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

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

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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.

best way to ensure someone got the message is certified mail iirc

Come visit my grandmother, pp. My grandparents have framed pictures of JFK, FDR, and a framed picture of Frances Perkins signing the Social Security Act into law.

Are they portraits?

I mean, I could throw a rock in this town and hit a dozen framed pictures of Bill Clinton, but I've never seen just his framed portrait hanging on the wall in any home.

Yes, like headshots. Except the Frances Perkins picture. That's an action shot.

Although in trying to find it, I can only find action shots of FDR signing with FP looking on, so maybe that's what it is. There are portraits of FDR and JFK, too.

These all hang in the living room over the couch.

WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP WRITING "KNIGHT-RIDDER"? LEARN TO SPELL FFS

My grandparents had "The Bullfighter" on black velvet over theirs.

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

Sorry. If it makes it any better it was a general comment, tho prompted by a specific instance this morning. I didn't even note the size of the person, guess I meant it due to them obscuring something, like if someone said "get your big head out of the way of the tv" or whatever. Tho less baggage there. I'm explaining this too deeply!

we can't all be hank hill

fake mcgee you mean why the hyphen? my understanding is they used to have it until sometime in the 90s so maybe just people never got the memo?

Maybe he thinks it's supposed to be a ref to TV show Knight Rider

yes, i blew that by not including

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080209010755/knightrider/en/images/9/96/KITT2000.jpg

and now i'm irrationally sheepish

Ok ppl spelling that as the agency is hilarious.

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

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

I've got this framed on my wall, because why wouldn't you?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pAmRWQ9nd7I/Tv86GZ7HZvI/AAAAAAAAGBE/DvT4cn31xOI/s1600/nick-and-nora1.jpg

'_____ is one of our finest ______s'

fuck you, just say _____ is a really good _____

I hate the dudes that are so impatient when you're making a right turn that they overdramatically and passive aggressively change lanes.

o so sorry I had to make a turn bro reach into my soul and take an IOU for my penance