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

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.

I'm pretty sure the Ice Breakers thing is an intentional joke.

Wait, is it?? You have no idea how long this drove me nuts for. Every once in a while it would be on right but 8 or 9 times out of 10 they were wrong! If anyone has any on them now - check it. I'd love to know.

I would be so miserable without my big ol 500 count bottle of ibuprofen

i have icebreakers on my desk right now. one side says "many" and the other says "one" and the sticker is on correctly. i buy them often and as far as i can remember i haven't noticed the sticker ever being wrong, maybe they stepped up their sticker application game

Thank you for weighing in. I haven't had them in over 5 years but I stg the damn stickers were never on correctly.

i bet they changed "share" to "many" in the covid era, perhaps it was in that moment of reflection they decided to get the sticker on right

CaAL, do you know that Coca-Cola actually has historically been given a special dispensation to import coca extract?

Analogous to how NIH has historically gotten all the drugs they want (in order to study them, of course).

yeah that also annoyed me - even modern day coca cola has coca extract, but this "authentic original version" doesn't!?

Analogous to how NIH has historically gotten all the drugs they want (in order to study them, of course).

― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, January 30, 2024 10:52 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Cocaine solution, 1.0 mg/mL in acetonitrile, ampule of 1 mL, certified reference material, Cerilliant®

Since Covid I pick up a couple of boxes of paracetamol whenever I'm in Superdrugs cos yeah it's annoying, you can go through a couple of packs in one bout of illness then you haven't got any to keep!

Creative AI is so boring

why does my upstairs neighbor need to shout AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS every time he sneezes?

Don’t get me started about neighbors clearing their throats like they’re expectorating baby Godzilla

xp It's cos he takes a deep breath and gets real high

For some reason (probably a stupid reason) I started following some social media groups based on local history.

I am an avid student of local history- not in an idolatrous way, it's just one of my scholarly interests. Further, knowing the more about the history (good and bad) of the ground I stand on provides richer context and makes me feel more connected to my community and its culture.

Anyway approximately 72.4% of what people want to talk about is Boomer nostalgia shit about how much they miss the town they lived in when they were younger, and how much it has changed. Guess what? That is what wooly mammoths and tyrannosaurs would probably say (if we could ask them, and if they could answer).

And do NOT get me started on how indigenous folks might react to your feelings about how a store you used to shop at has now closed, grampa.

xp haha

The year is 2024 A.D. ...

https://i.imgur.com/WcbbIEv.png

Where the Sherwin-Williams is now?

See, even you know. Where has Greg been lately?

Posted that here as a follow-up to Puffin's post. That restaurant has been mentioned so many times on the same "Then & Now" page that at this point, it's pretty obvious that the Boomers are just looking for excuses to post that name in ALL-CAPS to see if anyone tries to get "P.C." on them.

Pplains, it's interesting that people who have reached a certain age (mostly, yes, I mean Boomers) tend to want to voice their mourning about retail establishments.

They don't tend to want to talk very much about parks or museums or houses or vehicles or trees or specific household appliances or pets or items of clothing. They want to talk about a store they used to shop at sometimes.

People can like what they like, of course, and mourn what they choose to mourn. I am just bored by people talking about stores and restaurants and shopping malls.

Please note thread title

Oh, thread title noted. Your post was very appropriate for this thread.

For some reason, I thought Sambo's became Seasons. Apparently not. Some of the stores changed their name to "The Jolly Tiger." The one remaining Sambo's, in Santa Barbara, changed its name in the wake of the George Floyd protests to "Chad's."

I always thought they and Denny's had some sort of Hardee's / Carl Jr.'s relationship.

History tends to get studied chronologically, with good reason. I love studying history, but my sense is that history education isn't paced well.

We always spent most of the year on stuff like the Stamp Act and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act and Teapot Dome. Never even got to the Cold War.

Or, teachers would (at the end of the school year) suddenly fast-forward through more recent history and call it good. Evidently it is way more important to talk about Lewis and Clark or Andrew Carnegie than, say, Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich.

It is currently March 2024. My child's AP US history class has gotten up to... 1890 or so. We're talking about the Gilded Age, and looking forward to discussing the rise of industrialism and vertical integration. At this rate, how on earth will they ever get to suffrage, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Selma, Vietnam, Iraq Wars, the internet, George Floyd?

The answer is that they won't. Or perhaps they will, in the last week or so of the school year, spend a cursory few days on the history that is actively affecting millions of lives right now.

