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

(you get the idea)

Feel like I'm in the fucking twilight zone.

350 now

lol

My dad "resents" that I disagree that Split Enz're more musical than the Rolling Stones

Xpost create rule, file to trash

When I get into work in the morning, the cleaning people from the night before always push my trash can WAAAAAY back under my desk and I have to pull it out, every fucking morning. Costing me a valuable 2 seconds every single day.

I'm going to glue it to the fucking floor.

You should be thankful you don't have to work as a cleaning person

It's a hard job.

You could leave a note asking them not to move it

Overly effectively targeted advertising -- the thing where the stuff you just looked at keeps popping up for days in ads on sites -- "Hey what's up, I'm that jacket from Steven Alan you looked at a few minutes ago, remember me?" "Hey, it's me! Jacket again, how's it going?" "Hey, it's Jacket, haven't heard from you in a minute!" "Hey, Jacket here, can we still get dinner some time?"

What's really fun is when you're shopping for someone else and then your computer is plastered with those items you were looking for during the next month.

also when they recommend something based on what you've just bought when what you bought was an expensive item that you'd only ever need one of, like a tv.

"The hemorrhoid cream was for my aging father, damnit, and I already bought a six-month supply!"

I just find something even more invasive about that kind of advertising. It's bad enough to just have ads plastered everywhere, but it's easier to block out when it's for something you don't care about. This is more like constant nagging.

ebay keeps trying to get me to buy things I already own because I used ebay to gauge their value

I get a ton of hair loss ads on my Facebook for some reason. I'm guessing because FB knows I'm in my late 30s? FWIW I am not (yet) losing my hair.

The enduring popularity and ubiquity of Robert Indiana's "Love" -- it's ugly, vapid, pointless, unremarkable in every conceivable way. That "painter of light" guy's popularity is like 10x more conceivable to me than this.

Yeah, that one's always struck me as if someone made a statue of the Keep Calm poster and planted in a major metropolitan park somewhere.

re the targeted ads, Amazon's always trying to flog me 17 different editions of public domain books I already bought from them. Bought one Madame Bovary? You must want all the rest, too.

A new one for me is: "Watch strangers kiss for the first time!" "Watch strangers hug for the first time!"

Yeah, watch me throw my computer out the window the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAnjUhQvGi0

Aaron Alexis and Edward Snowden had Federal security clearances. Yet because my new employer put in my name as "Julie" instead of "Julia," my clearance for a non-sensitive position has been held up for 3 weeks and counting. WAY TO LIVE DOWN THE STEREOTYPES ABOUT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES!

This is just sad. I was shopping around, comparing prices and then moved on to actual work and stuff....

http://i.imgur.com/L8rWZaI.png

... like three days ago.

listen buddy

here's how it works.
I send a proof.
you make changes.
i send back a revised version.
rinse-repeat for however many revisions you need til we get to the right place.
so
when you say LOOKS GREAT!
we're done. you have broken the cycle, we have now completed our dance and I get to change partners.

that's when I send you the final copy, which you know becuase it says FINAL

we DON'T then spend another hour updating more artwork with sporadic emails starting 'hey...'

STOP IT RIGHT NOW OR I WILL WALK UP TO YOUR DESK AND TASE YOU

Do it. Tase him. Do it.

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110317044305/beavisandbutthead/images/4/49/Beavis_uh-huh.jpg

I'm going up there right now

I will contribute to your legal defense fund.

Filled with foaming at the mouth rage on yr behalf, VegGrrl. I've had that scene play out a hundred times. I'm getting kind of reckless and IDGAF in my old age -- I told one advertiser recently "I thought 'ready to print' meant you'd looked at the ad."

the last one was, 'I have (x piece of artwork) if you want it'

I don't think you understand how this relationship works. I don't *want* any of this shit. You apparently *need* it, so are we doing this for your amusement or mine now

Dear UI designers,

If you have ever written a popup dialogue box where the question goes something like "Are you sure you want to cancel?" and the options are "Cancel" and "OK", then you should be shot. That is all.

Yeah, I don't care if OK/Cancel is built into whatever OS or platform, I don't even care (though someone else might) if the alternative is some stupid longwinded sentence like "If you want to x, press Cancel. If you want to y, press OK." But this way you might as well write "Would you like to lose the last hour's work? Guess which tumbler the ball is under!"

accidentally clicking on a wiki.answers link

e.g.

How do you block wiki.answers?

listen buddy

here's how it works.
I send a proof.
you make changes.
i send back a revised version.
rinse-repeat for however many revisions you need til we get to the right place.
so
when you say LOOKS GREAT!
we're done. you have broken the cycle, we have now completed our dance and I get to change partners.

that's when I send you the final copy, which you know becuase it says FINAL

we DON'T then spend another hour updating more artwork with sporadic emails starting 'hey...'

STOP IT RIGHT NOW OR I WILL WALK UP TO YOUR DESK AND TASE YOU

This is the story of my life. Also - if you forget to put essential contact info on your advert, refuse to listen to me when I tell you about paying on time, don't complain when your ad appears late without a contact number. That's your fault.

"excuse me, there's a queue"

well, yes. actually, there are 3 queues, one for the machines, one labelled 'lottery and tobacco' and another which i'm in. if you've queued in the 'lottery and tobacco' lane then i assume that you want either tickets or tabs. if you don't then you are in the wrong queue.

(made worse by the fact that there were 5 people in the wrong queue and 2 of those had joined it after i'd got there. plus only one person serving, at lunchtime.)

Man, a separate line for freaking lottery tickets. Now there's a concept I wouldn't mind seeing brought over here.

We've got that. Really helps when I really need to buy a powerball but there's like a 5 deep line of dorks with sodas.

"excuse me, there's a queue."

"yeah, behind me. just get back there and pray i don't fart."

(i just apologised and moved to the back of the (now longer) queue. but two more staff started serving as i waited so it took no time at all)

wondering why my phone asks me 10 minutes before the standard transition time into BST if I want to update time and date settings then sets them to non-BST. So I woke up this morning trying to work out if the time on my phone was right or wrong since it was the first thing I was going by. Can never remember at the time what the reset to time is supposed to be so wasn't sure fi it had reset or not.

Don't know what dictates when this phone seemingly randomly asks if I want to reset time and date settings or if it is just indeed random. Odd coincidence if it was random that it would ask right at the time (or 10 minutes before) BST normally asks you to reset clocks, which if I'm thinking right is 1am on the transition day.

That was to say my phone asked me if it could update just before it was supposed to do the official time change then effectively didn't/ So instead of updating as expected it remained on the previous thing, - what do you call the alternative to BST anyway BWT? as in British summertime pr wintertime?
I just thought it was looking for me to confirm the update but instead it just wanted to do its random glitch thong.

British summer time (BST) / Greenwich mean time (GMT)

Yeah, should have known that GMT. Just had the phone ask another prompt now that I changed it manually.

google maps. no names on tube stations until you zoom in so close that you can no longer judge how far tube station is from where you are / want to be or whether there's one that's closer.

Charity colectors who hold you up for ages in the street, but can't accept donations, only being willing to sign you up for monthly bank deductions. Get fucked.

^^^

we have some of them permanently camped in front of our office

When this was a newer thing and came off as more of a status brag (before everyone had blackberries or iphones or whatever) my line was "sent from my HELICOPTER"

Had an e-mail saying "sent from my plane" today. From someone who actually has a plane.

People who write 'yer' instead of 'yeah'.

subconscious/habitual public transport percussionists

I was subconsciously doing foot/hand drum patterns on my desk when I read that post

Ever been so angry you're afraid you'll do or say something unforgivable/irreversible/illegal?