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

how about a fedora version?

All you need to know.

That's gonna be something to explain to the insurance adjustor once the smoke clears.

ha. this place here, london one, the black one in the left half of third picture down, is around the corner from me and has one in the downstairs window.

http://weburbanist.com/2007/10/05/cramped-urban-living-9-of-the-narrowest-city-houses-in-the-world/

(it has kind of a shop-front window despite being only 5ft wide. they change the contents of it from time to time - lego haunted houses around halloween, for instance)

• Downloaded song from YouTube video.

• Make own movie using song.

• Upload video to YouTube.

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I GOT IT FROM YOU, DAD.

People who stop at such a distance from drive-through windows that they have to open their car door to do their transaction.

Saw that happen at my corner liquor store and immediately thought Oh No, he's getting robbed.

Don't know why (A) someone would rob a liquor store through the driveway (B.) in broad daylight (C) with their driver's side door open, but there you go. Just something that isn't supposed to be done.

In the gym with my locker open getting dressed. plenty of open lockers in the general vicinity. Motherfucker chooses the one right next to me

someone's got a crush on you

Hah I've done that drive-thru thing before but only because I misjudged the distance and there were cars behind me so I couldn't back up and maneuver. (I am not a good driver)

The way my heels even with the commando type sole wear down rapidly on the outside of the foot, seemingly leaving the inside almost totally unworn. Only seem to last about a month and a half.
& this is with them being reheeled by one of the 2 remaining traditional cobblers in town, who I've gone to for years. Think they wear down even faster when done by one of the heel bars around town.

Can't work out if I'm walking in a really unhealthy manner or what. & it's not like I'm doing any hiking in them or anything. Do I need to relearn how to walk or something?

http://walking.about.com/od/shoechoice/a/wayyouwalk.htm

You might be able to get orthopaedic insoles that will correct it if it really is a problem.

would those metal heel taps help? internet says that the nylon ones are better, noise-wise, but need replacing monthly.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_kw=SHOE+REPAIR+-+Shoe+Boot+Heel+Toe+Plates+Taps+Nylon+Proctectors+-+PREVENT+WEAR

These are heels and as far as I can tell are made out of the same substance that Commando/Ranger boot soles are made out of. So should last ages, and I would think that this place which is a father and son business should know what it's doing. I'm just getting tired of going through heels that fast, they cost about €20 a pop.

I have always counted on them for a decent job and doubt if they're slipping themselves. & they're recommending these heavier duty heels so I'm assuming they're good. But they seem to wear down really fast so I'm left wondering why. Didn't think I was any heavier tahn I'd been for much of the time I'd been using their heel repair service, actually lighter than some of that time.
Subsequently I possibly do need to relearn how to walk. Or alternatively find a way of being carried around then I'd never wear my heels down.

Brittle or hard materials can actually wear faster than some that seem soft but are resilient? I dunno. I have like 4 pairs of shoes that need new heel lifts myself.

Other thing is that both of my pairs of boots turned out to need new heels at the same time. I actually wound up taking off pair I was wearing, putting others I was going to take to reheel on and getting that other pair reheeled since I think they were done less recently.
Doubt if a lighter heel would be better, main reason I've been going for a Commando/Rangers type heel has been cos I think it's going to last longer.
Don't know what ideal solution is, just assuming I must have changed the way I walk or something and may need to learn how to walk more effectively. Not really getting why I'm getting results I'm getting.

& to make things even better I now have had the idiot woman downstairs complaining that water splashing from my watering plants is a reason to get her a new flat. She has actually been to the representative of the landlord who is here while the apartments are being redone and complained. I heard her this afternoon saying if he (me) doesn't stop she needed to be rehoused. & her evidence was a patch of water being absorbed into the pavement. Everything now has saucers under it.
I've now had the representative suggest I put cardboard or plastic bagging under everything and I'm just wondering what the results of that will be with rain. Me being left with stagnant water or something being tipped downstairs. & there's rubbish blowing around outside this idiot's door which I bet is also being blamed on me

I think water either hit leaves and bounced off, overshot the pot or arced out as i straightened the watering can after watering something.
I'm still stuck with this being absolutely trivial but it has now been reported which makes me extremely annoyed.

Especially since when I first came into contact with this eejit she was ordering me around what I was able to do with my balcony which the representative has pointed out is a no-no. Plus if this eejit wasn't shortsighted she may see across the square I live on there is somebody who has a number of plants on their balcony which I think is also true of a few other places along this row. But apparently she was going to get me kicked out if I didn't move my plants.
But apparently also it was downright weird of me to think it was ok to grow plants on a balcony. Sorry just makes me see red.

