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

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yeah I was really looking forward to that weekend when we'd all be vampires :(

ttyih boi (crüt), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:53 (ten years ago) link

Wings: classic or dud?

Jeff, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:55 (ten years ago) link

carl otm!

WilliamC, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:10 (ten years ago) link

Carl, you can adjust your site new answers settings to not show ILM threads.

educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:37 (ten years ago) link

No no this isn't to do with not wanting to read ILM, it's to do with being disappointed that Is there a thread for playing God? and Thread of Disclosure are just about some boring bands.

nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:40 (ten years ago) link

There are quite a few that catch me every time:

• Life Without Buildings

• The United States Of america (Always get this confused with a similar gr8080 map thread.)

And I've slowly learned that Swell Maps is a band.

pplains, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link

I get that with sports boards, some of those have great thread titles. I should probably filter them out as I have no desire to participate, but every so often you get an amusing diversion.

emil.y, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link

Thread of Disclosure

That's the one that prompted me to make that post!!!!

I get enough value out of ILM that I don't want to hide it, but I did hide all the sports threads (except I Love Hoops) for that reason.

carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link

I changed the colors of new answers - ILE and 77 blue, the rest grey.

Je55e, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link

I follow a variety of businesses and services on Twitter. It makes me IA when they continually just RT other people saying good things about them instead of actually offering useful information about their product or service. Worst yet, they don't use the Twitter supplied RT function, they just manually RT, so I can't block it using Tweetbot. Despite this, I keep following them because occasionally they actually offer useful information.

Jeff, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link

oooh yeah what jesse said

educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link

white goods that lie about their cycles

i started a 30-minute quick wash 25 minutes ago, and it's saying it's got 17 minutes to go

Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link

actually that's not irrational, wtf am i talking about

Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link

new-fangled nylon shoelaces in nike sneakers that will. not. fucking. stay. tied.

GODDAMN YOU *cries*

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link

i don't know if this is IA or just something that always makes me rmde, but i wish that in band press releases, wikipedia profiles, old-timey myspaces, interviews etc, every instance of "_______ is inspired by" or "_______ is influenced by" would be replaced with "_________ claims to be inspired/influenced by". what follows is always some obligatory and eccentrically diverse grocery list of every single artist the band generally agrees to listen to in their van or w/e. and i just don't believe that you guys are really thinking that hard about prince (ALWAYS PRINCE), elliott smith and laurie anderson when you're recording. bands don't really work like that do they? "whoa we gotta lower the depeche mode and amp up the bikini kill a bit! AND KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR PRINCE LEVELS"

ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:23 (ten years ago) link

some probably do, even to that extent. but probably not most.

roobaix cube (electricsound), Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:25 (ten years ago) link

when people use "entitled" as the short-form version of "has a sense of entitlement."

dunham checks in (get bent), Thursday, 20 June 2013 05:15 (ten years ago) link

I didn't even know that made me IA, but now you've said it, I realize that it does.

ljubljana, Thursday, 20 June 2013 12:07 (ten years ago) link

- Google kept bugging me to use my real name on YouTube, so I deleted my YouTube account, which was created under a pseudonym. Now Google has kindly created me a replacement YouTube account... using my real name.
- My anger is rational and justified.

carl agatha, Thursday, 20 June 2013 12:13 (ten years ago) link

Jesus so apparently by deleting the pseudonymous YouTube account I tacitly gave Google permission to use my real name on YouTube. I tried to log out of YouTube, but that logged me out of gmail, and when I logged back in and went to YouTube to see what happened, it reset the privacy settings.

I fucking hate Google.

carl agatha, Thursday, 20 June 2013 12:29 (ten years ago) link

google is getting so pushy and creepy now

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 20 June 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link

The Google/YouTube thing is 50x the clusterfuck the Yahoo/Flickr thing was.

pplains, Thursday, 20 June 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link

My main problem with the Yahoo/Flickr thing was that I could never remember my Yahoo ID or password because it's fucking Yahoo and I hadn't used it since 2002.

carl agatha, Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link

The company i work for switched all corporate e-mail accounts to gmail so half the time i don't even know if i'm using my work ID or my personal ID for stuff that isn't e-mail. Not that i'd ever use it, but my Google circles / Google + stuff is half music journalists / Serbian popstars and half managing directors of language schools all mixed up together.

