Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

AKA people being ignorant/stupid.

 

Naive, certainly.

 

What about a non-Vaudevillian civilian?

*Mugs at audience, exits Stage Right*

 

That being said, I've bought some stuff from China with free shipping where I really couldn't figure out the economics of it. 99 cent item, free shipping, and it would cost more to send a postcard than that. Dunno, not my problem.

 

Are you talking about a website called DealExtreme or AliExpress by any chance? These places ship over whole containers, crammed with goods. Your order just gets thrown into one of these, hense free shipping on everything.

 

Nah, this was eBay.

 

Dunno. Not my problem either.

 

That is a steal. 6 cents, hell they might as well just send it as a freebie.

 

Six cents CANADIAN.

 

Yes, but what you don't see in that image is that the item was a pencil.

 

But still, to produce a pencil, and ship it all the way from China to my front door. I just can't see how it's profitable. Oh well, as long as China's paying.

(And b.t. dubs, it was a tie)

 

Yeah, truth be told there are bargains to be had, but can we all agree no seller ever ends up out of pocket from a sale?

And this was a bid, I take it, and not a 'buy it now'?

 

Mini versions of snacks I enjoy. For example: Oreos minis. Why in the heck would I want to eat twenty tiny Oreos, just to get my fill of them, when two or three normal ones will do?

 

Because you're the sort of prevert (sic) who would stop eating when you're full, irregardless (sic) of whether or not the package was empty or not. Real 'Muricans eat the whole fukkin' thing, whether it's an 8oz pack of Oreos from the 7-11 or a 55gal drum of Freedom Sauce* from the Costco....

Spoiler

*Mayonnaise

 

Won't make sense unless you read the caption...

 

Yeah I have that issue with the Visual Novel I started playing.
White font color was not the best choice...

 

Long story short: If you write fic, one of the main places to "advertise" your stories is tumblr (I can feel you all judging me, feck off) and in order to get people to see your tumblr you have to engage and share and reblog other tumblrs in your fandom along with putting up your own original content, and too, too, too often screen caps and gifs created by others are captioned atrociously (as mentioned above) and it gives me Forest Whitaker Eye™.

 

Unable to tell who is being serious or who is being a troll on Youtube, safe bet is to assume they are all trolls which is more than likely.. because I would hope to God, no sane individual would say truly believe the shit some of these asshats say.

 

And book covers, which same. And yes, you should be annoyed. We all should.

 

Non-military government employees and elected officials are civilians. Or were you already saying that?

I'm confused.

 

Speaking of eBay and things I shouldn't really be annoyed about, this morning I won an auction there (yay!) and wanted to apply a coupon code eBay sent me. Nice, right? But I get to the payment page and see the cost of the item and the cost of the freight, but no place to enter the code. No place to enter my address, either. All I saw was a button labelled "Confirm and Pay."

Well, I figured that would take me to the page where I'd enter my address and the coupon code, both. I clicked on it.

(You see where this is going. Give me a break, I haven't ordered anything on eBay for awhile. A long while.)

What the dickens??? It finalized my order! Without my coupon discount! Seems all that "missing" stuff was below the fold on my dinky laptop screen. Good grief, if the coupon code is supposed to modify the price, why not put the box for it right up there underneath the item and freight totals? Why not get all the financial stuff out of the way before dealing with the delivery address?

And no, they wouldn't let me apply the coupon retroactively, not unless I retracted my order, made the seller relist the item as a Buy It Now, and I was lucky enough to see the relisting. Nope, not putting myself and the seller through that. Not for $5.

 

Yes. My OP was triggered by a story on the local TV news wherein a county commissioner referred to those of us who aren't county commissioners as 'civilians'. Nope. People who aren't members of your special little group aren't civilians unless your group is a military unit.

 

I don't think I've ever seen a promotional video as pointless, stupid and pretentious as this. According to these chumps this is what we all use our wallets for on a daily basis. I mean, who doesn't need a wallet you can catapult from a tree?? The mind boggles! At 1.22 in the video they even demonstrate how easy it is to lose your cash with this thing - great!

 

I have to agree that the promotional video is pretty pointless.

Our wallet holds things. Actual things!
It's also 100% gravity compliant and will reach terminal velocity when there's enough space.
It also goes in water and comes back out again. Amazing!
And we haven't forgotten Newton's Laws of Motion.
It obeys all of them, or your money back!​

 

Exactly

Don't forget it also allows you to 'deal' all your credit and debit cards over the lawn like some casino croupier.