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

Nothing irrational about this but I'm going to vent anyway -- getting a bill on Thursday that's due on Monday.

Maybe this has been mentioned before, but people in the office in front of whom you can't eat anything without them wanting to know what it is or asking questions about it. Seriously, I often think it's a fixation for some people.

I used to work with this woman who was super obsessed with my eating habits, particularly yogurt. Like it was some kind of exotic foodstuff.

But yeah that is super annoying and intrusive. As someone with a history of ~issues~ with eating/food it was (much much less now thanks to all that therapy and the DNGAF-ness of getting older) dare I say triggering to have someone get all up in my eating business.

I do take some satisfaction when a co-worker shrieks "OH, Pleasant Plains! THAT. SMELLS. SOOOOO GOOD!"

And I'm all like "Thanks, it's Stouffer's."

http://www.name-list.net/img/images.php/Stouffer_2.jpg

new mug, btw, is 20% larger and 50% heavier than the last one - years of by-eye measurements of milk and water out the window.

seriously when are we going to get rid of daylight savings time? I will vote for a political party that promises to abolish it.

I'm quitting life if we do. I'd never make it through winter. Or I could just move to San Diego.

xxposts "Oooh, what have you go there, Charlie?", "It's a new thing, it's called a sandwich".

I mean, seriously, you're not going to eat it, it's not balut or some other weird delicacy, so why are you interested? I was going to eat this alone in the canteen instead of at my desk PRECISELY because I didn't want to have people commenting on the fact I was actually EATING food.

Needless to say that my reaction this morning was well overproportioned.

You know, Jeff, the day doesn't actually get longer by futzing the clocks around.

I got to wake up two children in the dark this morning after a solid month of a.m. sunshine. It'll be a SAD day when some kid gets hit by a car at a bus stop this week.

http://www.heinzvinegar.com/products-cleaning-vinegar.aspx

CLEANING VINEGAR

Which is just vinegar pre-mixed with water for more money than a huge jug of plain vinegar costs.

Fuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

there was talk of obama admin abolishing daylight savings time but there was some resistance and they decided that abolishing daylight savings time wasn't the kind of thing they wanted to expend any political capital on

OBAMA WANTS TO TAKE YOUR LAST NINE HOLES AWAY. SIGN THIS PETITION TO IMPEACH THE KENAYN.

xxp For tough stains, apply undiluted Cleaning Vinegar directly on the stain.

So, uh, you're saying some pour some regular vinegar on the floor?

Also, Heinz making cleaning products is fucking weird. Like finding Dettol-branded baked beans.

xxxxxxpost

I've made no claims to the days actually being longer as a result of DST. I simply enjoy the increased daylight after work hours. Nearly all my outside activity is during these hours. To have potential sunshine later in the evening does wonders for my mood, especially in this dumb permawinter. I'd be okay with the time never changing, but I would want to keep the DST hours all year long.

xp http://www.unilever.co.uk/aboutus/introductiontounilever/

better link: http://www.unilever.co.uk/brands-in-action/view-brands.aspx?view=AtoZ

all unilever products: cif, bovril, ben and jerrys, domestos, cornetto, persil...

I'd prefer the clock to stay the same, whether it's standard time or the artificial daylight time. All year 'round.

My compromise would be for them to go back to the April to October model. At least if they waited until Easter, there'd still be some daylight in the mornings.

xp Yeah, I'm aware enormous multinationals have a lot of different products, cheers - it's the mixup between beans-and-ketchup brand Heinz and cleaning products that seems odd to me. Unilever don't make Domestos ice cream or Ben and Jerry's washing powder, do they?

DST doesn't deserve more than 24 hours of anyone's attention, 2x yearly. More than that makes me IA.

Having to get up in the morning when it's still dark is way more depressing to me than not having any daylight when I come home from work. It's even worse trying to get your kids to wake up and trying to convince them it's morning when it's still dark outside. Also they have to inexplicably go to bed an hour earlier. I told my 5 year old son that "this is because of the government".

xxxxp

Come on, give me at least 48. 24 for the day it happens, and another 24 for the first workday.

Haha, I told Beeps the same thing. "Congress says we must do it this way."

"Also they have to inexplicably go to bed an hour earlier. I told my 5 year old son that "this is because of the government"."

