What's mildly irritating you today?

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by Sundae

Arse? Two hands? Torch?

That really does need the verb specified.

Or maybe you intended it both ways.



My gripe was not related to mail-order catalogues but those "what's in-store right now" brochures big shops send out. And our economy (Aussie) is fine so there is no reason to be stingy with ordering.

But look at the same organisational incompetence that Sundae is experiencing. These are all private corporations, the supposed paradigm of profit-focused efficiency. They're running a level of centralised stupidity reminiscent of the soviet system.

Dear capitalism, please get your shit together. It's embarrassing.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

That really does need the verb specified. Or maybe you intended it both ways.

Torch was meant as a noun.
As in they can't find their arse with two hands and a torch [perhaps the American flashlight is more common].
Although if I was meaner, I could have suggested that I wanted to torch (set fire to) the hands and arseholes of the HR team.

But that would be pretty extreme.

[ZenGum]

I was thinking of "shove" as the verb.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

My gripe was not related to mail-order catalogues but those "what's in-store right now" brochures big shops send out.

I worked in a camera shop as a youth and our store's tagline was
"If it's in stock, we have it!"

We often got calls from people asking if we had a certain item, if we replied that it was out of stock the customer would get irate and quote our tagline to prove that we were lying.

But your ad says "If it's in stock, we have it!" and we'd reply, yes, but it's not in stock, therefore... (you are probably too stupid to operate the camera anyway)