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

If you have multiple issues or need more than an hour to discuss your issue

an HOUR to discuss something with your doctor? as a resident of the united kingdom, let me just say: eh heh, eh heh heh heh

_If you have multiple issues or need more than an hour to discuss your issue_


an HOUR to discuss something with your doctor? as a resident of the united kingdom, let me just say: eh heh, eh heh heh heh

On reflection, it sounds like one of those rules that’s written just for one person. I wonder if there is a patient who is a real talkative hypochondriac.

I will say this--after a year of paying specialists hundreds of dollars for 15-20 minute appointments that got us nowhere, we got our Long-COVID-afflicted daughter into a GP who talked with her for nearly an hour and prescribed stuff that is actually working for the first time, and she bulk-billed (which in Australia means it cost us nothing). I'm still reeling.

That's awesome!

Airlines are my go-to counter-example to the idea that the free market will produce the best outcomes for consumers, or is responsive to them.

It's the fact that airline staff are able to (and do!) summon armed police to deal with customers complaining about being lied to that I have a problem with. And people are just fine with this? The last time I flew Ryanair, which was unavoidable, there was a woman at the gate crying because she had missed her flight despite being AT THE GATE. She was waiting for the queue to die down, they made no final call or anything, then closed the gate while she was standing there even though they knew she was getting on that flight. They just told her she'd need to go and buy a new ticket, and that was it. And then our flight was delayed because they were had overbooked it, so they offloaded some young lad from the back of the plane who didn't really know what was going on. No apology, no offer of compensation (he told his friend, who was sitting right behind us), just "we'll put you on a later flight". It's beyond crappy. I hate them so much.

I guess we can't blame the airlines for this, but being subjected to occasional sniffing by police dogs is really something we should not have accepted.

And people are just fine with this?

I mean, ime, no, people are most definitely not fine with this. But what are we going to do? Per your first sentence, the risks of vocally complaining are pretty fucking high! If you don't just quietly nod and smile along with whatever latest travel indignity they throw at you, you risk missing out on your flight entirely. The only real choice it so simply not fly, but that's really not a choice in many situations - not least because here in America (not to make it an American centric argument, as you rightly point out this is a global issue) we really don't have good options for cross-country travel.

I don't think there's anything irrational about loathing airlines

It's the fact that airline staff are able to (and do!) summon armed police to deal with customers complaining about being lied to that I have a problem with.

Oh, for sure. I understand that feelings are heightened due to all the disruptive passenger incidents--and the boogie man of terrorism. But I worked in some form of customer service for nearly two decades, and have faced my share of abusive customers (as everyone in customer service usually does). I certainly never got to call the police--hell, most of the time, my employer's stated policy was "they're mad at the company, not you, so just smile past it and keep on trying to assist them."

So we have this thread and the Irrationally Angry Pt 3 thread both active?

oh that just makes me mad

two margarines on the go

Don't let the days go by
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Something that makes me more irrationally annoyed than irrationally angry:

film posters where they have the names of the main actors listed across the top, and the same actors are all pictured immediately below, but the names aren't above the correct actors.

Yes!

OTMFM

They do it on purpose, for some reason. Maybe just to irritate people! Get more eyes on the poster, even if it’s just to point out and laugh at some of the stranger juxtapositions?

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61twEzxqOwL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

0 for 5. it should be a match game.

Maybe it’s too on the nose if they line up, it’s like during a sitcom’s opening credits when the character looks at the camera

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

i've noticed this. i've never seen one where it lines up, so i figure they do it on purpose, but wouldn't know how to verify it.

it doesn't bother me for whatever reason

my best guess is that it's some old school superstition

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNTU0NmY4MWYtNzRlMS00MDkxLWJkODYtOTM3NGI2ZDc1NTJhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjU0OTQ0OTY@._V1_.jpg

I'm sure it's a contractual thing but still

ah, yeah, i'm sure that it's it

* that's it

Of course names on a movie poster aren't acting like a chyron and it doesn't always bother me. I think it's mostly when the names are floating immediately above the heads of the wrong people that I notice it and it makes me irrational.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mqsAAOSw2gxYn47M/s-l400.jpg unless this is one of those body switch comedies?

Definitely think it’s contractual, like De Niro’s name has to come first when read left to right, but he prefers that his left side is what shows on the poster.

Clearly Murphy and DeNiro are giving the stink eye to the poster designer for getting them backwards.

Actually, this is probably a type of equal billing. Like when there are 2 names at the top of the poster, and the name on the left is lower than the name on the right. One gets horizontal first billing, one gets vertical first billing.

For the movie Outrageous Fortune, half the posters had Bette Midler on the left, half had Shelley Long on the left--not just their names, but the key art was flipped too.

had to look that up...

