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

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

that just means they are dtf

sim to people who "lol" to everything and include "lol" in messages that aren't humorous

I'm not bothered about the xx's but THANK [DEITY REDACTED] none of my friends text LOLs and other TLAs all the time.

"it's a text, jeremy! if text kisses were real kisses, the whole world would be an orgy!"

xxp

xxx

what is a tla and what's wrong with lol?

TLA: Three Letter Acronym.

Nowt wrong with LOL in the context of something actually being funny.

oic compulsive lols yea that is annoying lol

yeah it's just as a nervous tic that bothers me. Whenever I've gotten into a g-chat or text conversation that devolves into that, I start to feel like neither of us are sure whether either of us are being sincere.

lmao i hate tlas rofl

lol true

*says nothing*

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

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, June 10, 2013 4:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No beef, but if I had a nickel for every time I've clicked on a newly-updated bookmark only to find a lolz from ya vg, I'd at least have $5.

Most of them are lolz to witty and wry comments I've said, so you got a pass, but just saying.

ILX lols mean something, maaaaan.

lol

Veg gives good LOLs.

ahem the loling was not the point PP jeez

AND I COPPED TO IT RIGHT BEFORE YOU POSTED THAT SO THERE

:)

i hate typing on my phone and then the incessant lol'ing just kinda took over I'M SORRY but I am what I am

- emails from twitter to tell me the people I already follow on twitter have tweeted

"P___ L___, J___ P___, and 6 others have Tweets for you"

Yeah, that one drives me nuts too.

"Come abooooooard, we're expecting youuuuuuuuuuuuu"

LOL

^ I dedicate that post to pplains.

i find you to be most amusing, carl agatha

lulz

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m14bi1rFVe1rq535ko1_400.gif

I'm sure someone has mentioned this already but who really thinks i'm going to sit here and watch a pre-video Youtube advert that lasts between 1:40 and 3:59? If you don't tell me what your product is in the five seconds before i'm allowed to press "skip" i am never going to know what it is.

otm

similarly, 30-second ads (on other site) preceding clips that are only a couple minutes long at most.

the local speciality magazine shop claims to have 'over 4,000+ mags'

that's more than more than 4,000 mags

"cronuts"

More than 4,001

dunno whether the , operator has precedence there or what

pre-employment personality screenings. most of the questions are so ambiguous as to be meaningless, or else there's just no way to answer without looking like an asshole. the one that stuck out this morning was "do you agree that the police deserve more power?" (first of all: to do what? to whom?) if i say yes, i look like i'm advocating for some sort of martial-law big-government society. if i say no, i look like an anti-authoritarian occupy type who clearly has something to hide.

What job was that for?

ffs

also fuck anything that begins 'do you agree ____'

What job was that for?

a cooking job