Torture!

[Mesden]

Really? I just take whichever chance I get to bitch about Walmart and Alabama.

Because, well, Walmart and Alabama. I'm glad everyone agrees with me.

[Kikuichimonji]

Originally Posted by fifthfiend

Our federal government's policy of violence and degradation as a means of interrogation.

Also - traffic congestion. Can't fuckin' stand it.

Especially when it's caused by an accident on the other side of the median. It's an accident, people, not a goddamn television program!

I also hate idiots, because they are usually assholes and don't deserve pity or understanding, from my experience. Usually.

[BitVyper]

Originally Posted by Neko Tera-san

Change all of that to typical customer at my McDonald's, and you have a winner.

In short? Attending customers is fucking hell.

See, I work in a store, but I don't work for the store. I can pass off shitty customers onto an associate and just laugh while they aren't looking. I love being me.

Actually, I do still have to deal with the dumbasses occassionally. Christ, one time this woman wanted dog food with NO carbs. She was absolutely adamant about the fact that the food had to have absolutely no carbohydrates whatsoever in it, no matter how much I explained to her that her dog needs them. Finally, I told her that a vet clinic might have some, so that she could go to the vet and THEY could tell her off.

It's very rare that I actually have to explain to someone what carbs are for.

Edit: Of course, working in a call centre for a shitty phone company pretty much tops all crappy customer service jobs. The people who call have got nothing but time (despite the fact that they constantly say they're in a rush), and complaints. There's usually absolutely nothing you can do for them, no way you can get away from them, and you might as well always have a manager standing over your shoulder making sure you follow the exact letter of the rules so that customers can't be helped, yet getting upset when you don't help them. I would have my life threatened five or six times a day. Literally.

I've worked a lot of shitty jobs, but I will let myself starve to death before I work in a call centre again. I think it's the management there that really got to me though. And the fact that we were horrifically understaffed. It's hard to blame the customers, because most of them are just being jerked around by the companies.

It's funny, because there's very little you can do to actually help customers, but if your average handle time for calls is over 360 or so seconds, you'll have managers all over you wondering why you can't get people off the phones faster.

Also: "The French are cowards" jokes. Come on people, they surrendered when there was no way to win. That was sixty years ago. GET SOME NEW FUCKING MATERIAL ALREADY!

Yes "France surrenders" was funny the first time I heard a joke about it. But Christ, people just won't stop beating the god damned horse.

[Mirai Gen]

I'm a liquor store clerk. We sell blunt wraps, rolling papers, and lighters.

I fucking hate hate hate it when stoners give me that stupid look of camaraderie just because I've got long hair, grin, and say, "These good papers, man?"

I fucking hate that shit.

[Mirai Gen]

I work at a liquor store. We sell blunt wraps, lighters, and rolling papers.

I fucking hate it when those stoners come in, look at me with that lopsided grin, and go, "These good blunt wraps, man?" with that "Stoner Camaradiere" look in their eyes.

They only do it because I've got long fucking hair.

[Ryanderman]

Torture... I know this thread is going in a different direction, but this was the first thing I thought of when I read the original post. Torture to me is a tv set that is on, but with no sound coming out. Without the sound, a traditional CRT set makes this incredibly irritating high pitched squeal. This noise travels surprisingly well through walls too. I can hear the squeal downstairs in my room on the other side of the house whenever the tv is on, even when the broadcast sounds don't reach me. Most people I know can't even hear it. It drives me crazy.

[Selfish]

Torture -

Physical torture:
-Someone continuing to "tickle" you by digging in their fingers. If you tickle, do it lightly and with fingertips only, no nails. Also, if they ask you to stop - STOP.
-Someone dragging a freaking comb or brush through your snarled, knotty hair. C`mon. Who CARES if there is a hole after you cut out the gum? Also, if you don`t like hearing the girlie squeal because you just ripped off a piece of her scalp, then CUT it. Let her have shorter, more manageable hair.

Emotional torture:
-Threatening to abandon your tender years child so that they start running to you in fear. This is not the best way to speed your travels. If you need a wagon for your tyke, please acquire one.
-Threatening a signifigant other with abandonment if they don`t perform stupid little favours for you, like getting you a drink of water when you are six feet away from the sink or fridge.
-Someone threatening to end the life of your pet, or induce misery to it, just because.

Mental torture:
-Knowing that if you only were wiser, you could have avoided a mistake.
-(a more pleasant one) Anticipation of anything good, like a present, a day, a season. Even anticipation of intelligent conversation with a member of your own species can be torture, especially if you`ve been starved of it for awhile.

Spiritual torture:
-Wanting someone soooooo badly, but knowing there is no way in the ten thousand hells that they would be interested in you. Not even as a person, in everyday conversation, as a mere friend.
This is a special kind of inhumane torture that you visit upon yourself.

Ya. Some I`ve only witnessed through other people, and some I`ve experienced myself. To me, these are some of the more common forms of psychoticness humans visit upon each other.

One last observation: I have noticed that when a person grits their teeth, they are up to no good / have intentions other than altruism.

[Khael!]

Hmm... yeah, I'll bet chavs are torture to listen to/see/smell/be within 200 feet of without a grenade.

Physical torture: Wiggers practically kill me. Those guys have such bad tastes, it's like seeing backwash in human form. And then they start rapping. There's no reason for it! Nobody wants to hear about what they want to do to some ho! Yes, it's physical torture. You have no idea how much pain I leave myself in after restraining myself from going King Kong on their sorry faces.


Mental torture: THE SONG THAT NEVER ENDS. The first four to eight bars of the catchy song everyone knows from the Pepsi commercial, whistled by someone too amature to keep in one key, over and over. Followed immediately by "omg my phone has that ringtone". Cue phone playing the same eight bars endlessly, because it's only a soundclip and never plays the rest of the blasted song. I keep expecting the next line, with variety and piano - but it never comes. And then I torture myself further because the crappily-whistled version with none of the base or synthesizing gets stuck in my musically-oriented head.

[VioletArrows]

Puns and bad jokes.

Being forced to listen to the inane.

Uncertainty (I could easily go further than this but no).

[BitVyper]

Internet people who bullshit about how they're really great fighters in real life. The ones who do it IRL are bad enough, but people exaggerate twice as much online. Hell, I've seen people honestly trying to convince everyone that they have chi powers.