So in short because water splashed down onto the pavement below earlier today, the woman downstairs has announced to the representative of the letting agency looking after the apartment I live in that she will need to be rehoused. Unless I stop, letting water splash down which seems inevitable if you're using a watering can.
What's below me is pavement, not somebody's private area.
& this woman who lives below me started everything off by ordering me to move my plants off the balcony a few months back. I've since put saucers & trays under every plant out there, But she seems to think that she has authority over my usage of my own balcony. Which just has me thinking fuck off every time she says anything to me. Especially since she announced a few months back that she was going to get me kicked out if I didn't move my plants.
So I can either go and tell her to cop on to herself again which just doesn't get through to her.
Or live with a bunch of bagging lining my balcony that is likely to accumulate water which will either stink or alternatively need to be tipped onto the pavement below so seems utterly impractical. Or alternatively will need to be meticulously emptied some way that is likely to be labour intensive. & why, to satisfy somebody who is going to cause a stink anyway since I've been disobedient?
& I now may have a complaint against me that just strikes me as verging on the parodic.
What do you do to a control freak to get her to cop on to her not actually being anything remotely like your boss?

I just encountered #plurntup on Twitter

what the fucking fuck

What the shit is that?

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47401000/jpg/_47401549_smith.jpg

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52009000/jpg/_52009623_jex_1009016_de28-1.jpg

and 'funny' BBC news reporters generally.

r, i c

Not to be too 'society is in the gutter', but I feel like this is a fairly recent development, or certainly that there was less of this stuff ten years ago.

ok, all these buzzfeed/upworthy links that specifically tell me how I will feel about something in advance -- "This slideshow of 27 disabled cats is the CUTEST THING YOU'LL SEE ALL DAY" "This genius boy will win you over in only 90 seconds" etc. It's just like that annoying relative who ruins his own jokes by prefacing them with "I've got the funniest joke, this is the funniest joke, you ready?"

IA at the publisher of the Slash autobiography who thought it would be cool to have ridic huge pull-quotes splashed throughout the book, and slightly skewed margins that are supposed to imply 'heyy yah whatever man it's rock n roll we don't care about MARGINS' but it mostly just looks like they fucked up cutting the pages or something

oh and TOO MANY EFFING TYPEFACES

stop it

the makers of the mustard i use have widened the diameter of its squeeze bottle hole

it is such a clumsy and obvious way to force ppl to 'accidentally' use too much/buy more that i am infuriated

ragh I hate that too!

Those plastic bags in building lobbies to put your wet umbrella in. They may solve the buildings problem, but then it just creates one for me.

People who 100% live in their political bubbles. Today this co-worker of mine stopped by my office to show me some editorial cartoon about Joe Lhota (GOP NYC mayoral candidate) meeting with tea party people, and getting all indignant about it, and I was like "Do you honestly think the former MTA chairman and former Giuliani deputy mayor has any real connection to the tea party?" "Well he was courting them!" It really doesn't matter that much, I dislike Lhota and most of what he stands for, but he's not some gun-nut anti-government loony.

http://walking.about.com/od/shoechoice/a/wayyouwalk.htm

You might be able to get orthopaedic insoles that will correct it if it really is a problem.

― carl agatha, Friday, October 11, 2013 1:01 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sounds like I might be prone to this and when I went into a doctor for various things today she forwarded me to a specialist which is supposed to take a long time. She was asking me if I had joint pains in knees etc. Looked at the way my feet touched the floor as I stood barefoot and said that it did look like I was rather pro but it will probably take a while before I see the specialist. Seemed like a good thing to get set up to see somebody eventually just in case it turned out to be a bad case. My cobbler said I seemed to have a way of going through heels as bad as any he'd seen or something to taht effect. Well at least there's a possible cure somewhere ahead.
Also been suffering from nosebleeds recently when i don't have a history of it and Doctor said it was likely to be outcome of flu and hopefully currently cleaned up for the time being. Had a flu shot this morning too. Also hopefully got runny stomach thing about to clear up after I've been on a gout pill too long, one of the specialists actually wanted to increase dosage of that earlier this year too. But it's supposed to be a short term medicine because the medical profession is aware that it causes diarrhoea.
Now just wishing that springcleaning the apartment was going faster. has gone further than it has in years here but still taking forever.

