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

there's a war on.

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

this is definitely an innocuous thing and it makes me more mildly annoyed than IA, but i don't like when people's facebook comments are nothing more than them tagging other people. put it on your friend's wall or send a private message. comment threads are for actual comments.

Tweets from highly and justly esteemed writers which are noting but their next bookstore signing, and (barf) the most asskissing, "now blurb meee" kind of blurbs (retweeted by blurbee of course) Cmon gimmee freebie culture dammit! Comedians even worse but ft

Musicians not as bad except some are stupid, tweetwise anyway

i find myself getting very ia at people who dont interrogate conversation, who just wait to talk and continue to talk talk talk and barely acknowledge other contributions

i like conversation when it is like a game of tennis. i do not enjoy being the backyard wall against which you repeatedly smash your 'conversation'

a) never ever go on facebook; it is the absolute worst

b) unless you are drunk and desperately seeking human contact; even then it will be a mistake

c) would totally become unhelpfully drunk with jbr/dow/veg tho!

d) first round's on veg

all round to my place for fap :D

annual rolling threads that needn't be annual

-pizza places that don't sell pizza by the slice

(I politely walked out of two pizza places in one day because the first one didn't sell slices after 6 pm and the second one told me there'd be a 15 minute wait because "our slicing pizza is still in the oven.' this was the one time in my life I was tempted to get on Yelp and write some irate reviews)

overly tailored tshirts on casual friday (ie neatly rolled up sleeves, tucked in etc)

just relax and wear a damn tshirt.

Needing to work out if the zip I used in the construction of a pair of jeans last year that I wear regularly or if I just keep forgetting to zip it up. Keep finding it down anyway. So just wondering if it's the zip or my memory.
& it would be the pair of jeans that needs a special needle to sew the fabric.

Wondering how long I'll have to wait until I can comfortably collect a shelving unit without being absolutely p-ed on trying to get it home. Weather is atrocious for last few days and I need to transport this flat pack I bought. Waiting for an actual break in bad weather.

That was supposed to say about whether a zip needed replacing or if my memory was going. Looks like the latter if I forgot to put in the bit about replacing. & i only made the jeans about 3 or 4 months ago so it should hopefully not mean a zip needed replacing yet. Keep finding myself flying low though.

Also trying to work out which side of the fabric i'm using for a pair of tartan jeans should be the outside/inside since they look very similar. & I don't want to get it wrong throughout. Guess that would at least be consistent though.

Stevolende, I have a question about jeans fly covers. Mine constantly bunch up, exposing the top part of the zipper. I have considered that the reasons might be:
- waist is too tight (but it happens on looser waists, too)
- my gut is pushing down on the waistband
- the button hole has gotten loose, allowing the top flap to sag (though I have tried sewing up the button hole without success, possibly due to my lack of skill and understanding)

Any advice on how to treat this problem? Some kind of insert to stiffen the flap?

Here is a pic of the problem.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8569/16069669409_693c9d1c35.jpg

And so it's on topic: this folded flap makes me SO IRRATIONALLY ANGRY

I think I just tend to wear shirts outside my jeans so it's covered up. Will think about it but not sure offhand.

Might be that you need to make sure you've ironed the fly flap. BUt probably not. I don't know if I know enough about construction and subsequent pressures to answer. But could be that it would be good for me to be aware of that for future knowledge.

I've made like 10 pairs of jeans so far so it's still early days. & I'm not sure how successful they all are. Found out that some I'd made some months back really were too large at the waistband. Being largely self-taught I'm not 100% sure what solutions are.

i don't like when people's facebook comments are nothing more than them tagging other people. put it on your friend's wall or send a private message. comment threads are for actual comments.

THIS. When the hell did this kick off? It is irritating. Ive clicked on comments threads that are nowt but tag-ins. Ive even had friends of mine tag me in some other random persons thread. I ignored the callout. PM me or GTFO.

start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3">Karl Malone

Online sellers who aren't satisfied with the fact that you purchased a product from them and did not try to return it or complaint about it, but hassle you RELENTLESSLY to leave feedback, tell us what you think, post about us on social media, blah blah blah

FUCK YOU I gave you money. You gave me a product. We're not married now. I don't owe you anything. I don't have to go to your parents' house for Thanksgiving and I don't have to write a review of your GOD DAMN cocktail shaker. Fuck.

Also:

I was printing out my parents boarding passes from Spirit Airlines last night and they offered the normal nickel-and-dime-you-to-death services and the option to voluntarily pay an additional $1 or $5 to help the airline be more green.

So not a service, just some random fucking guilty bullshit about how if we want this airline to be more environmentally friendly, give us extra money. We're already paying extra money to check a bag and have more leg room than a chicken a 12-by-12 factory farming crate, and now these fuckers have the nerve to try to extort money for their environmental initiative? I'm still so angry about that I can barely form a coherent objection to it.

I'm underemployed right now working as a temp in a law firm.. I got a ton of overtime last week but I am FUCKING FURIOUS because I HATE overtime and I hate my line of work because Im subject to the whims of capricious lawyers who dont give a fuck about my life or free time (or common sense/decency). The irony being I'm making time and a half and have a bunch more money than I would yet I am still FUCKING FURIOUS because theres a lot more overtime in the future.

It also doesnt help that because I'm a temp I'm realizing about 2/3ds of what my employer is paying the temp agency, which is basically the same amont of money I used to make like ten fucking years ago.

thanks obama

^^^great CSR, there, carl. *screams*

I was a participant in the following exchange last week:

Cashier: 'Thanks for shopping with us. Can I take your e-mail address?'
Me: 'No...'

Hate it when I'm too fast for a website. Site loads, I put the cursor on something like "SEARCH" and click, but in that split second between those two actions, the site has loaded up just a little bit more and I wind up clicking on something like "CONTACT US".

When I started at TCS they encouraged us to ask ppl for their email addresses at the register. At first they said it like, "Hey, people might want to know when we have sales! Just ask, if they say no, that's fine obvs." By the time I left they were offering positive incentives to workers who got the highest percentages of ppl to give them an email. I got the feeling negative incentives were right around the corner.

Radio Shack has been really obnoxious about the email stuff for years

lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago

I just had one of those, cash purchase of an overpriced-yet-undeniably-effective hair care product for one of my daughters from a salon I visit for no other purpose.

"What's your last name?" "Is it 'Dusty' Perry?" "I'm supposed to ask." "How do you spell your last name?" "Who normally does your hair here?" Ha ha ha, who does my greying, thinning hair.

Canada Goose Parkas

It also doesnt help that because I'm a temp I'm realizing about 2/3ds of what my employer is paying the temp agency

Not to stoke any further IA, but it's possible that you are grossly overestimating the cut that your temp agency is willing to part with.

Very true. I used to be temped for Accounts Payable jobs, so the most hilarious thing to me was knowing the 'big secret' of exactly how much the company was paying for my services because I was the one processing the bill! (Of course temp agencies never ever want their temps to know this stuff).

I recall more than one job where I got hourly $13, and the agency was getting $22, and that this ratio was pretty usual, so, I got more than half, but less than 2/3 of the payout.

However, and this really ticked me off, one job that was largely funded by taxpayer dollars paid me way less than half of the outrageous sum the temp agency got! I think I got $9 out of $25 bucks on that one! No business like soaking the people.

temp agencies take that much?! damn.

i guess companies will pay to screw people out of benefits

Most of the times I was ever offered to 'go perm' it was usually with a pay cut from what I had been getting as a temp ('but you'll get benefits') so, no, thanks.

One reason I did temp for a long time was that the pay rates had at least something to do with demand, whereas permanent positions tended to be successfully squashed. While it was humiliating in some ways to have the agency taking a lot of money for doing nothing but landing me the spot, that did save me a lot of dreadful human resources interviews and frankly, I just wouldn't have found those positions on my own. I also used to see the most interesting trainwrecks: places where I'd take over the suddenly vacated position of an embezzler, a revenge case, a blazing incompetent. Whole little histories there. The work of course was more boring than not so regular changes of scenery were helpful as well.

lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago

That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):
http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/

I particularly enjoyed VIII and XV, if you've got better things to do than read the whole collection of longwinded rants. But who would have better things to do than that?

omg XV is amazing, I have no idea what that is

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t53/baldie0522/doin-brum.gif

baldie doin-brum.gif

ia: egregiously bad service in restaurants. i'm sooooo chill and forgiving about minor food service slip-ups. i don't care if you smile. i don't care if you refill my water without me having to ask. if i don't say when i'm ordering that i'm allergic to XYZ food item (which would be a gross overstatement, since my food allergies are really trivial), it's a minor inconvenience but not the end of the world if the kitchen forgets to leave it off. i just want a baseline level of transactional ease if i'm gonna choose your place over other places. i had work to do last night and i ran out to get a quick takeout order so i could scarf down some food and meet my midnight deadline. i ended up waiting probably 40 minutes for a dish that at most would take ten minutes to cook from pre-prepped ingredients and assemble in a styrofoam box. and the restaurant was busy, but not slammed. it just made me very stressed out. which is my problem, not theirs. i don't handle stress well. 40 minutes is a long time to wait though.

no i in yr a

so to speak

the level of stress made my a feel i

_lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago_

That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):
http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/

I particularly enjoyed VIII and XV, if you've got better things to do than read the whole collection of longwinded rants. But who would have better things to do than that?

Whoa thank you, aps! I read the first few of those when it was first posted, but missed the great ones you pointed out plus my favorite, the one w/ Stoned Craig going "I'm hungry, Paw." (Which I've said a lot to various people over decades for no reason I can discern, so maybe it's just part of the collective human drive to say it.)

Stoned Je55e

OK that Brum story looool
Original Brum theme was instrumental but TIL there is an extremely lengthy modern version

bill gates the spider

News sites showing handheld video but blurring out the edges? I feel like I see something like this every week or two. Sorry, this is some really traumatic video.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/dying-among-strangers-metro-victim-found-fellow-riders-who-tried-to-save-her-life/2015/01/13/98f6c37e-9b7a-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html?hpid=z3

lately every time i watch some crappy viral video prank, i get IA imagining myself just out and about trying to run an errand and getting trapped in a viral video prank. like that dumb telekinesis coffee shop thing.*

*maybe the reactions are fake, idk.

It's very likely my last dying words will be "Turn your phone sideways if you insist on recording this."

Yeah, it's not because something is being blurred out, it's because people don't shoot in landscape and for some reason news organizations have chosen to present it like that. I think they should just reject all portrait videos.

Why can't phones just format videos in landscape regardless of the position of the phone?

camera sensor orientation? the actual sensor isn't square iirc, I may be wrong

those takeout containers with interlocking flaps - eating from them makes me ia bcz the flaps get in the way

i usually dump it out onto a plate of something but sometimes you can't & raaaaage

Like Chinese take out containers?

if you hold it from the side you are holding down three of the flaps automatically

Blurred margins - you'll also see this sometimes when shows re-run old 4x3 segments in their new 16x9 format.

Was cutting up a carrot for some soup for dinner and lost about half of it to the 3 slices just rolling right off the cutting board and onto the floor.

