Wherein A Single Call Makes My Entire Week ( Epic )

[JustaCashier]

I actually admire that woman.

I. Just. Can't. Multitask.

There's no way I could think and say "LA LA LALALALALALA LA! LALALALALLALALALALAAAAAAAAAAAAAA", at the same time.


Mike

[Raventhistle]

I am, at this very moment, slightly shamed to own a pair of Skullcandy earbuds.

In my defense, they're the best earbuds I've ever owned, and they don't hurt like other earbuds do...but still...Skullcandy...I cannot defend your decision to wander into the world of Bling.

I cannot.
*cries*

[Android Kaeli]

Um, I may be the only person who actually likes those headphones? Seriously, I think they're cool looking, although I wouldn't mind them in silver.

....you may now smack me on the back of the head. >.<


On the other related stories, someone humping a police car? I, too, will wait for the Youtube video.

[firecat88]

I am, at this very moment, slightly shamed to own a pair of Skullcandy earbuds.

In my defense, they're the best earbuds I've ever owned, and they don't hurt like other earbuds do...but still...Skullcandy...I cannot defend your decision to wander into the world of Bling.

I cannot.
*cries*

I too have a pair of Skullcandy earbuds (Smokin' Buds. The rasta ones. ). They are the best headphones I've ever had.

However, those things were several different kinds of atrocious....though these aren't much better:



*cowers in fear*

[XCashier]

A resoundingly average gentleman got on the Skytrain at Metrotown. ...I had just watched every one of the 5 stages of grief play out between Joyce and Stadium over a box of crackers.

What the hell is in the drinking water in Vancouver?! Every night there's a freakshow on the Skytrain!

Me: “And the card number please?”
SC: “Actually, I’d rather use yours.”
Me: “……er..and the card number please?”
SC: “I SAID I would like to use YOURS. Ha ha.”

"Only if you promise to buy a better sense of humor, sir."

Officer: “I have a Mr Dumbass in custody here that would like to speak with his lawyer.”
Me: “Alright, whose his lawyer?”
Officer: “Mr Lawyer.”
Me: “Alright, what’s he in custody for?”
Officer: “Indecent exposure. He decided to pull his pants off in front of a crowd at a bar. Than when we pulled up he began humping our patrol car."
Me: "........"
Officer: "......."
Me: "....Wow."
Officer: “Indeed.”

You've just spoken to a member of the one occupation with worse customers than even you get. The only difference is, he gets to throw them in a jail cell if they're assholish enough.

Me: “Are you calling to place an order?”
SC: “Oo, oo, oo, yes!”

Paging Arnold Horshack...

Me: “And how do you spell your last name?”
SC: “B-R-O-W-N”
Me: “B-R-O-W-N?”
SC: “B-R….er, wait, B-R-E-W-N.”
Me: “B-R-E-W-N?”
SC: “Wait, uh, oh! B-E-R-E-W-N”

You know your in for a long night when the client can't even spell her own name...!

SC: “( At the absolute TOP of her fucking lungs ): LA LA LA LA LA LALAL ALALALAL LALALAL BLALAAGH BLAH BLAH LAALALA!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you allowed to hang up on customers if they're being obnoxious morons?

SC: “Trynna think. Give me a second.

Oh, that's what that rusty metal scraping noise was!

Its suppose to be a size 38. Apparently.”

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

I think if you wear those gold foil headphones with your pink camo tracksuit, you spontaneously combust. Or at least you should.

Alas, poor Gravekeeper. Seriously, I'm surprised you haven't gone on a rampage yet. To quote the wisdom of Bluto from Animal House, "My advice is to start drinking heavily."

[Gaki]

I'm so sorry, I choked on my spit and cried tears of blood when I read this. The lottery is worse in person, believe me. I try to tell myself that they don't know any better and it's so much easier to tell them subtly that they're assholes when you can laugh "too much" at the "joke" and just go so over the top with it that they realize how obnoxious they are.

[Midorikawa]

I am, at this very moment, slightly shamed to own a pair of Skullcandy earbuds.

In my defense, they're the best earbuds I've ever owned, and they don't hurt like other earbuds do...but still...Skullcandy...I cannot defend your decision to wander into the world of Bling.

They aren't bad headphones, and especially not for the price. However, I can hear things in the headphones that most people can't, and thus, is where I'm doomed. I'm an audiophile, and can tell exactly what frequencies those headphones can't really reproduce well.

