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

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.

yeah. annoyingly the last time I ordered something the company had instructions that prevented me from redirecting it from a home address / had to sign in person, so I had to waste a whole night getting to that bleak wasteland of a fedex depot

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.

― mh, Friday, January 18, 2013 7:04 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not near, directly in the middle of, and yes, it's terrible.

We did get to overhear this drunk girl talking to a parking attendant dude about relationships, though. She said something about being there, and he somewhat euphemistically said "Yeah, but in relationships maybe you need to do something /special/" followed by some sort of sexual insinuation. She responded with, "But I'm pretty!"

To this day, those friends and I will randomly bust out "But I'm pretty!" and die laughing

I get really irrationally angry when someone enters a fast food line, gets to the front of it, and then starts tryign to decide ewhat he wants to order. THAT'S WHAT WAITING IN THE BACK BEFORE GETTING IN LINE IS FOR.

hate that so much

esp when it's a chain restaurant that's relatively huge and hasn't changed its menu in years aka Burger King but then again I should be rationally angry at myself for eating that crap in the first place.

Ha, yes. I don't eat a lot of fast food so I am often overwhelmed by fast food menus and I hate it when there is not at least a short line so I can figure out what the hell is going on in there before it's my turn.

I'm so happy I work at a place where I can get packages delivered without anybody yelling at me for it (although the mail room people do like to comment on the size/quantity of packages I receive, which I would prefer they didn't, but we all must make sacrifices).

"But I'm pretty!"

LOL

xp No! Burger King totally changes its menu. And god damn I'm about to sound completely insufferable here, but we don't have cable so I don't see many commercials and suddenly I'm in line and I'm like, "Angry Whopper? What the fuck is an Angry Whopper?"

yeah it's changed its menus to include like exotic Whoppers and shit but a lot of the core menu has stayed in place.

the Angry Whopper sucks btw, but the Carolina one is good.

McDonalds woulda been a better example

She responded with, "But I'm pretty!"

SMDH RMDE etc

that reminds me of that movie BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER

Ha me too!

btw about two minutes after that, we saw two fratty-looking guys trying to fight each other by shoving. One was restrained by his friend, and the other taunted him BY LIFTING UP HIS SHIRT AND SHOWING HIS CHEST. That is apparently a real thing.

btw this was about an hour after we'd seen a Bjork concert. it was a hell of a night.

"u wish you had hairy standy-out nips like these, BITCH'

aww for a moment I thought the fight happened at the Bjork concert, that woulda been next level

Things that make me irrationally angry: people who don't enjoy Einar, the shouty guy from The Sugarcubes
(Einar's band was opening for Bjork)

was it at that college theater in the loop? if so, i was at that show

in the very very last row way up high

i dislike people who automatically heckle any opening act simply cuz it isn't who they paid to see. you don't have to care or pay attention, but short of being unable to play their instruments, putting in a half-assed effort, or acting like a dick to the audience, there ain't no reason to heckle...STFU AND DEAL WITH IT.

only act I ever booed was MC Hammer in 2010 but I was hardly the only one, it was the worst show ever.

probably was, n/a!

BY LIFTING UP HIS SHIRT AND SHOWING HIS CHEST.

Are you sure you weren't in the primate house at the Lincoln Park Zoo?

wrigleyville isn't that different

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.

― mh, Friday, January 18, 2013 7:10 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It would be a lot easier to get to the central GPO for the town. & apparently the sorting office was located there a long time ago. Haven't heard of the option to have things held there in the actual Post Office being open but it would be very handy.

when i log in to my hotmail account why do i have to type @hotmail.com?

i'm already on www.hotmail.com, you cunts, wtf is wrong with you? what website did you think i thought i was logging into?

i'm almost certain i didn't have to do this in 1997, why did it change? fuck you. in the face.

It changed because they brought in hotmail.<country code> addresses. If you signed up now you'd probably get a hotmail.ie email.

i rage nonetheless

You know, they've come out with some other email services since 1997.

AOL's pretty cutting edge but I dunno if they have that in Ireland

yeah i keep it for junk and stuff tbh

I have been noticing that the wind causes sudden and abrupt rage, especially if it is cold or cooler.