Weather getting even worse and still not collected flat pack. Had stiff neck on Monday the one day this week when there hasn't been really bad weather, think it was actually calm and sunny.
Snowed last night and now there's a major storm happening tonight and tomorrow.
i was just hoping I'd be able to get this thing home on the bus. Which will be a load of fun in itself. Thing is about 5 foot or so long which means it's a bit awkward. Maybe will have to get taxi and I'm really broke this week.

xp
I don't know your floors but you can rinse stuff off.

Having so much fun trying to get my cursor to keep things selected so it can organise them. Not sure where flaw lies is it a thing with Windows 7 or something.
JUst tried to sort out a load of music on Foobar and instead of it clicking ad dragging a set of tracks it would just shift the highlight across other tracks or click and start playing on any track among several selected.
Then just had even more fun trying to scroll up a page elsewhere on this site to try to click on the link to here.
aaaaaargh

These cutsey little browser messages that appear when a problem occurs.

For example, I guess Firefox didn't shut down properly last night, so now I've got it over here in the other window saying "Well, this is embarassing…" Like it somehow dinged my bumper as it was trying to back out of its own driveway.

The worst is Chrome. "There's no way you can see this PDF of your parcel map because we're Chrome and AWWWWWWW SNAP!"

while we're on computer issues - windows programs which, when you go to open a file, always take you back to some obscure folder on your hard drive rather than the last one you were on, meaning if you want to open multiple files you have to go through the rigmarole of locating the folder you wanted each time.

Oh yeah that sucks. Why do they do that?

there must be a 1337 way of stopping that. it's so frustrating.

i can admit that i am irrationally angered by the npr program "invisibilia"
i hate the way they edit it
the topics are just barely quasi-deep and today i learned the urgent lesson of "your fears aren't real"
the style of speech exemplified in that program annoys me
ugh

invisibiiiilya
so precious, so deep

ok i feel better
definitely need to avoid this program though

Ha Just 15 minutes ago I subscribed to this podcast b/c my therapist recommended one particular episode (not the fear one).

I do hate that but I also hate it sometimes when programs do what you suggest and default to the last one, e.g. if 99% of the files I edit are in a standard documents folder but one day I need to use the same software to edit some configuration file in an obscure location or something that e.g. Google Talk has hidden in its own downloads folder, and then next time I open a document it shows me that folder and not the standard one

in short, why can't software just read my mind

(but please don't actually read my mind either, it is full of junk and secrets)

xxp I just heard the first Invisibilia double-bill this week and kind of liked it - it was good for my walk home, where I don't want to think too hard about anything because I might have to check out for a minute and concentrate on not being hit by a car etc - but while the interviewees were interesting, the questions the presenters asked were so point-missingly "so, a bad thing happened. did that feel bad?", and at one point they were almost falling over each other to emphasise that they totally didn't know anything about this mental health gobbledegook because lol not crazy, I mean this stuff is for the crazies, right? and I felt embarrassed

(ok, I just checked and I've heard the Thoughts double-bill but not the Fear one yet)

i heard the thoughts one
it wasn't so bad tbh
it contained some essential truths -- i guess it's the way they're delivered that makes me want to barf

mostly it's the radiolab-style
my irritation is totally irrational

the radiolab guys make me IA so I can totally relate

Me too. I thought this was way less irritating than Radiolab though.

have not heard yet

Radio lab cuts right through me, so so annoying.

wow i was thinking invisibilia was local because its ad spots sound so low quality. i already hate it without hearing it. i hate the radiolab style so so much.

(how do you feel about people whispering on the radio)

because i totally hate it

yeah what's that thing it says at the end? go into the light? something?

i am just getting increasingly stressed and IA at npr-y things, yelp, gentrification, obama, idk

same

I actually got legitimately IA to an extreme about Serial, as you can read in the clusterfuck Serial thread

I cannot really account for my anger about that show and its fanbase, or my hate-tinged obsession with it

The first ep of Invisibilia didn't bug me too much but I totally get why it would be grating. I hate that call & response kind of editing they did sometimes, e.g., when talking about intrusive thoughts, one subject said "murder" then they cut to another saying "murder" then "arson," "arson" or what have you.

Truly irrational, but I hate it when I see patrons using the new drive-thru at Sonic.

At the grocery store yesterday there I was 2nd in line at the self check-out, even though there was an open counter available. I pointed it out to the person in front of me and they said "That's ok, these other people are almost done, I'm just waiting to use theirs." mjsbfsjkfb

Do you understand how lines work?

When you're next in the line for check-out and the cashier closest to you logs out and fucks off, seemingly oblivious to a queue full of grumbling people.

same IA that I post all the time: fking grocery store customers who just leave their cart in the middle of the aisle while they wander away to inspect cans of whatever RAAAAAAAGE

pull it to the side ffs

one day I'm just going to walk up & flip it over.

When you're next in the line for check-out and the cashier closest to you logs out and fucks off, seemingly oblivious to a queue full of grumbling people.

I hate this too, but I have also been a checkout chick and I remember how at first I felt too bad closing up on a line of people, and I'd always just keep serving people until the line was gone...and then I would only have like 5 minutes of my break left. After a while it was like grab that 'closed' sign and *BOOM* FUCK YOU ALL I AM ON LUUUUUUUUNCH. I would try not to be oblivious though. Oblivious was reserved for the million customers who tried to ask me for help on my WAY to the break room. I learned head down/eyes averted/completely deaf very quickly.

Also trolley rage is not irrational, VG. It is the only sane response to regular people being total assholes.

> pull it to the side ffs

yesterday:
"oh, just let me get out of your way"
(moves pushchair directly in front of the stuff i wanted)

When you're next in the line for check-out and the cashier closest to you logs out and fucks off, seemingly oblivious to a queue full of grumbling people.

This does not happen in the USA. At least not in my USA.

It happens about once in every four occasions in London. Yes, there are lunch schedules and breaks people have to factor in, but this is not the rational, reasonable thread, is it?

Do you not use the box light system?

http://i.imgur.com/c6JxjSn.jpg

Where a cashier about to go on break would turn her/his aisle's light off and then serve only the customers who are still in the line at that moment?

It's a Perfect system.

Like that stops people from getting in the queue!

But then it's on them if the cashier leaves for a break. THEY'RE the ones who tried to game the system.

You underestimate the belligerent Stupid of the Customer.

"Sorry! This lane is closed!"

Stupid Customers always going to be around.

i also hate cashiers/servers/baristas carrying on conversations with each other while customers are being served, even if they are ringing you up while doing it.

i dont need my arse kissed but basic politeness would be appreciated while I am exchanging monies for yr goods

Do you not use the box light system?

I worked at a very crappy, small supermarket with no 'this checkout is open' lights. We had the signs you put up and that was it.

VG, what about cashiers in small stores talking ON THE PHONE while they ring you up? Like, personal conversations. Encountered this everywhere in England, my IA was out of control.

i get IA (emphasis on the I) when i see cars rally parked in parking lots that are not anywhere near congested enough to require rally parking

what's the definiton of rally parking? is that nose pointing out? if so then yes super IA

xpost ugh I hate that too!

What is rally parking?

(Google only presents areas to place your car before political or motorcycle gatherings.)

I hate this too, but I have also been a checkout chick and I remember how at first I felt too bad closing up on a line of people, and I'd always just keep serving people until the line was gone...and then I would only have like 5 minutes of my break left. After a while it was like grab that 'closed' sign and *BOOM* FUCK YOU ALL I AM ON LUUUUUUUUNCH. I would try not to be oblivious though. Oblivious was reserved for the million customers who tried to ask me for help on my WAY to the break room. I learned head down/eyes averted/completely deaf very quickly.

i worked for a union place where working through meals or breaks was not an option, and the company wouldn't have let me stay clocked in for any more time than they had agreed to pay me for. i was often told "go clock out and take lunch right now" by a shift lead even though there was a line full of people. so try not to blame cashiers when this happens; most of the time they're not doing it to be dicks.

this is a management-level problem and probably a corporate-culture problem. and the unions, as imperfect as they are, are only protecting the employees by being so inflexible about things like breaks. those breaks matter.

good cashiers in places with the light-up indicators turn them off reasonably early and then usher a quick last cart through if there's time before a break.

Like that stops people from getting in the queue!

In my America they also block the lane with a chain, a sign on a post, or at least a shopping cart.

What is rally parking?

get bent otm

Yes. Those breaks matter. I think we all agree upon that.

what's the definiton of rally parking? is that nose pointing out? if so then yes super IA

xpost ugh I hate that too!

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, January 18, 2015 8:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep, rally parking is when you back the car in so the nose points out. it's just so smug

I park this way whenever I load groceries. It excites me to think there are people becoming angry at the sight of it.

backing into parking spaces is fun

aka COMBAT PARKING

paramedics & firefighters i know tend to habitually do this in case of quick getaway which is fine

but sitting in a parking lot waiting for some bozo to reverse his boat-sized pickup into a spot is enraging

90% of ppl that i encounter doing this are terrible drivers who suck at reversing & shd be murdered

everyone else, yr good

I saw I Australia angled parking spaces at the curb facing away from oncoming traffic to encourage this "rally" parking.

Also everyone had their rear view mirrors pulled toward them at a 45° angle which I couldn't understand either.

Never heard the phrase "rally parking" before this thread but when I visited a friend in Singapore he pointed out that 99% of the cars there are parked this way - something to do with orderliness or planning for the future or some other supposed shared cultural norm.

This friend had also lived in Thailand (where we were also going to visit) and told me to compare the parking there. When I got out of the Phuket airport and looked for a cab everything was just parked in a giant swarm with empty cars left in neutral so people could push them out of the way as needed. Our cabbie had to move a couple to get his car out.

now that's more like it

loool omg i love it

chaos!

I send an email with queries about a baby class

auto response: "Thank you for contacting *class*...If you are looking for more information on our classes including venues and class times, please visit *website I have visited 1000 times*
If you experience any problems booking or have any questions about the classes, please get in touch."

Me: Hi, not sure if I need to email/call again to get a response to my questions"

auto response: "Thank you for contacting..."

AHHGGGHHH

my (corporate) workplace has an online driving class as part of our yearly junk, required if you drive for work at all. it strongly encourages backing in to parking spaces as backing out of parking is responsible for something like 90% of parking lot accidents

having been hit in a parking lot, seems to make sense to me

also there are parking spots in my (north american!) city that are 45 degree angled like those pplains just mentioned. it's in an area that's been redone in the last decade, and yes, it's back-in parking

we're also getting a bizarre number of roundabouts/traffic circles now, with a bunch of idiots not really knowing how to use them. I have some anger for the people who refuse to acknowledge that different road patterns than they're used to might be ok

Thing about "rally" parking is having to wait for the person in front of you (and perhaps the person in front of them) taking two or more tries at backing in just right, especially when most of these [North American] fuckers are driving huge-ass SUVs. Whereas, parking front-in allows the driver to do this sensible thing of waiting until traffic behind them is gone and then backing out.

Making "rally" parking mandatory to cover for the mistakes of the stupid penalizes the other 95-percent of the drivers out there.

I'm all for roundabouts though. They should replace every four-way stop with one of those. (There, that's three IA threads now where I've stated that.)

