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

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:

http://i.imgur.com/cxnQ5W3.png

E.K. -

https://discussions.apple.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-23664791-324995/Finder-OSX10-7_10-9-Compare.jpg

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

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zRtYqRIfVCw/TO2uau-PMUI/AAAAAAAAB_s/Ncb5fhiI1Zk/s1600/Crystallized%2BGinger.jpg

-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

http://youtu.be/C7W2bUqOMYw?t=1m4s

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

Yeah, but where would the LULU and NIN ILX tribute albums been without those.

kind of nice to glance at them and think, "hmm, that song they've been playing for the last five years finally made it to an album"

tracklistings are ok, but making a big hoop-de-do about a trailer for the fourth season of a tv show is like, jfc let's get some perspective

veg you sure this is an argument a doctor who fan should be making?

me, yes. becuase I don't really give a shit abt trailers in general

but i see yr point :)

What do you do if you drop a heavy weight on your foot in a public place when you're on your own.

Or rather when a heart shaped chopping/bread board rolls off a shelf when you've bent to pick up a board you were looking at that has just rolled off the shelf you put it back on. Heart shaped board landed whack on my toe, thankfully I was wearing engineer boots or I'd be worried it was broken. certainly ached to hell tonight.
I think I walked up and down the aisle of this shop cursing under my breath banging my hands together. Which must have looked pretty weird. I got a funny look from the cleaner who walked by with her trolley, looked down at the two boards lying on the ground.

Seems ironic that it was a heart shaped board that loved my toe nail purple. Toe has felt like it was going to fall off at a couple of times tonight and at the time I was getting images of my boot filling with blood. I stood for a moment trying to wriggle my toes once I got the boards back on the shelf.
I'm thinking I probably should have complained about the way the boards were being held on the shelf if they could fall off that easily. Does feel like my foot was protected mainly by my footwear. Hate to think what would have happened if I'd been wearing lighter footwear or if it happened to somebody else who was. Looked like one of the pegs on the stand tehse boards were held upright in was missing so I don't know how safe it was.
& I need to use my foot tomorrow too.

When people use PS. in emails. You don't need to, if you have a PS, you can just go back to the body of your email and put it up there.

Yeah, really, it's an email. Just put "BTW" instead of "PS"

i just write

ADDENDUM:

Is the origin of PS in handwriting, like you finished writing the whole damn letter then thought of something else and didn't want to start over? I actually never thought of that.

I think it's fine where it is - a postscript by definition remains outside the main subject under discussion in your message, whether written or electronic.

Just checking in

Yup you guys are still crazy

I have a rule to automatically delete any email that contains a PS.

Using PS in electronic communications pleases me, even if I can't defend it without wondering if I should just exile myself to the Innocent Smoothies thread forever.

(Well, I like it on ILX. Less good in an email, though, as I automatically stop scrolling/reading as soon as I see the signoff.)

PS = postscript so is something that was written after the main body of the letter. In times of writing in ink on a piece of paper you have something of a set out structure to the letter that is no longer as concrete in the age of electronic media such as emails.
So can see why it might be seen as strange since that is no longer true and one could insert whatever the postscript is into the body of the message.

I can also see why it is a useful tool for emphasis and subject change for example.

Things (mostly children's toys) which require an odd number of batteries. Pretty much nothing uses only 1 battery, so I end up having this lone battery lying around.

Having to get rechargeable batteries for my landline phone and never getting around to it so the phone occasionally runs out. Is that a standard thing for landline phones these days? rechargeable phones.
Batteries around here are easier got in the form of other brand Duracell type long-life things picked up from the €2 shop.

I agree about the post-scripts being an anachronistic way of ending an email.

P.S. Go Hogs!

I suppose it's irrational that I am disgusted when people make gross potty noises in the bathroom.