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Sofie 'Melle' Werkers ([personal profile] bubosquared) wrote2006-10-17 11:10 am
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How not to get help from a call center: hang up every time you're put on hold for ten goddamn seconds.
How to confuse the fuck out of a call center agent: call in just as the fucktard above hung up, thus making me think I was taking said fucktard off hold when instead I was picking up a new call (for a different client, too. Gah.) Not this guy's fault, but still. My poor head!

This Joe Geeling story, and specifically the way the media seems to be covering it, is bugging me for reasosn I can't quite put into words, augh. The BBC story isn't too bad, but the version in the Metro (which I can't find on their website) opens, and I quote: "A teenager who murdered an 11-year-old boy because he rejected his sexual advances was jailed for life yesterday." The BBC also mentions the "rejection of sexual advances" bit, andit just ... it bothers me, because it strikes me that they'd not be writing this if the victim'd been a girl. Maybe I'm wrong about this--I have no rational explanation here, just a sense of bugging.

(Of course, in the case of the Metro article, there's just sloppy writing going on in general. "Detectives have suggested Hamer picked Joe because he was an easy target -- someone who 'in many ways was his polar opposite' at school." How the hell does being popular make you an easy target? Gah.)

And on a lighter note: Cavalcade of Cats. Favourites include: IraKitty, ShowerCat, ScaryKitten, and of course MoonCat.

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[identity profile] perhael.livejournal.com 2006-10-17 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Um, I'm really pretty sure the sexual advances things would never have been left out, even if it'd been a girl. The press love that shit, man, no matter who the people involved are.

[identity profile] dantesvendetta.livejournal.com 2006-10-17 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD! KITTENS! *squee*

I like that a lot :D

[identity profile] troubleinchina.livejournal.com 2006-10-17 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It's been rubbing me the wrong way, too. I hate sensationalising the whole thing, and the implication is that it's gay crime.

[identity profile] sparklebutch.livejournal.com 2006-10-17 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Ignored news and stupid news people.

Instead concentrated on kittens. Am now in overload of LOVE. Head might explode. But with love.
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[identity profile] carelessmemory.livejournal.com 2006-10-17 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
KITTIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!! I love your favourites, and also the screwdriver one. Hee.
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