Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

kind of nice to glance at them and think, "hmm, that song they've been playing for the last five years finally made it to an album"

tracklistings are ok, but making a big hoop-de-do about a trailer for the fourth season of a tv show is like, jfc let's get some perspective

veg you sure this is an argument a doctor who fan should be making?

me, yes. becuase I don't really give a shit abt trailers in general

but i see yr point :)

What do you do if you drop a heavy weight on your foot in a public place when you're on your own.

Or rather when a heart shaped chopping/bread board rolls off a shelf when you've bent to pick up a board you were looking at that has just rolled off the shelf you put it back on. Heart shaped board landed whack on my toe, thankfully I was wearing engineer boots or I'd be worried it was broken. certainly ached to hell tonight.
I think I walked up and down the aisle of this shop cursing under my breath banging my hands together. Which must have looked pretty weird. I got a funny look from the cleaner who walked by with her trolley, looked down at the two boards lying on the ground.

Seems ironic that it was a heart shaped board that loved my toe nail purple. Toe has felt like it was going to fall off at a couple of times tonight and at the time I was getting images of my boot filling with blood. I stood for a moment trying to wriggle my toes once I got the boards back on the shelf.
I'm thinking I probably should have complained about the way the boards were being held on the shelf if they could fall off that easily. Does feel like my foot was protected mainly by my footwear. Hate to think what would have happened if I'd been wearing lighter footwear or if it happened to somebody else who was. Looked like one of the pegs on the stand tehse boards were held upright in was missing so I don't know how safe it was.
& I need to use my foot tomorrow too.

When people use PS. in emails. You don't need to, if you have a PS, you can just go back to the body of your email and put it up there.

Yeah, really, it's an email. Just put "BTW" instead of "PS"

i just write

ADDENDUM:

Is the origin of PS in handwriting, like you finished writing the whole damn letter then thought of something else and didn't want to start over? I actually never thought of that.

I think it's fine where it is - a postscript by definition remains outside the main subject under discussion in your message, whether written or electronic.

Just checking in

Yup you guys are still crazy

I have a rule to automatically delete any email that contains a PS.

Using PS in electronic communications pleases me, even if I can't defend it without wondering if I should just exile myself to the Innocent Smoothies thread forever.

(Well, I like it on ILX. Less good in an email, though, as I automatically stop scrolling/reading as soon as I see the signoff.)

PS = postscript so is something that was written after the main body of the letter. In times of writing in ink on a piece of paper you have something of a set out structure to the letter that is no longer as concrete in the age of electronic media such as emails.
So can see why it might be seen as strange since that is no longer true and one could insert whatever the postscript is into the body of the message.

I can also see why it is a useful tool for emphasis and subject change for example.

Things (mostly children's toys) which require an odd number of batteries. Pretty much nothing uses only 1 battery, so I end up having this lone battery lying around.

Having to get rechargeable batteries for my landline phone and never getting around to it so the phone occasionally runs out. Is that a standard thing for landline phones these days? rechargeable phones.
Batteries around here are easier got in the form of other brand Duracell type long-life things picked up from the €2 shop.

I agree about the post-scripts being an anachronistic way of ending an email.

P.S. Go Hogs!

I suppose it's irrational that I am disgusted when people make gross potty noises in the bathroom.

I'm IA at myself for thinking I could make a "free stuff" post on Craig's List without it turning into a huge pain in my tits.

Yeah, it's "curb alert" with no contact info or the trash for me.

We have a bunch of preemie baby stuff that the kid has outgrown (yay!) that would be really amazing for someone with a premature baby about to head home from the hospital. I'd put it outside but the weather is bullshit so I figured I'd post it. I think I've already narrowly dodged a scam. Sigh.

