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  • Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

    In my area Lincolnshire I have no chance of buying a house when inflation goes up 1% housing prices go up 7% and being 85% rural it has one of the lowest average earning areas with an average wage of £17k ($28.2k) a year and an average 2 bedroomed house of 500sqft costing £92k ($152.5k)

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    • Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

      Originally posted by Malacite View Post
      before Democracy is completely lost.
      It's too late for that, just most of the American public doesn't know it yet. It is going to happen, and there will be no revolt because people won't see it until it's already happened.
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        I'm not entirely convinced it was ever really there to begin with.
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        • Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

          Originally posted by Aksannyi View Post
          It's too late for that, just most of the American public doesn't know it yet. It is going to happen, and there will be no revolt because people won't see it until it's already happened.
          Nah I wouldn't say you're quite past the PoNR just yet, but damn close. Especially with the recent supreme court ruling X.x
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          • Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

            E-mails. E-mails are my pet peeve.

            E-mails that people send to me that don't even cover something that I handle.
            E-mails that people send to me to ask me a fucking stupid question.
            E-mails that people send to me to ask me a question they already know the answer to (Do I have to fill out the form. YES. THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS YES.)
            E-mails that people send to me to try to change something on a shared account that they know I can't change but they fucking ask anyway.
            E-mails that ask me to do something outside the normal protocol (i.e. instead of sending the form through, asking me to do it via e-mail there's a reason the form exists, it creates a queue, fill the fucking form out).
            E-mails.
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            • Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

              Peeve: can't seem to sink my teeth into any games lately. They all feel kinda bland and not very compelling. It's not the games, it's on my end. Just in a funk I guess.
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              • Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

                There is a person in our Monday gaming group that can't seem to take a hint that I'm not interested in being chums with him.

                I've barely known him for a few months and he's always trying to pry information from me in invasive ways. For example, after I started struggling with my employment issues, I was talking with one of my friend about it at the bar. He then walks up and interrupts me and says, "Come on, what are you guys talking about? You always tell him things, but you don't tell me," seemingly ignoring the fact he other person is someone I've known for 2 years as opposed to 2 months.

                Another time, he confronts me and says, "You know, I get the feeling you hate me." I explained to him I don't hate him, but that the way he acts towards me makes me very uncomfortable. Apparently, that meant I do hate him because the way he acts is the way he is and he makes no apologies for it. He then proceeds to divulge a LOT of personal information about himself, seemingly to explain away why he is the way he is. All completely unprovoked as, quite frankly, I don't care about his business.

                He still texts me sometimes offering to do nice things for me, or asking me why I don't tell him things. I'm really not even sure what to do anymore, short of flat out telling him to piss off.

                EDIT: It would not surprise me terribly if he were actually stalking my online movements and were reading this now.
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                • Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

                  Sounds like you're gonna have to just bite it and tell him to piss off.

                  I've struggled with the same (guys who don't get the hint) and the only way to deal with that is to be direct. "Listen bro, I appreciate that you're making so much of an effort, really, but I just don't like you that much and there isn't anything you can do to change that. Sorry, I've had to be so blunt, but you weren't getting it." etc.
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                  • Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

                    Originally posted by Ketaru View Post
                    There is a person in our Monday gaming group that can't seem to take a hint that I'm not interested in being chums with him.

                    I've barely known him for a few months and he's always trying to pry information from me in invasive ways. For example, after I started struggling with my employment issues, I was talking with one of my friend about it at the bar. He then walks up and interrupts me and says, "Come on, what are you guys talking about? You always tell him things, but you don't tell me," seemingly ignoring the fact he other person is someone I've known for 2 years as opposed to 2 months.

                    Another time, he confronts me and says, "You know, I get the feeling you hate me." I explained to him I don't hate him, but that the way he acts towards me makes me very uncomfortable. Apparently, that meant I do hate him because the way he acts is the way he is and he makes no apologies for it. He then proceeds to divulge a LOT of personal information about himself, seemingly to explain away why he is the way he is. All completely unprovoked as, quite frankly, I don't care about his business.

                    He still texts me sometimes offering to do nice things for me, or asking me why I don't tell him things. I'm really not even sure what to do anymore, short of flat out telling him to piss off.

                    EDIT: It would not surprise me terribly if he were actually stalking my online movements and were reading this now.
                    One of the new guys in the office is this way. He inserts himself into every conversation. I catch him staring at me over my shoulder (hit sits directly behind me). I'm not interested in talking to him, but he can't take the hint.

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                    • Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

                      Kind of like that actually. You want to remain civil because you really have no choice but to interact with this person. He works with you, therefore you must find a way to cope with him. Similarly, I want to keep attending my Monday evenings and I can't just have him evicted from the group, so I have to find a way to cope with him. At least I don't have to work with him daily.

                      It fills me with dread though when I get a text and it's him. God, what does he want this time?! Most of the time, it is some nonsense question that did not require immediate attention and was likely just an excuse to text me. Responding with dull, uninteresting messages didn't work, so one day I explained to him why what he's doing is making me so uncomfortable. Naturally, he got offended and took it very personally when all I was doing was asking him to curb some of the ways he was acting because I want to be able to be civil towards him.
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                      • Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

                        Maybe next time just be honest with him. Tell him that he makes you feel uncomfortable and you don't like talking with him. Then just stare at him. Don't say anything else. If he insists on argueing or wanting to talk more, just say you don't want to continue the conversation and walk away. He will get the hint. The key is to not embelish after the first 2 statement and just stare at him. Hopefully he will understand and feel uncomfortbale and walk away. He should then avoid you as well.
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                        • Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

                          New apartment complex going up really close to my work and in walking distance to a lot of things so I wrote down the name and when I got home I googled it and one bedroom apartments that don't even have washer dryer hookups (dealbreaker) are $1224/mo which is twice what I'm paying for rent right now.

                          Get the fuck out of here with that shit.
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                            Finally found my french learning CD I got from the govt only to discover they're no longer a customer of the company that makes them, so I can't get a registration thingy to access the software.

                            Yay...
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                            • Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

                              I'm actually in the "premeditated" phase of murder right now, this one woman in our Macon market keeps arguing with me over credit and this one client. There is literally nothing I can do, they have been in business less than six months and it is corporate policy that we do not extend credit to any business with less than six months in business.

                              My job is to mitigate financial risk for the company. Literally that is my main reason for existence. Brand new business may come out of nowhere and be one of our best clients in that market, but history shows that startups don't do that well especially in today's economy and we're not going to take the risk. Seriously, stop arguing with me.

                              This has been going on since last Friday, and right now, I'm really close to jumping in my truck and driving up there. LET IT GO. It's not going to happen. If they weren't going to be able to pay for it prior to the spots running then I highly doubt that three months down the line when things come due they'd be able to either. And what really kills me about all of this is that their commission is directly tied to whether or not their clients fucking pay for their services. Like ... you should be fucking thanking me.
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                                Videos run on Facebook, but not animated GIFs? (Yes, I tried to post OMGWTFBBQ's Megaman gif)
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