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

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

lol. give em the power, they've earned it!

Xp to mookie. I tutor hs students in writing and the essay prompts they are assigned are like that--really vague and you need to accept a bunch of tenuous premises before you can even begin to answer them. One recent example: Do you think the American Dream is still alive?

i worked for a now-defunct bookstore chain in the late 90s that i'm told later used these half-assed questionnaires to screen candidates. one acquaintance of mine, who had been a manager at that very chain years earlier and was totally awesome, failed the test for reasons similar to the question you raised.

anyway i'm pretty sure that you pass by advocating for martial-law society

that police question sounds like a trap of some kind! maybe you have to answer honestly to avoid the trap.

'do you think' is v. different from 'do you agree'

i totally advocated for martial law btw

<3

The job application process can be degrading

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

that's more than more than 4,000 mags

Similarly the often-used phrase along the lines of "We have up to 1 million Xs--or even more!"

So you mean you have OVER 1 million Xs?

i once saw a license plate holder that spelled the town of thousand oaks as "1,000 oaks."

that made me lol for some reason!

"hmm, one thousand oaks?"

it's a running joke with my bf and me. ONE THOUSAND OAKS

xp

29 Palms can kiss 1000 Oaks ass!

This conversation happens once every six months or so:

Me: "What's the weather like out there, around 75?

Dad: "Maybe 73."

Me: "...."

On Spotify, when you try to find original albums by major artists, the fact that you have to scroll through reams and reams of repackaged and rerecorded bullshit first. Also the fact that albums are sometimes listed by reissue date and sometimes by original release date.

^^^^

and you can't ctrl-f in spotify now

i wish you could browse more easily

sometimes idk what I want to listen to but I can't think of anything to search for

I have such love hate feelings about Spotify. I mean, I love it. I listen to so much more music as a result of it, but it's such a huge pain in the ass to use sometimes.

I follow lots of people and listen to whatever they are listening to. I also subscribe to a bunch of best of 2013 so far lists, which helps keep me from lapsing into an old lady hole where I only listen to opera and Led Zeppelin.

cinema was FULL of people with crunchy bags last night

who the fuck takes a crunchy bag to a cinema

same. also, this was a Tarkovsky film, so there was plenty of low giggling, cuz no Tarantino style "references."

however, this complaint is rational and does not belong in this thread.

xp yeah finding people with good taste and following them is how I avoid listening to the same thing over and over. Although if they also follow you then it's sort of embarrassing to ape them too much and you have to be stealthy about it.

another perfectly rational complaint: cars that don't start slowing down BEFORE they get to the crosswalk, so you the pedestrian have no idea whether they're actually going to stop. i never assume that they will stop, even though it's the law; they could be texting or fiddling with their ipods and completely oblivious to the red light.

I hadn't thought about trying to be stealthy so let me just tell DJP, n/a, maura, and jaymc right now that I pretty much listen to everything you listen to if I haven't already heard it. I'm listening to n/a's 2013 playlist right now.

recent IA's:

- if someone skypes me while my iphone is locked, and I unlock it to answer, it automatically answers with voice-only rather than letting me choose video. then I have to hang up the call and recall to do it as video and it's just like wwhhhhyyyy

- stores that let you swipe an ATM card, ask you to select what type of card and enter your pin, but then the cashier still has to ask you 'debit or credit'. Not so much IA at the cashier, they're just doing their job but IA at the stupid system itself

- ppl who stand around chatting in empty parking spaces at then give ME stinkeye because I'm waiting for them to move because it's THE ONLY FREE PARKING SPOT

I don't understand the 'debit or credit' thing, cos I have a bank card and I have never had a credit card and never will. I pretty much just chose which one at random.

really? debit to pull directly from savings ie using a pin #, credit to put on visa/mastercard with a signature

I was never on the receiving end of this, but I worked as a cashier at a store that accepted EBT but didn't differentiate between food and cash benefits. if a customer brought food and non-food items to the register and hit the EBT button on the keypad, the system would automatically deduct food and cash benefits from the customer's account whether they wanted it that way or not. the only way to process the food separately was for the cashier to mentally tabulate the food total and type that in as a subtotal before the customer swiped their card, after which they would have to swipe their card again to pay the remaining balance for the non-food items. of course the supervisors explained none of that to the cashiers during training, so it was a huge, inexplicable mess when the situation first came up.

As far as I know it all has to do with what sort of merchant fees the businesses have to pay for each type of transaction.

Most of the time businesses can run my ATM / debit card (with a Visa logo on it) as either, and some places I ask if it's easier one way or the other. Like the food co-op prefers credit if it's under like $15 and debit if it's over. Some others have "we run debit as credit" signs and you only have the signature option.

oh (xpost to me), and since the government only authorizes a store to take EBT if it sells perishable food in two different food groups, our store created a "produce department" consisting of nothing but a little basket of loophole lemons, which slowly rotted while they fulfilled their legal obligation. I think I sold one lemon in the entire time I worked there.

but that's more lol than ia

I don't understand that at all. "Cash benefits" = welfare and EBT = food stamps?