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

was in LIDL 2 days ago and approaching tills at a quiet time of the day, so one of the 2 girls on tills decides to go off and run a message or something as I approached. Not sure if she said something before she went cos I had a walkman on, I just assumed she was closing the till.
But she came back after I had all my stuff on the conveyor belt and one person behind me. So everybody gets to go through till before me as the one person ahead of me has been doing a major weekly shop. Lovely.

that little fucking x in the top corner when looking at individual facebook posts. does it mean 'close' like every other top-right x in the whole world? no, it's FLAG THIS POST.

if my co-worker pops his big bird head up over the cube one more time to ask me a question im gonna punch him in the eye

Big bird head!

His round curly head pops up every fucking two minutes...its like a slow motion whack-a-mole.

we use skype to ask each other questions despite sitting 3ft apart.

the guy has been here six months and asks me the same fucking questions every day, "what do i do here? whats this guy asking for?" ASK THE FUCKING GUY NOT ME.

we use skype to ask each other questions despite sitting 3ft apart.

― koogs, Thursday, November 7, 2013 9:17 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah we have Lync and he doesn't use it. Just likes to rise from his fucking nest.

and he eats these giant apples everyday...crunch, chew chew chew. GRRRRRRR.

i keep expecting him to start pecking at it and to start pulling strings out of his clothing to touch up his birds nest.

lol forever

JUst wondering what to think about workmen spending 3 days or something sticking an unwanted railing up the outside wall of my stairwell when there was an existing one up the inside of the stairs. Then while I was out this afternoon it was removed. I think I said something about finding it a bit claustrophobic but hadn't reported that to anybody.
Just seems a major waste of time and energy to do that & now there are nuts sticking out of the wall.

Thought it odd enough that they moved the railing from the inside of the landing to in line with the first step up from there. They said it was to prevent tripping, like over the edge of teh step or something. Seems very over protective. & time consuming and bound to cost something. Weird way of budgeting.

Asked a co-worker yesterday to update a marketing document, and in doing so, she changed it so that one of our product features available in the UK was instead offered in "Britain." Not even GREAT Britain, just "Britain." My mind boggled.

I would wager that most Americans could not explain the differences and/or relationship between Great Britain, The UK, Scotland, England, etc.

I call it "Greater Britain," just like the phonebook.

i call it "The Emerald Isles"

How big is the phonebook for Great Britain anyway?

4 pages, 1 for each place

I would wager that most Americans could not explain the differences and/or relationship between Great Britain, The UK, Scotland, England, etc.

That's a bet you would win. I only know the difference bc I've made a concerted effort to learn it.

smdh

@ phil's coworker, not u carl ;)

my last name is p3nny & its common that ppl accidentally call me by my last name bcz they are easily confused idk but it annoys me

TWICE i was addressed to my face as p3nny by 2 coworkers who I have worked with for 10+ years & say hi to almost every day

COME THE FUCK ON

they called her... VEGGIEPENNY

I called our neighbor Mrs. Hill yesterday even though she's actually Mrs. Hall. Then I called her Leah when her name is Lydia.

I used to get called a weird amalgamation of my first and last names. A LOT. my first name it's only 4 letters!

I would wager that most Americans could not explain the differences and/or relationship between Great Britain, The UK, Scotland, England, etc.

― kate78, Tuesday, November 12, 2013 5:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Probably, but . . . She's been here over a year and all of our materials refer repeatedly to "the UK." Nowhere do we use the word "Britain," ever. We have an office in London, and that office is referred to as "the UK office."

I'd wager there's a high percent of English people that don't know the difference between UK and GtBritain.

Re: names (for context, I am chilling in the hospital waiting to deliver a baby (MONDAY!) after a high risk pregnancy), I would estimate about 30% of people I encounter here pronounce my last name, which is not an uncommon name and is a two syllable English word (albeit one no longer in common use), right. I don't even correct the ones who get it wrong anymore.

My favorite consistent mispronunciation was the nurse who rhymed it with "Ferguson," which not only got the "g" sound wrong but gave me a whole extra syllable.

http://stokereport.com/files/joe-124.jpg

lol and xp lol

I am filled w sympathy for your name woes, carl. Also, hilariously, I went a few weeks ago to an awards ceremony that required the head of a local botanical garden to pronounce some tooootally normal British/American history-ish street names and he couldn't say at least 3 of them. ONE OF THEM IS A NOTABLE AMERICAN CITY IN GEORGIA. COME ON. He was very creative though.

I still never pronounce Nevada properly. Sometimes I'll catch myself, but it's usually after I've said it.

Nev-Aid-Ah

nuh-VAH-da is what my brain's going to go with each and every time.

There's a Nevada County in my state that's pronounced nuh-VAY-da. I was doomed from the beginning.

Overreliance on GPS/mobile navigation apps, and people who insist on going with what the apps say against common sense.

I lack all common sense when driving, so the GPS easily exceeds my level of knowledge.

targeted ads that keep showing you things you have looked at (and sometimes things you have already ordered) for days afterwards -- "NO I DO NOT WANT THAT BUTT-UGLY "MODERN" WALNUT DRESSER WITH BRIGHT ORANGE AND RED DRAWERS THAT I HAPPENED TO LOOK AT THE AD FOR!"

My watch catching painfully on my wrist hairs. Some days this seems to happen every 30 minutes, and then it won't happen for a week.

Still have never used GPS in a car. Guess I'm one of those drivers who knows where he's going before he starts driving there.

That's why I don't wear watches or bracelets on a stretchy band.

I have such a horrible sense of direction, if I could get a GPS device implanted in my brain I would do it in a heartbeat. That's about 90% of the reason I'm not as horrified by "Google Glass" as I probably should be. I just imagine a HUD telling me where to go and it reduces my baseline anxiety level by like half.

websites that offer to remember your login and password, that you log into daily, that never remember your login and password EVER

and of course it's the one with the 10+ digit special character password that for the life of me I can never remember on my own anyway

My grocery store's website does that: "Want us to remember your information? Is this your personal computer? Check the box now!"

Next time I go there, my username's waiting for me, but I still have to fill out the password part. "OH, you meant remember SOME of my information, I see..."

God forbid Russian hackers sneak in and add a bunch of coupons to my card that I don't need.

that's an issue with yr browser + cookies, not the websites

But if I cleared my cookies, wouldn't ALL the information disappear?

even if it's only that site & my browser remembers all my other passwords?

My fucking school's web services force you to change your password every 8 weeks. Even worse:

- When your password expires, you get no notice except "Invalid user account information"

- The school makes you maintain accounts on 3 different systems, with different user names

nuh-VAH-da is what my brain's going to go with each and every time.

There's a Nevada County in my state that's pronounced nuh-VAY-da. I was doomed from the beginning.

Which way is the state pronounced? I have only ever heard the first pronunciation.

"Viking"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmUf9FDUOTk