Anonymity equals rude?

[Clint]

You'll find they're ignorant pigs with no manners,no please or thank you,go around thinking they're owed something.
I'm generally well behaved but can get a bit ratty when people won't accept you don't want to buy crap in the street or give them money.
When I was looking for a car some berk insisted I really needed a certain motor even when I told him I hated it and would sooner walk. I asked him if he was deaf or just stupid!

 

[strange-steve]

Just off the phone with another guy:

Him: "I'm away for a couple of weeks but can you keep the speakers for me till I get back then deliver them and connect them up for me?"

Me: "Not really, no. Give me a call when you get back and I'll let you know if I still have them, but collection only."

Him: "No, you let me know if you sell them or not."

Me: "Sure, will do"

BTW any of you more mannered chaps in NI want a nice set of B&W speakers, just let me know

 

[Gerryjo]

Just off the phone with another guy:

Him: "I'm away for a couple of weeks but can you keep the speakers for me till I get back then deliver them and connect them up for me?"

Me: "Not really, no. Give me a call when you get back and I'll let you know if I still have them, but collection only."

Him: "No, you let me know if you sell them or not."

Me: "Sure, will do"

BTW any of you more mannered chaps in NI want a nice set of B&W speakers, just let me know

Unfortunately I have no use for them as my hifi is still in the attic and I gave my oldest girl a set of proper headphones to plug into the amplifier when she's strumming on her guitar but shall pass the word around. Are they listed on gumtree or fakebook?

 

[DavidDetroit]

We sure do have some of the same pet peeves: the gym situation and the grocery carts. In addition to not caring if the cart arrives to its proper destination, a decent number of people just take there groceries and leave the cart right where it is.

I'll share a pet peeve or two. This should probably be a separate thread or added to an existing one.
One, is reputable colleges in the US opening up E-gaming arenas, that is, competitive video gaming on campus. i

I know a fairly new teacher and I politely discussed with her that cell phones have no business in a school for, what I thought were, very obvious reasons. She disagreed for the most part. I don't remember her reasoning but it amounted to that the students should simply be able to have them, that it wasn't a big deal and they don't interrupt learning.

 

[DavidDetroit]

set of B&W speakers

A lesson I learned when I was 18 (My compass wasn't always pointing N, ethically): I bought a pair of state of the art speakers for a fraction of the price. I knew they were stolen and bought them anyway. I never used them, hardly even looked at them, and then after two years I just gave them to my brother.
I know you're not selling stolen merchandise, but the speakers reminded me of my own experience.

 

[The Baron]

I agree with you there. You can tell a lot about a person from they way they treat retail and waiting staff. Or a particular pet peeve of mine, by what they do with their shopping trolley after loading into their car. Do they put it back properly or do they just shove it in the general direction of the return station. Same thing at the gym, some people obviously think their time is too precious to waste putting the weights back on the rack when they're done. It's fine, someone else will do it

Spot on Steve too many selfish people out there they are the type that will park in disabled and mother and toddlers bays and see no wrong in it but unfortunately that is the modern world we live in

 

[Leon103]

Just off the phone with another guy:

Him: "I'm away for a couple of weeks but can you keep the speakers for me till I get back then deliver them and connect them up for me?"

Me: "Not really, no. Give me a call when you get back and I'll let you know if I still have them, but collection only."

Him: "No, you let me know if you sell them or not."

Me: "Sure, will do"

BTW any of you more mannered chaps in NI want a nice set of B&W speakers, just let me know

My offer is now £55 Cash waiting

 

[strange-steve]

My offer is now £55 Cash waiting

Sorry, bitcoin only.

 

[Gerryjo]

Sorry, bitcoin only.

Is there a surcharge?

 

[Hoppyland]

An interesting point, but it made me think "why am I hiding behind anonymity"? My name is, clearly, not Hoppyland. Worse, I have even lured myself into referring to my wife as "Mrs Hoppyland". Why??? I have no wish to be disrespectful to other posters, and I have no fear of identification - I have provided my location to the forum website & it's there on the map - with few other dwellings in the vicinity.
Well, I guess it's me trying to fit in with what other people do! I am a member of 3 forums, this one obviously, plus a football forum and an art forum. To be fair, I'd rather maintain some anonymity on the often-hostile ( often drunk??) football forum. On the painting forum, my username is BillCook. Not a difficult code to crack if you simply insert a space after Bill!
So, I am genuinely puzzled. Why, am I happy to be Bill Cook on one site, but "hide" as Hoppyland on another??

 

[DavidDetroit]

@Hoppyland
Interesting and a good point. I find it odd--though I shouldn't--when someone shows a photo of themselves and gives their real name or, "even worse," shows a picture of their children.

I blame the news for this fear of revealing who we are. 98% of the people are not out to get us. The news makes it seem so and that bad things are happening everywhere and all the time. Bad things do happen, of course, but if one does the math, it's not at all likely one will be a victim of what we see plastered all over the news everyday and hourly.

It's sad when a person gets shot in Texas, for example, but in what way is that beneficial for me to know (I live across the country in a city where they make cars--that's all I'm saying)? Also the information from this hypothetical shooting is not given fully and this is intentional--mark my words-- and thus leaving us with a mystery as to why it happened. Basically, we worry about it with no solution in sight.

