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

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

really dumb things to get worked up about, but largely has to do with the fact that I hate 75% of the people who live in our condo complex.

-People who get the mail, and instead of pulling over to the curb right next to the mail, they park right next to the card reader that lets you into the gate. Meaning that basically nobody else can use it until they're done getting their mail. Yeah it's maybe a 2 minute delay but it smacks of 'ey fuck you guys, this is MAH card reader!".

-you have to have both a wristband and a gate card to get into the gym (kind of stupid, but w/e). this one guy there refuses to get a gate card, even tho you need it to get into the gate. so he enters the gym either by cutting through the office, which isn't allowed, or by going to the entrance, knocking on the door, and asking one of us to let him in...which we're not technically allowed to do. when I mentioned the card to him he's like "ehh I don't got one, I do tihs all the time". don't really feel like losing my gym privileges (since the folks in the office tend to be meticulous w/ rule enforcement), so next time I'm gonna pretend I don't hear him.

I could not live in a gated community/complex. My sympathies.

the raccoons are the worst part of it. they're everywhere due to the heavy amount of trees in the complex and they ain't scared of nothin'. and they usually inhabit the area near the mail unit because there's a trash can there and assholes throw McDonald's bags in it instead of mail which attracts them.

One night it was like 1 am, and I was just gettin home from an out of town concert, and wanted to get the mail. I walk towards it, and there's a raccoon, who has knocked over the trash can. I see it and am all like "o it's probably more scared of me than vice versa". So I walk towards it slowly, and initially it backs up.

Then I take another step and it stays put, gets on its hind legs, sizing me up, and hisses.

Nope...mail next day. No sir.

I live in a place that's been the butt of a few jokes, but listen, I've got to throw this stone anyway:

But gated community, aggressive wildlife, assholes who hold up traffic by doing things like reading the mail... throw a handgun in there somewhere (maybe give it to the raccoon) and you've got the perfect postcard of snapshot of Florida, at least in my mind.

I could not live in a gated community/complex. My sympathies.

Jeff and I lived in a gated community in NC for about six months. I was adjusting to life in the south, particularly wrt my stereotypically aggressive northern style driving and people slow poking through the gate drove me crazy. One day two cars were involved in the slightest of fender benders, more of a love tap, and instead of pulling over to exchange info they stayed in the one lane gate entrance while cars backed up behind them. I lost my shit and started yelling about god damn redneck idiots and then realized my window was down.

They moved though so no regrets.

But gated community, aggressive wildlife, assholes who hold up traffic by doing things like reading the mail... throw a handgun in there somewhere (maybe give it to the raccoon) and you've got the perfect postcard of snapshot of Florida, at least in my mind.

lol can't argue w/ that

I lost my shit and started yelling about god damn redneck idiots and then realized my window was down.

heroic moment IMO

the one time I got rationally angry in this complex is that two women were 'walking' their dog around the entrance of the community while they threw their trash into the dumpster. I use scare quotes because the morons didn't even leash the dog, which on two occasions darted out in front of cars.

Instead of picking the dog up and being all like 'wow this is a bad idea', they laughed as if it was cute, like he pooped in someone's shoe. being a former dog owner and animal lover I couldn't relax until I finally saw them take the dog back through the pedestrian entrance, safe from harm. Assholes.

The closest I've been to a home association/gated community would be apartment complexes or the time I lived in a building of condos. Oddly, the condo building was worse due to the fact the apartment complex actually had some long-time occupants and a general sense of community. The condo complex was older retired couples with nice plants on their patios, young (often coupled) people who thought of it as a starter home, and renters who didn't seem to give a fuck about anything.

The renters, sensing they would never be part of the community, just fucked around and let empty beer cans fall off their balcony and had weird comings-and-goings at all times of the night.

instead of pulling over to exchange info they stayed in the one lane gate entrance while cars backed up behind them.

Whenever I'd see those signs on the Chicago interstates that say something like "IN CASE OF ACCIDENT, MOVE CARS TO REPORTING ZONE", I'd think "Aw, they're thinking of me."

throw a handgun in there somewhere (maybe give it to the raccoon)

If you really wanted to see a human (and canine) genocide, you'd hand them out to the squirrels.

my friend claims to have been attacked by squirrels once

there was just too many of 'em

http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/Jedi%20Squirrels.jpg

bahaha

They love screaming at me and the dogs.