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

so tired of america's bottomless need to mouth empty platitudes about the troops

it's a thursday -- thank you for your dedication and service. it's the middle of the seventh inning -- we are forever grateful for the preservation of our freedoms from the predation of landlocked central asian tribes

i mean i guess there's no point in celebrating congress or whatever, but maybe there are a few things to consider apart from militarism

we are forever grateful for the preservation of our freedoms

apart from abortion, of course

mookieproof otm.

one thing that used to irk me about NFL football games was that the recognition of the military was often given by the Priest doing the pre-game prayer (which is ALREADY fucking awkward and RONG to begin with). Like, ok, I get that liberal Christians recognize that every now and then, there's a need for war (although no such conflict we've been involved in recent years has fit that description), but it is a little creepy for the heavy military message is coming from a dude of the cloth.

I'm not mr. "anti-military", though I am a pacifist and don't believe in war in general. basically means that I don't post anti-military messages or disrespect for the troops, but I also don't spend 25% of my day going "thank you troops" because while I do support their livelihood and returning home safe, I'm sick of the constant message that suggests that it is the MILITARY that is keeping our freedoms intact and that if they had misstepped once in the last decade, we might be under a foreign country's rule. We ain't fought a meaningful war in decades. STFU.

I do have military friends and I'm not one of those libs that goes "MAN, I DIG YOU, BUT I DON'T DIG THE SYSTEM YOU FIGHT FOR, MANNNNNNNNNNNN", so I don't want to paint that picture, but lord, like you said mookie, it's overkill and a bit eerie.

mookie and neanderthal OTM

Everyone otm.

Let's take a moment and thank everyone in this thread who's been otm.

This thread is a testament to the 1st amendment.

haha what a troll url: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/how-to-thank-a-solder-by-george-w-bush

thanks, solder!

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/953/432953_100809091046_Butane-Gas-Soldering-Iron1.jpg

Sometimes it’s important that you treat a soldier the way you would treat anyone else.

kinda undermines yr goal given how 75% of people treat 'anyone else'.

but then again it only says 'sometimes' it's important so

I bought some nice tights on sale in H&M
packet said 'mama tights' uh ok maybe they're comforting and homely or it means something in Swedish idk

slowly dawning on me that they are maternity tights >:(

that reminds me how IA i get at "hobo bags"

http://www.hobobags.com/

here, have a $300 hobo bag, you can fill it with hardtack and a can o' beans while you hop a freight train.

http://www.hobobags.com/store/productimages/regular/2358_hydrangea_l.jpg

no hobo

lol

Have been wondering since no longer having a separate food waste bin what the local area service does with what goes into their food bins. Have been expecting them to do something somewhat sustainable with it since they seemed ratheradamant about keeping non food objects out of it. I've been changed over to a service that just mixes food waste up with the rest of the landfill waste. Subsequently it will add to landfill which I'm really not into. BUt having thought that when the bins arrived yesterday have been wondering if I'm deluding myself taht something better was happening with the system I've just been involuntarily shifted from by a landlord I have no contact with.
I guess at least this new crowd does recycle to some degree but it looks like every other bin service around town has a separate food waste bin, which I've always thought of as a compost bin. But shades of believing that your doggy has gone to live on this lovely farm in the country I fear.

at work back in the day we had a 'recyclables only' slot and a 'trash' slot in our nearby break stations.

we found out at the end of the day, the group that collected it just mixed both together and put them in the landfill.

assholes.

In the work kitchen, we've got a bin divided into three sections - plastic, aluminum and garbage.

Every day after putting my food in the microwave, I'll stand there with my Healthy Choice™ cardboard box and go Wait a minute.

I hate when you're waiting on confirmation on a rehearsal schedule before you plan your weekend, and the dude waits until 4 pm on Friday to reply, only to say that "he will send it later".

Sooooooooo....guess I'm free tonight then? ugh.

when you put your tshirt on backwards

Lots of places incinerate mixed waste for energy, rather than adding to landfill. Xps

websites with stupid drop-down menus that don't stay dropped down unless your cursor is in the exact right place

with emphasis on the irrational - people who don't know how to use twitter. it's obviously completely subjective because i obviously have some distinct ideas about 'how to use twitter' and indeed i'm not very good at it myself, but OH MY GOD YOU'RE AN INTELLIGENT PERSON WHY ARE YOU HASHTAGGING THAT RANDOM WORD.

websites with stupid drop-down menus that don't stay dropped down unless your cursor is in the exact right place

Yes!!

yup (kaiser permanente, i'm looking at you)

YES

I hate that Best Buy has this stupid flaw in its website where, if you go to your Order Status, and you click the order number to check order status, the first time it always goes to a screen that says "invalid order ID', then when you click back and try again, it pulls up the correct order.

and I know this isn't merely a 'my computer' thing as I've done it on several different machines and browsers!

I was at BB the other day. Gotta say non-functioning game demos are now a source of IA, especially when there are twice as many employees as customers in the store, and they are all just standing around talking to each other. I wanted to try out some Wii U games and they had this big display with a controller that wasn't connected to the system, so all you could do is watch the intro. Around the corner there was a 3DS. I had never seen one and the 3D aspect always intrigued me, and I was also super interested in the idea of something that is more or less the second coming of the Super Nintendo. I try out the system and there is a menu of games. I thought they were demos. I thought wrong. Turns out they were slideshows of _2d still images_ of said games. Wtf that completely defeats the purpose of even having a real 3DS on display! I could have had the same experience looking at a website on my phone.

Just die, high-low hems. DIE.

I'm IA at myself for being angry at such a clichéd thing but srsly just how are you supposed to open that hard plastic clamshell packaging you get on a lot of electrical goods???

scissors

rly? i always have to perforate it somehow first, which always feels like a bit of a risky move.

Stronger scissors. Like kitchen ones that are meant for snapping chicken bones. Or carpet shears.

IA: Whenever people use "quite the _______." Anything. ANYTHING.

motherfucking elm beetles

bad enough they shit all over our car and swarm our front porch, but when you enter my house it's WAR and I am your beetle hitler

in that I will lose and quietly go off somewhere and kill myself

IA that no matter how carefully you check pockets there is always a washed tissue all over your laundry when the cycle is done.

Stronger scissors. Like kitchen ones that are meant for snapping chicken bones. Or carpet shears.

But it's still an IA-worthy struggle of "what gives first, the box, the scissors, or me?" and then you worry that you're permanently blunting your useful strong scissors, all for a cheap crappy pair of headphones or a USB stick or w/e. And it always shears into a jagged edge which scratches you when you try to extract the product. I hate that stuff too.

Can't win.

I try to use X-acto knives for that packaging. Still always feel like I'm seconds away from severing a major artery.

Maybe burn it open.

trauma shears. the blades are flat & finely serated, so they cut *things* but not so finely sharpened that they will cut you.

my paramedic brother in law gave us a pair years ago, they RULE for plastic packaging

this is an "innocuous thing I screwed up that made me angry at myself", but...

I have seen Deicide twice, and they're always fun, but their Tampa shows seem to be next level sick since it's their hometown and all...so when a notice went up that they're coming back again, I immediately snapped up a ticket.

Idiotically forgetting to check my calendar and realizing I have a performance on that night. The kicker is, it's a collection of 10-minute pieces, and we're allowed to leave after we do ours, as we take bows at the end of our piece, not as a group.

So now I'm trying to figure out if I can still make the show after I get out that night (it's 70 minutes away). the cost is negligible, but it's bugging me not knowing if I can make this or not.

the reason I don't know yet is cuz they haven't given us the order of who's going when yet

can you email whoever decides that and ask to go earlier because you have plans to see Deicide later on with your dying grandmother?

"I know it's a lot to ask, but you've never seen my grandma in the pit".

to jstor, 'keep me logged in' means 'keep me logged in for no more than five minutes if i don't click on anything, just in case someone else yoinks my computer and tries to use it to steal copyrighted scholarly research'

twice in the past hour i've read "weary" where i'm sure the person meant to use "wary."

h8 when a tropical storm brews in the Atlantic and it looks like it has a mere POSSIBILITY of hitting SOME PART of FL in 5+ days and everybody freaks out as if they've never been through a hurricane season before.

(esp given how inaccurate forecasts are that far out)