Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[JazzFunk]

That horrible 'noise' that landlines make when you accidentally knock the phone off the hook without realising.

It's devilish, it's like this horrible, rising scale that has evil/depression/madness built directly into it. Always freaks me out, especially as it's usually unexpected.

It's like H.P. Lovecraft composed or summat, or maybe someone from BT found a transcript of the music in The Necronomicon and decided it'd be fun to use it in this capacity. Ruined my afternoon.

[koopatroopa90]

I genuinely have no idea what noise you talk of but am intrigued.

Irk of mine is going to bed so late when I have to be in for 9 tomorrow. I did exactly the same last night and was fighting to stay wake for the first hour and a half today. Oh well, least its the last day before christmas

[JazzFunk]

^It's like a 1-2-3-4-5 upward scale, but with 'devil notes', it's like some old John Carpenter 'spooky synth' playing in some Silent Hill room, and said synth was owned by Beelzebub, and is encrusted with bloody crusts. Try knocking your handset off for about 90 seconds, see if it happens....

(I don't know if different broadband affiliations change matters, but I'm with Sky broadband and have a BT line rental).

Either I'm mental, or I get this drill-like electronic tone that goes buuuu.beeeeeh.BUUUUUH.BEEEEH.BIIIIIIII. ????????

Anyway, Necronomicon. Gotta be off.

[randombs]

I also get the drill-like electronic tone. Scared me the first time, too!

[koopatroopa90]

Ok, still none the wiser. I pick it up and it makes the dial tone (which incidentally does sound kind of like a drill!) for about 40 seconds then goes "doo duh dee" and a woman repeats "Please replace the handset, and try again".

[BeyondJumpFish]

Yeah you have to go beyond that. Just leave the phone swinging for 10 mins.
It works though, because you immediately start searching the house for the phone to stop the noise.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

I needed a ****e twice this wk in work & both times the latrines in work were all occupied, leaving me with a turtles head & body situation.
I was almost tempted to pinch it out, Ishmael from the film Kingpin style, in the urinal instead.
A door opens & I finally get to stop clenching & drop 1, then find a load of blood on the bog roll after wiping.
Great! A torn ringer!!

[Fader209]

Delivery related irk aimed squarely at CityLink. Came home today to find a parcel left by them in the unlocked porch.
Was only a ?1K camera...methinks I will have to complain about this one.

[JazzFunk]

^That's proper crap, majorly irresponsible. Bet they'll just fob you off but you should definitely complain.

Weird thing irking me right now...over the last few weeks, I've lashed out before waking up three times now, twice these last two mornings (just glad I'm girlfriend-free right now!) Yesterday, some fat guy (in my dream) was shouting really aggressively and threateningly at me and the threat was really REAL so I whacked him with my right arm, immediately awoke and I'd punched my bedside water bottle across the room (!!!!!) THIS morning, (in my dream) got into an argument with my brother, who'd just gatecrashed the house and moved all his stuff in and was shifting my stuff into the bathroom, and his bike into my bedroom. So, I grumpily huff the bike out of my bedroom, and he humps it back in so I decide to KICK it. Woke up booting the wall next to my bed, made a small hole in the wall!!!!

Kind of scared to go to sleep, frig knows what I'll wake up doing tomoz...

A door opens & I finally get to stop clenching & drop 1, then find a load of blood on the bog roll after wiping.
Great! A torn ringer!!

Definitely sounds like bumgrapes to me. Two words: baby wipes. You'll never go back. Rectal heaven. Normal toilet roll just shreds the ring, especially if it's a tad inflamed.

[sj33]

A small nerd irk, but I hate the abuse of the phrase 'upscaled to HD', when they really mean that the resolution itself has been bumped up (meaning it's not upscaled at all - it actually *is* HD. Upscaling is when the image is blown up to a higher resolution, a bit like stretching an image in Photoshop). In today's industry when upscaling is disappointingly common, is it really too much to ask for writers to get this kind of basic terminology correct?

[koopatroopa90]

Delivery related irk aimed squarely at CityLink. Came home today to find a parcel left by them in the unlocked porch.
Was only a ?1K camera...methinks I will have to complain about this one.

Delete this post and claim it never arrived.

Couple of days later after they have ran around thinking they have lost a ?1k camera you can say you suddenly found it underneath a coat/bag/box/umbrella/whatever. Make 'em sweat

[randombs]

A small nerd irk, but I hate the abuse of the phrase 'upscaled to HD', when they really mean that the resolution itself has been bumped up (meaning it's not upscaled at all - it actually *is* HD. Upscaling is when the image is blown up to a higher resolution, a bit like stretching an image in Photoshop). In today's industry when upscaling is disappointingly common, is it really too much to ask for writers to get this kind of basic terminology correct?

Must be. I was reading Wired magazine today and they were talking about a 3D BR player that upscales 2D to 3D

[Fader209]

^That's proper crap, majorly irresponsible. Bet they'll just fob you off but you should definitely complain.

Pretty bad huh. Ah well, at least it was OK when we found it. I always thought parcels over a certain value had to be signed for? Or if no one was available then to leave it with a neighbour.

Koops - a very tempting idea lol. Might be able to get a 2nd camera out of them...
Having my PC delivered on Monday, thankfully they are more organised by giving me a delivery date and that will be a "please sign here" job.

[koopatroopa90]

10% and I won't tell no one

I have a delivery probably arriving today of two speakers worth ?100. My girlfriend is at work all day and I'm at my Dads so I'll be interested to see if they leave it outside our door or card us - for either they will have to get into the actually block(as no post box on the external door!) and as there are only 2 other flats on our floor I don't mind them leaving it outside too much. YODEL have left stuff outside before but this company have delivered to me using DPD, Citylink and YODEL before so I've no idea what will happen!

[Fader209]

10% and I won't tell no one

10%? You already said you would buy me a 3DS :P Is this how you was going to pay for it? Haha.