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

i use voicemail if i want to tell someone something funny/impt (that doesn't require follow up) and don't want to waste the time thumb-typing the whole damn thing

plus your theatrical performance probably adds to it

i try to only leave quality voicemails

So I was dimly aware that this was a thing, but I kept brushing it off like, Nah, something else has to be happening here.

But no, it's true: They're making cars now which turn on the reverse lights when you simply stick a key in the ignition?

This... this... what is the point? Why would you want that to happen? Why would you design a car to do that?

It's incredibly selfish and - I wasn't sure this was possible - adds an even more world-revolves-around-me feature to behemoth SUVs. So someone hops into their Yukon 9000 in the parking garage, sticks their key to turn on the AC, fiddle with the satellite radio for five minutes and proceeds to fake out every car coming up behind them?

So now if I'm a car jacker, I wait until I see the reverse lights come on instead of hopping into a vehicle where I don't know where the key is?

Is this really happening?

Apparently it is and can lead to some hilarious confrontations.

And yet they still can't make a car that automatically switches on the headlights if your windshield wipers are on for more than 10 seconds.

What are reverse lights?

When you put your car's gear into reverse, special white lights turn on near your brake lights. This is so the driver can see better to where he's backing up and alerts others that the car is about go backwards. Visual representation of that beep-beep-beep signal big trucks have.

is this a thing on all cars?

Pretty sure they've been around in one form or another since the mid-60s, at least in the US.

Reverse lights are standard on all cars, but that thing pp described has not been standard, and it's fucked up! It fucks with the universal language of tail lights.

My job is made up of lots of little jobs and I regularly have to cc other ppl on my emails, so they can keep track of projects they are managing that I am helping out with

I hate hate hate flow-ruiners.
a) ppl who receive routine requests emailed by me and do not reply all. unless it's a private convo or it's some kind of incriminating discussion just reply all ffs.

b) people who receive a routine request emailed from me and walk over to give me the answer. yes the art of human conversation has been lost and we should talk to each other more but I need a fucking paper trail and you're ruining it.

idiots

you know the ultra drunk guy at concerts, who is milling about aimlessly and keeps bumping into people or trying to talk to them about inane shit like spidermonkey rebellion?

WHY DO I ALWAYS ATTRACT THESE PEOPLE

btw new york, sandal guy is on your scene. be on the prowl.

http://i.imgur.com/FLn5pv7.jpg

Kind of bothered that in summertime my "cold" water comes out at 105°F. It takes a long time and more than a couple sinks full of running for it to run cool.

sounds like you need a basement apartment

? That's not normal though. The cold water tap in the bathroom is not like that.

It is normal, if your water line runs for a distance inside the building that is on an inside wall. The bathroom is probably near the water entry point for your place. From there, the water is sitting in a pipe being attenuated to room temp

people in the office elevator who complain/sigh/"joke" about the elevator making too many stops/getting too full on the way down at the end of the day. fuck you, dude, we all just want to get home

when the automatic soap dispenser keeps automatically dispensing soap into the sink the entire time you are washing your hands. So wasteful!

when ppl (boys) at the gym use weights and leave them on the bar like they're going to put themselves back

the elevator stopping on the way down on a floor where no one gets on and the button wasn't pushed on the inside. this happening twice on the way down is irrationally angriest.

i've seen almost the opposite of that twice in the last couple of days - people stood at pedestrian crossings without pressing the button. it won't change if it doesn't know you're there, it's not psychic.

Some crossings do always change at certain times of day w/o pressing it so I guess people extrapolate wrongly, though I don't know why because surely the other type is way more common?

Similarly-ish, this morning I was at the back of the bus queue and nobody stuck their arm out to hail an approaching bus until I did, and then nearly everyone got on that bus. Wasn't annoyed since there was still room but amused, imagining (possibly unfairly) they'd have been complaining about bus drivers missing stops.

Mildly irked that the two pedestrian crossings on my walk to work have both recently been refitted with new timings which are less favourable to pedestrians. My commute may now be 30 seconds longer! The things I could have done with those 30 seconds. Be boring on the internet, mostly.

"Boy, chilly out this morning, huh?"

"A little bit chilly this morning."

"Suddenly pretty chilly out there, eh?"

"Not used to it being this chilly in the morning."

