baa (ganked from pensivegargoyle)

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you’re cool


Opening Credits: Primus - Tommy The Cat (Live)

First Day At School: Mystery Science Theather 3000 - The Godzilla Genealogy Bop

Falling In Love: Lamb of God - The Black Dahlia

Fight Song: The Smashing Pumpkins - Stand Inside Your Love

Breaking Up: Public Enemy - She Watches Channel Zero

Prom: Body Count - Body Count's In The House

Life's OK: Metallica - I Disappear

Mental Breakdown: Liz Phair - Girls Room

Driving: Pantera - Heresy

Flashback: The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody (Techo Remix)

Getting Back Together: David Bowie - Let's Dance

Wedding: Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Midnight Special

Birth of Child: Apocalyptica - Resurrection

Final Battle: Slayer - Angel Of Death (\mm/)

Death Scene: White Zombie - Real Solution #9 (Mambo Mania Mix)

Funeral Song: The Ultras - Vague Ton

End Credits: Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey

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Some of that was pretty good, some of it was crap. I like my prom and Final Battle especially :D

baa (ganked from pensivegargoyle)

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you’re cool


Opening Credits: Primus - Tommy The Cat (Live)

First Day At School: Mystery Science Theather 3000 - The Godzilla Genealogy Bop

Falling In Love: Lamb of God - The Black Dahlia

Fight Song: The Smashing Pumpkins - Stand Inside Your Love

Breaking Up: Public Enemy - She Watches Channel Zero

Prom: Body Count - Body Count's In The House

Life's OK: Metallica - I Disappear

Mental Breakdown: Liz Phair - Girls Room

Driving: Pantera - Heresy

Flashback: The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody (Techo Remix)

Getting Back Together: David Bowie - Let's Dance

Wedding: Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Midnight Special

Birth of Child: Apocalyptica - Resurrection

Final Battle: Slayer - Angel Of Death (\mm/)

Death Scene: White Zombie - Real Solution #9 (Mambo Mania Mix)

Funeral Song: The Ultras - Vague Ton

End Credits: Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey

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Some of that was pretty good, some of it was crap. I like my prom and Final Battle especially :D

The Saga Of Crap [tm]

So pretty much ever since I moved and had a phone number, I've been receiving Canadian Bonded Credit Union calls for someone who isn't me. This has been since, oh, late Novemberish. Let's round that up to December.

I have been trying, since December, to have them stop calling me. Their favorite time to call is about 3 hours into my trying to sleep for night shifts. I hates it. Now, you'd think that all you have to do is phone in, give them your phone number, swear you're not person X and you'd be done, right? No. My phone number isn't in their system. They are automatically calling another line, which then seems to forward to mine. Crap.

So I wait until the next time they leave a message, and write down the Reference Number that they give. I've talked to them about 6 times now asking them to stop calling the number associated with that reference number, as it will never reach person X, it will only reach me. No dice.

So, that brings us to just now. They phone at around 3:40. The first thing I do (once I've been on hold for 5 minutes) is say "Can I speak to your supervisor." This immediately puts the associate in helpful mode, and he does what everyone has done the past 6 times... look up the reference number and assure me the phone number will be removed. Except this time he gets confused. I end up being forwarded to someone else. "Another agent" I'm told. Okay, this should be interesting. 10 minutes on hold, and the Other Agent gets on. I give him the story and my phone number. He says that it's fixed already, as my number isn't in their system.

At this point, I have to admit that I'm losing my cool a bit.

I tell Other Agent that no, it's not fixed. My number has NEVER been in their system. They phone the number attached to the account, and they get me. Please remove the number in the account. Other Agent asks me what the other number is, to which I reply that I don't know... I was never given it. I get put on hold again.

An aside about their hold music: It sucks.Not in the "it's generic elevator crap" sense, in the "it's riddled with static and keeps cutting out entirely" sense. I am not getting calmer.

Other Agent comes back on, and asks me *again* what the number in the account is. I manage to hold on to my tattered cool and give him the reference number, so he can look it up.

"Your number isn't in this account, it must be fixed already."

I think I *might* have snapped at this point.

