Trying My Patience

Things that make my patience wear thin

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I'm not overly cynical or critical. The surrounding world just repeatedly fails to meet my standards and expectations.

Archive for the 'Illogical' Category

Expensive journeys to funerals

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Expensive journeys to funerals - you are trying my patience.
Why do people do this? Spend gobs of cash on sudden journeys around the globe, to come to someone’s funeral? Who benefits from this? Certainly not the dead person.
You better not spend a lot of money on coming to my funeral. If you’re too far away […]

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No porn on blueray says Sony.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Sony - you are trying my patience.
Sony announced a while ago that they weren’t going to allow pornography to be distributed on blueray.
What’s up with that? Is it the position they’ve taken to defend the last moral highground? No porn i hi-res?
OK, you can watch the blind donkey molest the paraplegic nun, but you CANNOT […]

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We care about your privacy

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Companies and websites claiming that they care about my privacy - you are trying my patience.
-We care about your privacy.
-Oh, you do, do you?
Is that why I, in order to use your service, am required to give you my first name, last name, age, gender, occupation, street address, state, ZIP code, country, phone number, […]

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Builders and buyers of expensive but-ugly housing n posh locations - you are trying my patience.
It must have been roughly around a hundred years ago when people decided that no more beautiful houses were to be built. Or did we just the one text book mankind ever had on decent architecture.
Every new house built lacks […]

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Cooperating airlines

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Cooperating airlines - you are trying my patience.
Why can’t airlines give me tickets, plane, staff and check-in counter under one name? They always cooperate in more different constellations than soap opera characters sleep around.
I book my ticket on www.great-airlines.com, it says South East Airlines on my ticket, Go Up Airlines and Fly South at the […]

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