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Gggrrrm arrgh

TheCatWoman

It's done it again, I start a search on Amazon and find it's taken me back to a previous but related search WHY, WHY, does it do this? How dare this supposedly unthinking pile of offal, think that it knows what I want, when I've told it something different? It's like an abusive relationship! I feel like it's gaslighting me.

A major supermarket tried to rip me off earlier too, it had an alleged special offer 4 for £5, and despite having lables confirming this on the shelf, it didnt' at the till, so I challenged them and a supervisor had to go and check and she came back equally confused, but put my stuff through at 4 for £5 as the signage was so unclear and confusing. It feels like a deliberate attempt to get people to buy more than they would if it wasn't on offer, this supermarket has form for this, which is why I always check to make sure. Ggggrrrrr.

I did buy a pretty bush half price in another shop, about the same as the money I saved on the other stuff.

What's made you Ggrr and arrgh lately?

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  • The other night a combination of boredom and curiosity had resulted in me participating in an anonymous survey about mobile phone theft and security. The first question asked was:
    How often do you use your mobile phone in public spaces?

    This annoyed me because I felt the first question should have been:
    Do you own a mobile phone?

    It was the assumption I own a mobile phone, which really annoyed me.

    One could argue that the person/people who had compiled the survey had possibly been working on the assumption that people who don't own mobile phones would be unlikely to participate. However, there had been one of those tick-all-boxes-that-apply style questions, which asked:
    Have you ever had a mobile phone stolen?

    The list of answers had included one that said: No, but I know someone who has. Therefore, there was no reason as far as I was concerned why someone who doesn't own a mobile phone could not have participated in the survey.

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  • The other night a combination of boredom and curiosity had resulted in me participating in an anonymous survey about mobile phone theft and security. The first question asked was:
    How often do you use your mobile phone in public spaces?

    This annoyed me because I felt the first question should have been:
    Do you own a mobile phone?

    It was the assumption I own a mobile phone, which really annoyed me.

    One could argue that the person/people who had compiled the survey had possibly been working on the assumption that people who don't own mobile phones would be unlikely to participate. However, there had been one of those tick-all-boxes-that-apply style questions, which asked:
    Have you ever had a mobile phone stolen?

    The list of answers had included one that said: No, but I know someone who has. Therefore, there was no reason as far as I was concerned why someone who doesn't own a mobile phone could not have participated in the survey.

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