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

all of this is solved by buying a Bag For Life. or reusing the bags you got given last time (or was doing your weekly shop a surprise?)

i use plastic grocery bags as garbage bags, or do you think i should reuse the same garbage bag every time too

bagging is worse when they use my bags. that's when they REALLY dont give a shit

Yeah, I used plastic bags for cats shit.

Otherwise I'd have to buy cat shit specific bags.

> bagging is worse when they use my bags.

ah, see, here they don't bag for you, they just scan and push it into the bagging area for you to handle / pack how you want. makes sense - i'd just be stood there waiting for them to finish otherwise. division of labour...

(although now you have to use the card machine yourself they end up sitting there waiting for you whereas before they'd be sorting out the payment whilst you finished packing)

winco and foodsource (large discount supermarkets) you have to bag your own

'regular' supermarkets usually have a bagger and a checker - you hand them your bags and they'll bag it for you. if there's no bagger I'll bag my own.

This one really is irrational but I get annoyed in the supermarket when I see a "any 3 for £x! mix and match!" label and then there aren't any other products with the same offer

I don't want 3 the same, I want to indulge the stupid part of my brain that wants to buy 3 different fruit juices when I only really wanted one, just because, hey, variety! and also, 20 pence cheaper than buying 3 separately! even though I only wanted 1

hmm, maybe I should thank them, now I think about it

My grocery store has a merry-go-round/lazy-susan dealie with bags on it. The checker puts the items in the bags, and then rotates it away from the customer, presumably so that the checker can place the bags in the customer's cart once all bags are full. But if they rotated the bags towards the customer, we could place them in the cart ourselves. I sense that some management directive told them to rotate the full bags away from the customers, lest the customers think they are being asked to do extra work.

I really need to stop thinking about this.

you should shop at a co-op with signs in each lane scolding you for presuming that people who are prone to repetitive stress injuries because their jobs call for repeatedly doing things should assume the risk of bagging your groceries for you when you're certainly capable of doing it yourself

that will make you think, about your privilege, of being a shopper rather than a worker, a worker there i mean

i realized what i really hate is any time you're in an audience or a crowd and some emcee is like "are you ready for this?" and sure, you cheer, but then they're all "i can't hear you!" and this might go one for two or three more times, and the emcee will inevitably be disappointed in your response at some point, "haha come on you guys can do better than that!" man, i can't because i don't care that much.

haikus

xp, yeah I know what you're talking about. I think unless the emcee is someone huge it feels kind of presumptuous to go overboard with the "make some noise!" schtick. Like, who the fuck are you? Why don't you say a dope rhyme first and then I'll make some noise.

the fact that this performance is a whole step down from the record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTrQ7vUZsIo

ppl who call everything that can be read a text

When a really great solo is followed by the leader of the band saying "____ on tenor saxophone everybody!" Such a buzzkill.

The image rotation metadata thing which means you take a picture on your phone and it looks right on your phone and you download it to your computer and it's the wrong way round so you rotate it to post to ILX or email to your Granny or w/e and when it appears it's the wrong way up again and you should probably just have left it alone, except whatever do you it's probably the wrong way up for half of the recipients, because apparently all software just flips a coin about whether it's going to look at the rotation tag.

People who reflexively complain about how their city handles a snowstorm no matter how it's handled. Guess what guys, sometimes snow just sucks and it's not the city's fault!

i am impressed (not) at the ability of every person to make fun of how people who live south of them can't handle snow, can't drive in it, etc.

Yeah I am also getting sick of that. "New Yorkers complain when there's only a foot of snow. Back in Winnipeg..." yeah, and in Winnipeg 75% of the city's budget is for snow removal and everyone has great snow gear because it snows all the fucking time so shut up now please thank you.

Yeah. I've been guilty of that in the past but it's a pretty jerky attitude.

My editor is stuck in NYC because fashion week and impending Snowmageddon, and I admit I did throw 'LOL I'm from Minnesota, only worry if MSP airport is closed, NYC = pussies' but OTOH when strangers complain about cold to me and ask if I am also freezing, I do say 'no, because I grew up in a fucking snow drift' or similar.

sure, I've been guilty of it too, and I didn't even grow up in a particularly snowy place

Last week, they closed school on a Monday because it merely looked like it might snow. Instead, we got a hard cold rain.

