...and there's one of mine.
haha sorry pp she said it the normal person way i just spiced things up to make my story ring irrationally true
― j., Friday, 7 June 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
I keep trying to click one of the links at the bottom of Facebook and when I scroll down it keeps expanding the timeline & pushing the links further down off the screen. Does anyone know how to get around this???
― ttyih boi (crüt), Friday, 7 June 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
p sure all the same things are at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar if you click on "more"
― 1staethyr, Friday, 7 June 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
do you find that you do this and then 30 seconds into the first song some 7-foot dude stands right in front of you even if there is nobody else in the front half of the venue and he could totally stand p. much anywhere else and not block anyone's view
every. damn. time.
On the gig front, I always seem to stand in the (not so) sweet spot where there is a fuckin river of people walking back and forth to the bar or whatever, NO MATTER WHERE I STAND. I am alwasys pushed/jostled by people getting past, they arent doing it anywhere else nearby, they are always pushing RIGHT BY ME, getting in my way and making me move, FUCK OFF, Im standing here and I am NOT moving.
― leno dunham (get bent), Friday, 7 June 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
honestly this is pretty rational anger but it's minor so it goes here
I have an irl friend who works front of house for a concert promoter, so sees TONS of bands. She also travels pretty frequently on her own dime to go see bands O/S. She recently got back from seeing Depeche Mode in London. and she has another trip planned in October. but she will still make many FB posts between now and then that say 'Wahhh look at all the bands I'm going to be missing in October!" or 'Omg I can't believe I missed this show last week while I was in London'
it's not even that she sees a lot of bands - that's her life, and I tend to be that way too when I'm flush with $$. But it's the whining about not being able to see EVERYTHING all the time that drives me around the bend
Like it gets insanely OCD and I just wanna scream "knock it the fuck off, firstworldproblems!"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
trees on the sidewalk with low branches at the level of my chest and it's raining and i gotta do the fuckin limbo to get past
― mookieproof, Saturday, 8 June 2013 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
Cars with no headlights on when it's raining.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 8 June 2013 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
'but i can see just fine'
― mookieproof, Saturday, 8 June 2013 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
Overheard at work:A: "Maybe you're pregnant."B: "Ha, that would be an Immaculate Conception."
Me: Nooooooooooooooooooooo.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 8 June 2013 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
Being behind cars with stupid bumper stickers.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 8 June 2013 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
i was at whole foods today and a man and a woman were in line behind me (couldn't tell if they were together or dad and daughter, guy was older) and the woman was complaining about waiting. the checkout person had to look up the number for chard for the customer in front of me in line and line waiter loudly said "SHE DON'T EVEN KNOW THE NUMBERS," then the woman got into the express line and the guy stayed in my line. but they were still together. so when the express line moved faster, the guy put his stuff on the counter! they were in two lines at the same time! assholes! oh also the store was not crowded and the lines were not long. i can't tolerate the grocery store behavior of others.
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Saturday, 8 June 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
disgusting savages
― ttyih boi (crüt), Saturday, 8 June 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
At that point, harbl, I'd have turned around and said, "Doesn't. That woman *doesn't* know the numbers."
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Saturday, 8 June 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
She don't even no her own language.
― Je55e, Saturday, 8 June 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
that's the sort of prescriptivism that makes me irrationally angry
― ttyih boi (crüt), Saturday, 8 June 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i would never, ever do that! i am not bothered by the use of don't instead of doesn't.
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Saturday, 8 June 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
now i feel annoyed by myself, because i in no way meant to look down on her for her use of language, or point out her race (and here both white and black ppl use "don't" a lot, but she was black), but i think the bluntness of it was important to the anecdote. it would be SO SHITTY of me to taunt her for using english incorrectly, and i think would rightly be interpreted as racist. it's a perfectly grammatical sentence imo.
signed, wracked with white guilt in whole foods
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Saturday, 8 June 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Feel sorry for the cashier, TBH. Loud passive-aggressive criticism sucks, no matter who it's coming from, because a) it's childish and b) doesn't make the line move any faster. Probably wouldn't correct a black person/second language user in the situation, but the incident was originally presented without such details. It was presented as someone being shitty to a cashier in an upmarket store, safe in the knowledge that the cashier was unable to answer back.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Saturday, 8 June 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
Annoyed *with* yourself...
― Mark G, Saturday, 8 June 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
i wouldn't even know what chard looked like, let alone the number.
but the double queueing thing...
― koogs, Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
"Chard, what the fuck is chard," thought Noel, discarding the cookery book. "Chard? I'll not have that. Fucking nonsense is what it is," he said to himself, laughing at the very idea. "Fucking chard," he repeated, mentally. "I love the Rolling Stones," he thought. "Love them."
― spade ventura (wins), Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
they were in two lines at the same time!
― j., Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
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:DDDDD
― wince (imago), Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
happy days...
― Mark G, Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
shd have included the author in that c&p (I think it was LG?)
― spade ventura (wins), Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
yeah LG
― spade ventura (wins), Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Liam...?
― Mark G, Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
cinema was FULL of people with crunchy bags last night
who the fuck takes a crunchy bag to a cinema
what the hell is wrong with people
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 8 June 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
have you not been reading the ASMR thread
― j., Saturday, 8 June 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
Probably wouldn't correct a black person/second language user in the situation, but the incident was originally presented without such details.
