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

'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That whoever is making the granola I've been buying for the last decade has withdrawn the old version which was sugar free and sweetened with malt extract.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..

That ugly holiday sweaters are a thing.

LG I share your irritation about that situation. I'm usually intentionally late enough to avoid the awkward parts where there isn't enough room for everyone or there aren't enough chairs so I don't have to assist in sorting out the logistics.

oh god yeah that is the worst is being there to witness all of the unpleasantness

xxp: ayo, I feel your anger. I got invited to an Ugly Sweater Party last year and I just thought it was some random thing and I dug out an ugly sweater (because I'm horrible at shopping for myself). When I got there, it was supposed to be all santas and reindeer and shit and here I am in this green stripey thing like Kurt Cobain the 35-year-old fat bald version or something.

you can find nice sweaters that are christmassy enough to pass at these awful events.

damn finger getting swollen for no reason I can work out. & it had to be my main right index finger.
Not sure if it was bitten or what. Just not been bending fully all day and it has to be this weekend when i want to be tidying and packing. Hoping that turmeric will bring it down by tomorrow.

re: "here I am in this green stripey thing like Kurt Cobain"
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9snkbaiwm1qg1pzmo1_1280.png

cards and collections at work... what say ye? there are too many imo and repeated instances of having to fabricate some connection with a person you know nothing about.

I think they're fine as long as signing/donating is completely voluntary and judgment free. Which probably never happens.

But like there's a works of difference between "Helen is accepting donations for Stan's get well bouquet at her desk. Stop by if you're interested" and Helen coming by your desk and asking how much you'd like to contribute.

two of my colleagues are leaving at the end of this week so we had to sign cards for them. LOL @ nearly everyone in the office writing the EXACT same message in both. Best was this guy who didn't use their names, didn't sign his own name, and just wrote "You will be missed". Creepy fucker.

"RIP, big man"

"we know what you did"

On social media, when people list a few things and then indicate being happy or content. Examples:

Coffee by the fire, cat in my lap, Journey playing in the background. Pure bliss.
Wine, cheetos, good friends. Happiness.

Jeff, those kind of updates can be pretty smug at times, but I quite like knowing that happiness is often quite easy too achieve.

I hate those too, Jeff. It's more the way they're all copied from each other, like the tone etc.

But the worst is the Facebook Oscar speech - v popular at this time of year. Loads of people tagged, thanked, usually a mention of a death or something just to make the brew a bit richer, 4/5 lines long at least.

I have not experienced the Facebook Oscar speech yet. It seems I've chosen friends carefully enough to avoid that sort of boredom.

Wine, Cheetos, http://www.maximumfun.org/stop-podcasting-yourself/stop-podcasting-yourself-266-ivan-decker

Jeff otm.

I even hate the ones that simply say "bliss." Good to see they came out of their opium fog for 10 seconds to write that one for us all.

- Goodness gracious the city is amazing!

- Happy. Joyous. Free.

- Just another awesome day in the books. Thanks to all who made an impact in my attitude!

- Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame...

- Just a little lunch w Pops. Greeted by a choir. So, yeah, life rules.

^^ all from the same guy. Good guy, good friend, I'd kill him with my bare hands if I only knew him from Facebook.

lol

Walgreens. Froyo. Walitin D. Bliss.

― Jeff, Monday, December 16, 2013 7:36 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Lithiu. Wellbutrin. Glenlivet. True joy.

Lithium

(irrationally angry)

Charges dropped. Life is good.

IA: When I'm pulling up to a stop sign, and the person with the right of way WAITS and WAITS until I come to a full stop, even if they've been sitting there since I was a quarter-mile away. Makes me want to just blow through the thing!

I see so many dozens of drivers roll through, or even blow through, stop signs in my neighborhood each day that I no longer accept that I can trust them not to space out and roll through their 'stop' when I'm half way into the intersection. Embedded habits take over whenever your attention wanders, and the attention of these drivers wanders pretty damn often afaics. So, I wait until I can see that they see me, instead of them looking down at some device or blithely chatting with a phone at their ear or playing with their dog, as they approach their stop. Then I go.

Yeah, I'm always "let's see if you stop first" before I make my move.

But if you could be through the intersection before they even get to it, wouldn't you go?

I don't trust anyone with a car, period. I look both ways even when I'm crossing a one-way street.

If they're far enough away that it seems safe, sure, I'd go. Sometimes when a car stops at a sign for a long time, it is because the driver is fiddling around with something while the car isn't moving. Another kind of distracted driver, but at least they aren't moving.

I guess I'm just IA about it, then. Grrr.