LOL I am so going to tell Ivy this when she's old enough.

She'll understand the beauty of DST and won't mind.

the design of the new $100 bills

So that is new.

I saw those for the first time this morning and thought, boy, it has been awhile I guess since I've seen a $100 bill.

i've given up on large currencies looking normal again in my lifetime

The Samsung Galaxy s4. Is there anything about this overrated lump of plastic that doesn't suck?

It plays FLAC. When it feels like it.

i've given up on large currencies looking normal again in my lifetime

Or coins.

If you asked me what's on the back of the 2014 penny, I'd have no answer for you.

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

..in any movie, stop it already.

No, I am not going to watch "Between to Ferns". Watching this guy with a beard act awkward is not funny to me. I saw enough Space Ghost Coast to Coast when I was a teen, and this stuff is just a pale ripoff.

I dig the humor and watched it. My contribution to this thread though is listening to my co-workers, fellow members of the liberal media, guffawing and chortling through the whole thing.

They were using headphones and were at different points in the video, so the it was like 17 minutes of silence broken up by hee-hee's every eight seconds. Pretty much what I expect someone with a paranoia hallucination disorder to go through daily.

The start of DST is maybe my favorite recurring event of every year. I can't think of another -- no holiday or anything -- that even comes close.

People who say you're being "negative" when you cite an objective fact about the poor chances of something working out.

so not gonna happen

I think I have IA'd about this before but it's so irrationally infuriating it needs a reprise:

sections of freeway that get scraped and new lanes are marked out perfunctorily and then they are just left that way for years without ever being resurfaced or even repainted

I am looking at YOU hwy 50 between Sac + Folsom

I hate the noise the tires make on the weird scraped surface, I hate the way the grading makes the steering drift weirdly, I hate that when the sun is in my eyes I can't tell what fucking lane I'm in and if there's one thing I *want* my fucking taxes to pay for it's goddamn roads goddammit

hell it's not even irrationallly infuriating, it's just straightup infuriating

not irrational (not important, either) but the thing in internet headline writing where it goes basically "some weird person on the internet did some weird thing and you want to see it!" h8 h8 h8. i know these things have to be clickbaity and a lot of that genre of usually-fandom-related-arts-and-crafts shit is "person does thing because they are able to", but a good deal of the time there's quality or purpose or substance there, often the person behind it will come out and say "this is what i was trying to do w/this" and this might even be reflected in the tiny blurb preceding the link or embed, but those titles set up the discourse so everyone goes into it like "oh man, what wacky shit's the internet come up with today!" and someone inevitably has to chime in with "well actually, this is pretty [_____]"

most of it is just me being really sick of all the "someone knitted game of thrones characters into breaking bad leslie knope butthole dan chihuly pageclicks pageclicks pageclicks" shit that is 100% annoying and that mindset creeping into all aspects of everything i am also a snob i guess

otm. It's basically crowd-sourced advertising, exploiting fans for free labor/promotion/etc

ppl who speed down a merge lane like it's a new freebie lane that no-one's using & and then bail out at the last minute ASSHOLES I HATE THEM

You mean people who use a merge lane for all of its length and then merge when the lane ends?

yes

but that sounds less annoying

People who make apopleptic comments on top ten ______ lists like "how could you possibly include x and not y!"

thatlol.org which is a facebook spam site that lures you in to look at a photo to see what is wrong with it, then hits you with dialogue boxes when you go to look including one that allows it to post to your feed as though it is you. I don't know how to stop it sending things out now. It was stupid of me to ok a not fully read dialogue box obviously if that is what triggered this.
But can't see how to undo it since it is posting under my name. I complained to Facebook staff some weeks ago but its been ignored and now I'm getting messages about Justin Bieber etc spammed out on my feed as though they have my byline. Very annoying.

The 300 and rising number of people at work who are replying to a global mailing list telling everyone "stop replying to this email please"

and really, it doesn't matter how you word your email YOU ARE STILL ADDING TO THE PROBLEM!!

"By now it should have been clear. Multiple emails have been sent requesting the same thing "please don't reply to all". Hope it's simple enough english to understand."

This is my favourite so far though

"Merci de stopper ce massacre
Cela nous empeche de travailler correctement !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

(it was a world wide email btw)