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

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

If you can use technology for sex, I imagine somebody has done so.

I'm always behind the useful technology curve, getting all the useless gadgets and missing out on essentials like this naked skype

* shakes fist in anger *

*shakes fist*

people caused a traffic jam today by standing on an overpass with crude IMPEACH OBAMA and DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION signs

when people in a drive thru insist on 'checking their order' in the drive thru lane for like 5 minutes, blocking or partially inhibiting people from passing them, instead of just PULLING INTO A SPACE THAT IS LESS THAN 100 FEET AWAY TO DO IT THERE IN PEACE.

I think they're thinking "If I park away from the window and then come back with a 'missing item' claim the worker will think I'm faking (stashed item in car)."

No less annoying.

"oh, ye think im gonna fall for the olde 'hide the hamburger in the glovebox than come say ye didn't get one' trick? Off with ya! next!"

You don't want to pull away because then you'll have to get back in line or go inside.

But you do want to check it fast. Best piece of advice I ever heard was to count the items in the bag. You get a double taco, burrito supreme, order of nachos and a regular taco. 1-2-3-4, that's four things. If you get home and you got two double tacos or a nachos supreme, hey it's tacotown.

admittedly I don't closely check my bag, though I"ll always know if they left out the fries as I eat them while I drive, and usually by the time I drive the 1 mile home, they're already gone.

the wendy's by my office is the fastest drivethru I've ever been to -- you pull up to the second window after paying and they're practically throwing your food in your car and glaring at you while you get back into gear to drive away

like no shit they're leaning out the window with yr bag of food before you've even said 'hello' - it almost feels like you're insulting them to check the bag (but I do anyway)

pplains otm with the # count, it's only way not to be a slow pain in the ass

the guy today tho didn't even check his food right away, at the window. This guy got his food, then pulled forward like 200 feet to where he was at the far end of the drive through lane, well away from the window, but still in everybody's way, and he was just sitting, idling there. I had already gotten MY food and was trying to drive away but he was still sitting there until he figured out "uh dur, someone behind me would like to leave" and finally moved.

lame

first rule of drive through is FUCKING KEEP MOVING GODDAMMIT

only in florida can you drive 200 feet away from the window and still be in everyone's way.

I've gotten lost in the driveway of an Ormond Beach applebees before.

My grandmother and I watched a local news story last week about a guy who called 911 when McD's fucked up his drive through order. They interviewed him and he actually seemed pretty normal. He said he learned you should always check your order before you leave the window.

a woman in a shitty cafe near my work has three times made rude comments behind my back (so she thinks) because i didn't hear her call my name. every time she thought she was getting away with it, except once when she saw me catching her scowl at me. i've just done a load of web reviews calling her out for being crap at stealth snark, and even now i am ia about that woman.

Wait, eh? She works at the cafe, and you Yelp-dissed her?idgi

lol

dude jamming up my facebook feed with over-filtered instagram photos of NYC, the city in which we both live. Really tired of instagram filters in general, especially on your otherwise boring photo of a deli.

I had that happen with a friend who moved to Detroit and took it upon herself to document every single abandoned house or building there. Bold, daring choice as I was completely unaware that Detroit has experienced such strife.

csv files in excel where you forget to just close without saving to save it, and instead when you try to save and it asks you to override and you say yes and then it asks you if you know you will lose formatting and you say yes and then it asks you if you know there's an existing file by that name and you say yes and it's like 900 dialog boxes just to get out of the fucking thing jesus CHRIST wtf

also i've tried to turn off all the HP printer dialog boxes because I sit right next to the printer and hey guess what I can hear/see stuff printing don't need to have three giant simultaneous dialogs flashing all over my screen gaaah leave me alone

homes built on slabs. ugh.

no basements in your part of the country, right?

the "blaring warning horn" sound option for ringtones/email alerts/whatever on phones

xxxp YES the goddamned .csv file closing thing. I just reach down and power my PC off in anger.

A guy left me a voice mail in which he was very loud and clear on only totally unimportant words. "Hey there, this is Bob whisper-mumble. I need mumble-mumble. The whisper that mumble-whisper sent me was mumble. AAANYWAY, just calling to let you know that. Give me a call! My number is mumble-mumblemumble-mumble-mumblezggrzzkkmumblemumble-mumble. Thanks."

No basements. Plenty of snakes.

Fire trucks storming through downtown streets (where I work) multiple times a day, every day, WHERE ARE THEY GOING? This isn't NYC, downtown is sparsely populated, why put a station right in the middle of it.

I get nervous looking at something like this

http://p.rdcpix.com/v01/lbb471b44-m1x.jpg

xposting like a nut

xpost fyi fire engines are often first reponders for 911 calls so it's not just fires that they're going to
also if your city is kinda oldish then fire station is usually center of town just because of oldtimey planning before suburbs became a factor

not to rob you of your ia but it just seems like kind of a weird thing to be IA about