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

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

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* 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.

Those toilet paper dispensers that have one roll stacked on top of another for when one runs out, except the two rolls are in contact and the tension is all misadjusted, so you can only tear off one square at a time or less unless you reach over with one hand, lift the top roll up on its spring, then pull from the bottom roll until you get a sufficient amount of TP. All I want is to wipe, why are you doing this to me? ;_;

I can pour my own coffee here at work, but thanks for thinking of me there sales-guy-who-thinks-he's-Flo-at-the-Dime&Drop-Diner.

xpost uggghhh Phil I hate that

lord do I hate people who can't alphabetize. Many alphabetical mistakes on this "alphabetized" template in my dept, including BL appearing before BE.

Phil D otm - also those dispensers where the rolls are side-by-side, and when one's finished you slide the bottom bit along, except people don't understand that and just try and pull little tufts of paper out of the minuscule gap

You should have told him to kiss your grits, pp.

it's usually pretty crowded when i take the subway home in the evening. if i'm able to, i'll scooch up against the doors on the side that isn't opening.

if not, i'll generally go to the area precisely midway between the doors -- although narrow (because the seats there face forward/back rather than inward) it's relatively out of the way, and on a crowded train there's really no call to be walking the length of the car.

tonight this woman followed me there, set up camp, and while reading accidentally elbowed me/nudged me in the kidneys with her backpack for a stop. so i moved, and a stop later she followed me and did it again. it wasn't exactly egregious (other than following me) but it was both annoying and made me wonder whether she was gonna pick my pocket.

when i got off we glared at each other briefly. i guess that is pretty mild by the standards of what women go through regularly, but wtf

tl;dr subway riders are savages

nyc subways are actually powered from the harvesting of irrational anger, iirc

for something more irrational, i realized today that i hate forks clovetofu with tines that are not parallel

on a crowded train ppl will put up with much more encroachment than they would in, say, an elevator, but don't be doing shit on purpose

ffs, got some new tools that i thought would do the trick, and went back at my car again. got the bolt to loosen, somehow some way, and began victoriously loosening it to where it tightened up again, and I couldnt' get it to go any further before I got dizzy from the heat and having to bend at awkward angles.

giving up and taking to the shop. yay for paying $100 for what I could normally fix for $20 if I didn't have to contort my body like stretch armstrong to fix the damn thing.

last weekend we discovered that the door locking actuator for the front passenger door of our car was not locking when the car was centrally locked.so we took it in to be repaired.
this weekend, we discovered that the rear passenger door actuator is now not locking. u_u

they all operate independently so it's not that the mechanic screwed up and upset the other one, it's that these things are STUPID. honda denies there is any kind of design flaw in these fucking things yet EVERY CR-V of our model runs into actuator problems exactly at the same moment that our started too. they all just independently crap out at random times.

stupid fucking things RAGH

when i used to go to shelbyville we used keys to lock our cars, which was the style in those days

gimme five bees for a quarter, we'd say

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.

the LA/NYC versions of these are full of racist commenters and people who like to point out that their idyllic neighborhoods of yore are "SOOO GHETTO" now.

if you wanna dry your face with a hand dryer go ahead but have the common courtesy to point the blower back in a handwardly direction when you're done, you disgusting savage.

enormous image of actual handdryer in question for illustrative purposes:

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Images/Products/size_3/HD2400MA.JPG

There's a facebook group called "Lost <cityname>" . . . 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.

the town where I grew up in the 80s was a giant pile of ugly 50s concrete stacked under a permanently grey sky, and I did still get a pang on hearing that a particularly ugly and illogically arranged gum-tarnished slab of an open-air mall had been knocked down

brb going to look up which parts of town were replaced by something not made of concrete, or at least made of slightly newer and less gum-spattered concrete, and bemoan their loss on social networking groups

plz consider bemoaning in the following threads:

Defend the Indefensible - Concrete Architecture

Deposed buildings

I got IA every time someone said the word "chatter" yesterday on the radio

my IA of the day: when a bus/train is standing room only, and you position yourself so as not to block the aisle completely, and then someone else stands right beside you even though there's more room elsewhere, and both of you together are blocking the aisle, and you know people think it's your fault at least as much as theirs

(or, if you are fatter or less pretty than them, you know people probably think it's mainly your fault bcz of course ugly people are dumb and careless and of course fat people are taking more space and oxygen and Twinkies than their fair share, but hey)

speaking of radio: people are usually from a place, except on music radio, where they're 'out of' a place

'that was a band out of portugal'

jesus christ

xxxp I neither want to bemoan or defend concrete. I know my post was p. anti-concrete but there are nice bits of concrete architecture and then there's Swindon. "Deposed buildings" thread looks interesting though

Oh, I like concrete! This plaza was never meant to be a wading pool, it's just that disgusting savages were never chased out.

here is the plaza in question, in its heyday. not embedding in the thread:
https://sphotos-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/526971_10200606219461440_189540018_n.jpg

On the page for my town, not a month goes by where some old person wistfully bemoans about the bygone days of sipping coffee at Sambo's.

Granted, I wish there was a 24-hour restaurant on that hillside now instead of Walgreens and the paint store, but I've managed to live with it and not bump the same thread every four weeks.

oh lol pplains

I got IA every time someone said the word "chatter" yesterday on the radio

ia: the phrase "chattering classes" (for the idle rich, i guess. working-class people don't chatter, ever.)

related ia: when (e.g.) the NYT calls a demographic "the ___ set" (collect 'em all!)

although i love the band the monochrome set and think it's a clever name!

http://i.imgur.com/FMuQz78.png

I think I was debating an idiot, the same guy is now going on about some convenience store chain which is run by "those people" or something. I have only seen one of them total, so he's either generalizing his experience to everyone, or he lives in some part of town I probably am not visiting.

I was assume any convenience store chain not headquartered in the Des Moines area is run by "those people."

possibly!

I think our convenience stores are more governed by the fact that there are a couple pretty nice chains that generally stick to certain markets/store sizes so if you are locked in a neighborhood that can only support a smaller store and it's not rural, you're going to get whatever independent operator thinks owning a gas station in 2013 is a good business plan.

another addition to this thread:

I was walking back past the bar after grabbing a slice of pizza and a soda over the weekend and a guy I know started asking me about whether I liked the pizza from that place and started launching into a merits of pizza places discussion, with the base being that I was eating mediocre pizza.

dude it's 1AM and I wanted a slice of pizza, jesus christ

We have a real estate column at the paper and Kum & Go is making its forays into our market. If I have to edit something one more time about an LLC out of West Des Moines, Iowa.....

And really. Kum & Go?

I really hate non-metalheads that post 'funny GIFs' about 'metal' people that are only funny to people who know nothing about heavy metal

hahaha you are getting Kum & Go

speaking of radio: people are usually from a place, except on music radio, where they're 'out of' a place

'that was a band out of portugal'

I blame these dudes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGC3063J-co‎

Are your open to a 15 minute "discovery" call with me next week to see 
if there is a potential opportunity to expand the conversation with members of your team?

A "discovery" call?

Naked Skype, pretty sure.

do people do that? naked skype? kind of wondered