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

Listicles are starting to make me irrationally angry. Esp since every single one seems to have at least one instance of the "writer" emphasizing something via the period. at. the. end. of. every. word. thing. Which itself makes me IA even when not in a listicle.

I think this thrillist post I saw shared on FB was also reminding me how that site makes me IA.

Recipes that are written in an irrational order such that you waste time, and realize this about 1/4 of the way in and get IA with yourself for not checking whether or not the recipe writer had bothered presenting it in a sensible order.

otm

Someone has put our deflated, yet still human-height mascot costume in the corner of the main bathroom, because we have no other storage space left--every time I go in there, before the slow fluoro lights kick in, I see this figure lurking in the corner in the gloom, like the guy at the end of Blair Witch

irrationally terrified?

Fuck. That. Shit.

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GAH

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Better than marbles in the medicine cabinet, ya snoop!

i assume the 'Java Auto Update' task bar thing will stop flashing eventually. it's been only 2 minutes so far.

The council or whatever body have erected weird telegraph posts to hold nets so that when the new term begins the school on the side of the park can use one of the large expanses of grass as a sports field. As far as that goes its ok, one could just walk under the nets and between the poles. I just looked out to find out that they are now constructing fencing under the poles which means cutting across the field/grass as I used to will be made much more difficult.
& that's supposed to be a public space. So really annoyed that how to walk across an open public space is going to be dictated in future. I'm hoping that this isn't about to be an announcement that since this is now a school sport field it is no longer a public space.

Large, tall nets are for gaelic football btw. That has goal posts in H shape that have points scored for going over the cross bar as well as under. I don't really know the game but I have seen that much. I thought when the nets went up that that would be the total of the inconvenience and it would at least prevent balls from landing in the adventure playground and on people walking down the footpaths around the park.

If they are introducing control to the park in any way I wish they'd do something about the diog owners allowing their dogs to foul everywhere. Still not seen anything up to suggest anything along the lines of that is your dog, if it messes that is your responsibility , children play here and they shouldn't be having to deal with dog mess and the possibility of ensuing disease.

I have wished "Die in a fire" innumerable times on the universe in general and on particular individuals. I am surprised that karma has not (yet?) visited at least second-degree burns on me.

I have 2 good friends on FB who are kinda clueless about technology...they both insist on crowdsourcing answers to their endless, stupid tech support questions solely on FB

and half the shit is like, jfc if you just googled your own question you'd have an answer in less than the time it takes for all your dipshit friends to 'weigh in'

one friend in particular has been posting for a week about her stupid new phone and syncing and how do i this and why can't i that and RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGe

"Clever" birth announcements.

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Oh the poor thing has ALS, I see.

people who would gladly participate in charades or a scavenger hunt

i really hate people who turn their hands into a heart

also i think those people ^^^ shouldn't have a child

I don't understand the ice thing.

His testicles ache from makin babies so hard.

Ice ice baby.

It really bugs me when things that don't need instructions come with instructions. Like toothpaste. Also, at the store down the street they sell lighters billed as "multi-use." It's a fucking lighter. Just because there is space for copy does not mean you need more copy.

Scavenger hunts are awesome, though. A former classmate of mine who became a hunky actor on TV runs a pretty giant one: https://www.gishwhes.com/

If toothpaste didn't come with instructions then I wouldn't see the word "erwt-grootte" nestling among the Dutch instructions twice daily and this would make my life poorer

This is rational but fuck it: people who are unable to express anything verbally in a concise, precise manner. It's almost always older men. They can't just tell you what they want, they have to give you the whole backstory with ample digressions. Also file with people who call you on the phone and then are like "uh.... well I'm looking for uh... well I don't know how to explain it but..." Basically people who don't think about what they want to say before they say it and just say that one thing.

This is rational but fuck it: people who are unable to express anything verbally in a concise, precise manner.

yes. also, people who don't have their wallets/fare cards/etc. ready at the point of transaction and spend minutes digging for them.

People who walk two-by-two on a staircase.

I'm trying to board an ark here

i really hate when companies discontinue actually-useful products

I really hate when they drop useful features of continued items and replace them with superficial ones. Can think of things like the ability to forward phn numbers in the text on a mobile phone changng to sending a 'business card' which older phones can't read.
Or several features on a midi hifi being replaced by karaoke and flashing lights.

