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

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

When I was visiting my small town parents, my mom and I were coming out of a store and we heard sirens and my mom perked up and was looking out towards the road to see if she could figure out... I don't know what she wanted to figure out but it was just weird because they hardly even registered for me. It is like the time that I was watching the news with my grandmother (news, Judge Judy, and BBC comedies, that is our jam) and the leading story was that a house was on fire in Millsboro. One house, surrounded by fields, nobody trapped inside. Just a house burning down.

People who insist that iPhone videos should never be vertical. It's a 1-minute video of my toddler doing something stupid and funny, not a new print of a Bergman film! Maybe I just wanted her whole head and body to be visible without standing five feet away.

a harddrive containing a folder of music is not showing anything inside it listed alphabetically beyond the letter F. I can see 2 torrents going into that folder with names beginning with T & V, which when the open containing folder option is opted for , open to show contents of teh folders in question but when you take the step up folder option they are nowhere to be seen. What the hell is going on? Are these folders going to be permanently lost ? Am I just about to face the hard drive losing coherence and therefore the contents?
Not liking this at all.

What you're supposed to do with those vertical shots is put them side-by-side with similar shot in iMovie to get that "Woodstock" split-screen effect. Use the wipe-screen transition to get your dirty work done. #iPhone #lifehack

people who continue their conversations in crowded, otherwise quiet elevators, forcing everyone else to awkwardly listen to every word you say amplified by the walls

and it's obviously awkward for them too! suddenly their conversation has an audience and they either get really nervous about it or they love the attention and start talking even louder

loud person: "so yeah, i was thinking about taking thursday and friday off."
nervous person: "yeah, you would!"
loud person: "you know, instead of monday and tuesday."
nervous person: "yeah, you would!"

Moments when I LET myself get gouged on something. Tonight had to bring K, stroller and a couple bags home and realized I couldn't really do it alone on the subway so tried to hail a cab, but there are just no yellow cabs available, so finally a black cab honks and pulls over and I give him the nod. I'm already putting the stuff in the trunk when suddenly it dawns on me to ask "How much is this going to be?" -- he quotes a price that's like 60% more than a yellow cab, but I'm pretty much stuck at this point.

o shit

you totally get karma pts for not taking all that on the subway tho

yeah, especially since "all that" would have included a screaming toddler

oh well, he was a really nice dude and showed me pics of his grandkids. Maybe because he knew he was overcharging me ha.

i get mad when i do that kind of thing or get parking tickets or lose something, etc. but all the times that's happened i've made the money back and forgotten about it. i try to think of it that way at least.

People who use "priorities" to mean "stuff that is important" in a distinctly NON prioritizing way.

Comes up in vague political discussion a lot -- "what does this say about priorities?" GTFO, unless you are actually making a choice between one thing that YOU want and another, you are not actually talking about priorities.

gaaah surewest dvr sucks ASS so much. I've complained about it before but to wit, just last night

- checked scheduler to make sure Breaking Bad would record on Sunday. It showed that there was a conflict. but there's nothing else scheduled to record O_o --- checked the settings of the season pass, and it showed 'Channel: 0', like it had wiped or forgotten the settings. it's been on the same channel for how long? ragh.

- set it on Sunday to record Broadchurch this week. noticed last night it hadn't recorded. I set it to record 'first run only' so I don't end up with a dvr full of repeat airings'...but the info on the show shows original air date as March of this year. Which is when it aired IN THE UK. so I have to set it up to record reruns as well as first runs because the stupid system thinks it's a rerun

raaaaaaaaaaaagh if surewest didn't have fibre optic interwebs I would throw the thing in the fucking trash.

I don't know that this "irrational" anger, but anyway: Working on some marketing stuff at work for a new partnership deal we're about to launch. Back at the start of this I asked the product manager if they wanted to take a stab at the copy (the audience for this is kinda specialized) and they said, "No, Marketing can write it. Here's the partner's media kit and website for reference."

Great. I submit a draft to the product manager and his team, who proceed to take a steaming dump all over it. "We don't like this in-your-face appeal, we don't like the positioning, blah, blah, blah." Hey, dickhole, I gave you the opportunity to write the copy and you said "No." If you then have requirements for how you want this product positioned, TELL ME IN ADVANCE, but don't come back at me with this garbage.

The icing on the cake? He pedantically takes issue with a particular word choice, condescendingly noting, "By the way, Partner X is a website, not a publication." I then pull up the media kit HE SENT ME and C&P the second sentence in it: "Partner X is the leading publication for . . ."

It's 2013, Old Dude, people have been using "publication" for online outlets for at least a decade. If you're gonna step to me, you best step hard.

xp Broadchurch was not that good by the end

Oh no. That is sad to hear.

i don't believe u kinder

also I guessed the end and I never guess these things :(
Olivia Colman is still awesome though

They way you've described these people, Phil, I suspect their title really is called Partner X?

It's actually Racer X but I signed a confidentiality agreement.

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IA that I read a single NYT article yesterday and it said "you have read 5 of your 10 articles for this month!" and I thought "huh, already?" and today I clicked on a single NYT article to find "you have read all 10 of your articles for this month! subscribe to read this article"

last time I checked 5 + 1 < 10

Not anymore...thanks, Obama!

Ha. I suppose it didn't specify what number base it was using. I have possibly read 10 articles in base 6.

Should probably bear in mind too that I might get angrier actually reading the articles than unexpectedly not being allowed to read them (see quiddities thread for reminder).

i just open them all in incognito window

i'm not gonna pay just so i can hate-read the style section

that tbf is a terrible negative attitude

What you want is a really good negative attitude.

Someone tagged me in a really bad user-created someecard that doesn't even have anything to do with me, and now it shows up in my facebook photos

untag yourself.

delete your facebook

move to a potato farm

hate it when I go to a quiet place in our office to read and suddenly everyone in the buidling decides to stand nearby and have loud unignorable conversations

jerks >:(