who gives the lamest excuses?

**Chilihost** · 05-17-2007, 12:25 PM

its amazing the excuses that have been flying across my desk recently, mainly from adult designers. I think, without fail, every time I have ever hired someone to do design work they have a serious illness in their family (usually their mothers). Its almost like clockwork, I hire them & pay 50% and wait a week, then get in touch with them for an update and their mum was sick / in the hospital / on her deathbed / etc...

So who do you think gives the lamest excuses?
(voting more than once is allowed)

cheers,
Luke

**LiveTwinksCam** · 05-17-2007, 02:58 PM

Definitely designers!

samebb · 05-17-2007, 04:07 PM

Luke...

All i can say is GayDesignStudio.com is going to arrive very soon, with some VERY gifted designers, who wont fob you off with knob-end excuses, WHY? Because they are all gay durrr!

And lets face it, gay designers are just better

:luke:

**gaybucks_chip** · 05-17-2007, 04:30 PM

Now Sam...

You know as well as I do, with gay people, it isn't excuses, it's DRAMA!!!

So it will be (said at 100 mph) "OMG my best friend's boyfriend left him and came back to his apartment and took all his stuff and even his clothes and he needs his new suit to start his new job and I have to go with him to get another suit because his boyfriend has left town and no one knows where he is"

:broccoli: :broccoli:

samebb · 05-17-2007, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by gaybucks_chip

Now Sam...

You know as well as I do, with gay people, it isn't excuses, it's DRAMA!!!

So it will be (said at 100 mph) "OMG my best friend's boyfriend left him and came back to his apartment and took all his stuff and even his clothes and he needs his new suit to start his new job and I have to go with him to get another suit because his boyfriend has left town and no one knows where he is"

:broccoli: :broccoli:

LOL!

Ok Chip that actually had me laughing :cheekymonkey:

We will see, but i think you will be suprised

**chadknowslaw** · 05-17-2007, 05:05 PM

I think Chip was not making that up, he was repeating an actual excuse he heard from a model :-)

Sha · 05-17-2007, 05:21 PM

Chip
That is so funny but so true. I can't tell you how many times I have heard that excuse over the years.

**TropixxxStudios** · 05-17-2007, 05:37 PM

I pay ALL my bills on time...unless I forget and have to be reminded...but then I pay promptly. :glasses:

I am frustrated everytime I go to a show and see people that owe me money spending and spending. Their excuse? Well it is always the same:

"We are just a middleman. We sold your DVD's to ________________, and they have not paid us yet, so we can't pay you yet."

samebb · 05-18-2007, 03:06 AM

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Chip has somebody ACTUALLY given you that as an excuse?
Shame you didnt get it on video

Would have been a YouTube hit LOL :broccoli:

**gaybucks_chip** · 05-18-2007, 05:21 AM

To tell the truth, I don't think I've gotten that excuse verbatim, but Chad is quite correct that I have heard many, many excuses that were even more ridiculous than that one... these are all real stories I've been told...

My boyfriend trashed my apartment and I had to move out before he came back

My friend went crazy on acid and I have to go talk him down

My friend got drunk and passed out and I just got a call that he's sitting in front of someone's house and I have to go get him before the police come.

My mom figured out that the "modeling" shoot I was doing was porn, so she won't let me out of the house. (This one turned out to be true, but the guy got out anyway.)

**gaybucks_chip** · 05-18-2007, 05:23 AM

The sad thing is, I bet, thinking about it, that *all* these stories were true. That's why I said, with gay bois, you don't get excuses, you get drama.

Corey Bryant · 05-18-2007, 08:59 AM

Hm I think corporations in general. Don't get me wrong - I use them for most services of course. But somewhere along the way, common sense is lost.

I remember having to change a plane ticket (and since I was use to flying Southwest and they make it so easy) this was my first time using another company. So instead of doing it the most sensible way, he rep was going in a round-about way. I'll admit - I lost it and called him a moronic corporate imbecile. (At the point, I got transferred to his supervisor, who switched everything around the sensible way.) The supervisor did explain that reps did not have the authority to do it "this" way

**Chilihost** · 05-18-2007, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by gaybucks_chip

Now Sam...

You know as well as I do, with gay people, it isn't excuses, it's DRAMA!!!

So it will be (said at 100 mph) "OMG my best friend's boyfriend left him and came back to his apartment and took all his stuff and even his clothes and he needs his new suit to start his new job and I have to go with him to get another suit because his boyfriend has left town and no one knows where he is"

:broccoli: :broccoli:

LOL!!! some of these excuses are rather funny! Any one got any other good funny excuses? post them!

(ps - the designer that started this for me is now pumping out new sites again, seems all is well again with his mum!!!)

cheers,
Luke

CamCruise · 05-20-2007, 12:02 PM

I find that Chip is right. With gays it is all about drama! And God forbid if your project falls around a gay event like pride, Halloween or some circuit party. Work stops for a week on ether end of it.

**Bec** · 05-20-2007, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Chilihost

its amazing the excuses that have been flying across my desk recently, mainly from adult designers. I think, without fail, every time I have ever hired someone to do design work they have a serious illness in their family (usually their mothers). Its almost like clockwork, I hire them & pay 50% and wait a week, then get in touch with them for an update and their mum was sick / in the hospital / on her deathbed / etc...

So who do you think gives the lamest excuses?
(voting more than once is allowed)

cheers,
Luke

LOL -- still using those Phillipino designers are we?