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

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.

And when I donuts never the same as the packets.
I am dying over here

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Trousers pocket ripped as I scrambled over a wall taking a shortcut.
THat on top of finding out that if I don't do the belt up tight enough they can actually fall over my hips.
Oh & the dole trying to fit every unemployed individual in town into one session of a jobs fair in a place that was way too small. Not sure what they were thinking. Looked like they glommed onto an existing jobs fair without thinking anything about the logistics of the amount of people they were sending down to compulsory attend it or the jobs fair organisers that they had said anything about compulsory attendance.

I don't want one size fits all. I just want one size to fit me.

I have a dozen pair of pants, all with the same waist size. No. 1 squeezes my guts while No. 12 makes me look like

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Sad thing is these were supposed to be reasonably fitted. I thought I'd given them the slimmest waistband I'd put on a pair of jeans yet and I still found them dropping as I walked down the stairs in the town park square, away from the water charges protest. Luckily I copped on that they were dropping and had at least one free hand so caught them before they got too low.
Just don't know what to do, based all of my jeans this summer on a pair of cords I wore until the arse was worn through. So am expecting them to fit. & I thought I had slimmed the waist down conscious of a wider fit having done this before, when they didn't have a belt on, but I was at least only around the flat then. Hope nobody noticed in the park.

i hate one-click smartphone actions on social media. they should ask me to confirm if i want to like some thefoodbabe link posted by someone i barely knew from high school. i don't want that person getting a like notification from me just because i was scrolling through facebook and my thumb accidentally hit the button.

My phone signal disappearing intermittently for days, or that is for unpredictable periods over days.
So I can spend a while typing out a message on my internet on there only to find when i go to send it that my coverage is gone and it won't send and instead goes to that message giving you the option of testing the signal. Like total dragsville, yeah?

on the more irrational end of the scale, ppl using EDT etc during standard time and EST etc during daylight savings. if you are so indifferent to the distinction why not just use ET all year round?

i am waiting for someone to complain that they missed an appointment because they specifically stated 2pm EDT which is of course 3pm EST as any fool knows

Leave it to Indiana to put up a sign that's wrong for most of the year.

On a recent flight I discovered that I get irrationally angry when people use those neck pillows and just hang out with them around their neck, like when they get up and go to the bathroom and when they aren't sleeping, especially when it's a short flight.

the stupid tiny takeout carrybags Subway uses.

The R0b3rt M0rr1s University bowling team on this bus engaging in the worst sort of asinine group giddiness with their loud talking and standing at the front of the bus so they can all stay together. Assholes, all of them.

On a recent flight I discovered that I get irrationally angry when people use those neck pillows and just hang out with them around their neck, like when they get up and go to the bathroom and when they aren't sleeping, especially when it's a short flight.

I get irrationally embarrassed about doing this, even on red-eye flights. My embarrassment is not so irrational after all.

ugh I hate that

and is it just me or does it always seem to be groups of high school students who do this the most. maybe it's just large student/teacher groups invading my quiet gate lounge that makes me the most IA rather than the spike in neck pillow-wearers

Never at the gate!! On the plane only. See also: rational embarrassment at inflating my inflatable neck pillow while sitting next to a stranger on a plane.

Hey, long flight or red eye flight and you use it for sleeping? Sure! No shame in that game. But a sub-2 hour afternoon flight and you wear it like a damn fur stole, gtfo.

It does always seem to be youngsters who do this, yes.

Red eye flight and I wander around with it while walking around the plane and don't take it off when I'm not sleeping in my seat = enough for irrational embarrassment.

I'm sorry to have added to your irrational embarrassment.

