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

The "don't wash your jeans" contingent makes me IA, fyi.

otm

yes, and also otm to air dried jeans being too scratchy, they makes my fingertips scream.

yeah i hate air dried jeans, it's like wearing paper

Dry cleaning is a good option

Get ready, carl.... My favorite jeans are Gap resin wash which bleed a lot and lose their coating when washed, so I prefer to wash them as infrequently as possible. The most washing I usually do is hand wash them in cold water with vinegar. It's not about the price but about the kind of denim and the wash, and there are moderately priced raw denim jeans which conventional jeans wisdom says don't wash. (Quick google was inconclusive as to whether my Gap ones are raw or not.)

The answer is spot cleaning and not pooping in your jeans too much or just replacing them more frequently.

xps - I really like scratchy, stiff jeans. A friend has jeans that feel like pajamas and the thought of wearing them repulses me like they were made of spiders.

Those resin wash jeans are like wearing a circus tent. And the resin makes them slippery, so when I try to cross my legs, they slip apart. But they look have structure and make my lower half look good.

http://community.fortunecity.ws/skyscraper/desktop/1627/15OctSunHeraldRAbout.JPG

This roundabout, with its left side driving directions, gives me a visceral panic response.

They got rid of the roundabout and now it's about 293 times scarier.

http://i.imgur.com/jEOaBXK.jpg

I should backtrack and say I never saw the roundabout there and that this was ss's post, but I can't help it with this road shit, even when it is backwards.

This double roundabout with odd angles coming off it is famous for scaring the crap out of people in my city
http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2013/06/04/1226656/932118-britannia-roundabout.jpg

That's very similar to the two roundabouts recently (within the last 3 years) built near my house. They're vastly preferable to the 4-way stoplights they replaced, but holy motherfucking fuck, people are still figuring out how they work, e.g., you don't stop in the middle of the roundabout.

I know about your gross, slippery, smelly jeans, Jesse.

I have a civil engineer friend who specializes in traffic / pedestrian / bicycle control stuff is quick to go off on angry rants about American's refusal to grasp how roundabouts work and how great they are.

americans & roundabouts = endless ia

Whyyyyyyy are you stopping! NOOOOOOOO KEEP GOOIING UGH

They just spent the last few years replacing all (I think) the roundabouts in Galway with traffic light junctions. I think it has possibly improved things in a couple of places that needed adressing in some way for ages but in a lot of others it's lead to major tailbacks. These include the first one they converted which should have been an indication of rethinking needed.
It means my bus route gets seriously delayed at the ends of both directions.
I'm only viewing things as a pedestrian/passenger though.

I'm totally for with roundabouts in cities, but putting them on little county or state roads strange and maybe wasteful. E.g., this is the intersection near my brother's house that now has a circle where confused country folk get into fender benders.

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5613/15611134612_cab4d15619_z.jpg

tbh, that looks like T-Bone City.

T-Bone City, NC 28660

It's somewhat understandable that roundabouts would be confusing to a population of drivers for whom licensing standards are incredibly lax (I have a valid driver's license despite not having driven or demonstrated any driving knowledge/ability in the past twenty years, and I don't remember any discussions of roundabout methodology in high school).

actually it's in a place called China Grove, which idk if is related to the song? Fun name tho.

I feel unhappy when a public wifi log-in page like Starbucks' or in-flight wifi replaces ALL of the tabs I had open on my browser. Then once I'm logged in or at home, I can't hit the back button to return to the page I was on. 9 tabs of Gogo wifi landing page and the pages I had open for schoolwork are buried in the history.

Ok, the fact that my paycheck is bi-weekly while my wife's is twice a month. ARGHHH so aggravating trying to budget/plan cash flow on this system. Almost would have to do a new budget for each month to nail it.

With you on that. Sometimes I think it would be easier for us to quit jobs and just get unemployment.

Is there a thread for "seemingly innocuous things people say that drive you irrationally BONKERS"? I need that thread.

