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

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

I like those individually wrapped chicken breasts (they have them at Trader Joe's fyi) except I feel guilty about the excess packaging, the ones from TJs are inconsistently sized, and the ones from Perdue or whatever tend to seem too uniform (I am like Prince's mother. I'm never satisfied). But you could get the trays, then individually package them into ziplock freezer bags. If you put them in a sinkful of water, they should thaw in an hour or so. It's a little extra work up front but may be worth it. (I do something similar with bacon, which I tend to use as a additive instead of a breakfast meat - I take about 14 inches of wax paper, lay two slices of bacon on it, roll them up, two more slices, roll them up, etc. then stick the whole thing in a freezer bag. Then when I want bacon, I just unroll the first two slices, peel them off the paper, and I'm ready to go. Bacon is also waaaaaay easier to slice when frozen.)

By "them" in the second and third sentence, I mean the individual chicken breasts. I'm also assuming you're talking boneless skinless breasts. Bone-in chicken breasts will not thaw in an hour or so.

yeah these are bone-in, that's my whole freezing/thawing problem, I never think about thawing them in the morning

Carl's right about submerging frozen poultry in room-temp water. This and a large bucket is how I am never stuck with a frozen turkey not thawing at Thanksgiving. If I'm freezing stuff into portions, I'll usually recycle plastic Chinese food/take-away containers and assuage my packaging guilt reusing them.

Generally when I freezerburn, I fix it by making curry with the scorched meat in question. My worst freezerburn incident was the pigeon breasts that stayed polar for 18 months before becoming a very winey/mushroomy casserole.

Roasting bone-in chicken breasts with a cut up lemon stuffed under it and some rosemary scattered in the pan is one of my favorite dinners when it's not so shitting hot that the thought of turning on the stove makes me want to cry.

yeah they're good in the oven! mr veg cooks them on the bbq too, and you can easily fillet them for boneless meat for stirfry etc

we mainly just get them cos they're cheaper than boneless normally

coldbrew ice coffee has become this excuse to charge $3.50-$4.00 for a small iced coffee. There's nothing about cold-brewing that justifies this, it's not expertly prepared like a barista drink, it's not more labor or cost-intensive.

The song "Dance to the Music" by Sly Stone.

wow, that is innocuous at WORST. Very thread appropriate. Kudos.

Yes dude at record store. Go through each cd one by one at a glacial pace. Examine each cd from all angles like you are a pawn shop owner inspecting diamonds. No one else wants to browse.

drive thru rage

dumb older lady in a lexus minivan asking them to cut one of her burgers in half, do they sell grilled cheese sandwiches, what sizes are the sodas, should she order a desssert or will there be enough food, do they have any plain sandwiches

I contemplated laying on my horn at least 20 times

GO INSIDE YOU DUMB LADY STOP CLOGGING UP THE WORLD'S FASTEST DRIVETHRU YOU ARE RUINING THEIR FLOW

Double strollers and the people who use them. These women in Panera blocked the aisle with theirs and when asked to move it, one whined out through her nose, "But where am I supposed to put it??!" EXACTLY.

The 'In praise of...' section of the Guardian's op-ed page

I'm trying to thing of a person or subject that wouldn't come across as vaguely contemptible if featured here, and failing.

everyone stop saying 'pro tip'