NPR. in a big big way. i'll get in the car and the car starts and maria will have the radio set to NPR and i swear i just start tensing up like crazy and immediately get mad. i turn it off as fast as i can. all those voices drive me bonkers. that smug tone. entitled. looking at everybody else in the world from afar and nodding knowingly. completely irrational for the most part. it just happened one day.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1350/1470244756_584e5d1352.jpg
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
to build off mookie's contrib:
SUMMER PEEDRIED ON THE SCREENPEEING ON THE JASMINE IN MY MIIIIIIIIIIIIIND
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
Xpost with you
― Jeff, Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
Funny how saltwater sprayed all over a small windowless room doesn't smell like hellish rancid death, though. xp
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
And I hate that that image didn't load.
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
*farts*
― maven maven (Matt P), Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
encountering song by an artist you don't know, and it's excellent and exciting, but it's also a remix, and nothing else they have produced actually sounds like it
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Friday, 23 August 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link
"Saltwater tears in my eyes"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWWKl1QJed0
.. hopefully...
― Mark G, Friday, 23 August 2013 08:47 (ten years ago) link
I was mad bout pee on the seat for a good part of my life. Then I realized that many toilets sprinkle water onto the seat during the flush. This set me free.
― touch. zing touch. you've almost convinced me I'm real (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 23 August 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
I also would get angry about the lint catcher in communal dryers. But then I realized that some people think you should clean it before you dry. Others think after. I now think that one should clean it before and after. Only pleasant surprises in my drying life now.
― touch. zing touch. you've almost convinced me I'm real (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 23 August 2013 23:09 (ten years ago) link
- fking newfangled shoelaces in my nike sneakers, those bullshit nylon tubey ones THAT ALWAYS COME UNTIED- also ia that I keep forgetting to buy shoelaces to replace the bullshit ones
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 August 2013 00:38 (ten years ago) link
I hate those things but I did find that they settled down after a while. When new they are IMPOSSIBLE, though.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 24 August 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
- papyrus font is making me incendiary atm
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 24 August 2013 05:34 (ten years ago) link
not irrational imo, it must've been designed with that effect in mind
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 24 August 2013 13:10 (ten years ago) link
people that pull up to the damn drive through box to order before they've even looked at the damn menu. thankfully I just went grocery shopping so that's done for a while.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
I'll grant you that when you go to the Taco Bell drive-thru, you ought to act like you've been there before.
BUT it's impossible to see the menu unless you pull up to the box. When the guy says "That's okay, just give me your order when you're ready," he's usually talking to me.
― pplains, Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
i wish drive-thrus weren't all like that. and i wish going into the place and immediately being hounded to make a choice wasn't normal. basically just give me a few seconds to look at the menu before i have to suffer your slow death glare jfc
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
lol i'm sure i've IAed about this before
some of the places around here actually have a 'mini menu' that you can see before you get to the one that's on the box. Pollo Tropical does it right - the yhave paper menus you can look at it before you pull up. ecxept IT'S FLORIDA, and IT RAINS, and if you go during a storm you get a wet piece of wet towel to try and read.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
the Taco Bell here has a really weirdly banked turn that has made me severely jump the curb thrice. I was very curt when I grabbed my burrito last time and feel bad abt that as it wasn't drivethru guy's fault.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
That's (one reason) why I hate Potbelly.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah I hate the places like that where you walk inside and immediately upon SETTING A FOOT IN THE DOOR, it's "welcome to xxx, what can I get for you?". at least then, you can approach the counter when you're ready, so NO NEED TO IMMEDIATELY ASK.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
this happens in every big corporate-owned franchisey place because those kids would get fired if they didn't do it and that's the worst part
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Saturday, 24 August 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
I know. Like how Coldstone Creamery employees have to song when they get tips. :(
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Saturday, 24 August 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, and this is why it crosses over from rational to irrational. You know these people are just doing their job. You can even see the floor manager standing in the middle of it all and ordering underlings to frantically attend to every single customer that enters the store. You can smell the fear.
Yet, it's all just so obnoxious. If I'm walking into a grocery store it's because I am going to buy some food, I didn't just accidentally stumble in there for no reason. Leave me the hell alone and let me buy my produce in peace.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 24 August 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
what the hell is a flock.
http://i.imgur.com/6DGofxk.png
― pplains, Sunday, 25 August 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
netscape, really?
― Real cyberpunks think Radio Shack sucks (get bent), Sunday, 25 August 2013 02:36 (ten years ago) link
I sure feel comfortable paying my county taxes on a website compatible with Internet Explorer 5.5.
Just like how I love going to that station down the street that still sells leaded gasoline.
― pplains, Sunday, 25 August 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
fuck you casimir pulaski
― mookieproof, Sunday, 25 August 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
don't let the chicago thread hear you say that.
― pplains, Sunday, 25 August 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
i can take it. he has not yet made me miss a flight, but it's been close
― mookieproof, Sunday, 25 August 2013 03:40 (ten years ago) link
1) Those badly edited movie/TV gifs with subtitles where it doesn't really look like the person in the gif is saying the thing in the subtitle because not enough was captured
2) Tumblrs consisting of these gifs combined with banal problems of a certain job or whatever ("WHEN I SUBMIT THE HR FORM AND THEN REALIZE I FAILED TO SEND A COPY TO THE FILE" etc.)
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 26 August 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
http://lifeinbiglaw.tumblr.com/
^ the worst
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 26 August 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
My colleagues enjoy circulating posts from that site. It's not quite as bad as getting religious email forwards from my former coworkers or pro-gun forwards from my family, at least.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 26 August 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
ok well now i have to mention the best tumblr ever http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com
it collects random tweets that start with "when" and combines them with random gifs and it's the greatest u'll love it
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Monday, 26 August 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
Hah
http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/59097548679/when-you-believe-in-yourself
― pplains, Monday, 26 August 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
OTM - http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/59273806177/when-im-sitting-butt-ads-naked-in-my-solid-gold-hot
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 26 August 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/59412177590/when-its-29-celsius-outside
― mh, Monday, 26 August 2013 23:48 (ten years ago) link
http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/59219261325/when-people-throw-things-from-your-past-in-your-facehttp://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/59144132618/when-people-let-me-down-nowadays
― balls, Monday, 26 August 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
Oof that first one.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 26 August 2013 23:57 (ten years ago) link
a little less bleak
http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/58536697387/when-you-fuck-herhttp://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/59239216181/when-i-had-to-say-goodbye
― balls, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
every time, amirite?
http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/56919613665/when-im-sleepy
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 01:25 (ten years ago) link
we've all been there
― balls, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
New one:
"FEE FIE FO FUM, I SMELL THE BLOOD OF AN AMERICAN!"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 08:04 (ten years ago) link
Hanging out around beanstalks?
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 11:28 (ten years ago) link
"Want to writer better police scenes? Need help with interrogation or dialogue chapter? Two new webinars are coming soon to help you get your police procedural scene done right!"
not ANGRY really but the word WEBINAR in this facebook ad that popped up got me a little peeved. irrational peeve.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
Worst word ever.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
YES I hate "webinar" so much. Also "e-learning," particularly as a noun.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
Fucking smokers who exit my building's revolving door, immediately light up and leave a huge cloud all the way to the designated "smoking area." (Which is directly in the path of anyone entering our building.)
So sorry that you're a pathetic drug addict but if you can't wait an extra two seconds for a fix maybe you should consider rehab or suicide.
― Domo Arigato, Demi Lovato (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link