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

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

peel the sides down w/o tearing them, it makes a cup for u to catch crumbs in, then eat the top in portions, then the bottom in portions

if you cannot detach the portions w/ yr fingers w/o making a crumby mess then u need to find a more buttery muffinmaker

^This also works where frosting is present.

One of those annoying life hack pinterests macros suggests lopping off & flipping cupcake tops to create icing sandwiches, but I have not attempted

made out of two small tortillas in a row

this is hilarious

I know! Every so often they attempt 'world food' or whatever the hell they think a burrito is and each time they improve one thing (this time, it had rice in it!!) and make one thing worse.
It is mainly eaten by students so they get away with it

two tortilla burrito would be p upsetting imo

it's a muffin you just eat it you fucking babies

When someone is attempting to pick the brains of others/"crowdsource" and concludes a request with "Go!" like we're all supposed to trip over our own feet rushing to satisfy the request. This isn't a race, you don't need to tell me to "go". It actually makes me want to help the person less. So mean of me, but true.

I agree. Not that you're mean, but that it is annoying.

you cut the muffin in half and put it in the toaster. Then smear butter on the halves.

Of course you can't do this with glorified cupcakes and the only place that does decent muffins in Marks & Sparks and they're zionist bastards anyway.

Must look into using bread machine for preparation of muffin and pizza doughs, its supposed to be able to do both easily but so far I've only used it for breads.

Muffins are super easy to make in a bowl without a bread machine -- you don't have to knead them or anything. It's just a batter, slightly more floury/less wet than a cake batter.
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/blueberry-muffins-recipe

these things?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/english_muffins_56640

we get these fancy reams of paper at work that are shrinkwrapped. the first page of the ream has a non-removable sticker on it with the paper type etc. so the first page is useless for printing. it's such a ridiculous waste i hate it.

also we get large rolls of paper to use on our plotter printer. the rolls are sealed with adhesive tape...that tears the paper underneath when you remove it. surely, SURELY you would have half a brain to figure out that maybe you should seal it with removable tape so that the paper is not marked by your stupid non-removable tape.

kill smash murder

xp - oh sorry!
i should have known better

People who pipe up to answer support form questions like this:

Can this TV be controlled with PlayStation 3 Remote Control? 5 days ago
Sorry, I have no idea about that.

does it stream amazon instant video 3 days ago
Sorry, we haven't tried that. But it is the best tv in our house.

Can I use my amazon prime account to watch videos on this tv, without another devise? 6 days ago
As far as I know you can. I do not use that service so I am not 100% certain.

It's strange to think that there are people out there who look at support form boards the same way the rest of us look at facebook, ilx, templeowlsbasketball.edu, etc.

As bad or worse, people who answer, "That's not possible." E.g.

Asker: How do I disable the Insert key on my keyboard?
Answerer: I don't think you can do that.
(others offer instructions for remapping keyboards)
Answerer: I never heard of doing that. I don't see how that could actually work.
Asker: Thanks, that worked!
Answerer: That wasn't a good idea. You probably just ruined your computer. it's impossible THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOUa;dklfja;sd

ASKER; Is there an easy way I can search for apps on my iPhone by typing in the name?
ANSWERER: First of all, this forum is for unmodified iPhones still serviceable by Apple, not "jailbroken" ones...

People getting excited about thundersnow.