officers were discriminating against him.

I just shook my head in disgust. I mean, discrimination? This idiot was pleading for the country to allow Indian men to wear their turbans while riding their motorcycles and not helmets while all other races had to wear helmets. It just gets that ridiculous.

Not sure what ended up happening with that case but what a complete joke. You get caught breaking the law so people are discriminating against you? Get the hell out of here with that BS. If you don't like the law here, leave. It's really that simple.

I am in an interracial relationship so I have seen the lame attitudes of white people and how easy it is to throw out racist comments but it gets completely stupid when a minority can easily pull the race card out of their pocket whenever they want to get their way. They want racism to go away yet they can't even let it go.

Mojo · 03-17-2009, 06:16 PM

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Here is Alexa Chung. .

Man, she seems to sporting what I can only assume is the female equivalent of the old man with chin high trousers.

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2: Tip-Toeing around Racism

I've seen and heard things, as everyone has that have been clearly out of order when something needed to be done about it. However I cannot stand how some people are seemingly so afrad of their own shadow and so desperate to avoid any kind of racially charged situation that they may as well get "I AM NOT A RACIST" tattooed on their forehead. There are a lot of black and asian people work where I do and I can only assume that a big (a very big group) of these people share accomodation or something because they are always on the same shift. Once when leaving work I went to join the queue for the bus at about 9 or 10pm and there were probably about 15 people ahead of me, every single one of them was black. I had a look and turned to my mate and asked them why that was, I couldnt understand it, I'd been wondering for some time now. They and a few other people around me looked at me like I was insane, like they were almost embarrassed or thought they would hear me and associate me with them, like how dare I ask why the majority of our staff stuck on the late shift every night are black. Is that not a valid question? I dont care if they overheard me or not, I hope they did.

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6: People That Write In Complaints

One of my biggest pet hates. I very rarely get offended by anything I see on TV or hear on the radio or read in the paper or in whatever shape or form of the media you care to mention. If I was to see, read or hear something that wasnt particularly to my taste though why would I complain? I'd like to think I could realise that I wasnt the only one watching, listening or reading and that the media does not exist just to cater to my own individual tastes or preferences.

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10: What Skins Has Done.

I have never seen Skins, I should watch it sometime just to have an opinion on it but it has never interested me one little bit. I find myself very annoyed by people who like all these "gritty" British drama's/comedies and always think they know someone just like a character in the show. Because of course, Skins and Shameless and a number more along the lines that usually go out on Channel 4 are just completely accurate portrayals of British life, i dont know if you were aware of that or not? I've always felt this trend relies on too easy a forumla. Throwing in lots of violence, drug use, having every character in the show shag every othercharacter in the show at least once and probably having a token homosexual for some reason is not enough to make a "gritty", "realistic" drama to be proud of. Especially when its gonna spawn viewers who like to tell you they can "relate" to it. Good for you, you're probably either a druggy or a slut then.

WolfAtTheDoor · 08-10-2009, 07:35 AM

11: Rich Girls 'Mingling'

Rich girls are, according to modern definition, everything that is wrong with the world. This is an unavoidably sexist claim but one that does not go without it's fair share of factual evidence. Switch on MTV and chances are you shall find your typical tribe of upper-class, bubble-headed nonces doing typically upper-class, bubble headed noncish things for your viewing entertainment. My Super Sweet 16 is a prime example of this - it clearly takes delight in how hateable these girls are, and by the end of one thirty minute programme it makes me so pent up with anger that I feel like becoming a Robin Hood of sorts, except I wouldn't be stealing their belongings and giving it to the poor, I'd be breaking into their LA mansions, shitting on their obnoxious twattish faces and spunking all over their best cutlery.

This obsession with stuffing our television full of people that we absolutely loathe to watch (yet continue to do so) doesn't end there. We have The Hills, Laguna Beach, The OC. A massive collection of wank made by wankers and starring wankers.

So then, aside from watching them all pollute what are supposedly my music channels day in and day out, what else do I hate about rich girls? Well, you see, it's all relatively harmless when they appear on my television. At the end of the day, I can always change channels or simply switch the television off. But when these girls invade my otherwise common and penniless life? That's when the shit really hits the fan. A house party I attended last weekend was sadly invaded by two girls who were so far up their own backsides that they had became detached from all reality, and thought themselves to be the life and soul of the aforementioned party. The fact that they hopelessly sat in the kitchen all night, making dreadfully unsubtle sarcastic remarks about anyone that crossed their paths only served to show how remarkably un-self-aware they actually were.

