the most ridiculous complaint you have heard.

RainyDay

Timmyctc wrote: »

I'm sure if all these stupid complaint people knew we were calling them idiots they would also be hurt. Picking and choosing what words you feel cause offence to people and what words don't, is retarded.

I'm not sure how many more times I need to explain it. I'm not picking and choosing what words I feel cause offence to people. I'm telling you, for a fact, that the word retard causes offence to many people with intellectual disabilities. You're choosing to ignore that fact, and you're explicitly choosing to offend many people with intellectual disabilities, and their families. Nice.

Timmyctc wrote: »

As an aside. Why is Paki derogatory. It's short for Pakistani. Its one of the most stupid slurs ever. Its just an abbreviation of the word.

No idea why, but regardless, it is derogatory, it does cause offence. Do you use it much around Indian or Pakistani or Bangladeshi people? No, I thought not.

bear1 wrote: »

The N word is very extreme and I'd rather call someone who is acting the maggot a retard than call a coloured person an N.

And why would you not use N-I-G-G-E-R to a black person? Possibly because you know that you'll get your ass kicked? But you reckon you can get away with it when you slag off people with intellectual disabilities. You're so brave.

Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius!

RainyDay wrote: »

Too long to quote.


And why would you not use N-I-G-G-E-R to a black person? Possibly because you know that you'll get your ass kicked? But you reckon you can get away with it when you slag off people with intellectual disabilities. You're so brave.

Will all of you SHUT.UP.
Ruining what was a brilliant thread.
GIVE IT A REST!!

DVDM93

What about the word 'chink'? I really think this would add to the debate. Or 'traveller" even, just for good measure. Any others?

Have to say I was really enjoying this thread, and then this debate starts. Now I love it even more, really adds to the thread giving people something to complain about within the thread

Really though, take it elsewhere please it's boring.

LizT

Mod

Can we get back on topic please?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Just saw lizT post there, sorry.


Anyway I was in meteor this morning and some young one was having a **** fit that meteor had cut her off for not paying her bill. Her argument was why should she pay her bill when meteor wasn't sending her a bill in the post. The very patient sales assistant explained her bill was online but the girl wanted her phone connected, for free, because of not getting paper bills

Rory28

This is more of an employee complaint but it closer to the topic than PC bullcrap.

I used to work in construction and was doing an extension. There were around 1500 cavity blocks delivered to the site but the guy who lived there didn't want the truck delivering the bricks to drive up his driveway incase he broke a pot or plant. So the driver left them at the end of his 1 acre long driveway. I had only a wheelbarrow. It was horrible. I still get flashbacks of moving all them bricks.

Timmyctc

RainyDay wrote: »

I'm not sure how many more times I need to explain it. I'm not picking and choosing what words I feel cause offence to people. I'm telling you, for a fact, that the word retard causes offence to many people with intellectual disabilities. You're choosing to ignore that fact, and you're explicitly choosing to offend many people with intellectual disabilities, and their families. Nice.

No idea why, but regardless, it is derogatory, it does cause offence. Do you use it much around Indian or Pakistani or Bangladeshi people? No, I thought not.


And why would you not use N-I-G-G-E-R to a black person? Possibly because you know that you'll get your ass kicked? But you reckon you can get away with it when you slag off people with intellectual disabilities. You're so brave.

Why would I call a Bangladeshi person Paki? Thats retarded. I would and have called a Pakistani person Paki. As many pakistani people refer to themselves.

Anyways. Had another customer in the sweetshop once ask for a particular type of sweet which upon inspection she didnt feel qas the same one she was referring to so i kindly let her try one before deciding on purchasing or not. She ended up tasting the sweet. Buying a bag then complaining that they werent the same as the onea she rememberes/wanted standing.in front of me scowling for about five mins

rawn

http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Seinfeld-Leaving.gif

Generic Dreadhead

Timmyctc wrote: »

Why would I call a Bangladeshi person Paki? Thats retarded. I would and have called a Pakistani person Paki. As many pakistani people refer to themselves.

Anyways. Had another customer in the sweetshop once ask for a particular type of sweet which upon inspection she didnt feel qas the same one she was referring to so i kindly let her try one before deciding on purchasing or not. She ended up tasting the sweet. Buying a bag then complaining that they werent the same as the onea she rememberes/wanted standing.in front of me scowling for about five mins

Do you work in the 1970s? :pac:

"Ah we used to go to the local Sweetery where young Timmy Pockets worked to get our treats for helping mother"

:pac::pac::pac:

Oregano_State

Rory28 wrote: »

This is more of an employee complaint but it closer to the topic than PC bullcrap.

