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Sto caricando le informazioni... Life's Little Annoyancesdi Ian Urbina
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The book only took two days to read, but it gave great insight on what to do, in situations, where you usually wouldn't think there was something you could do. It gave situations that we go through everyday, and we accept that there really is nothing we can do about it, but these people did. It was a fun book to read. ( ) This is a short compilation of stories of people's creative solutions to get around or get back at inconsiderate people, companies, and the everyday crap that constitutes modern life. Some of the stories were funny, some were the stories behind things I already knew about (such as giving someone an e-mail address that is anything@papernapkin.net sends them back a form rejection letter), some were creative, some were just stupid. A lot of them vaguely annoyed me, because the "solutions" seemed to be just as annoying and inconsiderate to third parties as the initial problems, with the people hiding behind the excuse that "I was annoyed first!!". Cute enough bathroom reading, but it's not real clear to me why this book needs to exist, or what its target audience is (my mom got it for free in a corporate workshop gift bag and passed it on). nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore. What can you do when the world is pushing you over the edge? More than you think. For some of us, it's the automated voice that answers the phone when we'd rather talk to a real person. For others, it's the fact that Starbucks insists on calling its smallest-sized coffee "tall." Or perhaps it's those pesky subscription cards that fall out of magazines. Whatever it is, each of us finds some aspect of everyday life to be particularly maddening, and we often long to lash out at these stubborn irritants of modern life. In Life's Little Annoyances Ian Urbina chronicles the lengths to which some people will go when they have endured their pet peeves long enough. We meet the junk-mail recipient who returns unwanted "business reply" envelopes weighted down with sheet metal, so the mailers will have to pay the postage, and the woman, fed up with the colleague who kept helping himself to her lunch cookies, who replaces them with dog biscuits that look like biscotti. And we revel in the seemingly endless number of tactics people use to vent their anger at telemarketers, loud cell phone talkers, spammers, and others who impose themselves on us. A compendium of human inventiveness, this audio book will provide comfort and inspiration to anyone who has ever gritted his teeth and dreamed of sweet retribution against the slings and arrows of outrageous people. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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