My frustration was only enhanced when one of my friends felt it appropriate to kiss one of the gruesome twosome, therefore confirming to both of them that they could get whatever they wanted. And what happened when her friend wanted to go home? She cried because she had spent all of her money on ridiculously overpriced alcohol for herself and it looked as though she was going to have to get the bus home.

Get used to public transport, fuckface, there are no chaffeurs in hell.

P.S. A hard-hitting and hilarious segment about the pitfalls of 'aspirational tv' was done by Charlie Brooker - if my rant resembles his views on the matter, this is only because what he said literally took the words right out of my mouth and he was 100% accurate.

YouTube - Aspirational tv - Charlie Brooker

WolfAtTheDoor · 08-10-2009, 09:22 AM

12: Self-Assembly

I remember the good old days where you bought things and they arrived looking exactly the same as how you saw them in the catalogue/shop. I've recently had to refurnish my bedroom and all the furniture in the Next catalogue that looked at least half decent was self assembly, whilst all the shitty furniture was pre-prepared. Why? Why not have everything pre-prepared? It feels like the manufacturers are laughing at you as you attempt to make sense of the brief assembly manual that comes with every purchase.

Whatever way I look at it, I have been conned out of my money. I have been sent what are basically a few pieces of nice looking wood in a box along with a few nails, and now I'm all on my own with what to do with it.

And that's not even the best of it.

I set up my new computer desk late night, which surprisingly wasn't as hard to figure out as some of the other items I've had to deal with (I'm looking at you, wardrobe). And after I sat back admiring my handiwork, I noticed that there was still one more instruction left - getting the desk fitted to the wall. Included in the box was a couple of straps in a bag and some washers, but no fucking screws.

That's right. They had literally gave me a bag full of everything to attach this piece of shit to the wall, bar the screws. So now, until I can get to a DIY shop and get these screws, I have a computer desk sitting in the corner of my room that is literally on the verge of breakdown. It wouldn't bother me that much, I mean, a trip to a DIY store is hardly a massive ballbreaker, but it's the fact I paid so much for something that I had to do all the hard work for and doesn't even come with all the requirements for me to properly use the fucking thing.

If there's one thing that people love to do, it's buying stuff. It should require minimal effort to go to a shop and just get new stuff. It's a brief and fleeting pleasure in a consumers otherwise tiresome life. We work hard to spend our money easily. So why the fuck are shops making the experience increasingly difficult?

Zer0 · 08-10-2009, 03:56 PM

Lol i sell a lot of flat-pack furniture and stuff

most customers seem to have no problem with assembling the furniture themselves but there's always that 10% that kick up a fuss and want the already assembled display models. I always charge them €10 extra for the display model and they have no problem paying up as long as it's assembled. I could put a new display model together in my sleep anyway by this stage.

The main reason for the existance of flat-packed furniture is portability. You can just walk into a shop, pick out the items you want and fit them into your car with no problems and assemble them when you go home, instead of tying a computer desk and a bedside table to the roof of your car and driving home. Most flat-packed furniture are sh!t quality anyway lol

02-03-2009, 06:11 PM	#31 (permalink)
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02-04-2009, 08:48 AM	#33 (permalink)
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02-10-2009, 08:02 AM	#34 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	9: Paypal and, to a lesser extent, ebay. Okay, so. About 2 months back now I repeatedly tried to sell my xbox 360 over ebay. THREE sellers in a row turned out to be frauds, and their accounts terminated, but of course it would have been extremely petty for me to claim the money back that I had paid ebay to put the item up for auction in the first place. I just wanted to sell my console. So, eventually, I sold my xbox to a customer who seemed legit. After a few setbacks, I informed him that I would be posting the Xbox to him a few days later than expected. So, I did so, and he sent an email to me when it had arrived claiming that the xbox was broken and that he was going to send it back to me. I said to him how no way was the Xbox broken when I sent it to him, but still received the xbox back anyway to check on it, as the 'customer is always right' etc. Needless to say, the 360 was in full working condition just like I had presumed, so I told the customer that I felt it unfair that I would have to now give a refund after all of this, and that as the seller, surely I should at least have SOME rights. Needless to say, I didn't have any rights whatsoever. Paypal gave a date for the case to be settled upon, and if it wasn't settled by then, it would intervene. As I was given no options other than clicking 'yes' or 'no' to 'has your item has been returned', and after already explaining in the open case form how I felt this whole scenario was completely unfair, I decided that I'd have to sit it out and WAIT for paypal to intervene. After waiting a good few weeks, and having absolutely nothing happen other than seeing the words 'case pending' on my paypal account, I signed in a couple of days ago to notice that the money had been taken out. No explanation given. And, just to piss me off that little bit extra, I now had an outstanding fee of 4.68 owed to paypal. But it gets better. I'm now attempting to buy evil dead 2 for 5 pound from ebay. But I can't do it. Why? Because it says I need to resolve the balance I owe to Paypal. However, when I click on the red link saying 'restore your balance' on my account overview, it takes me to a page that contains the words 'oops... you have an outstanding balance owed to Paypal. To resolve this issue click on the red link saying 'Restore your balance'. So now I'm going backwards and forwards, unable to actually restore my balance because it continuously sends me to the same two **ing webpages, neither of which are helpful whatsoever. I *ing hate Paypal. Last edited by WolfAtTheDoor; 02-10-2009 at 08:03 AM. Reason: typo*

