Reporting live! Sitting at a table reading and eating in a stupid, healthy and chipper fast food place (more on that later) with two women on either side of me and all of them know each other! So they are talking to each other! Loudly! Across me, who is clearly trying to read and eat in peace! They did not accept my offer to trade places with me or get my hint.
So but I appreciate healthy fast lunch options and I like quinoa just fine but paying $8 for half a cup of quinoa and chili is straight bullshit. Especially since I'm still hungry and need to get some nabs or something so I don't start hallucinating my coworker as a giant talking hot dog.
Also why is this place playing Das Racist?
This is carl agatha reporting live. Back to you.
― carl agatha, Friday, 2 March 2012 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Das Racist is there to remind you that you could have been eating at the Pizza Hut / Taco Bell instead of eating $8 quinoa and chili.
― joygoat, Friday, 2 March 2012 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Did you go to protein bar? I had lunch there too. Mine was delicious.
― Jeff, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just heard a co-workers cellphone ring. He picked it up and said, "Hey, Roger. Are you feeling better?"
Makes me IA all the way. When you call someone, you shouldn't have to immediately answer a question without even saying "hello" first.
― pplains, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yesssss. I went to give it another shot since you like it. It tasted good; it's just expensive and inadequate.
― carl agatha, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also hearing the woman brag about all the things she omitted from her quinoa bowl was annoying. Congratulations, you are eating vegan air for lunch. Now shut up and let me read.
Also it's loud in there. And too enthusiastic.
― carl agatha, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Surprise, Jeff! You are married to Grampa Simpson!
― carl agatha, Friday, 2 March 2012 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Solidarity my dear. Mr Veg routinely complains about being married to Andy Rooney
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 23:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I went on a loud bile-filled rant last night about American TV season schedules, and WTF with all these stupid hiatus is and if a show is on the air, it's ON THE AIR, and if it's off, then it's off, and none of this 3 weeeks on 2 weeks of rant rant crazy rant
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
hiatus is = hiatuses
hiaitii
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Friday, 2 March 2012 23:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
hope for hiatii
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 23:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sitting at a table reading and eating in a stupid, healthy and chipper fast food place (more on that later)
Did we already get the "more" part?
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Saturday, 3 March 2012 00:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, when I complain heartily about the high prices, small portions, eating disordered clientele, hyper-cheerful staff, and noise level. LOL.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 3 March 2012 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hey people who stand at the tops or bottoms of subway stairs, why don't you move out of the way and let the bidirectional foot traffic flow unimpeded by your inexplicable need to block the ability of people to either exit or enter the damn subway station.
― rayuela, Saturday, 3 March 2012 02:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
god, once I started posting in this thread it's like I can't stop...
― rayuela, Saturday, 3 March 2012 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
One of us one of us
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 March 2012 02:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Using the word "puritanical" to describe a Catholic.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 3 March 2012 03:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Haha that is an awesome thing to be angry about. Seriously.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 3 March 2012 03:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's even better than when I heard an older Italian Catholic man say you shouldn't call Episcopalian ministers "Father" because they're "more secular."
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Saturday, 3 March 2012 04:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
This girl I know makes me irrationally angry. I just really can't stand the sight of her or hear about her. We have mutual friends that want us both to connect so badly but we are complete opposites, I feel. They always invite her along to things I invite them too and they always look bewildered the few times actual invitations were issued and there wasn't one for her. Seems to me the feeling is mutual, she is just better at hiding it, BUT it has crossed my mind that maybe she is completely innocuous and it's all me.
― *tera, Saturday, 3 March 2012 07:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Android just updated on my phone and it's changed the method of unlocking it and answering calls. Pissing me off no end.
― A BIG JOE JORDAN TYPE OF POSTER (onimo), Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
When, instead of saying "OK", people say "ooh-kay" with a high-low inflection.
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
snoball - I hear that loud and clear. makes people sound like fucking cartoons, imo.
*tera - I totally had a case like that once. I'd be all like "why the hell is geoff here?" and "what do you mean we should call geoff?" The thing was, he wasn't doing anything that necessarily should have made me angry. He was innocuous, but I was irrationally angry just over a feeling I had about him. I didn't like him. He was the anti-me.
He turned out to be a complete douche-bag who really did some damage to a few of my friends. It took them a couple years longer than I did to figure it out and I had for the most part burned my bridges with them over the geoff issue.
Ultimately, geoff's entrance into our lives was a net negative to all involved. I lost my friends. They lost me. They got ripped off and pushed around and cheated. In hindsight though, I kinda wish that I had just stuck around and been a little more chill about it and invited him into my life like everyone else and then been there for them when the shit hit the fan.
So that's probably not exactly the same as your deal. But the basic point is geoff was an innocuous thing that made me irrationally angry and I was right.
― beachville, Saturday, 3 March 2012 12:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
― A BIG JOE JORDAN TYPE OF POSTER (onimo), Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:04 (3 hours ago)
both of these are an enormous pain (under the rubric of 'innocuous things', at least), every answer comes only after a couple of seconds of awkward fumbling, NOT TO MENTION the half-asleep trauma caused by struggling to turn the alarm off.
