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

I loved Kubrick's version of the The Shining *because* it wasn't faithful to the book. I got burned early on by 'faithful' adaptations of his books and god how they sucked (hi Pet Semetary), so I was doing fucking cartwheels over Kubrick's version when I finally was able to see it.

Better than the book: Kurosawa's High and Low. But I'll save any others for that future thread.

The needless addition of digital elements to everything. The oven in our new place doesn't look more than a few years old, but it's already going haywire because of problems in the electronics. Why do I need a digital device merely to set the temperature of an oven?

people wearing merchandise from the chive

drivers, you are in a dark space behind shiny glass that's angled upwards. i look at you and all i can see is the sky reflected off the windscreen, i cannot see you waving me across by moving one finger an inch off the steering wheel.

why are you waving me across anyway? i stopped to wait for you. it's a road, i'm crossing it, it's the rules. and i'd rather cross behind you anyway. if you then stop to wait for me then you're wasting both our time.

(but nice to know you're paying attention, especially near a school)

Pedestrians can read turn signals too!

Wait, are you using a crosswalk? Or just cross the road at a random spot?

if you are a pedestrian, then you have the right of way by law. SO FUCKING TAKE IT. do not gesticulate lamely like a halfwit. FUCKING GO! if you do not, you are fucking things up for everybody. but mostly me.

if you are a driver, and you have the right of way, then TAKE IT. do not wave meekly or do some kind of psychic brain check to see whether i would rather have the right of way. FUCKING GO!

Fortune favors the bold.

Or you get hit by a car and die.

point is, when you are on the road, no kind of human interaction is EVER necessary in order to settle questions of coming and going. the law either gives you the right of way or it doesn't. if it does, then TAKE IT. NOW. WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT. if it doesn't, then please wait your turn. i promise it won't be long coming.

yes, and that means you do have to risk getting hit by cars. we live in the future, people! cars are the least of your worries.

i'm sure ppl getting hit by cars are v happy they didn't witness the stock market crash?

contenderizer OTM OTM OTM.

If you're standing on the corner with a finger hooked into your bottom lip, trying to ascertain whether or not you should proceed across the intersection even though traffic has stopped in all four directions waiting for your next move, then perhaps you should consider either never leaving your apartment again or moving way the fuck out to the country where there are no confusing crosswalks.

LIKEWISE, if you are driving an automobile, every rule of the road that you bend so that you can be some sort of four-wheeled Good Samaritan is inconveniencing other drivers and pedestrians who are playing by the rules behind you. Good Lord, yes, stop for the pedestrians who have the right-of-way, but don't sit there on your microfibered throne and try to wave or motion or point at anyone to move when they're not really supposed to.

> if you are a pedestrian, then you have the right of way by law. SO FUCKING TAKE IT.

not just randomly crossing the road you don't. it wasn't a pedestrian crossing or anything. i'm not going to step into the road in front of a moving car. are you trying to get me killed?

Someone I know was waved across the road by a driver a couple of months ago and got hit by a car coming along the other lane. Knocked 30ft through the air and broke a bunch of bones. Woulda been killed if his rucksack hadn't somehow cushioned his head from the road. Kind of his fault for not looking but drivers do this ALL THE TIME.

The whole waving someone out of turn is horrible. Even when there aren't pedestrians involved.

There's a grocery store on my way home with an access 50 feet from a stoplight on a five-lane road. People are always trying to edge out of there to turn left. When the light turns red, you'll get people who'll stop a car length behind the next one, opening up a spot for the grocery store people. But those GSP have to somehow wait for the PERFECT COMBINATION SWISS CHEESE EFFECT to take place in which ALL FIVE LANES MIRACULOUSLY FREEZE and open up a spot. It's not going to happen and more often than not, one of the outer lane cars will wave a grocery store person out who will then get hit by someone traveling in the inside lane.

I realize having to wait an extra 30 seconds is horribly inconvenient for drivers but yeah as a pedestrian weighing that vs., I dunno, paralysis or death, and you can wait your 30 seconds guys. Jeez.

