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

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

Please do not power off or unplug your machine.
Installing update 2 of 24

update #17 of 24 failed to install properly

I'm so going to unplug or power off this piece of shit.

It's my own dumb fault for not coming into the office for like a month but motherfucker I've got to get to daycare before they start charging is by the damn minute.

I was angry but now I'm just befuddled by this Apple rep's language quirks.... his accent sounds like that of a native English speaking American (not a English speaking Native American) but he has said

So that's :Jesse" with a "g"?
Your address is five-three-thirty--oh West ___? (Me: No, it's five thirty West ____. Him: Oooooooohhhh! Ooookay!)
Zip code sixty-oh-sixty-forty-oh? (?????)

Then when I ask questions there's a really long pause and "OK.....thank you," or "OK.....got it," another pause, then an answer.

He sounds like he's really, really stoned.

There's a Java update available? Oh glory be, please tell me more, every single fucking day of my life.

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Zip code sixty-oh-sixty-forty-oh? (?????)

This is when I'd ask the guy if he was for real. There has never been a human who has strung together an American zipcode by joining the digits like the street address.

Never.

However, maybe the next letter I send, I'll write out the zipcode like that in flowery script, much like those awful houses I had to deliver pizza to that you couldn't read in the dark from the street.

Especially because the zip as he said it would be 60060400.

Exactly, that's why he seemed stoned! He sounded like a stoned or sleepy auctioneer.

I'm really tired of people taking pictures of art.

I get the fact that, nowadays, every single thing a person sees that is of the slightest interest must be photographically documented and put online so that other people think your life is interesting.

But recently I went to the Jeff Koons exhibit at the MoMA and I feel like I didn't really see it, because in every single room I was faced with a phalanx of idiots with their cameras out, pointing them at the art, illegitimately claiming as their own all the space within their camera view. Christ. Step the fuck back. You have no right to claim the bulk of the space in a museum that is for people who want to view artwork in person. Go back to your country, tourist. You are worse than ebola.

I mean at the Whitney, whatever

preach it

But then I'm against people taking pictures of pretty much anything famous or identifiable. "Holy shit, it's the Basilica, I have to take a picture of it." DO YOU NOT HAVE THE INTERNET?!

i hate even more when ppl roll up to famous things/places seemingly JUST to get a photo of themselves standing in front of it, like not even pausing to take in the thing with their own actual eyes or anything

And then they just roll right though, looking for the next clue that will help them win The Amazing Race

Loved the phrase 'if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium' to describe that tourist disconnection to their surroundings.
I guess a photo proves your life if you're in that mindset.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2009/3/9/1236600689643/Mona-Lisa-at-the-Louvre-w-008.jpg

I'm going to the Art Institute tomorrow and taking iPad photos of everything I see.