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

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'

strictly amateur tip

some energy saving motherfucker keeps turning off the light in the bathroom the next floor down at work

it's a bathroom in a very public building!

just leave the goddamn light on!!

turn off the building lights, teach them a lesson

someone did that to me once while I was...erm...dropping anchor in the men's room. and the bathroom was in a church that wasn't particularly well lit, so it went pitch black at that point.

really hate in movies/tv/etc whenever there's a one-sided phone conversation in the script -- there is ALWAYS a little interlude where the one character you're listening to goes "no. no. no. yes. no." because apparently the person on the other end of the line just asked five yes-or-no questions in a row. it's always there to make the convo seem more realistic or to just drag it out and it's never ever realistic on account of it always happening. and never really happening in real life

jfc just write both sides of the conversation

there's always more nos than yeses too, and they're always organized in a way that doesn't seem too obvious because no one ever says "no. yes. no." in response to three questions ever, that would just seem too fake

'there's always more nos than yeses'

(sobs)

no

Spotify splitting up artist's discographies so that (for example) half of it appears under 'Martha And The Muffins' and half appears under 'Martha & The Muffins'.

I then get angry at myself for being annoyed by something so inconsequential.

should say 'artists' discographies' above, wtf is wrong with me.

Martha & The Muffins have 1,487 followers, compared to only 163 for Martha And The Muffins, which is where their new album appears, unfortunately.

should say 'artists' discographies' above, wtf is wrong with me.

do not mean to make you still more angry, but in fact it would've been better to put "an artist's discography" (rather than plural "discographies"), so avoiding incongruity with "it", though any error in your original sentence was incredibly minor and would probably have gone unnoticed without your brave confession. your anger regarding martha and/& the muffins is totally justified.

I have raged irrationally at Spotify's way of organizing artists before. Like, instead of assigning each artist a unique numerical identifier, they go only by text so that if you search for the band "Witchcraft" you get Witchcraft the badass Swedish metal band and also Witchcraft the German (I think) jazz trio, which is just dumb.

Not just search, I mean when you click the link for "Witchcraft" it brings up albums for both artists with no differentiation between the two other than the user's ability to hear that they are different bands.

ugh yeah bands that start with a The and have at least one AND in their name....5 permutations of the same band name each with a partial discography BLAH

I think I raised similar Spotify complaints upthread or in the prior thread and was told that it's because the metadata is bad. Seems like something they ought to be able to work around though, ffs.

is rdio any better y/n

Walgreens sends out an email when it's time to renew a prescription. All you have to do is reply to the email and it will renew the prescription. But it doesn't tell you which one it is. Maybe I have two, one I want to renew and one I don't? It's stupid.

Refill, not renew.

what pisses me off more is that if it's one that requires doctor authorization they send an email saying "we'll check on that" and then you either get an email saying that it worked or you never heard from them again

it's like, hey guys, weren't you checking on that? how'd it go?