The Official First World Problems Thread™
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tarbot, is that you?
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No?
Then I posit the following hypotheses (presented in no particular order):
- The "she" you are referring to is someone you know IRL and don't want to expose to the forum.
- You made an assumption about a forum user's gender and have at least begun to suspect that you were wrong.
- You didn't really mean "in a very real sense".
<INB4 argument about the correct pluralization of hypothesis.
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Then I posit the following hypotheses (presented in no particular order):
- The "she" you are referring to is someone you know IRL and don't want to expose to the forum.
- You made an assumption about a forum user's gender and have at least begun to suspect that you were wrong.
- You didn't really mean "in a very real sense".
<INB4 argument about the correct pluralization of hypothesis.
That's what she said.
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<INB4 argument about the correct pluralization of hypothesis.
Why would you expect an argument? You did it correctly, according to both my knowledge and every reference I just checked.
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Well, unless he proposes a testing method we might have to downgrade them to conjectures, so that point becomes moot.
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Why would you expect an argument? You did it correctly, according to both my knowledge and every reference I just checked.
Because some people like to argue about things without first checking to see if there is anything to argue about.
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unless he proposes a testing method
I propose that someone in @tar's geographic vicinity [interrogate][1] him as to his intended meaning of his post.I apologize if @tar lives in a region where this is a realistic possibility. No actual harm or realistic threat of harm intended.
[1]: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110106104907/prisonbreak/images/2/26/Waterboarding.jpg
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Well, unless he proposes a testing method we might have to downgrade them to conjectures, so that point becomes moot.
My testing method was to present my hypotheses to @tar and see if I got a usable response. Unfortunately, any testing method short of employing sodium pentothal relies too much on @tar's willing participation.1 As such, I feel that I am forced at this juncture to acknowledge your assertion and downgrade my hypotheses to mere conjectures.
1 Torture may also work, if @tar has the right type of personality. However, information gained under torture is highly unreliable, so I would rather avoid this option.
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This topic has taken a decidedly sinister and unsavoury turn...
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Don't make me set @tarbot on you!
:P
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'sup, cuz?
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Don't make me set @tarbot on you!
What's he gonna do? Go all '90s on me? I'm shaking in fear. </sarcasm>
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What does "going all '90s" on someone entail?
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You know what you have to do?
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Sure, I have to do all the time.
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What does "going all '90s" on someone entail?
Big boombox on the shoulder blasting rap music, sideways baseball cap, neon clothes, yo' mama jokes ...
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FWP: Trying to guess the secret "give me a person" command for those voice-activated robots. "Talk to a person" or "talk to a human" usually work, but today the robot only understood "customer service"
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generally mashing 0 will also drop you out of IVR and into the real person help queue.
i find it more reliable than any of the voice commands really.
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My stupid cellphone's anti-cheek-press features annoy me, if I can avoid hitting the keypad I will.
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oh. carry on then. ;-)
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generally mashing 0 will also drop you out of IVR and into the real person help queue.
I never set up a fully automated system yet (IVR was just there to direct you to the correct queue), but I'm so tempted to set that to something like
42
when I get a chance... ;P
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FWP: Trying to guess the secret "give me a person" command for those voice-activated robots. "Talk to a person" or "talk to a human" usually work, but today the robot only understood "customer service"
Sometimes "help" or anything the robot isn't programmed to understand will cause it to give up.
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Repeatedly mashing the phone keypad and overwhelming the machine's ability to respond usually gets you put through to someone on the other end. Probably not the person you want, but they can usually put you through...
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Repeatedly mashing the phone keypad and overwhelming the machine's ability to respond
Yeah, that's another one.
Still, some of them are agresssive. I once ran into one--I think it was Wells Fargo--that wouldn't proceed until you pressed one for English.
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Yeah that's the thing I don't get.
Sure, IVRs are annoying when they waffle on but it gets you to the person you need rather than randomly mashing 0 and ending up with a real human who may or may not be the one you want. And if they're not, you get forwarded and potentially end up in the same queue anyway.
I'm sure I've posted this before, but last time I rang the staff number for the ISP I work for to report a fault, I rang from my work mobile and not my home landline so it couldn't detect the account so ended up in the IVR which said "Please enter your phone number or press 0 to enter account number" which failed miserably because all UK phone numbers start with 0 so as soon as I entered it, it tried to match it to an account number and failed.