YES WE ARE ALL EXPERIENCING THE WEATHER IT'S SEPTEMBER IN CLEVELAND DEAL WITH IT.GIF

i've seen almost the opposite of that twice in the last couple of days - people stood at pedestrian crossings without pressing the button. it won't change if it doesn't know you're there, it's not psychic.

It might! About 40% of them do
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23869955

When consumer products address a non-existent problem with a new feature. My new garbage can has this ridiculous, slow-closing "silent" lid. Because you know, the sound of trash can lids closing at normal speed was such a source of auditory clutter in my prior life.

subtle bragging about having upped your garbage can game

I'd rather have one that opened and closed automatically so I don't have to touch it.

well that's what step cans are for isn't it? And this is a step can, but it's a step can where the lid takes like ten seconds to close, meanwhile releasing garbage stench into my air

There are also electric automatic cans, but I hate the use of electricity to avoid tasks that require almost no effort to begin with.

I was thinking of outside garbage cans.

I'd like a conveyor belt that shuffled them out to the curb on Tuesday mornings. Not because I'm lazy or weak, but one time in the dark of early morning when I grabbed the can to drag it down there myself and MAGGOTS!

All homes should be fitted with pneumatic tube systems for trash disposal. In every room. And always on. If you want to throw something away, just throw it up in the air, and it'll get sucked into the tube.

Yes!

^^^

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130113181924/simpsons/images/thumb/6/68/QuitThrowingYourGarbageIntoOurDimension.png/185px-QuitThrowingYourGarbageIntoOurDimension.png

"Quit throwing your garbage into our dimension."

Childless people who think they have ANYTHING to contribute to a discussion on parenting (unless it's something obvious like "you shouldn't hit/neglect kids"). I'm looking at you, unsolicited parenting advice lady in my office.

She also just spammed the entire office to let us know that her niece just had a baby. I consider this borderline abuse of the "universal" e-mail address.

a goddamn niece???

it drives me crazy when people say "antisocial" when they mean "asocial"

a goddamn niece???

― les don't save me fav (how's life), Friday, September 6, 2013 8:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup. "I just became a great aunt again. Her name is Audrey"

Immediately after sending the e-mail, and before I even notice it's there, she pops her head in my door "Hey, did ya see the picture?"

BTW, this isn't even her great niece by blood, it's on her husband's side!

People will claim any old niece these days

When someone sets it up so when they like a photo on instagram, it posts a notification on facebook.

Even worse when all they seem to like is sexxxxxy lady photos. It's just embarrassing.

Just been waking up at 6.30 every weekday morning since Febryuary in the hope of getting a piece of paper with my name and a qualification on. Instead I just messed up a week's exams cos I was half asleep and not feeling at my best. Teacher insisted throughout that we came in for the standard course sign in time, do wonder how I might have fared if I wasn't having to get up at 6.30 so not going back to sleep when I found myself waking up at 4 or 5am.
In th eactual exams time ran out twice, or is that 3 times? Somehow neglected to save throughout the 3rd one, somehow neglected to save the file under its requested title as I normally do as soon as I open it initially, possibly because i defered until after I'd sorted the next thing a few times. Then i think tried to quick save everything else to the file I'd neglected to save, then hit escape before dialogue box that would be asking for where to save came up, or was just flustered enough to forget to save throughout. Though i think the first possibility more likely. & i had a line misdrawn on the 4th exam which i proceeded to base a significant part of the drawing on. So I don't get to be an Autocad technician. Not by this route anyway.
& maybe what's even more annoying is that I won't get another chance to get the certificate on this version. Even if i did manage to get to do another take on the exams involved I would find taht it was a later instance of the oprogram, probably 2013 instead of the 2012 I learnt on.
Would love to be able to practise at home but don't have a powerful enough computer at the moment.
So basically feeling wretched

we buy a lot of trays of chicken half-breasts and

a) LEAKING ugggggh it makes me crazy. even when you try to deliberately buy the ones that aren't leaking, they find a way
b) when they go bad before expiry date, omg RAGE

Freeze them the day you buy them (individually or in twos). I'd go nuts with expiry rage, too.

yeah that's prob the only solution. not always v bright about remembering to get them out to thaw so that they're ready to use the next day, is my only problem with freezing.

I love to freeze but then soon enough I have an archive of forgotten freezerburned meats from 2002

cf absentminded thread :)

though they've started doing weird blister-pack/foodsaver pouch type packaging which works REALLY well and they don't leak like the trays do

but they don't always show up in the stores

partially-frozen chicken breasts much easier to slice for stir fry

YES