I only bought into "rally" parking once I got a vehicle with a backing-up camera display that has little guide lines I can line up with the parking space lines

imo cars of the future, before they become self-driving, will be 90% cheats telling you how to drive better

I've still never driven a car with either GPS or even satellite radio.

hah, my friend has a garmin gps thing, of the stick-it-to-the-dashboard variety that we used on our trip to the chicago suburbs. given that apple maps' voice is siri, we decided that directions from the garmin thing needed a name. so we claimed it was steve giving us directions. steve garmin, navigator supreme

tbh I trust the google maps person more

xp never heard of that (guide lines on backup camera display), that's actually a brilliant idea

i think GPS is more common than satellite radio, these days, especially as the aforementioned Garmin boxes

but can you really trust steve

check siri any time you like
but you can never steve

We have a car iphone holder now and use google maps a lot driving in the city, only because traffic is so unpredictable.

Google saved me ten minutes by routing me in a way that had me crossing railroad tracks and walking over a bridge.

Amazon product Q&As where the As don't A the Qs

Q. Is it any good for gaming?

Sorry i do not no
JOHN answered on 3 Dec. 2014

I've never used it for gaming and its not a smart tv either so wouldn't know, just for viewing.
Martin J. answered on 3 Dec. 2014

I will be able to answer that on Xmas morning :-)
Shane Robson answered on 4 Dec. 2014

I am not a gamer so not sure sorry
LAMBROS answered on 4 Dec. 2014

Sorry Richard I can't help you as I'm not a gamer.
Giro answered on 4 Dec. 2014

"Rally" parkers oh god... i guess it's supposed to be some badass "i'm hot shit" thing but it just makes me think of fannypacks or pedometers

USPS claims a package was "delivered" to our "mailbox." It was a pregnancy body pillow. I don't think that fits in our mailbox.

lol was it sunday delivery? amazon's been helpfully using usps for sunday delivery now, and it's a complete crapshoot whether things actually arrive

I did pay extra for express delivery (I have Prime but this was a matter of H being able to sleep and I felt very urgent about it). And it was for Sunday, I mean I didn't specify Sunday but that was the date they gave me when I chose express.

When you say "been helpful" you mean you think I should call Amazon to complain about the delivery failure?

I couldn't reach USPS because of MLK day obviously.

Yes, tell Amazon that the USPS fucked up and they'll ship you another or refund your money.

And by "helpful" I mean "mean well but USPS's sunday delivery is not good"

Amazon product Q&As where the As don't A the Qs

Q. Is it any good for gaming?

Sorry i do not no
JOHN answered on 3 Dec. 2014

I've never used it for gaming and its not a smart tv either so wouldn't know, just for viewing.
Martin J. answered on 3 Dec. 2014

I will be able to answer that on Xmas morning :-)
Shane Robson answered on 4 Dec. 2014

I am not a gamer so not sure sorry
LAMBROS answered on 4 Dec. 2014

Sorry Richard I can't help you as I'm not a gamer.
Giro answered on 4 Dec. 2014

― give rob da bank a gun... (onimo), Monday, January 19, 2015 2:30 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

People who pipe up to answer support form questions like this:

Can this TV be controlled with PlayStation 3 Remote Control? 5 days ago
Sorry, I have no idea about that.

does it stream amazon instant video 3 days ago
Sorry, we haven't tried that. But it is the best tv in our house.

Can I use my amazon prime account to watch videos on this tv, without another devise? 6 days ago
As far as I know you can. I do not use that service so I am not 100% certain.

― Je55e, Monday, February 17, 2014 1:16 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on a related note, this happened to me recently:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6F8aGxCUAED0PH.jpg

Is that posted because Cuba is actually in the northern hemisphere, or because of the recursion?

In communist cuba, star looks at you.

Amazon reviews not being edition specific is a right pain too.

That I had to go and get management to sort out buzzing distortion on film sound before Birdman.
Not sure what it was cos I don't know the equipment. It got sorted pretty rapidly when I told them.

Am left wondering if other people recognised it wasn't likely to right itself. Or what the problem was. A whole range tinnily distorting. Right on the frequency or whatever people talk on.

Got sorted right in the middle of the 50 Shades of Grey trailer. The existence of that film/book series is bad enough itself

signage or printed materials that have e' instead of é, i mean COME THE FUCK ON YOU HAVE A POWERFUL COMPUTER IN FRONT OF YOU SURELY YOU CAN FIGURE OUT HOW THE FUCK TO MAKE é APPEAR!!!

It looks so weirdly sloppy and awful!!! I HATE IT SO MUCH

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/916/MI0001916153.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Had Tea' as a name in a story last week. Not Téa, as in Fox Mulder's wife, or even Teá, but T-e-a-apostrophe.

It's got to be hard for Americans who have an accent mark in their names. And some people get named with inappropriate apostrophes.

Amazon reviews not being edition specific is a right pain too.

It bugs me when people give a low rating to a product b/c a seller screwed up delivery, or on Netflix when a movie when the quality of sound is bad. They fuck the ratings.

What I was referring to was Amazon having reviews of all versions of the same recording mixing together in a hodge podge so you can't really tell if a certain version is the one to get because all other issues of the record will be grouped together.
Or even all recordings under the same title when it comes down to an artist having both an lp named after what goes onto become a hit song which in turn leads to various compilations having the same title.
Thankfully there are a few other places where you can check different editions but it would make things a lot easier if Amazon made it policy to separate reviews for the editions they were intended for.
Not sure if taht was clear from earlier post.

My first name is Tre. T-R-E. But thanks to this joker:

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

I get called Tré every so often. As if my name is French for "very" instead of Italian for "three".

whistlers
cash machine lingerers
late night phone-in casino programmes

2 big ones

-how insanely difficult it is to plug a cord into a power outlet in the dark
-how when you're outside and on the phone with a business, somewhere in their automated menu tree, and every time a slight breeze comes up the business thinks you are saying something so the whole process gets reset or messed up

how insanely difficult it is to plug a cord into a power outlet in the dark

arrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh SO ANGRY! For a while I had only 1 bedside outlet to share between my lamp and my phone charger, and this was HELL. It would have been quicker to just get out of bed and turn on the overhead light but NO THEN THE FUCKING PLUG WINS

-having to press number options for support calls on a mobile phone

choice between not hearing half the options because you're fucking around trying to get the keypad to pop up and the screen to stop going dark or putting the thing on loudspeaker and irrationally angering those around you

The top pin on my three pin plug for my phone charger folds down on a pointless hinge mechanism. This makes it almost impossible to use in the dark. The pin moves slightly down of its on volition and the pins then don't line up with the holes.

I get a strange feeling of victory when I manage to shock myself by touching the prongs on a plug when I'm plugging something in, sight unseen. It's a victory tingle.

i heard another promo for ~invisibilya~ and i think one of the more annoying things about it is that the hosts sound like they are trying to make their topic sound sexy with their intonation, tone of voice, etc. like covertly. yuk.

fucking slobs in our office bathroom who can't take time to discard paper towel IN the trash, just let it fall to the floor in the general direction

there's a recessed trashcan in the wall under the papertowel dispenser and a freestanding trashcan by the door

there's always a paper towel on the floor by one trashcan or the other & it makes me INSANE

PICK IT UP
PICK IT UP
WTF

you work in my office?

oops outing myself as using the ladies' room obv

the bathroom in our office building is like that, with the addition of a "sicko" who picks his nose while he's going to the bathroom and smears the snot on the wall over the urinal

what the

who would

Exporting a video then realizing there are 5 minutes of blank screen at the end of it because you didn't see some random b roll clip hidden at the far right of the timeline.

PICK IT UP
PICK IT UP

https://lamanufacturera.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/reel-big-fish.jpg

more like reel big pissh

"good egg." the synecdoche is unpleasant and i find everything about its use patronizing.

whistlers
cash machine lingerers
late night phone-in casino programmes

For some reason I picture this list in campus preacher sign format:

http://www.washtenawvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/images_0510/preacher1.jpg

"good egg." the synecdoche is unpleasant and i find everything about its use patronizing.

― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, January 23, 2015 9:15 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well.

Man, I thought Lee Renaldo would accomplish so much more after Sonic Youth broke up.

mm hmm

Woke up angry in the most irrational way. I had a dream I was at the doctor and somebody took the turkey leg and thigh I'd brought and roasted, leaving me with a semi-cooked lump of gristly beef. I got so upset that I said unforgivable things to my closest friends. I woke up growling and grinding my teeth and I still feel angry :(

this is a really irrational one, but i lurk on some weight-loss message boards and everyone there talks about their "journey," which i find off-putting for reasons i can't articulate. i don't know whether it's because it's sort of a new-age cliche, or because it seems a little melodramatic to describe shedding some pounds in the same language as going on an epic trip around the globe. but weight loss is a very emotional process and it changes your life for sure. so i feel like an asshole for wanting people to "use other words please."

Ha, totally with you on that one. But I don't like 'journey' even to describe life's big upheavals. The happy-balanced-eating board I'm on tends to talk in 'process' terms and I like that. They are also quick to admit being put off by anyone who uses what they call 'woo'. There's a hell of a lot of it about when people talk about fat loss on the internet.

also, "journey" implies an endpoint and if you struggle with your weight, there really is no endpoint in your lifetime. you can't take a journey on a treadmill.

They get around that by talking about 'evolving journeys', 'continuing journeys', etc. If you see life as a journey, I guess perspectives on weight, food, movement and so on are just a sub-narrative of your journey.

five year mission to seek out new snacks and new civilizations

mustard that tastes primarily of vinegar

the tube-style packaging for shampoo where the lid is on the bottom -- the lid ends up filling with water while it's in the shower caddy so the next time I go to use it, cold water comes out when I open the cap and uuuuuuuuuuuugh

i swear I'll never buy that kind of packaging again but inevitably once a year I forget :(

... how can the lid end up filling up with water? sounds like a faulty lid

http://www.lorealparisusa.com/~/media/Images/LOP/Home/Products/Hair/Hair-Care/Shampoo-Conditioner/EverPure-Sulfate-Free-Color-Care-System-Moisture-Shampoo/Moisture-Shampoo/HCa4_1_pack-shot.jpg

water runs down the tube into the cap
& under the cap itself

tilt the tube even slightly and water comes out, or when u open it

that's really stupid, with that design, water should drip around the cap. i've used tons of those bottom-cap tubes in the bathroom and never had that problem

argh yes! j'accuse, head & shoulders.

There are a number of shampoos and face and body washes that are packaged that way and they're terrible. It's not just the cold water dripping out, but they also grow black mold. They're disgusting.

VG, I think you've posted about your IA about product design before and I think we could base a FAP around the topic. Tonight I bought Tums antacid mints with a foil seal without a tab to remove it and having to use my knuckle to unseal it bugged the shit out of me.

ugh! i hate that!

totally down for product design fap

With you on those caps. Also I have ia towards screw caps because I always end up trying to screw the cap on with one hand full of shampoo/holding my toothbrush with the toothpaste on it, or whatever.

Not having the facility to lay fabric out at full length so I didn't see that if I changed what I was laying out I could have had jeans as well as a jacket out of the length. So I now have a piece i could have substituted another fabric for cut out of this one fabric and have still to cut something I really have to use this fabric for out of the area i could have cut the jeans from.
I could have cut it from the area I used for the thing I should have substituted/gone int the contrast fabric for. & this thing won't look good with this other piece cut out of the contrast, since it looks like cartoon flowers and would have looked good for the smaller area this is covering not the larger area that has to be covered. - the inner rather than the outer sleeve.
Maybe it will teach me better to think through the possibilities of laying out instead of cutting when I'm half ready but is a major drag.

that was always my biggest failing in dressmaking. i never economized the space of the fabric well enough. it's hard!!

