The press two for espanol has been replaced in my craw. As much as that annoys the shite out of me, its of my opinion that private companies should be able to cater to any clientele they so choose, Manhattan Latins or otherwise. My favorite OTB is in Chinatown and the wager slips are in slantonese (spelling?). Public works are an entirely different matter, for I feel very strongly that govt biz should be conducted exclusively in English.
The current idiocy du jour that riles me up is Citibank's ATM's. The first thing you have to establish is that you habla ingles, of course it is. Im used to that by now. What really gets me is after selecting your language, enter your pin, select transaction type, account type, dollar amount...the wonderful wizard of jackassery then asks the question that drives me nuts...
ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO PROCEED?
Are you fricking kidding me, I just went thru a five step process and NOW Im going to back out? Ridonkulous! Isn't that what the cancel button is for. What is the worst possible scenario that warrants such a dire warning. Banks are just like politicians in that they don't realize that it is our money. How the topic of tax cuts could even be debatable is beyond me. We have your money and would like to keep playing with it, are you sure you want to proceed?
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I was just staring at the word cantonese slantonese in my mind's eye from reading the blog entry and I realized that it is a picture of a blood clot releasing a tiny fragment into the blood stream!
And, the word "chip" is used in the word movie and for internet pictures.
Too mindboggling sometimes how that nation defends itself!
i think these types of things are there for people, like me, who make rash, spur-of-the moment purchases that make absolutely no logical sense.
for example, if i go to one of those places that sells last-season's clothes at a deep discount and i see a chloe dress for 75% off. GREAT!!! but they only take cash!!! so i make a mad dash for nearest citibank atm machine, do the five steps and hopefully at that point my mind has stopped racing and i'm thinking, do i really need a chloe dress for $500? even though it's 75% off?
here's where citibank has my back!! they may be saying, "do you want to proceed" ... but what they are REALLY saying is: anita, WTF are you doing?? you're gonna pay that much money for a dress you'll wear once, NEXT spring?? and even that is questionable. think again anita. think again!!
see, "Citibank and Anita ... Perfect Together" ...
(although, donkeyhue, i think you are probably right. they would much prefer that i leave the cash where it is ... and put the purchase on my citibank mastercard ...)
Anita, you are suggesting that the option is to save us from impulsivity?
I agree, that businesses and private firms, etc. should be able to use whatever forms or language they want.
I'm tired of these right wingers always pushing for corporate behavior regulation!
well, kind of.
i'm agreeing with the donkey in that it seems they are more interested in keeping the money in their accounts so that they can for their own nefarious purposes (i.e., making more money for themselves) than making it easier for the people whose money it actually is to use.
Anita, why doesn't a successful engineer wear jeans to work?
And as far as "Urh" or Canton is concerned, "I can't! My knees?" More like "I can't, my brain, I'll stroke out like Tedy Bruschi!" Its amazing how one just almost knows something until one sees it in a context that makes it easy to really understand what it means.
Not to mention, the word for Guangdong, the name of the city and area itself, looks like Britney Spears' dad! I bet he puts away the Denny's Megabreakfast!
Go figure.
And 'Hue, I wish you'd go down to the Pho place and spin some material for me. I know it means "Walking around while thinking about walking around", but I'm sure there's more to it...
And I have just reread your second comment. Where the heck is Kelso? You know that banks lend out money to the highest percentage they can possibly lend, and that there are a lot of laws limiting the banks' percentage of loans against deposits? They would prefer to lend out 99.99% and keep .01 for "bank runs". The thinner the margin the better. It's fundamental!
mctrixie, i'm not an engineer per se ... i am hired by engineers and architects to provide 'independent' construction cost estimates on large construction and infrastructure projects. i wear jeans to work sometimes ... when i meet with clients i wear 'business attire.' in my personal life ... well, that's a whole 'nother story ...
I think McTrixie is the missing link...or perhaps God.
What if God was one of us...had a blog like some of us. Liked to troll like a bunch of us. And was really good at writing poems. Perhaps he uses Windows at His home.
BTW - I have lost more ATM cards to the machines. In fact I think that is the only way I have lost them. My Bank of America machine gets more complicated every three months. They throw some new question or screen into the equation. Like fast food chains, they have only gotten slower instead of more efficient.
I concur. I think McTrixie is something different than the rest of us.
he's actually grown on me a lot.
Its cryptic, but connects.
Canton = Stroke - no doubt. To synrchronize the rest,
Beijing = Heart Attack
Shanghai = cancer.
Wuhan = accident (home, work, traffic)
Szechuan = suicide or vd
Canton = stroke, but that's just the nickname for that civilization, that city.
Beijing's nickname has to do with looking for something when it's right in front of one, no chance of finding it, guaranteed. But it helps to work out the disease allegory for the major areas.
So Canton is more like Lawrence Taylor - knocking some dick loose - and Beijing is more like not finding a radio station 'cos of static, when its there every day. Or of course an inexplicable denial, on the web, at the DMV, or elsewhere. What athlete would that be? Montana? Boris Spassky? Tiger? Like one's game is nowhere when Tiger shows up on the last day? As has happenend so many times.
It's like "I couldn't find my keys that day, so I walked to work. And that was the very day I met my ex-wife-to-be. Amazing."
Has a lot to do with Ironweed "luck". Which of course has given me no end of happiness....
...Anita, do you know how much all construction materials cost? I like that...
And, let's say I have bought $900mm of naptha futures.
Under the conditions of these contracts, the naptha will be delivered to me here at 92 Park Street in Fall River if I don't sell them to a plastics company. Which I would do. But, I have decided to accept the naptha. Let's say I like naptha.
So, I want to build a cracker and turn my naptha into some feedstock for polyethylene, or polypropylene, whatever it is, for making cd covers and dvds and vcds, as I support the arts.
What am I looking at? Its definitely an infrastructure-sized project. Is this under the category of "Personal Infrastructure"?
Let me know...ASAP...
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