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

he/she is on his/her own planet.

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To be clear, like getting things discounted, dislike the non-event of things that are never not discounted constantly announcing their non-event discounts on every corner of the internet I visit.

it's like some grand marketing ploy

I know that you know that you're being irrational, but I just can't help it with this thread sometimes

Irrational anger draws from an inner reserve that rationality cannot reach.

I am angry at how much modern internet marketing gets in my face over and over again about the same thing, I know how "sales" work.

you need a price alert. you do not need a sale alert.

The word 'saga' being used in every shitty mobile/facebook game.

People who answer the phone and have long rambling conversations without excusing themselves from the room.

websites like itunes and amazon that have a presence internationally but don't have universally accepted gift cards

if I buy an amazon gift card, it cannot be used on amazon.com.au
if I buy an itunes gift card, it cannot be used on itunes australia

i understand why, boring international trade reasons etc
but jfc

STOP BEING SUCH FKING CUNTS ABOUT EVERTHING FFS

WHY ARE THERE KIDS IN STARBUCK'S

YOUR KIDS DON'T NEED FRAPPUCINOS

GTFO

TIE THEM TO THE BIKE RACK IF YOU HAVE NO

HAVE TO, I MEAN

I can't tell if
a) more fuckers are driving with their brights on all the time
b) more fuckers are tweaking their high-beams to "cop pulled you over" levels
c) more fuckers are buying bright-ass bulbs for their high-beams

Either way, FUCK OFF

xp an old coworker used to joke that we should require customers to check their kids in at the front along with their bags

What happened to Starbucks serving wine n shit, I have never seen it

Hey Southern Gas Network, thanks for digging up the entire pavement* up to the entrance to my block of flats** so I have to walk in the road, which you have not coned off an impromptu walkway on or anything. I felt good about walking along a main road in the dark, what could possibly go wrong?

also for the other blocked-off part opposite a crossing, it's nice to go out of your way to a crossing and then realise if you cross there you'll have nowhere to walk except in the road some more

(currently largely innocuous because there wasn't actually much traffic when I was there, but I hope it's gone before Monday morning as it's on the only route to a primary*** school)

* sidewalk
** apartment building
*** elementary
**** I probably missed some

today must be national blocked-off street day
tried to drive home from the library, sat for two blocks crawling in a stupid traffic jam because of some dumb blocked off street thing that I couldn't really figure out so ducked down to next main street running in opposite direction...wee center lane blocked off, no left or right turns ever, some 'special event' with barricades and bullshit everywhere even though there was no one walking around

and then turned onto the freeway into a traffic jam because of a 4car pileup on the interchange

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

oh and brimstead otm

headlights are ridic bright now, it's super annoying

when you are a YAY LET'S DO IT NOW person and your partner is a 'let's wait and see' methodical person

it's like being a windup toy that's all wound up and someone's holding me up in the air with my little legs spinning widly ;_;

Slingbacks.

PREACH

holiday ups/postal service IA #2,597

ordered a present for my sister 3 weeks ago. scheduled to deliver last friday according to ups tracking. and it then sat, with no updates, no nothing for 2 days. I contacted the seller's customer service. They parroted what the UPS tracking said and told me to contact UPS. cool.
I do lots of package tracking through work, but we have an account and a code to actually let us talk to live ppl, but I haven't had to actually contact UPS as an entry-level user in a long time. Call UPS, get automated voice asking for tracking, give tracking, automated voice tells me what I can already read on the website, and offers a list of options, none of which is to talk to anyone.
Fire up their customer service chat, talk to a person about my tracking, who for a third time now parrots back to me what's already on the website.
I ask when will it deliver. She says, I'm not sure but keep an eye on the tracking.
I say, I've been keeping an eye on the tracking for 3 days now, and nothing has changed. Is this package actually going to deliver?
She says: keep an eye on the tracking

2 days later, so now a full 5 days of no movement, it finally updates with a bunch of destination scans and shows out for delivery, scheduled delivery today! Wee.

Get home, no package.

Check tracking. Out for delivery...to the post office. Scheduled delivery updated to: Saturday. Which explains why this thing is taking so fucking long to deliver, because the stuff that UPS carries for the postal service may as well be sent by unicycle for all the priority it gets.