I'll wait for a pedestrian to cross the street. I'm not going to park in the middle of the road and spend 30 seconds waving someone out to come join me from the sidewalk.

Yeah, I have seen drivers waving people (pedestrians and turning drivers) across traffic when they were in one of two lanes, and there was no one waving in the second lane. wtf, are they waving you past their car into certain doom?

Trickery

(i'm not that fussed about the waiting tbh, it happens in doorways too, it's people wanting to be the most polite. it's more the invisible finger waving that annoys me, irrationally)

(wasn't there something about the POTUS(?) and someone else not wanting to be the first through a door?)

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/11/21/bush2_wideweb__470x358,0.jpg

-things that are slightly difficult to open (medicine bottles, kids toy packaging, battery covers with tiny screws, etc.)

(xp & presidential exits, etc)

Kids toys are a nightmare now. Every little piece bolted into place with those plastic traps. Battery lids no longer pop off. The worse ones are Furbees that DON'T HAVE AN OFF SWITCH. You have to "tell" it to turn off by saying "goodnight."

Here's my IA submission for the day:

http://i.imgur.com/p1oEQRH.jpg

Hey, Mars Inc.? If I had wanted to buy a bag of M&Ms, I would've bought a bag of M&Ms.

We live on a pretty busy street that I have to cross to get to and from the bus stop. There are painted cross walks but not stop signs and even though cars are supposed to stop for pedestrians at crosswalks, it's rare. Sometimes, though, especially when I'm trying to get across the street with an adorable baby strapped to me, people will stop but then just as often, the driver behind the car that stops will whip around and try to pass the stopped car on the right.

This intersection has done more to make me militantly anti-car than anything else in my life.

Also that picture (any picture) of GWB makes me IA.

so annoyed with toys that talk, particularly the ones that automatically say something after a couple of minutes of inactivity, as if they think the child has somehow forgotten about them.

Hammer's got that mean teddy bear from Toy Story 3, so every once in awhile, I'll hear the disembodied voice of Ned Beatty announce from inside his closet, "Have you forgotten about me?"

There's one of those KEEP CLEAR sections near work that allows cars to make a left turn from the median into a small strip mall. You know the ones, where it's basically so that if the traffic is completely backed up they have to leave room for you to turn in or out. But no-one really has to observe that section if the traffic is flowing normally, you just wait for a clear spot and turn, nbd.

But every now and then there'll be a really stupid driver who will treat that 'keep clear' section as a stop sign and literally come to a halt in normal traffic and try wave you through. Meanwhile the other lane of traffic is just whizzing on by. And this car is getting pissed at you because you're not going and you're trying to point to the other lane of traffic til you're like ENOUGH WITH YOUR WAVING YOU MORON ARE YOU TRYING TO FUCKING KILL ME

ugh

I have discovered that any time anyone (other than a trained flagger) waves you ahead, they have no clue if it is safe or not; they just want you out of their hair and lazily start waving you on.

yeah pretty much

It's not going to happen and more often than not, one of the outer lane cars will wave a grocery store person out who will then get hit by someone traveling in the inside lane.

omg i HATE this. now, in general, if I'm leaving a grocery store, I will only wait to try and reach the center or left lane if there is absolutely nobody behind me waiting patiently. however, that happens a lot.

and then this person stops in the lane closest to me to let me out, and of course I don't go because that's not where I'm trying to land, and the driver looks at me angrily because I didn't accept his goodwill gesture, nevermind the fact that people are zipping by him in the lanes adjacent to him and would t-bone me if I jumped in front of them.

you're basically making a promise you can only keep 1/3rd of!