Ugh, my last free stuff giveaway was such a horrible experience. We had this actually really, really nice but enormous Ikea wardrobe that the prior owners had left behind and we had painters and flooring guys coming and it wasn't going to be possible to move it multiple times as needed, and dissassembling/reassembling seemed like a huge job, so we decided to give it away. I made it explicitly clear on the ad that YOU HAVE TO HAVE A TRUCK and YOU NEED SOMEONE TO HELP YOU DISASSEMBLE IT AND MOVE THE PARTS.

Well the lady that showed up sort of followed my instructions -- she had a MINIVAN, and a guy to help her who didn't come until she had already been there for 1.5 hours. Of course I eventually wound up helping to disassemble it, which was a project, because I'm not going to stand around watching some poor middle-aged lady do it and waste even more of my time.

After the dude showed up and started "helping" they got into a huge argument with each other and continued to argue the rest of the time, loudly, in an apartment building, and by this point it was after midnight. I think the whole thing of disassembling it, moving all the parts downstairs, and arguing a lot about it took over three hours. I felt like a real ass for not getting money for it at that point.

Donate those old clothes to a charity.

If there's anything I'm ever going to throw 100 percent of my money into, it's brand spankin' new baby clothes. Nobody buys used clothes for their newborns or infants, those babies are just way too precious to wear something that Some Other Baby wore. Future grandmothers will shop for days and buy the most expensive clothes for a person who will outgrow them in less than a month.

I cleaned out the garage after Christmas and we still had so many new clothes still in the package. Shoes that had never been worn because one grandmother buys them two sizes too small each time ("Oh, he's growing so fast!" "Yeah, kids will do that in a year.")

I know I'm saying all of this from a certain position of economic privilege, but I think this feeling descends even below the poverty level. There may be people struggling with grocery and utility bills, but by god, they're going to work an extra shift every other day if it means NEW CLOTHES for the precious new baby.

The main reason I wouldn't take used baby clothes is that babies shit and piss and vomit on their clothes all the time. I know they get washed, but there's something about knowing that.

Oh and yeah K's grandma (wife's mother) also buys us stuff that's too small because it's on sale etc. "Why isn't she wearing the jacket I got her?" "It doesn't fit." "But it's much warmer than that one." "IT DOESN'T FIT"

At least half of Ivy's clothes are hand me downs, so they have been crapped on but by babies that I know so it is okay with me.

The preemie stuff included about 80 preemie Pampers (those are expensive), some used clothes, some new clothes still in the package, and a bunch of sealed, sterile preemie low flow nipples the hospital sent us home with. These were premium goods!

It's cool, though - someone came for them. It's over. My nightmare of generosity is over.

Actually now that you mention it we had a lot of hand-me-down stuff for her first year. I guess if it's the crap of friends' or relatives babies it's not so bad

I think I owned a fair number of garage sale or secondhand clothes as a infant/small child?

I mean, even if someone else's kid did shit/piss/vomit in that onesie, it was washed in the hot/sanitary cycle and is gonna get the same stuff on it from the new kid within a day.

Mothers in the neighbourhood where I grew up were constantly shuffling baby clothes around to one another, in the era of cloth nappies and boiling infants' clothes. I was the oldest child/grandchild/great-grandchild so I had lots of new stuff, but also antique baby things for special occasions because both grannies were trained fashion designers who could make anything.

donate all that baby shit to a shelter.

Too late.

The main reason I wouldn't take used baby clothes is that babies shit and piss and vomit on their clothes all the time.

who among us

Finding it a bit weird that a firm that is supposed to be delivering something to my place rang me to set it up from a private number i.e. one that didn't display on my phone. Doesn't seem like the best way for the customer to feel safe does it?
Would think in something like that they would make a point of making sure you got a phone number for them. It strikes me as pretty dodgy at the best of times when somebody rings with a number you can't see even when it is someone I know.
Seems very iffy if it is a despatch company that you need to keep a trace on actually delivering things correctly and you'd want some fallback on.

