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

a pair of cheap grocery-store insoles will fix the fart sound. I had the same problem, and it drove me CRAZY. just get some of those thin, rubbery-feeling insoles and all noises will cease

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wChS0dOgO-g

xp VG bringing solutions to the table. I will have to buy those. Thanks!

:D

It takes me like 4 trips to town, maybe more to remember to buy a sewing machine bulb. Despite the thing remaining thankfully unbroken in my waistcoat pocket for the last week or whatever since a needle snapped and the light went out. It looks darkened by smoke or whatever inside but didn't shatter neither did fragments of needle hit me, just snapped something went flying and the bulb went out.
So I finally remember to buy it and have to try several shops to find a screw in not a bayonet. 3 places that stock them coincide in not having them in at the same time. Actually 4 since I make a stop off from the bus cos a few are up as being in the other branch of a place I've checked but it turns out to be an inventory glitch. Lovely.

Technology foibles! I bought a B&N Nook (a poor man's Kindle) and I love it, although I find holding the thing really awkward. I can't really hold it like I would a book, I have to clutch it around the edges with the tips of my fingers or else I accidentally end up flipping the pages witht he touchscreen function. What inevitably happens is I start drifting off and having a microsleep and before I know it my stupid fingers have gone and skipped ahead 8 pages which makes me very confused.

Wait whats a sewing machine bulb!? Like, a light to see where you're sewing? #dumbquestionprobably

Talking about tvs & remotes as people were yesterday, I'm finding the set up with horizon which is the new system with UPC really frustrating. Half the time the signal doesn't go from the remote to the machine or it reads the number twice and you get asked to input a real number and dropped on the Customer channel.
I don't know what the story is, if it's just not getting the same pressure on each of the remote buttons or something but Christ, you get 2 numbers into a 3 number and then the 3rd either doesn't register or whatever. Problem also happens when trying to get the machine to record something, you get part of the way through the set up and are left wondering if it's just taking a moment to register or if it does need to have you press the button again.
Not sure if it's me, teething trouble with the set up, which I think was introduced last year and had a lot of negative response I've read, or inherent flaws in design but it is pretty frustrating.

THere's a lightbulb inside the sewing machine hood that does allow you to see what you're sewing. It comes on when the machine turns on so is a good way of seeing whether it's on or not.
I am surprised that being hit by a fragment of needle would cause the thing to blow and not fracture. Not sure what speed the thing was moving at. THink it hit off a part of a metal zip when it did that though.
Thankfully I had a bulb of the same size on my previous machine which is sitting in the room broken or in need of repair but I'm not sure how long I have on that so do want to get another as soon as possible. Just surprised that 3 places totally independent of each other were all out at precisely the same time & moreover whether they would have been if I'd managed to remember on earlier trips into town.

I wish I knew how to sew. I'm about as bad with sewing machines as I am with cars.

On the subject of TV IA's tho: my new TV's EPG shows you what show is playing on each channel when you bring up the menu but you cant flick forward to a "whats up next" option, like you can on EVERY OTHER DAMN TV IVE EVER USED.

-"smart" phone contact management

If I plug my laptop into my TV it appears zoomed in, chopping a half inch border off the edge of the screen. I've tried changing the aspect ratio and a number of other options and nothing works. I've looked for overscan options on the TV and nothing.

I wish I knew how to sew. I'm about as bad with sewing machines as I am with cars.

― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Friday, September 12, 2014 10:31 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Over here it seems that there are sewing courses put on free by community centres with some regularity. Which was how I finally got into sewing after having finally got a sewing machine after wanting one for a while, then leaving it in its box for a year and a half. I think I had other things going on in the interim but was very glad to get to learn basics on using it.
NOt sure if that thing about free courses is true anywhere else than here but I did find it very useful.
I'm just kicking myself for not having looked into a different night course on related subjects earlier this year because I think i'd be lucky to get onto it now and after a conversation I had yesterday it sounds like something I'd really benefit from. Patternmaking was the specific one, though the dressmaking course the same place runs is also supposed to be really good.

my mom sees that i've bought a bottle of wine. i'm supposed to give it six months, but it's been four months, and i had some wine over the weekend and felt fine. so i bought wine from the neighborhood shop and this causes a bit of controversy at my parents' place. not because my stomach's not fully healed, but because "you won't lose weight."

nothing i ever do will ever make my parents happy, so fuck it.

you have my sympathy :(

i'm not IA, just irrationally frustrated.

They seem to be irrationally frustrated...

y mom sees that i've bought a bottle of wine. i'm supposed to give it six months, but it's been four months, and i had some wine over the weekend and felt fine. so i bought wine from the neighborhood shop and this causes a bit of controversy at my parents' place. not because my stomach's not fully healed, but because "you won't lose weight."

nothing i ever do will ever make my parents happy, so fuck it.

― replacements gustafsson (get bent), Sunday, 14 September 2014 22:59 (Yesterday) Permalink

The way they are acting does not strike me as innocuous. It seems quite nocuous.

