Doom
Posted: Thu 13 October, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness Leave a comment »Why is it that I see an advert for “Mrs Jessop and the Maths Lesson of Doom” (a play/musical comedy, supposedly) and straight away wonder if it was written by ScaryDuck?
Hiatus Day
Posted: Wed 12 October, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness Leave a comment »Blimey, it must be the day for it, or something. First Uborka disappears for a break, and then off goes Gordon ’til November.
I wonder who’ll be next…?
Travelling to Disasters
Posted: Mon 10 October, 2005 Filed under: Cynicism, Travel, Weirdness 1 Comment »While I can – kind of – empathise with people who are worried about their relatives/ family in situations like the earthquake in Pakistan, I really don’t understand what it is they think they can achieve by travelling out there.
It’s a phenomenon I’ve noticed more recently, and particularly since last year’s Boxing Day tsunami, where the news seemed to cover a lot of people doing this. Yes, sure, some of the people travelling over will have uses (on the news this morning I saw bits about doctors going over with supplies, that kind of thing) but the majority seem to be people saying “We’ve not heard from x, y and z so I’m going over to see if I can find out anything”. Why? Surely it’s best to stay at home, rather than adding to an already disastrous area by going over and getting in the way while looking for one’s family.
Frankly, to my mind I can see better priorities than going over there yourself. But hey, what would I know?
Mutterage
Posted: Mon 10 October, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness 1 Comment »Sometimes I just despair of human beings. Today’s cause of this despair was a woman using her Switch card to pay for her Daily Mail.
Yes, a Switch transaction for about 40p. No cashback, and a definite jangle of change from the purse as the card came out. (although, of course, I have no idea whether the change amounted to 40p’s worth or not)
*sigh*
Disparity
Posted: Mon 10 October, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness 1 Comment »Is it just me that sees the slight difference in these ideas?
One ) “US aid for the people affected by the Pakistan earthquake arrives within 48 hours”
Two ) “Some people waited two weeks for aid after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans”
So – 48 hours to get aid together and transport it half-way round the globe. 2 weeks to get it to the place it was needed within the US…
Speed of Communications
Posted: Tue 4 October, 2005 Filed under: Customer Services, Weirdness Leave a comment »After the conversation today, I’m beginning to suspect that either a)Argos exists in a different dimension to the rest of the world, or b) they’re a bunch of fucktard cunts with the technical skills of a slightly retarded marmoset. Or c) Both.
I’ve ordered a new sofa-bed for the spare bedroom – a long story I can’t be arsed to go into now, but it was needed – and ordered it from Argos. No particular reason, other than that they had one we liked. Which, when all’s said and done, is as good a reason as any.
The first insult-to-injury moment comes when the website says “This item is only available for home delivery” – fair enough, I don’t want to load a sofa-bed plus mattress etc into a Ford Focus – and I can see that this kind of thing would take up room in the shop warehouse, so great, deliver it directly to me. “Delivery costs £5 extra”. Cunts. Charging me to deliver something I can’t collect from the store – not just because it’s a hassle, but because you won’t stock it in the shops is taking the piss. But hey ho, it’s only a fiver. I can live with that.
So I ordered it. Easy. Except no confirmation comes through to my email address – it should do, they say they’ve sent one. And I can’t log back in using the email address I thought I’d given them, which means I’ve probably fucked it up. I call the customer helpline…
“Oh, don’t worry, the order’s gone through, but sometimes we it takes two days to send out the email”
“Eh? You’re taking the piss. Two days to send an email?”
“No, that’s right. It can take two days. It takes at least twenty-four hours for your customer account to be sorted out too.”
“But I did it all online – the information’s in the bloody database already!”
“Yeah, but it still takes time to set up…”
I despair. Bunch of idiots in a parallel dimension, I’m sure of it.
Disorganised
Posted: Fri 30 September, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness Leave a comment »For some reason, this week I’ve been incapable of actually organising myself properly at all. A prime example of this would be that I had a day where I’d simply a) forgotten to charge up my phone, then realised this in the morning, thought “I’ll put the charger in my bag”, followed by b) utterly and completely forgetting to pick up the charger. And there’ve been things like that all week.
Last night I took my headphones home for the first time in ages, as we were going to the gym and I needed them for the MP3 player. Only I forgot the MP3 player. This morning I’ve remembered the MP3 player but – you’re way ahead of me here, aren’t you? – I’ve left the bloody headphones at home.
Fortunately, my work stuff has been a lot more organised, so it’s only the domestic bit that’s chaotic. Hopefully I’ll be far more together after the weekend, although I’m not currently convinced of this…