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16-06-2013, 12:00 AM | #271 | ||
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When you go out for dinner at a really nice place and come out to your car that you spent two hours detailing that afternoon to find some lowlife has peed and spat all over it. Now I'm glad it didn't get keyed this time but everytime something like this happens it makes me want to sell all my nice things. It a very upperclass suburb as well, can't believe some drunk decided it would be a good idea.
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16-06-2013, 12:58 AM | #272 | |||
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16-06-2013, 07:43 PM | #273 | |||
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16-06-2013, 09:37 PM | #274 | ||
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Whingers who whine to the local council all the time. We have one just down the street, he was constantly complaining about our cars, then he moved onto the neighbours’ dog. Our neighbour put up one of those car tents to protect his car that wouldn’t fit in the garage, and the whinger complained to the council and made him take it down.
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16-06-2013, 09:40 PM | #275 | ||
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I hate it when retailers continue to sell products that they must know are useless crap, and then get all ****y when you take it back. I don’t mean cheap stuff where you get what you pay for, I mean things that work for about 5 seconds before blowing up, or just aren’t what they claim to be.
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16-06-2013, 09:48 PM | #276 | |||
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16-06-2013, 09:49 PM | #277 | ||
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I hate it that when shopping for items of a certain type, my choise is essentaiily limited to the following;
a) Load of choice & good prices from a discount chain (under)staffed by 15 year old girls who know less than nothing about the products they’re selling, and can’t even find the ones advertised in their catalogue. b) A bloke who knows everything there is to know about the subject, treats you like a dill, has limited selection, and needs a 500% markup on everything because he only makes about 3 sales a day. c) Buying online from some guy in China, who doesn’t speak English and doesn’t really know what he’s selling.
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17-06-2013, 01:38 AM | #278 | ||
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When you wake up one morning and Julia Gilliard is suddenly prime minister, when you wake up another morning and realised Ford Australia has changed it's CEO yet again, and worst of all when you wake up one morning to find that Ford Australia is closing down.
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18-06-2013, 04:03 AM | #279 | ||
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Something that ****** me off is the almost constant interruptions to traffic on main roads and freeways cause by “traffic management” that is often simply a giant “screw you.” It’s now got to the point, where for a contractor to do just about ANYTHING near a main road, they have to submit a traffic management plan. So a $500 repair job comes with $5,000 traffic management plan. So much so that the contractors often say “right, **** you, if we have to get the traffic monkeys in, we’ll have em shut down an entire lane for two kilometres” just so they can replace one light bulb.
Some bright spark once decided that putting railway lines down the middle of our freeway was a great idea. Then an even brighter spark decided to plant trees, so now to prune a ******* tree they have to stop the trains, turn off the power, and block off a lane of the freeway.
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18-06-2013, 09:53 AM | #280 | ||
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Living in a new estate that is full of round abouts with dual lanes and people proceed to come into your lane whilst negotiating said round abouts.
The lines means you stay inside it
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18-06-2013, 10:09 AM | #281 | |||
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Was it in regard to poor service, or the that the store was messy or that the salespeople were wearing clothes that weren't available int he store?? No, the person had rung head office to complain that the clothes on the mannequin in the front window did not fit properly int that they were too loose.!!!!!!!!!! Seems to me that someone had something a little bit loose....and it wasn't their clothes Craig H
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18-06-2013, 10:17 AM | #282 | |||
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18-06-2013, 11:35 AM | #283 | |||
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Not fussy enough though. I overheard this woman complaining to a female colleague that the paper was "rough to the touch and not very absorbent" FFS!
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18-06-2013, 01:14 PM | #284 | |||
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I can see all complaints made by tenants with regards to issues in their workplace and I will guarantee 97% of them are petty. Also got spammed by some people who wanted a recently closed Donut King reopened in a shopping centre. Also one weird request one time with being asked to join a swingers party complete with NSFW pictures.
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18-06-2013, 01:39 PM | #285 | |||
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Sounds petty doesn't it? Maybe I should complain a bit more to get what we are paying for.
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18-06-2013, 08:43 PM | #286 | ||
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Ok, Something that REALLY ***** me off, and I mean REALLY.
