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

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.

I really hate "call me" texts, because I tend to take them as urgent and the degree of urgency is never clear

I generally consider "call me" texts to mean "call me when you have some free time". If it's urgent, I assume the person would just call me.

Let me give Jesse credit - he will tell me whether it's important in the actual text.

I text 'call me' when I can't be sure the person isn't in the middle of something.

Just leave a message or call back later.

When coworker's voicemail message says "leave your name & the time you called"

technically I need not do either, but I will give my name bc it's polite... but ffs our phone system timestamps every goddamn message, why do I need to tell you the bloody time

might be a holdover from the bygone days of cassette answering machines.

it's kind of adorable, my best friend still timestamps all of his voicemails to me and my phone already tells me when he called. but that's just his professional demeanor for the most part.

mighta said this one already but bears repeating - I'm real glad that you want to brag about your sold out show, mr. Local Theatre owner, but it tends to be less impressive when your theatre seats a whopping 35 people.

also, when you respond to everybody's theatre invite with a "Break a leg from _______ Theatre", everybody knows you're doing it to secretly pimp your own theatre.

so one of my close friends decided to have a b'day dinner tonight, which is the same night of the Eyehategod show that I've been looking forward to for months (and already have tickets to). my friends *teased* me about picking the show over my friends good naturedly, but then I sat there for 30 minutes writing the "Oh I can't make it" response out of fear of offending someone when really it's like "fuck it, I had these tickets in advance, it isn't the guy's actual birthday today, and he has missed my b'day dinners before".

the IA? I dunno, at me for always overthinking stuff like this? lol

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

― pplains, Friday, June 20, 2014 10:39 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jesse just did that to me yesterday.

― carl agatha, Friday, June 20, 2014 10:42 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hey! That's not right. I said to call me when you had time b/c I had some interesting and exciting gossip that would best be shared with you via talking. And I did that out of respect for your time. (I learned my lesson some time ago that it's not cool to simply say "call me.")

Oh, sorry, I rushed to defend myself and then went back and read your post giving me credit.

Anyway, please call me tomorrow b/c I have some interesting and somewhat exciting informational gossip about one of our close friends that I would like to talk with you about.

call me

You are very respectful of my time, it is true. I'll try to call you l8er - work is bananas and the baby is home today which means

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The fact that, for the past ten years, 90% of mens' jeans seem to have some kind of ridiculous douchebaggy "wash"

Like with the fade marks where the jeans manufacturer thinks your knees should be?

First GIS result for "jeans"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Jeans_for_men.jpg

In an attempt to be able to compose things and hold a baby who is really into being held a lot right now, I turned on the speech recognition (I'm on a Mac but for work use Citrix to access Windows) and here is what the computer thought I was saying when I said "Date of Claim":

They took laying a wreath luck in getting the
Each of cleaning
Eight
Dates of playing
Dates of Clayton went on new dir new era new paragraph
It’s
Date of clay

("a wreath luck in getting the" was me saying "What the fuck?" after "They took laying.")

lol

not so much 'angry' as much as edgy but I hate when a number of small things don't go as they are supposed to, because even though individually they're not big deals, my brain processes multiple unresolved things by wigging out (one of the things I'm actually working on in my therapy sessions). like for instance, this week:

*my therapist failed to show for my appointment today. she had mentioned last week she might have to miss due to a personal matter and that she'd call/email me if so, but never did. I still got charged for the session tho. also found out I've been overcharged by $5 a session without realizing it (not intentionally, just an error on her part).

*repair man has left us in the dark for two weeks about our dryer which has been making an unrelenting squealing noise, and last we heard he was getting a new part

*I couldn't figure out how to set up Microsoft Lync or LiveMeeting to share audio through a presentation, so now I have to gamble and go into the office tomorrow and hope a polycom plus really big cpu speakers do the trick, except I have no way of knowing whether I can get them in time by 9 am.

All three innocuous things yet together they feel like an UNRESOLVED MORASS OI BRAIN UNPACK, I SAY, UNPACK!

Suddenly becoming allergic to superglue due to having used a lot of superglue recently when I still have a whole lot of supergluing to do

-cheap shoes
-plastic knives
-phone apps that don't close properly
-pollen

got told I couldn't enter a bar last night cos my shirt had the sleeves removed (it's like 95 degrees here, every little bit helps). apparently they have a policy barring men from wearing sleeveless shirts of any type, including wifebeater undershirts etc. Is this a common thing or is this bar just weird?

I was somewhat annoyed, especially since this isn't posted anywhere for you to know until they tell you, but I had another shirt I could put on so w/e.

undershirts I get, but like even track outfits and/or designed sleevelesses aren't ok either!

That video of random people slapping each other - now with a behind the scenes video!! Wow finally I can watch random people doing something on the internet, with lots of jump cuts, that is something I have never seen before.

I told you an hour earlier that that document is with my immediate supervisor, for his review. Why are you calling me again about it?

The phrase "[X] whisperer" for all values of X.

x='whisper'?

I'll tell you who makes me IA - those folks who always rush to say things like "now, we've only heard one side of the story, don't be a tool of the media and rush to judgment" in terms of a news report that initially appears one-sided. Not so much the idea that one should consider 'both sides', which is a fair statement, but the fact that it is often applied in situations where, even though the accused might not have given their statement, there are sufficient contextual clues or factual details revealed that make one feel comfortable picking a side without having to wait for the inevitable coached statement the accused makes.

Is there a "The ways stupid people try to sound smart" thread? Cuz that's definitely on the list.

35 seat theater sounds really adorable and cozy

It has uncomfortable chairs with hard backs (the type you sit in at a kitchen table)

also entering a row involves thwacking into people violently as the rows are shoved so close together

rain on my cozy theater dream why don't you?

lol sry

that is not a theater, it is a room with chairs and a film projector in it