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

There's an advert about gum disease on TV at the moment that goes "you wouldn't ignore blood from any other part of your body". Every time it comes on I want to shout "WHAT ABOUT THE VAGIIIIINAAAAAAAAA?"

Both the advert and my own reaction annoy me.

putting incorrect opening hours on your website should be punishable BY DEATH
Yes I really enjoyed that trudge in the rain to be met with a closed store >:(

Service dogs. Wait, hear me out.

I understand service dogs can perform a multitude of activities. They're not just for blind people. But I keep seeing these pups all over the place with people who don't really appear to have a disability.

Ok, see? This already sounds insensitive. "That person parked in a handicapped space and just sauntered right into Target." Let me finish.

I was at the grocery store, and this woman was holding a Chihuahua in her arms. On its back was this little leather vest with a SERVICE DOG patch on it. The hell kind of service dog do you have when you carry it from place to place? It wasn't being a service anything, not any more than a teddy bear could've been.

So maybe some folks have a dehabilitating case of agoraphobia? Maybe the dog keeps panic attacks and anxiety at bay somehow?

A chihuahua?

Over the weekend, Beeps went to a birthday party at the new trampoline center. It's a wonderful place for kids to come, jump into the air and see how many limbs they can break. (Beeps only managed to sprain her ankle a bit, the amateur.) I'm hanging out on solid ground, watching the scene with a mix of fear and fascination when here comes this guy, this dude, wearing shorts and a white cap. He might have been 30, white guy, around 6'1". Looks pretty healthy. He's walking around the children with his own dog, this lemon-colored lab wearing a leather vest with a large SERVICE DOG patch.

The dog was sniffing around these crates at each picnic table, where the kids put their shoes before they go off to the hopping fields. For a moment, I thought the dog was a bomb-sniffer. It was for a moment what I thought in 2001 that 2014 was going to look like anyway. But wait, come on. Sniffing bombs at the trampoline park? How come I've never seen one of these dogs at a basketball game or the horse track? Then I realized that the guy was looking for a particular pair of shoes. He found them in a crate next to ours and then walked over the gate, waving them at some little girl who was likely popping her arm back into socket.

What the hell. I kid about the girl and her dislocated arm, but maybe the dog was for her and not her dad/uncle/whoever? Can you walk around with a SERVICE DOG that isn't yours?

I don't know. I'm well-aware that service dogs cover a large range of people problems - physical and emotion, easily noticeable or invisible to the naked eye - but really. You had to use a service dog to find a pair of shoes?

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Frustrated-by-Fake-Service-Dogs-208233211.html

'is this a service animal? what is it trained to do?'

So maybe some folks have a dehabilitating case of agoraphobia? Maybe the dog keeps panic attacks and anxiety at bay somehow?

Yes to both! Also seizure dogs. Dude teaching the dog to find shoes by smell (that's pretty awesome) was maybe training a dog for someone visually impaired?

"Pet peeve," can't believe I didn't use that one.

The chihuahua one, like I said, I'm willing to give a pass on all this Internet judgement I'm making. I'm still not sure how that's supposed to work, but if all laws were based on what I understood, then airplanes would never leave the ground.

But the guy at the trampoline park - he's training the dog in public? Having the dog find the shoes that he apparently couldn't find on his own? I even saw him pulling on the dog's leash in a less-than-professional manner (not hurting the dog, but with the leash wrapped around his palm and with a moderate yank.) And if he was training the dog, where were HIS credentials? Seems like you ought to be wearing a badge or something.

I think dogs are great, and would rather see one at the end of my aisle at the movies than a three-year-old human. But like that TV report pointed out, there's plenty of opportunity out there for people to slip in where they're not supposed to.

Oh I don't know, I was just guessing about the shoe-smelling dog. Maybe that guy suffers from anosmia and needs the dog to smell things for him.

Yes, because that is exactly how I found Beeps' shoes when she was finished.

hahaha

A thing that makes me IA that I also have the good grace to feel bad about:

When I take FOREVER to respond to an email, and finally respond to it, and the person replies to me RIGHT AWAY. Like damn I am obviously a shitty correspondent so give me some breathing room or just let it die.

I hate it when I finally send emails to people I owe an email to and they send a huge long reply five minutes later, putting me straight back into debt. It's discouraging and leads to longer and longer silences from me.

-- estela, June 10th, 2005 12:15 AM. (estela) (link)

I do it on purpose sometimes

HIGH FIVE ESTELA

my friend has been a volunteer for the service dog training program before. it's possible the one at the trampoline place was a service dog-in-training, for sure. the guy might have been a shitty trainer, but yeah -- they do the entire last phase of training in public, which is completely necessary for the dogs. dude sounds like a mediocre trainer, though.

some veterans have ptsd dogs and I've heard of special purpose ones who will do things like alert their owner (and people around) if their owner is about to have a seizure

chihuahuas are like the number-one fake service dog, iirc, and get called "emotional support dogs"

It's crazy that I was able to track this down, but it was a Boston Terrier. My mistake.

Suffice to say, this woman is online everywhere talking about how her service dog enjoys protecting its mommy.

