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

we feel safer in inner city apartment blocks because the flats are harder to break into

the only time we were burgled was in a big spacious house on the fringe

^ i think about this all the time. the number of burglaries in the suburban county where i work is insane. i'm sure it's bad here too but it feels easy to not be burgled.

although my coworker who had a rowhouse was burgled, then she had kids and moved to a house on a golf course

I feel safer in the city bc if something happens I can yell and my neighbors will hear me. And presumably send for help, though they may still hold those couple of noise complaints against me and let me die.

Anyone else notice that more and more people make their voices go up in tone at the end of every sentence as if they were asking a question? Seems like I hear it mostly from people in their 20s-30s....someone please tell me they're noticing this too!!

isn't that something that people in Maine do?

question intonation, or high rise terminal

imo it's an indication that the speaker is lacking confidence

(unless you are idk welsh maybe)

xpost ugh I heard a political reporter on NPR do this the other day, rising inflections and a weird kind of lazy casual delivery. She sounded like a 25 year old talking about her weekend. It made me v annoyed.

also known as 'moronic interrogative', according to wikipedia

yesss

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=568

yeah getting grouchy about uptalk is nagl imo

telling me what not to get IA about is nagl either so THERE

every way every person talks makes me IA

yeah getting grouchy about uptalk is nagl imo

― i too went to college (silby), Friday, August 2, 2013 9:04 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you mean, "is nagl imo?", right?

got a message from a certain torrent site saying that something i had uploaded four years ago was being deleted for 'bad labels'. i was like wtf, the labels are fine, they even have the fucking composers listed

i was told the problem was that i had listed the album title as '[compiler] - dj-kicks' rather than simply 'dj-kicks'

at least it wasn't due to an argument about the hyphen in 'dj-kicks' i guess

I water things thinking it will be sunny judging by the way things look outside during the time I'm lying in bed reading. Then an hour after I've watered tehm it starts p-ing with rain. So I'm worried I'm about to drown things. Rain comes down like a blooming monsoon so it does.

Wind lifted one of my ball courgette plants and knocked it on its side so I'm wondering if it's going to bear the fruit/veg it was just visibly developing.
Wind also knocked my hat back into the middle of the road I'd just crossed yesterday. So I just avoided getting tyre tracks on it. Damn thing.

How do you get the weather bureau to leave it the f*** out?

A friend from Pennsylvania once that people from her area do that making every sentence end like it's a question? And she said she was glad when she finally stopped doing that after living in NC for a few years.

I guess the topic of moving to the burbs is over, but I just want to say that I don't judge anyone for where they want to live or for deciding they're better of raising kids in the suburbs. My annoyance w/ what carl said: certain people's assumption that they have to move to the burbs as a necessary life step.

And that OKC guy is not unique in refusing to ride public transit b/c it's "scary," i.e., there are sometimes loud people of color and they sometimes talk to themselves and they sometimes ask for change.

It's cos in the burbs whenever they watch the evening news it's all the scary shit that happens in the city.

The only issue I have re: city and burbs is like in Phil's example when you rep hard for a city but live 20 miles outside the place. Maybe this is due to being from Michigan where so many people are "woohoo I'm from Detroit fuck yeah" but actively hate the city proper due to fear and racism and only go there for a ball or hockey game once a year and flee immediately afterwards to Oakland county.

Also not IA but having been partnered up since long before the rise of online dating I still read OKC as "Oklahoma City" and am wondering why it fits in to the social lives of so many people that I know do not live in Oklahoma.

With you on OKC. Every time. Wonder what a bunch of single hipsters are thundering about.

Along those lines, two websites I work on are inarkansas.com and innovatearkansas.com. Needless to say, I see some familiar initials pop up a bit, but they always make me think of this thread instead of the other way around.

Wouldnt rush towards unpacking too much the intent of ppl who arent comfortable with loud strangers (of any colour) bugging them on public transport.

its possible to get a really good public education in nyc, but it depends on tracking, a bit of luck, etc. like i know its a mixed bag, but nyc public schools include some of the highest achieving ones in the u.s.

I used to wait tables w/ this obnoxious guy who, when guests said they were from Chicago, would ask, Oh, which neighborhood? And if they said they were actually from some suburb, he would say, "Oh I thought so - you don't have the city vibe."

Wouldnt rush towards unpacking too much the intent of ppl who arent comfortable with loud strangers (of any colour) bugging them on public transport.

Being annoyed by them is one thing, but taking them as a sign of danger! is generally ridiculous and pathetic. Exceptions for people who are fearful b/c of trauma, PTSD, or other disorders.

I got ptsd from birth iirc

when fuckers look at their phones/facebook during class. if, really, you are 'smart' enough to -multitask- then you're also smart enough to contribute to class discussion.

but, you're a dumbass. please gtfo and stop distracting the rest of us.

imo it's an indication that the speaker is lacking confidence

― Autumn Almanac, Friday, August 2, 2013 8:36 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bullshit, and i get totally rationally angry every time someone tries to turn linguistic tics into some pseudo-sociology/psychology garbage, it's like one step above evolutionary psychology

anyway, IA: i had two people over tonight and neither of them had even heard of "lucky" by britney spears, wtf

bullshit, and i get totally rationally angry every time someone tries to turn linguistic tics into some pseudo-sociology/psychology garbage, it's like one step above evolutionary psychology

― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Sunday, 4 August 2013 18:26 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you are welcome to disagree with my post

when it's raining just enough that the lower wiper setting moves too slowly and lets water pool too much to be effective, but not enough that the next wiper setting up moves too fast, and after a few repetitions, starts making that rubbing sound since there's not enough water on the windshield.

