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Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: DrPizza
My bigger pet peeve is the people on craigslist who could only respond with "you're number 9 on the list" and "you're number 13 on the list". (The 2nd time was a follow-up email from me.) Took them forever to get around to responding to either, and they clearly didn't read them; just replied with a number rank of apparently the order in which they received the emails. Then, this morning at 7:03, we got an email that the item was available again. My wife responded within 3 or 4 minutes & also asked for a better picture. (and 3 minutes from the moment she got a message on her blackberry to bring a computer out of standby, open an email program, and compose a reply is pretty darn good.) 2:41 in the afternoon, I got another email back. Someone else had responded this morning as well to their email, and wants the item, sight unseen. They haven't dropped off a deposit yet, so if we drop off a deposit first, we get them. Now, if they had only read their original email, they'd have seen that I was willing a few days ago to have gotten a u-haul and picked it up today, even bringing tools to help uninstall the item, saving them some money that they'd otherwise have spent on a contractor, and I was willing to pay their asking price.

Sorry, but when I'm put in the position of having to drive 3 1/2 hours, give them $750 IF I arrive before the other person, then drive 3 1/2 hours back home, then pick them up another day?? You've gotta be kidding me! Enjoy your game of hard ball, I'm no longer on the playing field. I found the item in better quality, for just a little more money (albeit a 5 hour drive each way instead.)
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Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: DrPizza
My bigger pet peeve is the people on craigslist who could only respond with "you're number 9 on the list" and "you're number 13 on the list". (The 2nd time was a follow-up email from me.) Took them forever to get around to responding to either, and they clearly didn't read them; just replied with a number rank of apparently the order in which they received the emails. Then, this morning at 7:03, we got an email that the item was available again. My wife responded within 3 or 4 minutes & also asked for a better picture. (and 3 minutes from the moment she got a message on her blackberry to bring a computer out of standby, open an email program, and compose a reply is pretty darn good.) 2:41 in the afternoon, I got another email back. Someone else had responded this morning as well to their email, and wants the item, sight unseen. They haven't dropped off a deposit yet, so if we drop off a deposit first, we get them. Now, if they had only read their original email, they'd have seen that I was willing a few days ago to have gotten a u-haul and picked it up today, even bringing tools to help uninstall the item, saving them some money that they'd otherwise have spent on a contractor, and I was willing to pay their asking price.

Sorry, but when I'm put in the position of having to drive 3 1/2 hours, give them $750 IF I arrive before the other person, then drive 3 1/2 hours back home, then pick them up another day?? You've gotta be kidding me! Enjoy your game of hard ball, I'm no longer on the playing field. I found the item in better quality, for just a little more money (albeit a 5 hour drive each way instead.)
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This post is number 7 on my list of posts to read.
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lulyawn.
 
meh.

My kids asked me somethign about M$. I told em that gates bought dos for 10k and pretty much stole the idea of the mouse. I left the room and she told the kids I didnt know what I was talking about. Gates invented it all in his garage :-/

My pet peeve is people that can barely send an email telling my kids that Im wrong.
 
Mine:

Misspelling "lose" as "loose". Of all the errors I'm guilty of, I've never made this one even once. Not even almost. Yet I see that misspelling all over the internet.
 
I just got the following in an email regarding my uncle replacing his old keyboard:

"I've hooked up my keyboard via UBS"

Oy.

MotionMan
 
Originally posted by: MotionMan
"UBS" cable

I cannot tell you how many times I have heard someone refer to a USB cable as a "UBS" cable this past week - and I do not even work in IT!!!

Has anyone else heard this and, if so, why does it seem to be such a common mistake by the non-computer folk?

MotionMan
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My Co-Worker calls AGP slots APG. Pisses me off lol.
 
people who refer to storage space with a singular unit like "200 gig of storage" instead of "200 gigs of storage"

Yet these same people would never do that with any other unit of measurement "go 7 mile down the road then turn left"

Bugs me a lot.
 
Schfifty Five said:
No, you aren't damned if you don't. If you don't, then it doesn't happen/exist and you won't be damned.
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If I start a new thread, people bitch. If I necro a thread, people bitch.

Thus, damned if I do, damned if I don't.

(Not posting at all is not an option.)

MotionMan
 
purbeast0 said:
never UBS before, but it's not nearly as bad as ignorant folk saying "aks" instead of "ask".
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Pretty sure "aks" has a proper etymology for being used in that context as I've had to post it every time someone brings it up. 😛 I do agree that it is weird to hear it because it isn't common; I never heard it until I moved to the south. I also find it interesting that it seems to be something that I've only heard black people use.
 
Aikouka said:
Pretty sure "aks" has a proper etymology for being used in that context as I've had to post it every time someone brings it up. 😛 I do agree that it is weird to hear it because it isn't common; I never heard it until I moved to the south. I also find it interesting that it seems to be something that I've only heard black people use.
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and im 100% confident that not 1 of the people i've ever heard use the word knows the history of it.
 
MotionMan said:
"UBS" cable

I cannot tell you how many times I have heard someone refer to a USB cable as a "UBS" cable this past week - and I do not even work in IT!!!

Has anyone else heard this and, if so, why does it seem to be such a common mistake by the non-computer folk?

MotionMan
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Thats nothing. I know people (who happen to be lawyers.....😛) who call it a "printer cable".
 
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