The V

For things that are too trivial for full fledged hate, but that rankle and grate and chafe all the same.

PEOPLE WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW TO STAPLE THINGS. Look, you just angle the staple diagonally so either end is pointing towards the top and left edge of the paper, then make sure it's as close to the corner as possible. It's THAT SIMPLE. Do not point the staple into the corner. Do not staple it about a fifth of the way down the page. Make sure the pages are actually straight before stapling. GGRgggghnnnnnnngh.

PEOPLE WHO PRONOUNCE THE LETTER 'J' TO RHYME WITH 'EYE' RATHER THAN 'HEY'. Is this a Glaswegian thing, or do commoners everywhere pronounce it like that? I feel like Lord fucking Snooty when I'm at work because not a single person pronounces it correctly. Or they assume I'm saying 'G'. English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?!

Ooo, I'll play. 

People who laugh by going "Tsssss-sss-ssss" instead of "Ha ha ha". Stop it, it's not a real laugh. 

Wow, Pedant's Rage and Fucking List had a baby together!

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You gotta figure the Fucking List is pretty good at making babies.

The thing ehere you're too drunk at work to durnk NYrhinf in the right Torder but noth drunk enrough to be haoppy about anyt oy fit;. ah shout. a think that if my bozh allowed me to see this post he would stop paying me. but it was his wyidea to let me bot be paid for shots that time so. tehrw we go. Bed time perhaopt today,.

The thing ehere you're too drunk at work to durnk NYrhinf in the right Torder but noth drunk enrough to be haoppy about anyt oy fit;. ah shout. a think that if my bozh allowed me to see this post he would stop paying me. but it was his wyidea to let me bot be paid for shots that time so. tehrw we go. Bed time perhaopt today,.

Does Bablefish have a Drunk to English setting?

My parents house that they've been trying to sell...ON THE LIST!

My folks spent a lot of years and sweat building a new house, and repairing their old one, and then the market crashed, and instead of retiring completely after leaving the fire department my dad kept working at Home Depot to pay the mortgage on the houses while trying to get rid of one of them.

This week my dad check on the empty house because of the cold, and it was nice and warm, and sometime after monday the furnace died, a pipe in the upstairs bathroom froze and broke, and the house has been completely flooded. The floors are ruined, the walls are ruined, there was water POURING out of their back doorwall.

It's a complete write-off. 16 months of trying to sell it, working his ass off when he should be enjoying retirement, and now my dad has to pray that the insurance company people aren't knobs and that they pay the repairs and clean-up because the house will need to be completely gutted and restored.

As if the man hasn't had a shitty enough year without having had a quad bypass, nearly losing my mother to angioplasty surgery gone wrong, and having to work just to pay on a house that should have sold in a heartbeat pre-crash.

Fuck.

Damn, that's not happy news.  Maybe the insurance company will write the house off, do they do that?

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Wow, that was almost Foxian.

The 'Jeye' thing is definitely a West coast of Scotland affectation. I have no idea where it came from, but I used to get the piss taken out of me at School for pronouncing it 'Jay', because that meant that I was both (a) English and (b) homosexual. Apparently.

I'm glad it's not just me. Where do you stand on the pronunciation of "thirty"?

My accent sadly renders it something close to 'thur'y', with a glottal stop, but it's definitly 'thirty' that I'm going for; 'therty' is not welcome in my house.

No idea what will be done. There might be some flak because it was technically unoccupied. My dad won't know until he sits down with the insurance agent.

Wow, what a NYrhinf thing to say.

I hope they don't blast him b/c of the occupancy situation.  We've had bad luck with that in the past.  Makes me want to put homeowner's insurance on this list in general...

Whoops, apparently I missed the dunk thread.

I guess your bohz allowed you to see that post.

So it would appear.

Bosses who reject your electronic timesheet for some dubious reason (no, thanks, I don't want to take PTO to attend our holiday lunch!) and then somehow manage to screw it up so you can't go in and adjust it.

You do realise the point of this thread is for things that are irritating rather than appalling? Because, man... that is horrendous.

Does anyone besides Kelly MacDonald pronounce it as 'therty'?

I just saw Son of... and didn't realize it wasn't "fucking".

Fudging...ON THE LIST!

WHY ARE YOU NOT FUCKING!?!

An excellent question for which I have yet to find a satisfactory answer.

Good soldier.

It's pretty widespread. It might just be a Weedgie thing, though.

Cashier who will not be named- on the fudging list.

Really, you don't see anything wrong with checking your text messages while you're ringing up a customer? You don't get why I told you stop doing that? I know our boss for some reason has no problem with folks carrying around their phones in blatent disregard for company policy, but that permission is predicated on you not doing stupid things like that.

Shop her arse!  Man it's bad enough when students do that shit, and they're not paid to have manners.

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Holy shit, really? So long as it's your house, and you've maintained the insurance, why should the insurance company care how much time you spend there? I mean, assuming you're not running a meth lab or dogfighting ring out of it. Would they give Gilmer's parents grief if they lived in the place, but happened to be gone to Bermuda for two weeks when the damage occurred?

Apparently I have things to learn about how irritating homeowner's insurance is. And apparently we're doing our friend a favor by living in her place.

why should the insurance company care how much time you spend there?

One of the frequent loopholes in home insurance for the company is neglect; which is often qualified loosely enough for them to  extend it to you not "monitoring" the property to ensure bad things don't happen to it.

Like, if you go away for a month, you're supposed to have family, a friend or neighbour check up on the place so that if a pipe were to break it would be addressed before it filled the basement with water and sat there to rot the place for weeks.

I've been alive so long now that I am sick to death of it.  Please stop, as I have requested you to  for so many years, revolving your decisions and framing your reactions based on my perceived needs and desires.  On stating that as the case, I have yet to feel any benefit other than shame or remorse for those "sacrifices" you glory in.  Rave on John Donne, rave on......