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

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%

Me too. The guy right behind me at work is a compulsive gum-squelcher. I don't dare take my headphones out all day.

I've even started to hate the sight of him doing it even if I can't hear it. The jaw grinding incessantly up and down, the temples bulging out and in again with each grind...

When I was a kid I brought home some chewing gum from the sweetshop and my mother told me not to let my dad catch me with that. Now I guess I know why.

(In general I don't mind eating sounds nearly as much as sniffling/snoring/phlegmy sounds, though. Mainly just squelchy noises and people who audibly chomp down on the fork with each bite. Yeah I'm kind of an asshole, I wish I could turn it off too.)

I don't know it this is the right thread. But I'm fucked up over this. This is the extreme version, there were nuances. But quite honestly, fuck nuances in cases like this.

I might have saved a guys life yesterday. And then he yelled at me for not doing enough. And then my friends made fun of me for always wanting to be a hero. And now I'm completely fucked up about it.

what?

sounds like an emotionally charged situation and, as is often true in such situations, the emotions themselves were rather poorly calibrated.

I only just got time to really think about it, and I realized I basically had an anxiety attack yesterday. So yeah, poorly calibrated :)

And I didn't save I guys life, that was me being bitter at something. As me and my friends go to a bar, there's a guy lying on the ground, and two other guys are shouting and kicking him. And a circle of people around them threatening with calling the police. But doing nothing. People don't know what to do, I didn't know what was happening, but after a while I ended up standing between them, with the two guys trying to ignore me so they can hit the third guy, but then at the end they go away. And after that the third guy begins shouting that nobody did anything to help him, and according to him it's obviously because they were 'fucking immigrants' (he used the worst slur we have in Danish) and none will do anything against 'fucking immigrants.'

I'm with six other guys, and I'm the only one who did anything to help. Trying to talk about it, they are of course extremely defensive, it ends with a friend of mine shouting at me because he has worked with criminals, and I disrespect his authority by not admitting that I could easily have been killed (so yeah, if they were possible killers, then I saved a guys life. But they weren't), and that the right thing to do was to walk past as if nothing happened, like he did. And then I had an anxiety attack.

Fuck the world.

I did the right thing when I walked past 9/11

I don't like bigots but good on you for stopping people for kicking a dude on the ground

Not a big fan of calling the cops but yeah, get authority involved if some guy is getting beat up. Also get better friends, wtf

Seriously, whether the dude was an asshole or not he didn't deserve to have the shit kicked out of him. I don't know if your friends feel guilty or what, but you did the right thing in a situation where everyone else was apparently spectating.

All lives matter, right?

Oh man I've got one: Ceiling fan periodically turning on full blast by itself

Haha. I was at my mother-in-law's last year, and she had this remote-control ceiling fan. I kept getting into an on/off/fast/slow war with someone over it, and even accused my wife in the living room of working against me. Finally figured that there had to be someone else in the building with the same fan.

So, you know, kill yr neighbors.

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poltergeist

Not being able to get back to sleep when I wake up in the middle of a night I have an early start on the morning of. Especially when I'd had to get up first thing the night before and had also woken up hours before'
Now got a long day's travel on 4 hours sleep. Bah humbug.

Need to look into how to sleep better. Hopefully things will be a bit different in the other environ.
Seems that if heat is on in the room I try to sleep in here I can't breathe and I'm wondering if I'm being woken up by the cold or something. Double bah.

Fake graphic equaliser displays on audio equipment that just cycle through a predetermined set of spikes/lows, rather than actually reflecting what the music is doing. I have 2 things that do this now, not sure what the point is

THis looks like it's gone back to being the active thread. What happened to pt3?
Can see why I screwed up thinking this was that this morning cos I'd had 4 hours sleep.

Part Three

can we have a 4th thread for actual IA stuff, change the 3rd thread to "general whining" or something

whenever anyone says that a politician isn't qualified to be president/governor because s/he's never "run a business." As though owning and managing a lumber warehouse translates well to the executive branch.

Yes!

GOV. - "B-b-but, I've run a state?"

COPY STORE MANAGER - "BUT NOT A BUSINESS!"

I get IA hearing most people discuss politics. Including myself, tbf.

I suppose back when companies sent in Pinkertons to kill striking workers being a business owner was pretty good prep for being President

I get really irrationally angry about waste/inefficiency in general. Last night there was this box in the mail room of our building from something called Blue Apron that had "Free/please take" handwritten on it. So my wife brings it back and it's some stupid home-delivery food+recipe service and everything in it is vacuum sealed in individual plastic packages. One strip of bacon. Ten walnuts. A 1/4 cup of grated parmesan cheese. 2 oz of chicken. etc. All comes with ridiculously detailed instructions for how to prepare specific meals ("roast your lone clove of garlic in the oven at 450 degrees. Set aside in a warm dish"). Jesus fucking christ you overgrown manchildren learn to shop and cook it isn't that fucking complicated! Grrrr angries up the blood just thinking about the carbon footprint of this service, driving all this plastic-covered crap directly to someone's door so they can pretend they know how to make adobo chicken.

an individually wrapped bay leaf

a package of ramen noodles labelled as "gourmet downtown tokyo style pasta"

Blue apron makes me angry too. But for different reasons. I love convenience and shortcuts, but if you are going to deliver me a box of individually wrap things, I better not have to do a stupid recipe to prepare them to eat. Or have to dirty a dish.

Right? Why not just deliver the prepated meal

Crush it like an ice pack and it instantly heats, rip off the end and dump it in your food hole. Done. It's how all food should work.

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shit sorry for huge

"made right here"

I get really irrationally angry about waste/inefficiency in general.

Can you come and yell at the people on my housing estate who throw all their cardboard packaging into the regular bins even though the large green well labelled recycling bins are literally right next to them.

Now I see the appeal of those. Open and eat! No cooking needed!

> Can you come and yell at the people on my housing estate...

and also mine to yell at the people who fill their recycling bags with polystyrene. thanks.

(the council included notes in with the last batch of bags pointing out that it cost 7 times more to handle non-recycling in the recycling bags than just throwing it away, 'if in doubt, leave it out' was the tagline.

they also included labels to add to your recycling which, as long as the recycling bag contained 'good' recyclables, would go into a prize draw for like £500. was tempted to fill 20 bags with one newspaper each...)

Somebnody put some fire in my recycling waste bin and now its a great big mass of solidified molten plastic and packaging.

the peeled oranges are apparently a godsend for people who have arthritis or other physical disabilities

Websites that let you tick a box to REMEMBER ME but which never remember you

Agree. I just want all websites to remember me forever. Is that I much to ask?

ugh yes i hate that