And then Friday, they said it would snow again, but in the evening. Three inches fell and holy shit, there were ten-mile traffic jams, people abandoning their cars in the street and walking home, so much sand on some overpasses it was like being at the beach.

It warmed again on Saturday. Then the forecast called for snow on Monday. Not a loaf of bread to be found at the store on Sunday. Not a flake fell. And people were pissed that the weather guys got it wrong again.

You can't win you can't win you can't win.

What is it about snow storms that make people want to suddenly increase their milk and bread intake?

Life: still not fully optimized in 2014.

i am guilty of northern snow smugness and lashed out at my maryland-native coworkers for making fun of georgia but i am annoyed at them and not at myself, of course

milk and bread two most common grocery items and they have short shelf lives. ppl go grocery shopping cuz they anticipate it might not be optimal to go grocery shopping in the next _____ days. condense _________ days of grocery shopping into one rush and milk and bread sell out.

it's b/c in a blizzard the best thing to eat is a milk sandwich duh if u were from minnesota u would kno

I'm mostly just jealous of people who live in places where a snow storm will basically shut everything down. I wish an occasional snow storm would give me a day off from work.

Just don't eat milk and bread. Eat Fritos or something.

And I wish milk and bread had shorter shelf lives. I don't know what they're using to bake/pasteurize those things, but I know that buying milk with expiration dates of three weeks later ain't right.

Every family should have a few cases of Twinkies in storage. They last forever and cover the bread and dairy needs of growing bodies.

ppl should just eat handfuls of vitamins when it snows

I bought a sack of wheat slider buns instead and the rest of the family reacted to it like I brought a sock o'manure into the house.

"On Tenor Sax, Everybody!"

Sounds awesome to me..

Everyone with a tenor sax...

I grew up in what the weather channel considers the #3 snowiest city in the US and we had amazing snow removal because we had no choice and they probably do spend 75% of the city budget on it every year.

Where I live now it snows, but not that often and not that terribly. The city sucks at snow removal and I used to be way more smug about it but they only have to stress it maybe 5 times a year and in return for not maintaining a standing standing snow removal army we have nicer sidewalks and parks and such.

In England, people are complete snow wussies (Scotland, NI and bits of Wales... not so much). Friend of mine in York (high school classmate) gets into screaming matches with her terribly English husband when it snows (and it can really snow up there) about YES I AM GOING TO DRIVE IN THAT, I AM NEXT-LEVEL TRAINED.

sandwiches that are wrapped in such a way that it is impossible to eat it *in* the wrapper, you have to unwrap the whole stupid thing and have it fall everywhere. same with burritos. it's fine if I can be somewhere where I can eat with a plate and a knife and fork but if I'm just going to sit outside or w/e then I'm relying on the wrapper to hold everything together ffs.
up your wrap game, ppl.

OTM, if you can't properly assemble a sandwich for eating purposes, you have no business selling sandwiches

The weird canteen at my work attempts burritos every so often and last week they were wrapped in this foil PLUS baking parchment combo. and made out of two small tortillas in a row. So it fell to bits immediately.

made out of two small tortillas in a row

this is hilarious

that's just like unheard of burrito incompetence -- daisychained tortillas?

for a party you could order a 6 foot burrito that is made of 200 small tortillas

I'm not a fan of hard to eat food in general. Like bread that is too tough, especially when it's part of a sandwich. Or food that is extremely messy.

You know what's the worst food item in this regard? The MUFFIN. I never felt fully cognizant of this until I worked with a french guy who was into trying the "local" food or whatever, and one day he goes "How are you supposed to eat a muffin?" And it suddenly hit me, "You know what, I have no fucking idea how you're supposed to eat it." You either have to eat it from the paper, which requires you to kind of (sorry) muffin dive as you get deeper into it, or you have to kind of "pinch" out clumps of it. It's a ridiculous food that inevitably leaves crumbs all over the place.

Break it into quarters, then peel the sections off the paper as needed.

Break into quarters with the paper still on? Wouldn't that require a knife?

Yes, with the paper still on - and no, does not require a knife.

muffins and (new style giant frosting-heavy) cupcakes -- both equally annoying to eat