c'mon kids

[sooty]

where's our random ranty topic? where's our just venting about shit thats occured during the day/week/political climate/stealing our flatmates bike/lifetime (Rennee excepted of course, she's never shy)
i love this stupid forum. shameful as that mzay be.
but i feel we've become constrivete. *(that should clearly read constricted)
refined. debonair even for fucks sake.
how can we take such a namesake and not be full of at least ONE THREAD of random rambly shit.
it may be that you like icecream
it may be that you think that rich neighbourhood levels dave hughes as the shittest comic in aus.
i dont care
it may be that your friend was a drunken fuckwit, but all your other friends kknow you were a cold bitch to her, and now you're just procrastinatng to avoid your thesis which your clearly in over your hjead about and are going to fail at miserably. and it is at this stage u remember that sage advice "the less you try the less you fail" and long for a secretarial postiion, not because you think it will be easu but because it will be monotonous. and slightly fun due to its mundaneness.
or maybe thats just me.
But please. lets pull some community back in. i know i bailed on melb, and am an absolute rubbish friedn to dear ppl on this forum but lets vent, argue, rant, communicate. not just give socailly desirable answers for every fucking topic.



......Discuss

[hails]

are we making this the 'random bullshit' sister-thread to my 'random questions' thread?

coz i like that idea

[Mythor]

We also have the smacktard thread, for calling people... um... stuff!

Um, yeah.

[Mif]

damn... i thought this was a thread to discuss the 80's afternoon show classic "C'mon Kids"...

[Mythor]

Sadly, I remember that show. And can't imagine why anyone would want to discuss it.

[hails]

i'll start!

i like cheese. and i wish i had some, coz i have a craving for toasted cheese sandwiches.

i also wish i had some ham, coz i was watching inspector rex and everyone on the show had ham rolls, thus giving me another craving.

and i do like icecream

random!

[lily]

Originally Posted by sooty

where's our random ranty topic? where's our just venting about shit thats occured during the day/week/political climate/stealing our flatmates bike/lifetime (Rennee excepted of course, she's never shy)
i love this stupid forum. shameful as that mzay be.
but i feel we've become constrivete. *(that should clearly read constricted)
refined. debonair even for fucks sake.
how can we take such a namesake and not be full of at least ONE THREAD of random rambly shit.
it may be that you like icecream
it may be that you think that rich neighbourhood levels dave hughes as the shittest comic in aus.
i dont care
it may be that your friend was a drunken fuckwit, but all your other friends kknow you were a cold bitch to her, and now you're just procrastinatng to avoid your thesis which your clearly in over your hjead about and are going to fail at miserably. and it is at this stage u remember that sage advice "the less you try the less you fail" and long for a secretarial postiion, not because you think it will be easu but because it will be monotonous. and slightly fun due to its mundaneness.
or maybe thats just me.
But please. lets pull some community back in. i know i bailed on melb, and am an absolute rubbish friedn to dear ppl on this forum but lets vent, argue, rant, communicate. not just give socailly desirable answers for every fucking topic.



......Discuss

Standing FUCKING ovation for that.
Where's my applausey emoticon?

[Renee_Turner]

Originally Posted by sooty

(Rennee excepted of course, she's never shy)

Moi?

Well, if you want random bullshit...

Yesterday at work I had a customer come in and pay with a Shellcard. No problem. With these cards, you can enter an odometer reading. I made a keying error, and it was put in wrong. The guy threw a massive fit, saying I'd have to put it through again becuase his boss wouldn't pay for the fuel if the odometer wasn't right (which is a crock of shit, because you don't NEED to enter the odometer). I told him that it shouldn't be a problem, that they should pay for it anyway.

He then complained loudly about my attitude, and insisted on getting it refunded. Partway through doing the refund, I had to ask him to press "OK" again..he re-told me the odometer. I said "yes, I know that, press OK". He sighs like I'd asked him to remove his hand and clean under the shelves with it. It went through, I gave him the receipt, said 'have a nice day".