Both Shelley Long and Bette Midler were promised top billing when they signed to do the film; however, neither was willing to give up top billing to the other. To compromise, Long received top billing in advertising west of the Mississippi River, and Midler received the honor in the east. This agreement extended through the original LaserDisc and VHS release of the title, with discs shipped to retailers in the west featuring Shelley Long and retailers on the east receiving discs featuring Bette Midler.[1]

I think I'd be even more aggravated if instead of every name being attached to the wrong person, just one of them was on the right person and the others were wrong. Never seen that though.

A nice mix here

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2F468gB6XIV5iA7hflaSs0bcUafa7Pyaqw8YP3rnk7iz0.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0f64c9631a36cd393dc51a4746d3f8a97a7f3222

https://www.blackfilm.com/read/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Triple-Frontier-cast-on-poster.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHB7dAJUQAEdVBX.png

oh god, that hurts as much as I thought it would

What's funny about that one is that they're all obviously Photoshopped together so there's no reason they couldn't have switched Hartnett and Franco

i think the hat might've obscured the guy at the back if both the hatted people were in the front.

the picture is aesthetics, the names are billing, two different things.

yeah, obviously, that's why it's an irrational annoyance.

I don't like people listening to or watching things on anything other than 1.0x - especially if I have to listen to it, I find it almost panic-inducing to even have on in the background (my wife does this for example and I really wish she wouldn't, but as it's in Chinese I can generally tune out) - but I suppose the irrational part here is that I'm annoyed by the thought that anyone anywhere in the world is doing it because it seems like infodumping into your brain rather than taking time to experience and consider, and if something is too dull or unimportant to pay attention to then it's surely better not to bother at all - and the shallow multitasked understanding of things gained from infodumps seems like a curse of the internet age on the world.

amen

i agree with this but my husband does it for his school lectures, and a certain point, i get it— he’s an intelligent guy who needs a piece of paper to get the job he deserves, listening to some asshole drone for 1.5 hrs instead of 2.25 hrs about management strategies in the healthcare context seems like it can be forgiven.

it still drives me crazy in a sonics way tho

Thread title purists

"That song's not really obscure, is it? And it wasn't a single, and you heard it in a supermarket."

If you don't like sic, just say so.

In the UK, you can only buy paracetamol and anti-inflammatories in packets of 16. They generally come in small square boxes, with the tablets in two blister packs. You can open the box either end; one end gives instant access to the treasure but the other involves unwrapping the instructions/list of side-effects etc which is an unreasonable faff.

Now, I'm aware of confirmation bias and all that (yes, the universe is against me) but I ALWAYS get the wrong end. I'm not above starting a spreadsheet to track this shit.

The other day I watched a youtuber making a batch of coca cola from the original recipe, and when he got to the part where the extract of coca leaves was required he said "this is illegal, so I have to substitute something with a similar flavour" - just wasting my time, his time, the viewers time, no idea why he bothered making the video, thumbs down.

'If you’re reading some strange science fiction and books about magic you can kind of get into Bowie’s head and see it’s sometimes quite a strange place.

'A dangerous place, a place you wouldn’t want to live too long.

'The levels of cocaine Bowie was consuming is not just illegal for a professor like myself, but it’s much too expensive – as well as unhealthy.

'So at the weekend I had a six-pack of energy drinks to try and simulate the experience of illegal substances. It made me very jumpy.'

x-posts And that is why I'm bringing a Costco sized bottle of 500 ibuprofen back with me when I go home in March. I hate those stupid small boxes with their no pills in them.

There are mints called ice breakers in the US where one side has a dispenser for one mint and the other has a larger one to dispense a few. The sticker on them is supposed to say something like "to share" on the side that dispenses many and "not to share" on the side where you get on. I used to get these frequently and I think 90% of the time the sticker was on wrong.

> I hate those stupid small boxes with their no pills in them.

this has saved so many lives from accidental (or otherwise) overdoses just by making it slightly harder to stockpile pills (paracetamol especially). it's worked so well that i got a bit o_O when i saw a 3-for-£1 offer in the pound shop recently. (uk law says 100 is the limit, but MHRA 'best practice' says 32)

Yes, I have heard this argument before I don't know how true it is. As far as I'm aware, there isn't a mass epidemic of people ODing on Tylenol in the US despite the fact that you can buy hundreds at a time. Very quick look says there are 200 deaths from paracetamol/acetaminophen in the UK each year and about 500 in the US.

Maybe the impact is on hospital admissions rather than deaths because that would make sense from a policy perspective in terms of the NHS and if that's the case then I can understand the logic. It's just that when you're used to being able to buy much larger quantities of something, and therefore having to do so very infrequently, it's annoying af.