Buying a bag of granola that was twice the size I wanted because it was the only size the shop stocked. Only to get the bag home lift it out of my shoulder bag and have my finger go through the polythene because the size means the bag is too weak for the weight. I put it down on a surface and have now found out it's split at the other end too.
Christ this is mindless. Why make them that big if they can't support the weight?

& all this because for some reason the place I normally get the stuff from can't get their normal stuff delivered. I can't see what is in the mix that could be that hard to get hold of, there are no rare ingredients. But that shop makes things in a usable size and the bags don't split.

people who try to weave through stop and go beltway traffic

ok not irrational

also people who tailgate in an obvious "i'm tailgating you" sort of way, in stop and go beltway traffic, also not irrational

their bumpers are for bumping

taped three comedy things on tv last night, all of which have 'uncut' versions later in the week. i can watch them now but i'd also watch the long versions so that's a waste of time. i can hold on for the long versions but the long versions tend to move around in the schedules, sometimes disappear completely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTKF4EC86iw

When I'm stuck in the office late (like now) there's this one older cleaning lady that always rolls by and when she gets to my office goes "still here?" and I can't put my finger on why it irritates me, because she's being perfectly nice, but it irritates the shit out of me. Maybe it's just because usually by that time I've been in the office over 13 hours and I'm getting irritable.

"nooh, I'm on the train home, me"

I totally get the irritation and perhaps even the the inexcusable asshole response of "still a cleaning lady?" you may be tempted - but resisting - to use.

I get the even worse comment from one of my managers who'll roll by my desk when I'm in the middle of finishing up a project and say, "It's five o'clock! Go home!"

Dear dog owners,

Autumn is an especially magical time of year to let your dogs crap on footpaths and not pick it up. Within an hour or two, the offending item will be covered in dead leaves just like the rest of the footpath, making for an extra special surprise for a pedestrian.

For bonus points, when they finally find something stuck to their shoe, they'll think, "eh, it's just a leaf." They may pick it off right away and get unexpectedly thumb-deep in dogshit, or maybe they'll pick the dry outer bits of leaf off, think the rest is NBD, and a day later slowly realise that the terrible rotting excrement smell in the office is coming from somewhere very nearby, and maybe everyone else has already worked that out...

(starts on third application of hand sanitiser)

I get the even worse comment from one of my managers who'll roll by my desk when I'm in the middle of finishing up a project and say, "It's five o'clock! Go home!"

I have two line managers who form a tag team where one of them tells me I have to totally make up every minute of time I spend at a weekly medical appointment and one of them comes round at 5:20 going "why are you still here?" as if being at work after 5 is a sure indication of being up to something (to be fair there was one coworker before my time who had the keys to the building and... yeah I probably shouldn't talk about that on the public internets)

so last night I saw Nine Inch Nails (it was ok - I was not in the greatest of moods, had a bad week). I wasn't sure who the opening act was (as at the time I bought tickets, it was TBA), and I asked my friend, and she said "Gary Numan and Godspeed You Black Emperor", which I thought was weird as no other leg of the tour had more than one opener, and arena shows don't run very late generally. But I figured she knew more than me.

After Numan played, of course, NiN came out, and my research clearly shows that when they announced on the net who the opener would be for NiN, they clearly listed Numan, and the dates for GYBE ended on 10/29 and wouldn't resume until mid-November. So it was never announced that they would play.

Friend was posting all angry on FB and talking about how pissed she is that they didn't play. I'm kinda like...so you're pissed that you can't read?

this one dude who creates pleased-with-himself spreadsheets full of embedded formulas and colorcoding and managed print areas so it all looks lovely and uniform that are otherwise completely incomprehensible and the only way to get any useful information from it is to show it to a coworker and say, um, does this mean what I think it means or is this something else?

I mean on top of the fact that the task I'm performing doesn't really require a spreadsheet at all - I just need a list with titles and quantities on it.
Instead I get a quantity column, and another column full of random 1's that is supposed to indicate...something...and rows of titles and quantities showing 0 *and* a 1 in the weird column and the color coding is supposed to indicate something else and it's like, the Excel Awards for Excellence Judging Panel is over *there* -- I just need information, buddy. I mean, it's great if that spreadsheet serves him some purpose in his own office but jesus christ how about editing it for comprehension's sake

it drives me insane

Oh and in the past we've requested simplified versions and he has refused. They're like his children or something idk

Sounds like the kind of guy who would be into lifehacks

I think I'm that guy, sorry.

Mine all make perfect sense though.