03-17-2009, 12:43 PM	#36 (permalink)
PinkCigarette Chase for 28 Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 349	Oh man, do I ever hate Skins. One of the most retarded shows and trends ever. On the racist issue, the problem now is, it's gotten to the point where minorites get what they want because if they don't come out as the "winner" of a situation, they'll just call you a racist and everyone will look at you like you're a piece of ****. There was a situation here about a year ago where an Indian man was pulled over and ticketed because he wasn't wearing a helmet while riding his motorcycle, which is the law here, because he wears a turban. He said that the officers were discriminating against him. I just shook my head in disgust. I mean, discrimination? This idiot was pleading for the country to allow Indian men to wear their turbans while riding their motorcycles and not helmets while all other races had to wear helmets. It just gets that ridiculous. Not sure what ended up happening with that case but what a complete joke. You get caught breaking the law so people are discriminating against you? Get the hell out of here with that BS. If you don't like the law here, leave. It's really that simple. I am in an interracial relationship so I have seen the lame attitudes of white people and how easy it is to throw out racist comments but it gets completely stupid when a minority can easily pull the race card out of their pocket whenever they want to get their way. They want racism to go away yet they can't even let it go. __________________

08-10-2009, 07:35 AM	#38 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	11: Rich Girls 'Mingling' Rich girls are, according to modern definition, everything that is wrong with the world. This is an unavoidably sexist claim but one that does not go without it's fair share of factual evidence. Switch on MTV and chances are you shall find your typical tribe of upper-class, bubble-headed nonces doing typically upper-class, bubble headed noncish things for your viewing entertainment. My Super Sweet 16 is a prime example of this - it clearly takes delight in how hateable these girls are, and by the end of one thirty minute programme it makes me so pent up with anger that I feel like becoming a Robin Hood of sorts, except I wouldn't be stealing their belongings and giving it to the poor, I'd be breaking into their LA mansions, shitting on their obnoxious twattish faces and spunking all over their best cutlery. This obsession with stuffing our television full of people that we absolutely loathe to watch (yet continue to do so) doesn't end there. We have The Hills, Laguna Beach, The OC. A massive collection of wank made by wankers and starring wankers. So then, aside from watching them all pollute what are supposedly my music channels day in and day out, what else do I hate about rich girls? Well, you see, it's all relatively harmless when they appear on my television. At the end of the day, I can always change channels or simply switch the television off. But when these girls invade my otherwise common and penniless life? That's when the shit really hits the fan. A house party I attended last weekend was sadly invaded by two girls who were so far up their own backsides that they had became detached from all reality, and thought themselves to be the life and soul of the aforementioned party. The fact that they hopelessly sat in the kitchen all night, making dreadfully unsubtle sarcastic remarks about anyone that crossed their paths only served to show how remarkably un-self-aware they actually were. My frustration was only enhanced when one of my friends felt it appropriate to kiss one of the gruesome twosome, therefore confirming to both of them that they could get whatever they wanted. And what happened when her friend wanted to go home? She cried because she had spent all of her money on ridiculously overpriced alcohol for herself and it looked as though she was going to have to get the bus home. Get used to public transport, fuckface, there are no chaffeurs in hell. P.S. A hard-hitting and hilarious segment about the pitfalls of 'aspirational tv' was done by Charlie Brooker - if my rant resembles his views on the matter, this is only because what he said literally took the words right out of my mouth and he was 100% accurate. YouTube - Aspirational tv - Charlie Brooker Last edited by WolfAtTheDoor; 08-10-2009 at 09:26 AM.

