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Quoth EricKei View PostI'm sure somewhere out there, a restaurant has a review that reads like "The service was just too fast! The waiters were smiling too much! These prices are so low I'm suspicious! 1 star!"
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I enjoy reading reviews where a mix of people tried a recipe as-is along with those that tweaked it *shrugs*. I guess I've always figured that each person has their own taste, likes and dislikes, and I enjoy the varying opinions explaining WHY an alteration works better for them. Maybe they like less salt, or thicker soup, etc etc.A lion however, will only devour your corpse, whereas an SC is not sated until they have destroyed your soul. (Quote per infinitemonkies)
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Quoth RecoveringKinkoid View PostI write westerns.Quoth MoonCat View PostWhat did they expect? A stroll through the meadow, picking dandelions...?
A Home in the Meadow from How The West Was Won.
Westerns can have a stroll through the meadow."I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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Quoth Ironclad Alibi View PostI am reminded of this song from a western.
A Home in the Meadow from How The West Was Won.
Westerns can have a stroll through the meadow.When you start at zero, everything's progress.
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Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post... Westerns can have a stroll through the meadow.I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
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Quoth bainsidhe View PostI enjoy reading reviews where a mix of people tried a recipe as-is along with those that tweaked it *shrugs*."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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"Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
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Quoth EricKei View PostI think what HH meant was that there are times that a reviewer will change most or all of the ingredients, and then give the recipe -- that they didn't actually follow -- a really low rating when the dish doesn't turn out well.
It's like moving to a small fishing community and complaining about the "ugly buildings on the waterfront." Those buildings were net sheds. The people complaining had lots of money, so the city demolished the sheds. Now that town doesn't even have a fuel dock, and many boaters skip the harbor entirely. Yet its slogan is "the maritime city." Who's bitter? Me?Replace anger management with stupidity management.
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Quoth MoonCat View PostWell, sure, but there's bound to be some of that other stuff, too...(fights, a swear word or two, and surely a saloon! )"I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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Quoth Monterey Jack View PostI remember when I saw the film Lust, Caution in a theater, and there were a couple of blue-hairs tutting throughout the fairly explicit sex scenes, and I was thinking, "Ladies...did not the presence of the word "Lust" in the title nor the NC-17 rating on the poster let you know what you were in for?1129. I will refrain from casting Dimension Jump and Magnificent Mansion on every police box we pass.
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They really do this!
Quoth EricKei View PostWelcome back!
...And, yeah, some folks will troll you that way, no matter what you do. I'm sure somewhere out there, a restaurant has a review that reads like "The service was just too fast! The waiters were smiling too much! These prices are so low I'm suspicious! 1 star!"
1) Customer described problem, we thought we knew what was wrong and quoted a high price to repair. Turned out we were wrong, it was a quick fix that used no parts.
Billed the customer the min. charge $15 plus taxes.
The Customer at pickup complained that the reason we quoted the high price is so we could "rip him off".
2) We did repairs in the order we received them. Told a customer it would be a business week before we could work on his machine. However, there was a mixup on the ordering of parts for the other repairs and we ended up working on the customer's machine the next day - and repairing too.
So we call the customer that his machine was ready for pickup.
The customer over the phone complains that he made all sorts of plans since he expected not to have his computer and now his whole week was ruined because we repaired the machine early.Last edited by earl colby pottinger; 09-04-2015, 06:47 AM.
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I admit, I was concerned about a quick turn around when I sent in a DS Lite to Nintendo for repair. Seriously, it was a lot faster than I expected. A week or two faster than I expected. Turns out the tech tried turning it on and decided it'd be faster and cheaper to send out another DS Lite. I only called them because I was kinda curious as to why it didn't take LONGER. No work order online for me to look at, just a "item in shipping."If I make no sense, I apologize. I'm constantly interrupted by an actual toddler.
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Quoth RecoveringKinkoid View PostYeah, there's a meadow in book three, and a brief bit of strolling...and...other things. So I guess it's a good thing this Very Sensitive Reader likely won't be going past book 1.When you start at zero, everything's progress.
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Quoth MoonCat View PostWhat's the name of that book again?
My stuff is more geared to the YA market, so in all honesty, it's not graphic. If you're looking for a book to bookmark with yellow stickies, mine are probably not what you're looking for.
I do intend to write a smut novella under a pseudonym after the last one in the series is done being published. Market experiment.
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