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

though they've started doing weird blister-pack/foodsaver pouch type packaging which works REALLY well and they don't leak like the trays do

but they don't always show up in the stores

partially-frozen chicken breasts much easier to slice for stir fry

YES

I like those individually wrapped chicken breasts (they have them at Trader Joe's fyi) except I feel guilty about the excess packaging, the ones from TJs are inconsistently sized, and the ones from Perdue or whatever tend to seem too uniform (I am like Prince's mother. I'm never satisfied). But you could get the trays, then individually package them into ziplock freezer bags. If you put them in a sinkful of water, they should thaw in an hour or so. It's a little extra work up front but may be worth it. (I do something similar with bacon, which I tend to use as a additive instead of a breakfast meat - I take about 14 inches of wax paper, lay two slices of bacon on it, roll them up, two more slices, roll them up, etc. then stick the whole thing in a freezer bag. Then when I want bacon, I just unroll the first two slices, peel them off the paper, and I'm ready to go. Bacon is also waaaaaay easier to slice when frozen.)

By "them" in the second and third sentence, I mean the individual chicken breasts. I'm also assuming you're talking boneless skinless breasts. Bone-in chicken breasts will not thaw in an hour or so.

yeah these are bone-in, that's my whole freezing/thawing problem, I never think about thawing them in the morning

Carl's right about submerging frozen poultry in room-temp water. This and a large bucket is how I am never stuck with a frozen turkey not thawing at Thanksgiving. If I'm freezing stuff into portions, I'll usually recycle plastic Chinese food/take-away containers and assuage my packaging guilt reusing them.

Generally when I freezerburn, I fix it by making curry with the scorched meat in question. My worst freezerburn incident was the pigeon breasts that stayed polar for 18 months before becoming a very winey/mushroomy casserole.

Roasting bone-in chicken breasts with a cut up lemon stuffed under it and some rosemary scattered in the pan is one of my favorite dinners when it's not so shitting hot that the thought of turning on the stove makes me want to cry.

yeah they're good in the oven! mr veg cooks them on the bbq too, and you can easily fillet them for boneless meat for stirfry etc

we mainly just get them cos they're cheaper than boneless normally

coldbrew ice coffee has become this excuse to charge $3.50-$4.00 for a small iced coffee. There's nothing about cold-brewing that justifies this, it's not expertly prepared like a barista drink, it's not more labor or cost-intensive.

The song "Dance to the Music" by Sly Stone.

wow, that is innocuous at WORST. Very thread appropriate. Kudos.

Yes dude at record store. Go through each cd one by one at a glacial pace. Examine each cd from all angles like you are a pawn shop owner inspecting diamonds. No one else wants to browse.

drive thru rage

dumb older lady in a lexus minivan asking them to cut one of her burgers in half, do they sell grilled cheese sandwiches, what sizes are the sodas, should she order a desssert or will there be enough food, do they have any plain sandwiches

I contemplated laying on my horn at least 20 times

GO INSIDE YOU DUMB LADY STOP CLOGGING UP THE WORLD'S FASTEST DRIVETHRU YOU ARE RUINING THEIR FLOW

Double strollers and the people who use them. These women in Panera blocked the aisle with theirs and when asked to move it, one whined out through her nose, "But where am I supposed to put it??!" EXACTLY.

The 'In praise of...' section of the Guardian's op-ed page

I'm trying to thing of a person or subject that wouldn't come across as vaguely contemptible if featured here, and failing.

everyone stop saying 'pro tip'

strictly amateur tip

some energy saving motherfucker keeps turning off the light in the bathroom the next floor down at work

it's a bathroom in a very public building!

just leave the goddamn light on!!

turn off the building lights, teach them a lesson

someone did that to me once while I was...erm...dropping anchor in the men's room. and the bathroom was in a church that wasn't particularly well lit, so it went pitch black at that point.

