What grinds your gears?

[polishgenius]

Honestly like, I'm someone who walks on escalators in general (sometimes I don't because moving hurts and I can't be arsed, but I'm not inhibited really and usually would rather just move on up), but unless it's wide enough to stand aside and they haven't, your ire should be directed at the designer of the escalator, not the person not walking. And if the problem is that there isn't a convention to stand on the right and move on the left so you have to weave or hope someone notices you coming, that's just your social convention's fault, innit. 

 

I do find the idea of building them single file just bizarre. Like in the whole of Berlin the only one I can think of that is that way (and even then I'm not sure, since I've only used it a couple times and not in years) is one at Friedrichstraße station that has to fit in a gap between regular staircases as a shortcut between the upstairs platform and the underground platform. As far as I know, the same is true in London- there may be niche cases which have to be single file for space reasons, but every regular escalator at every station is proper width (and obviously the busy central ones have at least two in each direction). Same goes for every single shopping center I can think of in Europe. Just shockingly inconsiderate design not to. 

[Zorral]

5 minutes ago, polishgenius said:

do find the idea of building them single file just bizarre

Because in places of the density and space at a premium NYC, as with the 5th Ave. subway, which was built before there were escalators, there isn't room for anything else.  Simple explanation, see, not bizarre at all.

What else grinds my gears are the people who perform frequent sincere concern about something they have labeled 'lefty extremism' while never once issuing any concern or horror regarding the murders committed with impunity every frackin' single day by all those fascist extremists from cops to elected officials to self-appointed saviors of the USA from drag story hour to just for the funzies and the lulz.

Edited May 28 by Zorral

[polishgenius]

5 minutes ago, Zorral said:

Because in places of the density and space at a premium NYC, as with the 5th Ave. subway, which was built before there were escalators, there isn't room for anything else.  Simple explanation, see, not bizarre at all.

 London managed. 

[Madame deVenoge]

Request here - let’s please not use this thread to get personal on each other.

We need to use this thread in satisfactory ways to rail against bosses, co-workers, lazy arseholes who don’t put shopping carts back properly, people who smoke anything without consideration, and people who remove their socks and go barefoot on airplanes.

[DMC]

Honestly I don't really get what the difference is.  Even if Europe's escalators are as wide as possible and Shangri-La on a track, still doesn't change the fact that most people should observe the social convention that left means you move, right means you stand.  Perhaps that's the other way around in Europe, I dunno, but same principle applies.

[Zorral]

12 minutes ago, polishgenius said:

London managed. 

London isn't on a small island.

BTW, the first underground train opened in London in 1868, and NYC's first one was in 1870.

[Raja]

When people send you emails that have

'Gentle reminder'

Fuck gentle reminders. What the fuck makes them gentle? Who decided we should say 'gentle'.  You're in my inbox. Unsolicited. There's nothing 'gentle' about your reminder.

[Madame deVenoge]

19 minutes ago, Raja said:

When people send you emails that have

'Gentle reminder'

Fuck gentle reminders. What the fuck makes them gentle? Who decided we should say 'gentle'.  You're in my inbox. Unsolicited. There's nothing 'gentle' about your reminder.

Truth. Just be candid and say, “please note that…” or “a reminder that…”

”Gentle reminder” is just smarmy, IMO.

[Tywin et al.]

1 hour ago, Madame deVenoge said:

Request here - let’s please not use this thread to get personal on each other.

We need to use this thread in satisfactory ways to rail against bosses, co-workers, lazy arseholes who don’t put shopping carts back properly, people who smoke anything without consideration, and people who remove their socks and go barefoot on airplanes.

Oh god, the Eurocommies have gotten to you. Come home:

 

 

[DireWolfSpirit]

Im sure I could come up with a decent length list of stuff that drives me mad, but high on any list for me is the criminally high cost of American Health Care.

We as a society are getting hosed when this much of our National Income is dedicated to delivering what other countries seem to manage for only 50% of the expense.

[Maltaran]

8 hours ago, Raja said:

When people send you emails that have

'Gentle reminder'

Fuck gentle reminders. What the fuck makes them gentle? Who decided we should say 'gentle'.  You're in my inbox. Unsolicited. There's nothing 'gentle' about your reminder.

