What's bugging you? (2012)

[Marc Newfield of Dreams]

Cousins Subs advertising. Good God.

[Glennron]

Cousins Subs advertising. Good God.

 

I'm not sure which are worse--the couple that are airing now, or the one they aired a while ago with the "customers" who were shocked that they were talking to the president of the company.

[1992casey]

Time Warner Cable.

 

My dad needed to have his cable box replaced. Before the techie left, we noticed that he wasn't getting all the channels he was supposed to get. The techie said to call the 800 number and the office would straighten it out, which seemed fine at the time.

 

So the guy left, and we called the office. The dude in the office rebooted the receiver, and the channels still didn't appear. He said that another techie would have to come out. Of course, I was displeased because a techie had just left.

 

When I tried to ask the phone dude which packages were on record for the account and which channels my dad was entitled to, he wouldn't check. He just kept saying that we'd have to wait for another techie. And he kept calling me "SIR," often several times in the same sentence. I captialized SIR because that's exactly the tone of voice he used; it was like what you'd hear in movies about the military.

 

The next day, the new techie came out. He said that this wasn't a home visit issue and that the office should have taken care of it. He called the office for us and got the issues fixed. It was a matter of two packages not being activated.

 

Looking back, the first techie should have made sure that all of the channels were working, especially since we noticed the problem while he was still there. It was the idiot in the office who really dropped the ball, though.

[Baldkin]

I need to call TWC this week as my internet bill just went up from $39 a month to $56 a month. Which, I'm sorry, is way too damn much to pay for their crappy internet service.

 

Because of my job I need the speed that cable provides, but their connection speed (especially upload speed) is spotty at best on my end.

[1992casey]

You might want to go to Mayfair or Southridge and do that in person. As a matter of fact, that's exactly the advice that the second techie gave my dad. The techie said to go in and have someone go over my dad's account to make sure that this fiasco didn't result in any overcharges. It's harder for people to be idiots in person.

[Baldkin]

My gosh I hate shopping for jeans.

 

I am not a bigger person -- I have a 33" waist -- but I have muscles on my legs, and it is virtually impossible to find jeans I can walk in and not look like Frankenstein.

[RockCoCougars]

Watching History Channel. Saw an ad for a new program starring the Sklar brothers (twins from that old ESPN Classic clip 'comedy' show). I find them incredibly annoying and irritating, and it bothers me that someone else gave them a show.

[bani1717]

My gosh I hate shopping for jeans.

 

I am not a bigger person -- I have a 33" waist -- but I have muscles on my legs, and it is virtually impossible to find jeans I can walk in and not look like Frankenstein.

 

Tell me about it... About the only jeans I feel comfortable in are carpenter jeans.

[GormanHarvey]

Eric Byrnes. Pretty much everything about him.

[Schlitz001]

Apparently 1.60% of my posts come in this thread. It bugs me that so much bugs me.

[Nottso]

It annoys me that stat lines show OBP, SLG and OPS. Just give me OPP and SLG. I'm perfectly capable of simple addition.

[1992casey]

I prefer to see BA/OBP/SLG.

[1992casey]

US Hwy 10 on the eastern end of Stevens Point. It's a 40 MPH city street connecting the US10 freeway/expressway to the I39/US51 freeway.

 

It can be almost impossible to turn left onto this road, and very frequently, it's difficult to turn right onto it.

 

Ideally, these two major highways should be directly connected so this street can be limited to mainly local traffic. Short of that, the only solution I can see is a speed limit reduction, at least down to 30MPH, and maybe even down to 25.

[Funketown]

There's an auto dealer up the road in Durham that has the worst commercials I've ever seen. They ran this Jersey Shore commercial about a year ago. Now they're running another. I will never buy a car from these clowns specifically because of these commercials.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENEjqKszGZY

[TooLiveBrew]

Ok, since you mentioned a car dealership... Bob Fish, THIS IS NOT A FISH

 

http://pictures-e1.thumbtackstatic.com/pictures/274/wn9a468zofhrwnck_450_fill.png

[GormanHarvey]

Ok, since you mentioned a car dealership... Bob Fish, THIS IS NOT A FISH

 

http://pictures-e1.thumbtackstatic.com/pictures/274/wn9a468zofhrwnck_450_fill.png

 

Genius! Fish, mammal, who's counting?

