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

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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

Bad brand names make me IA. The new litterbox I bought yesterday is Nature's Miracle®.

iirc the original Nature's Miracle product was one to clean pet urine. imo, anything that can neutralize the cat urine smell is a miracle

Flatscreens over the mantle.

YES

god, I have had friends who have lived in new homes or condos that have had built-in television shelves or mounts at that level. who the fuck wants their television five feet up the wall? god, my neck hurts so much just thinking about it.

The Arkansas football coach still has his Wisconsin house on the market. We did a little blurb about it with a link to the slideshow. Dude was worth however many millions of dollars, and still stuck the flatscreens over the mantle.

The Tom Petty's house thing made me think of this. He had a painting of the American flag sitting on the mantle, leaning up against the rock wall. That also makes me IA, but it's the flatscreens which really hurt my feelings of decorum.

I think the premise is that you have a room for casual entertainment with a better area for watching movies or whatever if you're rich, but why the hell even have a television in that room at all if you can't hide it somewhere

flatscreen over the mantle is a definite IA

pplains otm

I mean, you wouldn't have placed it up that high before, right? The reason flatscreens are so cool is because you no longer need a bulky entertainment center to take up an entire wall, not because finally, you can take that Olan Mills and put up Monday Night Football.

plus one of my irrationally happy things is sitting watching a fireplace when the logs are burning away etc

don't put a fucking TV over that shit. put the tv somewhere else. let me watch my fireplace in peace

Ideally it would have a sliding track that would allow you to position the screen over the fireplace in the off season, so that you can have a video of fire during the summer months

My parents have their TV over their mantle. There is more comfortable room for watching TV. On my last visit, my mother had gotten rid of the couch and pushed the dining table into the corner and rearranged the furniture so that there was basically a random collection of mismatched recliners scattered throughout their living/dining room (it's like one big space with the kitchen off of it) so basically we just lie back and stare up at the TV, like being in a planetarium except we watch terrible action movies instead of learning about space.

There is NO more comfortable room for watching TV, that is. By which I mean there is one room where people gather to watch TV and that is the room with the TV over the mantle.

I am sorry for this horrible arrangement

It's like a cross between diminishing the importance of the television and elevating it at the same time that's so jarring. As if acknowledging that allocating floor or wall space at the right height for the television is something you're not willing to do, but you're willing to give it prized real estate above the mantle, where you previously might have had a family portrait or beloved piece of artwork

Our tv is on top of an entertainment center, mantle-height but not over the mantle itself. Am I a bad person?

We have a 21" flatscreen over our fireplace mantle, only because it's really the only place in the room, given the setup and dimensions, where it made sense to put a TV at all if we wanted one in the room. We honestly don't watch it that much and will probably take it down. The main TV is in the basement, which is a 50s relic with wood paneling and a bar.

if you're far enough back it's probably fine

I measured the height my eyes would be at when sitting on my couch and have the television sitting around that, feels great to watch imo

I'm more puzzled by my mom's decision to go for an all recliner living room decor scheme than their TV placement, honestly (it is also the only place in the room to put the TV but they had the house built to their specifications so it is their fault) especially since the recliners are all old hand me downs from my grandmother.

lol olan mills

My family definitely did an olan mills-style, if not actual olan mills, portrait

trying to listen to Aeternus over my brother's loud sloppy acoustic guitar playing in the other room

lol my parents have their tv elevated five feet but the living room couches are also perpendicular to the wall so the assumption is that you're just gonna lie down

it's quite comfortable

ia: iceberg lettuce. i'm not being snobby on purpose here, i just seriously find iceberg lettuce an impediment to the full enjoyment of whatever it's being served with. i don't need crunch with my salad/sandwich/burger. i'd rather have flavor, and there are some very flavorful salad greens.

iceberg lettuce is some bullshit

yeah it's the worst for real. Although I also am starting to hate "spring mix" because that red leaf shit always goes bad right away and sogs up the rest of the salad.

I appreciate iceberg lettuce in certain sandwiches. It retains its integrity in a warm sandwich in a way that other lettuces cannot. Same with a pre-made sandwich that is wrapped for purchase and consumption later. Iceberg will still be appropriately lettuce-y when you eat the sandwich, whereas green leaf lettuce turns into this disgusting, limp, transparent piece of garbage that feels gross under your teeth.

Carl otm. And I like a lot of crunch in certain sandwiches too.

I like the crunch but really it is an effort to throw at least part of a vegetable into diet.

Not *IA* level, but pretty silly and moderately annoying: I was checking the status of a delivery on our bike messenger service's website and this was the result

Status
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Which is like

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Status:

Our bike messenger has been bisected below the armpits but a giant box. Your package will be delayed.

omg my anger problem is HORRIBLE

if ne1 asks i will describe

Ha.

Apparently it meant that the order was going in the process of assigned to a biker.

Now it's a box w/ a green arrow pointing to the right. Why the hell not just use words?

I'm looking forward to seeing what icon they use for a completed delivery.

xp - i'm not sure..... ok, go ahead and describe

Completed deliver is a real-time video of you opening your package.

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> Why the hell not just use words?

which language?

the universal language, the language of love

Which language?

Ah, it's a box w/ a check mark on it. It's so out of place on their ordering/tracking website, which is otherwise really stripped-down text.

It's as if the written language had reached an endpoint and we're devolving back into pictograms.

those fucking pimples you can't see that live and grow and fester inside the wall of your nostril, making every facial movement painful

lol

And don't get me started on the pimples you can't see that live and grow and fester inside your lips that make every bite or drink painful.

one of our very best and brightest has reportedly been smitten by just such an event and is now all but cast out, leprous, due to the resulting facial vacuum

The horror, the horror...