The further drag for me is that it seems most of the fabric I'm buying stops being sold a few months later. maybe people are just selling off one offs or something. So I can't go back and buy more of either of the striped drills that I have lengths of.

I'm hoping that there might just be enough to cut all 3 items from the bottom section, front and back trouser legs and the sleeve. Will see but I don't think it will stretch. I just wasn't thinking there was going to be that length of material left. Plus it had gone off the edge of the table so I wasn't seeing what was there.
Better organisation needed I think.

Will hopefully mean judging by what i've used and have left that I might get a different jacket out of the other length of striped drill I have. Was half thinking of making that into another pair of jeans since one of the first ones I made came from it earlier. & wanted to do another pair now I have more practise.

https://www.google.com/webhp?tab=ww&authuser=0&ei=xWbGVPurN8K6ggTtz4HQDA&ved=0CAcQ1S4#authuser=0&q=%22purchased+for+a+cool%22

WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN????? I HATE IT

Haha I had a similar IA thought about the phrase "state of the art" this morning.

I go through the rounds with "state of the art" a lot.

somebody at a coffee shop or wherever asks you to watch their stuff, and then returns like 45 minutes later

"thanks man"
"sure, may i go pee now"

oh I'd just get up and leave after like 15 min probably, maybe leave a note being like "sry dude, you suck"

"a cool $____$" has been around since at least 1934

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cool_Million

it occurs to me that IA threads are all the material you would need for multiple seasons of a Curb-style sitcom

somebody at a coffee shop or wherever asks you to watch their stuff, and then returns like 45 minutes later

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_Points

Slippers that advertise that you can wear them outside. That's the whole point of slippers - shoes that you don't wear outside so you don't get outside grossness inside your house.

somebody at a coffee shop or wherever asks you to watch their stuff, and then returns like 45 minutes later

i hate hate hate having to be the guardian of some stranger's shit. why are you putting the onus on a total stranger to watch your $1500 laptop or your purse with all your cash, cards, and electronics? why are you putting your trust into that person?

At my wife's employer's holiday party for some reason I became the default guy to watch women's purses. Someone would throw their clutch at me and sashay off to the dance floor and I'd just have to be like "guess I'm hanging out at the table through Blurred Lines, All About the Bass, and Uptown Funk".

i actually did abandon some guy's stuff at penn station because my train was arriving. i had told him i didn't want to watch his bags but he begged and i reluctantly said okay. then he took off for 25 minutes. sorry not sorry dude, hope nothing got stolen (although if it did it would teach him a lesson).

another food IA: when people freak out about "preservatives" and "processed" food and say stuff like "don't eat anything with ingredients you can't pronounce."

a) enjoy throwing out a third of your groceries, bruh. or going to the store every day so you can keep getting new minimally processed, preservative-free food that you're under pressure to consume during the three-day window that it's still fresh and appealing. sure, you can freeze it, but some foods don't freeze as well as others and a lot of it ends up tasting like freezer burn if you don't vacuum-seal it in thick plastic.
b) there's a lot of stuff out there with long scientific names (and i can even pronounce some of them). what is the plant species of that fruit you're eating?
c) unless your doctor (and i mean *your* doctor, not some quack on the internet) tells you to watch out for certain foods because of sodium or possible carcinogens, you're most likely going to be all right. you're going to get run over by a drunk driver before you die from eating a piece of cured meat with nitrates/nitrites.
d) people have been preserving and processing food in some way since the dawn of humankind. if anything, our collective life span has only increased.

(i'm on the fence about GMOs though. i think they can be used for good but not while monsanto's running the world. that's more about corporate evil than about health concerns though.)

also the phrase "no colors that aren't found in nature" (e.g., a dress code rule about hair color). uh, flowers? fish? there are some pretty wild, electric colors found in nature.

i got IA this morning at an intersection when i arrived at the same time as another driver and i waved them to go, and then they wouldn't go but instead did that thing where they waved for ME to go. i swear 80% of the time when i motion for the other driver to go first they refuse. it's not even them being polite, it's something else. someone waves for me to go, i just do it. idgi.

this happens with walking as well. i'm about to cross the street and a car is waiting to go, i motion them ahead and they'd apparently rather wait for me to cross the street in front of them. idk

the sky is a cool color too

i'm terrified of drivers so if i'm crossing the street i'd really rather they go first.

i've seen that thing happen where two cars are at a four way intersection and it's just two drivers flapping their hands at each other desperate to let the other person go first.

sometimes a car is nearing the intersection and i'm really not sure it's going to stop -- i don't trust drivers to stop at reds even though it's the law. and sometimes they're at a full stop and if i need to cross i worry they're going to start up again and run me over. i guess i'm just neurotic.

every green light i drive thru now i do a quick check left and right just in case.

we live at an intersection where drivers will simply fly down the hill and go right through the stop sign, sometimes going about 70 mph. we're on a side street that people like to use as a shortcut to get around a really annoying stoplight so maybe that's it.

The latest Chrome update on my phone has moved the tab select button over a bit and put a menu button where it used to be.

I can't train my finger in these new ways of working and keep opening the menu by accident :(

haha omar if you're still on the eastside i think i know what stoplight you're talking about.

oh yeah you know the one. it's horrible.

When you're walking down a hallway or other public space and there's a person standing in your way with their back to you, talking on the phone or w/e, so you move to your left to go around them, and without looking they somehow instinctively do a 90-degree spin move and end up walking right into you.

about an hour ago two of my coworkers were doing the office version of the stop sign hand-waving where one guy is holding the door open and the other is all no, no, i insist, oh no, please, you first sir, and i walked right between them through the door--i felt slightly rude, but sane at least

Get into the elevator and move to the back, two guys get on behind me, move to either side, and start TALKING AT EACH OTHER right across me in LOUD BRO VOICES, BRUH. It's OK to stand next to each other and talk in inside voices. It only makes you bi-curious, it doesn't actually turn you gay.

That annoys me on buses, when people who know each other either stand on opposite sides of the aisle and talk super loudly or a group gets on and takes a whole double seat each to drape themselves over. If you know each other well enough to talk to each other then you know each other well enough to sit next to each other and not take up the whole damn bus.

Once a big party of language school students got on the bus I was sitting on and headed towards the back (which I was one row in front of) and I moved forward to make room for them all to sit next to each other, except some loud gel-haired bro took up my entire double seat and the last one on got stranded near the front on her own instead. I was IA for myself and also on her behalf.

Today I am annoyed at sleeves. I bought two new sweaters y/day and the sleeves are kind of short and I haven't even washed them yet so they're probably only going to get shorter, at least on the wool jumper. I have pretty short arms too (I assume? normally sleeves are way too long on me) so I can only imagine what these look like on normal humans.

Looks like the waistband I just put on is on wrong. &twisting the zip.
Shame I didn't see that until I'd stitched the whole way round. S o got to unpick from a fabric I'm not sure can take it.
Was hoping to wear them tomorrow too

Somehow u-torrent seems to have reconfigured itself in such a way that instead of downloading audio files in folders thus separating the downloads into whatever live recording they came as they just come down as files stripped of the folders. I can't see what you would need to reconfigure to get it back to the way it was up until yesterday where it had the separating folders.
Subsequently I have several live sets in a larger folder all jumbled up, sorted by the numerical part of their title so I have a load of 1s from different sets, a load of 2s from different sets etc.

Looks like i somehow had automatically update u-torrent ticked on the preferences box and maybe this has the thing needing to be reconfigured since it is possibly a new version of u-torrent but I've never come across an update leading to this. I also don't think I would normally leave an automatically update box ticked if I was aware of it. So am further wondering if I did leave it unticked or bowed to continual notification previously that there were new updates which would probably bug me too, especially if they were happenning with any great frequency.

Looking in the wrong place to try to figure out configuration when the problem is a box that's become unticked on the main interface. So I go and look in preferences and can't find anything. Semi surprised i haven't come across that before.
& Now IA that I couldn't see it earlier

When I lived in "Little Saigon" I noticed people shouting conversations in Vietnamese (or Korean or maybe Chinese) across various distances with no obvious reason for being that far apart. One time I saw two women converse from opposite sides of a street. There was a lot of extended casual yelling in that neighborhood.

A friend's Vietnamese co-worker says that they're just a loud people. (Americans are stereotyped the same way, I guess.)

Q: Does the remote control volume or just answer calls/ pause and play on music?

A: No idea. I had so much trouble getting them to fit and stay in my ears that I returned them. Sorry.
KKIAA | 4 days ago

Mobile pages that won't let you stretch them out to fit the text to fit the screen.

argh yes this.

I'm IA because our Walmart has apparently done away with baskets, forcing everybody who has more than a couple of items to buy to push a cart around. Even though everything I needed fit in one bag.

Your local WalMart management irrationally believes that forcing you to push around an enormous cart will induce you to fill it with impulse purchases rather than make you very rationally angry with them.

My brother gets IA at his local Walmart b/c they put huge displays all the way down the aisles so that a cart can barely get through. I support his IA.

Oh yeah, they do that in my local supermarket (Giant) as well. Two carts should be able to get down the aisle without one of them being blocked by like, a Pepperidge Farm standee or something.

That actually got me so angry that I sent an email in complaint. They basically wrote back like "we want to be able to better serve customers by offering a wider variety of products and we aren't gonna change a thing".

Stores are paid directly by whatever company owns the Pepperidge Farm brand for "better serving" you that way. So, unless you slipped a thousand or so into an envelope along with your complaint, they wouldn't be interested.

Yeah, but it still blows.

agreed. capitalism is death by a thousand cuts.

My Walmart has tons of baskets but the lazy/not paid enough to give a fuck employees seem to be incapable of putting them back up by the entrances after people check out. I usually have to walk by the checkout lanes to scavenge one.

I walked the front of the store to see if that was the case here; no baskets.

someone keeps microwaving fish in the break room at work. well, not someone, a person who I can identify. she does it multiple times per week.

not a person, a savage

otm, she's also irritated the hell out of a couple coworkers for other reasons, including being mean

I know it's probably nothing she can help, but she had the most cringe-inducing giant cold sore breakout a couple weeks ago when I passed her in the hall. Like a giant red blotch that covered half her lower lip. I kind of wanted to leave a giant variety pack of medicated lip stuff on her desk.

someone at my job loves to put broccoli in the toaster oven at different times during the day but never at lunch time

when i try to hang up my iphone but my hand somehow blocks the sensor that alerts the little bastard to the presence of a yakking face, triggering it to turn off the screen (power saving feature, i presume). result is that i keep trying to tap the disconnect icon, but the screen keeps going black at the last second, over and over again. angry making.

xp maybe they just love to fart and are crazy

ia: hyperactive/screaming children out in public (ia because i was that kid myself once, and also bc if you're childless you're not ever allowed to criticize children or their shitty parents because you're obv an unfeeling monster who's just selfishly letting tumbleweed pass through your ovaries instead of helping repopulate the earth with more special snowflakes)

cosine jb. also cosine the part where it's unloving and uncharitable to ever be annoyed by kids ever when when people you like keep having them and that's their whole world now but jesus christ how can a 3yo even MAKE that much noise on the floor, he weighs less than my bike and he's made of subcutaneous fat and soft squishy cartilage instead of steel tubing.

not that irrational, child screams are specially designed by our creator to be one of the most unpleasant sounds and He forgives u

ia at parents who are ia at people who don't like child screams though

amen

Today his mom stood in the hallway and yelled back at him about the consequences of his actions if he didn't stop screaming. I'm sorry for her, I really am, but I do wonder where they lived before....

