That Moment...

Had that single.
They also famously, burned £1m in some misguided, anti-capitalist, ceremonial act.
Principles or not, £1,000,000 is £1,000,000.

 

So...instead of, I dunno, donating that money to charity, or to the poor or to...anyone who could need it...they decide to burn that money.

PRIORITIES, PEOPLE!!

 

My sentiments exactly.
They could've even given it to me!

 

That moment when you call about the fridge warranty, on a paying number, and you get the computer on the line:

 

Dunno about the UK, but in the US that's the moment when you start saying "Agent. Agent. Agent" to every prompt. Eventually the computer gives up and routes you to a live human being.

 

That moment when you call any random big company, fight your way deep down to the bottom of the menu where you are promised to be able to speak to a human and then...

 

This one wisened up to that method. I kept saying 'Agent' and it kept coming back with more questions. It got more abusive from there (from my side) and eventually, I hung up, dialled again and kept pressing the option "Or for any other enquiries press..". Got through, the engineer is coming on Saturday

@Vandor76 : I hate that! I hope you got through in the end

 

Customer services calls can be annoying. It's like "I need help!" "OK, good, please give me your personal information first and the model number and the exact date you bought this! Please hold the line! Listen to crappy music while you do so! "

I know they're just trying to do their job, but still. xD

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That moment when you start your story from a different perspective and are surprised that it fits perfectly and you wonder why you didn't think of this before. Yup, just happened to me.

 

Yes, I called again the next day and they sorted my problem. Good to hear that your fridge will be back in service soon

 

TMW you get a "Russian Mail Order Bride" email with a picture attached of a not-unattractive woman and, though you would never respond, you wouldn't mind if it were "mail order husbands" of equal attractiveness that landed in your email.

 

That moment when you realize that your favorite science communicator, Neil deGrasse Tyson, was responsible for demoting Pluto.

 

that moment when you wake up from a dream in the middle of the night thinking "THAT WOULD MAKE SUCH AN AMAZING STORY, OH MY GOD I HAVE TO WRITE THIS DOWN, I HAVE TO REMEMBER THIS" and then go back to sleep, and when you wake up in the morning you remember having had the impulse to write it down but not being able to find a notepad or pen before you fell asleep again, and you have no idea what the thing was that woke you up in the first place.

that OTHER moment when you have started keeping a pen and notebook by your bed for this very reason, and you have a middle-of-the-night epiphany and write it down and go to sleep smug and sure of your amazing discovery, and you wake up eager to see what you wrote down and find "GIANT SPACE MANATEE" scrawled in your notebook.

 

This. I have notebooks filled with "GIANT SPACE MANATEE"s. They're almost awesome to read through, except they make me cry.

 

that moment when you start having the sneaking suspicion that you are beginning to get hangovers, when you never have done...

that moment when, you go to call your parents who are on holiday, to have both home phones die on you and you have to use your mobile (i mean, i dont mind as i get free calls, but its just annoying)

 

Same here, that's happened to me so many times. Although, for what it's worth, manatees, especially giant space manatees, are totally awesome and cool.

 

TMW you wonder how in the world others don't suffer hangovers when you always have and are now at an age where just a couple (literally, a couple) of beers the night before make their memory known the whole of the next day.

 

There was an old Spanish proverb that said: "One drink is enough. Two is too many. Three is too few." At least I think there was. I can't *hic* remember.

 

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk." - Charles Baudelaire

 

*Shrugs* must just have a high tolerance to alcohol....

 

Practice, my friend, practice

 

well a Metalhead who looks a little like a viking wouldn't go amiss here

That Moment when you get up at 7am so you are ready for college that starts at 9am, now, its 7:55 am an i am ready, it will take me 5 minutes to get there (i literally live round the corner from college) so im using the time on the net

 

The moment when you realize that a revolutionary song of your youth is playing in the background and you're in an elevator.

 

TMW you're just driving along and suddenly a song comes on from your sun-drenched youth, a song you haven't heard for decades, and you have to pull over and cry because it's so beautiful to you.

 

That moment when you realize you're getting a cold just before a vacation even though you have been uncannily healthy for the past two years. Murphy, I hate you.

I had a high tolerance and plenty of practice appropriate for our booze-guzzling culture, but in my case it was already after around 24 that I started getting just awful hangovers. Now I can't drink more than a couple of beers unless I want to spend the next day in hell. Not that I really lament it. I've become alarmingly straight-edge over the years.