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

no represents, but just says, i suppose.

I just got a letter through the post saying taht the letting agency has cancelled the bin service that I have a waiver for and say they've set me up with a new bin service which presumably I'm going to get billed for. Haven't heard anything beyond that since I got home after the office had closed so the person I talked to was just looking after the office in case of emergency.
I'm really annoyed, surely they should have checked with us tenants first before screwing up our services. I think the bill has been in my name for the last 6 1/2 years so why the hell they're messing me around now is beyond me. nepotism or something? or some other connection to this new service?
I mean,can't see how or why they think we should just change to a new service without any consultation and the first I heard about this was this letter today. So I have rubbish I was just going to throw out and can't do so and presumably won't have bin collected on Friday.

As I type my inbox is getting clogged by e-mails from office staff writing about the results of their "Which superhero are you?" quiz.

'potus' and 'scotus'

these things add nothing of value to the world

idk, they provide a useful shorthand when differentiating from other presidents and supreme courts

they sound gross tho

restaurants that make you come in on some "job fair" day and fill out an application with all the other riff raff, instead of accepting resumes through e-mail or fax. i want to know that i'm on some kind of pre-culled short list before i drag my ass out to your place of business.

"Potus" = poo and flatus
"Scotus" = skin disease of the scrotum

idk, they provide a useful shorthand when differentiating from other presidents and supreme courts

they sound gross tho

ya this would make sense if they were only used in some comparative world politics discussion but 95% of the time someone says 'potus' there is not some crazy confusion about whether you might be talking about the president of the Philippines

back in the bush years you were actually typing an extra character if you wrote 'potus' instead of 'bush'

"...before i drag my ass out to your place of business."

I think this is the pre-culling - Not willing to jump when we say jump? You're not TGIDWH* material!

* Thank God I Don't Work Here

i just right now filled out an online application and got an auto-reply back asking me to come in for an interview at 3pm tomorrow, cuz that's when they're holding interviews. well, reply-bot, i have a different interview tomorrow at 4pm, several miles away, but it's not like you actually care about accommodating *my* needs.

replybots never do. they never do.

Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

i think i've IAed about *OTUS before, it's still the worst. feels like it came out of nowhere and everyone's using it like it's been around forever, but it hasn't been around forever because it's fucking stupid and pointless and ugly and weird

FLOTUS by far the worst tho

FIrst I ever noticed POTUS was All the King's Men and Nixon's memoirs.

You couldn't come up with a better acronym to fit its subject than what the Committee to RE-Elect the President called itself.

doing laundry and my long-sleeved shirt comes out with one of the sleeves inside-out. fuck that noise

Fuck a laundry, it's like doing a final exam in topology sometimes the way shit comes out.

I've always railed against these acronyms, but at least SCOTUS distinguishes it from state supreme courts, a lot of which exist. POTUS is just pointless, and FLOTUS sounds like something left over in the toilet after an incomplete flush.

the phrase "staycation"

breakfast places that call omelettes ommys

WHAT.

America, please cut it out with the baby-talk. It's lacking in dignity.

In our office, we put all the used teaspoons (used for making tea etc) in a mug containing hot water and leave it by the hot water taps. The water in the mug usually gets changed twice a day. Two things IA me:

a) Just put the spoons back in the mug when you've finished with them rather than leaving them in the side ffs. Leaving them out looks messy and isn't really in keeping with the spirit of arrangement.
b) When taking a spoon from the mug, a quick rinse under the tap is acceptable; spending 5 minutes scrubbing it like its been used to clean someones ass is not. WTF hygiene freaks.

I think ommys is actually Dutch.

Wow, so in England, not only do you get just one spoon, but you have to share it with the others

Who calls omelettes ommys? That sounds like an Australian thing to do. Everything there gets a cute, truncated nickname.

oi, ommys in the arvo

Wow, so in England, not only do you get just one spoon, but you have to share it with the others

You'd think their inexpensive nature would ensure that there are plentiful supplies of spoons, but no, everywhere I have worked has had a shortage. I assumed it was an office thing rather than a GB thing.

At least they haven't tried foisting those stupid little wooden stirrers onto me yet.

We got goddam 40 steel teaspoons inside one mug with hot water, here!

Sometimes coworkers bring in excess apples, oranges or whatnot from home fruit trees that people can take home. Pretty standard

The other day someone left a storebought bag of *rotting* plums, fermented syrup oozing out in a pool all over the counter. Literally half the plums were collapsed and rotten and fermented.

NO WE DONT WANT YOUR ROTTING PLUMS YOU FUCKING SAVAGE

(*not innocuous or irrational)

What the hell kind of person brings in rotten produce to share with the office? Actually, it sounds like something that my cousin's (other) grandmother, who had Alzheimer's, would have done (well, not take it to work, but bring it out when you went to visit her and tried to give it to you). Come to think of it, my grandmother who did not have Alzheimer's always tried to feed us something like brown, partially liquefied lettuce or ice cream that was chewy with freezer burn or sandwiches no bread with little divots missing where she'd plucked out the moldy bits when we went to her house.

I think ommys is actually Dutch.

― Jeff, Thursday, June 27, 2013 1:24 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's not.

xp I know someone whose mother-in-law does that. You go to her house for "dinner" and she finds the last inch of dried out tomato sauce in a jar in the back of the fridge and puts it on stale crackers and calls it bruschetta.

Actually, I think it's Chilean.

Or martian.

xp I always chalked it up to some lingering "lived through the Depression" psychosis. That is at least a kinder approach than "cheap, gross old lady," which was probably a pretty defensible opinion.

i click this thread occasionally and absent-mindedly bookmark it even though i don't want to see it all the time

that's almost perfect

I've got bad timing.

As a grandchild, my Depression-era grandmothers would've pulled the ol' "tomato sauce on a cracker" business, but now, as a parent, the Boomer grandparents of today bring over for the kids milkshakes, cookies and fast food.

Don't know what I'll serve as a Gen X paw paw. Maybe something ironic like Pez and Crystal Pepsi.

there is one cheap gross old lady who i am pretty sure is the culprit

We've got a guy who brings in ducks during hunting season. The whole office goes apeshit for them, but I abstain. At least he puts them in the freezer, but still.

I would probably accept a (dead and dressed) duck from a coworker.

i have a duck in the freezer! it's from costco though.

Tomorrow Feedbin will be moving to a new home at SoftLayer. Feedbin will be down from 9:00AM PST - 3:00PM PST.

daylight time, goddammit

the spoons issue has received some scholarly attention http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1322240/

when the same people who just insisted on driving 50 in a 35 and pass you for driving too slow hit a road with a 50 mph limit and then drive 10 under in the left lane for no explicable reason.

they're just fucking with you.

touchless faucets in public bathrooms that only give hot water

because the only possible thing you could want water for in a public bathroom is to eliminate the germs from your filthy hands

Reading this morning that they are rebooting Terminator. There was a time when movie sequels were a big sign of the creatively bankrupt nature of the movie industry. But really a sequel is 100% more original than an effing remake. Damn Hollywood forever.

people still watch hollywood movies?

GD cars that are started in novel, confusing ways, e.g. the 2013 Prius I rented today. The manuals (2 of them) said to have the door lock remote inside the car and press the Start button (and the illustration showed the remote inside the driver's pocket).

Finally called iGo and they told me you have to hold the remote up to the Start button, press the button and wait for the green light. Then press and hold it in until the display to say it was running. But don't move the remote or you have to start over!

And what does "B" mean on the gear selector? The quick-reference manual explained D(rive), N(eutral), and R(everse), but not "B." B(rake)? B(lastoff)? B(ut I'm a Cheerleader)?