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

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.

The smallest size is never enough for me (I'm very messy) And I typically do a one handed grab and rip, which never rips off the size that I need.

I wrap up my used coffee grounds in a paper towel before they go in the garbage, but with select-a-size this requires two sheets which then split in the middle at the perforation leaving coffee grounds all over my kitchen. No thanks!

If I want less paper than a standard sheet I just rip off a piece; I never thought of that as a problem before.

You should stop wrapping coffee grounds in paper towels. Invite the crows they attract in for dinner.

Cleaning up after the crows requires a larger towel as well

Coincidentally I bought select-a-size last week for the first time ever and my o/h just commented on what an amazing step on the ladder of progress they were.
we're british btw

When paper towels were invented I'm sure there was research done to determine the ideal size of a single sheet, which is the size they've come in ever since, no matter what brand it is. This new format only provides an illusion of usefulness.

Select-a-size is like going to a bar and suddenly they're serving beer in six ounce glasses.

i hate select-a-size

just give me a damn square ffs

Love select-a-size. Small version perfect for blowing nose, wrapping hot dog for microwave or dabbing at something.

Ok I never understood this, what if u want to blow your nose but the big towel is next up? You obviously have to tear it off and set it aside, & ain't nobody got time for that.

What? They're not randomly placed. They're all perforated small size ones. The size depends upon how many you take.

It would make life interesting if they were randomly placed.

oh dear what is wrong with me

I guess all paper towel rolls are "select-a-size" when you get right down to it.

yeah, I am confused. Ive never heard of this and was thinking the sheets were perforated in quarters, but;

http://www.brawny.com/~/media/CPG/Brawny/Products/PAS/PAS.ashx

Um, this is just "if you want a bigger sheet, tear it off in threes"?

Correct.