He just stood there. Looking at me. I wait. He says "aren't you going to say you're sorry?" I'm standing there in shock. Brain clicks out of 'customer service mode' into 'normal person'.
"No, I'm not going to say I'm sorry. Because I'm not. I made a keying error which I have since rectified." (At this point the other attendant has spotted my anger and is trying to step in.)
"Well, I won't be coming back here. You don't know a thing about customer service, do you?"
"My customer service is a reflection of my customers. Have a nice day."
"..." (realises I have handed his arse to him on a plate)
"Oh, she's a good one, isn't she?" *leaves*

I felt so good all afternoon. Normally I have to be scraping, 'yes sir, you can have thirty receipts, and no, you can't buy the two-for-one special, but only get one....', but actually getting a chance to vent was great. As an added bonus, the boss heard the whole thing, and all did was ask me if I could have handled it better. he assumed from my grin that I was fine with the way I'd handled it. No repurcussions. Woo!

(double-post to lj because that's where this rant belongs)

Random: I have so much chocolate in my room that I'm getting sick of it.

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by lily

Where's my applausey emoticon?

Here it is:

I don't know if I can be more random that posting pics of Godzilla fighting a pro-wrestler.

[katrant]

I had a shitty customer on the weekend too. I work in this swanky pen shop and after 9 or so years thought I'd seen it all. Except this tosser. He came in with his Montblanc pen stating it's not writing properly. I scribbled around with it, and saw instantly what the problem was - he'd dropped the pen at some stage and had damaged the tip of the refill so it wasn't writing properly. Conversation went something like this:

"Sir it's been dropped, and if it's dented the ink can't come out properly".
"So what are you going to do about it?"
"There's nothing I can really do, it's not a manufacturing fault."
"But when I came here before with other refills that only lasted a few months, you wouldn't help me then either. You just told me I write too much."
(it couldn't have been me personally, I'd never seen him before in my life)
"I can't comment on those times, sir, I can only comment on this refill."
"I want a replacement."
"I can't just replace it, because it's not a manufacturing fault. I'm happy to sell you one though."
"But it's faulty!"
(I can't believe I said it but I did!) "Sir if you run your car into a pole, that's not a manufacturing fault, is it? Same as this, you've dropped it and damaged it"
At this point I"m trying hard not to piss myself laughing. But it was also about this point he blew his top at me, stormed out and declared "I'm never buying my refills here again!"

Woohoo, another bad customer has pissed off - let the opposition have him, for all I care!!

[sooty]

Mif: admittedly, the themetune does pop into my head everytime I think of this thread, but I can't remember any more about the show than that. What actually happened in it?

And hooray for bastard customers getting their delicious come-uppance and leaving us with a lovely self-satisfying glow.

thanks Lily

the previously mentioned 21st birthday had such an excess of cheese, i think I may well have eaten my body weight. blue cheese, runny brie, hard cheddar....mmm cheese.

I also like icecream, but only if its ludicrous. like with runny chocolate, and caramel, and berry goo and all sorts of crap. or plain vanilla.

GODZILLA!!!!!

[JD3000]

Originally Posted by sooty

Mif: admittedly, the themetune does pop into my head everytime I think of this thread, but I can't remember any more about the show than that. What actually happened in it?

Didn't that show feature "Winky Dink" - a duck puppet?
Thanks for putting that crappy theme song in my head all day!

btw where's the "Cranky Old Man" thread for old geezers like me?
Damn young people!

[Mythor]

Originally Posted by sooty

Mif: admittedly, the themetune does pop into my head everytime I think of this thread, but I can't remember any more about the show than that. What actually happened in it?

I was too ashamed to admit that.

[Alisso]

Originally Posted by sooty

Mif: admittedly, the themetune does pop into my head everytime I think of this thread

It's been pissing me off all day!!

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by Alisso

It's been pissing me off all day!!

Now it's pissing us all off.

C'mon kids there's lots to do
Yeah c'mon kids, it's all for you!