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

11-4 on Saturday, closed on Sunday. WHAT KIND OF RESTAURANT ARE YOU THEN

Gordon Ramsey would have something to say about that.

Tonight I ran a tab on a credit card at a bar. Later at the grocery store I saw that the bartender had charged and given to me the card of somebody named Eduardo.

This spring at the same bar and friend went to close her tab and found out the bartender had given her card to some other woman. WTF is up? Tonight it wasn't busy and I heard the bar back tell the bartender, "Jesse wants to pay his tab."

And later I opened a bill from the hospital where I had my tonsillectomy and found that they tried to bill an insurance company that I haven't used for 3 years. This is the same hospital that previously kept sending bills to the wrong address for my insurance company despite my frequent calls telling them they were fucking up.

I was already irritable so now I'm dying of IA.

Went to the movies yesterday and this trailer played, and just the opening bars of the music made me IA that this whole bullshit twee genre and arrangement style still exists and is a successful choice for advertisers and marketers to attach to their products. I don't care if people with poor taste want to listen to it in the privacy of their own homes, don't make me listen to it in movie trailers and car ads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_0fhUVF4yg

you were expecting maybe ac/dc?

Are those my only two choices? If so, yes.

That's Wes Anderson's actual record player.

tbh fuck laika's whole "WE'RE FUCKING LAIKA CHECK THIS OUT oh also here's a movie i guess" ad strategy

fucking toasters that need two passes to toast motherfucking bread

you have ONE job

iPhone's quick weather on tells the wind chill temp today. Fuck that subjective info - I want to know the facts!

0 degrees.

Oh wait no I'm sorry. 1 degree. It warmed up since I last checked.

Yahoo weather is my new favorite weather app.

The way twitter addresses are written with the "@" in front of them always really irritates me, because I automatically hear "at" whenever I see that symbol. Gets especially clunky with tweets that are directed at another tweeter and mention third party tweeters.

My internet connection has been incredibly crappy over the past week or so, so I've been doing a lot of talking on the phone to customer service people. I know they probably make a crappy wage UNLESS they sell customers additional stuff but there is nothing that makes me more IA than wasting my time trying to fix a service that I have paid for by asking me if I want to spend even more money.

"Why yes, I would love to give an extra $30 a month to a company who is currently charging me full price for AOL-era internet speed!"

Sir, I know you have just spend half an hour waiting on the phone and then another half hour trying (and failing) to get your service to work, but have you ever thought about throwing more money at the problem?

Ugh, cable/internet companies are the worst. Time Warner is the only provider in my building. Every time I all I spend 10 minutes on the phone only to find out I'm supposed to call a different number. My monthly bill is about $20 higher than it was supposed to be and I can't get the stupid issue resolved.

video-only web infotainment shit. THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS STUFF IS TO DISTRACT ME AT WORK!

aargh, housemate's away for a couple of weeks and two of her friends are staying in her room. all other housemates away too. on my second day of avoiding them completely, not because they're annoying people but i just do not feel remotely like interacting with people i don't know every time i step outside my room. it's just stressful. i need to be able to feel unsociable in my own house goddamnit

uhh i would hate that too

God seriously. Poor Lex.

This deserves its own thread, but right now I'm too depressed by latest incident: parents who let their children run wild in public.

With the parent a few feet away in most cases, but also those who just fucking drop them off and leave (in malls where I'm working/consuming, libraries, etc)

And the ones who are a few feet away may either flip put if anybody says anything, or get this really creepy smile (sometimes while leaving with kid, even). But mostly the former. A few do get seemingly sincerely apologetic and worried, like they suddenly realize what they've done, or not done. I would never ever ever say anything unless it's my job, which occasionally it has been (gently someone to take her child outside after child has puked all over store: not a good idea).

gently *asking* someone, that is.

Wondering how you find out where buses go when the new style for display on London ones just has end destination. & bus timetables only have frequency not stops. At least on a few i tryd to check. Used to be the front of a bus said several significant points it passed,now just end destination. Is there supposed to be an external point of reference or do they just not think it matters? Not very helpful if you don't know routes esp if a lot of buses stop around same place.

Have you got a phone with which you could download a transit app? Not an ideal solution, but will help you out! I'm in Toronto, so can't recommend an app, but Toronto has a few great options so London must as well..

My IA today was people who wait until I've lined up behind them for the bus, only to move forward leaving a large hole in the line, making it look like I don't know how to line up after I've put all my heavy bags on the floor. >:|

Tread title just now registered, and now I'm IA. It's yippie KI-YAY. JESUS, GET BENT!

Seriously though, lately it's the damn Wilhelm Scream. It's pretty constant. And it's never funny. Never was. The backstory is stupid. It's not creepy. It's not clever. It's not inside baseball. It just is lame.

I am IA at a coworker who insists on calling me every time he sends me an email. As though I'm some imbecile who can't understand instructions, especially since they're instructions for a task I do allllll the tiiiiiime.

i hate phonecalls. haaaaaate

Don't pick up.

Tread title just now registered, and now I'm IA. It's yippie KI-YAY. JESUS, GET BENT!

