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Papa_Complex
08-16-2012, 06:09 PM
Can we please pass a law that up-talkers are to be shot on sight (sound)? Seriously douchebag, are you asking me a question or making a statement? Do you want a punch in the head?
fatbuckRTO
08-16-2012, 06:22 PM
But, if you passed a law it would only be effective in Canada? That wouldn't really do any good for most of us on the board? Unless you got an international treaty pushed through the UN? But, it would still need to be ratified by Congress here in the States? Sounds like a lot of work to me?
Papa_Complex
08-16-2012, 06:28 PM
But, if you passed a law it would only be effective in Canada? That wouldn't really do any good for most of us on the board? Unless you got an international treaty pushed through the UN? But, it would still need to be ratified by Congress here in the States? Sounds like a lot of work to me?

Shouldn't the UN be good for something? Wouldn't that make them worth keeping in NYC? Can you imagine the great up-talker hunts of 2014?
KSGregman
08-16-2012, 06:29 PM
Can we please pass a law that up-talkers are to be shot on sight (sound)? Seriously douchebag, are you asking me a question or making a statement? Do you want a punch in the head?

No law required....just stop talking to the Toronto squeegie kids....

Problem solved.
Homeslice
08-16-2012, 06:37 PM
I had to look up what that meant..

http://www.stanthecaddy.com/up-talker-discuss.html

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Up-talking
udman
08-16-2012, 06:41 PM
White people problems...
Papa_Complex
08-16-2012, 06:52 PM
No law required....just stop talking to the Toronto squeegie kids....

Problem solved.

Actually 'artists.' Just makes me want to slap the hipster right out of them.
shmike
08-16-2012, 07:58 PM
I had to look up what that meant..

http://www.stanthecaddy.com/up-talker-discuss.html

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Up-talking

I had no idea either.

I definitely think it's a Canadian thing. I've always had a tough time telling when my relatives (Canadian) have finished a thought or sentence.

My Uncle says: So I went to the store.....

He should have said: So, I went to the store.

They don't trail off at the end of a sentence. I guess I'll start calling them flat-talkers.
Captain Morgan
08-17-2012, 12:36 AM
I had to look up what that meant..

http://www.stanthecaddy.com/up-talker-discuss.html

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Up-talking

Hell, I thought he was talking about the "one-upper," where no matter what you've done, this guy has done it bigger and better. Those people need to be shot, too.
Papa_Complex
08-17-2012, 06:07 AM
Hell, I thought he was talking about the "one-upper," where no matter what you've done, this guy has done it bigger and better. Those people need to be shot, too.

Got one of those sitting across from me, here in the office. If you say that something should be trashed he just has to pipe up with something like, "It has to be taken out into a field and nuked." Every. Time.
Gas Man
08-17-2012, 07:06 AM
You talking about one-uppers?
Papa_Complex
08-17-2012, 08:16 AM
You talking about one-uppers?

One uppers are people who always have to top what you say.

Up talkers are people who make everything that they say sound like a question.
fatbuckRTO
08-17-2012, 08:27 AM
Shouldn't the UN be good for something? Wouldn't that make them worth keeping in NYC? Can you imagine the great up-talker hunts of 2014?:lol: It's cheating if you use actual questions...
Papa_Complex
08-17-2012, 08:30 AM
:lol: It's cheating if you use actual questions...

I was asking questions?
fatbuckRTO
08-17-2012, 08:32 AM
I was asking questions?Maybe?

I agree though? Do I think up-talkers are as bad as question-talkers? Yes I do.
Papa_Complex
08-17-2012, 08:42 AM
Maybe?

I agree though? Do I think up-talkers are as bad as question-talkers? Yes I do.

I'm not sure that you can tell the difference between the two :lol:
defector
08-17-2012, 08:48 AM
Hell, I thought he was talking about the "one-upper," where no matter what you've done, this guy has done it bigger and better. Those people need to be shot, too.

Got one of those sitting across from me, here in the office. If you say that something should be trashed he just has to pipe up with something like, "It has to be taken out into a field and nuked." Every. Time.

Hell, I've got at least 3 of those guys in my shop right now?
shmike
08-17-2012, 10:29 AM
Hell, I've got at least 3 of those guys in my shop right now?

We never have less than four in our office?
Papa_Complex
08-17-2012, 10:37 AM
Hell, I've got at least 3 of those guys in my shop right now?

