What's bugging you? (2007)

[Jimbo]

My wife was told she would probably be ineligible for UE benefits for the week of the 8th because she was out of town Saturday the 14th, despite the fact she was in town Sunday through Friday and available for work. :

[Marc Newfield of Dreams]

Something dawned on me while listening to the game... TMJ's new voice over guy cannot say MILwaukee. During every station ID break I heard "620 WTMJ.... MAWAUKEE"

 

Drives me nuts.

[TheBwaz]

With the warm weather everybody with a motorcycle, from the mightest Hog to the sleekest crotch rocket, is on the road. Great, fine.

 

But you guys with genitals issues? Yeah, you don't need to be blowing down my residential street at 45mph. Morover, whatever you do to make it as loud as possible, the choke, the clutch, whatever, needs to stop. We get it, you have a Harley and some Oedipal issues you are working out. Stop sharing.

 

Next time, instead of calling the cops after your 5th trip down my street, I'm gonna follow you home, wait till you go to bed, and then put plastic wrap between the trees at the end of your driveway.

 

Morons. First I tried talking (hey guys, could ya slow down?), then I tried yelling (SLOW THE %$ DOWN!), then you got cited.

[pogokat]

i live 6 feet from the road in an old hosue...all sounds are as if i were outside...harley davidsons drown out my television when they drive by...

 

saying this pisses me does not go far enough...

 

if my car were that loud, i'd fail inspection...why are there so few restrictions on motorcycle noise emission?

[flosses like fossas]

violence in riverwest. i'm sure this has been posted here before, but it pisses me off everyday. why did a kid get run over running away from gunfire two blocks from my house the other night? why have most of the houses around mine been broken into in the past months? this is so stupid.

[cweber39]

I have never done this before, but my beef is the Milwaukee weather people. Everytime there is a storm whether it be a snow or thunderstrom they take up the whole tv with their stupid weather maps, and other junk!!! It ruins tv shows and recordings, I hate it!

[Crazyk1294]

i live 6 feet from the road in an old hosue...all sounds are as if i were outside...harley davidsons drown out my television when they drive by...

 

saying this pisses me does not go far enough...

 

Same here. I hate that about Milwaukee. I have a church festival accross the street from my house every August-I don't sleep that weekend...

[DatHoser]

Also on the noise front. Car stereos that are worth more than the car. Along with that, even if they aren't worth more than the car, do you think I want to hear it from the bedroom farthest from the street - in a residential neighborhood - at 11 pm. several nights a week?

[burniebrewer]

Regarding the loud stereo "boomcars": In Madison, police are now allowing citizen reporting of offending vehicles which can lead to fines around $100 for the owner of the car.

 

Citizens are having neighborhood meeting learning how to report these cars. You have to be able to hear it from 75 feet away and get a plate and description.

 

I hope the police don't name the reporting citizen on the ticket.

[splitterpfj]

I had to laugh at a car stereo guy the other night. My son and I came out of the grocery store to find a 20 something sitting in his car with the stereo completely cranked.

 

From the outside, you could hear no music, only vibrations. The car looked about 15 years old, it was shaking from front to back, but there was no discernable music at all, it was up so loud the speakers couldn't handle it, it was just noise.

 

What in the world is the point in that?

[1992casey]

My house is about 120 feet from the road, and I can hear subwoofers booming with the doors and windows closed.

 

My gripes of the day:

• Web pages with tiny fonts, especially web pages with tiny fonts that can't be adjusted 'up' gracefully.
  
• People who think that there are exceptions to no-passing zones. The road in front of my house is clearly marked with a double yellow line. Yesterday, as I was turning right into my driveway, the truck behind me zipped by. That didn't really affect what I was doing, but with the hill ahead, it certainly opened the door to the possibility of witnessing a pretty bad accident.

[funkyplaidcoat]

Web pages with tiny fonts, especially web pages with tiny fonts that can't be adjusted 'up' gracefully.

 

does that mean pressing CTRL and scrolling up or down with your mouse doesn't doesn't change the size of the fonts?

 

- I'm bothered by the fact i have to go to the eye doctor soon to get a new prescription.

[hawing]

Receiving email inquiries from customers who don't use decent spelling and grammar.

 

I'm not demanding perfection (I may dream of perfection, but I won't demand it). But I think I can reasonably request that a question asked of me be comprehensible. Half of the inquiry that is prompting this post was one run-on sentence, including some abbreviations that I think the writer may have made up. It took a while just to figure out how to phrase my response.

 

On another note, the customer did not include her full name in the message, nor where she's from (which makes it difficult for me to address her professionally, or direct her to possible alternate resources).

[BrewCrewForever]

Receiving email inquiries from customers who don't use decent spelling and grammar.

 

Amen to that. Or if you need to call them they don't have their number on their signature of the email. Very frustrating.

[1992casey]

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does that mean pressing CTRL and scrolling up or down with your mouse doesn't doesn't change the size of the fonts?

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I use Firefox, so the font sizes will change just fine. I'm referring to situations where changing the font size breaks the layout in some way. That often means that the text I want to read extends outside of its box.

 

As an example, if it were to happen here (it doesn't), we'd possibly be seeing message text extending into the striped blue background.

 

It might the temporary fix [CTRL+ (CMD+ on Mac)], changing the default font size in the browser's preferences, changing the minimum font size in the browser's preference, or applying site-specific CSS that can cause this.

 

ESPN has been known to be guilty. Brian's sites work just fine. As a matter of fact, Lambeauleap is a model site when it comes to doing things right.

[1992casey]

funkyplaidcoat,

 

Here's an example from the Yahoo! page posted by Gypcasino.

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a244/casey1992/time_mag.png

[funkyplaidcoat]

i see what you're saying now. there's only so much room that CSS sheets are built for. I prefer everything between 8pt - 10pt font with 1024x780 desktop sizes, so i don't run into that problem too often...and that's probably why i need a new eye prescription.

[1992casey]

I'd rather scroll than tax my eyes. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif I mean vertical scrolling, of course. Horizontal scrolling sucks in every case.

 

I didn't check the CSS on that site, but pixels, percentages, or ems should be chosen over points. Also, webmasters need to realize that different people have different needs, monitors, resolutions, etc. And if a font size is set anywhere at all within a page, font sizes need to be set for everything. (That's not hard to accomplish, of course. Setting a default font in the body tag will do it.)

[NeedMoreFans]

My co-worker got here at 5. It is now 7. With the exception of about 15 minutes, she has been on the phone on personal calls. I'm quite annoyed and angered, yet I am too nice to say anything.

[trwi7]

Wait for her to leave her office and write a note.

[NeedMoreFans]

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Wait for her to leave her office and write a note.

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We work at the front desk of a hotel...an e-mail to my boss might be written, but I don't want to be like a little kid and tell on her, but it is affecting our job performance. She has moved away from talking on the phone at the front desk and moved to the back office, which is almost worse....

[1992casey]

Is she using the business phone or is she using her cell?

[Crazyk1294]

e-mail to my boss might be written, but I don't want to be like a little kid and tell on her.

 

So...when there are complaints from guests that the front desk people were terrible do you want to be blamed?

[Crazyk1294]

Here's my gripe. I've been waiting for over a month to recieve a response from an instructor for this online class (which was a mistake) I am taking at MATC. I sent 10 (very polite) emails to her and recieved no response. I also left messages on her voicemail. No response!

 

In the latest email I sent I informed her that I can only assume that she is ignoring me and would have to take this matter to the associate dean (which is step 2 the porcedure for resolving instructor related issues outlined in the course syllabus). I was still very cordial, but serious.

 

To make a long story longer, she replied to my last email and said she DID reply but I didn't follow up with HER. She also said she felt like I threatened her and was referring it to the school's Security Office sighting the Virgina Tech tragedy.

 

She ended her nasty email with threatening to kick me out of the class. She also cc'd a bunch of administrators at the school. I can't wait to get a response. Now I'm pissed!

[NeedMoreFans]

E-mail has been sent to my 2 supervisors about my co-worker last night. I sure hope she gets talked to about it.