― shart practice (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 3 March 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
People who quote Princess Bride incessantly.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 3 March 2012 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
incontheivable
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 March 2012 17:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
beachville, yep, that's it an anti-me!
I still feel given enough rope...eventually... but yeah I fear losing my friends before they lose her so I just shut-up. Sorry you lost yours. You ended up being right, that sux.
We both ended up pregnant at the same time and she found out she was having a girl and so my friends started emailing and calling me telling me wouldn't it be great if I were having a boy so they could fall in love and marry later. Um, that was a horrifying thought to have this girl as an in-law later in life. I told them I was having a girl and they swore up and down I was so wrong. When it was official they just said well, they could be lesbian lovers later. I was like for the love of God! I do NOT like this girl!
― *tera, Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
People who whistle tunelessly.
― omar 13337713 (Leee), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^^^ leeee otfm
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fucking web sites that make passwords a huge pain in the ass by:
- requiring they be changed every couple of months- prohibiting use of previously-used passwords- prohibiting the use of a character twice in a row- prohibiting the use of special characters
My school's web site does 3 of these and Blue Cross/Blue Shield does another 3, which means I forget my password and either have to reset it every time I log in or I send myself an email with the password so I can look it up later (thereby compromising security).
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbf they don't send you an email with the password, they send you an email with the one-time key to reset your password. At least they do if they're not morons.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also, requiring the password be a small range of number of characters. E.g., password must be between 6 and 9 characters long.
xp - I never said they send me a password.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I just want to log into a website and stay logged in forever. Security be damned.
― Jeff, Monday, 5 March 2012 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
In fact, neither my school nor BCBS do resets by email. Both do it by verifying info on their website.
xp - yes
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 3 March 2012 03:28 (2 days ago) Permalink
Though not exactly on point, this reminded me of the first day of a college class on literature and spirituality in which the professor asked us to brainstorm examples of how religion seemed to be playing an increasing role in popular film. One kid raises his hand and says "I know this might not be the most obvious example, but Stigmata. I mean when you really think about it."
― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
i started using keyboard patterns for work to save me having to think of passwords. so now mine are things like uIomNb654 and i can write them down cryptically. everything else is stored encrypted in a keystore on a usb stick (and emailed, encrypted, to webmail account)
― koogs, Monday, 5 March 2012 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
- articles that include top 10/20/50 that insist on displaying the list as a goddamn slideshow.
just list the damn things.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have two (2) sets of headphones - crappy apple buds I keep at home, and a pair of Sennheiser over-ears that I take with me to work and bring home on the weekends.
I left my sennheisers at home this morning so now I have zero (0) headphones at work.
I am now listening to music with my PHONE HEADSET plugged into my computer. It would be more pleasing to have the music transmitted through a tin can on a string.
fml
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I left my earbuds on my coffee table and I know that my cat loves them for chewing and wrestling with. Hmm.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 5 March 2012 18:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe the cat put a parasite in your brain that made you leave them on the coffee table
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2012 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
you need cat handcuffs innit?
― Stevolende, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have headphones that I prefer to use, a set of crappy ear buds that I keep in my desk at work for emergencies, and a pair of (actually very nice) headphones that I keep in a case in my purse just in case. I don't use the nice ones daily because they don't have the little clicker mic on them, and that thing is handy.
― carl agatha, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I need to get spare-spares to keep at work.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2012 19:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just heard a co-workers cellphone ring. He picked it up and said, "Hey, Roger. Are you feeling better?"Makes me IA all the way. When you call someone, you shouldn't have to immediately answer a question without even saying "hello" first.― pplains, Friday, March 2, 2012 4:50 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pplains, Friday, March 2, 2012 4:50 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This from the guy who neither proffers nor acknowledges parting niceties at the completion of any telephone exchange.
― Uncle Terry's Tampon Tea (sunny successor), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
He does say 'Sir' when addressing elders though so I guess that makes it even Steven.
― Uncle Terry's Tampon Tea (sunny successor), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
By the time the phone call is concluding, you should know by now whether or not Roger is feeling any better. What else is there left to say?
And listen. It's not I just abruptly hang-up without warning or anything. It's not like you said "I am finished." in your last post.
― pplains, Monday, 5 March 2012 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
M'amm.
So but I appreciate healthy fast lunch options and I like quinoa just fine but paying $8 for half a cup of quinoa and chili is straight bullshit.
I don't think the chili is $8, is it? $7 at the most. Unless they jack up the prices in the Loop.
In any event, I do feel you. Fwiw, the wraps are more filling than the bowls, I've found.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
I agree, although I found the wraps to be dense and dry quinoa bombs. The work of chewing them wasn't worth the nutritional or taste enjoying I derived from them.
I stand by Freshii as the best new healthy lunch option in the Loop. Although Wao Bow now offers quinoa as an option with their rice bowls, so there's that, too, if you really fucking need to eat some quinoa like STAT.
― carl agatha, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:08 (1 year ago) Permalink