"No, no it's not fixed. You know why? Because my number has NEVER been in that account, and yet I get called EVERY time I'm trying to sleep for my night shifts. I'm getting REALLY tired about the run around you've been giving me for the past 6 weeks, and I want you to remove the number from that account."

Other Agent is clearly taken aback. He gathers himself, and tells me the best thing yet.

"You should phone Bell and ask them to remove the ghost number on your line."

um. What? At this point, I've resorted to logic... which of course is lost on him. "Even if I call Bell, the number you have in your system won't magically call person X. Why don't you save me having to call Bell and just remove the number? It's not doing you any good right now as it only makes some guy who wants to sleep very angry."

"If you could call Bell..."

OH, FINE. I hang up with Other Agent before I can tell him how I found his service today, and called the 310 number for Bell.

After sharing a laugh with the operator about "ghost numbers", I get a tech scheduled to look at the line to see if it's the wiring at the Central Office that's causing my woes. I really hope they find something.

Total time spent with Canadian Bonded Credit Assholes: 1 hour.
Total time spent with Bell Canada: ~5 minutes.

God I need a drink.

The Saga Of Crap [tm]

So pretty much ever since I moved and had a phone number, I've been receiving Canadian Bonded Credit Union calls for someone who isn't me. This has been since, oh, late Novemberish. Let's round that up to December.

I have been trying, since December, to have them stop calling me. Their favorite time to call is about 3 hours into my trying to sleep for night shifts. I hates it. Now, you'd think that all you have to do is phone in, give them your phone number, swear you're not person X and you'd be done, right? No. My phone number isn't in their system. They are automatically calling another line, which then seems to forward to mine. Crap.

So I wait until the next time they leave a message, and write down the Reference Number that they give. I've talked to them about 6 times now asking them to stop calling the number associated with that reference number, as it will never reach person X, it will only reach me. No dice.

So, that brings us to just now. They phone at around 3:40. The first thing I do (once I've been on hold for 5 minutes) is say "Can I speak to your supervisor." This immediately puts the associate in helpful mode, and he does what everyone has done the past 6 times... look up the reference number and assure me the phone number will be removed. Except this time he gets confused. I end up being forwarded to someone else. "Another agent" I'm told. Okay, this should be interesting. 10 minutes on hold, and the Other Agent gets on. I give him the story and my phone number. He says that it's fixed already, as my number isn't in their system.

At this point, I have to admit that I'm losing my cool a bit.

I tell Other Agent that no, it's not fixed. My number has NEVER been in their system. They phone the number attached to the account, and they get me. Please remove the number in the account. Other Agent asks me what the other number is, to which I reply that I don't know... I was never given it. I get put on hold again.

An aside about their hold music: It sucks.Not in the "it's generic elevator crap" sense, in the "it's riddled with static and keeps cutting out entirely" sense. I am not getting calmer.

Other Agent comes back on, and asks me *again* what the number in the account is. I manage to hold on to my tattered cool and give him the reference number, so he can look it up.

"Your number isn't in this account, it must be fixed already."

I think I *might* have snapped at this point.

"No, no it's not fixed. You know why? Because my number has NEVER been in that account, and yet I get called EVERY time I'm trying to sleep for my night shifts. I'm getting REALLY tired about the run around you've been giving me for the past 6 weeks, and I want you to remove the number from that account."

Other Agent is clearly taken aback. He gathers himself, and tells me the best thing yet.

"You should phone Bell and ask them to remove the ghost number on your line."

um. What? At this point, I've resorted to logic... which of course is lost on him. "Even if I call Bell, the number you have in your system won't magically call person X. Why don't you save me having to call Bell and just remove the number? It's not doing you any good right now as it only makes some guy who wants to sleep very angry."

"If you could call Bell..."

OH, FINE. I hang up with Other Agent before I can tell him how I found his service today, and called the 310 number for Bell.

After sharing a laugh with the operator about "ghost numbers", I get a tech scheduled to look at the line to see if it's the wiring at the Central Office that's causing my woes. I really hope they find something.

Total time spent with Canadian Bonded Credit Assholes: 1 hour.
Total time spent with Bell Canada: ~5 minutes.

God I need a drink.