really hate in movies/tv/etc whenever there's a one-sided phone conversation in the script -- there is ALWAYS a little interlude where the one character you're listening to goes "no. no. no. yes. no." because apparently the person on the other end of the line just asked five yes-or-no questions in a row. it's always there to make the convo seem more realistic or to just drag it out and it's never ever realistic on account of it always happening. and never really happening in real life

jfc just write both sides of the conversation

there's always more nos than yeses too, and they're always organized in a way that doesn't seem too obvious because no one ever says "no. yes. no." in response to three questions ever, that would just seem too fake

'there's always more nos than yeses'

(sobs)

no

Spotify splitting up artist's discographies so that (for example) half of it appears under 'Martha And The Muffins' and half appears under 'Martha & The Muffins'.

I then get angry at myself for being annoyed by something so inconsequential.

should say 'artists' discographies' above, wtf is wrong with me.

Martha & The Muffins have 1,487 followers, compared to only 163 for Martha And The Muffins, which is where their new album appears, unfortunately.

should say 'artists' discographies' above, wtf is wrong with me.

do not mean to make you still more angry, but in fact it would've been better to put "an artist's discography" (rather than plural "discographies"), so avoiding incongruity with "it", though any error in your original sentence was incredibly minor and would probably have gone unnoticed without your brave confession. your anger regarding martha and/& the muffins is totally justified.

I have raged irrationally at Spotify's way of organizing artists before. Like, instead of assigning each artist a unique numerical identifier, they go only by text so that if you search for the band "Witchcraft" you get Witchcraft the badass Swedish metal band and also Witchcraft the German (I think) jazz trio, which is just dumb.

Not just search, I mean when you click the link for "Witchcraft" it brings up albums for both artists with no differentiation between the two other than the user's ability to hear that they are different bands.

ugh yeah bands that start with a The and have at least one AND in their name....5 permutations of the same band name each with a partial discography BLAH

I think I raised similar Spotify complaints upthread or in the prior thread and was told that it's because the metadata is bad. Seems like something they ought to be able to work around though, ffs.

is rdio any better y/n

Walgreens sends out an email when it's time to renew a prescription. All you have to do is reply to the email and it will renew the prescription. But it doesn't tell you which one it is. Maybe I have two, one I want to renew and one I don't? It's stupid.

Refill, not renew.

what pisses me off more is that if it's one that requires doctor authorization they send an email saying "we'll check on that" and then you either get an email saying that it worked or you never heard from them again

it's like, hey guys, weren't you checking on that? how'd it go?

ugh yeah bands that start with a The and have at least one AND in their name....5 permutations of the same band name each with a partial discography BLAH

Makes me feel right home :(

Xp

Walgreens sends out an email when it's time to renew a prescription. All you have to do is reply to the email and it will renew the prescription. But it doesn't tell you which one it is. Maybe I have two, one I want to renew and one I don't? It's stupid.

You can now change this in settings.

ooh, thanks

I'd have noticed by now but I'm off my meds and feeling nothing but angery

I swore to never go inside Walgreens again after several stress-inducing-but-not-worth-going-into-here instances.

My new pharmacy delivered my prescription to me the other day! Fuck you, Walgreens!

The Walgreens by me always has inexplicably long lines at odd times. Actually explicable, by the fact that they tend to only staff one cashier who seems to also have other things to do around the store.

Walgreens delivers.

I'm happy with their recent changes - tech advances in the pharmacy are huge. I like their newly reorganized stores, their house brand stuff is good and cheap (Nice!), and I've gotten about $15 from their loyalty card in the past year, which is a Nice! little surprise every once in a while.

xp - I've seen huge improvements in customer service in the ones around here. Not Trader Joe's friendly, but they NEVER let lines build up, and they're professional and they know where shit is. And *what* shit is.

Walgreens sure doesn't deliver around here.

My new pharmacy even sent me a thank-you card in the mail.

its like the CVS stores around me have gone to shit and the Walgreen's have straightened out a lot. the CVS by my house is a nightmare.

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