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

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

Select a size paper towels

Oh god. Yeah, I just need a paper towel sized paper towel, not one and a half (because they inevitably tear).

non select a size paper towels. accidentally coming home with regular paper towels has def made me IA in the past

I get so angry that I overcompensate and take off double what I would normally take just to piss the paper towels off. Take that environment.

That i'm wondering if a ferrite cylinder thingy is necessary on a camera to computer USB cable after a not exactly technophile course teacher dismissed any difference to a standard USB cable. Just left wondering if its something she wasn't aware of or if its use is outmoded by specifics being better taken care of.
Also wondering to what extent proprietary aspects of digital cameras are still a concern after inheriting a Sony camera about 5 years back and finding that it needed specific cable and card reader when I was in a place without easy access to either. That companies act like that and that I was looked at as though I had 2 heads for trying to point out that it might be something to be conscious of when buying a camera or getting hold of one from a free source.

I routinely tear select-a-size paper towels at even smaller increments than the perforations would allow bc I am a warrior for Mother Earth.

I wish select-a-size paper towels were perforated into one inch squares. My size selections feel so restrictive atm.

You could use them to estimate integrals. It'd be so great.

IA of the day: traffic controllers at intersections with working lights. Yes, what is absolutely needed is to introduce contradictory ambiguity into the driving process. That should certainly help prevent motorists from plowing into pedestrians.

I honestly think 90% of my IA is related to the ways in which human beings imperfectly navigate space in relation to the other human beings around them.

So loads of lovely navigation fun about to come as the season gets wet. Looking forward to all those umbrellas for next 5 months & having to avoid the pot hole pools in the paved area in the centre of town.

Yahoo who in their massive benifcence lock me out of my email adress when I try to access it through the net on my mobile phone. The same one I used to access it from half the time and I think is listed as the linked number. Probably drop the adress if I hadn't been using it as my main one for 10 years.

ia @ ppl who's phone manner is to repeatedly talk faster & louder over the other person to get their point across

even having to listen to a conversation play out like that is ugh

i hate it hate hate it

-my phone ringing.

Driving me fucking nuts today for some reason. Every call genuinely necessary but it's Saturday and my head hurts and I'm watching the scores and would you all just fucking phone someone else?

Select-a-size paper towel segments are exactly the right size for my most common paper towel use cases. If it's not enough I tear off two or more at once and then it is enough. Select-a-size gives all users options; regular limits options.