Highly appropriate for this one, imo. For instance, this morning my roommate told me for 10 damn minutes straight about some sentimental movie she watched last night, while I looked at my breakfast and tried to focus on the day ahead. She was just telling me about something she enjoyed, but she's terrible at reading NOT NOW signals. And the movie sounded twee. And she claims not to understand what twee means and I was too tired to use the word and start another conversation about whether it applies to a certain movie.

Okay then, I'm IA at the following usages:

"comfortable in my {your/her/his} own skin" - First of all EW, second this is a boring cliche.

"he said/she said {situation}" - Delegitimizes actual accounts of sexual assault, esp if it's being used to refer to anything other than sexual assault, ie any situation where there's no evidence except the word of the involved parties.

Does that phrase originate with describing sexual assaults? It actually never occurred to me before, but it makes sense.

Yes.

It also suggests that if the two parties tell conflicting stories that both are equally believable and likely to be truthful. Like some kind of fair and balanced fantasy. "What, the victim says something different than the alleged attacker? I guess there's nothing we can do here then, pack it up boys."

what io said. I think that he said/she said characterization started as shorthand among prosecutors and migrated into common parlance.

I think most people use it (outside of that context) without thinking about what it means tbh, but point taken

Didn't know it originated there either, though I have heard it applied in that context - I assumed it moved from general to particular rather than the other way around, as to me it seems like a useful phrase to describe a situation where there genuinely isn't a method of valuing one testimony above another, i.e. definitely not useful for sexual assault cases.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/12/magazine/on-language-he-said-she-said.html

That's really interesting, thanks.

np. Enjoyed the 'not worth a dam' theories as well. These are always pretty satisfying. I guess that's why the facebook meme filled with false etymologies was so widespread.

io, how did you learn of the origin of "he said/she said" being in sexual assault cases/accusations? Or is it just common knowledge?

Man, someone better tell Fred Durst.

He Said, She Said is an American game show hosted by Joe Garagiola, with Bill Cullen occasionally filling in when Garagiola was covering baseball games. The show, which asked couples questions about their personal lives, aired in syndication during the 1969-1970 season, and was taped at NBC Studios in New York City.

I can certainly see how the phrase being used in sexual assault cases would make someone quite rationally angry.

Thinkpieces about fucking EVERYTHING now

"The Problem With ____"
"The Complicated Politics of ____"
"What We're Really Saying When We Say ____"

The Complicated Politics of Everything, and Why That's Not Okay

10 Mindblowing Reasons Why the Complicated Politics of Everything is Not Okay (from my new lower-middlebrow infotainment website concept Buzzpo)

- fucking printers and copiers that don't collate by default.
- fucking printers that give you a print job with pages in reverse order unless you remember to click "Print Pages in Reverse Order"

- the phrase click "Print Pages in Reverse Order," which is correct literally (it prints the last page first so when the job is done, it's on the bottom of the stack), but sounds like it means the opposite

I wrote this long and probably pointless e-mail to Sesame Place about why I thought the experience kind of sucked. It basically boiled down to this:

1) You charge way too much money for what you offer (including trying to milk people for extra money at every turn)
2) The whole fucking point of taking a toddler to Sesame Place is to "meet characters," yet there were almost no opportunities to do so the whole time we were there.
3) The show was dangerously packed-in and painfully loud

The manager's responses boiled down to

1) Our prices are affordable and competitive (even though I had given a thorough explanation of why they weren't, including comparisons to similar attractions)
2) We offer lots of opportunities to meet characters (no, you don't, I just explained in detail how there were barely any characters around)
3) ________

So basically, customer service "responses" that are actually non-responsive or deny what you tell them.

Also one of my main complaints (as many visitors, based on online reviews) is that they charge full price admission for a two-year-old, which is like $60 at the door or $45 online. Their stock response to this complaint is "our park is aimed at children 2-9" or something. OK SO WHY ARE YOU CHARGING ME AND MY WIFE FULL ADMISSION THEN

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