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

lol at all the bemusement at these words being pronounced they way they're spelt

Elf on a Shelf. Fucking Elf on a Shelf makes me so irrationally angry. There are two people on my Facebook feed currently going back and forth sharing "staging" tricks for this year's Elf on a Shelf. This is fucking ridiculous and literally the worst forced marketing tradition ever.

You were gold on this thread: Bah Humbug

Elf on the Shelf is some creepy bullshit.

It gets worse.

http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/img/videothumbs/2013/10/30/da/02/0ea15858-41a1-11e3-bfcc-0019b9b9e241.jpg

wow

Is that a hand that looks like an aeriel view of a helmet?

haha.

yeah the hand... you can definitely tell he's really Jewish.

You were gold on this thread: Bah Humbug

THAT'S the thread, I couldn't remember which one it was last night.

Totally OTM about Elf on the Shelf. Every time I see it in a store, I'm like STOP TRYING SO HARD TO MAKE IT A THING, IT WILL NEVER BE A THING.

The Elf on the Shelf story was created in 2004 by Carol Aebersold and daughter Chanda Bell over a cup of tea. Bell suggested they write a book about their own family tradition of an elf sent from Santa who came to watch over them at Christmas time. Aebersold’s daughter, Christa Pitts, was recruited by the family to share her expertise in sales and marketing. Together, the trio devoted the next three years promoting their self-published book and attending book signings and trade shows.

Heartwarming.

isn't dinovember the same thing, but with dinosaurs?

Velociraptors intimidating kids through violence so they'll finish their Thanksgiving dinner?

man elf on the shelf is totally a thing sadly

maybe combine the two, have the dinosaurs eating the elf.

Elf on the Run

"nevada" pronunciation is blowing my mind. i've been living a lie all these years.

rationally angry: lock snapped in my bicycle lock %#¥$¢!
irrationally angry: no one seemed to care when I came back with huge shears and spent a minute destroying the lock. Quite a few people passed. I *ought* to be glad I didn't have to try to explain myself.

Guess it bothered me because I've had two bikes stolen from me in two years, both in the daytime in fairly public places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7i60GuNRg

Huh, I could've saved some energy if I was a beautiful woman.
Crap, I hope this hasn't led to some of those people going home regretting not saying or doing anything.

"Sent from my iPhone"

You know you can turn that smug little email-closer off, right people who email me?

i especially despise the variation: please excuse typos, Sent from my iPhone. wish they'd put it at the front of the email so i could just delete it before reading.

I find it useful in work contexts because it tells me the person is in transit or in a public place rather than the office and probably isn't going to be sending detailed responses.

that makes sense. i don't think i've ever seen it in a work context.

like anyone ever sends those anymore anyway, from anywhere

My landlord sends me "Sent from my iPad" emails, creates significant IA.

i had an email yesterday with an attachment. the attachment was one line of text - "Sent from my iPhone"

Attachments: I'm compiling a bunch of material for a project and I'm getting tired of seeing 3 attachments and two of them are thumbnails of the sender's corporate logos.

they should include an ASCII art logo instead

Ugh mine is even worse: "sent from my CONTRACT FREE Blackberry on the **** network!". So obnoxious and embarrassing. I've tried to turn it off so may times but I can't figure it out. I basically just avoid sending emails from my phone unless absolutely necessary to prevent inspiring IA in the recipient.

i changed mine to say 'sent from my TARDIS'

sorry everyone

'sent by my assistant because i wouldn't deign to touch a keybaord'

i changed mine to say 'sent from my TARDIS'

For a while I made my wife's iPad say 'Sent from my PANTS'

changed mine to "sent from my abacus"

ok i'm changing my wife's iphone to 'Sent from my PANTS' thank you James Morrison.

change it to "Sent from James Morrison's PANTS"

lol

change it to "Sent from James Morrison's PANTS"

I fully support this plan

When this was a newer thing and came off as more of a status brag (before everyone had blackberries or iphones or whatever) my line was "sent from my HELICOPTER"

I don't think it's altogether irrational that I'm angry just now, but the degree and scope of my anger are kind of scaring me?

I can't really talk to anyone about it because I will go OFF, and to do so would entail huge risk, social and material. I assure you that you have no idea.

On the train home, you pick up a paper expecting it to be the Even Standard, it's the mornings Metro.

Yeah, bro, been there, tis a drag that.

coworker sent an email regarding some discussion, wrote "i vote eye".

not sure what thread this belongs in, i don't even.

SEE THE HOBBIT THE DESOLATION OF SMOAUG

a) no b) the desolation of who now? 'smoaug' you say? hmmmm.... no

shades of BALLISTIC ECKS VS SEVER, like how much stupid unappealing information can you cram into a movie title.

also get IA at commercials for that kindle thing where it has video chat help on a mayhem/emergency button, like how hard is it to read a damned ebook you need to have video help 24/7

these things occupy too much of my headspace.

That whoever is making the granola I've been buying for the last decade has withdrawn the old version which was sugar free and sweetened with malt extract. They just stopped supplying shops with it, took it off the list so it hasn't been around for a couple of months.
So I tried other brands or at least looked around the local health food shops and nobody else was doing one without sugar. & I'm not into granola being that sweet.
Yesterday I found out that the firm taht had been making the stuff I'd been buying for however long before has reappeared with a granola. But now they've put sugar into it and glucose-fructose syrup as well as something listed as flavour, on top of the barley malt extract which sufficed ok before.
Wish I'd realised about the glucose-fructose syrup before i bought it cos I don't think I would have. Just looks like somebody has taken over the firm producing a decent product and destroyed the point of it. I now can't get a sugar free version.
I'd been told to watch what levels of sugar had been in breakfast cereal on the introductory course to coping with diabetes 2 a couple of years back and had just thought, well there is no sugar listed in the breakfast stuff I use. Wish things could continue like taht. Will now have to seriously rethink.

Yeah, the hair wax I use has been inexplicably discontinued. It was the only brand that didn't make me sneeze loads when I used it. Now I have to use this really expensive make that costs £7 for a small tin.

one thing which... doesn't make me angry but does irritate me in a bemused sort of way is when friends suggest going somewhere for like a catch-up or maybe a spur of the moment thing, or christmas drinks, or whatever, and they pick one of the most hyped places in london and suggest this on the day and i'm just thinking "have you booked" when they haven't, or it's no reservations anyway, and you know everyone arrives there, doesn't get in, walks around for 30 minutes then goes somewhere unpleasant and also busy.

there are so many great places in london but this obliviousness to planning is kinda disastrous. recently, at least with friends i'm less close to, i find myself just waiting and finding out where they ultimately end up, then going there.

One new years eve, arranged to meet up initially in some town centre pub, got there only to find it demolished..