I used to work in construction and was doing an extension. There were around 1500 cavity blocks delivered to the site but the guy who lived there didn't want the truck delivering the bricks to drive up his driveway incase he broke a pot or plant. So the driver left them at the end of his 1 acre long driveway. I had only a wheelbarrow. It was horrible. I still get flashbacks of moving all them bricks.

Sorry now to be a d1ck, but how long is an acre?

somuj

Oregano_State wrote: »

Sorry now to be a d1ck, but how long is an acre?

82 quatloos long

ToddyDoody

"My hooker smells of ****e"

DVDM93

Rory28 wrote: »

This is more of an employee complaint but it closer to the topic than PC bullcrap.

I used to work in construction and was doing an extension. There were around 1500 cavity blocks delivered to the site but the guy who lived there didn't want the truck delivering the bricks to drive up his driveway incase he broke a pot or plant. So the driver left them at the end of his 1 acre long driveway. I had only a wheelbarrow. It was horrible. I still get flashbacks of moving all them bricks.

JESUS! I can only hope you were paid by the hour and not for a set price for the entire job.




Actually no, I hope you were paid by the brick, and generously. You poor bastard!

wotswattage

The smoking area in your pub is too smokey...

biketard

I used to work as technical support for a mobile phone company.

One day a customer called up, absolutely raging because his phone wouldn't stop beeping, even if he switched it off.

After a very long and confusing phone call, it was discovered that the beeping was coming from a smoke alarm in the same room with a low battery.

Barely There

I was on a train once in the UK.
A fellow Irish guy was escorted into the carriage that I was in by a ticket inspector.

He had been removed from the First Class section because he only had a normal ticket.

He proceeded to complain bitterly for a good 5 minutes. At one stage he called the inspector a "black bastard", who amazingly kept incredibly calm during the whole rant.

He finished his foul-mouthed, expletive laden tirade by shouting after the inspector;
"First class, Second Class - we should all be the same!"

The irony presumably was lost on him.

rustyzip

I worked in a hotel before.
They gave away (as a competition) a girlie night away for 6 people.. dinner, treats, spa treatments etc)
The person who won brought three people and wanted a 'refund' for the other three people as she wasn't using the full prize!

Wonder why she couldn't find anyone else to bring with her!!!

endacl

Rory28 wrote: »

This is more of an employee complaint but it closer to the topic than PC bullcrap.

I used to work in construction and was doing an extension. There were around 1500 cavity blocks delivered to the site but the guy who lived there didn't want the truck delivering the bricks to drive up his driveway incase he broke a pot or plant. So the driver left them at the end of his 1 acre long driveway. I had only a wheelbarrow. It was horrible. I still get flashbacks of moving all them bricks.

I have a complaint. An acre is not a unit of length.

It's Han Solo all over again. You can't do the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs. A parsec is a unit of length, not speed!

:pac:

Rory28

endacl wrote: »

I have a complaint. An acre is not a unit of length.

It's Han Solo all over again. You can't do the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs. A parsec is a unit of length, not speed!

:pac:

In a roundabout way you called me Han Solo.
Thank you.

endacl

Rory28 wrote: »

In a roundabout way you called me Han Solo.
Thank you.

Very welcome.

Padkir

endacl wrote: »

I have a complaint. An acre is not a unit of length.

It's Han Solo all over again. You can't do the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs. A parsec is a unit of length, not speed!

:pac:

She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene... :P

Michael D Not Higgins

endacl wrote: »

I have a complaint. An acre is not a unit of length.

It's Han Solo all over again. You can't do the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs. A parsec is a unit of length, not speed!

:pac:

That's been retconned by saying the Kessel Run is 18 parsecs long and they managed a shorter and thus faster route.

endacl

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

That's been retconned by saying the Kessel Run is 18 parsecs long and they managed a shorter and thus faster route.

That's like saying "I did Route 66 faster by taking the freeways"!

Vicxas

Standing in Tesco, with a lady in front of me:

"This Bread is too fresh, do you have any less fresh bread"


/life

endacl

Vicxas wrote: »

Standing in Tesco, with a lady in front of me:

"This Bread is too fresh, do you have any less fresh bread"


/life

Context. Maybe she'd already asked for slightly stale brioche to make French toast?

Vicxas

endacl wrote: »

Context. Maybe she'd already asked for slightly stale brioche to make French toast?

Hmmmmmm, your logic confuses and enrages me...

Rosy Posy

Ot I always hated being called a paki growing up...being of Kashmiri Hindu descent bad enough that my ancesters had been slaughtered by the fcukers but then to be mistaken for one..,

Back on topic...in years of working in 'Indian' restaurants (for bona fide Pakistanis) frequently had the mildest of the mild curries returned as being too spicy..,ffs if you hate curry then why go to an Indian restaurant! I was always quite pleased as on these occasions the management, being schooled in obsequiousness, would let me into the kitchen to make chicken or crab claws in white wine sauce for the offended customer!