I just want to shake the decision maker and yell IT AIN'T BROKE STOP 'FIXING' IT.

Lately gone: the green peppercorns in brine from Waitrose, the £15-20 basic black leather ballet flat, otherstories Fig Fiction spray.

Reach Access Flosser refills (and I guess the flosser itself) is my lastest culprit. I can't use regular dental floss and this is the only thing that has kept me able to floss my teeth every day and uggggggh it's so annoying

i only ever have this issue with food products

rip morningstar farms steak strips ;_;

Dorset Cereals Heavenly High Fibre
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re-setting password on an online account
one of the security Qs is 'birthday of X person'
but no prompt for format
so I try DDMMYY; DDMMYYYY; DD/MM/YY; DD-MM-YY
then get locked out ;_;

if I can't remember my password how tf do you think I'm going to remember how you want me to format a date

This (the brands in stores thing) happens a lot here thanks to a weird supermarket duopoly, all the known brands are slowly disappearing off shelves and being replaced by own brands. So annoying.

xp: not an IA, but have definitely had trouble with the formatting of security questions before. Question being "What is the name of your first school" and because my wife went to catholic school, always having to try "Saint ______'s, St. _______'s, Saint ______s, and St. _______s" and usually getting locked out in the process.

I remember several years ago when Tesco dropped all the fair trade coffee apart from Nestlé's not that Tesco is the most ethical of shops in the first place. But that just seemed to be taking the p rather heavily.

THERE IS A MACHINE BELOW MY APPARTMENT, AND IT'S HUMMING 24/7. CAN'T SLEEP CAN'T FOCUS CAN'T READ CAN'T WATCH MOVIES. I don't know if it's making me angry, but it's definitely making me grumpy. Also, it's probably a quite rational response. Anyhow. The machine is pumping water out of the basement, or humidity, or something. It is fixing the basement after the downpour a few nights back. Which funnily enough also kept me awake.

Have to remember to put shoes on when running things down to the rubbish now. Just trod on something sharp when wearing slippers. Ow my ow.
Never happened with the old system

After all the hype about how much better this bin system was going to be, it is already failing rapidly. The bin men don't appear to have a key for the bin enclosure. They had to get one from the corner flat last week and had to knock on doors to get one today.
Don't know if anybody else is aware of that I only know cos i seem to have been out watering plants at the same time for the last couple of weeks. Wasn't the week before but assume that they must have had to ask somebody then too.
Can assume that either there isn't a steady bin crew or they haven't been given a key, or lost it. But if they needed to carry keys for every locked bin enclosure across town I bet there'd be a great deal of confusion anyway.

Sorry stevolende, but I'm loving your bin woes - so perfect for this thread. Such justifiable anger at the rest of the world for not getting it/giving a shit about the impact of what, on the surface, appears to be an innocuous change.

when someone says 'Hey, you're pretty creative, can you come up with x' -- and then they repeat to you pretty much exactly what they want which means 'do that exactly as I said'

just that handwavey 'you can come up with something, you're creative' ie "MY head is full of important business things I'm too busy to deal with stupid shit like any additional details for this stupid thing that I've just thought of"

today i got a parking ticket because the ticketing officer put the wrong space number into his doohickey they use for phone payments (this is outside my apartment, it's a service where you can pay the meters with your phone, i've used it probably 200 hundred times without error)

now i have to schedule a court date to argue it and i might not even win cause i can't prove definitively that i parked in space 2290001 and not 2090001

probably it'll work out but i still need to fucking go to court

not irrational but who cares about the rational thread not me

i got one where they put the wrong block on the ticket and i was so excited to win but then i misremembered the court date and had to pay it anyway. i think you will win though. i'm a lawyer.

thanks!

one time i got a ticket for running stop signs and the cop literally told me "if you contest this you'll most likely win" but he was using a ticket pad from the previous year, which had the previous year's rules for requesting a court date on it (wait 15 days and you'll get one vs. write back letting us know you want one) and i missed my chance at a court date and had to pay the ticket. yay!

i hate people w/ cars

esp ones that go faster than mine