The Official Fist Shaking Thread

[TheFallen]

...if somebody says, "That being said..." again I'll!!!!

People saying, "Having said that..." is just as bad!!! (we already know what you freakin' said we don't need a bleeping instruction manual...idiots! )

If you're condemning the two above examples to the lowest circle of Hell, why stop there? You might as well also burn "on the other hand", "but then again" and "alternatively" at the linguistic stake as well, plus countless others. It's madness I tell you... MADNESS. Won't somebody think of the children?
Damn you, danlo, for being churlish towards meaningless sentence fillers . However else are the slower of mind meant to buy time to collect their thoughts?

[danlo]

In other words, I'm making sense? WHAT "other" words!!?? Just what the HELL are these other words?! Dammit!@!!

[TheFallen]

And while we're on the subject...
Damn the fact that there's no synonym for "synonym"

[Cambo]

And what sadistic person made "dyslexia" such a dman hard word to spell?

(Edit) Damn ironic misspellings!

[dANdeLION]

People saying, "Having said that..." is just as bad!!! (we already know what you freakin' said we don't need a bleeping instruction manual...idiots! )

".......Having said that, danlo reloaded his shotgun, turned to face the sunset, and strode off into the night, never to be seen again by the humble townsfolk of Havinsedthat."

[danlo]

They did again on local sports talk radio yesterday afternoon! He could have just whistled if he wanted to take up dead air time---I guess they think it makes them sound smart of something-but-people don't listen to sports talk shows to here smart! Go Pack! Why? I don't know, but...(no I will not say that) as a Chargers fan I despise Hines Ward and the Steelers!!!

[Auleliel]

Darn dishes that won't wash themselves!

[peter]

Damn working in a 7-11 for minimum wage when you have the might of a titan, the intelect of a collosus, the beauty of a siren, the foresight of an oracle.......

(Also spracht die Terminal Underacheiver)

[aliantha]

Here at work, we have an open area on our floor to the floor below us. It's a weird architectural detail, kind of like a balcony, but it's more like a big hole with plexiglas panels for the railing. Anyway, there's a secretary who sits on the floor below who has the loudest sneeze in Christendom. I mean, it's *really* loud.

<Audience: How loud is it?>

Another secretary, who sits on the same floor as the sneezer but about half a block away, has been known to e-mail her a "bless you."

If it's not too noisy -- like right now -- I can hear her sneezing all the way up here. Hark! There she goes again!

But wait! Did I say she had the loudest sneeze in Christendom? She did -- until we brought on board the new partner on our hallway!

Damn the powers-that-be for not assigning Secretary Sneezy to Partner Sneezier -- and then not giving them their own separate building!

[peter]

But just imagine the boardering on superhero (or supervillain ) like powers of their possible future offspring. Cities will crumble, fisures will open, quite possibly the very fabric of the universe will be rent in twain......
Perhaps the 'Powers that be' do indeed comprehend the need for sneeze powerful individuals to be paired only to those carrying both the traits of micro-rhiny and diaphramatic flacididy - those whose snezze resembles at most powerful, that of water being squeezed from a wet paper bag.

[Orlion]

I'd like to challenge these sneezers to a sneeze-off. When walking the streets of Nicaragua, I'd sneeze and you'd hear some locals a few blocks away yell out, "Salud!"

[sindatur]

<Shakes Fist>
Cashiers giving out change.

No one ever makes sure all the bills are facing the right direction, or smoothed out and flat anymore, and you're lucky if they even count it back to you.

Back in the day, bills were always given to you in change, all in the same direction and not all folded 20 ways.

Is it too anal retentive of me to want them all the same direction in my wallet and to be reasonably flat?

[Orlion]

Cashiers probably like you, Sin. I'm serious, you probably make their jobs easier. An annoying thing I went through as a cashier is people paying with crumpled bills and jumbled change that you have to straighten out and count. As a result, we had crappy bills for change...

Damn inconsiderate consumers!:x

Don't know about this "right direction" you're talking about, though, what's the point in that?

[sindatur]

Cashiers probably like you, Sin. I'm serious, you probably make their jobs easier. An annoying thing I went through as a cashier is people paying with crumpled bills and jumbled change that you have to straighten out and count. As a result, we had crappy bills for change...

Damn inconsiderate consumers!:x

Don't know about this "right direction" you're talking about, though, what's the point in that?

So, you can easily see the denomination of the bills, heh. Don't want to accidentally spend a $10 as a $1

[Orlion]

Cashiers probably like you, Sin. I'm serious, you probably make their jobs easier. An annoying thing I went through as a cashier is people paying with crumpled bills and jumbled change that you have to straighten out and count. As a result, we had crappy bills for change...

Damn inconsiderate consumers!:x

Don't know about this "right direction" you're talking about, though, what's the point in that?

So, you can easily see the denomination of the bills, heh. Don't want to accidentally spend a $10 as a $1

I was thinking that was it but wasn't sure, thanks for the clear-up!

[Cambo]

I have to put all the notes in my drawer facing the same way, and flat, and I count them out for the customers whenever the amount is over fifty dollars.

Honestly, it's more for the supervisors benefit than the customers. When they count up the drawers, it helps to have all the notes even and facing the same way. And it sure as hell helps when there's the same amount of money in the drawer as the computer says there should be.

The cashiers in your area, Sindatur, must have some pissed off supervisors.

[sindatur]

I have to put all the notes in my drawer facing the same way, and flat, and I count them out for the customers whenever the amount is over fifty dollars.

Honestly, it's more for the supervisors benefit than the customers. When they count up the drawers, it helps to have all the notes even and facing the same way. And it sure as hell helps when there's the same amount of money in the drawer as the computer says there should be.

The cashiers in your area, Sindatur, must have some pissed off supervisors.

Yea, see, back in the Olden days, that's the way it was done, you put them in the drawer the right way, so you issue them as change all the same direction.

Maybe the obsession for me came from my 9 month stint as a cashier, eons ago

[aliantha]

I do it too -- make sure the bills all face the same direction in my wallet. Makes me slightly crazy when I get them back backwards, upside down, and every other way.

Of course, when I use the debit card, change isn't a problem. Maybe that's why cashiers today aren't careful with the bills -- they don't handle enough hard currency any more to get the practice with it...

[Avatar]

So, you can easily see the denomination of the bills, heh. Don't want to accidentally spend a $10 as a $1

Our notes have a different colour for each denomination.

--A

[Icarus Unfallen]

Supervisors, Cambo?

When I had to run a till as part of my job (admittedly, it's been many a year), we had to count our own drawer at the beginning and end of the shift, and balance it against the register tape. Oh, and this counting time was not part of the clocked shift...so those who were not good with numbers or just slow really got a bad deal.

Yes, we had to have all the bills facing the same way in the drawer. Of course!

What frosts me now is that most people working cashier jobs cannot make change at all. Heaven forbid you should produce a coin or two to simplify the change when they have seen the bills in your hand and assumed that your are only paying with colored paper and not little pieces of metal as well. Many's the time I have (for instance) paid $20.10 for a charge of 19.85...and had the clerk confidently try to give me 5 cents change. Then they act so put-upon when you suggest that what they have done is perhaps not entirely correct.