I hate

To be fair he sometimes switched eyebrows

Bane of my life with APAC people. I just wait until they figure it out 😑

Any "Hi!" (and a long pause) I just reply with https://www.nohello.com/

Otherwise I just ignore the "Hi!" and go back to what I'm doing as if they'd never sent it.

Reminds me of fucking telemarketers who waste your time introducing themselves without stating on whose behalf they're calling.

It's an unsolicited call; why would I give a flying fuck what your name is.

I'm on the 'do not call' list for telemarketers, but this doesn't apply to charities and anyone acting on behalf of a government... So, thanks to the state government offering a rebate for solar hot water or whatever, I have to put up with never-ending harassment from every joker trying to sell me an installation. FFS.

... And I already took advantage of such a rebate to get solar cells, and another one for a battery, but do you think there's any list I'm taken off for those? Nooooo, of course fucking not

Bane of my life with APAC people.

I've worked for or with large tech companies from India, China and Japan; yes,it does seem to be a more common habit in places where the corporate culture is more polite, hierarchical and deferential. Corporate IM isn't the only thing that can be affected; video conferences with teams from Japanese companies can be frustrating and unproductive if you don't understand the protocols.

Are you sure? I always assumed they just flipped the film.

I usually get "Hi this is unintelligible from unintelligible" and then they launch into their spiel. 9/10 times it's outsourced software development or pensions. I asked one guy to take me off their list, he told me he marked me as do not call. Called me back literally 5 minutes later.

I worked at a call centre in Canada and there was some sort of loophole about saying you were calling "on behalf of" someone. So we were regularly told to say we were calling "on behalf of Siemens", "on behalf of HP", etc despite having absolutely nothing to do with these companies. Straight up saying "I'm calling from Siemens" was a big no-no though, would get immediately flagged.

There were celebrations from the Syrian diaspora here today (flag waving, honking horns etc, nothing extreme). Some locals complained to the police as it was disrupting their commute.

When you click on an eBay link from Google, if you try and go back, it takes you through your fucking eBay page history rather than straight back to Google. Twats.

Thank you! I'm not the only one who finds this utterly infuriating!

Hasn’t happened to me, on an ipad but not using the app.

Certainly a thing on Android with the app installed

Weird it doesn't happen to me with the eBay app installed on (Android 12) using chrome 🤷‍♂️

Taps like this.

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Situational surely? Allotment fine, bathroom, weird.

Grave yard taps.

Long-press > open in new tab, look at the page, close tab. Fuck the app. I get a similar hassle with Reddit unless I do the above.

I know it's done to hell but people eating/chewing with their mouth open.

People projectile coughing into the air/my personal space/face.

Kids.

The holy trinity being the kids who projectile cough in your face whilst chewing open mouthed.

I had to remove myself from the room.

But it is adults with the chewing that's even more of a mental challenge for me.

AI. The way it tries to push woolly half-truths at you by dressing them up with bland, smarmy pompous verbiage. There's no benefit to mankind, it's just amping up the idiocy. The humans responsible for it should be shot.

All AI? I’ve heard that it’s beginning to be very useful in medical diagnostics.

Did ChatGPT write this?

I'm looking forward to AI translating the more intelligent animals' hatred of us