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

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

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

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

GODDAMN YOU *cries*

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"

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

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

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

- 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.

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.

google is getting so pushy and creepy now

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

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.

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.

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

^^

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

i like end credits darnit

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.

ugh I hate that

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

lol is it electric

Solar powered.

I kid, but excellent question.

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

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

― nickn, Saturday, 22 June 2013 09:11 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i just downloaded a manual (incidentally the company slogan is in COMIC SANS): the sun thing is a rinse aid indicator

nothing says 'rinse aid' like a sun

What is the S w/ bendy arrows?

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 (Yesterday) Permalink

My dishwasher has a "Normal Wash" and "Speed Wash" setting. The speed wash takes half the time. Why the fuck is there a normal wash setting if it can clean the dishes in half the time? Unless the speed wash is half-assed, in which case, why have it?

ikr? bizarre

What is the S w/ bendy arrows?

a salt indicator, apparently

i don't even know what salt is doing near a dishwasher

"time to salt the dishes, luv"

xp
Hardness of the water maybe?

And speed wash is probably for recently used/not very dirty dishes where normal is for dried-on food/extra greasy dishes.

it's for washing yr meth

As in, add salt to your water softener.

ah right