If the parent doesn't even seem to gaf about the screams then I sympathize. People sometimes assume children (at least toddlers) are more controllable than they are though, such as my neighbor who banged on his ceiling when my daughter was throwing a tantrum, as though I somehow needed to be put on notice that the meltdown going on in my apartment was loud and irritating because I had otherwise been rather enjoying it.

But yes toddler screams are IA making.

i have more of a problem with older toddlers and young children than with babies, actually. babies are supposed to cry. but if you let your five-year-old loose in a store, and the kid is a holy terror, do not make it my problem if the kid gets hurt because i couldn't get out of the way fast enough, or if i'm visibly wincing because of the piercing screams of a kid who's had too much sugar.

(actually, it was trader joe's i was just in, so the kids probably had too much yerba mate)

Have you tried sidling up to the child and screaming along in the same pitch? It's bound to put the little bastard off his or her stride.

do not make it my problem if the kid gets hurt because i couldn't get out of the way fast enough
yeah it's really great to work in a place where they get mad if you can't teleport from one end of the store to the other and save the kid from crashing into a customer (or the store), and neither can any other worker, especially during bigass holiday sales (should be fellow workers on every aisle, but retail=small a payroll as possible/allowed).
Parents trying to deal with their kids' melt-downs get all my sympathy, but some are oblivious at best. Which is also great when you can barely save your 88-year-old Mother from getting run down, and then somebody else says something to one of the oblivious Daddies, who follows us out of the restaurant arguing (if that's what you call it when he keeps jabbering while we're ignoring him(, and then another Daddy runs up as his reinforcement etc

"oblivious at best': heh I mentioned this on a thread about psychopaths, and got reprimanded

and that's their whole world now

part of the "it's selfish not to have kids" argument is that if you want a life of your own outside of the bubble of parenting, you're putting your own desires first, not being a real grownup and taking a backseat role to the very important duty of making children your whole reason for living. and i have philosophical problems with that -- the idea of a mother being a passive vessel who lives to serve -- no, just no. even people who do have kids and try to live somewhat balanced lives get guilted into this line of thinking.

I know it's silly to push back on an IA thread post, but I think the typical argument (without endorsing said argument) against people without children judging people with children is simply that they "don't understand what it's like to try to get a rev'd up little ball of pure id through the cookie aisle of a supermarket without violent conflict," not that they are "selfish and useless people who are not contributing to the world."

Like I don't think the typical toddler parent is thinking "JEEZ WHY HASN'T THIS PARASITE PROCREATED YET" it's more like "I AM SO TIRED PLEASE JUST CUT ME SOME SLACK"

"it's selfish not to have kids" is a real dumbass reductive perspective on parenting. they're just jealous of all us free spirits who don't give a fuck.

"don't understand what it's like to try to get a rev'd up little ball of pure id through the cookie aisle of a supermarket without violent conflict,"

this whole "you have to actually experience this terrible thing i do every day rather than read about it" is bullshit too

we understand, it's why we don't have kids

all the people who have kids used to not have kids, and hence are well positioned to judge whether people without kids understand what it's like

I totally sympathize, but: getting back to people who are seemingly oblivious at best--and who don't seem tired, but are chatting up a storm with friends, some of whose own kids are helling around too, getting that playground energy going, in a crowded indoor space....

I'm with you on that, I cringe too

I think the typical argument (without endorsing said argument) against people without children judging people with children is simply that they "don't understand what it's like to try to get a rev'd up little ball of pure id through the cookie aisle of a supermarket without violent conflict,"

yes, but on the other hand, i made a decision, a well-informed and careful one, not to put myself into a situation where i would have to get a revved-up ball of id through a cookie aisle. if you're the parent of this ball of id, that's the decision you made, and you're stuck with it for the next few years, and if i'm judging it's because you're expecting a store full of strangers to be patient and understanding when their own lives are stressful enough already. that's a lot of charity to ask for.

Well I see that side of it and I fully respect people who choose not to have kids. I don't think there's anything more or less "selfish" about having vs not having kids. But I also think it's unreasonable to expect to live in a child-free world, as though the people who are "stuck with" their decision should just avoid buying groceries for a few years. I try to do my part to avoid creating greater inconvenience by only shopping in already-noisy madhouses like Costco rather than quiet, boutique organic groceries, and by removing K from any indoor space as quickly as possible (if possible) when she starts screaming, best I can do.

i mean you don't fucking have to have kids. you don't. not unless someone is threatening your life and saying "bear my child or i'll fucking kill you." it's a decision what you bring into the world and it's not other people's problem.

sorry, it's other people's problem. People are all other people's problem.

i have empathy for a lot of people and consider myself one of those dreaded SJWs but i get real tired of people not taking accountability for things that they can realistically do something about.

All I'm saying is how long is this going to go on for? I probably can't hope they'll just break the lease and move out, so that leaves...when he goes to pre-school?

regarding small kids, i got in an almost-argument with my friend for "not knowing" about how it is, instigated by me commenting that his in-home communication wasn't optimal. he'd showed me how hard it was to go out, and it was this bizarrely passive-aggressive half-jokey text exchange with his wife, which was beyond the point.

here's the thing -- I have a lot of friends with children. small children. it's not foreign! if you say "i may be free saturday afternoon" and i have yet to make plans, i will hold it open. if you tell me on saturday afternoon that the kids won't nap and you have to stay home, then that's fine! if you want me to come over and bring a pizza and chill with your kid for a bit, that's cool most of the time, too. but if you let a couple of us know you're down for going to X restaurant and a couple people are en route and you can't be bothered to text all of us to say it's not gonna happen, then wtf! if you are not amazing at communication, you need to get a lot better if you have small kids and want to keep doing stuff with friends,

i mean, your kid was shooting the angry birds in the wrong direction until i told him how that shit works, i deserve some credit, here

Oh flaky parent friends suck for sure, we have those even as parents -- couple who lives half a block away and like barely communicates, cancels out of everything for any possible child-related excuse with no notice whatsoever.

Skips friends' bdays because mom has a headache, they have to be back in their home like 2 hours before bedtime without exception, etc.

bleh, some people live their lives really rubbery, constantly trying to reach out but getting slapped back into that home

Parents with kids are terrible but even worse are the old people who don't commit suicide when they turn 55! Get out of my way with your slowass walker, gramps! Go wander into the desert without water.

we have another thread for that

When you are out with someone and they run into someone they know and start talking and don't introduce you...

I do that sometimes, usually because i can't actually remember the name of the person, and am hoping desperately that it'll somehow come up in the conversation

I commend anyone who doesn't breed in this anthropocene era of unsustainable plenty as opposed to the happy fucking biological fly tippers and their ever increasing broods of yet more shitting arseholes in cars.

My kid was quite a public menace in his younger days (autism,ADHD and tourettes) and my response has not always been considered and calm towards rude, disapproving voices. I think sometimes it was justifiable counter-aggression and at other times I was going into precious, sanctimonious parent-arsehole territory myself.

xp I have a good arrangement with one of my friends that if she starts talking to someone and doesn't introduce me, I know it's because she's forgotten their name. So I wait for a lull and introduce myself and then they tell me their name! It works great. She can give a pleasant little apology, like, "Oh, sorry, yes, this is my friend In Orbit! Did you meet at the--no? Oh well, anyway, Susan, you make the best lasagna, In Orbit, you have to try the recipe...." and it's all smoothed out. Genius. You do need a partner for that one though.

i mean you don't fucking have to have kids. you don't. not unless someone is threatening your life and saying "bear my child or i'll fucking kill you." it's a decision what you bring into the world and it's not other people's problem.

I know a couple of people who have kids but only because they fought to get custody instead of leaving them with drug addict siblings who can't be bothered to do things like "purchase food instead of meth" or "have a place to live" or "bring the child to school". Not super common obviously but not unheard of.

I mean, your kid was shooting the angry birds in the wrong direction until i told him how that shit works, i deserve some credit, here ― mh , Tuesday, 3 February 2015 03:17 (2 hours ago) Bookmark

lol

I commend anyone who doesn't breed in this anthropocene era of unsustainable plenty as opposed to the happy fucking biological fly tippers and their ever increasing broods of yet more shitting arseholes in cars.

ah, this is why i love ilx.

Have you tried sidling up to the child and screaming along in the same pitch? It's bound to put the little bastard off his or her stride.

― Aimless, Monday, February 2, 2015 9:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When I was a teenager, a friend did this to a toddler in a stroller and the kid yelled back (in the same pitch) "SHUUUUUUUT UUUUUP!"

Woman wheeling crying 2-ish year old in a car through Target...

Woman leans over to kid and says in a pleading voice: You are being so loud!
Kid, wailing at the top of her lungs: I KNOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

I felt bad for both of them but couldn't help but LOL.

― carl agatha, Monday, September 16, 2013 8:42 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still think about that and LOL sometimes.

xp I have a good arrangement with one of my friends that if she starts talking to someone and doesn't introduce me, I know it's because she's forgotten their name. So I wait for a lull and introduce myself and then they tell me their name! It works great. She can give a pleasant little apology, like, "Oh, sorry, yes, this is my friend In Orbit! Did you meet at the--no? Oh well, anyway, Susan, you make the best lasagna, In Orbit, you have to try the recipe...." and it's all smoothed out. Genius. You do need a partner for that one though.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, February 3, 2015 4:15 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've tried this with people I didn't have a pre-arrangement with, assuming that the people who pick up what I was putting down by I don't know, sensing the waves of embarrassed desperation I was thought-beaming to them, and it didn't work and it was all just so terrible.

As for people with children who sometimes shriek loudly in public and people without children who reasonably want to avoid being subjected to another human's high-pitched shrieking, we all have to live together. All you can do is try to be compassionate and barring that, remove yourself (and the shrieking person in your care, if applicable) from the situation to the best of your ability and post about how annoyed it makes you on a message board.

An old friend has kids who are basically Planet Earth = Deadly Allergen and her life has become very complicated and nervous as a result. It must suck for all of them, so families not sending kids to school with little peanutty pieces of death that could kill is just basic courtesy. I pretty much never bake stuff for kids that has nuts in it, because it's just easier not to.

As to shrieking kids, sometimes shit just happens and the kid is entitled to cry. Last month, my cousin's kid (newly 4) hit his head on a grip rail on a London bus and started wailing. It was one of those horrible windy, rainy afternoons and everyone on the bus was equally pissed off at the awful weather as they were grateful to have caught ANY bus. Cousin (who was 5 months pregnant) whisked toddlercousin upstairs to the less-crowded top deck and had just started calming him down when the mean old man in the seat opposite started tutting and muttering. My cousin rounded on the man (Hell hath no fury like a pregnoid scorned), telling him 'sometimes kids have accidents, welcome to my day, have you forgotten what it's like to be a child?' (while shushing toddlercousin) whereupon she was told off for not being sufficiently ladylike by this nasty old shite. At which point angry feminist Cousin just sighed and said, 'well, I can't be the first lady who's ever told you to FUCK OFF AND DIE, you stupid, miserable prick, and I sure as fuck will not be the last.'

awesome.