It's a fear that is instilled in us by the media, over time, and it it is unwarranted and brought on, as I said, by the constant, terrifying, threatening news that's everywhere (omnipresent) and forced on us on a daily or hourly basis. News stations/websites would go broke if we stopped watching all the unnecessary information thrown our way. If we would pay attention only to news that was useful, then that is what kind of news organization would survive.

Technically, there's no reason to fear revealing who we are and where we live--unless it's someone who's being a jerk.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

So, I am genuinely puzzled. Why, am I happy to be Bill Cook on one site, but "hide" as Hoppyland on another??

Real names are too formal whereas made up usernames can be amusing, well that's my view.

 

[Hoppyland]

Real names are too formal whereas made up usernames can be amusing, well that's my view.

Yep, I see that possibility. I hoped that "Hoppyland" was indeed a little amusing - also a little obscure since I based it on something from my long-lost youth. I liked the fact that it was the name of a short-lived, failed, theme-park trying to capitalise on the Hopalong Cassidy image. (God, I really am old!!)
But I cannot see that real names are "too formal". If I insisted on being known as "William Cook, MSc, BSc(hons)" then I'd agree. But what is too "formal" about Bill Cook?
Certainly, on the Painters Online forum, you are pretty much as likely to encounter real names as you are a contrived alias, and I think it is all the better for that. If you are posting as a "real person", and reading responses from people who are totally open about their identity, then I believe that you are more likely to get an honest, considered opinion. It certainly seems to me that, on the football forum where nobody seems honest about who they really are, you tend to get hostility, arrogant bluster, and a very distasteful total lack of respect for divergent opinions. So why do I frequent it - well maybe not for much longer, it is becoming too unpleasant for my tastes.

 

[MrRook]

Has anyone here ever sold at a car boot sale?

We took a load of baby stuff (clothes, shoes toys etc) which were like new and we priced them low to sell some items were £1 and you wouldn't believe the amount of people who offered us 50 pence for them, i politely declined as i would rather have burned them than let them go for half price.

These people are nothing better than tip rats.

It cost us £6 for the stall, never again.

Ask £2 and grudgingly accept it when they are offer the £1 you actually wanted?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

on the football forum where nobody seems honest about who they really are, you tend to get hostility, arrogant bluster, and a very distasteful total lack of respect for divergent opinions. So why do I frequent it - well maybe not for much longer, it is becoming too unpleasant for my tastes.

I used to moderate a football forum many moons ago (I have mentioned this before here) but got sick of the constant trolling, flame wars (an old forum saying) and having to spend so much time on there trying to keep the peace in the end I decided it wasn't worth the effort so stopped visiting, the forum is still going and is a perfect example of what this thread is about, a horrible plece full of the dregs of society.

 

[DavidDetroit]

football forum

We got our first desk top in '00. I was very excited to try out an American football forum and talk about the Detroit Lions and maybe learn something. As you know, that isn't what happened. I'll just say that hiding behind anonymity to be rude and whatnot didn't begin one or two years ago.

 

[dad_of_jon]

Just off the phone with another guy:

Him: "I'm away for a couple of weeks but can you keep the speakers for me till I get back then deliver them and connect them up for me?"

Me: "Not really, no. Give me a call when you get back and I'll let you know if I still have them, but collection only."

Him: "No, you let me know if you sell them or not."

Me: "Sure, will do"

BTW any of you more mannered chaps in NI want a nice set of B&W speakers, just let me know

Sorry steve - The sound from black & white speakers is inferior to coloured speakers (which colour the sound )

 

[dad_of_jon]

@Hoppyland
Interesting and a good point. I find it odd--though I shouldn't--when someone shows a photo of themselves and gives their real name or, "even worse," shows a picture of their children.

I blame the news for this fear of revealing who we are. 98% of the people are not out to get us. The news makes it seem so and that bad things are happening everywhere and all the time. Bad things do happen, of course, but if one does the math, it's not at all likely one will be a victim of what we see plastered all over the news everyday and hourly.

It's sad when a person gets shot in Texas, for example, but in what way is that beneficial for me to know (I live across the country in a city where they make cars--that's all I'm saying)? Also the information from this hypothetical shooting is not given fully and this is intentional--mark my words-- and thus leaving us with a mystery as to why it happened. Basically, we worry about it with no solution in sight.

It's a fear that is instilled in us by the media, over time, and it it is unwarranted and brought on, as I said, by the constant, terrifying, threatening news that's everywhere (omnipresent) and forced on us on a daily or hourly basis. News stations/websites would go broke if we stopped watching all the unnecessary information thrown our way. If we would pay attention only to news that was useful, then that is what kind of news organization would survive.

Technically, there's no reason to fear revealing who we are and where we live--unless it's someone who's being a jerk.

For anyone who posts at work when they shouldn't be, I can imagine a username rather than their real one is useful

 

[Ghillie]

Has anyone here ever sold at a car boot sale?

We took a load of baby stuff (clothes, shoes toys etc) which were like new and we priced them low to sell some items were £1 and you wouldn't believe the amount of people who offered us 50 pence for them, i politely declined as i would rather have burned them than let them go for half price.

These people are nothing better than tip rats.

It cost us £6 for the stall, never again.

 

[BeerCat]

You'll find they're ignorant pigs with no manners,no please or thank you,go around thinking they're owed something.
I'm generally well behaved but can get a bit ratty when people won't accept you don't want to buy crap in the street or give them money.
When I was looking for a car some berk insisted I really needed a certain motor even when I told him I hated it and would sooner walk. I asked him if he was deaf or just stupid!

Its called zero ***ker tolerance