Teachers chronically claim that they simply run out of time. I dunno, as I am not a teacher, but maybe we could plan better? Maybe spend a little less time on the specific details of the Missouri Compromise so you have a bit of time left over for, say, 9/11?

Not irrational to get angry about this— and it’s also worth noting that there is some amount of speculation that this is intentional. Ie— get up the civil rights movement and anti-Vietnam sentiment and then history stops there, which allows a rosy picture of this so-called democracy to take hold

Yeah the weird thing is that I can talk with my kid for hours about the Constitutional Convention or westward expansion or the Louisiana Purchase.

My problem is that she will never, ever, ever, get a lesson that covers Stonewall or Watergate or the ERA. Because American history ends, apparently, in approximately 1930.

Yeah, it’s frankly infuriating. It also makes me realize that my public middle school education was a lot better than I realized— 8th grade history was the 20th century, and we got up to the Reagan years. We took a class trip to visit the Vietnam memorial. And in English class, we read Wiesel’s Night, and had frank discussions with our 60+ teacher, who was Black, about racism. I mean, yeah, it was the Philly burbs so I knew even then it was atypical, but apparently it was a lot more atypical than I ever thought.

Glad you got some real discussion there, table.

Seems like every school I've encountered (which is quite a lot) is like "oops, it's June, guess we have to stop now," when they get to maybe 1910.

We only got up to WW2 in my American history class but my friends on the AP course got closer to the present day (and got assigned Zinn). But we had tons of electives (European history, USSR, Political Behaviour, World Religions) to take up the slack.

my high school ap american history teacher somehow finagled the school into allowing him to teach an elective that was entirely focused on the history of the vietnam war. i only realized how cool that was after graduating. he wasn't the aged hippie type you would expect that from though. he was a sensitive soul from the deep south and was somehow still a true believer in the US, so he was very disturbed by what he saw as its failings. he once admitted to our class that he felt guilty that he still notices when he sees an interracial couple and hoped that one day it wouldn't register. he would show glory every semester and cry

The equivalent of my AP US history teacher in high school basically covered the same ground as 8th grade, but in a lot more detail and with a lot more foaming at the mouth progressivism. What I remember most is reading primary sources about the Great Migration, and his lecture on all the Black cities and towns that had been destroyed in the South— we learned about the Tulsa massacre!

At first, I'm thinking that maybe it is more important to dig deeper into the Missouri Compromise than, say, 9/11. Everyone knows what the latter is about, while the anniversary of the former isn't observed year after year.

Plus, with a relatively recent event like that, there's going to be much arguing by state education boards about things such as "Was Bush a dimwit who completely ignored all warnings," versus "Bush was a hero who stood on top of a pile of rubble with a bullhorn."

But all that said, I'd be very interested in taking a class that went backwards. "Here's the fucked-up situation we're in today. How did it happen? Well, let's look at the last ten years. Then, let's look at the Invasion of Iraq. 9/11. Hanging chads. The impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton..."

You'll eventually get to a point where the instructor could ask, "Now, how come the U.S. didn't colonize Mexico after winning that war? Stay tuned next week for 'The Missouri Compromise'..."

Everyone knows what the latter is about

You have not met any college or high school students recently, have you.

They know what happened, but maybe not what led up to it.

Which also accurately describes a lot of folks who were alive during it.

True enough.

I’ve been exploring Keto/Sugar-free/Diabetic baking recipes - the authors drive me crazy.

Handwavey instructions like “mix until uniform” (ok…?)
PLUS these types of super-hyperspecific micro-instructions like bake for x minutes “until an inserted toothpick comes out almost clean with just a little batter on it that balls up between your fingers (DO NOT wait for it to be totally clean)”

I appreciate detail but sometimes I really wonder about the ppl who write these things.

fold in the cheese!

In the US school system, do you get lessons on history around the world? Like WW2, ancient civilizations, French Revolution, Russian Revolution? In Brazil, we'd always have 2 different teachers, one for 'World History' and the other for just Brazil. Sometimes it was hard to tie the 2 togethers...

Also, BR history we did try to get as close to the end of the 1960s/1970s Military Dictatorship (we had others, that's why I have the year there), and some political reform things (like the 1988 Constitutional reform), but I feel we do lose a bit in looking at other details, like trying to explain our external debt, or our economical situation in the 80s with hyper inflation. It also had nothing on the strikes done by the steel workers in SP (where Lula rose to prominence)

My kid took AP Euro last year