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

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 >:(

Shit yeah, I have a co-worker that seems to always come and sit with me and talk bollocks at me when I've taken the smallest hidden-away corner of the canteen and am sitting with my nose in a book. Do I fucking *LOOK* like I mind if you sit with me? Oh, and don't ask what I'm listening to because chances are you *won't* have heard of whatever it is because you've never heard of anything that isn't Take That or Paolo Nutini, and the fact that you're asking means that I'm pretty much not listening to it now anyway.

anyone who asks anyone what they're reading while that person is reading needs to go piss up a fking rope

And then LAUGHS NERVOUSLY when you explain what it is that you're reading because it's not by JK Rowling or Stephanie Meyer.

yes x 1000

And then tells other people about you and makes you feel like some sort of freak for reading, I dunno, like Martin Amis or something. This isn't complicated or weird stuff, you guys!

I get the feeling she'd be sorely disappointed if she heard my "weird" music and realised it was just music and not, y'know, a tribe of chanting hippies ritually disembowelling animals to the sound of backwards guitars and screaming.

years ago a friend loaned me a Brian Greene physics book that I started reading at work and seriously for like months afterwards got 'LOL EGGHEAD' from coworkers as though I was reading some hardcore advanced theorem textbook.
I wanted to explain "um but see I'm reading this because I DON'T UNDERSTAND PHYSICS AT ALL and this makes it easy for spongheads like me" but they were all such uncurious ignorant weirdos about it it wasn't even worth explaining

i am interested in what ppl are reading

sorry

Okay but don't judge me when the answer is "Star Trek book."

I like being asked in a natural conversational way --- some ppl just hate quiet rooms and have to barge in all BLAH BLAH WHAT ARE YOU READING

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

This place is commonly referred to around my office as "Pplains' desk."

:(

Hey, I asked for the window. My bad.

a tribe of chanting hippies ritually disembowelling animals to the sound of backwards guitars and screaming.

this is my new favourite band

Deerhoof?

I was thinking No-Neck Blues Band but that could work.

. . . and grooving with a pict

- seeing 360 new answers in the Breaking Bad thread while I'm still working through Season 4
- trying to make my eyes glaze over every time I see the words "Breaking Bad" in any form of social media

Why is telemarketing not illegal? Seriously. WHY. Why.

freedom of speech. But there's this thing called the federal do-not-call list:

so put your number on this paper:
https://www.donotcall.gov/

Oh, it's on there.

two years ago, I wanted to get free Fandango tickets, so I did this TrialPay thing where all I had to do was submit a request for an insurance quote, did it, and thought nothing of it, got the freebies.

Of course, since I had to use my real info to qualify, I started getting emails/calls for insurance a few days later, and I figured "big deal, I already have insurance, they'll die down in a few days".

Two years later, I still occasionally get calls from people trying to sell me insurance. SOMETIMES 'FREE' ISN'T WORTH IT.

- when a friend who has my email address opts to Facebook message Jeff instead of email me to catch up. This is a friend of mine from way back in the day, too, not a mutual friend or Jeff's friend first or anything.

ppl who cut off 1/4 of a donut and leave the rest

JUST TAKE THE FUCKING DONUT, YOU MARTYR

hahahaha

I take a whole doughnut and the 3/4 one to restore balance.

xp OTM

Especially because you know they had their filthy pee paws all over that donut to cut it into bite size pieces.

exactly!

i even called someone out today who I saw cutting a donut

I was like 'Oh so you're one of THOSE people. Seriously. Just take the donut. No one's going to eat the remainder.' and she was all 'but I don't want a whole one' and I just wanted to throw it at her.

or stab her with the plastic knife as an example to others

but I didn't so I am not writing this from jail

I will eat your remainder donut. But not if it's maple, bleh.

yeah maple almost always sucks, it always tastes like airfreshener

at least on 95% of donuts

There was an extremely anal retentive dude who worked as kind of a business analyst manager in my friend's old job. They'd have a box of donuts on Fridays, but for a number of weeks, there would be a couple extras at the end of the day that'd be tossed out.

Said friend took a bite from a donut around noon and replaced it on the other side of the box, bite mark obviously showing, and the control freak guy almost had an aneurysm

Maple is my favorite donut. ;_;

Jalamaplepeno.

Apple cider donuts until I die.

my favorite donut shop made a peanut butter and jelly donut that is like, ride or fkn die awesome

I like my donuts to be donut-flavored you weirdos

yeah maple almost always sucks, it always tastes like airfreshener

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 3:54 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this reminds me that I had a blueberry-basil gourmet popsicle at a food fair and it felt like i was eating soap. that made me mildly annoyed, but I wouldn't really say IA. The thing is though the texture of the popsicle wasn't even very good.

it tasted like high-end soap though

I bought some rosemary/salt bread at the farmer's market and it tasted really not v good. the rosemary had this kind of overcooked soapy/anise kind of taste to it, it was v overpowering and gross

i hate it when things smell yummy and taste bad

The high end version of what are you reading is Oh you're reading that well let me tell you what I think about that. Which is fine as long as you're at or close to the end of the book of course

I drove through Little Rock today with a guy who's lived in Little Rock since 1989 but apparently doesn't know how to get anywhere from Point A to Point B in Little Rock.

"Wait, you're telling me I can get to this place out west without having to drive due north?"
"YES."

I'll totally eat a half a donut if there's one there, cat pee or other filth be damned. That shit boosts your immune system.

A local grocery store leaves out donut scraps under a dome near the bakery and it's always a delightful crapshoot to see what's there when I run in to buy a lime or whatever.

The grocery store across from our old apartment always had the BEST baked goods under that dome. Lots of heft pieces of apple and cheese danish, brownies. I miss that place so much.

http://media.globaltv.com/uploadedimages/content/general/rotator/underthedome_gtv_rotator.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=a9_sc_1?rh=i%3Aoffice-products%2Ck%3Aantimicrobial+stapler&keywords=antimicrobial+stapler&ie=UTF8&qid=1376490043

the city where my office is located currently has at least five separate roadworks ongoing, all within a mile of each other, so no matter which way I go to work, I get stuck in slow roadwork traffic. it's like they looked at a map, figured out where the detours would be for each roadwork and then said, let's do one there too!!

i am all for public works and fixing roads but RAGH maybe don't do them all simultaneously