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Trying to work out what the story is with a bus last night. Bus turned up at the scheduled time last night, and in sync with an electric bus arrival times board but with a designation sign saying ' Not In Service' and letting people off about 100ft away from the stop a load of people were waiting at.
It then took off, looking like it was fully working. The electric sign showed a bus arriving due for another minute then changed to 14 minutes.
Trying to work out what had happened, somebody else at the stop said she was now going to miss the start of the match. Think it was Ireland vs Germany or something. Anyway just wondering if this was a driver trying to sneak off to watch the match himself, in view of a busload of people. In which case he really should be an ex-bus driver grrr

i think the thing is that drivers work a certain number of hours. when that's up they can't carry passengers anymore.

(i once got on at a stop only for the driver to go off-shift at the very next stop and turf us all out. he then would've driven the bus back to the depot past all the bus-stops that everybody on the bus wanted to stop at. but it's probably a legal or a union thing so i can see why they do it, annoying though it is at the time)

When a crowded train arrives and the conductor steps out and yells that there's another train right behind, so don't all of you try to cram yourselves on this one. Then after the train leaves, the next train just blows past the station without stopping.

Or it stops and is even more packed.

Or it's just a straight up lie and the next train comes ten minutes later (and is thus packed). Or if the immediate follower is a different line.

Trains are a web of lies.

Ok macros using that image of Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka making the smug face. I hate those so fuckety fucking much.

They only bother me when attached to right-wing memes, which is probably.... 80% of the time?

So many of the vagaries of public transit make me IA daily. My (least) favorite recurring issue is when the conductor of the train I'm on announces at the stop just before mine that we'll be going express.

As much as I hate it when the CTA gobbles up my time, though, I'm generally more IA at the passengers who get all huffy and eye rolly when there's a delay because of a medical emergency.

xp no I hate the image itself, I just hate seeing him making that face at this point, regardless of text

xxp: as CA said public transit announcements are a web of lies, so when they say "medical emergency" I tend not to necessarily believe them. E.g. sometimes they tell you medical emergency and then 20 minutes later you just happen to have another delay bc of "signal problems" or something.

One of the few times in my life that I've ever called a stranger out for being an asshole was when CTA personnel were responding to someone who'd passed out in my car and this one guy just would not stop with the "This is ridiculous!"-ing. I've seen enough people faint on the CTA that I generally give medical emergency stops the benefit of the doubt (even though, yes, the announcements are often total BS).

I know what you mean. I more generally do get IA at people for that kind of "This is ridiculous! Why can't they just ___!" kind of speculation about systems they actually have no idea about running.

I know I told this story on ILX somewhere, but like three years ago I was leaving work early and a woman who was about to step on the train passed out and smashed her head into the doorway. I was the closest person to her so I bent down to help her (after yelling at the driver not to close the door or drive away, since I had also recently seen the train incident episode of Homicide... yikes) and it took fucking forever for medical personnel to arrive. Like 15 minutes, while this lady laid there moaning and bleeding from the side of her head. Fucking ridiculous. And we were in the Loop at like 1:30, so not rush hour.

So if anyone feels compelled to get irritated at the situation, get angry at whatever holdups result in emergency personnel taking so long to respond to a call.

(and I'm not blaming the first responders, necessarily. It could have been the CTA personnel taking a long time to call, I don't know. Maybe it does just take that long to respond to a call in the middle of a city.)

But yeah I get annoyed at the huffing and eye rolling and "COME ON!" too. It makes a tense situation that much worse.

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xp I think it's the entitlement of it, like "COME ON! WHY ISN'T THE WORLD FUNCTIONING 100% PERFECTLY AT ALL TIMES SO I CAN GET TO WORK IN EXACTLY 30 MINUTES!"

if only there was someone who could make the trains run on time

lol pplains

[When a crowded train arrives and the conductor steps out and yells that there's another train right behind,

There was an article that interviewed an MTA driver or something who said this is p much bullshit. Obviously there's a train SOMEWHERE behind the one you're trying to get on, esp at rush hour when honestly it's probably <5 mins away, so they're not technically lying, but they are trying to chill ppl the f out.

this bastard single hair that keeps growing out of the side of my neck, and I keep removing, but every time it re-emerges there's a several-day perios where it's long enough to feel with my fingertips but not long enough to tweezer

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