Drakares

This poor woman has my deepest sympathies.

maximoose

Barely There wrote: »

And a f@ggot is a bunch of sticks.

I will continue to talk about burning f@ggots in my fire despite the strange looks I get in the canteen.

I always wonder about the origin of the name for this roundabout in Naas.

That town planner must have really hated roundabouts.

endacl

maximoose wrote: »

I always wonder about the origin of the name for this roundabout in Naas.

That town planner must have really hated roundabouts.

There was a big bundle of sticks dropped there in 1962. Nobody took responsibility to clear them up, so the locals were forced to treat them as a roundabout. Kildare CC simply formalised the arrangement when the road was being resurfaced, and plonked a permanent roundabout down on top of the sticks.

True story.

pickarooney

That's quite the circumlocution

southcentralts

I had to thank a post, which I did not like so that the thank's count would be 69!

DeVore

Well if you want to get kinda pedantic about it lengths of distance are quite dependent on time and speed and observer frame of reference. Its called Lorentz Contraction and basically says that the faster you go the shorter distances become due to Relativity and the upper bound of the speed of light in the universe.

Physics, is very weird.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction

endacl

DeVore wrote: »

Well if you want to get kinda pedantic about it lengths of distance are quite dependent on time and speed and observer frame of reference. Its called Lorentz Contraction and basically says that the faster you go the shorter distances become due to Relativity and the upper bound of the speed of light in the universe.

Physics, is very weird.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction

So.......

Han Solo wasn't talking through his wormhole?

Curse you DeVore. Curse you and your damn science.

:mad:

Grayson

Drakares wrote: »

This poor woman has my deepest sympathies.

You should check out Vice news Cry baby of the week section. There's hundreds of whingy idiots

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/tag/Cry-Baby+of+the+Week


Here's one of the dumber ones

The incident: A family were told they were not allowed to bring knives into an amusement park.

The appropriate response: Nothing. Why on earth would you be allowed to bring a knife into an amusement park?

The actual response: They attacked two cops and started a mini riot.

On Monday, five members of the Perry family attempted to visit Canobie Lake Amusement Park in Salem, New Hampshire.

At least two members of the family had hunting knives attached to their belts as they tried to enter the park. Predictably, a member of staff told them they were not allowed to take the knives into the park, and would have to leave them in their car.

This didn't sit too well with the family, who reportedly became "belligerent" and launched a "swear-filled tirade" against the staff member.

Two police officers who were already at the park tried to intervene. After giving several verbal warnings to the family, an officer told a male member of the family that he was under arrest and attempted to handcuff him.

As he placed the cuffs on the man, the rest of the family attacked, jumping on the officers backs, punching them, kicking them and attempting to grab their weapons. Both officers were injured. One had to be treated in hospital for a dislocated shoulder.

When backup arrived and moved to arrest everyone, the mother of the family faked a seizure. She was was examined by paramedics at the scene, who concluded she was a massive ****ing liar.

The family were charged with a range of crimes including felony riot, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

FullblownRose

I overheard an argument in a bookshop. A customer insisting that you can't copyright history in a history book. sales assistant was trying to explain copyright. Customer sounded a bit bonkers. It must be a stressful job, sales!

endacl

I worked in a local video rental place around the time Schindler's List was released. I had a muppet come back in to return the movie about half an hour after he rented it, giving out stink that I hadn't told him that it was in black and white. He got even angrier when I burst out laughing at him, which prompted several other browsers in the to also start laughing.

Funny day.

OldNotWIse

Someone who wanted to make a complaint before asked me if she could speak to "someone who makes decisions" - What like, in general?

DeVore

When Boards was hacked about 5 years ago... everyone was really nice about it and we got a lot of praise for how we handled it.

Except from one user who said we didn't do enough. The email exchange we had went like this (please note, this wasn't a troll or a joker, this was a very genuine user who was annoyed because he had used the same password on every site!)


Him: "You should have let people know!'

Us: "We closed the site immediately and put a huge notice on the page explaining the situation"

"I didn't visit the site during that time!"

"We put a message on the top of every forum for weeks"

"I didn't notice, why didn't you email me!"

"You opted out of the admin emailing list, we legally cant once you did that!"

"You should have found another way to contact me!"

"We sent you a PM. "

"Ah, sure I never look at those things."

"We did interviews with all the major press and RTE..."

"You should have phoned me!"






