Little Things That Irk You 3 1/3: The Final Insult

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Bloody ebay's stupid return procedures!
I sold an item but the buyer lived in the Highlands which the courier doesn't deliver to, so i messaged the buyer to explain that he'd need to pay extra to deliver it via another courier. The buyer was really good about it all fairplay, so I refunded him his PayPal payment and sent him a new invoice thru ebay with the correct postage amount, just so its all above board.

He got my invoice, which now seems to have charged him DOUBLE the amount for some reason. Cant ebay even send a f*ckin invoice correctly ffs?!!!!

[Darwock]

Be sure you are giving enough love to Shop99. Not sure about Nagareyama but there's two in Shinmats (one opposite-ish Daiei and one halfway to Mabashi on the same road) and there Lawson100 near Mabashi station. Never underestimate the power of 100yen cartons of sake.

The QQ Shop chain is no more, it was swallowed up by Lawson 100 two or three years ago. Same difference though.

[randombs]

Update!

Seems I know how to wire an antenna cable after all Housou Daigaku signal is bad even with the ready-made cable.

Irk: Still no Housou Daigaku

But apparently it's streaming so I'll check that out. Expect a post on here about the PS3 not playing the stream or something

[Decider-VT]

I started a short-term training course a couple of weeks ago, which was to serve as the precursor to getting a two-year employment contract as a programmer. I already know how to code in Java and I've worked with come C# as I've programmed a couple of XNA games for university but I thought that some training in .NET application development would be beneficial as Microsoft development jobs seem to be in demand right now. I won't say that I didn't learn anything but the training itself was frustrating- the company I applied for uses proprietary in-house tech and didn't have a shred of documentation for it, so the training became a tiresome loop of "do an exercise the long way in C#, then find out what their Visual Studio extensions do in the solution afterwards". Quite annoying when you're doing it 40-80 times a day.

[kryss]

The QQ Shop chain is no more, it was swallowed up by Lawson 100 two or three years ago. Same difference though.

The first Shop99 I knew of became a Lawson100 in 2008 or so, it's not impossible the rest followed while I was still in the country and I just don't remember...

[Kit]

Not smoking again. Got ultra mega stoned yesterday to the point where... jesus, you know the story if you've been there. Today's been a write off big time - just went shopping wearing snowboarding shades.

Not doing it again.

[Kit]

Two days removed and I still feel off - not high just not cool. Any good home remedies to clear my head?

[QualityChimp]

Traffic. It's taken me nearly ten hours to drive back from Scotland to the Midlands.

I was supposed to go to the UK premiere of Once Upon a Time In Vietnam but totally missed it.

[charlesr]

Two days removed and I still feel off - not high just not cool. Any good home remedies to clear my head?

Go for a jog or a swim. Gives you time to zone and focus on something else and will get your body into the "get rid of crap" mode.

[Kit]

Ah, worked a treat charles. Went to the gym and just hammered the cardio.

I'm also giving up on those BULL**** bodyfat machines.

25% bodyfat now? really??? is it even possible to go up by that much? I was 17% a couple of weeks ago.

[kryss]

Munchie-binging!

[charlesr]

Depends what time of day you measure dude. And if before or after exercise. Best time is when you wake up for consistency....

Glad it helped wipe the cobwebs away.

My irk: Doing the speed limit when some nonce in a Corsa fires up behind me and hovers on my bumper looking to overtake, but there are cars on coming, there's a corner and he can't see anything because he's too damn close to see anything except my bumper.... What a tool.

So once I reached the corner (where the speed limit derestricts), I left him for dead with some hard acceleration and braking and some safe cornering for a while until the next low speed limit zone. He was nowhere. So I drop the speed right down to the speed limit. 20 seconds later he comes firing up my chuff again and sits on my bumper (i.e. he has kept it pinned through the slow zone). Seriously wtf? 1 second later I have to hit the brakes hard because there's a car coming round a blind corner on my side of the road due to a flood on the other side. I heard him lock up behind me and decided to let go of my brakes to avoid being crashed into and hoped the guy in front of me would go back into the floodwater (only a few inches) which thankfully he did enough to let me through - he had looked like he would, but there was a grass verge which I could have used if not.

You'd think at this point CorsaCockGuy would have got the message and backed off, but no, as soon as he was able, he was all over the back of my car again. I despair. He tried to overtake me when it got to the dual carriageway, but I pinned it just as he got his feable vehicle alongside. Very juvenile on my part.

I just don't understand. Overtaking in a ****box with no power involves hanging back and getting a run up, not tailgating. It's not like he was a teenager either. He looked about my age.

[Kit]

Ok, this is a serious ****ing irk that I keep bumping into and it really ****s me off.

Women who berate dudes about their appearance (this wasn't even directed at me I was just listening like ' are you ****ing joking?') then when someone says anything about the way they look they are outraged and it is considered below the belt or some ****.

If you solely judge some guy you've known based on the way he looks despite him being a massive **** and he does the same to you WTF do you expect? sympathy?????

Depends what time of day you measure dude. And if before or after exercise. Best time is when you wake up for consistency....

Glad it helped wipe the cobwebs away.

Went back to the calipers and I'm around 19%. Seriously **** those machines, it says I've lost 4lbs and put on 8% bodyfat just wtf.

[wakka]

The phrase 'Metroidvania'.

[nakamura]

How f**cking grumpy I am lately.