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

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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

they seem to wind up melted and half-greasy in the winter too, maybe they just melt easily.

oh and even worse is that they always come in those variety packs of dark, milk and white, ranking from least to most offensive in that order, none being good but the milk and white being especially disappointing.

Yessss I thought it was just me! I'm sure they used to be the equivalent of some Aldi knock-off brand, really bewildered when everyone started treating them like luxury. The white ones are a bit of a guilty pleasure though.

probably moaned about this before but
- websites that take you to their mobile version but to their mobile home page instead of to the mobile version of the page you wanted to read, which you then can't find

Worse is mobile websites that want you to install their app and if you don't want to you can't read the website.

Customs wants £17.50 for a package I've been sent as a gift. It's worth $60, which is just over £36. Duty free threshold? Under £36. KILL KILL KILL.

I bet like £10 of that is a fee because they didn't pay it in advance.. That keeps happening to me!

£8 is handling, £9.50 is VAT. The goods were bought in an EU country by my best friend, but sent from the US. $60 was probably worth less than £36 on the day it was sent, but AAAAAAAAARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH.

every day when the shithead in front of me comes into work he says "HEY HEY" in a Fat Albert voice. Another reason to want to punch him.

EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET requiring a fucking "account" and "username" and "password" these days. I just wanted to order some tickets to the theater and I had to set up a whole fucking account, like I'm going to remember my username the next time I go to the same theater in two years.

^^^^^^

yup.

i realize as I approach 40 that pretty much everything makes me irrationally angry. GET THE FUCK OFF MY LAWN YOU GODAMN PUNKS.

Mac computers and the people who defend the new shit.

On the new operating system, highlighting files in different colors have been replaced with just having a single little dot – • – of the color of your choice appearing next to the file. So if your eyes are 40 years old like mine, they're hard to see, especially red yellow and orange.

And the people who defend the new shit - I went on a mac board to see how to change it, and there are people there saying, "Why would you want to change it, eh? You're just not using it properly." FUCK YOU. There are 20 different ways to sort files besides COLOR. I can sort alphabetically, by tag, file size, date created, date modified - YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO TAKE AWAY COLOR TO MAKE IT A TAG.

I go through this with engineers all the time. "But why would you want to have an image appear on the website without a caption?" I'LL ASK THE QUESTIONS AROUND HERE, WE'RE THE JOURNALISTS, OK?

This is starting to get up there with me turning my back on organized religion and the electoral college.

On the new operating system, highlighting files in different colors have been replaced with just having a single little dot – • – of the color of your choice appearing next to the file. So if your eyes are 40 years old like mine, they're hard to see, especially red yellow and orange.

Haha is this true? If I didn't have my coloured files it'd be like losing two years of work. Coloured files are the only good thing about Macs!

EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET requiring a fucking "account" and "username" and "password" these days. I just wanted to order some tickets to the theater and I had to set up a whole fucking account, like I'm going to remember my username the next time I go to the same theater in two years.

Just arrived at a site called smallholder.co.uk when trying to check some stupid fact about honey fermentation & ended up with an error message:

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E.K. -

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Oof. There must be a way to change it back!

rage

they must have gotten unhappy with the previous solution, which was already an adjustment from back when they literally only made the file's icon colored. it bothered me when they started highlighting an entire row around about the time that almost every finder window showed you things in rows.

that's some bullshit

fuck those dots imo

Americans using "gingers" rather than "redheads."

yeah I feel this

i've never liked gingers as a perjorative/descriptor/both

they're using a mobile crane in our lobby to replace some of the lights and BEEPING ALL THE TIME BEEPING ARRRRRGGGGGH

there's nothign I hate more than beeping, booping, alarms, shrill noises they make me crazy

nothing

not even the same colour, innit?

http://spydersden.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/ginger-root.jpg

http://hotforginger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dont-mess-with-gingers-1024x575.jpg

ANY FULE KNO ginger goes another colour when prepared/cooked

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-signed, a baked/prepared/cooked ginger

- Yours etc. Captain B.J. Smethwick in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic.

