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

A friend from Pennsylvania once that people from her area do that making every sentence end like it's a question? And she said she was glad when she finally stopped doing that after living in NC for a few years.

I guess the topic of moving to the burbs is over, but I just want to say that I don't judge anyone for where they want to live or for deciding they're better of raising kids in the suburbs. My annoyance w/ what carl said: certain people's assumption that they have to move to the burbs as a necessary life step.

And that OKC guy is not unique in refusing to ride public transit b/c it's "scary," i.e., there are sometimes loud people of color and they sometimes talk to themselves and they sometimes ask for change.

It's cos in the burbs whenever they watch the evening news it's all the scary shit that happens in the city.

The only issue I have re: city and burbs is like in Phil's example when you rep hard for a city but live 20 miles outside the place. Maybe this is due to being from Michigan where so many people are "woohoo I'm from Detroit fuck yeah" but actively hate the city proper due to fear and racism and only go there for a ball or hockey game once a year and flee immediately afterwards to Oakland county.

Also not IA but having been partnered up since long before the rise of online dating I still read OKC as "Oklahoma City" and am wondering why it fits in to the social lives of so many people that I know do not live in Oklahoma.

With you on OKC. Every time. Wonder what a bunch of single hipsters are thundering about.

Along those lines, two websites I work on are inarkansas.com and innovatearkansas.com. Needless to say, I see some familiar initials pop up a bit, but they always make me think of this thread instead of the other way around.

Wouldnt rush towards unpacking too much the intent of ppl who arent comfortable with loud strangers (of any colour) bugging them on public transport.

its possible to get a really good public education in nyc, but it depends on tracking, a bit of luck, etc. like i know its a mixed bag, but nyc public schools include some of the highest achieving ones in the u.s.

I used to wait tables w/ this obnoxious guy who, when guests said they were from Chicago, would ask, Oh, which neighborhood? And if they said they were actually from some suburb, he would say, "Oh I thought so - you don't have the city vibe."

Wouldnt rush towards unpacking too much the intent of ppl who arent comfortable with loud strangers (of any colour) bugging them on public transport.

Being annoyed by them is one thing, but taking them as a sign of danger! is generally ridiculous and pathetic. Exceptions for people who are fearful b/c of trauma, PTSD, or other disorders.

I got ptsd from birth iirc

when fuckers look at their phones/facebook during class. if, really, you are 'smart' enough to -multitask- then you're also smart enough to contribute to class discussion.

but, you're a dumbass. please gtfo and stop distracting the rest of us.

imo it's an indication that the speaker is lacking confidence

― Autumn Almanac, Friday, August 2, 2013 8:36 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bullshit, and i get totally rationally angry every time someone tries to turn linguistic tics into some pseudo-sociology/psychology garbage, it's like one step above evolutionary psychology

anyway, IA: i had two people over tonight and neither of them had even heard of "lucky" by britney spears, wtf

bullshit, and i get totally rationally angry every time someone tries to turn linguistic tics into some pseudo-sociology/psychology garbage, it's like one step above evolutionary psychology

― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Sunday, 4 August 2013 18:26 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you are welcome to disagree with my post

when it's raining just enough that the lower wiper setting moves too slowly and lets water pool too much to be effective, but not enough that the next wiper setting up moves too fast, and after a few repetitions, starts making that rubbing sound since there's not enough water on the windshield.

THERE NEEDS TO BE AN EXTRA SETTING.

^ this x 1000000. I feel ridiculous skooshing water out of the washers onto my windscreen when it's raining, but what you gonna do? Use the wipers manually the whole drive?

bullshit, and i get totally rationally angry every time someone tries to turn linguistic tics into some pseudo-sociology/psychology garbage, it's like one step above evolutionary psychology

― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Sunday, 4 August 2013 18:26 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you are welcome to disagree with my post

― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, August 4, 2013 6:42 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think he just did

And AA welcomed it!

ugh. I replaced my right headlamp over a year ago and it's out again. I wanted to take out the light and see if it was the bulb or something in the setup, but there's a goddamn screw in a location that's so difficult to reach with flat tools, and I can't clearly remember how I did it last time (but I know it was an ordeal).

tempted to just take it to a mechanic to do it for me, as it's usually just $100, but I hate that a repair that should cost $20 is made this difficult by the intentionally stupid positioning of one damn screw/bolt.

gonna pick up some small pliers tomorrow, as I vaguely recall that being the way I did it. socket wrench won't work as the extender is too long and there's only a limited amount of horizontal space.

