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

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.

Sounds like the landlord is expecting me to get rid of several shelving units and large collections of monthly music magazines because he's threatening me with a fire inspector.
same fire inspector seems to be citing some pretty petty regulations about where bins are placed etc which sound like it will eventually mean walking half way across the estate to throw out rubbish.

Being kept awake by extremely itchy feet. Wondering if it's diabetes related. Has woken me up a couple of times this week.
& feeling on edge because of letter from landlord. I don't want to get rid of 20 years of certain magazines which are on shelving in my hallway. Wish I owned my own place so I didn't have to put up with

mb u got bedbugs

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.

― pplains, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:12 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all of those, but also

• Typing a name in Facebook search and hitting return takes you to wall of person top of the list of suggestions instead of a results page. Like it defaults to an "I feel lucky" option.

yeah that's a pain in the arse

The most surprising aspect of Facebook for me personally is that I haven't posted "ILX group" or "rand paul press secretary" as a status update (yet.)

i really hate that the mac keyboard has the cd eject key directly above the delete key. the amount of times that I accidentally hit eject instead of delete is just...i can't... RAGH

I still get irked by their mute key, down volume, up volume configuration. Something like

D   D))   D))))

Half the time I try to turn down the volume, I hit the mute since it's the button on the left. Does that mean the mute should be in the middle or on the right? My suggestion would be for Mac to take a cue from television remotes and put it near those buttons, but not right next to those buttons, and for God's sake, don't use the same icon.

Also, for such a weird company that doesn't want to to things like make the power button visible to the user because there's no need to look at it when it's already turned on, making the mute button a speaker icon with no sound waves is inaccurate since you press the same button to make the volume (and sound waves) reappear.

yeah that whole speaker volume thing was confusing when I first started using mac

and for mute at least use the accepted symbol of the little speaker with an x over it

I thought about upgrading my Time Warner package -- I currently have this weird thing where I just get standard tv (like broadcast) plus HBO (includes 6 HBO channels, HBO on demand, and HBO GO), and supposedly the fastest internet. I wanted to add basic cable for a month so I can watch the NBA playoffs. It wasn't that much more money, but my ONLY choices are a package with DVR (which means they have to come to my house and set up a new box) or a package with no HBO. Fuck that, I don't have time for another bullshit installation. Fuck yr packages.

now I'm in a chat and he's telling me totally different shit from the guy on the phone. I swear they just make stuff up.

I used up all the energy it would take to type about it dealing with it, but I finally came through a two-day ordeal with Comcast at about 6 pm this evening during which I talked to like seven different people none of whom gave consistent (or correct afaict) information.

Well that was fucking weird. After posting that my interns went out all of a sudden but when I turned on my tv I had all these cable channels. I called again and after a ridiculous amount of time and dealing with several people I got my internet back but I still seem to have cable channels even though they have no record if my account being changed. Maybe someone hooked me up?

Lol my internet. I'd never tolerate it if my interns went out all of a sudden in the middle of a cable crisis. They'd be fired at once.

How do you not want a DVR?

I just didn't want to have to have to deal with scheduling an installation just so I could watch the NBA playoffs.

So yeah, I seem to have free cable now? No longer IA. IH.

This is one I think of all the time, but by the time I get back out in the street, I think, Aw, this is too trivial for the IA thread.

But -

My daughter's school parking lot is shaped like a paper-clip. We American drivers go up the right side, drop the kid off at the building on our right and then loop over the oval and come back down the left side back to the street. In the middle of the paper clip are where people actually park their cars.

And every so often, there's the parent in a hurry who'll spot a few empty spaces and instead of going around the extra 30 feet, will cut through the middle coming out on the other side - usually in front of the driver they were just driving in front of.

It's useless, slows everyone down including the driver who now has to yield to oncoming traffic instead of being the oncoming traffic, adds unnecessary weird traffic to an area filled with kids and is just plain dumb.

It doesn't really hurt me at all though, so yeah, I usually forget about it once I'm down at the empty train tracks, sitting behind a school bus who by law has to stop, even though I don't think those tracks have been used since the Civil War.