When looking online at something like cars on Gumtree, or on real-estate.com, or on e-bay, etc. They have all these categories to help you narrow down what you’re looking for. For example you can go on Gumtree and choose that you want a Ford Fairmont, 2001-2002, in blue, <150,000km, <$5,000, registered, on LPG, in Perth, etc, etc. AND do you think people can fill out the categories correctly? “My Fragrant French **** they can.” I mean how HARD is it, they’re all mostly tick boxes. We’re also looking to buy a new house, and because I am sick of fighting with the effing ranger about cars on the verge, I am looking for a house with multiple garages. Yet I see an ad for a home that the agent claims has SIX, and yet looking at the picture it doesn’t even have a freaking garage or carport. Where are these “SIX” parking bays?
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18-06-2013, 09:05 PM | #287 | |||
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And the whinging ranges from petty crap like your neighbour, to full blown proposals for multi million dollar projects, which, when argued against by someone with half a brain they go "well, I don't know about those negatives and how they'll effect the place, but I'm going to continue with my tunnel visioned argument that doesn't make sense, because I'm not being very clear about it".
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18-06-2013, 09:07 PM | #288 | |||
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19-06-2013, 11:05 AM | #289 | |||
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Car space does not equal carport Carport does not equal garage An enclosed balcony isn't a bedroom An internal laundry isn't the 'possibility of re-plumbing the shower pipes into the bedroom robe for a washing machine' Low strata does not mean 50% more than the block next door. A recently revovated kitchen / bathroom isn't 10 years old. Etc etc etc... I started to take the ads with me on paper (before I had mobile wifi on my phone) because often the agent would act all confused when I would confront them about what the add said compared to reality... And yes... the 'garage' that is really a patch of grass in the front / back yard really irks me too...
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19-06-2013, 11:13 AM | #290 | |||
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So, when trying to buy larger items that I would want to inspect / see working prior to handing over a large sum I would email these people with the basic question of inspection at their Sydney warehouse... I would either get no reply, or one that states they are international and I'm not to worry about if it's from Sydney or not. Same when I question where I can take the item back to for repair or warranty... you would think the local warehouse... right? Their first reply is something vague about how "I needn't worry as they will look after me in all situations". So, I ask the same question again, this time with a request to reply to the question directly. Does it go to their 'local warehouse' Nope, post back to some Asian country because the Sydney / NY / Berlin etc places don't exist.... And Ebay couldn't give a hoot....
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19-06-2013, 11:18 AM | #291 | ||
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Yes I had a bit of the same when looking for an apartment. Two bedrooms is NOT one bedroom and a small alcove next to the living room big enough for a baby crib which doesn't even have a damn door.
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19-06-2013, 05:17 PM | #292 | |||
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Two of my daughters have moved to Melbourne for study, so we were looking at apartments. We'd look through the photo's and then email the agent "WHERE is the 2nd bedroom you advertised" and the reply would be "it has a study nook." WTF Man?
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19-06-2013, 05:33 PM | #293 | |||
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Also the the day to day verbal complaints have me scratching my head sometimes.
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19-06-2013, 05:39 PM | #294 | |||
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The people across the road (who live in a big shed, no house) complained about it being ugly, and he had to take it down because he didn't apply for a permit. I'm surprised no one has complained about my cars, between the 3 of us we have 6 cars out the front. |
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22-06-2013, 11:26 AM | #295 | ||
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People who insist that white chocolate taste the same as milk chocolate.....
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22-06-2013, 08:25 PM | #296 | |||
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23-06-2013, 10:48 AM | #297 | ||
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Call centres that don't have the function to tell you what number in line you are when waiting for customer service....
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23-06-2013, 05:26 PM | #298 | ||||
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Then they get crabby when I dont purchase something after they waste my time trying to prise info out of me.. Quote:
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23-06-2013, 05:43 PM | #299 | ||
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75 KPH on the highway in a vehicle that is more than capable of the road speed indicated
highway clearly marked at 110 kph........ me pulling 1850 kilos, takes me a while to wind up to get around them........that gets my goat a bit
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23-06-2013, 05:46 PM | #300 | ||
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Asking what I think is a fairly definitive and direct question, and getting the answer to a completely different question.
Starting to think the other half is secretly a politician.....
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