* people with interesting, entertaining blogs who abandon them in order to say stuff on Twitter you don't understand because it's all boring conversations with people you don't follow

* people who post photos of women wearing glasses, captioned "I LOVE smart women!"

* prezi

Ditto with Neanderthal. My original headlight bulb lasted ten years, and then the replacement burns out after three months. And to add insult to injury the way it's mounted you have to position this oddly shaped spring clip around a post and a clip to hold it in place. And the passenger side is even worse, as the windsheild wiper fluid tube is right in front of it.

when it's raining just enough that the lower wiper setting moves too slowly and lets water pool too much to be effective, but not enough that the next wiper setting up moves too fast, and after a few repetitions, starts making that rubbing sound since there's not enough water on the windshield.

THERE NEEDS TO BE AN EXTRA SETTING.

there needs to be a rheostat, imho

i.e. a knob that allows for INFINITE WIPER SETTINGS

its possible to get a really good public education in nyc

i got one, and i didn't even go to stuyvesant. gifted & talented programs, magnet schools, advanced classes, music education. my parents wouldn't settle for mediocre schooling. one great thing about nyc is you're not stuck in your neighborhood's school district -- you can go to any school that will have you. i went to high school on the upper west side and took the subway in from brooklyn every day.

My previous car (1995 Mercury Villager) had no fewer than nine wiper settings. And it still wasn't enough.

xp

* people who post photos of women wearing glasses, captioned "I LOVE smart women!"

yeah, i never really got this. i know people that wear glasses who are SHIT DUMB and people with perfect vision that are genius-level.

it's such a cheesy porn trope. if you want to have a SOPHISTICATED BUSINESSWOMAN or BOARDING SCHOOL TEACHER or SEXXEE LIBRARIAN, just put her in a pencil skirt and add a pair of glasses. i can't believe how many otherwise smart/with-it guys fall for this shit.

i remember some awful film I had to review years ago which cast elle mcpherson as the dorky main character's love interest, and to show she was SMART they put her in glasses; actual laughs from theatre every time she appeared in them

There's some blog or buzzfeed style site called Nerdsaresexy or something, and it's main img is a stock photo of a porn chick on an office chair with a laptop/glasses/possibly also a lab coat? UUUURGH.

i can't believe how many otherwise smart/with-it guys fall for this shit.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l8xeX8k9lgo/SNMCGIyvaqI/AAAAAAAAG5I/XHWnZca-z6Y/s400/mccain+palin3.jpg

its possible to get a really good public education in nyc, but it depends on tracking, a bit of luck, etc. like i know its a mixed bag, but nyc public schools include some of the highest achieving ones in the u.s.

― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Saturday, 3 August 2013 18:20 (2 days ago) Permalink

in 9/10 cases it depends on money, i.e. enough money to live in Manhattan or a few brownstone brooklyn neighborhoods -- btw this is probably a difference between now and when JBR grew up here. In the other 1/10 cases it's a matter of choosing to live in a handful of (still not cheap) neighborhoods, mostly in queens or southern brooklyn, where you'll feel more like you're in the suburbs anyway but at least you have a subway. Just hoping for their kids to get into the ultra-competitive Stuyvesant or Bronx Science isn't really an option for most people.

BTW the out-of-zone schooling thing is only really an option for high school -- you have 8-9 years of schooling in your zoned school.

There's a facebook group called "Lost <cityname>" and it sometimes brings great pictures of former businesses, buildings, and parks that the city no longer has, but the commenters are HORRIBLE. Half the time it's people saying how sad it is we no longer have whatever is pictured, when the pictured thing was relatively negative for the city. This morning some dude is going on about how we need to save some giant concrete plaza with a fountain because he waded in it as a kid.