 

And seeing this is the "What's bugging you?" thread, I must say the Brewers at this particular moment are. Terribly. And also the Miller Lite Punch Top can.

[NeedMoreFans]

The city cut down a tree on the terrace between the sidewalk and the street last June. The stump was removed 3 weeks ago, and now there is a giant orange cone in the hole. There is also a stick in the ground saying what type of tree will be planted, but still no tree, and it has now been 11 months.

[TURBO]

The fact that my 16 year old son is sooooo much like me, it has been nearly impossible for us to see eye to eye for a while now.

 

Frustrating.

[stoutdude04]

My girlfriends parents dog (whom we both lived with for 2-3 years during/after college) was acting funny on Friday...wasn't eating or drinking and was shaking a lot, so they called the vet and the vet said to give him some asprin and bring him in on Monday if it gets worse. Well it did get worse, this morning he wasn't moving his rear legs but was finally eating...he was eating because he was no longer in pain and had become paralyzed from the 'waist' down. We had to put him down this morning at 5 years old. They said if we would have brought him in on Saturday he would have been fine...damn.

[hawing]

Ouch, stoutdude, that's a tough pill to swallow. Sorry about the dog.

 

And it puts what was just bugging me into perspective, but I'll list it anyway. Some evil person occasionally drives an ice cream truck through our neighborhood. It was just stopped outside our house for 10 minutes, playing about a 20-second loop of Turkey in the Straw. Audio abuse, I'm telling you.

[splitterpfj]

Political ads are bugging me, as are political phone calls, and political pitches on my front stoop....wow, give me some air!

[1992casey]

If I were to base my votes on ads or on which candidates didn't authorize annoying recorded phone calls, I wouldn't be voting for anyone.

[hawing]

The hawing household has a system of simply not picking up the phone unless we recognize the Caller ID information on it, and we're getting good at switching channels as soon as a political commercial airs. (Pro tip: The Weather Channel is usually a safe place to switch to.)

 

But it seems like for the last week I (not the SO) have received a piece of mail every mail day for the same candidate. It's not someone I'd never vote for - and incoming mail is the easiest to deal with, since we keep our recycling bin by the back door - but after like the third day/third mailing, the desperation really shows through. Someone's trying too hard.

 

Edit: Back to the phone calls: The robocalls do sometimes leave voice mail, which we play just enough to clear them off the system; but not all robocalls recognize our outgoing message as a recording, so we only get half a message. For example: "...and we hope you'll join us." Yeah, not if I don't know for what.

[GAME05]

right before i moved from Texas, everybody said to just kill my tropical fish and start over when i got to my new place. they were cheap fish, sure, but they'd lived a little more than a year already (a long time for fish) and they were MY fish. so i bought a bubbling bait carrier that cost more than my fish cost, combined. and except for the ones that died (three jumped out of the carrier (one was rescued), one died from the elements, and my favourite one got eaten by a dog), they all lived through the 1,600-mile trip to North Carolina. i even stopped every day of my drive to make sure they had a change of water and appropriate chemical neutralizers for the specifically-room-temperature drinking water that i was buying for them.

 

so i get my tank set up in my new place and even buy a few more fish from the store nearby. but it turns out the fish from the store have ick, which is currently infesting my fish tank. as many as four fish per day are dying. it's a horrorshow. those little fish, which lived longer than they were supposed to in Texas, which managed to survive through a really low-capacity and fish-poop-ridden holding tank for four days, have now succumbed to ick and have died.

 

i feel like i'm not supposed to be sad about generic $3 fish that i got from the pet store dying on me, but i am.

[TooLiveBrew]

That sucks man, I can sympathize with caring too much for pet store fish...