Also, this is from her Facebook page.

https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/p526x296/1557642_742408745770304_1614200221_n.jpg

I know, wrong thread.

I'm generally ready to defending people with service dogs for whatever reason, because I figure it's better for a few jerks to abuse the system than to shut somebody out who really needs their animal around, but damn that lady is making it difficult.

Maybe her service dog is to keep her from being a total jerk.

And as I say, I'm not really nagging on her. I'm more irrationally angry about her possibly making her dog something it's not while real service dogs get hard looks. But she and the dog aren't hurting me, I don't care if they shop together in the same food store I shop in. I am going to say it looks ridiculous holding your little doggie up to the frozen foods window and asking it what kind of pizza it wants.

This all comes across as "we should end welfare because some moms are having babies for iPhones on purpose!" so maybe I should just clam up.

Coming from someone else maybe but I think we know you better than that.

maybe the service dog can sniff out aspartame

Only when found in small children's shoes.

but, with all that said, ffs.

Memory Loss,
DAVE SOMMERS

I'm gonna say "people who ask you a yes/no question when you're right there in the room and then don't look at you to see if you nod" even though I know those people would totally be on this thread citing "people who nod in response to a question instead of saying yes or no and maybe don't even look at you first to see if you're looking at them" and that would be just as fair.

But, c'mon, if you're going to talk to someone, look in their general direction for a second after doing so. And don't shove your headphones back on 3 milliseconds after you've stopped talking, because maybe they'd like to say something in reply that takes more than 3 milliseconds to formulate.

(I dunno if I'm extremely mentally slow or just socially out of practice or probably a bit of both, but basically any sentence longer than "yeah" takes me a moment or two to put together)

Full version of Adobe Acrobat will not let you print more than 999 copies

I understand that there has to be a cutoff point but cmon

Why would you want to print out more than, say, five?

holding a raffle?

because we do inhouse printing for clients that send us pdfs that they want like, 1000, or 2000 copies

shouldn't you have pro printing shit for that many and not just be hitting print in acrobat

I think that is the message adobe is sending

If you're working for a print shop of some kind, I guess that's one thing.

But people printing 75 copies from their computer instead of printing one and copying that 74 times at the copier is one of my little office "pet peeves."

Hell, we can even print straight to the copier now, even though no one really knows how.

You guys still have printers at your desks? We have a handful of laser printers in common areas and the printer/copier/collator in the supply/mailbox room.

That's the way it is at my office.

Except I use the printer that's across the building in a different department. I work with a bunch of reporters who figure out a way to jam the printer at least once a week. Besides, I can always use the brisk walk anyway.

I get my pens from the next building over because they have nicer ones.

Same here, except replace "get my pens" with "use the restroom."

if I want to print 1000 copies of a pdf in my office and get angry when I can only print 999, then this is thread to express my rage NOT TO EXPLAIN WHY I AM PRINTING 1000 PDFS IN THE FIRST PLACE

but, since you are nice ppl and not jerks I will tell you that we have a few different printing companies (from small to large) that we outsource almost all of our client jobs to but there are certain jobs that we print inhouse, ie occasionally having to duplex and trim 2000 copies of a pdf.

nah, I'm a jerk :D

Can you use Photoshop instead?

http://i.imgur.com/fwYjGl4.png

bwahaha

btw I am always rationally angry at all software developers, including myself

I'm going to shut up now.

Are you really arguing 74 copies of one original are a better way to go about large batch printing though pp o_0

lol

holy shit I just found out that you can use the mouse wheel or up arrow to increase the print qty beyond 999

let's all hug

lol

ALL THIS FOR NOTHING

No, I get where copying 1999 copies onto 1P from a Xerox should never be called "professional printing."

I just quietly wonder if clicking CTRL + P in Adobe Acrobat is any better.

But I offer this to VG - you still have every right to be IA over having to use a mouse wheel to input a quantitive figure.

When people assume that their experience is typical or indicative of common knowledge. I know everyone does this to an extent, but when people at work say "Someone needs to create a tool that does this tedious task for me" instead of asking others what they do in the same situation and just realizing everyone has a tool already... ungh

also, assuming that because you haven't heard of something, that it might not exist, regardless of how plausible that seems

when you are typing a term into a search box which correctly autocompletes until you type one more letter (which still fits with the autocompleted term) and the suggestion disappears

yessss

aka the Discogs search box

Search Box Beefs

• Fields that already have text in them. Most of the time, it'll say "SEARCH" and disappear when you've put the cursor in there. But there are other times where the word "SEARCH" is in there physically (well, you know what I mean) and you wind up quickly searching for SEARCHheadphones for mac."

• OR it'll auto-finish it by showing you a drop-down of terms, you click on the one you want, and ... nothing happens. You still have to click the little magnifying glass.

• My least-favorite is Google's auto-suggestions where you'll type "Emerson, Lake &" and it asks if you want Emerson Lake & Palmer. You say, fuck yeah, of course I do, and it gives you a search of that term WITHOUT the quotations, so instead, you get results for Emerson OR Lake OR Palmer.