- when I cut my toenails too short. What kind of dummy can't cut her toenails to a reasonable length???
- when I order groceries from Peapod and accidentally get a tiny sized item instead of the regular sized item. It's very http://files.g4tv.com/images/blog/2008/05/29/633476562563083786.jpg when I'm pulling the tiny box of soup out of the bag.

too-short toenails is the worst :(

My own stupid butterfingers make me more IA than anything I can think of. Yesterday, I capped off a week or so of one egregiously clumsy thing after another by accidentally snagging a steeping teabag tag between my fingers and basically yanking the entire dripping mess out of the cup and into my lap. Being at work was the only thing that stifled an otherwise-inevitable, epithet-filled tantrum.

And the most I part of the IA is that other people exhibiting similar levels of clumsiness is totally NBD to me. Like, I'm totally chill if someone else spills their drink everywhere but when I do it I react as if I was watching someone plow their car through a playground. JESUS CHRIST WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!

"Can you make the posters bigger this time, they were too small last time"

after a long conversation it turns out that bigger = portrait instead of landscape

i hate everyone

commiserations but also lol

guilty lol here, too

lol but Jesus wow

Oh, I meant to put one of my own in this thread, too: the goddamn price of post-it notes! Those things must be solid profit for 3M, jeez.

well hello there fellow driver! please wait while i attempt to park backwards

OOhh yeah. My uncle used to work for 3M and he'd send us huge care packages of Post-Its every Christmas. I mean, WAY more Post-its than we ever new what to do with. I had to actually buy some for the first time this year and I was astonished at the price. Even the ugly-ass beige ones.

Huh my mom always buys me post-its for Christmas (she does not work for 3M; she is just a weird gift giver. Like she'll give me an insanely expensive fragile grown-up kaleidoscope and a bottle of Tylenol. Or the year I asked for socks and she gave me eight pairs of Christmas anklets) so I guess I should be thankful.

Maybe your mom is a kleptomaniac.

That would be so bizarre.

maybe she's leaving you a hidden message to be decoded over the course of your life

as soon as i wrote that it made me wish i had kids i would be the coolest birthday dad

The way whenever we have one of our dreary let's-all-socialise work lunches, half the staff sit around comparing boring I-don't-eat-salt/sugar/wheat/whatever-for-my-health stories, and then they all go off and smoke themselves sick with burning cancer death sticks

every time i go to the pub with work colleagues the conversation always comes around to asian prostitutes or strip bars. 'when i was in thailand...', 'when i was in tokyo...', 'that time i got thrown out of stringfellows'.

Twitter has started alerting me on my phone about when someone I don't know retweets something by someone else I don't know. Why would I give a fuck?

^^ I almost might prefer that line of conversation. During my workplace we're sooner or later talking about real estate, i.e., housing costs.

I'm very happy my coworkers don't talk about strippers, etc., but when we do get together our conversations are always either about real estate or television.

Why do they so often make the text on fabric softener and detergent SO TINY that you have to squint to figure out what is actually in the bottle?
WHY?

More bin fun, looks like now that the enclosure is lockable people are tossing bags over the top of the gate. Meaning that there is a semi open bin set up with foodwaste in bags on the ground making it difficult to walk in there. Plus it is a couple of hundred yards away from a woodland which means that it can only be a matter of time before that place becomes infested.
If this was London there would be foxes already rooting through there daily, surprised there aren't already unless they've managed to kill off the local foxes somehow. I know I had seen some a decade or so ago on the far side of those woods.

Anyway, pretty disgusting. Quite apart from the fact that all foodwaste is going to landfill instead of being sent to compost as it had been before the letting agency started on this plan.

If this place becomes infested it will be far from innocuous.

Paper towels that don't tear off cleanly and instead rip up the middle. Gives me a quick burst of blinding rage every time.

Goddamn soy sauce packets. Plenty of people have soy sauce at home, but even for those who don't, do you really need 10 packets for your take-out sushi order? I feel like a chump throwing them out, so I often save them and just eventually return them to the restaurant. Where I assume they throw them out, too.

Buy one of those glass bottles, pour them into it

I like the packets because never have proper soy sauce. And when I donuts never the same as the packets.

I assume that's a typo, but you've still got me thinking about stuff.

Boston creme def not an ideal compliment to sushi

the whole Costco "would u like a box" whyyyyyy even bother when you get

a) "here is a hilariously small box to hold 1 (one) of your items why don't I just go ahead & put the rest in the cart"

or

(b) "lol i packed yr box like I have severe head trauma, i'll just throw the rest of yr stuff in the cart"

so much of my life spent in their dumb parking lot re-packing boxes

don't offer if you're just going to troll me ffs

It sounds like the new school recently built on the far side of the park is unlikely to be holding extra curricular activity in an area not very well provided for in terms of amenities. I had this explained as it being down to being owned privately and leased to being a school. So insurance apparently only covers school hours.
From what I remember growing up in a different country and a different time, most of the schools in the area hosted evening activities things like nightclasses and school related activities. Activity groups of various kinds like drama, choir, art and various instrument classes.
Really hoping what I've heard isn't true cos I'd hate things like that to not be happening as a victim of the subcontracting ethos. Quite apart from knowing that there is space in there to hold classes and activities that there isn't space for in the existing community centre which is a pretty cramped space above a shop and only has one main room which is the only one large enough to host most activity. & that 's about the only amenity in the area. Apart from an open park which is limited in winter use for seasonal reasons.