I follow someone on Twitter who has three children and she tweets a lot about the parents at her kids' school and their inability to follow basic traffic laws, so I think this must be a thing. Based on my two examples. BRB pitching article to the NYT.

Our insurance rep kept handing out two-dollar bills to anyone who happened to have a question. One of our know-it-all employees probably made $8 for not shutting up.

― pplains, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 1:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This guy showed back up today and gave us an hour-long motivational seminar!

Starts off by asking for volunteers. Three people stand up. "Morgan, give those three their $2 bills... So who wants to make $20?"

75% of the company stands up.

Me, I sat right where I was, and felt somewhat justified when he got the volunteers he picked to do push-ups on stage for the $20.

I did get a $2 bill for admitting that I make a to-do list each day, but then it felt dirty when he was all "I do too! In fact, I even keep my bucket list on my to-do list!"

You can't win with some people, but you can make two dollars.

Oh no what if he confuses the two lists and all he manages to do before he dies is pick up the dry cleaning and achieve in-box zero!

Haha, well, I do think that you just wrote my epitaph, minus the dry-cleaning.

Direct debit set ups that change from the way they've been for years where they are more responsive to payments made up to the time the payment is taken to suddenly only recognising anything made 7 working days before. So they go around demanding money already payed and screw up balances one had kept.
Next thing on that slippery slope is bankruptcy. Hopefully avoidable but I can see it coming, not wanting to panic or anything.

It is 2014 and you are a legal professional. Why are you using STATIONARY and a script font in your email?

Also I can't figure out how to turn it off (the place where I should be able to turn it off does not have the option - stupid firm customization) so I'm basically held captive to this fruitloop's blue sky and clouds background for as long as this email gets bounced around.

I work for a publishing company and communicate with different editors who oversee various magazines. They're all great people.

But they get this habit of somehow embedding a thumbnail of their latest cover into their signature, and when I "save all" to retrieve their art attachements online, I always snare that thumbnail in my net too.

I don't get too angry about it, but it does get old.

lately the really silly thing that's gotten me skeeved = food delivery mistakes. Recently I've had a pizza delivery place bring me a sausage and peper sandwich with BBQ sauce on the side (instead of a sandwich w/ BBQ chips), Domino's forgot both waters I ordered, and today I ordered a Powerade and dude brings me a Coke, useless to me cos I don't drink soda much these days.

I mean it's on the receipt yo!

(I generally dislike ordering in but work this last week has kinda forced it)

When you get a really good facebook thread going and your friends are posting funny or awesome additions left and right and you're liking every comment, and then all of a sudden some rando acquaintance comes along and posts something kinda thuddy, but you feel like you have to "like" it too or else it will look kind of mean.

whenever someone (not an acquaintance/friend/family member) mishears you and says "what?"

it just strikes me as extremely rude and dullard-y. like, "excuse me?" or "i'm sorry?" or "could you say that again?" would comprise too many syllables wasted on a scrub like me, so all you can manage is a flat, stupid-sounding "what?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPHuE5pDlEs

Nothing irrational about it, but I'm IA about retail product companies, groceries in specific, trying to sneak smaller package sizes past a public that they assume isn't paying close attention. The latest one I noticed was a 1 lb. pack of hot dogs is now a 15 oz. pack of hot dogs.

o t f m

fucking hate that

stupidly designed stupid fking stupid mop

roller mop, with two screws to secure mophead. replacement mopheads are threaded differently to the goddamn fking screws so the stupid fking mophead won't even stay on for more than one wringout and then you crawl around with a wet mop trying to screw the motherfucking back in and

the worst part is this particular mop is the only thing that has ever come close to cleaning my floor effectively

whhyyyyyyyyyy

dumb old sponge mop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TjHWcxGozk

lol

Let's cool it with the Seinfeld references, internet. It's an over-saturated market.

http://thejuniormint.com/

LOL! Seinfeld wearing Google Glass! How funny!

yeah I also get IA about people not s-ing tfu with the Seinfeld references, and also Jerry himself makes me IA to the extreme