To not display on this phone the phone number of a phone ringing it has to be intentionally set up not to register. I checked the log on my phone afterwards to get the details to find it said 'no number' surely a delivery firm would want you to be secure in the knowledge that you could contact them if anything came up preventing the plans they gave you for the first time. Especially when you have had no prior contact.
Previous experience of this withheld number thing has been mainly cold callers plus a couple of people I know who can't be talked out of it. It is far from helpful, difficult to ring back to. &in the case of goods delivery surely counterproductive. Makes it look like they don't want you to know who it is that has your number is first emotional response. Do a lot of people even answer the phone to 'private number' aps this phone displays it?

The delivery dud would probably get too many 'nuisance' calls of the 'where are you now? ' kind. While he is driving..

I don't know how small a firm it is but would be very surprised if there wasn't separation between despatch office & drivers. As with a taxi office. I currently don't even have a home office number.

Loads of offices have their outgoing phones set up to be withheld. Even if you ask, no delivery co. will ever give you a driver's number.

Phonecall came from despatch office not driver. I haven't asked for a driver's number. A store sold an appliance set up delivery with a 3rd party I would assume that 3rd party wouldn't withhold contact details. What do you do in an emergency if situation about delivery has to change? Nobody to contact this way would think that an obvious problem.

& interestingly now that I've been informed that I'd never get the driver's phone number. The driver rang me from a phone with a visible number. Shame the home office couldn't do the same really , not exactly customer friendly?

total bonus if you can get the driver's number! I'm always told 'they don't have mobiles' which is obviously bs

late at night driving down the freeway and suddenly blue and red flashing lights in your rearview and you slow the fuck down and your heart is in your throat and you pull into the slow lane

and they zoom right past you because it's a cop car not a highway patrol car BUT WHO THE FUCK CAN TELL AT NIGHT

shaved a good year off my life out of sheer panic

"Thanks for that mint condition CD you loaned me on Friday. I am now returning it in a smashed jewel case that I'm going to pretend is fine."

idgaf about the jewel case, the CD's going to get ripped then languish on a shelf, but at least acknowledge that you broke it?

When you're on hold and there's low-level hold music that doesn't really bother you but every few minutes there's a deceptive "pop" like someone is coming on the line and then "ALL OF OUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE CURRENTLY BUSY ASSISTING OTHER CUSTOMERS"

what makes me mad is the 'all'

like, how potemkin is that.

you can hear it on places that you know got like 2-3 representatives max!

as if it's supposed to make you less impatient if you can be led to imagine that there is some kind of unbelievable overwhelming demand for their army of representatives, all of them

yeah, sometimes when I hear that I get the image of there being like, one dude taking a shit in the bathroom, while another one is hitting a ping-pong ball to himself.

I wish all of those had that call back thing you get on a couple. Trying to think who it is taht actually does have a system like that, could be Airtricity the electric company? After a length of time of you trying to ring they offer you the opportunity to be rung back in about 10 or 15 minutes so you know you have a live contact & aren't wasting time with that continual music/interruption by piped voice.

& that is really annoying, you'd think they could find a way of doing that more smoothly. Maybe I need to work out the conference call function which I've never used so that I'm not constantly holding the phone while on hold.

I was on hold the other day with one system that had a 5 minute "your call is very important to us, please stay on the line while we assist other callers" loop that got interrupted every ten seconds with STAY ON THE LINE, WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A HIGH VOLUME OF CALLS, STAY ON THE LINE.

So I kept getting that pop each time one of the stay on the line messages would interrupt the other stay on the line message. I hate the phone.

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Today:

- The UPS driver left all of this building's deliveries in our the unstaffed lobby.
Last week UPS was supposed to deliver a wifi router. They show it was delivered, but we never received it.

- A courier service tried to deliver my new computer to the office at 8:00 a.m. Their standard window for CDW deliveries to businesses is 6:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

- The US Postal Service carrier never came to this building at all.

something about being on hold i am not irrationally angry about but irrationally curious about is the music. how can something that no one likes be always used? i can't imagine one person liking the music they choose. what is the deal with that?