Originally Posted by paranoidandroid

I was out last week, and the two women on the table in front of me were both sitting there dabbling about at their phones and staring at the screens, for what seemed like the duration of their dinner. They hardly ever looked up. I could see the odd grunt of acknowledgement when the other one said something, or a quick nodding of the head as they carried on typing, but that was it.
Totally bloody pointless. They may as well have stayed indoors and gone online. To top it all off, as I walked out of the restaruant door, I meet two other women, and they're walking through the door that I'm holding open for them, while both gabbling away on their mobiles and not even acknowledging my politeness.
The mobile stuff has got seriously out of hand in the last 2 years.

Originally Posted by kimilseung

I now tell one of my relatives to hand over his phone at resteraunts (done with just the right amount of humour for me to get away with it), next time we watch a movie, he is getting told to hand it over then too. Its surprising how annoying just the soft, repeated tap tap tap gets while trying to concentrate on a movie.

Originally Posted by cindyabs

Had a guy the other day that had stopped by my desk at the hotel to ask a question. He asks the question, then sits there the WHOLE time, I am answering him, looking at his phone and texting, NEVER looks at me once.

You do NOT know how much I wanted to rip that phone out of his hands and say, LOOK at me when I'm talking to you Bucko!

Originally Posted by Poppy girl

People that wear sun glasses when they are talking to me rude rude rude.

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing

I'm torn on that one. I think I hate meetings almost more than I hate the phone stuff

Originally Posted by paranoidandroid

Depends on who the meeting is with.

Originally Posted by paranoidandroid

I was out last week, and the two women on the table in front of me were both sitting there dabbling about at their phones and staring at the screens, for what seemed like the duration of their dinner. They hardly ever looked up. I could see the odd grunt of acknowledgement when the other one said something, or a quick nodding of the head as they carried on typing, but that was it.
Totally bloody pointless. They may as well have stayed indoors and gone online.

Originally Posted by cindyabs

Had a guy the other day that had stopped by my desk at the hotel to ask a question. He asks the question, then sits there the WHOLE time, I am answering him, looking at his phone and texting, NEVER looks at me once.

You do NOT know how much I wanted to rip that phone out of his hands and say, LOOK at me when I'm talking to you Bucko!

Originally Posted by paranoidandroid

Try it when you live in the US. Every Irish wannabe and their dog suddenly starts dressing in green and spouting the "Oh, I'm Irish" crap, when you ask what's going on.
You ask then where abouts in Ireland they're from, and they don't know. You ask when was the last time they were there, and they've never been.
Well, DFO then, because you're not bloody Irish, are you?

Originally Posted by Englishman43

Ah !! I bloody HATE it how Americans bang on with the usual "USA, USA" bollocks then proceed to tell you how they are German, French, Italian or whatever.

Firstly: if American is so great WTF are you doing telling me you're from somewhere else ?
Secondly: Where were you born ?? Oh American then you're American you wankstick.

The guy who invented twitter should be shot as should that facebook twat.

Originally Posted by paranoidandroid

Irish-American", Italian- American, African-American.. and the common denominator is?
If you were born in the US, lived here and went to school here, you're American. The prefix doesn't count for anything... except perhaps, stupidity.
If you and your parents were both born and raised here, and you've never visited the country that you're alluding to be from, then drop all the bullshit. Is there any great shame in being proud of the place you were born and raised?
It's little wonder the country is so divided on race down here in the South, when a good many of the people that are complaining about it seem to want to seperate themselves from everyone else.

Originally Posted by Bob

Drain cleaners.

They're simply just crap....doesn't matter if they're supposed to have the strength of a nuclear bomb and can melt a human in 30 seconds....not one of the shittingcrapfests are ever able to clear the rats nest of hair down the drain, so you still have to use a coat hanger type jobby.

Pointless shites.

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing

I picked up one of those spiky plastic strip thingys in ACE for a fiver - workes a treat.

Disgusting as all get out dragging all that nasty crap out of the plughole but it does the job.

Originally Posted by Poppy girl

People that wear sun glasses when they are talking to me rude rude rude.