THERE NEEDS TO BE AN EXTRA SETTING.

^ this x 1000000. I feel ridiculous skooshing water out of the washers onto my windscreen when it's raining, but what you gonna do? Use the wipers manually the whole drive?

bullshit, and i get totally rationally angry every time someone tries to turn linguistic tics into some pseudo-sociology/psychology garbage, it's like one step above evolutionary psychology

― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Sunday, 4 August 2013 18:26 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you are welcome to disagree with my post

― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, August 4, 2013 6:42 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think he just did

And AA welcomed it!

ugh. I replaced my right headlamp over a year ago and it's out again. I wanted to take out the light and see if it was the bulb or something in the setup, but there's a goddamn screw in a location that's so difficult to reach with flat tools, and I can't clearly remember how I did it last time (but I know it was an ordeal).

tempted to just take it to a mechanic to do it for me, as it's usually just $100, but I hate that a repair that should cost $20 is made this difficult by the intentionally stupid positioning of one damn screw/bolt.

gonna pick up some small pliers tomorrow, as I vaguely recall that being the way I did it. socket wrench won't work as the extender is too long and there's only a limited amount of horizontal space.

* people with interesting, entertaining blogs who abandon them in order to say stuff on Twitter you don't understand because it's all boring conversations with people you don't follow

* people who post photos of women wearing glasses, captioned "I LOVE smart women!"

* prezi

Ditto with Neanderthal. My original headlight bulb lasted ten years, and then the replacement burns out after three months. And to add insult to injury the way it's mounted you have to position this oddly shaped spring clip around a post and a clip to hold it in place. And the passenger side is even worse, as the windsheild wiper fluid tube is right in front of it.

when it's raining just enough that the lower wiper setting moves too slowly and lets water pool too much to be effective, but not enough that the next wiper setting up moves too fast, and after a few repetitions, starts making that rubbing sound since there's not enough water on the windshield.

THERE NEEDS TO BE AN EXTRA SETTING.

there needs to be a rheostat, imho

i.e. a knob that allows for INFINITE WIPER SETTINGS

its possible to get a really good public education in nyc

i got one, and i didn't even go to stuyvesant. gifted & talented programs, magnet schools, advanced classes, music education. my parents wouldn't settle for mediocre schooling. one great thing about nyc is you're not stuck in your neighborhood's school district -- you can go to any school that will have you. i went to high school on the upper west side and took the subway in from brooklyn every day.

My previous car (1995 Mercury Villager) had no fewer than nine wiper settings. And it still wasn't enough.

xp

* people who post photos of women wearing glasses, captioned "I LOVE smart women!"

yeah, i never really got this. i know people that wear glasses who are SHIT DUMB and people with perfect vision that are genius-level.

it's such a cheesy porn trope. if you want to have a SOPHISTICATED BUSINESSWOMAN or BOARDING SCHOOL TEACHER or SEXXEE LIBRARIAN, just put her in a pencil skirt and add a pair of glasses. i can't believe how many otherwise smart/with-it guys fall for this shit.

i remember some awful film I had to review years ago which cast elle mcpherson as the dorky main character's love interest, and to show she was SMART they put her in glasses; actual laughs from theatre every time she appeared in them

There's some blog or buzzfeed style site called Nerdsaresexy or something, and it's main img is a stock photo of a porn chick on an office chair with a laptop/glasses/possibly also a lab coat? UUUURGH.

i can't believe how many otherwise smart/with-it guys fall for this shit.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l8xeX8k9lgo/SNMCGIyvaqI/AAAAAAAAG5I/XHWnZca-z6Y/s400/mccain+palin3.jpg

its possible to get a really good public education in nyc, but it depends on tracking, a bit of luck, etc. like i know its a mixed bag, but nyc public schools include some of the highest achieving ones in the u.s.

― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Saturday, 3 August 2013 18:20 (2 days ago) Permalink

in 9/10 cases it depends on money, i.e. enough money to live in Manhattan or a few brownstone brooklyn neighborhoods -- btw this is probably a difference between now and when JBR grew up here. In the other 1/10 cases it's a matter of choosing to live in a handful of (still not cheap) neighborhoods, mostly in queens or southern brooklyn, where you'll feel more like you're in the suburbs anyway but at least you have a subway. Just hoping for their kids to get into the ultra-competitive Stuyvesant or Bronx Science isn't really an option for most people.

BTW the out-of-zone schooling thing is only really an option for high school -- you have 8-9 years of schooling in your zoned school.

There's a facebook group called "Lost <cityname>" and it sometimes brings great pictures of former businesses, buildings, and parks that the city no longer has, but the commenters are HORRIBLE. Half the time it's people saying how sad it is we no longer have whatever is pictured, when the pictured thing was relatively negative for the city. This morning some dude is going on about how we need to save some giant concrete plaza with a fountain because he waded in it as a kid.