This belongs here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acWdh0a_92A

Foobar deciding out of the blue for some reason that it needs to play things back randomly or in jumbled order. Not sure why but the order I had things set up in was just totally changed to mix everything up so a set that I was waiting to hear wasn't coming through.
I don't remember even being near the player since it stopped playing things in an ordered sequence. Maybe there was a long track or something.
& maybe I'd tried to check what was playing and somehow the interface had just been such that I could accidentally move things to random by moving a cursor to the wrong place. But that in itself is annoying.
I just copped on that it sounded like the end of an lp I was listening to didn't lead into the next thing I was expecting to hear. Then look at the thing and the tracks were in random order.
Gets to be a pain when I have a number of lps or live sets lined up and can't remember what they were.

high-five by proxy to suzy's friend

My cousin! Who seems to be doing right by her toddler *and* other people in most public settings without resorting to sentences containing the words MY CHILD. That was the day of a thousand toddlercousin meltdowns, triggered by things like very blustery weather, falling over, being in a strange city - you name it. We'd only managed to calm him down from driving-rain distress a few minutes before getting on the bus in question, so when he hit his head there was this moment where Cousin and I exchanged glances in that horrible endless moment of doom when you know what's about to happen is going to be a giant pain in the arse, then toddlercousin just let it rip.

PROTIP: repeated interventions using the no no no-cat video seem to head off wilful-toddler displays of NO and I DON'T WANT TO by turning the behaviour into a really funny joke.

Oh, that's a good tip.

The only thing I did not like about my toddlercousin was: fussy eater. Only into milk, cheese, chocolate buttons, buttered rolls and toast. NOT EVEN PIZZA. I know when I was that age, I was already into Italian and Chinese food, wanted to try anything the adults were having, and ate any vegetable placed before me.

Ohhhh that one kills me. My partner has a 7 yo who has celiac so out of the gate he's a very nervous and fussy eater for very understandable reasons (eating made him scream in pain for a long time til it was diagnosed). We were trying to convince him the other day to have something other than yet another bowl of grated cheese to eat, like hey how about some carrot? (he usually loves carrot and hummus) and he bellowed I DONT EAT VEGETABLES YOU KNOW THAT. This kid is vegetarian. T'fuck is he gonna eat then? My poor bf :/

Ah, the next day he'll forget about not eating veg - kid rage is never logical. When I was seven, I was trying to get promoted off the children's menu (but I wound up having a couple of things I never ate because having chemo at 5/6 made me hate them too much to ever want).

I make pesto with pecorino for a friend who is both celiac and lactose-intolerant; you can make it with basil or with roasted red peppers and a shitload of garlic, then use it with vegetables and meat rather than pasta (or use the gluten-free stuff that's out there). It goes really well with chicken and fish.

Update: my new jumper with too short sleeves is still pissing me off, and my best friend pointed out that the coloured stripe across the lower third is a powerful accentuator of my oversized gut, but I stubbornly wore it today anyway in a fit of "perhaps this comment just shows that SOME PEOPLE are a little too obsessed with my gut which other people will not be looking at at all in this perfectly normal jumper!" and now I keep adjusting how it lies and feeling like I would just like to sit under a cardboard box all day.

Hello does anyone have a large cardboard box? A very, very large cardboard box. (OK, that part may be one for the embarrassed thread but I am angry at the jumper and myself and the shop because I can't take it back now and other people's well-intentioned advice and possibly imaginary thoughts too.)

People who drive down the middle of the lane to minimize the impact of a speed bump, then continue driving down the middle after going over it, ignoring the oncoming traffic that y'know, needs their lane

People who write in the margins of library books. You are bad citizens. I'm thinking of one right now. No one cares what you think about various figures in Alex Ross's "The Rest is Noise". Use a notebook you self-centered cretin.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/18/1405709750524/Joe-Orton-012.jpg

soz Vic

xp - my condolences, spacecadet, that sounds like the absolute worst >:[

People who drink soda for breakfast and/or while eating donuts.

You deserve the unpleasantness of your anger on that one IMO. Diet Coke is a very fine alternative to coffee.

Then he carved his thoughts on the tree for everybody to see.

Wait that's Joe Orton! Nice move, but I'd differentiate between spirited vandalism and pedantic margin splodge.

Coke is a great breakfast beverage, although I'd pair it with something salty

People who drink soda for breakfast and/or while eating donuts.

I think this is fabulously in the spirit of this thread.

otm

(RFI: where on ILX is the best to-have-or-not-to-have-kids discussion?)

let me know so i can spew my hatred of children all over this piece

lovely, thanks

your childless loafing should afford you plenty of time to try the search function

where on ILX is the best to-have-or-not-to-have-kids discussion?

This thread may or may not be the "best", but it went to some length on the subject.

people with kids assuming the childless are loafing or not busy

thx Aimless, this one is good too. prefer your link because it opens (in my case anyway) to this post:

my kid is great. dunno about other people's kids.

― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:51 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people with kids assuming the childless are loafing or not busy

― mh, Monday, 9 February 2015 13:57 (59 minutes ago) Permalink

people being defensive about their childlessness/projecting what people with children think about them (or that they even give them much thought)

your childless loafing should afford you plenty of time to try the search function

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Sunday, February 8, 2015 10:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was intended to troll nhex, nothing more

Friends, friends let's turn our irrational anger away from each other and back to the stupid, terrible world at large.

hear hear!!

For some reason every time I see the name "Father John Misty" I want to roll my eyes until they fall out. Something about that name and his public image of some nth-gen folk version of a Jim Morrison ripoff gets on my nerves.

Also people calling themselves a shaman. Just please, stop.

Maybe it's evoking bad memories from a Fleet Foxes-loving ex-roommate who was really into ukulele and wearing suspenders with everything.

people with kids assuming the childless are loafing or not busy

Would never cast aspersions on anyone else but since having a baby I've felt really shocked when I think about what I used to do with all my free time and am kind of mad that I don't speak five languages, play several instruments, and have multiple advanced degrees.

yup

adam bruneau otm

Probably has been said before ITT, but every goddamn site now wanting all of your facebook or personal profile info so you can post a stupid comment on an article. Not to mention all the different things like disqus where you have to set up and remember logins for something you use like once every three months.

Probably for the best as it just discourages me from posting pointless comments on articles.

Kroger wanting me to change my password every three months.

No, that's ok, Kroger. If hackers seize my account and delete my shopping list, it will still have been worth it to not have to change my password four times a year.

omg yes. Or really any service that requires you log in with Facebook.

Holy shit, Kroger! That's bananas. I am resentful enough that I have to change my work network password every three months. No way I would do that with any other webiste. xp

cosign adam bruneau's comments

I don't have a cellphone, but I can use wi-fi. I parked in front of a Books A' Million, and they had the audacity to say I either had to pay for wi-fi or sign in with Facebook. Made me quite IA.

IA about the name "Books A' Million". what does it even mean?

The Books A Millions in Chicago are all garbage, too. I don't understand how they continue to exist when Borders/Barnes and Noble went tits up.

Same reason cockroaches survive?

They are like the Radio Shack of bookstores. You can't ever find what you want. Nothing seems to be sorted correctly. You have to tango with the cashier for five minutes over their little book club before you can actually make a purchase. And, don't forget, you can still buy one of these things for $100.

http://i.imgur.com/Tg6m6VP.jpg

The ones in Chicago, at least the last time I bothered to go in, had a dearth of general interest magazines but a surprising selection of porn. So that probably answers my previous question.

Same thing I wonder about airport bookstores: Who the hell is buying porn at these places.

The Books A Millions in Chicago are all garbage, too. I don't understand how they continue to exist when Borders/Barnes and Noble went tits up.

― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Monday, February 9, 2015 12:18 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same reason cockroaches survive?

They are like the Radio Shack of bookstores.

Uh...

Hey, 95 years pretty good for a cockroach.

spotify's gross rerecorded versions of popular songs that are not tagged as rerecordings & masquerade as the real deal ughhhhhhh

Oh man the college bookstore here has some cheapo radio station that just plays cover versions of popular songs to save money and it's just the worst.

Have I posted about DIY chain B&Q itt? Because they also have that and I have an eye-twitch thanks to it.
It's a really odd selection of songs too, on a loop

I have spent a lot of time in B&Q :(

spotify's gross rerecorded versions of popular songs that are not tagged as rerecordings & masquerade as the real deal ughhhhhhh

LOL that used to happen a bit on emusic back in the day. Artists that basically didnt have any licencing agreements with emusic would only appear on these DODGY Cleopatra compilations or whatever with a shitty live version or someone else covering the song.

Once in a while I used to get fooled by an artist rerecording on cd or tape, usually some oldies band I didn't really know anything about.

people swiping their tablets

or whatever it's called, the big flourish as they turn a page or w/e

while i'm here, i love being able to sit around and not do shit while the rest of you deal with your children

cool

people who really believe that you should love a band, truly, to wear their t-shirt, maaaaan

ios games that don't let you listen to music/podcasts while you play them LOOKING AT YOU HERO EMBLEMS YOU JERK

Bank websites that won't let you in no matter how many times you go through the "Reset password" routine.

Can a fabric be of such a loose weave that it stretches from being one size to another from being cut to trying to contystruct a pair of jeans. & then do it again when recut?
Something is going seriously weird with this build anyway. I thought I cut the thing to the standard size I've cut all my jeans, then stitched it in a way that should have had it pretty snug only to find out it was a few cm wider when I thought i should be finishing seams before adding a waistband. I then took it in a further 3cm. & now find out that it seems to be too wide again.

Normally wouldn't want to go any narrower at this poiint cos jeans wouldn't go on.

Maybe it is just the fabric. I've been getting good results from a cotton/linen blend now trying a linen/viscose one.
Welll can't keep working on the same thing. & since it was made for a different purpose maybe it's time to relegate it to not fully successful experiment. & finish them to the best I can. Bummer.

Wifi at chain cafes whose sign-in page obliterates all tabs I had open on my browser, not even allowing the Back buttons to get me to where I was.

My work-around is opening Safari first to sign in b/c I never use it, but sometimes I leave Chrome or Firefox open and every tab turns into Welcome to Starbucks! or Panera or whatever. Including pinned tabs.

This shit has ruined my Christmas shopping, research, and work countless times.

Use history.

Using history is A) needless extra clicking and typing, B) insufficient if the tabs were not loaded very recently and I can't remember exactly what they were, and C) not helpful w/ the annoyance of repinning tabs.

I suppose I should use a session manager (which I would have to install and set up on Chrome).

But still, it's shitty of those signals to fuck up my tabs.

[2005] all your tabs are belong to us [/2005]

Sorry for your loss, Je55e.

people who are waiting for someone in a parking lot or having a convo with someone and just sit in the middle of the lane instead of PULLING INTO A FUCKING PARKING SPACE AND NOT BLOCKING EVERYBODY

cute boho girl at market working my last nerve today

like i saw her & was like omg you are adorable

next time i see her she had all her groceries spread out on the sandwich order counter like she didnt understand baskets or shopping carts there's no room to put in an order so i say "hi excuse me can i get in here" & she moves them to one side slightly like she just lives to be in the way

i saw her again outiside yknow just standing in the middle of the the walkway with her bike twirling her hair just hanging out

she's looking RIGHT AT ME as I am walking towards her with my cart full of stuff

and i'm thinking she sees me so she'll move but no she just keeps on looking at me and standing there blocking the walkway til i stop & say "excuse me" and she moves and is surprised that this is a thing that is happening

i swear, these fuckin adorable people who act like fking alien visitors who dont grasp basic human customs

i just

A woman sitting behind me on the train yesterday was having a shit fit about this stroke sign awareness billboard (Face Arm Speech Time - F.A.S.T.) because problems with someone's face, arm, and speech are all symptoms of a stroke, whereas time stands for "time is critical," which is more of an admonition so it didn't fit. It was kind of hilarious and I wanted to turn around and tell her there was a place on the internet where she would feel right at home called the Irrationally Angry thread.