When you hang out w friends and they got to the store and buy cigarettes and then an hour later ask you to buy them beer because they have no money.

when you're in line for something and you're momentarily distracted and don't immediately notice the teller/agent has become available, and instead of telling you 'excuse me, sir' to get my attention, the people behind you decide you're no longer in line and cut in front of you to get to the agent.

happened last night at check-in for a casino cruise and it infuriated me - I literally turned my head for two seconds, right as they became free, and four people in a party cut in front of me w/out apology.

hex screws or whatever you call them that won't budge despite being soaked in WD40 for hours and subsequently mean you can't use the sewing machine you need to finish things on.
Wonder if I'm missing anything here. Would the hex turn in the same direction as a normal screw or what? Just don't seem to be able to get it to budge.

Does it need something attached perpendicular to the shaft of the hex key to give leverage and thereby be able to move it? Doing my head in. Was hoping to get a pair of jeans finished which are well underway.

Seems the needle bar on my sewing machine got shifted 5mm from where it was in sync with the bobbin thread and now the machine no longer sews since the timing is off. Couldn't work out why I couldn't catch the thread from the bobbin when I tried to thread the thing yesterday and then having actually managed to hook the thread I tried to sew a test piece of the material I was using for a shirt only to find that solely the upper thread had stitched. Actually that's a bit weird itself since if timing was ff you'd expect there to be nothing to hook that down and it all to come back up with no trace apart from needle holes as it did later.

So new pastime which I am improving on needs to be put on hold until I can get this to shift. Or somehow come across an alternative machine.

hex keys are traditionally right-angled so you can apply some torque, yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_key

i hate when at work, someone instant messages you to ask if you have a moment to chat, and you say 'yes', and they immediately ask if they can call without any information on what the call is about.

well, perhaps I could answer that question if I knew what the hell you were calling me about - so I could determine how long it will take or if I'm even the right person to talk to!

A coworker at my old job used to email me blank emails that just said "r u in" in the subject line. I refused to respond to those because come the hell on.

-waiting in the barbers and they're taking ages tidying up what look like perfectly finished haircuts to me

I can see that for a complex hair styling but when they're doing it on a regular run of the mill haircut like mine, it almost seems to me like they're too nervous to say 'all done'.

this happened on my last haircut, where the lady would finish only to retouch something a second later and then I got home and realized she had shaved off a solid strip of hair off on my left side about one inch above the ear whereas she hadn't done that on the right and it looked ridiculous.

A coworker at my old job used to email me blank emails that just said "r u in" in the subject line. I refused to respond to those because come the hell on.

― carl agatha, Friday, June 20, 2014 10:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf

is she trying to conduct mob deals via email?

These are standard guy cuts. Short back and sides some off the top. Sometimes a guy just wants less hair.

I get emails like that from an executive vp at work.

is she trying to conduct mob deals via email?

She was really into ~work drama~ and the dissection and perpetuation thereof and was not very smart? So she mostly wanted to tell me about some perceived slight she suffered at the hands of a coworker and did I think she could file a grievance/complain to management.

She took on some public school related issue in behalf of her kids and won and was featured in the paper and she kind of took that to mean she was a crusader for justice and was thus insufferable.

She was actually pretty funny and good company when she wasn't on a mission from a God (so like twice in the five years I worked with her).

My dad will text me messages that say "call me."

Jesse just did that to me yesterday.

hex keys are traditionally right-angled so you can apply some torque, yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_key

― koogs, Friday, June 20, 2014 12:16 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think the Hex keys I have were given to me by Maplin's when I bought a hard drive some years ago. Those ones are straight with a handle, possibly for use on a computer which would presumably be more delicate.
I hadn't linked Hex keys to being the same thing as allen keys until I was looking in a shop this afternoon and found them to be a reverse L shape as standard, think I was thrown by the set I already had which were the only things I'd come across calling themselves hex keys to that point. I bought a pair of those with the short shaft and long handle but have yet to try the one on the problem nut. Hopefully it will shift as soon as I apply it.

yeah, shifted in about 30 seconds once I used the right angled one.

Now to get myself acquainted with all the rest of the world of everyday tools I think I already know but actually only have not very useful approximations of with inherent design flaws etc.