Full Version: Annoyances
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I am wondering why you were allowed at the interview.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Oct 14 2005, 12:04 PM) |
| I am wondering why you were allowed at the interview. |
That's where he blew it, showing up for the interview. The interviewer spotted a "problem."
I wasn't.
Even better - you got your niece to ask if you could hang out with the models? 
| QUOTE (Stone @ Oct 14 2005, 12:55 PM) |
| I wasn't. |
Move the previous question.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Oct 14 2005, 03:00 PM) |
| Even better - you got your niece to ask if you could hang out with the models? |
Apparently all of the interviews for the show include a warning that, if hired, the person must behave professionally and may not permit guests (viz: uncles) to show up.
| QUOTE (Stone @ Oct 14 2005, 12:26 PM) |
| My neice got a job as a production assistant on the Victoria's Secret Runway Show. During the interview, the interviewer stressed that I was not allowed on the set. |
Some friends of mine did the wings for the angels on that show a couple of years back. I don't know if they are still doing them, but they had photos of themsleves with Tyra Banks.
| QUOTE (Stone @ Oct 20 2005, 09:04 AM) | ||
Apparently all of the interviews for the show include a warning that, if hired, the person must behave professionally and may not permit guests (viz: uncles) to show up. |
especially creepy uncles.
UP*%#!!S. They can't arrange for a better time for delivery. They can't leave the packages in the garage like everyone else does. They arrange for pickup but the directions on mapquest are wrong. There's no phone number to reach the local place and the directions from UPS 1-800 are also wrong. I would think it was my mistake but for some reason a lot of the roads on one side of town are marked wrong -- this has happened before. I think the town was planning off-ramps at some point in the future and never bothered to put them in. ARGH!!!
At least two of my male coworkers have recently incorporated baseball caps into their daily ensembles. Baseball caps which they never take off. What gives??
Can you tell I still haven't gotten over the dope who, last year, showed up in full Red Sox regaglia on the day of every playoff game?
Can you tell I still haven't gotten over the dope who, last year, showed up in full Red Sox regaglia on the day of every playoff game?
How about guys who wear baseball caps in a restaurant and don't take them off?
I could not imagine wearing a baseball cap to the office. Ball caps are reserved for wearing to games, or weekend mornings when one is too hungover to shower and comb one's hair.
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Oct 20 2005, 02:32 PM) |
| How about guys who wear baseball caps in a restaurant and don't take them off? |
Grounds for murder.
| QUOTE (Daisy @ Oct 20 2005, 02:32 PM) |
| At least two of my male coworkers have recently incorporated baseball caps into their daily ensembles. Baseball caps which they never take off. What gives?? |
Incipient slapheadedness would be my guess. (Arrogantly tossing silver mane.)
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Oct 20 2005, 02:09 PM) |
| (Arrogantly tossing silver mane.) |
Onto a nearby coat peg?
I lost a necklace. 
Which one?
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Oct 20 2005, 03:11 PM) | ||
Onto a nearby coat peg? |
rofl, that is too f'in funny.
| QUOTE (Abbylovi @ Oct 20 2005, 03:20 PM) |
| I lost a necklace. |
Not the eBay one, I hope!
Not the eBay one, one of my Amber ones that I got from Mexico. 
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Oct 20 2005, 12:32 PM) |
| How about guys who wear baseball caps in a restaurant and don't take them off? |
The best was I was at this "nicer" Chinense restaurant in town, and this guy was there with wife and three kids. He's going on and on, lecturing his kids about please and thank you and keep your elbows off the table and all the while he's wearing shorts, sneakers and a baseball cap that he didn't take off during the entire meal. I mean, come on!
| QUOTE (Abbylovi @ Oct 20 2005, 03:28 PM) |
| Not the eBay one, one of my Amber ones that I got from Mexico. |
I hate that feeling of loss especially if it's not something I can duplicate easily
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Oct 20 2005, 01:32 PM) |
| How about guys who wear baseball caps in a restaurant and don't take them off? |
Depends. Do the caps say "fuck" on them?
Only in the restaurants which show snuff movies during dinner.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Oct 20 2005, 03:40 PM) |
| Only in the restaurants which show snuff movies during dinner. |
Tony once beat up some guy who wore his baseball cap in Artie's restaurant.
and I went to law school with a guy who wore a baseball cap every single day of the first two year. (I assume he wore it the third year as well, but I wasn't there.)
goddamn new toner cartridge won't work with the printer. it is the right cartridge (exact same thing as the one it is replacing), fits in the slot but the printer goes haywire the moment i snap it into place. i am about to call office depot--my sense of foreboding is already in place.
