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

spraying the vegetables actually DOES "keep them fresh"

My dad, who was very frugal, would always sling the water off the vegetables b/c he didn't want to pay for water that added extra weight. I do it too b/c of frugality and b/c it keeps the vegetables from getting rotten like n/a describes.

ia: people who, as a rule, can't spell or punctuate correctly, ever. look, i'm sympathetic to the "descriptivist" pov that says language and usage are fluid concepts, but: most of us strive to find some kind of agreed-upon happy medium anyway. when you're a terrible speller/user of your native language/etc., it signals to me that you probably don't read much, or pay attention much. maybe even that there's something wrong with your brain function. (i'm not talking about people who have certain words that they always get wrong, or stuff that's complicated even for a scripps spelling-bee contestant. i consider myself a very good speller and i have words i struggle with from time to time.)

take this with a grain of salt -- my ilx posts are mostly in lowercase.

just for you, gb.

http://i.imgur.com/3BLJJ0r.jpg

On Occasion, if you forget / Run out.

when i see capitalized nouns, i'm all "do u like hitler"

I'm angrier at baby-related communications that are only addressed to mothers (aka "mom's") and not fathers, because only mom's change their Kidz diapers' and wipes'.

otm

See also a onesie I saw on Pinterest that said

DAD
Keep
Calm
and
Call
MOM

Fuck you, onesie. FUCK YOU.

there are still so many stores and restaurants that only have the diaper changing tables in the women's restroom. which is great when your spouse is with you and you can offload diaper changing responsibilities to them with a good excuse, but not so great when you're out with the kid by yourself and need to change a diaper.

Discovering the magical "family" changing room has been of the best things about fatherhood.

Sometimes, Beeps, Hammer and I will go into the one at Walmart and just hang out as if we're waiting on a flight inside the Qantas Club.

- when people composing written communications on a computer write (sp?) after something that they misspelled instead of using spell check or looking up the correct spelling on the magical machine that they are using to write the communications.
- my mom just did this in an email to me. ;_;
- I'm almost as disappointed as I was when she switched her party affiliation from democrat to republican.

People who never capitalize (capitalise?) anything make me a little IA. Totally I, but A nonetheless. I mean, too cool for the Shift key? Too busy? Overreacting against German?

otm

not too cool. i love german. i just started typing this way one day and got a little too used to it. weirdly, ilx is the only social-media place where i type this way. fb/twitter/mefi all get sentence case.

http://www.nndb.com/people/960/000024888/ee-cummings.jpg

"come get a piece of this, schwantzy."

I first skipped caps around 1987 after reading Airport, in which a secretary refused to use capitalization (removed caps from her typewriter, IIRC). But during a crash or other crisis, her boss ordered her to use GD capitals! And she was like, "Sir, yes, sir!!"

I''ll skip caps if I'm posting from't phone, sometimes.

oddly my phone is one of the few times i will use capitals because the auto-complete puts them in.

people taking up even one square inch of my mental space with news about the royal baby. I cannot fucking stand even hearing people exchange words about this, even if they are themselves only ironically pretending to care or whatever.

You're doing it now to my mental space, as are all the people shouting about how they don't care. AGHGHGH now I'm doing it! This is how it happens!

the soda machine at the nearest break room today advertised a new price of 99.95 per 20 oz bottle. GEE THANKS OBAMA

(suspect it was really electronic glitch but wasn't gonna risk my $$$$ in that machine)

People who leave stuff - shampoo, bars of soap, whatever - in the shower stalls in the gym at work. In this morning's case it was one of those suction cup shaving mirrors. Which is really mind-boggling, because by its very nature you have to spend a significant amount of time looking at it.

the overemphasis on "tasting notes" in food. I'm not making a "that's too fancy for me" complaint -- I love good food and I'm very picky about things like wine, beer and coffee -- I just don't understand the practice of sitting there going "hmm, I taste hibiscus, crab apple, old shoe leather, milk chocolate, and unripe avocado." It seems so alienating from the way I experience food, and after a while I can't even tell if I like something anymore.