I actually find him far less of an issue than the lazy asshole who sits right behind me. Yesterday the idiot in question was whining about how getting a request to issue an IP address for the same user twice should result in a second work order, because the MAC address provided by the user the first time wasn't correct. Issuing an IP address takes maybe 3 minutes, paperwork and all.

The same guy said to a co-worker, last week, not to do so many work orders while we were working on Maple Leaf Gardens because it would make him look bad. This co-worker and I were only in the shop a couple of hours a day, at most,with the rest of the time being spent in The Gardens. I told him to do more work and he wouldn't make himself look bad.

I worked 4 days that week and did 21 work orders. The co-worker was in for 3 days and did 14 work orders. The douche who was supposed to be picking up the slack while the two of us were stuck in the new athletics centre was in for 3 days (took a 'sick' day when he was the only available tech for the rest of the campus) did 12 work orders.

Maybe this should be a 'what pisses me off..." thread? :lol:
fatbuckRTO
08-17-2012, 10:41 AM
We never have less than four in our office?

Hell, I am at least six of those guys?

Maybe this should be a 'what pisses me off..." thread? :lol:Do you mean "my thread o' hate: hate harder?" (http://www.twowheelfix.com/showthread.php?t=20186&page=10) I think you do.
Homeslice
08-17-2012, 11:05 AM
I had no idea either.

I definitely think it's a Canadian thing. I've always had a tough time telling when my relatives (Canadian) have finished a thought or sentence.

My Uncle says: So I went to the store.....

He should have said: So, I went to the store.

They don't trail off at the end of a sentence. I guess I'll start calling them flat-talkers.

People who start every sentence with "so" are the real problem. It's like they think it adds something when it really doesn't. It's a useless filler word.

Gen Y are pretty big fans of it.
Papa_Complex
08-17-2012, 11:13 AM
Hell, I am at least six of those guys?

Do you mean "my thread o' hate: hate harder?" (http://www.twowheelfix.com/showthread.php?t=20186&page=10) I think you do.

Might be time for a thread merge, but it didn't start that way :lol:

People who start every sentence with "so" are the real problem. It's like they think it adds something when it really doesn't. It's a useless filler word.

Gen Y are pretty big fans of it.

Both "so" and "like" are frequently used by up talkers.
shmike
08-17-2012, 11:54 AM
People who start every sentence with "so" are the real problem. It's like they think it adds something when it really doesn't. It's a useless filler word.

Gen Y are pretty big fans of it.

I hadn't heard it used much until the first time you mentioned that a year or so ago.

I had a meeting with a guy a few days later and EVERY single thought started with "So.."

The whole time I'm in the meeting I"m thinking: "This is what Homeslice was talkig about and it IS annoying."
fatbuckRTO
08-17-2012, 12:00 PM
The whole time I'm in the meeting I"m thinking: "This is what Homeslice was talkig about and it IS annoying."I knew a guy who, besides being a compulsive liar, started most of his thoughts with "Oh, yeah..."

Always felt like I was joining the lie half-way through.
Homeslice
08-17-2012, 12:03 PM
I hadn't heard it used much until the first time you mentioned that a year or so ago.

I had a meeting with a guy a few days later and EVERY single thought started with "So.."

The whole time I'm in the meeting I"m thinking: "This is what Homeslice was talkig about and it IS annoying."

:lol

Still can't figure out the origins of it. It might be a Midwestern thing, because most of the abusers I know went to college there.

Either that or it's just some generational thing, from watching certain celebrities/artists whatever
Papa_Complex
08-17-2012, 12:18 PM
I knew a guy who, besides being a compulsive liar, started most of his thoughts with "Oh, yeah..."

Always felt like I was joining the lie half-way through.

Ended every statement with, "Yeah, that's the ticket!" too? Bet he liked talking about his wife....... Morgan Fairchild.
anthonyk
08-23-2012, 04:36 PM
Can we please pass a law that up-talkers are to be shot on sight (sound)? Seriously douchebag, are you asking me a question or making a statement? Do you want a punch in the head?

It's you damn Canadians, at least on the conference calls I've been on lately. I just listened to several minutes of up-talked sentences from our Canadian folks, with nary a question in sight.
Papa_Complex
08-23-2012, 05:16 PM
It's you damn Canadians, at least on the conference calls I've been on lately. I just listened to several minutes of up-talked sentences from our Canadian folks, with nary a question in sight.

I always used to get it when I called California, for tech support. Then again I was occasionally told that there wasn't anyone to take my call, because they were on the beach for their morning run :lol: