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

I feel you 100%. I'm afraid our daughter's first words are going to be "SLOW DOWN ASSHOLE" because pretty much every time we're out on the street I end up yelling at an idiot driver.

I'm convinced you have to be a sociopath to intentionally run stop signs so I believe all those studies abt people in modern society now.

They really don't follow street signs in the country though.

JFC these 3 people in their early 20s sitting behind me on the bus

"I'd love to get the communications position but we'll see what The Lord decides."

"I'm thinking about going to grad school but it's really a 'Lord's will' kinda thing."

"No I can't work with Camille. She has a different theology - she believes women should be leaders in ministry."

"So I found out Natalie applied for the same position as me. It was awkward and I told her I would pray that she got the job. So that's what I'm doing but still, I want the job so I dunno... maybe The Lord will decide I should get it? I'm just trying to stay faithful."

"I overslept and I thought I was gonna be late. The Lord was looking out for me though and the Metra was delayed because of a signal problem so I caught my train after all and made it to class on time."

I fucking hate that casual tone like Jesus is just this guy who makes hiring decisions and holds trains for some guy.

Ah - they're Moody Bible Institute students.

That reminds me - my brother took my mom to an ear specialist b/c she has been having vertigo due to displaced otholiths. I helped him find this doctor b/c he has good background and he's part of a respectable practice group.

He confirmed the problem was errant osoliths and my brother asked what the doctor thought they should do. His answer: "The first thing to do, of course, is to pray and trust in God's will."

I've thought about what I would do in that situation and I'm pretty sure I would immediately walk out and inform whatever appropriate people and agencies of this hack's proselytizing. (Though he did get her on physical therapy to get the ear pebbles back home.)

Fucking Moody Bible Institute.

I get the Moody Bible Institute confused with Perry Bible Fellowship.

I'm finding it really weird having seen what the small print on the Michael Parkinson ad for Over 50s insurance says. Or subtitles or whatever you'd call text on the lower part of the screen.
There's a lot of warnings about how long term payment into a fund like that might mean you pay in more than you pay out and that if you stop making your regular payments you will lose everything you paid up to that point.
What has hit me over the last couple of days since reading this has been whether it was there all along or if the wording is the result of some legislation that was passed after the place was sued or something. Just seems like an odd thing to incorporate into an ad unless forced.

Also somewhat tarnishes Parkinson's reputation being associated with something that if I'm reading that right sounds like a bit of a scam, doesn't it?

Those schemes have been like that for a while, I think. Guardian Money consumer problems etc has them occasionally.

Same as 'your home may be at risk if you don't keep up mortgage repayments' I guess

When I worked in radio, the best part of doing an auto commercial was the mumbled disclaimer at the beginning. If you were long on time, you could go back in and start removing .03 second gaps of silence, and really make that thing blur.

Dear cyclist,

Thank you for ringing your bell at me when you finally pointed your eyes at eye level but in fact I have been watching you all the way down the street as you gaze around at everything except the pavement in front of you and weave one-handedly all the fuck over the place, so I am already well aware that you're there and have been doing my best to exercise my psychic powers to stay out of your way

also, fuck you

Disgusting savages who get on the bus and ignore the driver as though she/he is some automaton part of the machine. Not sure why it bugs me so much, but it wouldn't surprise me to see a driver go berserk Elephant-man-style one day.

what should they do, serenade him?

argh sorry, i forgot this is the irrational anger thread

People who show up at the movies ten minutes late and make an exagerrated show of looking for seats as if they cant believe the only two are up front

Just say 'thanks' or 'hi', like a polite person would

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Did the elephant man go berserk? I watched it only Monday and short of the one "I am not an animal" thing when he was surrounded he seemed pretty chill even when being flogged by Bytes.

Anyway, my complaint: Google knows where I live so why does Calendar say "summer back holiday" in 4th august when that only applies in Scotland? Ditto the recent orangeman holidays.

I thought he meant the Dancehall guy. PON DE RIVER! OFF THE BUS!

I am pouring all of my IA into driving these days. Guy zoomed out of a gas station into the left turn lane (across two lanes of oncoming traffic) then swerved back into the right lane because it turned out he wanted to go downtown and not get on the freeway, which are obviously two easily confused destinations.