This is generally where I reply “As per my last email…”

[mcbigski]

19 hours ago, Madame deVenoge said:

 

We need to use this thread in satisfactory ways to rail against ....people who remove their socks and go barefoot on airplanes.

Does this mean it's OK to remove shoes, as long as one still has socks on?  I used to take my shoes off on the regular until that one time I stepped in puke.   But getting shoes off does help create slightly more leg room and sometimes you just really need a half an inch.

[Madame deVenoge]

7 minutes ago, mcbigski said:

Does this mean it's OK to remove shoes, as long as one still has socks on?  I used to take my shoes off on the regular until that one time I stepped in puke.   But getting shoes off does help create slightly more leg room and sometimes you just really need a half an inch.

Take the shoes off, by all means. Put on different socks, if you like. But, just not BAREFOOT. No one needs the feet-stank.

 

[Mlle. Zabzie]

18 hours ago, Madame deVenoge said:

Truth. Just be candid and say, “please note that…” or “a reminder that…”

”Gentle reminder” is just smarmy, IMO.

“Gentle reminder” is the new Gen Z code for “I am chasing you for the thing that my boss asked me to chase for even though the timeline was and remains ridiculous and I’m actually a little scared of you so I’m not going to just ask ‘where is it’”.  We HATES IT.  We hates it almost as much as “sorry for the weekend request, but…” and “Kindly send your comments no later than COB (sent at 3 PM in relation to a 250 page document).  My new response to the worst offenders is “your request is not consistent with the space-time continuum.”

Things currently grinding my gears:  people who triple park (or double park so that they block the street), bicylists not obeying traffic laws and/or riding on sidewalks, and old men who say to you in the Met “little lady watch where you are going” (actually happened to me today.  He was not impeded at all, we were just not making way for him sufficiently while enjoying the art. I told him, nicely, he was rude and offensive, which he was).

 

[A Horse Named Stranger]

Little ladies shouldn't talk like this.

[Madame deVenoge]

OMG seriously??? I’ve only ever heard “little lady”’in the south. Ugh. 

[LongRider]

When a cashier says to you while you are paying for something  "You saved $4.27!"  I used to remark "No, I spent $17.45."   I don't say that anymore, but it still chaps my hide this 'you saved' nonsense.

Another thing is when you get the message on the phone for picking the option you want  "Please listen carefully as our options have changed."  ZOMG!  How did they know that I memorized their former options even though I've never called them before?  What a stupid message.  

 

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

1 hour ago, Mlle. Zabzie said:

“Gentle reminder” is the new Gen Z code for “I am chasing you for the thing that my boss asked me to chase for even though the timeline was and remains ridiculous and I’m actually a little scared of you so I’m not going to just ask ‘where is it’”.  We HATES IT.  We hates it almost as much as “sorry for the weekend request, but…” and “Kindly send your comments no later than COB (sent at 3 PM in relation to a 250 page document).  My new response to the worst offenders is “your request is not consistent with the space-time continuum.”

Things currently grinding my gears:  people who triple park (or double park so that they block the street), bicylists not obeying traffic laws and/or riding on sidewalks, and old men who say to you in the Met “little lady watch where you are going” (actually happened to me today.  He was not impeded at all, we were just not making way for him sufficiently while enjoying the art. I told him, nicely, he was rude and offensive, which he was).

 

He’s lucky he didn’t get a “go fuck yourself”…

Edited May 29 by Ser Scot A Ellison

[polishgenius]

46 minutes ago, LongRider said:

Another thing is when you get the message on the phone for picking the option you want  "Please listen carefully as our options have changed."  ZOMG!  How did they know that I memorized their former options even though I've never called them before?  What a stupid message.  

 

 

To be fair like, the alternative is them taking the number of every single person who calls into their system and having it available to the answer machine, so it can play one message for people who never called them before and one for returning customers who might indeed be thrown by a menu change. 

I don't think I'd prefer that option. 

[LongRider]

I think just giving the options without the preamble would be better but YMMV.