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Oct 20 2005, 06:11 PM) |
| goddamn new toner cartridge won't work with the printer. it is the right cartridge (exact same thing as the one it is replacing), fits in the slot but the printer goes haywire the moment i snap it into place. i am about to call office depot--my sense of foreboding is already in place. |
in a pleasant surprise office depot swapped it out with no hassle, and the new one works fine.
next annoyance: the price of toner cartridges.
Electrical fire closes down subway. I love to start the day with a forty block walk. Thank goodness the MTA is concentrating on the important issues, like open beverage containers.
What lines are closed?
Nevermind - I just saw the service alert on the MTA website.
Nevermind - I just saw the service alert on the MTA website.
| QUOTE (Ron Johnson @ Oct 20 2005, 06:33 PM) |
| Ball caps are reserved for wearing to games, or weekend mornings when one is too hungover to shower and comb one's hair. |
or hot kitchens.My current BB hat is a Mad Fish one , a gift from my wine man.I'm so kool
You would think the whole Upper West Side is either self-employed or unemployed based on the crowds at Fairway today. Sheer mayhem at 1:15pm.
And, to top it off, they're shooting a movie on the block. The scene they were setting up was of a city bus following an accident -- I got a glimpse of a prosthetic leg under the rear wheel and lots of fake blood.
And, to top it off, they're shooting a movie on the block. The scene they were setting up was of a city bus following an accident -- I got a glimpse of a prosthetic leg under the rear wheel and lots of fake blood.
| QUOTE (Basildog @ Oct 21 2005, 07:31 PM) | ||
or hot kitchens.My current BB hat is a Mad Fish one , a gift from my wine man.I'm so kool |
Would that there were more of you guys. I just returned from lunch at a rather upscale bistro and the guy sitting next to my friend was wearing a goddamn baseball cap.
Did he have a "New York accent?"
baseball caps are bad because they remind you of that dreadful, boring sport, right? or would a fedora indoors bother you as much as well?
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Oct 24 2005, 12:27 PM) |
| baseball caps are bad because they remind you of that dreadful, boring sport, right? |
Cricket?
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Oct 24 2005, 02:27 PM) |
| baseball caps are bad because they remind you of that dreadful, boring sport, right? or would a fedora indoors bother you as much as well? |
I like baseball.
Yes, a fedora would annoy me as much. It's rude and asinine to wear a hat indoors.
Edited to add: Of course, yarmulkes, turbans worn by Sikhs and that little skullcap thingie that looks like a yarmulke and is worn by higher ups in the Catholic church are not included in this dictum against indoor headgear. Nor those high hats worn by bishops--is that called a mitre? But I bet a bishop wouldn't wear his mitre to La Goulue.
Exactly. Wearing a hat indoors is bad manners.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Oct 24 2005, 12:34 PM) |
| Exactly. Wearing a hat indoors is bad manners. |
how about a mustache?
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Oct 24 2005, 02:37 PM) | ||
how about a mustache? |
Don't confuse bad taste with bad manners.
How about a mustache?
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Oct 24 2005, 12:34 PM) |
| http://www.bcvc.net/hats/ |
please note:
| QUOTE |
| Indoors, a man should always remove his hat, (particularly in a home, church, courtroom or restaurant) except: .... (3) or while seated at the "lunch counter" of a diner or cafe; |
since they didn't have 4 star restaurants back in the day i think this rule can be liberally interpreted. plus if your fancy-schmancy restaurant has the word "cafe" in its name you're home free anyway.
again, these rules don't seem to apply to women. damned double standards.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Oct 24 2005, 01:39 PM) |
| How about a mustache? |
Don't you even think about it (I mean a mustache alone).
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Oct 24 2005, 02:39 PM) |
| How about a mustache? |
Present company excepted of course.
I like the beard and mustache combination on some men. I rarely like a mustache alone (with apologies to Steve R.)
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Oct 24 2005, 12:41 PM) |
| I like the beard and mustache combination on some men. |
or as tom cruise calls it, a threesome.
moustaches are the new wedding bands.
Excuse me, I have never worn just a mustache.
I had no doubt.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Oct 24 2005, 06:34 PM) |
| Exactly. Wearing a hat indoors is bad manners. |
How about a doorag? I do that. Hats too. I could give a shit if it's bad manners, either. If this world is going to hell in a handbasket, I am determined to do my part.
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