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

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.

you are missing out on an Ask! toolbar

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.

Was just thinking this must have become exponentially worse since the switchover from maximum 36 shot film to much nearer infinite digital. Needed some discernment with less shots available to one.

I mean getting your mug in front of the eiffel tower is dumb too, but at least it's your mug! At least you can put it on facebook to say "I was here." But why the fuck do you need just a mediocre photo of the eiffel tower?

Man, my dad and I got in the one of the worst arguments on a family trip to D.C. I was 11, with my own camera, and wanted to take my own shots of the monuments. I had this idea in front of the Vietnam Memorial of taking a picture of a flag next to a name with the reflection of the crowd behind me. I know, how brilliant was I?

But Dad insisted on grabbing my camera and taking pictures of me and my sister in front of the Reflecting Pool, me and my sister in front of the White House, me and my sister at the Jefferson Memorial. And of course, since it was an auto-flash camera, I've now got all these pictures of me and my sister bright and shiny in the foreground with these dark, dimly lit statues shimmering in the background.

So 30 years later, I still go around taking pictures of green signs announcing what county I'm standing in front of while he goes to Florida each year to take 15 pictures of the sunset.

15 pictures of my step-mom in front of the sunset, I should say.

When I worked at a photo lab, in the spring we would get roll after roll of useless snapshots of graduations. The lab only made you pay for prints you wanted to keep, so we shredded whole rolls of graduation pics. Some people got so frustrated. You can see through the viewfinder that the stage is a tiny spot filled with identically dressed specks, why would you think your kid would somehow stand out?

One time we got a roll w/ rednecks having sex. Best shot was a macro of a wide open vagina with a crucifix in it. Best graduation ever.

"Camera, take a picture of Donnie"

cyclists - old street, near that new cross roads thing that has benches and trees. Near Paul St.

infographics - should they make you angry?

The eye subconsciously adds value to the scene one's engaging with or at least the mind does..
That doesn't translate to the flat image that a camera takes and has to be enhanced by framing and editing.
If you've just got a camera for an event you may not know that and I guess you're seeing the results.
Digital camera may make that editing a lot easier in post production than an instamatic image ever could.

So subsequently people take photos of events that for them centre on their one individual. They would expect the resulting photo to have the same focus their current viewpoint with its subconsciously added values has.
&if you're working in a processing studio you would probably be coming across a lot of films shot by people making the same mistakes because they were only using cameras on rare important occasions. & hadn't had framing etc explained since a camera was only a handy device one had, not an in depth hobby or something.
I wonder if people are learning better now that digital gives them more play and ability to practise than using 24 or 36 shot film did.
Or if you've just got exponentially more bad photos.

i went to see billy connolly do standup earlier in the week. as we were seated, the ushers told us specifically that no flash photography was allowed. of course, people spent the whole show taking flash pictures. what do these stupid motherfuckers think they are lighting with their phone's tiny LED when they're 100 feet from the stage?! all they're doing is lighting the back of the head of two rows in front of them and bugging the shit out of everyone else! grr

this happens to me every day:

- two cars are in front of me
- the first car goes to make a right turn, but a couple of inches of their bumper are sticking out
- the second car, the one directly in front of me, refuses to go a couple inches around them despite there being plenty of space to do so
- sometimes the driver of the second car will make a big show of being blocked by these two inches and being therefore unable to go around the car

When people work on shared documents and save them in anything other than print layout view.

i went to see billy connolly do standup earlier in the week.

Yeah he bugs the shit out of me and I can't work out why.

Oh wait...

People whose solutions to technology problems is always 'get a new computer/car/etc'. yeah, great thanks i'll do that.

you know what really turns my piss purple? laser pointers. know what i'd like to do? i'd like to take my "laser car" and drive it over a "laser cliff"!!!

just my $0.02

a $0.02 worth a fortune

When a person making you a sandwich cuts it in half without asking first. I want to have to opt in to sandwich cutting, not opt out.

Sandwiches should have select-a-size perforations, ideally.

why would you want to attack a sandwich from the outside? it is too difficult!

Cut my sandwich! Into 4 triangles, plz

cut my sandwich into strips and fry them on a stick!

I hate people who slowly jaywalk in front of you and throw you this death glare, as if their glare was the only thing keeping you from running them over.

people who think the double yellow line is an island of impenetrable protection against cars are straight marinara.

i propose the death penalty for drivers who allow *multiple cars* into traffic when traffic ahead is already well and truly moving

DEATH TO DOGOODERS

yeah rmde@ ~~~RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS~~~ dorks who don't realize they're being assholes

See also, as talked about before, the dude who lets everybody on the train in front of him without realizing there are a bunch of people standing behind him who would really like to get on the fucking train, please.

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

Me too. An accomplished photographer friend of mine now likes to take photos of ppl looking at art, and I had to endure this at both the Getty Center and MoMA the last few months.

btw very little of the anger itt is irrational, need better title.