― andrew m., Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:02 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i bet you are only pretending you have got the wrong end of the shtick.

misplaced irrational anger

sometimes i wonder if all the petite plights recorded in this thread have given me a false sense of equanimity.

slightly opposite of veg's problem -- people who insist on using the company's IM service or email when they could just walk over a few steps to talk to me face to face

Wondering if the name Kenya Special wouldn't automatically preclude a reviewer from thinking it would contain Nigerian & Ghanaian Afrobeat. I thought I could normally rely on reviews in Ugly Things except for one or 2 writers who thankfully no longer write for the mag.
Having seen this I just wonder if music from the continent from a certain era automatically defaults to be one type from one semi-specific area at least in the minds of some. The West Coart did have some great music come out but there has been recognition of Central & East African music for years, with the latter Ethiopiques ran to 30+ volumes and had at least one companion series that ran to at least 8 volumes.
So I'm hoping that a geographical confusion citing one side of the continent for the other isn't widespread. There is a lot of variety in Africa. Further South in the continent has also had musical recognition.
I would prefer the set itself if it had more Luo than Kikuyu Benga in it. My dad's Luo and i think the music originated with the tribe & it hasn't been widely collected to my knowledge.

my boss uses his phone to call people within the office. even people within 10 ft of his desk. or he just yells to them. once he called me and his voice is loud so i was like well i can just hear you talking so why are we doing this? and i hung up and kept talking. then he was like NOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

Our office is situated so that a few low-paid associates and I are in a small cubicle farm outside of 3 offices including my boss and a couple other higher-ups. At least once a day, the office dwellers will call one another, rather than walk the, once again, ten or so feet over to each others offices. I'm sorta perfectly triangulated to hear both sides of the conversations, which is weird because people tend ot converse differently over the phone than they do face-to-face. Sometimes they do walk over and talk to one another though - it's sorta interchangable I guess depending on whether they want to get up out of their seats.

I'm not IA about this or anything - it's just a little jarring - but your anecdote reminded me of it.

secondary IA is habitual speakerphone users - my old boss did this constantly with his door open & it was the wooooorst

New website design, though "New" meaning in the past year or two, which is entirely aimed at tablets and smartphones. You know, where everything is justified in the middle of the page so it's all one giant long column, and the text is an extra large serif font, and the images are huge and take up a full screen and when you scroll they sort of scroll at their own separate rate. Not sure what to call it but it reminds me of the parallax effect from videogames.

I probably need to just stop browsing with my desktop computer but not a day goes by where I don't read a site that takes 10-15 screens to read that really should've taken 2 or 3.

Wondering how you find out where buses go when the new style for display on London ones just has end destination

I might have complained about this before, but here the buses used to have a painted roll on display at the front where the bus from A to D starts out saying "D via B and C", then at B the driver rotated it to say "D via C", then from C on it would just say "D". Now they have electronic signage, which you'd THINK would be easier to update, but they just say "D via B and C" all the way through the journey, even after B and C.

Not hugely annoyed by it, just every time I see it I think it's needlessly confusing. The I part of this A is that I've never got or even almost got a bus in the wrong direction because of this, nor have I heard of anyone else do so, plus I really hope the driver would tell them - so maybe I'm annoyed on behalf of some people who don't even exist.

http://i.imgur.com/ZIAV1B7.jpg

It was BUZZ that Jessie sort of had a thing with -- Woody was more like a brother to her GAWD.

But the person who has this as their Facebook cover photo right now, they're the GROWN ADULT who should know better anyway.

when there's one lone ornament hidden in the christmas tree after you've taken everything down. oops sorry trashcan for you, rogue ornament

also: fking stupid fairy lights how do I roll up these goddamn things again

also: trying to fit the fake tree parts back in the too-small manufacturers box

somehow managing to lose the clip that allows an old style NW HD3 Sony ATRAC walkman to charge despite thinking I had it somewhere secure. This as far as I can see it means that I have a defunct player on my hands or at least until i can find the charger or a replacement.
So possibly adding in the idea that Sony made its gadgets overly proprietary and overly complex. This came out in the mid or early '00s but may be true anyway. There is no real reason why you would need to introduce this clip thing into the design. It means that there is one more piece that you have to transport and ensure you have any time you want to recharge the thing. So extra fiddle for no great gain.
I also can't edit this player cos every time it interfaces with a computer it asks if you want to reboot it. Otherwise you can't access the contents.

Fuck I loved the walkman despite these flaws. Had a massive amount of music on it even if I would have liked to edit contents to introduce new stuff.

Just wondering if there is any chance of finding a more generic recharge unit. Even if that would still mean I wasn't able to edit contents.

Those little Lindt truffles that everyone always winds up giving as thoughtless gifts or additions to gifts. They're dressed up as some kind of special european delicacy but they're actually kind of cheap-tasting and gross. And you always just wind up with a few bags of them at the holidays, and wind up purposelessly eating them.

yo i'll take yours do you need my address

you're too late

you are so right, they're quite horrible and i would never buy them but i must have consumed thousands of them. it's even worse here because the holidays are in summer so they're always half melted and sort of greasy when you eat them.

i could eat them all day and all night