:eek:

DVDM93

DeVore wrote: »

When Boards was hacked about 5 years ago... everyone was really nice about it and we got a lot of praise for how we handled it.

Except from one user who said we didn't do enough. The email exchange we had went like this (please note, this wasn't a troll or a joker, this was a very genuine user who was annoyed because he had used the same password on every site!)


Him: "You should have let people know!'

Us: "We closed the site immediately and put a huge notice on the page explaining the situation"

"I didn't visit the site during that time!"

"We put a message on the top of every forum for weeks"

"I didn't notice, why didn't you email me!"

"You opted out of the admin emailing list, we legally cant once you did that!"

"You should have found another way to contact me!"

"We sent you a PM. "

"Ah, sure I never look at those things."

"We did interviews with all the major press and RTE..."

"You should have phoned me!"






:eek:

You should have phoned him.

endacl

DVDM93 wrote: »

You should have phoned him.

Agreed. You didn't phone me either. I realise I hadn't signed up at the time , but really, a courtesy phone call would've been nice. I want my money back and something for free.

:mad:

Tim the Enchanter

Don't know if its been posted already but this was pretty good -

http://www.joe.ie/news/current-affairs/fiancee-discovers-truth-about-stag-party-after-hotel-complaint-backfires-on-facebook/

DVDM93

endacl wrote: »

Agreed. You didn't phone me either. I realise I hadn't signed up at the time , but really, a courtesy phone call would've been nice. I want my money back and something for free.

:mad:

Likewise, I couldn't care less what it is of whether or not I'll even have any use for it. I better get something for free though.

DVDM93

I'd also like my post count refunded. I shouldn't have to waste posts on complaining about something that is your fault.

DeVore

We also had an MEP (not an irish one) write to us to complain that we were breaching her daughters Freedom of Speech as per the UN Charter because we removed her spam about a romantic novel she had written....which she spammed EVERYWHERE.


Or we had a guy complain that it tooks AAAGES for boards to load. Now, we keep geek-level stats on everything in Boards. We know the average time to load Boards for any user as it happens... so we looked up his times and it was 3 *seconds*.... But the delivery time was a few seconds too, which is a bit weird...

Then we dug up his location and it was San Francisco and he was accessing us on a *mobile*.

We let him know that 5 seconds or so from request to finished page was pretty good for a round trip *to space*.

Rory28

DeVore wrote: »

We also had an MEP (not an irish one) write to us to complain that we were breaching her daughters Freedom of Speech as per the UN Charter because we removed her spam about a romantic novel she had written....which she spammed EVERYWHERE.


Or we had a guy complain that it tooks AAAGES for boards to load. Now, we keep geek-level stats on everything in Boards. We know the average time to load Boards for any user as it happens... so we looked up his times and it was 3 *seconds*.... But the delivery time was a few seconds too, which is a bit weird...

Then we dug up his location and it was San Francisco and he was accessing us on a *mobile*.

We let him know that 5 seconds or so from request to finished page was pretty good for a round trip *to space*.

I like these boards.ie complaints. So reasonable.

DVDM93

DeVore wrote: »

We also had an MEP (not an irish one) write to us to complain that we were breaching her daughters Freedom of Speech as per the UN Charter because we removed her spam about a romantic novel she had written....which she spammed EVERYWHERE.


Or we had a guy complain that it tooks AAAGES for boards to load. Now, we keep geek-level stats on everything in Boards. We know the average time to load Boards for any user as it happens... so we looked up his times and it was 3 *seconds*.... But the delivery time was a few seconds too, which is a bit weird...

Then we dug up his location and it was San Francisco and he was accessing us on a *mobile*.

We let him know that 5 seconds or so from request to finished page was pretty good for a round trip *to space*.

Keep them coming don't be shy x

smash

DeVore wrote: »

When Boards was hacked about 5 years ago...

We lost a lot of good man... never forgotten

/plays bagpipes

bottlebrush

In a job I worked in a number of years ago, a woman rang us and demanded to speak to the man in charge. I told her a woman was in charge but she kept insisting that there must be a man in charge and I had to keep repeating that we didn't have a man in charge and we could put her through to our female manager with whatever issue she had. The caller seemed disbelieving that there could possibly be a woman in charge and hung up!

endacl

bottlebrush wrote: »

In a job I worked in a number of years ago, a woman rang us and demanded to speak to the man in charge. I told her a woman was in charge but she kept insisting that there must be a man in charge and I had to keep repeating that we didn't have a man in charge and we could put her through to our female manager with whatever issue she had. The caller seemed disbelieving that there could possibly be a woman in charge and hung up!

Let me guess. You're a pensioner and the job was in the 50s?

If not, :eek: