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

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.

I feel you, schwantz. You're not alone.

I get it too. And if every driver was a Schwantz, I'd be Hollywood Stoppin' all day long.

I feel you, schwantz.

heh.

I'm currently IA at giant SUV's and monster-trucks with blinding headlights
also anyone driving with high beams can go eat a bag of dicks

Youtube "demo" vidoes of audiophile stereo equipment. LIKE I CAN REALLY FUCKING TELL WHAT YOUR SPEAKERS SOUND LIKE THROUGH MY CRAPPY HEADPHONES OUT OF MY DELL LAPTOP.

Intercity bus timetables with impossible intervals between stops. That seem to be ignored anyway once you've panicked to get to a stop in between in time. 10 minutes to go 10 miles? Starting from the centre of town? With the current junction lay out.

Local buses that pull away as you try to get to the door laden with bags. Am I invisible? Couldn't have moved faster with a trolley case on a wet pavement.

Cramming plane seats too close together. Somebody's back wedged against your knee & shifting back on it several times. The body of a plane shaking before and during flight.

This new phenomenon of groupon-style coupons that aren't really that great, like "$35 for a $50 Norwegian Cruise Gift Card!" So it's $15 off of a fucking CRUISE? What is that like 2%?

I was going to put something about sales that aren't really sales! Like when you get $10 off any purchase totaling $150 or more. It's dumb.

The whole larger phenomenon of modern pricing irritates me, like a few stores I get spam from seem to have "40% off" like every other day. Amazon prices have changed dramatically on me between site visits on the same day. And I've seen some sites have a "50% off sale" on prices that are higher than they were a week earlier. I guess this shit probably always happened, it's just easier to see now.

Cross ref the embarrassing thread about discounts you can only get if you share some bullshit on twitter/Facebook.

Stupid capitalism making getting ripped off look like a fun game. It's a game you'll never win!

hate to bring it up, but I get coupons all the time in the mail for $1 off 10 Chobani yogurts.

THAT'S A DIME. A WHOPPING TEN CENTS. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth BUT STOP WASTING BOTH OF OUR TIME.

Note: there was a very good article in the most recent Bitch about extreme coupon cutters that posited the theory that they did indeed win capitalism by beating it at its own game. Also some stuff about it creating a paid market for women's domestic labor. Really good article.

see also the safeway/drugstore coupons after-purchase which give you the most useless discounts on things you've already bought

BUY 10 BOXES KLEENEX AND SAVE $1

this is pretty elementary i know but i will relay it just because it was direct from the horse's mouth, but we had an account rep from 'staples advantage' in and he explained that one of the big benefits to having a corporate account with advantage is that coupons are not usable and instead they just charge the price for the items minus the premium they add to prices to account for the coupon discounts.

all the spam from my smartphone service provider is like this, "save 10%" at some awful chain restaurant, or "limited edition chocolate set, 5% off"

BUY 10 BOXES KLEENEX AND SAVE $1 ON YOUR NEXT VISIT WHEN YOU SURE AS FUCK WON'T NEED 10 BOXES KLEENEX

I mean, Walmart is this horrible purgatory of capitalism, but I'll give them credit for taking the approach of "what do you need store coupons or shopping cards for? Shit's Always on sale."

ON YOUR NEXT VISIT WHEN YOU SURE AS FUCK WON'T NEED 10 BOXES KLEENEX

YES. Or women's clothing stores that offer some kind of company scrip for use against your next purchase, but it expires in two weeks. Fuck you I just spent $100 on clothes. I won't need to come back in two weeks.

I would be less annoyed by these kinds of discounts if the stores didn't advertise them as being such an AMAZING DEAL.

Costco automatically credits you any discount/rebate at the register. You never need the coupon. <3<3<3

ok, *retro* music that just kind of approximates a past style without really nailing it, like super-reverent "folk" bands that make insipid covers of Anthology of American Folk music songs and wear old man hats and whatnot, and the vocals are always a little over-sweetened or over bluesy or over precious.

There's a vocal style in there that tries to be old, I can't think of specific example but yeah the old blues jazz style where you sing and every vowel has an r sound to it like you're gritting through your teeth or something. Sick of that.