Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

Invade their unit from below. Jerks.

When people who teach first year composition courses post excerpts from student papers on facebook for laughs, I become angry. Since it's anonymous and not public, I suppose my anger is irrational. I'm not convinced that this thing is innocuous, though.

- "easy peel" clementines/satsumas/small oranges that aren't easy to peel

- mealy apples

Fruit IA OTM x2

- bananas that are soggier than they look.

- bananas that are slightly too green and leave that horrible powdery film in your mouth

basically bananas that are anything other than #FFFF00

xp uchk yes

- random sour blueberries mixed in with ripe ones piss me off something fierce

The margin of error for banana horror is so thin for me, I just avoid them to be safe.

i have been keeping the overripe ones and freezing them for smoothies - having to handle them in that state is just, uuuugggh. the smell, the feel. bleh. but: delicious once obliterated in a blender.

I prefer slightly green bananas.

for eating, I definitely prefer slightly green too. I hate the taste of fully ripe bananas, it kinda grosses me out.

Bought a mango on Saturday, thought it was possibly over-ripe went to eat it yesterday and found out it was very under. So have stuck it in the fridge hoping it will get riper, but it has a great chunk cut out of it.
I really need to find out how to recognise a ripe mango. Cos it would be good to have left that until it was ripe. Do they ripen in brown paper bags like bananas do? Or would actually sticking it in a brown paper bag with a banana do the trick?

Getting fed up with buying under-ripe fruit from the market stall and not knowing how to correct that. As I understand it, sticking bananas in a brown paper bag captures some gas given off by the skin and that will help ripen them. So subsequently would conceivably work on other things.

basically bananas that are anything other than #FFFF00

― ledge

I like some #FF8000 spots on my bananas.

I've heard that using an apple as the ripener helps, but can't remember trying it. I don't think the mango will improve in the fridge, and with a cut you can't leave it on the counter for long. Maybe melt some wax over the cut end to seal it, then leave it on the counter (maybe too much effort for a mango).

Maybe try to sniff the stem end in the store to determine ripeness? With some fruit you can tell this way.

Call me maybe.

brown paper bag with a banana overnight should do the trick.

I regularly buy underripe avocadoes becuase the ripe ones are almost always bruised -- but then I just arrange them underneath a bunch of bananas in my fruit bowl, with a few apples as well, and in a day or two they're nice and ripe.

steveolende: how are you gauging the ripeness of the mango?

I feel like I don't eat that much fruit compared to you guys! Sliced grapefruit in a cup is a vice, though.

This one was really deeply red looking and I thought it was soft. Shaken it rattled, didn't know what to make of that but assumed the best. Now find out it isn't.

I put the thing in a bag with a banana, put it in the fridge. Not sure what to expect, but I'd cut a whole slice or 2 out, so didn't want to leave it out in the open.

don't put it in the fridge. keep it out at room temperature.

fridge is only useful for keeping somethign that's already ripe/ready to turn from turning - ie really ripe strawberries or tomatoes will hold for a couple of days in the fridge if you don't wnat them turning to goo. but the fridge won't aid in the ripening process at all.

oh wait - if it's already cut? then i dunno that it'll really ripen that well. you could always puree it and mix it with some other fruits or yogurt or use it for smoothies or something.

xpmy understanding is that exposure to ethylene gas will force-ripen many fruits. bananas off-gas ethylene as they ripen. the bag retains the gas so it doesn't disperse, exposing the other fruit that you put in there.

however, refrigerating the banana would greatly retard its own ripening process, so it would produce far less ethylene gas and probabaly wouldn't do much in the way of force-ripening any fruit you put in the bag with it. Go for room temp instead.

gmail top posts because *in gmail* that works: it divides each reply from either side into neat boxes and you can easily see em all. Falls apart if one party is using something else like outlook/hotmail/thunderbird which just displays the lot in a single munge.

RMDE whenever someone proclaims they are "abstaining from sex". Yes, you are so unbelievably potent and virile that you must make a constant effort NOT to get laid.

Missing the lunar eclipse today because I didn't hear about it until too late. Wondering if I saw the last vestiges as I walked home. Saw an awesome red in clouds that were just receding from sight.
Seemed to be in the wrong side of the sky too, compared to where the moon was yesterday at the same time.

Then got home and read on facebook about the moon looking red from 12.15pm to about 4.30pm. & being visible in this town specifically. & when I saw the light being right towards the end of that time stated. Just would have been nice to see it fully.

Oh man, that's not innocuous at all :o(

Do you remember the fuss about the solar eclipse across Cornwall in 1999? First eclipse in the UK for 150 years or whatever? Well it so happens that there was another one in (I think) 2001, visible at dawn from a few of the remotest Scottish islands - islands where I happened to be that very week, flying out the day before. I could easily have extended my stay had I known, but couldn't afford to change my flight. You'd think the media might have mentioned it beforehand, but no, I only found out when I was there. I'll probably never see one.

- i love cold weather but a few years ago my eyes began watering continuously in any temperatures below like 40°f

- mail(wo)man has taken to dumping all the mail for my four-unit building in one pile on the floor in a little vestibule that has no lights

That's kind of unlegal, isn't it?

yeah that's kinda crap

i know, ppl on the street think i'm crying

get more hugs that way though, not a bad thing :)

nah, new yorkers are good about not engaging public emotion

;_;

mookie my eyes do that too. sometimes my eyes used to water just talking to people and they probably thought i was crying. i think it had something to do with breathing idk. doesn't really happen anymore.

pls heal me

breathe

or don't

harbl, pls advise

My eyes water when it's cold outside. I just thought it was a thing that happens.

My eyes used to water every time I talked to his old boss that I hated. It was so weird and made me feel really vulnerable.

guacamole sometimes tastes like grapes and i hate it

Missing the lunar eclipse today because I didn't hear about it until too late.

It was visible here last night from 11.30 - 1.30 am... I just caught a friend mention it on FB as I was retiring to bed, only to realise the moon had moved up in the sky so I couldnt lie in bed and see it out the window :( Which was a shame cos it was a clear starry night. I couldnt stay up til 1 tho, I had work.

I hope the neighbours enjoyed my 5 minute sojurn into my backyard in my undies and bra, that said.

dri

ping

taps

Would be even more painful if I was looking for it at the wrong time and therefore gave up too early. Facebook posting had a poster saying visible from Galway 12.15pm to 4.30pm. So I didn't look back out.

But further question does the moon stick to the same apparent path across the sky from day to day? So if I see it in a position apparently relevant to one landmark one day at a certain time, I'd see it pretty close to the same spot 24 hours later?

Could be I just didn't see the moon because of cloud and the red was from something else though I'd assume it had something to do with the location of the sun and that would mean that would necessitate the moon being somewhere close to it referent to position in sky to allow an eclipse anyway?

Lunar eclipse means the earth's between the moon & sun, so they should be on opposite sides I think

Facebook posting had a poster saying visible from Galway

Brain parsed that as "visible from Gallifrey" and I was all "hmmmmm".

yeah l'm like a timelord y'kno?
But one that hasnt gt his lunar eclipses diferentiated from his solar ones.
Wish l'd known cos l could've made the effort to look out later.
What l saw was a sunset, caught a matching sunrise this morning.

This has been going on for years, but this method of washed-out, reflective eyes, NFL Classics, bright and white tight close-up photography:

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http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/files/2009/09/Martin-Schoeller-Brad-Pitt-2.jpg

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it's all because of Avedon isn't it