I fucking hate the holidays.

Reading stuff like Sherlock Holmes, things they'd send in the morning would often get there in the afternoon. And that was before motorised transport.

In the last year I've had two things that have arrived a *month* late (birthday cards, rent cheque). I also see that other flats in the building will get nothing for weeks and then 4 things on the same day, which makes me think the PO is batching things up for some reason.

(This is UK)

srsly the world is going to hell

Couple of years ago I received a xmas card sent from UK to US a whole year after it was sent

UPS at the holidays is terrible -- a lot of temps fucking up, like the guy who never figured out which floors suites were on.
It's an 8 story building w/ 14 suites, 2 East, 2 West, 3 East, 3 West, etc.

"whatnot"

i used to feel this way about "same difference"...

I've never known how to parse "same difference". Is it saying these two things produce the same difference with an arbitrary reference and are therefore the same things?

I guess there are always going to be some assholes in a building as big as ours

I took a risk and bought some Name Brand Denim super cheap at discount online retailer 6 pm and these jeans are amaaaaaaazing and I just went to go buy another pair and they are sold out of my size and I can't find them anywhere else on the whole wide internet.

I guess there are always going to be some assholes in a building as big as ours

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 4:22 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How big are your assholes?

Also I left one of my good gloves in a cab today, which means all I've got are my hideous florescent yellow Walgreens stretchy gloves.

How big are your assholes?

big enough to have his own website aggregating his internet presence

which leads off with a quote of a certain Journey lyric

Cousin abbreviated as "cous" instead of "cuz".

Two cousins make cous cous

i am going to sound like an old fashioned ia grump but hey

i really hate the photo christmas card trend, the kind that's one sheet printed both sides. why bcz reasons:

i) i dont have enough fridge magnets or string & tiny clips to display them & they dont stand on a shelf well at all

ii) unsigned & a printed message feels like, idk, getting a card from your insurance agent

iii) pets. yes you have them & thats cool you put just photos of yr pets on this card but i dont want a card from your dogs/cats. call me crazy but maybe a photo of you wd be cool? otherwise why do it idk

iv) kids. same thing. i like yr kids but the card is from you. i dont want just a photo of yr kids unless i am a grandparent

v) i kind of hate the newsletter style too. wow you extended the patio & travelled to barcelona bully for you

i like cards, old fashioned cards with a handwritten signature & maybe a message but not essential

at least hand-sign yr photo cards? idk.

***caveat: this is my own personal IA bc i have a shelf of now TEN of these fking things mostly from relatives i barely know & hardly any feature photos of them irl & today i received one of just cats that pushed me over the edge. but i have recieved a couple of coolly designed ones too, and i understand the time-saving appeal, large far-flung families it can be v useful etc. so fyi i am srsly not hating on u personally if you do this it's just WHY AM I GETTING A CARD OF YR GODDAMN CATS FFS *******

Ban all cards.

Cept blue mountain ecards.

I really just shred all cards I receive.

i do like getting cards, is my thing. which makes me an ungrateful jerk :(

fucking american recipies with their CUPS and their OZ wtf i'm gonna ruin christmas

also: my spelling

cup = ~240 ml
fluid oz = ~30 ml
oz by weight = ~28 grams

Thanks -- I've been using a buncha conversion sites (found out that wolfram alpha was NOT the way to go, fwiw) so I got through OK, I think.
Next time I think I'll go ahead and write out the converted stuff immediately, instead of doing one thing at a time. (cuz I ain't ever gonna memorize all those conversion rules) Ooor not be all tumblr-recipe-bro-do-you-even-bake and just use a Norwegian recipe.

In completely non-angry news, I now have a big bowl of gloopy sugar porridge in the fridge. I tastes like a dentist appointment, so I expect the final cookies to turn out wonderful. Or overly sweet, which I believe is synonymous with perfect.

Related, stood in front of a dress shirt display here in Sydney, and realized I had no idea what size I wear.

start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

23 and Me just informed me:

Misophonia

About 25% of women and 19% of men report being 'filled with rage' by the sound of others eating.

i am the 25%