<3

"let me sing you the song of my people"

lol @ both those

That FAST advert was on TV a couple of times yesterday and I thought the same thing re 'time'

Irrational because it's clearly a language thing but: Americans referring to treasure hunts (with clues leading to the next clue) as 'scavenger hunts' which are a different thing!

When people ask me to remind them about something later. Take a load off Annie.

Oh I passionately hate that. Keep your own meticulous to-do list, don't exploit mine!

Americans anyone referring to treasure hunts (with clues leading to the next clue) as 'scavenger hunts' which are a different thing!

fixed

people who play Smoke on the Water in guitar stores

or ANYWHERE

http://homepage2.nifty.com/csta/music/vari/ww102.jpg

i went into a rage earlier trying to convert some e-tickets into PDF's to put on my kobo, as I don't have a printer. It is more like a rational self hating type of anger really because I have been through this a few times and haven't got any better at doing it. Like every time I end up googling "HTML to PDF" and fucking about with malware ridden waste for an hour like a noob. All for a 1 Hour "Bounce Session" in Castleford (>_<)

Kids have some weird app where you can make a cat play guitar by tapping it. Took me awhile to figure out the cat's playing Smoke on the Water because the kids just tap-tap-tap-tap as fast as possible, making every note a sixteenth note.

I'd almost sit down with them and teach them the correct meter, but we all have to pick our own battles don't we.

Concert venues where ticket holders and seekers have to stand in the same damn line

I take it the name Father John Misty is a joek on acid-folk and hippie-dippie nostalgia in general, maybe incl. his having been in a CSN-type harmony band actually apparently seriously named Fleet Foxes. Now Rolling Stone says his new album is good like Randy Newman, which makes me IA or RA because one RN always was enough. Also the latest incarnation of Firefox has fucked me up several times lately, incl while trying to type this, wtfff???

Concert venues where ticket holders and seekers have to stand in the same damn line

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:43 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, fucking hate this, seen it with movies too -- you buy tix to beat the crowd, make sure you get a seat, then you get stuck behind the ticket line.

i have cumulative IA for the people who get all the way to the top of the movie ticket line and then have no evident plan about what it is they want to see or how many tickets they might need or how they would like to pay for them or whatever else it is they could possibly be discussing at such earnest length with the poor beleaguered cashier.

IA about some customer service right now. How come I can't just email the company my question? I have to register and give you my home address and phone number first? It's not like a non-customer would want to go through the trouble of asking your support desk, I already paid for your product, but now you want my personal info so you can make even more money off me.

I mean, welcome to the world I guess, but still. Damn.

Also having a really bizarre moment where I try to run an .exe file and Windows comes up with the message that "Windows cannot find the file"! And it asks me to please "make sure I typed the name in correctly"! Oh, I must have made a typo, because Windows is a text-based operating system, I forgot about that! Thanks for the help, M$, keep doing the lord's work making shit software!

is your system's PATH statement too long, could be, or you have system file corruption

No, it's just a file in a folder I right-click and hit 'run', just like every other file. I'm pretty sure it's a 32-bit file and I have a 64-bit system or something. I've downloaded it repeatedly and it always says the same thing. Even copied it to different folders. Hopefully they will get back to me. It's for a motherboard BIOS so no way in hell am I touching it.

wo some sort of expert assistance

i have cumulative IA for the people who get all the way to the top of the movie ticket line and then have no evident plan about what it is they want to see or how many tickets they might need or how they would like to pay for them or whatever else it is they could possibly be discussing at such earnest length with the poor beleaguered cashier.

― estela, Sunday, February 15, 2015 6:59 PM

Same here with supermarket lines, and it's usually older people, who suddenly realize they have to pay for all that stuff they loaded their cart with.

Firefox supposedly reopening on the pages you closed it on but instead reopening to pages you were on much earlier. Not sure how it bookmarks but it really doesn't seem to do a good job. It also doesn't update any pages so those that reopen will still be on the time that you left them on. I tend to have a tv guide page open and expect it to open at the right i.e. current time but it will still be on the page from whenever earlier despite the site being dynamic.
What I'm talking about with the reopening of much earlier pages is if I'm somewhere in a site when I close the internet application I can wind up with the page of the website I haven't visited in days being what it's opened on. Tends to happen with demonoid or some chatlists where they are subdivided into different subjects.

Also where when I do reopen hoping to be able to pick up a thread I was on earlier it can just go to ho me once I click the page header. Happens all the time with this site. I see the headline is on the top of the page among a few at the top of the screen. Click on it only to be returned to Site New Answers

I haven't gone back to using Chrome yet but I think they did at least stay on the pages you exited. I think ther were other problems with them though.

Concert venues where ticket holders and seekers have to stand in the same damn line
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:43 PM

Or even if they don't there is usually never any kind of signage as to who stands where and if you ask the people already in line or the security guys they just grunt and stare at you so you stand around for ages wondering if you'll make it in even though you've already paid for tickets

Firefox supposedly reopening on the pages you closed it on but instead reopening to pages you were on much earlier.

It's taken me forever to figure out how to stop Firefox from doing that. I don't want all my old pages opened. Sometimes, they're the ones that caused the crash in the first place and when Firefox tries to open them all back up again, guess what happens.

I admit, I'm not the greatest user. Sometimes I'll look up and realize I've got 30 tabs open. My solution is to close the entire window and open a new one. But at the end of the day, I'll just quit all at once.

POint with me was that I did want it reopening the windows that were open when i shut down but it seems to bookmark at some earlier stage. Don't know when exactly. is it being overloaded by having a few windows open?

Get a session manager add-on. Whichever one I use is very helpful, though I got under the hood a little too deep and muffed up something up. Now it re-opens to pages I will not visit until years in the future.

When people ask me to remind them about something later. Take a load off Annie.

Today I learned that the lyrics are "Take a load off Fanny" which name/word's first meaning for me is has become the British one.

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/20/the-weight-of-our-ears-take-a-load-off-who/

When I scroll down to read the comments/info under a youtube video (yes, I know, my gravest mistake right there) and then I want to go back to seeing the video and I press the Home key, which rewinds the video to the beginning

(all other overriding of scrolling keys like up/down arrows also pisses me off but this is the worst. THE WORST.)

online & podcast film/tv critics who are pathologically hung up on plausibility and often employ the phrases "totally took me out of it" "you have to follow the rules of the world you create"

idk I mean I'm completely eyeroll-y at people who hem and haw about "plot holes" for films like Batman (srsly saw a 35+ post thread about whether it was possible for Batman to escape the nuclear detonation in Dark Knight Rises), but I do think films should be internally consistent at least.

these two doofuses rolled up in a van behind me tonight at the gas station. waiting for my pump. apparently the two unoccupied pumps on the other side that were unobstructed by any object or vehicle were insufficient or they were unfamiliar with the concept of turning around. went inside to the food mart after gassing up, coming back out minutes later to see them still waiting behind my car, waiting for my pump at an empty gas station.

idk I mean I'm completely eyeroll-y at people who hem and haw about "plot holes" for films like Batman (srsly saw a 35+ post thread about whether it was possible for Batman to escape the nuclear detonation in Dark Knight Rises)

fuckin eyeroll nonsense imo. you are 100% notm

TO THE BATTHREAD

just 35+ seems awful low for a superhero-related argument tbf

(ftr if anyone can escape a nuclear detonation it's batman i mean come on)

oh what he's got his anti fuckin nuclear cape on that day bollocks

five posts and counting let's make this happen guys

anti fuckin nuclear cape and cowl

idgaf if he was wearing simon cowl he's the worlds richest rarebit after that blast

c'mon man he's the fuckin' batman - his superpower is being prepared for everything! no way would a mere trifle like being at ground zero of a colossal nuclear explosion do anything other than maybe ding one of his cowl's ears.

all this so he could what take a sneaky fortnight off in Paris with some chick from work? bollocks.

actually it's pretty well-documented that the batman is skilled in bomb disposal:

https://33.media.tumblr.com/d0b71509084e45fdb2e5a673203c6b8c/tumblr_mnw7mcMiWo1raa96go1_400.gif

I think everyone has their own level of how much internal inconsistency/implausibility they accept. My brother drives me nuts on this, he will dare to enjoy literally ANY FILM even when major plot points hinge on complete nonsense and won't be argued into not enjoying it. 'it was fun, you shouldn't read too much into it' gahh

Never watch season 2 of broadchurch btw

love that neither the nuns or the mom are phased by the bomb in the least

"oh look it's Batman - go get em tiger!"

The kind of stuff I'm talking about is this: I heard some guy from Battleship Pretension saying he couldn't watch "Jane the Virgin" because they have a multi-generational household in it, and he didn't think it was realistic that people would want to live with their grandparents. Another guy pointed out that such households are common, especially in lower income families. The first guy's response was "Okay. But I wasn't buying it. It took me out of it." The fuck?

That gif perfectly describes my current work status.

That Jane the Virgin critic is a wiener.

xp that is unreal.

PEOPLE WHO SNEEZE LOUDLY

my irrational explanation is that they need to get laid or have better sex

he couldn't watch "Jane the Virgin" because they have a multi-generational household in it, and he didn't think it was realistic that people would want to live with their grandparents.

The whole of Italy and Greece would like to have a word with this chap.

PEOPLE WHO SNEEZE LOUDLY

This is very IA-inducing. Also multiple-sneezers. Even if it's like, a family member who suffers from seasonal allergies and I KNOW he is miserable and doesn't want to be sneezing. After like the 6th sneeze I want to scream at him to shut up.

Also I'm sure I've mentioned this in a previous thread but it cannot be overstated: people with colds who sniff constantly instead of using a goddam tissue. Especially in quiet commuter trains.

The obnoxiously bright sound of the Martin "phosphor bronze" strings I just put on my guitar. So assy.

Oh man I am a hardcore serial sneezer and I try not to be too loud but sometimes after the fourth one I just have to really let loose so I can stop fucking sneezing.

Anyway, constant sniffing makes me utterly completely bananas and I hate it.

Also, one of my favorite tweets that I think about a lot: https://twitter.com/karenkilgariff/status/488154696557662208

Here's something for the thread: K's third bday party last weekend. Woman we used to be closer to, now divorced with new weird boyfriend, shows up very late, with boyfriend and WITHOUT her son (excuse about last minute problem with ex, but who the fuck comes to a kid bday without a kid?!), and the second they come in they corner me and start pitching me their new business idea in this very obviously practiced but terrible speech. With perspective, it seems more sad than IA-making, but at the moment I really felt like these people were violating something important to me.

