Incoherent Keyboard Bashing
Posts tagged Complaints
I hate you Steam
Apr 26th
It’s official: I fuckin’ hate Steam!
Piece of shit software just does it’s own fucking thing. I recently re-installed all my games from backup (steam backup). After spending a couple of days making sure that everything is completely 100% up to date so I could use offline mode, I set each game to ‘Do not automatically keep this game up to date’. What the fuck does it do when I started it up just now? It starts updating the games again. For fuck sakes! Do user preferences mean anything anymore?!
Fuck you, Valve.
Gah, get it right!
Apr 25th
Dear Reader,
I would like to draw your attention to this: `. It’s called a backtick (well, at least to me), and it is usually found on the same key as the tilde (~). Note that it is NOT an apostrophe: ‘.
There is a big difference between the backtick (`) and the apostrophe (‘), therefore you should NOT use the backtick in place of the apostrophe. It’s NOT all that difficult to figure out which one is the correct one to use. The apostrophe is on the same key as the double quote (“), and the backtick is stuck off on the side of the keyboard at the top left. It’s not difficult, capiche?
If I catch you using the backtick in place of the apostrophe, I’m afraid I will just have to kill you. No, no, don’t even think of trying to convince me otherwise. If you use it, I will kill you. Simple.
Much love and kisses, Me
So called ”family” soundtrack
Feb 7th
Another thing I posted to the forum:
I would like to know since when is the word ‘’sh*t” an acceptable thing to hear on the so-called ”family” sound track?
I watch movies on DSTV with the family sound track enabled, not because I find swearing offensive, it doesn’t bug me at all, but because I don’t want my 2 year old and 4 year old to learn offensive words until they’re at least 6. So much for that idea.
Obviously the people who edit the soundtracks for ”family” viewing don’t have kids of their own, otherwise I’m quite sure that the soundtracks would be far cleaner than they are now.
EDIT: I find it really amusing that the forum censored my post with the disputed word. Perhaps the soundtrack editors should take note?
Google Gloom
Jan 14th
Dear Google,
I just wanted to tell you that I hate you. Just because I live and surf the web from South Africa does not mean that when I type www.google.com I want to be redirected to www.google.co.za. I don’t care that it may search the same content as the main google site. It’s just the principle of the thing. If I wanted www.google.co.za, I would type www.google.co.za.
You suck.
Sent to: comments@google.com
Elevation of Irritation
Oct 28th
There’s an open piece of ground 2 blocks up from us. On occasion a fairly well known local circus stops there for a few days. Other times there’s the “Massive Shoe Sale” tent. — Don’t ask me.
This time around, for the first time that I’ve ever seen (and I’ve been here almost 5 years now), there’s another kind of circus parked there. They’ve been there since Sunday.
It’s a frikkin’ mobile church.
I wouldn’t normally mind, but as I sit here typing this, I can hear the moron yelling into his microphone. It’s not loud enough for me to hear what he’s saying (thankfully), but it’s loud enough to irritate me…. and it’s been going on the whole fucking week!
Statement? What Statement?
Feb 17th
I posted the following complaint at our local consumer complaints site (Hello Peter):
I had minor sinus surgery in November 2003. Today I receive a final demand for payment in the mail (17th Feb) full of threats about being listed in credit bureaux, and having summons issued and summary judgements, etc.
How about sending me a statement first?!
My wife received a phone call at the end of last week from the Glynwood, querying our postal address, since they had a returned mail containing a statement. Turns out they had addressed the envelope incorrectly. But then today I get a final demand (postmarked the 13th) that is perfectly addressed, with the letter inside correctly addressed as well. Strange indeed that the debt recovery agents have my address. Stranger indeed that the hospital hands me over when they KNOW that I have not yet received a statement. It’s not my fault they can’t address an envelope correctly, despite the correct information being supplied on their forms.
It gets my goat that these companies are so quick to hand people over and have them listed for debt defaults for no fault of their own.
In future, I will not deal with this hospital if they can’t do their administration properly. I would rather die. I’m so tired of companies like this being so quick to judge. Since we (as the customer) are always required to sign forms and contracts/agreements etc before we are helped, so should the companies be made to sign agreements with us, stating that if they do not follow the agreed procedures, they will be liable for nuisance fees and/or a fine.
South African companies need to catch a wake up.
Not everyone you deal with are crooks. You are driving legitimate customers away. The above mentioned hospital is The Glynwood, in Benoni.
Something that I didn’t add (I didn’t have the space), was that I had a similar incident after the birth of my daughter, Megan, but with an entirely different hospital (different management group too). When I called the hospital accounts department to complain, the woman I spoke to said, “Oh, just ignore it. We don’t send statements, we just send final demands, it’s company policy”
What?!?
To be honest, the nursing staff at both hospitals were great, and I have no complaints about the actual care received. It’s just a pity that their administration blows fucking chunks. It’s them that leave the bad taste in your mouth.
Courtesy, a thing of the past?
Feb 16th
I try to be courteous towards other people on the roads (except taxis). All I would expect from other road users in return, is that courtesy returned in kind. But no. It’s the general ‘Fuck You’ attitude of the South African driver that is bringing society down.
God, it pisses me off.