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

disgusting savages

At that point, harbl, I'd have turned around and said, "Doesn't. That woman *doesn't* know the numbers."

She don't even no her own language.

that's the sort of prescriptivism that makes me irrationally angry

yeah i would never, ever do that! i am not bothered by the use of don't instead of doesn't.

now i feel annoyed by myself, because i in no way meant to look down on her for her use of language, or point out her race (and here both white and black ppl use "don't" a lot, but she was black), but i think the bluntness of it was important to the anecdote. it would be SO SHITTY of me to taunt her for using english incorrectly, and i think would rightly be interpreted as racist. it's a perfectly grammatical sentence imo.

signed, wracked with white guilt in whole foods

Feel sorry for the cashier, TBH. Loud passive-aggressive criticism sucks, no matter who it's coming from, because a) it's childish and b) doesn't make the line move any faster. Probably wouldn't correct a black person/second language user in the situation, but the incident was originally presented without such details. It was presented as someone being shitty to a cashier in an upmarket store, safe in the knowledge that the cashier was unable to answer back.

Annoyed *with* yourself...

i wouldn't even know what chard looked like, let alone the number.

but the double queueing thing...

"Chard, what the fuck is chard," thought Noel, discarding the cookery book. "Chard? I'll not have that. Fucking nonsense is what it is," he said to himself, laughing at the very idea. "Fucking chard," he repeated, mentally. "I love the Rolling Stones," he thought. "Love them."

they were in two lines at the same time!

"Chard, what the fuck is chard," thought Noel, discarding the cookery book. "Chard? I'll not have that. Fucking nonsense is what it is," he said to himself, laughing at the very idea. "Fucking chard," he repeated, mentally. "I love the Rolling Stones," he thought. "Love them."

― spade ventura (wins), Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:16 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:DDDDD

happy days...

shd have included the author in that c&p (I think it was LG?)

yeah LG

Liam...?

cinema was FULL of people with crunchy bags last night

who the fuck takes a crunchy bag to a cinema

what the hell is wrong with people

have you not been reading the ASMR thread

Probably wouldn't correct a black person/second language user in the situation, but the incident was originally presented without such details.

I mean...... a lot of white folks also speak in dialect that uses "don't" in place of "doesn't."

Thread now a net contributor to ia tbrr

Long situation last week cos I was trying to make sure a direct debit got paid. So paid it early then had things confused by there being a bank holiday in the interim between paying it and direct debit. So it got paid, cleared then got taken again. Looks like it would have been easier if I rang them and told them it had been paid, but I noticed the night before it got taken the 2nd time that my online account had it credited. & I assumed that if it was cleared then it would register as not needing to be taken again.
Then I ring them to get it straightened out and get told that I should ring my bank and get it stopped at that end which was bad advice and should really have been ignored. So i ring the bank and their phone which had been a freephone last time I'd noticed now charges me €2 for being put on hold. & I'm trying to work out if there is any point in cancelling the direct debit but go ahead with it and now need to make sure taht gets set up again before the service gets cut off or a deposit is asked for.
& I'm stil waiting to find out if further lessons are going to need to be learned from this mess. Bollox.

tagging, ok, fine, good to organize things

hashtagging, RAGE AT MY ENTIRE GENERATION AND THE WHOLE WORLD

also

'manifest your destiny'

- when people leave the sounds on their phone turned on. Not just the ringer, which is bad enough and really, anybody who keeps the ringer on their phone turned on when out in public is a disgusting savage, but text message alert sounds and email alert sounds and, god help me, the key clicks and other skeumorphic noises. Or game sounds. Sitting in a public waiting room and playing a game on your phone with the game sounds on should be an imprisonable offense.