I had to cut them off because H was telling me it was time to bring out the cake and they were oblivious and continued to spew their bad business idea. Definitely never inviting them again.

http://youtube/OkdLWuCRe0c

OK, I can get wanting to come anyway without kid in tow if reasons neccesitate and yr close, but yeah thats way out of line. Ugh!

I sneeze loudly, need to get laid, and have better sex. Thread otm.

same

xp I never really thought of her as close to the point of coming to my kid's bday without their kid, although I guess she's more H's friend than mine. It also came in a context of this hardly being the first odd shit she's ever done.

a good loud sneeze does feel heavenly, i do admit

One of the managers in my office does this insanely loud HAAAA CHOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW sneeze that is so ridiculously theatrical and loud, it cannot be necessary. It scares the shit out of everyone when it happens.

gtfo I'll sneeze how I want its a little orgasm and its all mine

geez ok i take back the sex thing, sorry

Woman on a plane sneezes loudly several times within a minute and furrows her brow.

Woman next to her says, Are you ok?

Sneezer says Yeah, I'm fine. I just have this condition where every time I sneeze, I have an orgasm.

Oh, my, says the second woman. Are you taking anything for it?

Yes, says the first woman. Pepper.

I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why - I cannot tell;
But this I know, and know full well,
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell

For Doctor Fell, substitute a certain coworker whom I'm not going to name here. Difficulty: He is the in-office trainer, and I need his approval if I am to be certified as an HTML prepper.

is that in case HTML takes over the world and we all die in anguish

I'm trying to use Google Calendar for the first time and I am losing my fucking mind because there is no margin at the bottom of the page. Is there a way to create one? My eyes and sanity can't handle it.

xp

Given that the job involves the preparation and distribution of U.S. Federal Government documents, the idea of going off the grid and living off the land in, say, rural Montana has a greater appeal than is normal for me.

I am on a web meeting/presentation deal where there's slides on the computer and then a conference call for the audio, and someone is on the call without muting his phone and is snorting and sniffing and blowing his nose pretty much constantly and I'm torn between being grossed out, amused, irrationally angry, and irrationally embarrassed about it.

Just politely ask them to put mute on. Happens all the time.

If I were a presenter, I would but as a participant, I would feel presumptuous.

nah, you gotta speak up, everyone will be thankful

Be a hero.

be the change carl

It's been an hour and a half now. It's too late.

next time!

LOL somebody just yawned.

Okay it's over. The end went like this:

HUGE SNORTING NOSE BLOW

"That's the end of our presentation!"

Whenever my boss sneezes she follows with "Damn it!" She gets so angry and even somehow offended every time.

When I'm forced to be in on conference calls, I sometimes pull up a sound search engine like http://www.findsounds.com/ and play random noises from my PC into the phone (lion roars, car crashes, airplanes flying low, horror movie screams). Nobody can work out what's going on and it derails things splendidly.

omg thats a brilliant idea

(sadly im in an open plan office so I couldnt get away with such shenanigans but i love it nonetheless)

yeah idk if you cant make yr own sounds you get no love from me tbh

Home Depot keeps all of their metal-handled hand trucks outside, even in way below freezing weather. Absent-mindedly keep your un-gloved hands on the thing for a couple minutes in 15 degrees and experience some serious pain. Rubber grips would solve the problem.

seems like a liability issue

I was put in the mind of german soldiers getting chilblains on their feet from boots with nails in them in the russian winter. I'm not actually sure what a chilblain is, and I don't think I have them, but I was running to my car in pain to get to the heat as soon as possible, and it did feel like the kind of thing that would probably turn into some kind of frostbite or damage with another couple of minutes. OTOH my dumb ass should have worn gloves.

...wait, whats a hand truck?

im getting pretty rationally angry at my lungs wheres my bloody (sputum) thread

Actually I think hand truck isn't the exact right term anyway -- hand trucks are those upright two wheeled dealies you use to move a bunch of boxes or a piece of furniture. I'm talking about the flatbed carts.

Oh a trolley.

send a hand truck to do a hand job

I will forever think of a "trolley" only as a streetcar type of thing, probably due to Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

yeah, I would never think of a flatbed cart if someone told to go get a trolley

I'd be more like "Do you also want me to pick up some sourdough bread?"

you're 2/3 of the way to a Hardee's/Carl's Jr.

Gonna put another IA in here for drivers that don't use turn signals. I hope you put the energy you save from not moving your hand inches away from the steering wheel to some good use.

Drivers who throw cigarette butts out the window

"But what am I supposed to do with them?"

I don't know. Swallow them and choke to death a little sooner

 I hope you put the energy you save from not moving your hand inches away from the steering wheel to some good use.

Ha I literally say this in my head on a daily basis.

you dont imo want these ppl to lose an iota of concentration from not crashing the car, which is what unlike to assume would happen instantly were they to break out the signal move

I like

but what about the classic (1) slow down, confusing drivers behind you, (2) begin turning even more slowly, (3) signal? surely those people would not lose concentration by signaling earlier

Once saw someone get out of their own car, pick up the still-burning fag and chuck it back through the window of the 4WD it had come from, then drive off

i read that as "flag" twice lol

these colors don't smolder

Welcome to flagfour country

... get coat etc

Stopping at a stoplight, and having the car behind stop a foot or less off my rear bumper. Especially frustrating in the early a.m. nowadays, when the angle of their headlights climbs higher on my car interior as their car inches forward. Years ago, a passenger vented to me as I was doing the same thing, and said I should be able to see the rear tires of a forward car over my hood. That locked in as the acceptable, polite distance - about ~4' away. I'm sure in 99% of the cases it's not an aggressive move, more like a placid impatience or false sense of progress, but it still lights me up and has me off the blocks slowly when the light changes. Want to get to a "no harm, no foul" mindset.

Gonna put another IA in here for drivers that don't use turn signals. I hope you put the energy you save from not moving your hand inches away from the steering wheel to some good use.

― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, February 20, 2015 6:28 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Getting angry at this is not irrational at all.

yeah, that's one for the disgusting savages thread. people who fail to use their indicators should be dragged out of their cars and summarily executed imo

the reason people have stopped using their blinkers in FL, I'm convinced, is because there are assholes who literally will speed up for no reason other than to deny you the ability to move over once you signal. I make it a habit of cutting them off anyway when this happens.

Heh, my wife used to drive like that. "Don't turn on your signal. People around here just see that as a point of vulnerability".

I admit to that too.

I'll always signal if I'm turning from one road to another, but on the highway, in some case-by-case scenario, I'll move over without notice just because I KNOW that Ford Supertruck behind me is just going to slam on the gas as soon as he sees my blinker.

I will admit to always signaling and, should some jerk use that as an opportunity to remove the space I was going to move into, use it as an opportunity to know I am somehow a more reasonable person this day than at least one other individual.

justify your superiority complex where you can, is what I'm saying

I always indicate and it drives me insane when other people don't or when they do it like 1/2 way into the turn. It's not an afterthought!

No, definitely not an afterthought. It should be ingrained by the time you get out of driver's ed. At least 5 seconds before a lane change. At least 100 feet before a turn.

I'll always signal if I'm turning from one road to another, but on the highway, in some case-by-case scenario, I'll move over without notice just because I KNOW that Ford Supertruck behind me is just going to slam on the gas as soon as he sees my blinker.

― pplains, Wednesday, February 25, 2015 2:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Does that seriously happen? And people say the internet turns people into jerks. It's actually cars.

drivers who don't signal enrage me

especially when you are turning left & they dont signal so you wait for them to go through & then they pop a left at the last minute & yr like whyyyyyy

The style of clickbait where the "reporter" merely selects excerpts or examples from some other bit of internet silliness and then unfunnily comments on it. "Check out this hilarious instagram account that mercilessly sends up the art world! This image macro is a real knee-slapper! [ gif] Here's another one of @whitewalls' molotov cocktails thrown into the Gagosian itself! [ gif]"

yeah, i signal the heck out of everything and only rarely get the sense that someone has tried to crowd me out of a signaled lane change. it happened the other day, fwiw, but i can't remember the last time before that. and it hardly matters. if you wanna be pushy, make the change anyway (i did). otherwise, just brake a little and take your next shot.

then again, i don't live in an automotive purgatory like florida or wash, dc. maine drivers tend to be pretty chill.

also i hate the construction site across from my house

"what's the most beeping we can do at 6am"
"no, let's find the oldest shittiest loudest concrete mixer"
"BEEPING WE NEED MORE BEEPING"

I found out about 9/11 from the loud construction workers outside my building.

#humblebrag

My new IA is people who don't know how a 4-way stop intersection works. Yes, you still have to stop at the Stop sign, even if you already came to a complete stop behind the guy in front of you. No, you can't piggy-back off the car in front of you as though you are being towed. No, if the car opposite you is turning left you can't go straight through at the same time. Also, if it's your turn to go, then you must go. Don't sit there and wave people through while you have cars piling up behind you.

And if someone honks at you for going out of turn, please don't act shocked and offended. Please flip them off like the asshole you are.

otm. 4-way stop is the quickest & most accurate IQ test devised by science

• Those people think 4-ways work by time waited, rather than order of appearance.

• Also, stop at the 4-way. If you're still coasting and I've come to a complete stop, it's my turn next since I have fulfilled my civic duty.

• People at a red light, sitting in the inside lane, who turn their left signal on after you've pulled up behind them.

so otm. There is a stoplight near my house that is notorious for going out every time it rains, leading to an inevitable clusterfuck during rush hour. Maybe 10% of the people passing through seem to know how to properly handle a 4-way stop, if I'm being generous. All of the accidents I've seen at this intersection, somewhere between 10-15, have been during outages.

Australia has these weird stop signs at selected traffic lights. My first thought was, Do they really need a sign for common sense? But as you point out, jon, yes. Yes, they do, and probably not just Australia either.

http://i.imgur.com/fIL8fcS.png

(Also leave it to Australia where you can't grab a quick screenshot without capturing some frightening animal wild in flight.)

Honestly, I don't know if I know how to handle a four way stop anymore.

Getting angry at this is not irrational at all.

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Wednesday, February 25, 2015 6:26 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the I in the IA left the barn way back on the first thread. the opening post about "where's george" on dollar bills is still the ultimate archetypal IA thing, just inexplicable rage at something so ultimately innocuous

True. Separate threads for IA and RA would be good, but I'm not going to be the one to try it.

Honestly, I don't know if I know how to handle a four way stop anymore.

I drive about once a week and every time I try to remember how to handle a left turn at a 4-way stop. I looked it up once but the IL Rules of the Road were worded in a confusing way, so I just do the best I can or avoid left turns at 4-way stops.

• Also, stop at the 4-way. If you're still coasting and I've come to a complete stop, it's my turn next since I have fulfilled my civic duty.

*salutes pplains*

Haha this blog isn't helping

Four-way stops become even more confusing when you consider that Michigan law does not actually define the word "stop" or require motorists to stop before signs.

four way stop junction is obv the most stupid system devised anywhere for anything by anyone

what % of posts ITT deal with rational irritation imma say all of them btw

There was that post by rrrrrobyn about getting angry when people have matching dogs.

I get pretty IA when people say they don't really notice song lyrics.

what's hard about a 4-way stop? you stop, you wait for your turn in the rotation, then go. i have become irrationally angry about this feigned confusion thing.

Ive seen 4 way give ways but 4 way stop sounds confusing. Who goes first? #spotthenondriver