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

why

yes but why

ten years ago i saw a red sox-phillies game at the soon-to-be-demolished veterans stadium. (red sox won in extra innings; both teams walked like 10 batters.)

i still get calls/emails from the phillies once a year or so although i have never lived in philadelphia. i blame mordy

http://i43.tinypic.com/j79dn8.jpg

Ha

THinking of moving to a new email server since yahoo's one now stinks. Think this is probably even worse than the chatlists they messed up last week.
So wondering if there are any decent well known servers that aren't likely to change format at whim without giving the user any choice. At yahoo I could at least move back to the old style up until a few months ago but this new thing is even worse.
If i'm not seein g this wrong there doesn't seem to be a setting that doesn't have both the list of unread messages and the message you're reading competing for screen space. Whereas you used to be in either the mailbox area where you could see what messages you wanted to look at or the message itself so both had adequate screen space, they've now gone and messed this up entirely.
Hoping that tomorrow I'll wake up with a clear,well slept head that can view this set up clearer and find an easy way around this but I just think that this is yahoo screwing up wholesale. & likely to repeat continually
Aaaaarghhh

Seeing pages and pages of complaints about the format change at yahoo up at their own feedback page and them not taking people's requests and putting settings back tio something usable and instead coming out with messages like this

"Yahoo is continually developing and testing new product concepts in an effort to offer the most delightful experiences for our users. We randomly expose test pages to a fraction of our users, and your account has been included in a test group."

which I think really sucks. So somebody does think it is prudent to run a guinea-pig programme like this without warning, request or above all the option to opt out. I've seen a lot of people threatening to leave this service over the last few days. Presumably at least some of them will have done so by now.
So I'm wondering, since so many will have reached the end of the time limit they set before leaving , if Yahoo have payed any attention to it and are doing anything about it.Wonder if many people will have actually immediately closed down existing mailboxes, knowing taht other people will be taking a while to catch up with the news of moving. So it would look like an empty threat if the account wasn't completely cancelled.
They've included paying customers into the change also without warning. Wonder if they can be sued?

People bringing up The Golden Ratio or The Fibonacci sequence out of nowhere, claiming they explain all this deep stuff about the universe. They would never do math even if their lives depended on it, but somehow this formula is understood on an intuitive level and proves that all things are connected.

Emotional responses are well-known for being able to 'imprint' on random stimuli, even the Fibonacci Sequence.

Our health care rep led a mandatory meeting this morning about the new rules that start on Oct. 1, Jan. 1, etc.

He first asks if there are any questions. A coworker asks something about blah blah blah it's early still for me, and dude whips out a bundle of two-dollar bills and hands her one. Another coworkers begins asking a question, and before she's finished, he's already handing her a two-dollar bill.

And throughout the hour-long meeting, he kept doing that which struck me as really odd since his whole tone was "this is going to cost you more so poor people won't die."

subscription cards in magazines

pp: ....what?

Our insurance rep kept handing out two-dollar bills to anyone who happened to have a question. One of our know-it-all employees probably made $8 for not shutting up.

Not handing out bundles of two-dollar bills, I should say.

When they make so much profit that they can equip reps with wads of cash to give away at random, it makes you... think.

I just can't fathom the thinking behind that, and also why $2

I work for a business publication. I'm around fatcats all the time. Some of them ain't so bad. I can deal with a Rockefeller Republican much better than I can with a Huckabee Republican.

But Good Lord. Come to my office, talk about how our rates are going to go up because so the rates for the poor, sick and elderly can go down, and pass out weird American currency to anyone who pipes up was simply bizarre.

The free bagels were good. I definitely enjoyed more than two dollars' worth.

That's tone deaf at the very least. Also weird and annoying.

You guys should have cleared his float with the most irritating, banal questions you could think of.

$2 bills are not common and he probably thought he was being novel and catchy

It was distracting, to say the least. As soon as someone opened their mouth, he was walking toward them across the room with a TJ in his hand.

You guys should have cleared his float with the most irritating, banal questions you could think of.

Kicking myself.

"Now here on Page A43, it states that a family of four..."

> $2 bills are not common and he probably thought he was being novel and catchy

or copying steve wozniak. http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/78.html

http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/78.html

oop

Every time I think of Woz, I think of him sitting in that casino with a booklet of two-dollar bills that he's perforated himself.

― pplains, Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:09 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

web sites that try stop my back button from going back

(I understand there are reasons why you'd want/need stop it, but I don't think "I don't want you to ever leave my blog" is one of them)

Yes! That's happened to me a few times in the last couple of months. Fuck those websites.

people who stand in front of the buttons in the lift. this form of oblivious stupidity is prob the thing that makes me most ia in daily life.

But then you get to ask them to push the button for your floor and spare yourself the exposure to disgusting lift button germs.

I don't really care that much about germs. I am just looking on the bright side, I guess.

This woman I used to work with would always use the cuff of her sleeve as a barrier when she pushed elevator buttons or opened the door to our office. I always wanted to ask her how she could stand to walk around all day with that disgusting, germy sleeve cuff that she couldn't just wash as needed throughout the day dangling against her hand but she was an otherwise nice person and that seemed unnecessary.

But then you get to ask them to push the button for your floor and spare yourself the exposure to disgusting lift button germs.

yeah you can i guess, tho you can't even see whether it's already going to your floor cos they've got their fat ass in front of it.

No need to bring weight into it.

yeah, oblivious stupidity, that is as good a term as any. i know i overthink stuff often, but there just seem to be a lot of people who don't think at all, which is terrifying. there has to be a reasonable middle ground for us all to aspire to.

I touch everything all the time. Then swallow my fist.

Remember when we used to see how far we could put our cell phones in our mouth? Those were fun times.

No need to bring weight into it.

all asses are fat when you put them in front of the lift buttons, but apologies if that's how it sounded.

As someone with an objectively fat ass, yes it sounds crappy when you use that physical feature to be synonymous with boorish rude behavior.

Something about this:
http://brooklynposter.com/

and the large phenomenon of people who LIVE in brooklyn wearing "Brooklyn" t-shirts and putting up "Brooklyn" posters like a bunch of fucking rube tourists

What's the difference between that and any old local flavor thrown up on a wall?

And if Spike Lee films are accurate, I thought BROOKLYN was always talking about BROOKLYN.

Shit, that's been obviously a thing noticed by those of us outside Brooklyn since the opening credits for Welcome Back, Kotter.

I guess, but repping the hardscrabble hood you grew up in is a little different from repping your transplant yuppie paradise

that's gotta be universal tho--no one reps new orleans harder than post-katrina carpetbaggers

That caveat makes sense then. A little too extra school spirit for some maybe.

I'm still mad that my chances of walking into a home and seeing a framed portrait of either Dr. King or JFK are dwindling.

i should've put that in the things you see in movies but not real life thread.

I have definitely seen framed MLK portraits IRL

Only non-family portraits I've seen are of Jesus.

Well, I used to have one of Kim Deal, but that was just me.

my grandfather had a framed picture of jfk in his home, shaking his hand at a democratic convention when he was mayor of one of nj's fine grungy cities. home also included framed jesus portrait in the creepy, melodramatic catholic style.

People who say things like "I hope so-and-so GOT THE MESSAGE" as a result of some petty action/inaction, ie, silent treatment, avoidance, etc.

If you really want someone to get a message, why not deliver it like a human being...instead of acting like a 10 year old and doing something that could send any number of 'messages' to the recipient, including those you probably didn't intend.