Those toilet paper dispensers that have one roll stacked on top of another for when one runs out, except the two rolls are in contact and the tension is all misadjusted, so you can only tear off one square at a time or less unless you reach over with one hand, lift the top roll up on its spring, then pull from the bottom roll until you get a sufficient amount of TP. All I want is to wipe, why are you doing this to me? ;_;

I can pour my own coffee here at work, but thanks for thinking of me there sales-guy-who-thinks-he's-Flo-at-the-Dime&Drop-Diner.

xpost uggghhh Phil I hate that

lord do I hate people who can't alphabetize. Many alphabetical mistakes on this "alphabetized" template in my dept, including BL appearing before BE.

Phil D otm - also those dispensers where the rolls are side-by-side, and when one's finished you slide the bottom bit along, except people don't understand that and just try and pull little tufts of paper out of the minuscule gap

You should have told him to kiss your grits, pp.

it's usually pretty crowded when i take the subway home in the evening. if i'm able to, i'll scooch up against the doors on the side that isn't opening.

if not, i'll generally go to the area precisely midway between the doors -- although narrow (because the seats there face forward/back rather than inward) it's relatively out of the way, and on a crowded train there's really no call to be walking the length of the car.

tonight this woman followed me there, set up camp, and while reading accidentally elbowed me/nudged me in the kidneys with her backpack for a stop. so i moved, and a stop later she followed me and did it again. it wasn't exactly egregious (other than following me) but it was both annoying and made me wonder whether she was gonna pick my pocket.

when i got off we glared at each other briefly. i guess that is pretty mild by the standards of what women go through regularly, but wtf

tl;dr subway riders are savages

nyc subways are actually powered from the harvesting of irrational anger, iirc

for something more irrational, i realized today that i hate forks clovetofu with tines that are not parallel

on a crowded train ppl will put up with much more encroachment than they would in, say, an elevator, but don't be doing shit on purpose

ffs, got some new tools that i thought would do the trick, and went back at my car again. got the bolt to loosen, somehow some way, and began victoriously loosening it to where it tightened up again, and I couldnt' get it to go any further before I got dizzy from the heat and having to bend at awkward angles.

giving up and taking to the shop. yay for paying $100 for what I could normally fix for $20 if I didn't have to contort my body like stretch armstrong to fix the damn thing.

last weekend we discovered that the door locking actuator for the front passenger door of our car was not locking when the car was centrally locked.so we took it in to be repaired.
this weekend, we discovered that the rear passenger door actuator is now not locking. u_u

they all operate independently so it's not that the mechanic screwed up and upset the other one, it's that these things are STUPID. honda denies there is any kind of design flaw in these fucking things yet EVERY CR-V of our model runs into actuator problems exactly at the same moment that our started too. they all just independently crap out at random times.

stupid fucking things RAGH

when i used to go to shelbyville we used keys to lock our cars, which was the style in those days

gimme five bees for a quarter, we'd say

There's a facebook group called "Lost <cityname>" and it sometimes brings great pictures of former businesses, buildings, and parks that the city no longer has, but the commenters are HORRIBLE. Half the time it's people saying how sad it is we no longer have whatever is pictured, when the pictured thing was relatively negative for the city. This morning some dude is going on about how we need to save some giant concrete plaza with a fountain because he waded in it as a kid.

the LA/NYC versions of these are full of racist commenters and people who like to point out that their idyllic neighborhoods of yore are "SOOO GHETTO" now.

if you wanna dry your face with a hand dryer go ahead but have the common courtesy to point the blower back in a handwardly direction when you're done, you disgusting savage.

enormous image of actual handdryer in question for illustrative purposes:

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Images/Products/size_3/HD2400MA.JPG

There's a facebook group called "Lost <cityname>" . . . This morning some dude is going on about how we need to save some giant concrete plaza with a fountain because he waded in it as a kid.

the town where I grew up in the 80s was a giant pile of ugly 50s concrete stacked under a permanently grey sky, and I did still get a pang on hearing that a particularly ugly and illogically arranged gum-tarnished slab of an open-air mall had been knocked down

brb going to look up which parts of town were replaced by something not made of concrete, or at least made of slightly newer and less gum-spattered concrete, and bemoan their loss on social networking groups

plz consider bemoaning in the following threads:

Defend the Indefensible - Concrete Architecture

Deposed buildings