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all UK phone numbers start with 0
You mean
0-area_code-number
? Maybe it wanted just thenumber
?Which would be a WTF, but still.
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You mean 0-area_code-number?
Yes.
Maybe it wanted just the number?
That wouldn't work. Area code is required to distinguish between
01234 876543
and01582 876543
*.
It wanted the whole thing, it's just retarded.
Filed under *Maybe not valid phone numbers but the area codes are valid
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That wouldn't work. Area code is required to distinguish between 01234 876543 and 01582 876543*.
Hence:
Which would be a WTF, but still.
It wanted the whole thing, it's just retarded.
Yes.
Then again, I don't know who implemented that IVR and under what conditions. I had to beat off that kind of stupidity with a stick a few times already. Maybe someone just gave up and implemented what some idiot asked for.
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Maybe someone just gave up and implemented what some idiot asked for.
I have no doubt this is why.
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Are you tired of moving your car to the gas station? Fear no more!
We'll pick up your car and fill your tank
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FWiP: I took a sleeping pill to help me sleep. Now I can't wake up.
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I can't wake up
Go on and take a wake-up pill but always in conjunction with the breakfast pill.
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FWiP: I took a sleeping pill to help me sleep. Now I can't wake up.
Melatonin, or diphenhydramine? Or some kind of prescription sleeping pill?
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diphenhydramine
That one. 5 hours later I'm just a bit groggy now, able to function at least.
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Interesting, usually seems to be melatonin which makes me sleep through my alarm(s)...
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Melatonin does nothing to me, but I'm highly affected by caffeine and diphenhydramine.
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I'm highly affected by caffeine and diphenhydramine.
Caffeine only helps me wake up. Diphenhydramine makes me extremely restless though. I cannot keep my legs still if I take it and then lay down. It has the exact opposite effect on me as most others. Hydrocodone and the like are the same deal.
When I had to take them for pain, I was wired the entire time.
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Caffeine gives me terrible, hyper-realistic nightmares unless it's out of my system entirely by the time I go to sleep. I can't seem to wake myself up, but I can't relax either. It's awful.
Sedatives (particularly painkillers) can sometimes do something similar if they're strong enough, to be fair; I'll have dreams about waking up because I can't fight off the drug enough to do so. But that's rarer and less awful. Still, I try not to rely on drugs if I don't have to. Which leads to taking them far too late in the evening, like I did last night >.>
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Caffeine gives me terrible, hyper-realistic nightmares
When I stopped smoking, Chantix did that to me. I always compared it to dreaming while on acid, not that I ever tried acid. The dreams were extremely vivid and realistic and when they were bad dreams they were terrifying.
Still, I try not to rely on drugs if I don't have to.
Due to my prior back injuries, I had a long period of time when I did not have a choice. It was either that, or unbearable pain. Thankfully, I recovered and have not had to worry about that for a long time. It was only a few months ago that I threw all the bottles of Oxycontin and Vicodin away as now I am fairly certain I will not need them ever again. (And also, they likely have lost all effectiveness.)
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Which reminds me! This week I'm actually doing pretty well! The new orthopedics plus figuring out I've never walked correctly in my life seems to be tremendously reducing the amount of leg pain I'm dealing with.
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Caffeine gives me terrible, hyper-realistic nightmares
Melatonin does this to me on occasion. Drugs are weird...
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This week I'm actually doing pretty well!
Woohoo! Congrats!
Have you had a cupcake yet?
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Due to my prior back injuries, I had a long period of time when I did not have a choice. I
If only you'd gone to a respectable chiropractor.
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If only you'd gone to a respectable chiropractor.
I feel like you are just trying to help me get back in the 5%.
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in the 5%
If ever there was a first worid problem.
Does anyone else glance this topic in a list and read it as The "the FAP sound" thread (again!)?
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respectable chiropractor
Does not compute.
Chiropractor == quack
quack != respectable
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Does anyone else glance this topic in a list and read it as The "the FAP sound" thread (again!)?
Yes, then I immediately am reminded of Jennifer Lawrence's photos from The Fappening...that I never looked at because I am a respectable member of society...
Yeah, that's it.
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If only you'd gone to a respectable chiropractor.
He either would have been cured quickly or told that his issues were beyond the help of chiropractic. Sadly, we will never know because he went to a shitty practitioner when he tried chiropractic.
Bad @Polygeekery.
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Does not compute.
Chiropractor == quack
quack != respectable
So, just because a few are quacks, none of them are respectable?