О боже, какой мужчина (ShariVari), Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link

My main problem with the Yahoo/Flickr thing was that I could never remember my Yahoo ID or password because it's fucking Yahoo and I hadn't used it since 2002.

― carl agatha, Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:50 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

schwantz, Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link

yeah that was super confusing and annoying for a short period during the switch over.

educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link

Google/YouTube thing is the worst but the most awful part is that it puts your google profile pic under the video, at the top of the comments, so at a glance it looks like you wrote all that stupid shit

kinder, Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link

Jeff managed to disconnect the YouTube account from my name, thankfully.

The time will soon come when I ditch Gmail altogether and it will be a glorious day.

carl agatha, Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link

i got totally locked out of my YT account when the google thing happened

ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link

one one hand google is downranking pages that throw up a 'DOWNLOAD OUR APP' doorslam, on the other it's doing this wretched youtube doorslam that doesn't even have a close button

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link

white goods that lie about their cycles

i started a 30-minute quick wash 25 minutes ago, and it's saying it's got 17 minutes to go

This very much. I was hand-washing some clothes the other day in the laundry and saw the countdown timer on the washing machine (on an 15-minute wash) jump from 4 minutes left back upto 11 minutes.

ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 20 June 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link

that one guy who beats you to the atm by half a second and farts around for four hours

Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 June 2013 04:16 (ten years ago) link

also see: the TAP machines in the l.a. metro

dunham checks in (get bent), Friday, 21 June 2013 04:26 (ten years ago) link

and it's always retirement-age tourists who are terrified, nay, THREATENED by technology.

dunham checks in (get bent), Friday, 21 June 2013 04:27 (ten years ago) link

if retirement-age.tourists are trying to ride the metro you should fuckin cherish them imo

mookieproof, Friday, 21 June 2013 04:43 (ten years ago) link

tv torrents that keep the "previously on" but cut off the end credits. idgi

ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 21 June 2013 05:44 (ten years ago) link

i like end credits darnit

ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 21 June 2013 05:44 (ten years ago) link

There's this place called imdb, ya know.

But I'm the same way, especially with this trend of squeezing the credits to half the screen and scrolling them twice as fast.

pplains, Friday, 21 June 2013 05:46 (ten years ago) link

ugh I hate that

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 05:48 (ten years ago) link

i don't care about reading the credits, i just don't like things ending so abruptly. also i have a tiny attention span when i'm watching on the computer and i'm always aware of exactly how far into the ep i am (and in movies, i hate doing this) and i spend like the last two minutes with this weird anticipation thing going on where subconsciously my brain's like "when's it gonna end, how many shots are left how long is this one gonna be" cause i'm weird and it makes me anxious and isn't an issue when credits are involved

but really it's like, you did this thing where you personally spliced off the credits at just the right moment as, i guess, a favor, but what's the point, what purpose does that serve

ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 21 June 2013 05:59 (ten years ago) link

haha any complaint that begins with 'torrents' is automatically ia

Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 June 2013 07:10 (ten years ago) link

the carafe for our coffee maker. the lid has a little dot on it, and you need to position that dot over the center of the spout for it to pour. but if you are even 1/8th of an inch off alignment, it will dribble coffee everywhere.

i can't be expected to be THAT precise first thing in the morning, goddammit

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link

otm. appliances that expect you to work around their lazy design choices are the worst.

the dishwasher in this place has four washing modes (1, 2, 3, 4), but they're not increasing in time or rigour, they're just arbitrary numbers, e.g. 2 is eco wash and 3 is pots or something. it's also got a load of indicator lights that mean the following:

- a broom sort of thing: the cycle hasn't started yet
- an arrow pointing to a line: the cycle has finished
- a sun: we have no idea what that means
- a big S made of bendy arrows: again, absolutely no idea

meanwhile the rest of the universe can make a dishwasher that isn't baffling. idgi.

Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 June 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link

Sun = air drying the dishes? (as with laundry)

nickn, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link

My work kitchen got this thing and everytime I see it, I'm alll aw for fucks sake what the shitl

http://i.imgur.com/gpwnA5l.jpg

pplains, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link

"Tearing paper towels off the roll used to be so hard."

pplains, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link

lol is it electric

ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 21 June 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link

Solar powered.

pplains, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link

I kid, but excellent question.

pplains, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link

my grandmother bought an electric one for my mother and she has to trot it out every time she visits

ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 21 June 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link


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