I mean...... a lot of white folks also speak in dialect that uses "don't" in place of "doesn't."
― ttyih boi (crüt), Sunday, 9 June 2013 05:21 (eleven years ago) link
Thread now a net contributor to ia tbrr
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Sunday, 9 June 2013 05:50 (eleven years ago) link
Long situation last week cos I was trying to make sure a direct debit got paid. So paid it early then had things confused by there being a bank holiday in the interim between paying it and direct debit. So it got paid, cleared then got taken again. Looks like it would have been easier if I rang them and told them it had been paid, but I noticed the night before it got taken the 2nd time that my online account had it credited. & I assumed that if it was cleared then it would register as not needing to be taken again. Then I ring them to get it straightened out and get told that I should ring my bank and get it stopped at that end which was bad advice and should really have been ignored. So i ring the bank and their phone which had been a freephone last time I'd noticed now charges me €2 for being put on hold. & I'm trying to work out if there is any point in cancelling the direct debit but go ahead with it and now need to make sure taht gets set up again before the service gets cut off or a deposit is asked for. & I'm stil waiting to find out if further lessons are going to need to be learned from this mess. Bollox.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 9 June 2013 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
tagging, ok, fine, good to organize things
hashtagging, RAGE AT MY ENTIRE GENERATION AND THE WHOLE WORLD
― j., Sunday, 9 June 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
also
'manifest your destiny'
― j., Sunday, 9 June 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
- when people leave the sounds on their phone turned on. Not just the ringer, which is bad enough and really, anybody who keeps the ringer on their phone turned on when out in public is a disgusting savage, but text message alert sounds and email alert sounds and, god help me, the key clicks and other skeumorphic noises. Or game sounds. Sitting in a public waiting room and playing a game on your phone with the game sounds on should be an imprisonable offense.
― carl agatha, Monday, 10 June 2013 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
I just have to wonder what people are thinking when they are like, "Yeah, my phone makes a clicking noise every time I press a key. That's great! I hope everybody on the train enjoys the nonstop noises coming from this device as much as I do." Or are they super duper clueless? I guess a least a percentage of them are deaf/hearing impaired and don't know the phone is making noise and I apologize to those people for this angry post.
― carl agatha, Monday, 10 June 2013 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
yeah people who play phone games with loud game sounds on the subway make me want to grab the phone from their hand and throw it out the window
― iatee, Monday, 10 June 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
someone who's doing that is so clearly oblivious that they probably won't even notice
huh where did my slot machine game go, where am I
― iatee, Monday, 10 June 2013 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― carl agatha, Monday, 10 June 2013 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
Any accident befalling people who play slots on their phones can't come quickly enough. World, save yourself from shiny-shiny cartoon-eyes moron-magnet phone games.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Monday, 10 June 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
The Stamps.com rep said I could have a scale delivered to an alternate address by calling the USPS with my tracking number.
The USPS' automated system offers no options for changing delivery address, and it makes it pretty much impossible to get to an operator. If I give the tracking number, it tells me that no further information or assistance is available, then "Thank you for using the US Postal Service. Goodbye."
If I say I don't have the tracking number: "Please call back when you have the tracking number. Thank you for using the US Postal Service. Goodbye."
Or, "I'm sorry, I didn't recognize your response. Thank you for using the US Postal Service. Goodbye."
― Je55e, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
they definitely told you USPS, and not UPS? I didn't think the postal service allowed much functionality with their tracking numbers anyway, except to determine delivery. But I've been wrong many times
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 June 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, USPS for sure b/c it's from Stamps.com.
It turns out the only packages you can re-route are ones sent by Express Mail, and mine was sent by Priority Mail.
― Je55e, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
jerks
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 June 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway, the absolutely infuriating part was being given one shot at getting help, then being told goodbye.
― Je55e, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
Please follow these important steps: Goodbye
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 June 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
the bagging area on the local supermarket robo-tills was so packed with their plastic bags that there wasn't enough space to balance all my purchases. it won't let you continue until everything you've swiped so far has been put on the scales.
(really not sure why it does this and it annoyingly means you can't put stuff directly into a backpack, say. which i always do.)
― koogs, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
The use of the phrase "part-exing" in the We Buy Any Car advert. What, is "part-exchanging" too long a word for you?
― ailsa, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
To get a human at the USPS, start pressing 0 and don't stop. I learned that when I was trying to track down missing packages.
― carl agatha, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
my wife is part of an informal mom's group in the neighborhood, and they text like FIENDS. This annoys both my wife, whose phone is blowing up all the time with nonsense, and me, because I tend to stay up later than my wife and they continue to text and text and I hear her text alerts every two minues. Also, we don't have an unlimited text plan, because we kept my wife's grandfathered unlimited data plan, which we figure is worth more than unlimited texts.
Anyway, to make things worse, she texted them to ask if they could stop texting her so much, because she's running out of texts, and several of them responded "I have unlimited texts." "Me too!" "Me too!" "Yeah, I also have unlimited texts!" DURRRRRRRR!
Anyway, the real reason to be irrationally angry is that the phone company forces you into this position in the first place.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 June 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link