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

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.

http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/03/04/13/oranges-Twitter.jpeg

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

It's like those people who say "Is your name pronounced Jeeen or Jhawn" and then persist in the wrong pronunciation.

YES. Also more specifically, subverting the convenience of having payment info on file by having users confirm (read: re-enter) payment info when they make a purchase.

I was all set to post here how much I hate the phrase "Country Boy Loaded".

But while I was looking around for some screen art, I realized two things:

1.) The phrase isn't some national ad slogan. It's just a guy up the interstate who's using it.

http://i.imgur.com/XUgSdOV.png

and 2.) Seeing all those Dodge Ram pickup trucks with COUNTRY BOY on the back followed by these COUNTRYMAN mini Coopers kinda balances everything out.

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

wonder what all dave ward did to that hat

it worked

I figured counrty boy loaded was like cheerleader drunk

h/t to pp, btw, for reminding me today of another thing that makes me IA: moralizing articles about "selfies." Specifically, the tourist who fell off a cliff at Macchu Picchu referred to as a "death by selfie" even though someone else was taking the photo. But even had that not been the case, that tut-tut tone that comes up every time "selfies" are criticized, as though it's any worse than asking someone else to take a photo of you.

IA that no one took my bait about hearing a condensed version of how the tourist fell.

http://i.imgur.com/TjFJC3m.jpg

IA when people don't use the perfectly good new IA thread...

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

lol @ country boy loaded

sorry for posting lol on the old IA thread

I don't think of these threads as being sequential. More like Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II

(That said, if any mods wanna lock 'er up, feel free.)

TV shows and movies where fake ice doesn't float.

Not irrationally angry but irrationally annoyed - mixing up the order of 'much less' statements. The more extreme/outsider option goes second, damn it.

http://adage.com/article/campaign-trail/hillary-clinton-wrong/306676/

I've had random political conversations with blue-collar workers (including, just last week, a non-union steelworker in town to help erect a luxury hotel) who would never step into a Blue Bottle artisanal coffee shop, let alone a Starbucks.

ok, yeah, that one makes no sense to me

if it was some rich person, I could see that direction working

When people use threads that have been superseded by newer ones.

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

we should lock this one maybe?

I've mentioned this before, but RED is not the color to be used for the affirmative message "OK, your fuel card has been recognized by the computer."

https://i.imgur.com/xcg4NQM.gif

Two years pass? Good Lord, where am I.

Necro'ed a thread!

I used this one because Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread) was locked!

everyone just says what they're irrationally angry about in every thread now

The "victory garden" IA thread is the latest one!

when you're wearing wired earbuds and the cord catches on something, the action of the earbud(s) ripping out of your ear feels so jolting and violent that it activates your fight or flight response and you feel like you've been assaulted

when you bump the wrong thread

when you're on google maps and you can't find the name of a street no matter how close you zoom in and/or how far you trace its path

Yes!

Pretty sure that that, combined with Maps' refusal to tell you the actual address of a business, is part of a deliberate plan to stamp out traditional human-brain-based ways of finding places.

Any e-mail with a terse request for information followed with multiple punctuation. Just e-mailed by the main group offender: "Latest status???" was the first e-mail's text, followed by a second "And more…..updated charts??"

So many sarcastic answers ("were two question marks insufficient and not driving your request home?") come to mind. It's definitely an irrational irritation, or an irrational expectation of minimum courtesy when asking for information, particularly from a peer.

Emails with "URGENT" in the subject line, just in case my morning wasn't already panicky enough.

It's funny how after you reply to an URGENT email, having busted yr ass to get whatever tasks done or information collated and put a little note at the end saying "let me know if anything looks amiss or you need any more information" and while you remain on high alert in case you have to scramble to get something else together or undo everything you did, there is never any reply for ages and it's like it actually wasn't urgent at all

My boss writes messages with ???? or even !!!!!! in whatsapp groups, it's mainly because she is incredibly rude to everyone who works for her.