If one of the branches of your shop has been closed for a year, maybe take it off your website and stop talking about the exciting new menu? YEAH?

People who show up at the movies ten minutes late and make an exagerrated show of looking for seats as if they cant believe the only two are up front

this. you're late... just suck it up and sit down.

Maybe it's philistinism but passages of untranslated French in recently-published, otherwise English-medium books are increasingly annoying me. My French comprehension is ok but the underlying idea that anyone smart enough to read actual books will inevitably have a B1-level understanding of French, as opposed to German, Italian, Mandarin or nothing other than English, seems wrong-headed and elitist, idk.

Also people on the phone who ask for telephone numbers and wait until you are half way through to mention they don't have a pen and have to run off to find one.

people (either cops, rental car folk, parking attendants) etc who are terrible at their job, don't make clear, fully formed hand motions to the person they're addressing, and then blow up when the person doesn't do what they wanted them to do.

had a cop scream at me for making a right turn where he was conducting traffic cos he'd sent the other side. problem is he'd also clearly gestured in my direction that it was ok to go - not my fault you don't know what you're doing Holmes.

That's a good one. Related to that, I think, is the bar bouncer stationed outside the entrance looking completely blankfaced and uninterested until you've walked past him and three paces into the bar and then he barks out at you demanding to see your ID. (Also the very idea that I might be underage).

omg this happened to me last night

paratransit bus stopped outside the store, in a v small tight-space parking lot

security guard is trying to help driver direct traffic - i pull up & guard gives the universal hand signal for "halt"

so i stop

and when i stop he makes this exasperated face & points and is like NO. KEEP MOVING

wtf dude

learn your hand signals ffs

It boils down to "I know what I meant! why didn't you?"

yesterday too, I'm fresh off a 60 hour work week (which is what I was traveling for), and just spent 90 mins in Chicago traffic to get to the airport, and moments ago just got sent to ANOTHER security line cos the other one had just filled up. So I'm finally there, worn out, and ready to just get something to eat. Suddenly, a TSA employee opens a second line to speed up the flow through. She gesticulates awkwardly towards her line to the people in front of me (which confused a few of them), and then finally sees me, and makes a harsh 'over here' gesture at me.

I'm like - "ok", and immediately begin moving, and she looks at me and says "You wanna come now or wait in line all night" in an aggravated, low tone. Gee, sorry I didn't anticipate your random Charades or mutterings and anticipate your signal before you gave it! Then she is uber polite to the people in front of me, and when I get there, glares at me, and says "ID!" in a louder than necessary tone, even though I was obviously already holding it out, ready to hand to her(I fly all the time, ffs). Then she grumbles "Alright, move on Neanderthal" in an aggravated tone.

to think I was *this close* to being a TSA agent before finding another job in the 11th hour ten years ago. I could be a dick to ppl 24/7 and get paid for it!

i can't believe she called you a neanderthal

yeah it set me back too. was even weirder when imago showed up and she crossed her arms and said 'YER BANNED'

A new hotel opened up in downtown Cleveland last year called "ALOFT" and it's everything you might expect from a name like that, but last night I noticed for the first time ever on their signage that it says: ALOFT A Concept of W Hotels and I just wanted to blow the building up. I can't sleep in a fucking concept, ALOFT, or use a concept's minibar.

Potential clients who call our office expecting to immediately get a lawyer on the phone and/or hire a lawyer for a hearing or to beat a deadline in the next day or two even though they've known about the deadline for weeks.

Today was typical: a guy called needing a lawyer for an important motion up for presentment on Monday. That kind of date would have been set no less than two weeks in advance, AND he was the one who filed the motion -- it's not like it was a surprise! I told him the lawyer he needs to speak to is working outside the office today and she will call him back as soon as she can.

He calls back less than 45 minutes later , saying "I still haven't heard from anybody and I just wanted to make sure you got my phone number right."

there's a business near me that advertises "concept floors." i'm picturing some hollywood type with a cuban cigar and dark sunglasses going "i have a concept for this floor. hear me out" (while framing his hands to look like the viewfinder of a camera).

and i always laugh when i look at eater or some other industry blog and hear about a foodservice group opening, say, a "frozen yogurt concept." it's frozen yogurt. what's so conceptual about it?

