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

Whereas "England Town" is .. um.. what?

― Mark G, Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:43 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A line from an Arthur Lee song? Is it 'She Comes In Colours'
apparently 'when I was in England Town the rain fell right down'

Oh that's weird, I just listened to "She Comes in Colors" on Monday for the first time....

Is it time to start a new gripe thread? I keep having to press the blue skipping x amount of messages button to get to the start of threads.
& now somebody else is talking about the amount of messages herein.

& yup having to do that then scan through is enough to make me slightly peeved. Rationally or irrationally.

maybe we can start one for things, innocuous or not, that make us mad.

whether or not we are being irrational about it, yeah.

Just Elkton and Rising Sun. Who goes there? Especially now that DE liquor stores are open on Sundays.

― carl agatha, Wednesday, January 16, 2013 1:11 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The first girl I fell in love with was from Rising Sun. She used to call it Rising Scum. She rejected me, and later came out as a lesbian.

USE BOOKMARKS.

^^

too much extra clicking

Regularly posting to a thread with 13,445 posts in it without using bookmarks is akin to putting "google" into your msn search bar whenever you want to log onto Facebook.

I don't understand bookmarks, my computer loads to where I left off reading. Are bookmarks a thing you need if you use other devices?

it'll load to your exact bookmark spot and not show anything prior to that, making it a clean read of all the new stuff

also bookmarks are rad because if you have threads you're following they'll appear at the top of your screen, with a link directly to where you bookmarked it, even if the thread went inactive for a while

So do you have to click "Bookmark" on the last post you read, each time you load a thread?

if you want to keep a bookmark there, sure

or submit a post, that will automatically update your bookmark to your last post

yes

The first girl I fell in love with was from Rising Sun. She used to call it Rising Scum. She rejected me, and later came out as a lesbian.

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

At least she didn't come out as a Klan member.

Huh, well I just fb searched her and it turns out she's married to a man. I guess I merely confused her.

Maybe not. It is possible, even commonplace*, for women to come out as lesbians (or queer or bi or whatever) and then marry or have LTRs men.

*maybe it's not that common and I just know a lot of queer women, though.

It gets weirder too -- she is now an artist, and her work has some conceptual things in common with my wife's work, and they honeymooned where I got engaged. /stalk

xp oh yeah I know I was just joking about the "confused" thing.

The last girl I dated for longer than two months got engaged to her next b/f. One more occurrence I'm like a shitty Dane Cook movie (cept the guy my ex is marrying is a great dude and I'm friends w/ him too, so this isn't a bad thing rly).

i went to presbyterian camp near rising sun.

i've seen 'rising sun' on traffic signs all my life, never thought it was an actual place

is it just really bright all the time?

yeah there are signs for rising sun on 95 iirc

I'm gonna say it's because it's on the east side of the Susuhquanana River or whatever it's called.

it's just at the east end of maryland along 95

PPL SAYING 'METHINKS'

People who have completely given up saying 'I like/love x' and will only say 'I loves me some x'.

There's a town north of West Memphis called Sunset.

I like to think it got its name from someone on the Memphis side of the river because, well, that's where the sun set.

when I get tired my chewing gets kinda lazy I guess (?) and I bite the inside of my cheek with my back teeth

it fucking hurts

i hate it

;_;

tbf i loves me some ljubljana

ugh sorry

Accidentally forgot to uncheck "recorded delivery" on my last Boomkat order, which means I pay £1.50 more to have my records hidden at the sorting office until such time as I can be bothered to walk for an hour's round-trip or pay a £3.30 bus fare to go and get them, instead of having them sitting here ready to listen to already.

(admittedly most people's conclusion from this sentence will probably just be that I need to learn to drive or get a bike)

FYI, that is not my conclusion. My conclusion is that parcel services should put their sorting offices anywhere remotely convenient for a damn change.

yeah goddamn parcel hubs are always in the part of the city that you a) never knew existed and is b) the furtherest possible distance away from you by any mode of transport despite being 'local'

FYI, that is not my conclusion. My conclusion is that parcel services should put their sorting offices anywhere remotely convenient for a damn change.

― carl agatha, Friday, January 18, 2013 5:21 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is that a widespread problem? Thought it was just here where they moved it about 3 or 4 miles outside the city centre and about 1 mile beyond the end of the closest bus route. So I had to trek out to pick up a new burner yesterday. Came in a box so way too big for letterbox obviously.

Actually this one's pretty central, it's just that my flat is not. But yeah, they do tend to put them in really stupid places.

The Belfast CityLink depot is like 12 miles from Belfast and everything seemed to end up there without any attempt at delivery being made at all, which is nice when you've paid the £15 Northern Ireland surcharge to use some stupid online shop that doesn't give you a choice of courier.

They do it to be close to airports/truck hubs/etc which makes the most sense in terms of them transporting things! The stupidity is that transit in cities doesn't go enough places.

That figures - the one in Belfast is right next to Belfast Airport, which is also 12 miles away from Belfast

it also figures that then it would be much cheaper to keep it there and send a bike courier with a sack full of "sorry you were out" fliers rather than load it into a van

I mean, purely hypothetically, not that I am suggesting they would do this, of course

The UPS sorting facility is in a pretty inconvenient spot, but the FedEx one is beautifully placed on Goose Island, 2 blocks from the bus route I take to and from work.

Oh good. I'm filing that away for future use.

Do they sell beer on the island, still? I think I would end up making lots of excuses to order packages and drink beer.

There are far more conveniently located Goose Island brew pubs than actual Goose Island. The one at North and Clyborne (by the Apple store that somebody drove a car into last week) taps a lot of rare and unreleased beers and has a good turkey club sandwich.

I have only been in one, near Wrigleyville. We ended up there because we just wanted a drink and thought it might be less fratty than some of the other bars. It was still pretty damn fratty.

They do it to be close to airports/truck hubs/etc which makes the most sense in terms of them transporting things! The stupidity is that transit in cities doesn't go enough places.

well you want most of the transit to be serving places w/ the most people which is going to be not these places. I mean the fedex place in maspeth queens, for example, is a pain in the ass for me to get to. there is a bus but it's infrequent. but it would also be a total waste of resources to make the bus more frequent when there are places that need bus service more.

FedEx and UPS typically give you the ability to have the package redirected to a local store they have or a depot elsewhere. I usually pick one across from the bar.

Yeah neighborhood outlet stores is kind of the answer.