I just have to wonder what people are thinking when they are like, "Yeah, my phone makes a clicking noise every time I press a key. That's great! I hope everybody on the train enjoys the nonstop noises coming from this device as much as I do." Or are they super duper clueless? I guess a least a percentage of them are deaf/hearing impaired and don't know the phone is making noise and I apologize to those people for this angry post.

yeah people who play phone games with loud game sounds on the subway make me want to grab the phone from their hand and throw it out the window

someone who's doing that is so clearly oblivious that they probably won't even notice

huh where did my slot machine game go, where am I

lol

Any accident befalling people who play slots on their phones can't come quickly enough. World, save yourself from shiny-shiny cartoon-eyes moron-magnet phone games.

The Stamps.com rep said I could have a scale delivered to an alternate address by calling the USPS with my tracking number.

The USPS' automated system offers no options for changing delivery address, and it makes it pretty much impossible to get to an operator. If I give the tracking number, it tells me that no further information or assistance is available, then "Thank you for using the US Postal Service. Goodbye."

If I say I don't have the tracking number: "Please call back when you have the tracking number. Thank you for using the US Postal Service. Goodbye."

Or, "I'm sorry, I didn't recognize your response. Thank you for using the US Postal Service. Goodbye."

they definitely told you USPS, and not UPS? I didn't think the postal service allowed much functionality with their tracking numbers anyway, except to determine delivery. But I've been wrong many times

Yes, USPS for sure b/c it's from Stamps.com.

It turns out the only packages you can re-route are ones sent by Express Mail, and mine was sent by Priority Mail.

jerks

Anyway, the absolutely infuriating part was being given one shot at getting help, then being told goodbye.

Please follow these important steps: Goodbye

the bagging area on the local supermarket robo-tills was so packed with their plastic bags that there wasn't enough space to balance all my purchases. it won't let you continue until everything you've swiped so far has been put on the scales.

(really not sure why it does this and it annoyingly means you can't put stuff directly into a backpack, say. which i always do.)

The use of the phrase "part-exing" in the We Buy Any Car advert. What, is "part-exchanging" too long a word for you?

To get a human at the USPS, start pressing 0 and don't stop. I learned that when I was trying to track down missing packages.

my wife is part of an informal mom's group in the neighborhood, and they text like FIENDS. This annoys both my wife, whose phone is blowing up all the time with nonsense, and me, because I tend to stay up later than my wife and they continue to text and text and I hear her text alerts every two minues. Also, we don't have an unlimited text plan, because we kept my wife's grandfathered unlimited data plan, which we figure is worth more than unlimited texts.

Anyway, to make things worse, she texted them to ask if they could stop texting her so much, because she's running out of texts, and several of them responded "I have unlimited texts." "Me too!" "Me too!" "Yeah, I also have unlimited texts!" DURRRRRRRR!

Anyway, the real reason to be irrationally angry is that the phone company forces you into this position in the first place.

You can solve one of those problems and make the world a better place by turning off the text alert noise.

yeah, I just don't want to do that and then forget to turn it back on and then my wife misses texts the next day

American cellphone calling plans drive me nuts. Who has any control over incoming calls or texts? Why are you expected to pay for them in any case?

there are many things about Verizon that make me, I think, quite rationally angry

yeah being angry at phone companies does not belong itt

group texting drives me bananas; same with group messaging on FB, where you get maybe 2 useful messages and the rest is
LOL OMG ME TOO
ME TOO AHAHAH
MEE TOO WEEE YAY
HAHA WEE OMG ME TOO
fuck right off with that shit, i'm turning off my notifications, removing myself from the conversation and wishing death on you and your family

^^^

OTM

yes, that is exactly what the moms' group texts are like! And anyone who knows my wife knows she does not suffer that kind of giddy nonsense gladly.

gah you broke my stride

heh I don't really get IA but one thing that gets to me on fb is ppl who put kisses at the end of literally every post, so more like
LOL OMG ME TOO xxx
ME TOO AHAHAH xxx
MEE TOO WEEE YAY x
HAHA WEE OMG ME TOO xxxxxx

STOP IT YOU WEIRDOS