• All Of The Options I Have To Listen To In Order To Leave A Message

    (The following was inspired by the complaint about pressing 7 to leave a message.)
    It used to be that when you called somebody and they did not answer, their voice came on, gave you their apologies for not being available or willing to talk to you, offered you the opportunity to leave a message and then […]

  • Remotes (TV, DVD, VCR, etc.)

    OK, first let me say that I do appreciate being able to switch channels and change the volume without having to get up, lean over, or for that matter move any muscles besides my fingers. Reaching into the bag of Dorritos is enough exertion; I don’t need to turn channel surfing into a workout. […]

    • SR, I appreciate your concern in the matter, and I will respect your love of this button. However, the fact is that I could care less if others feel differently than me on this. Obviously some people like it, or (more likely) have been convinced they need it, or the button would not be on there. However, popular opinion is in no way validation of it's worth. Look at the success of American Idol, the 14 mpg SUV, and fast food if you are not convinced of this. I would point out is that if those 100 people you polled are truly a fair representative sample of Americans, then roughly ~67 of them are overweight, and ~33 of them are enough so to be considered obese. Sounds like these folks would do well to get rid of the remote altogether. Further, depending on the poll, between 25 and 50 of them flatly reject the theory of evolution, and slightly less than 40 actually fully accept the idea. 37 of these people have a favorable view of Sarah Palin (there were even more up until recently). So, the question is: how much should I care what a bunch of fat, stupid people think about this issue? Kapusta does mean cabbage in Polish, and it is "sort of" a coincidence. It is a now-defunct family name, and was the result of a phonetic butchering at Ellis Island many generations ago.

    • SR: This is MY biggest complaint dot com. MY complaint, not yours, or ours, but MINE. You don't have to even remotely agree with it. Your survey (assuming you are not simply blowing this out you rear end, which I highly suspect) only goes to show what a bunch of lazy, mindless couch potatoes we have become as a people. We are already becoming like the humans in WALL-E, and this eject button is a wonderful step along the way. I could write another whole complaint about what a bunch of sheep we are in regards to companies telling us what we need, and us believing it. And yet another about people who actually waist their time correcting others on their complaints. This is not our-complaint.com, what-do-YOU-think?.com, solve-my-problem.com or do-you-agree-with-me?.com. I think the eject button is idiotic, and IMO that just says something sad (but not surprising) about the lazy people in your survey (if they exist).

    • SR: Might I also suggest a feed bag that eliminates the brain and muscle work involved with hand movement to the plate?

    • Yes, someone who complains on a website about people complaining on the same website is a bigger idiot then the people he is complaining about. This is a place to vent, not to do anything about it.

    • The Fax option. Thank you. How could I forget that? If I was sending a fax, I would a) be using a fax machine and would not hear the message, and b) dialing someone's fax number. Does my fax machine know to press 4? If not, can it understand English well enough to follow the phone tree directions? WHO USES THIS STUFF?

    • This complaint needs a picture to go with it.

    • How do you think the prisoners in NH stamping out the plates feel?

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