02-04-2009, 02:23 AM	#32 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	it's a mystery

03-17-2009, 12:20 PM	#35 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	10: What Skins Has Done. By the sounds of it, I might be the only British teenager on this forum... therefore I might be talking to a brick wall with this whole rant. But seriously. It annoys the **** out of me. For the uninformed, Skins is one of those gritty Channel 4 dramas, one that is based around what I'd like to call a 'Hyper-Real' group of teenage lives. I call it Hyper-Real because the situation these teenagers get involved in are completely exagerrated (see a party going on under a manhole cover, a girl literally RUNNING her way to New York) yet the characters involved still have elements to them that are relatable. Unfortunately, as the shows Hyper-Real (I am going to keep using this word) lifestyle actually seems relatively appealing, since the show aired, many teenagers seemed to have jumped over backwards to make their lives as viciously entertaining as the ones seen on screen. Back when the first series was just airing I was 16, and EVERYONE wanted a Skins party. People would even start calling themselves Skins if something particularly reckless/ridiculous had happened. I saw many a myspace photo with a group of people lazing over one another, glowsticks around their necks, with caption reading something along the lines of 'OMG me n insert ridiculous nickname here r SOOOOOOO skins'. Silly fools. Silly, ignorant fools. Unfortunately, I seemed to fit into this trend without even realising it, as I was a particularly keen party goer and my commitment to this cause meant that my friends would label me as 'trying hard to be Skins'. I don't know at what point the lines blurred between wanting to get drunk, and wanting to be part of a television show. Now, though, I am at the age where everyone realises how silly this all was and everyone has given up. Unfortunately for me, I have joined a new college, and as such I am in the year below. Which means everyone is 16 in my classes. And the third series of Skins is now broadcasting. Oh, the ****ing pain.

08-10-2009, 09:22 AM	#39 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	12: Self-Assembly I remember the good old days where you bought things and they arrived looking exactly the same as how you saw them in the catalogue/shop. I've recently had to refurnish my bedroom and all the furniture in the Next catalogue that looked at least half decent was self assembly, whilst all the shitty furniture was pre-prepared. Why? Why not have everything pre-prepared? It feels like the manufacturers are laughing at you as you attempt to make sense of the brief assembly manual that comes with every purchase. Whatever way I look at it, I have been conned out of my money. I have been sent what are basically a few pieces of nice looking wood in a box along with a few nails, and now I'm all on my own with what to do with it. And that's not even the best of it. I set up my new computer desk late night, which surprisingly wasn't as hard to figure out as some of the other items I've had to deal with (I'm looking at you, wardrobe). And after I sat back admiring my handiwork, I noticed that there was still one more instruction left - getting the desk fitted to the wall. Included in the box was a couple of straps in a bag and some washers, but no fucking screws. That's right. They had literally gave me a bag full of everything to attach this piece of shit to the wall, bar the screws. So now, until I can get to a DIY shop and get these screws, I have a computer desk sitting in the corner of my room that is literally on the verge of breakdown. It wouldn't bother me that much, I mean, a trip to a DIY store is hardly a massive ballbreaker, but it's the fact I paid so much for something that I had to do all the hard work for and doesn't even come with all the requirements for me to properly use the fucking thing. If there's one thing that people love to do, it's buying stuff. It should require minimal effort to go to a shop and just get new stuff. It's a brief and fleeting pleasure in a consumers otherwise tiresome life. We work hard to spend our money easily. So why the fuck are shops making the experience increasingly difficult?

08-10-2009, 03:56 PM	#40 (permalink)
Zer0 ∞ Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,792	Lol i sell a lot of flat-pack furniture and stuff most customers seem to have no problem with assembling the furniture themselves but there's always that 10% that kick up a fuss and want the already assembled display models. I always charge them €10 extra for the display model and they have no problem paying up as long as it's assembled. I could put a new display model together in my sleep anyway by this stage. The main reason for the existance of flat-packed furniture is portability. You can just walk into a shop, pick out the items you want and fit them into your car with no problems and assemble them when you go home, instead of tying a computer desk and a bedside table to the roof of your car and driving home. Most flat-packed furniture are sh!t quality anyway lol __________________ Last FM \| RYM \| The Final Sound