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

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

10:30 pm: I have gone to bed in an attempt to get 8 hours of sleep, but instead I am sleeplessly tossing and turning. 10:30 am the next morning, at the office: I am fighting to stay awake. ATTENION BODY: Y U NOT ABLE TO TAKE REST WHEN REST TIME AVAILABLE?

Our cats sleep/recline/lay on the floor almost the entire day/night, but during the hours 5am-9am they turn into WWE bodyslammers and are running up and down the halls wrestling w each other. And of course they go to sleep immediately after we get up for work.

people using "thx" in their communiques

people using "communiques" in their posts, thx

gay men being "grossed out" by vaginas

It makes me IA when I'm walking to work with my earphones in and for whatever reason my hand accidentally gets caught on the wire and rips them out with an egregious POP sound. Then I have to go through the rigmarole of fast-walking (because I'm running late) and retrieving the earphones from dangling somewhere down in front just out of my line of vision.

when you're mass transfering data from one hardrive to another and something causes the process to stop at a point you can't really tell. So you get left with folders and folders of files you're not sure have fully transferred or are only nominally there and would read as corrupt if you tried to use them. As far as I can tell once a file starts to transfer it will look like it is in the space it is supposed to be moving to but will not actually be fully there.

not sure how you check without running checksums on individual small folders you have a checksums file for. & that is really time consuming, particularly if you're moving major GBs of data.

So you go back and start trying to retransfer the files, not knowing if the drive you're transferring from because its gotten iffy is going to crash again.
Funtime nothing but funtime.

I bought a book about making baby food. Great! But the author gives cutesy names to all of her "recipes," like GREENIE BEANIES which is green beans steamed unto mush and pureed in a food processor. That's barely a recipe, much less something that needs a name other than GREEN BEANS. Also BANANA 'CADO, which, can you possible even guess???? is banana and avocado mashed up together.

ugh

Squishy Squashy

I generally hate anything that implies having a baby = becoming a baby

Yeah. How things are all about "mom," like "Tear-free formula makes bath time easier for mom!" Fucking fuck fuck fuck fuck.

lol @ mom

btw phrase I hate (and I imagine there must be a lot of women who hate it about 10x more): "Mommy Porn"

a vendor at a nearby farmer's market was selling some wine of dubious provenance called "MOMMY'S TIME OUT"

glass the prick

i just want people to stop saying they love, love, love things

people who say the most obvious and least helpful thing to a friend who is frustrated. I have a pal who is relatively down on his luck financially, but working full time, just sans vehicle. and our bus system sucks and often show up late (or sometimes, not at all).

so he posts lamenting this on a few occasions and asking if he can get a ride to work due to the latest bus fiasco, only to have the same dim-brain tell him "wow, you really need to move closer to Universal" (which is where he works). Sure, never mind that moving is expensive and time consuming, requires finding a place and going through an application process, and possibly breaking your current lease. Nope, that's the solution!

Our landlord and the woman who cleans our house are great people, and I like them both so when the downstairs neighbors moved out and used a Groupon to hire a fly by night cleaning service to do a terrible job cleaning, and the landlord complained about it, I offered to connect our landlord with the housecleaner for a mutually beneficial relationship!

Sounds simple! Except it's turned into this back and forth bargaining with me as the middle person, and I am communicating with the landlord by text and the housecleaner by phone (and her primary language is Polish and my only language is English, which adds to the challenge) and it's not over yet because I've already called her three times today and now he wants an estimate of what it will cost excluding windows and I can't deal with it so I'm totally waiting until I think I'll get her answering machine or until I have a couple of afternoon beers.

The IA part is about when you think you're doing some good people an easy favor and end up sucked into a pain in the ass situation when all you wanted to do was throw a little business your cleaning lady's way and get your landlord out of a jam.

a vendor at a nearby farmer's market was selling some wine of dubious provenance called "MOMMY'S TIME OUT"

― clouds, Thursday, 3 July 2014 22:57 (3 days ago) Permalink

Did the label depict a mom sprawled on the floor with spirals for eyes and her tongue hanging out?

i also hate "maxi-dresses." the garment and the name both.

