Pointless But It Does My Head In

[STN]

yes, before they were good.

 

[Martin Dust]

Rubbish house music, I don't want to clap my hands or listen to your stooopid voice.

 

[john eden]

People who work in libraries who have a vastly inflated sense of their own self-importance.

No that's fine, you just sit there shuffling paperwork for 5 minutes while I stand in front of your desk, waiting. And then answer my question tersely and refuse to make eye contact again. You must be really busy today given the place is completely empty apart from 10 staff.

 

[mistersloane]

People who work in libraries who have a vastly inflated sense of their own self-importance.

From my experience with librarians - and I'm a librarian magnet, for my sins! - it's not that they're arrogant but supremely autistic, which comes across as arrogance cos they have no social skills whatsoever. They're a funny breed.

 

[baboon2004]

I was hanging out with some librarians at the weekend, as one does, and they were decent people. Mind you, some of their colleagues sounded seriously autistic. Mind you, this is in Oxford, and connected to the university.

 

[empty mirror]

i will forgive you guys since you don't know my wife but i am married to a reference librarian in a public library and she is all right by me.

thankless work. they are completely at the mercy of the public----they have to humor the most inane questions from all directions, from medical advice to "what is chili"? also, if you happen to work at an underfunded/inner-city library, you also double as security. having to regulate addicts nodding off as they surf porn sites, to helping illiterates navigate job applications, it can be pretty harrowing.

sadly, libraries have to take up the slack from a city's lack of social services. kids with absentee parents, the homeless, the drug addled, the unemployed, etc, have nowhere else to go.

most of the librarians i have had contact with are very eager to help you if you have a focused question----they seem to be relieved you aren't asking them to, say, make you copies of key lime pie postcards issued between 1978 to 1987 for your child's overdue homework assignment.

 

[scottdisco]

a good mate of mine works in the children's bit of the central library in Birmingham (UK) and from what i see of that, it's basically like the usual of being an underpaid librarian with the usual shenanigans of what-have-you (everything empty mirror said, except here in Britain i suppose it would be comedy postcards of meat pies), with the added distraction of functioning as an impromptu creche and drop-off centre, plus a lot of naughty parents and feckless adults taking the piss in all sorts of creative ways.

 

[john eden]

For the record, I am not dissing all librarians. I love librarians! Especially the ones who are passionate and sociable about their work - in fact there are few things better in my book.

But I do also think many people have to go through the shit they go through on a daily basis, I mean who doesn't have to deal with inane questions and disturbed members of the public as part of their job? I know I do.

I will forgive them their autism if people here forgive me my disgruntled reaction...

 

[mistersloane]

I will forgive them their autism if people here forgive me my disgruntled reaction...

 

[Sick Boy]

For the record, I am not dissing all librarians. I love librarians! Especially the ones who are passionate and sociable about their work - in fact there are few things better in my book.

Let us also not forget the sexy kind of librarian as well.

 

[empty mirror]

insert dim memory of a zz top video in which sexy librarians gnaw on index fingers----hair being undone, shirts unbuttoned, suggestive shush-ing, pointy brassieres, high heeled shoes on desktops

 

[mixed_biscuits]

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[Tentative Andy]

Our neighbourhood ice-cream van, which uses Three Blind Mice as its call-to-attention jingle. Not too enjoyable when heard blurrily in the distance for about the 3000th time.

 

[Pestario]

using the phrase "do not hesitate to contact me" at the end of letters/emails. I can't help but read it literally and it's just seems so absurd

 

[zhao]

Our neighbourhood ice-cream van, which uses Three Blind Mice as its call-to-attention jingle. Not too enjoyable when heard blurrily in the distance for about the 3000th time.

i used to live in an almost 100% mexican neighborhood for a while in LA and every sat morning someone would be hollering "TAMALES!... TAMALES!...." was more funny than annoying unless i was hung over. but sadly it was always too early and i never made it down to actually get some. oh how foolish i was and how i dream of fresh tamales now... sigh.

 

[Sick Boy]

i used to live in an almost 100% mexican neighborhood for a while in LA and every sat morning someone would be hollering "TAMALES!... TAMALES!...." was more funny than annoying unless i was hung over.

You should've went down one early morning hungover and asked him what he was selling.

 

[Client Eastwood]

Football celebrations - I don’t mind some but the rehearsed coordinated dancing or gestures do my head in . Give it rest fellas.

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[Sick Boy]

Using all lower case letters to appear modern. Such a wide range of people are guilty of this. The TBS logo is all lower case now, for instance. I wish I knew how this started, it's a strange semiotic phenomenon. iPerhaps?

 

[cobretti]

Using all lower case letters to appear modern. Such a wide range of people are guilty of this. The TBS logo is all lower case now, for instance. I wish I knew how this started, it's a strange semiotic phenomenon. iPerhaps?

It might be inspired by text/internet speak, and the way most users seem to forget every rule of grammar (including proper noun-ification) and the English language they've ever learnt once they have some technology at their fingertips. I blummin' hate that shit.

 

[john eden]

The guy in NYC who ordered two copies Woofah through paypal and then set up a dispute after I'd posted them because apparently it was done without his consent.

So now I have to either provide proof of postage (which I don't have) or refund.

I don't even care about the money, it's just taking the piss.