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

Should be a sticker of Bill Watterson pissing on a pissing Calvin.

my dad came home laughing one day because he'd just seen one of the Pissing Calvin decals where the Calvin was also flipping you off, and right next to it was a Christian fish sticker.

I tend to hate bumper stickers in general. saw one once that said "I Think, Therefore I Vote Republican", and left a note reading "You're an idiot" on their windshield.

hahaha that's kind of terrible but it's cracking me up, so good job.

I put a bumper sticker on my old car that said "My Box, My Choice" and I stand by that decision.

would buy

http://compare.ebay.com/like/121088553538?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar

a friend of mine in college set up a side business selling bumper stickers based on 'I own a gun and I vote' -- variations included 'I Wear a Toupee And I Vote', 'I Build Dollhouses And I vote', 'I Raise Turtles and I Vote' etc

I was the proud owner of I Wear A Toupee And I Vote

my box my choice

http://blog.dinoray.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/box.jpg

If I ever was to put a bumper sticker on my car, it'd be something nonsensical like "HONK IF YOU THINK BOB GELDOF IS A CUNT"

OMG this is my shitty work life RIGHT NOW. Photos with no usable filenames, emails with "use this photo" and zero caption info, people who forward work pics to me with "reduce file size for easier emailing" turned on....

Ideally, they will also embed the picture in a Word file for no discernible reason

Yeeesss, James Morisson, that is indeed true hell!

The word file will be 5mb, and no matter what I try to extract a photo from it, it always ends up being a crappy 100k like unusable file.

can someone explain "my box, my choice" to me?

just another pro-choice slogan

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=box

someone was telling me all about this article in the latest issue of scientific american that sounded interesting and possibly controversial and i finally google it up and it is from 2010, and what is interesting and controversial about it is just that it represents things that it no longer makes sense to say in 2013.

no represents, but just says, i suppose.

I just got a letter through the post saying taht the letting agency has cancelled the bin service that I have a waiver for and say they've set me up with a new bin service which presumably I'm going to get billed for. Haven't heard anything beyond that since I got home after the office had closed so the person I talked to was just looking after the office in case of emergency.
I'm really annoyed, surely they should have checked with us tenants first before screwing up our services. I think the bill has been in my name for the last 6 1/2 years so why the hell they're messing me around now is beyond me. nepotism or something? or some other connection to this new service?
I mean,can't see how or why they think we should just change to a new service without any consultation and the first I heard about this was this letter today. So I have rubbish I was just going to throw out and can't do so and presumably won't have bin collected on Friday.

As I type my inbox is getting clogged by e-mails from office staff writing about the results of their "Which superhero are you?" quiz.

'potus' and 'scotus'

these things add nothing of value to the world

idk, they provide a useful shorthand when differentiating from other presidents and supreme courts

they sound gross tho

restaurants that make you come in on some "job fair" day and fill out an application with all the other riff raff, instead of accepting resumes through e-mail or fax. i want to know that i'm on some kind of pre-culled short list before i drag my ass out to your place of business.

"Potus" = poo and flatus
"Scotus" = skin disease of the scrotum

idk, they provide a useful shorthand when differentiating from other presidents and supreme courts

they sound gross tho

ya this would make sense if they were only used in some comparative world politics discussion but 95% of the time someone says 'potus' there is not some crazy confusion about whether you might be talking about the president of the Philippines

back in the bush years you were actually typing an extra character if you wrote 'potus' instead of 'bush'

"...before i drag my ass out to your place of business."

I think this is the pre-culling - Not willing to jump when we say jump? You're not TGIDWH* material!

* Thank God I Don't Work Here

i just right now filled out an online application and got an auto-reply back asking me to come in for an interview at 3pm tomorrow, cuz that's when they're holding interviews. well, reply-bot, i have a different interview tomorrow at 4pm, several miles away, but it's not like you actually care about accommodating *my* needs.

replybots never do. they never do.

Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

i think i've IAed about *OTUS before, it's still the worst. feels like it came out of nowhere and everyone's using it like it's been around forever, but it hasn't been around forever because it's fucking stupid and pointless and ugly and weird

FLOTUS by far the worst tho

FIrst I ever noticed POTUS was All the King's Men and Nixon's memoirs.

You couldn't come up with a better acronym to fit its subject than what the Committee to RE-Elect the President called itself.

doing laundry and my long-sleeved shirt comes out with one of the sleeves inside-out. fuck that noise

Fuck a laundry, it's like doing a final exam in topology sometimes the way shit comes out.

I've always railed against these acronyms, but at least SCOTUS distinguishes it from state supreme courts, a lot of which exist. POTUS is just pointless, and FLOTUS sounds like something left over in the toilet after an incomplete flush.

the phrase "staycation"

breakfast places that call omelettes ommys

WHAT.

America, please cut it out with the baby-talk. It's lacking in dignity.

In our office, we put all the used teaspoons (used for making tea etc) in a mug containing hot water and leave it by the hot water taps. The water in the mug usually gets changed twice a day. Two things IA me:

a) Just put the spoons back in the mug when you've finished with them rather than leaving them in the side ffs. Leaving them out looks messy and isn't really in keeping with the spirit of arrangement.
b) When taking a spoon from the mug, a quick rinse under the tap is acceptable; spending 5 minutes scrubbing it like its been used to clean someones ass is not. WTF hygiene freaks.

I think ommys is actually Dutch.

Wow, so in England, not only do you get just one spoon, but you have to share it with the others

Who calls omelettes ommys? That sounds like an Australian thing to do. Everything there gets a cute, truncated nickname.

oi, ommys in the arvo

Wow, so in England, not only do you get just one spoon, but you have to share it with the others

You'd think their inexpensive nature would ensure that there are plentiful supplies of spoons, but no, everywhere I have worked has had a shortage. I assumed it was an office thing rather than a GB thing.

At least they haven't tried foisting those stupid little wooden stirrers onto me yet.

We got goddam 40 steel teaspoons inside one mug with hot water, here!

Sometimes coworkers bring in excess apples, oranges or whatnot from home fruit trees that people can take home. Pretty standard

The other day someone left a storebought bag of *rotting* plums, fermented syrup oozing out in a pool all over the counter. Literally half the plums were collapsed and rotten and fermented.

NO WE DONT WANT YOUR ROTTING PLUMS YOU FUCKING SAVAGE

(*not innocuous or irrational)

What the hell kind of person brings in rotten produce to share with the office? Actually, it sounds like something that my cousin's (other) grandmother, who had Alzheimer's, would have done (well, not take it to work, but bring it out when you went to visit her and tried to give it to you). Come to think of it, my grandmother who did not have Alzheimer's always tried to feed us something like brown, partially liquefied lettuce or ice cream that was chewy with freezer burn or sandwiches no bread with little divots missing where she'd plucked out the moldy bits when we went to her house.

I think ommys is actually Dutch.

― Jeff, Thursday, June 27, 2013 1:24 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's not.

xp I know someone whose mother-in-law does that. You go to her house for "dinner" and she finds the last inch of dried out tomato sauce in a jar in the back of the fridge and puts it on stale crackers and calls it bruschetta.

Actually, I think it's Chilean.

Or martian.

xp I always chalked it up to some lingering "lived through the Depression" psychosis. That is at least a kinder approach than "cheap, gross old lady," which was probably a pretty defensible opinion.

i click this thread occasionally and absent-mindedly bookmark it even though i don't want to see it all the time

that's almost perfect