I tweeted about this but everything about this ad makes me IA:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BP3J86mCIAAo0Fn.jpg

wow, terrible

yeah i can count at least seven things to hate about that.

I really hate domu ads in general but that one is just egregiously awful.

hibiscus, crab apple, old shoe leather, milk chocolate, and unripe avocado

http://fiatopen.rollins.edu/wordpressmu/e-journals/files/2009/12/johnny_carson_as_karnak_feature.jpg

wait what are the two words? there are more than two words there.

are the words 'urban cowboy'.

is that like this

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/UrbanCowboyPoster.jpg/215px-UrbanCowboyPoster.jpg

or like this

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/Midnight_Cowboy.gif/220px-Midnight_Cowboy.gif

I also got confused because it said "Bud" and "Pilsen" and Bud is a Pilsner beer.

It's taken nearly an hour of head scratching but by jove I think I have it: that charming looking chap is Bud who styles himself as an "urban cowboy", lives in the Pilsen neighbourhood of Chicago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilsen,_Chicago), and can't count.

Yes, correct. Bud lives in Pilsen and is an assho-- I mean "urban cowboy." It's actually a little more obnoxious if you know anything about Pilsen, IMO, which is busy getting gentrified by urban cowboys like Bud.

The "two words" really drove me over the edge. I guess the two words are DOMO and APARTMENT? If I was talking to somebody and they were like, "I will describe my amazing apartment in two words: DOMO. APARTMENT." I would make a rapid exit from the conversation and that person's vicinity.

Yeah I know the Pilsen neighborhood. But it's named after the Czech city, which is where Pilsner beer is from, and also I believe where the original Budweiser beer is from, so I still got confused.

DOMO APARTMENTO, MR. BUD PILSEN

what the hell is domu

I'm imagining bud saying the whole sentence and air quoting the two words. He probably has some particularly annoying hipster version of air quotes.

I also just think "Domu" is a terrible name for a business. It stood out to me (I saw the ads on CTA) last time I was in Chicago as being awful. And I generally hate the genre of ads that are like "here is individualist young person with quirky tastes and s/he uses our service." There was this dating service that I briefly saw a blanket of ads for in NYC that had the same sort of schtick, like "look at the quirky young people you can meet, e.g. this rollerblading metalhead nurse with a rainbow mohawk"

> what the hell is domu

advertising fail

"here is individualist young person with quirky tastes and s/he uses our service."

Domu's ad aesthetic in a nutshell. So gross.

horseshoe it's an apartment listing service. Free for people looking for apartments, and $20 for property owners to list their rentals.

Hipster air quotes would likely sound something like this.

Historical IS, but I'm still pissed off about soda and candy companies switching to "codes" for their contests, instead of just telling you that you won something when you opened the wrapper/bottle.

People who never capitalize (capitalise?) anything make me a little IA. Totally I, but A nonetheless. I mean, too cool for the Shift key? Too busy? Overreacting against German?

So says someone called "schwantz."

i know someone who was in a domu ad. they just photograph "hip-looking" ppl (altho the guy in the one upthread...) and add random copy. the worst ones were the series w/ just this text like "quirky" hobby/profession/neighborhood so the ads were like "spelunker. orthodontist. logan square." next to a photograph of someone who looked like none of those things

hahahaha that is so gratifying. I was almost sure it had to be made up.

There's something very lost-in-translation about the way ad agencies have gotten the impression that our generation is defined by collections of eccentric pursuits.

LIfe insurance commercials in 2035 are really going to suck.

they just photograph "hip-looking" ppl (altho the guy in the one upthread...)

He looks like Ken Vandermark wearing Harry Caray glasses.

In other words, perfect for their Chicago target audience.

i know someone who was in a domu ad. they just photograph "hip-looking" ppl (altho the guy in the one upthread...) and add random copy. the worst ones were the series w/ just this text like "quirky" hobby/profession/neighborhood so the ads were like "spelunker. orthodontist. logan square." next to a photograph of someone who looked like none of those things

― 1staethyr, Tuesday, July 23, 2013 5:21 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES.

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