For the record, the ones I tried had a sharp drop off in response around the 1KhZ range, with a slight distortion about the 8KHz range (8-12KHz I'd guess, can't really tell without an oscilloscope). They respond really well to bass frequencies, and if your style of music revolves around the bass range, then they're great. I have such a wide taste in music that those headphones would drive me nuts.

I use Grado Labs SR60i's as my regular every day headphones, and they reproduce all frequencies fairly well, but have a mid range frequency drop in response, somewhere between 800MHz and 5KHz. Granted, they cost me $80, so I don't expect perfect reproduction. I just avoid songs that revolve around that range. :-P

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[El Pollo Guerrera]

Re: the final call...

I may have seen her. When I went to the local magazine shop today there was a skinny, twitchy woman standing at the counter and just RAMBLING out loud at nothing. She was even going LALALALALALALA along with the music on the radio.

And when I say 'twitchy' I mean it... it looked like she just could not stop moving.

[Muses_nightmare]

The headphones remind me of my hometown, which being in northern BC is inhabited by a similar group of apparently blind people. If you ever start getting calls from a town that starts with a T ends with an E and rhymes with Paris let me know so I can remember not to move back there too quickly....

[Darkforge]

you're basically a Cuntizard to the regular Cuntmander.

^this, this made me laugh so hard it hurts now, my collegues are still laughing. And the worst thing? I know exactly how that feels, I need to use that to describe those types of customers, they don't come along very often, but they are just a special kind of annoying customers who stand head and shoulders above the rest of the annoying customers. They will now be known in my place of work as the Cuntizards.

Thank you GK, you are a god amongst call centre reps

[Chainsmith]

Oh Wow

They’ve done it. They’ve finally done it. <Northern Serving Client> now stocks a product so offensively ridiculous that I honestly think I would have to smack anyone I saw wearing it. Upside the back of the head. Than demand to know what the hell they were thinking when they actually paid money for it.

Behold:




Yes, that’s right. It’s a pair of gold foil headphones. Gold foil. Finally, headphones just as awful as your taste in music.
annnnd rest. -.-

Well i just want to say, that brand of headphones are great. they do some odd things. I mean they make that pair in black too and they are bad as well. I bet you are asking whats wrong with a black set of headphones? well how about the fact that they are fuzzy? [IMG}http://www.techpin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/skull-candy-ti-headphones-2.jpg[/IMG]

[Darkforge]

I think if you wear those gold foil headphones with your pink camo tracksuit, you spontaneously combust. Or at least you should.

IPF, you've got it wrong, pink camo tracksuit with the ones so kindly found by firecat...

However, those things were several different kinds of atrocious....though these aren't much better:

now that would cause some sort of disruption in the time-space continuum creating a black hole wherever they were worn together.

Oh wait i guess nunavut is a reasonable desciption of a black hole

[Jester]

Re: the final call...

I may have seen her. When I went to the local magazine shop today there was a skinny, twitchy woman standing at the counter and just RAMBLING out loud at nothing. She was even going LALALALALALALA along with the music on the radio.

And when I say 'twitchy' I mean it... it looked like she just could not stop moving.

And you think this is unique to one woman.....why?

Have you never ridden public transportation?

[Gravekeeper]

And you think this is unique to one woman.....why?

Have you never ridden public transportation?

Jester has a point.

Also, head phones should not be fluffy. Damn things are $70 too.

[Magpie]

There's no way I could think and say "LA LA LALALALALALA LA! LALALALALLALALALALAAAAAAAAAAAAAA", at the same time.

You seem to be forgetting that this woman clearly couldn't either.

For the record, the ones I tried had a sharp drop off in response around the 1KhZ range, with a slight distortion about the 8KHz range (8-12KHz I'd guess, can't really tell without an oscilloscope).

You're as bad as my brother-in-law. He tried to figure out what frequency caused the buzz in his computer speakers. With the help of his keyboard he got it (I can't remember what note it is). He now uses that to figure out what keys various songs are in.

And as for the gold foil headphones. Gold is a very good conductor of heat. Since I have the book RIGHT here (I had to move my hand about 30 cm to pick it up), I can tell you that the heat conductivity is 317 W/(m K). Currently in Iqaluit the temperature is 3 degrees. It is 21 here. Assuming that the 20 degree difference remains, it gets well below -40 there in the winter. And since they have no darkness today, and no sun then, I'm going to assume it's significantly more of a difference. I'm really going to have to wonder why you'd want to wear an effective heat sink fin on your head. Forget looking ugly, those things are evolution in action.