"It boils down to "I know what I meant! why didn't you?"

ugh this why i hate it when other drivers 'signal' at me with their hands at stop signs and such. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

xp which reminds me of the latest food trend to piss me off, motherfucking "artisanal freeze pops." Oh really? Are they also CURATED?

the $4-per-pop fancy popsicle place up the road just went out of business. nope, didn't see THAT one coming.

OK so I'm going to be attending a post-baccalaureate paralegal studies certificate program soon at an expensive Catholic university.

The university just got a new financial aid director and this guy has decided that the program's classification as a "post-graduate professional" program was erroneous. He re-classified it as an undergraduate program. This means that it is eligible for less federal financial aid, so now the maximum amount of fin-aid loans isn't even enough to cover all of the tuition, much less books or nickel & dime shit like "activity fees" "facility fees" or "materials fees."

WHY IN THE WORLD is it not "post-graduate professional" when: a) having a bachelor's degree is a prerequisite to admission to the program, b) it provides professional training and is even approved by the American Bar Association to deliver that training? WHY?

I don't suppose there's a way to appeal this decision somewhere? I don't even know who you would appeal it to. The US Supreme Court? Rod Blagojevich? The UN?

having a bachelor's degree is a prerequisite to admission to the program

In my area of work this is exactly the definition of postgrad
An individual institution couldn't change that interpretation. But I am not where you are :(

Oh, that's a thought. Is that even something he can change? Is there a regulating/governing body who makes these determinations?

The new financial aid director made the change in classification because he said that the old classification "post-grad professional program" was in violation of federal law. He determined that the program had whatever attributes that make something "undergrad program" and did not have the attributes that make something a "post-grad professional program." (I know I pretty much just explained what "classification" means there....) The program's director said that this new financial aid director is all about compliance compliance compliance, so he's re-assessing all sorts of shit.

While this is true having a bachelor's degree is a prerequisite to admission to the program, my guess as to why the program is being classified as "undergrad" is that undergrads at this particular institution can tack the certificate onto their bachelor's degree -- but not even as a minor, but as a discrete credential they receive at the same time as their bachelor's degree.

But that doesn't make sense as a reason to classify it as "undergrad." What a dick.

I've complained about this before I'm sure but shit like this from an Adobe Acrobat forum:

Keep getting "renderable text" error when I need to OCR PDF's from FrameMaker.
Misha Ko May 23, 2013 7:36 AM

My solution has been to individually extract all those pages, then open them up in Photoshop, flatten them and widen the canvas size to standard 8.5 x 11. But that's a little tedious and time-consuming and you have to delete the original page from your document, after importing the OCR-friendly page.

Is there a printer definition, or something you can set up when you're generating your PDF's in the first place, that will get rid of that annoying "renderable text" error?

Very first reply, from a "Community MVP":

Re: Keep getting "renderable text" error when I need to OCR PDF's from FrameMaker.
Bernd Alheit CommunityMVP
Bernd Alheit May 23, 2013 7:59 AM (in response to Misha Ko)

Why want you perform OCR on the documents?

But I liked the OP's response

Misha Ko May 23, 2013 8:03 AM (in response to Bernd Alheit)

Because there is text in the graphic images that are on each page.

OCR is a useful tool to make scanned documents searchable, but also for making the text available in any graphic.

Is that OK with you?

Oh that kind of shit makes me rage.

otm. rage!!!

three separate areas near work all have construction going on, single lane crawl & i cant fucking go anywhere without seeing 900 traffic cones

and my shortcut to work is closed completely bc theyre building a housing development so i have to go the long way and fffuuuuuu

I mean, here's a handy idea. If you see someone asking a question about a routine or process you feel is unnecessary, why not start the conversation on a more positive note like "Have you considered moving the file directly to its target folder instead of moving it to your desktop first?"

Not "Why are you dumping shit from your flash drive straight to your desktop?"

And hey, you can use that line of reasoning in all sorts of facets of life and not come across as an asshole. And I'll tell ya, it's amazing how much happier life can be when you're not coming across that way al the time.

present company and this thread excluded.

that's a really good elucidation of something that i struggle with sometimes

fuckin a++++