I have a friend who both refers to herself as a Ginger constantly and plays out the little girl lost routine - it kills me. You used to be so cool, K. Why? Why? (K being the name of the friend I'm never actually going to call on this behaviour.. Any similarities with posters is merely coincidental)

yeah I have a friend like that too. idgi

#gingerproblems

pssh, people with red hair are just redheads but gingers have natural ginger hair and usually freckles and are pretty cool imo

Shld be more joeks about pickled ginger, amirite?

oh what a pickle we're in

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getting sniped on the component taht would make my walkman work again. The stupidly fiddly docking cradle thing that disappeared on my trip back here last week.

Is there a setting or programme that will automatically add £1 to every top or end bid just before the bidding ends? The bidding jumped from about £4.15 to £21 i.e. my top bid plus £1.
I don't normally go into the bidding side of ebay, normally just use it for Buy Now. THought i'd set a high bid since I was going to be out most of the day. Just got back a few minutes before the end of the bidding so watched it and it stayed on the £4.15 or whatever right up to the last moment.
Would just like to know what is standard for sniping these days since I'm totally not used to it. Just left wondering if there is anything I could have done short of using one of the sniping programmes or if it would just automatically be final bid +£1 in which case you couldn't really beat it.

Also griping at the fact that Sony made their product so utterly fiddly. I think a lot of people lost those docking cradles because they are so small. Not sure exactly what they were thinking. Might have been less easily lost if the power cable was actually built into the docking cradle.
I'd still really like to know where that thing disappeared to. Only found out it was missing after getting home, thought I'd checked on it a number of times en route.

Also the fact that some wanker has put 2 of these docking cradles up on Ebay for some insane price around £600 which as far as I can see is simply totally eccentric, not related to anything. But might mean that prices inflate.

I was attached to that player so still have my fingers crossed that that part appears or doesn't get sniped on me again. Hoping that price that I inflated to £21 to be on the safe side doesn't effect future sales. Not sure how that ebay set up works still, like who sets prices? Is it what things have successfully sold for recently or what?

just put in the highest you're willing to pay. The seller sets the price. The other person would've been bidding until he outbid you by £1 - that's how it works (or she'd put in a higher bid at last minute- it'd only go up to the next-highest bid plus £1 increment, or whatever the increment is for the level it's at).
I usually do like £20.55 as my max bid so if someone's lazily just put in a multiple of £10 as their highest bid, it'll be just over.

point was it was the very last minute which is why I used the term sniping. I'd actually sat down and watched the last minute through despite having checked several times over the last few minutes to find no change. So this bid of £21 came in at the very last minute.
I thought I had heard a few years back about sniping programmes that would automatically top the highest bid. As I said I don't know what the set up at ebay is. If I did I might know if there was a way of seeing what the highest maximum bid was and therefore seeing if it was toppable. I assume that if there were 2 or more maximum bids entered ebay would just keep topping up the price until the lowest one of them was reached and inclementally exceeded. Subsequently I must have had the only maximum bid in since it didn't go up.

JUst wondering if there is a way around getting sniped. & i guess the only thing is that you set a higher maximum hoping that it would remain above what the other bidder was happy with, but you might be stuck with it. I know that's happened before when I've been bidding, an item suddenly goes from a low price to my maximum bid at the last minute. But that was a few years ago and programmes develop more efficiently.

You can check the list of bids to see whether someone happened to come in with one bet that beat yours by a quid or whether they made multiple bids to get past yours.

But yes, plenty of people still use sniping programs. I use them if I know I'm gonna be out, and I buy maybe four things a year from ebay.

The problem with the whole set-your-maximum-bid-in-advance system is that it's contrary to human nature: I might hope to pay no more than £50, but then why wouldn't I pay £50.99, or £55. But I can't put £55 as the max, because obviously I would then also be prepared to go up to a few quid more than that too. So I could put in £75, or £100, just to make sure, but then I run the risk of coming up against someone else who really wants the thing and bids it up. Even if I'm prepared to pay £100 for a £50 item, I don't want to do it needlessly. The best way of making sure this doesn't happen is to snipe - then they don't get a chance. There's no other way.

http://www.justsnipe.com/

Free, secure eBay sniping. Can't recommend it enough.

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facebook updates announcing the "premiere" of a tv show *trailer*

ha, that's sort of like my irritation at bands releasing "track listings." Like I give a fuck what the song titles are on the new Deerhunter