What annoys you?

boohbah said:

Hungover sales people.

went to the tobbacco counter in my local supermarket and asked for a ½ oz of "golden virginia".
The sales person put a ½ oz of "cutters choice" on the counter,
i say "thats cutters choice"
she says " yes i can read"
heckles up now i say " well you obviously cant hear because i asked for golden virginia"

the other sales girl started laughing and the eejit that was serving me sheepishly apologized.

"I can read"

Having to pay over $300 dollars for a school book that's a "must have" for class, then finding out at the end of the semester I can't sell it because they dropped that book & are now using another

Borg 386 said:

Having to pay over $300 dollars for a school book that's a "must have" for class, then finding out at the end of the semester I can't sell it because they dropped that book & are now using another

Sorry to hear that Borg!
Maybe Kim Jong can recycle it for starting BBQ?
THW

having eye drops for my poorly eye, that after taking them makes everything taste salty for half an hour!

how that works eye dont know... get it?!?

What really ticks me off is all the back-ground music and sound effects they have in some of the documentaries I watch on TV. As an example, I like to watch a documentary called The Universe. But they have so much of the back-ground sound effect so loud that I have a hard time listening to what the moderator has to say. Does this bother anyone else?

Frank1 said:

What really ticks me off is all the back-ground music and sound effects they have in some of the documentaries I watch on TV. As an example, I like to watch a documentary called The Universe. But they have so much of the back-ground sound effect so loud that I have a hard time listening to what the moderator has to say. Does this bother anyone else?

seekermeister said:

Sounds like an academic fund raising gimmick to me. It has been quite a while since my college days, but I never paid anywhere near that much for any text book, nor do I believe that any text book is worth that kind of price.

Yeah, it really makes you wonder. Case & point, one of my classes last semester required a book that cost $152. During the entire course of the class, we were never asked once to bring in the book, or to even open it & look at a certain chapter. The thing literally sat in my hallway untouched for an entire semester. Fortunately, they're still using that book!

The expensive book I mentioned earlier was Euro lit, which was over 2,500 pages, but hey, at least we used that one! When my wife saw it she said "That's not a book, that's a booster seat."

(Damn thing was heavy too, I told my teacher I was going to get a doctors note stating I couldn't carry over 500 pages )

Borg 386 said:

Yeah, it really makes you wonder. Case & point, one of my classes last semester required a book that cost $152. During the entire course of the class, we were never asked once to bring in the book, or to even open it & look at a certain chapter. The thing literally sat in my hallway untouched for an entire semester. Fortunately, they're still using that book!

The expensive book I mentioned earlier was Euro lit, which was over 2,500 pages, but hey, at least we used that one! When my wife saw it she said "That's not a book, that's a booster seat."

(Damn thing was heavy too, I told my teacher I was going to get a doctors note stating I couldn't carry over 500 pages )

Seems like they should really be offering e-book versions by now, wouldn't weigh anything!

Though. In the end that'll still screw the students even more. 1) It'll still be stupidly expensive like all e-books and 2) Can't sell it back. :/

College textbooks are a way for professors to make more money. I've seen books that had a different version - with no significant changes made - every couple of years. It sells a lot of books.