Name and possibly the style are like direct pendular swing responses to the mini dress. So I wonder what they would have been called if they weren't born out of that reaction, or if in fact they would have come into being

ice-chewers

hate hate hate haaaaaate

can't look up symptoms @ heath websites without being bombarded by health ads engineered to be as disgusting as possible

do you have ENORMOUS WORMS GROWING OUT OF YOUR EYES or A PENTAGRAM BURNED ONTO YOUR DICK? click here you fucking piece of shit

It's not working for me :(

people who "hate curry" ("curry" is a loose amalgamation of endless permutations of spice blends that exist in different forms in different countries; it's like "hating air" because someone farted next to you once)

also, ppl who won't eat indian food because their mom once brought home a jar of terrible yellow curry powder from the supermarket and now that's what ALL curry is

I used to hate "curry" as a kid, exactly because it was just the horrible gloop my mum made on Tuesdays, but I've never known an adult make the same claim. Would be pretty annoying.

sometimes that yellow gloop is a treat tho

Even at it's worst Curry is awesome, especially in comparison to euro-gloop.

My mother has an otherwise adventurous palate but since the Lexington Avenue Food Poisoning Incident of 1965, refuses Indian food.

curry in my parents house for 20 years was 'curried sausages' ie chutney, sausages & some curry powder.

-this, everywhere

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When you go to the bar to get a drink...come back to find that a friend of yours stole it and there arent any other available and upon returning he waits 20 mins to give it back

Oops...it being the seat not a drink

the bluetooth remote we use with the ps4 has a hair trigger when playstion is off. accidentally bump the remote, move it, handle it wrong or touch any button by mistake & on comes the playsation. makes me raaage

Browsing Amazon's "Selected CDs Under £5" category as their recent spamblast urged me to, except half of them cost over £5 and are still in the under £5 category

Amazon's search results piss me off regularly. They allow a lot of miscategorization and the prices are never restricted to the range you select.

The landlord changing the bins on the estate over from individual household bins to 2 major dumpsters this week. This coincides with the hottest time of the year so I'm really not looking forward to having to deal with the bin that food waste goes into, normally bad enough dealing with my own at this time of the year when it's only emptied once every 2 weeks. Normally meant a swarm of flies swarming every time the lid was opened and a rancid pool at the bottom. Now there is exponentially more stuff going to be in the dumpster & I('m not sure for how long.
Would [prefer it if food waste was going to compost system as the old system we had up til last year had it. The council compost system is apparently running very well and is certainly not going to landfill. hate the lack of autonomy over something like that. But a decision like taht is 100% up to the landlord here.

As to the bins themselves I had to pick one up yesterday cos it was lying on its side. Or taht is to say I saw it lying on its side and picked it up. In doing so I noticed the weight of it which means not everybody on this block would be able to do that. & it was pretty empty so would hate to see what would happen if it was full.
I also noticed the height of the side is pretty tall which is going to be a problem for some people around here. It's about arm height on me and I'm around 6ft.

Also there is supposed to be a key system being introduced with a specially cut key that they're claiming will cost €100 to replace. Leaves me wondering how long it will be before people start losing their keys and what effect that will have on litter in the area.
Apparently this key is being done to make sure taht people outside the block do not use the bins. It is also being cut to mean that it can't be cut to pass on to another person and also to mean that it will have to be in the lock for the lock to close.
It all sounds really complicated and leaves me wondering how long it will be before things go wrong with the system. I'm seriously going to miss the ease of going to the foot of my stairs to my own bin when I need to empty the household rubbish containers. Not needing to remember to take a special key with me to see what mess other people will have made.
Oh & they turned the colours of the bins around, the last time we had a green bin it had food waste going into it and a blue one it had recyclables going into it. Back then if the wrong thing went into the bin it wasn't emptied and you got an orange sticker telling you to sort out your bin for collection in a fortnight's time when that colour bin was emptied. Really hope this doesn't do anyth ng like that.
Ho hum.

Further to that , going to throw some stuff out earlier today only to find that the lid of one of the dumpsters is locked. It looks like it needs a triangular key to unlock. Not sure if that is something we are due to get or if it would be something that every bin crew would automatically have.
Assume it is more some kids messing around or something.

Also my sewing machine having a screw that won't budge in a place I can't get much purchase on since it's on the needleplate where i can only use the undersize metal multitool thing that came with the machine. Think the screw slot (where you put the screwdriver in) is going to go if I try to force the multitool, seems like the sides are giving anyway. So can't clear the dogs and get rid of the birdnesting happening under my fabric.
Also can't find my small screwdriver which I was using last night & I need to retension the bobbin case.

that trash system seems like a bureaucratic nightmare, yipes. too much that can go wrong.