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

Soundtrack albums that include dialogue snippets from the film in the middle of tracks, so you can't avoid them

Online shops where you buy something for a really good price, and then they decided they're selling it too cheap, so they tell you it's out of stock and refund you, but you know they're lying because it's still listed as being in stock but at a much higher price.

People who make outlandish statements (on social media or otherwise) who, if challenged in any way, say they can't be bothered to back these up and just say stuff like "whatever, if you don't get it you don't get it" or words to that effect.

I'm probably the one being the dick in this situation too, I admit, but I definitely have a lower estimation of people who don't know how to have a discussion and instead get really offended and act like you're trolling or arguing with them instead of backing up their own bullshit.

My brother does that, it's infuriating. "I don't have to justify myself" when he's said something awful and factually incorrect.

no one at a job should ever say "use common sense" when telling you work policy

ie" How many times should we attempt to call the customer back?"

"use common sense"
???

bought a mug in the disney store yesterday.

shall i put that in a box for you?
yes please
(takes out box big enough for two mugs)
actually, that's a bit big, i can make do with just a bag...
ok, plastic bags are 5p...

Recyclable/biodegradable vs EVIL* innit

*plastic, not Disney, if that wasn't clear

but when you factor in the cost of transport of the heavier box and the fact that the bag was 95% recycled plastic (and which i will re-use) it all gets a bit confusing.

walking across a parking lot that I have to walk across to get home from the main road. I'm wearing a high vis coat that I was wearing that morning because I was going to be visiting a community garden to watch a compost workshop. Anyway, with this thing on I'd expect I was pretty visible. This car starts backing into me. Really hate that, would think that if a car is starting from stationary and sees somebody walking across a certain area they aren't going to start until they've seen the person pass, similarly when they are going to start backing into a location they hadn't been in before where somebody is walking they would wait for the person not to be in that area. Don't people reversing look at the area they are backing towards?

Or do idiots with cars automatically have the right of way

Nothing irrational about this but I'm going to vent anyway -- getting a bill on Thursday that's due on Monday.

Maybe this has been mentioned before, but people in the office in front of whom you can't eat anything without them wanting to know what it is or asking questions about it. Seriously, I often think it's a fixation for some people.

I used to work with this woman who was super obsessed with my eating habits, particularly yogurt. Like it was some kind of exotic foodstuff.

But yeah that is super annoying and intrusive. As someone with a history of ~issues~ with eating/food it was (much much less now thanks to all that therapy and the DNGAF-ness of getting older) dare I say triggering to have someone get all up in my eating business.

I do take some satisfaction when a co-worker shrieks "OH, Pleasant Plains! THAT. SMELLS. SOOOOO GOOD!"

And I'm all like "Thanks, it's Stouffer's."

http://www.name-list.net/img/images.php/Stouffer_2.jpg

new mug, btw, is 20% larger and 50% heavier than the last one - years of by-eye measurements of milk and water out the window.

seriously when are we going to get rid of daylight savings time? I will vote for a political party that promises to abolish it.

I'm quitting life if we do. I'd never make it through winter. Or I could just move to San Diego.

xxposts "Oooh, what have you go there, Charlie?", "It's a new thing, it's called a sandwich".

I mean, seriously, you're not going to eat it, it's not balut or some other weird delicacy, so why are you interested? I was going to eat this alone in the canteen instead of at my desk PRECISELY because I didn't want to have people commenting on the fact I was actually EATING food.

Needless to say that my reaction this morning was well overproportioned.

You know, Jeff, the day doesn't actually get longer by futzing the clocks around.

I got to wake up two children in the dark this morning after a solid month of a.m. sunshine. It'll be a SAD day when some kid gets hit by a car at a bus stop this week.

http://www.heinzvinegar.com/products-cleaning-vinegar.aspx

CLEANING VINEGAR

Which is just vinegar pre-mixed with water for more money than a huge jug of plain vinegar costs.

Fuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

there was talk of obama admin abolishing daylight savings time but there was some resistance and they decided that abolishing daylight savings time wasn't the kind of thing they wanted to expend any political capital on

OBAMA WANTS TO TAKE YOUR LAST NINE HOLES AWAY. SIGN THIS PETITION TO IMPEACH THE KENAYN.

xxp For tough stains, apply undiluted Cleaning Vinegar directly on the stain.

So, uh, you're saying some pour some regular vinegar on the floor?

Also, Heinz making cleaning products is fucking weird. Like finding Dettol-branded baked beans.

xxxxxxpost

I've made no claims to the days actually being longer as a result of DST. I simply enjoy the increased daylight after work hours. Nearly all my outside activity is during these hours. To have potential sunshine later in the evening does wonders for my mood, especially in this dumb permawinter. I'd be okay with the time never changing, but I would want to keep the DST hours all year long.

xp http://www.unilever.co.uk/aboutus/introductiontounilever/

better link: http://www.unilever.co.uk/brands-in-action/view-brands.aspx?view=AtoZ

all unilever products: cif, bovril, ben and jerrys, domestos, cornetto, persil...

I'd prefer the clock to stay the same, whether it's standard time or the artificial daylight time. All year 'round.

My compromise would be for them to go back to the April to October model. At least if they waited until Easter, there'd still be some daylight in the mornings.

xp Yeah, I'm aware enormous multinationals have a lot of different products, cheers - it's the mixup between beans-and-ketchup brand Heinz and cleaning products that seems odd to me. Unilever don't make Domestos ice cream or Ben and Jerry's washing powder, do they?

DST doesn't deserve more than 24 hours of anyone's attention, 2x yearly. More than that makes me IA.

Having to get up in the morning when it's still dark is way more depressing to me than not having any daylight when I come home from work. It's even worse trying to get your kids to wake up and trying to convince them it's morning when it's still dark outside. Also they have to inexplicably go to bed an hour earlier. I told my 5 year old son that "this is because of the government".

xxxxp

Come on, give me at least 48. 24 for the day it happens, and another 24 for the first workday.

Haha, I told Beeps the same thing. "Congress says we must do it this way."

"Also they have to inexplicably go to bed an hour earlier. I told my 5 year old son that "this is because of the government"."

LOL I am so going to tell Ivy this when she's old enough.

She'll understand the beauty of DST and won't mind.

the design of the new $100 bills

So that is new.

I saw those for the first time this morning and thought, boy, it has been awhile I guess since I've seen a $100 bill.

i've given up on large currencies looking normal again in my lifetime

The Samsung Galaxy s4. Is there anything about this overrated lump of plastic that doesn't suck?

It plays FLAC. When it feels like it.

i've given up on large currencies looking normal again in my lifetime

Or coins.

If you asked me what's on the back of the 2014 penny, I'd have no answer for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOtPXDyKjA

..in any movie, stop it already.

No, I am not going to watch "Between to Ferns". Watching this guy with a beard act awkward is not funny to me. I saw enough Space Ghost Coast to Coast when I was a teen, and this stuff is just a pale ripoff.

I dig the humor and watched it. My contribution to this thread though is listening to my co-workers, fellow members of the liberal media, guffawing and chortling through the whole thing.

They were using headphones and were at different points in the video, so the it was like 17 minutes of silence broken up by hee-hee's every eight seconds. Pretty much what I expect someone with a paranoia hallucination disorder to go through daily.

The start of DST is maybe my favorite recurring event of every year. I can't think of another -- no holiday or anything -- that even comes close.

People who say you're being "negative" when you cite an objective fact about the poor chances of something working out.

so not gonna happen

I think I have IA'd about this before but it's so irrationally infuriating it needs a reprise:

sections of freeway that get scraped and new lanes are marked out perfunctorily and then they are just left that way for years without ever being resurfaced or even repainted

I am looking at YOU hwy 50 between Sac + Folsom

I hate the noise the tires make on the weird scraped surface, I hate the way the grading makes the steering drift weirdly, I hate that when the sun is in my eyes I can't tell what fucking lane I'm in and if there's one thing I *want* my fucking taxes to pay for it's goddamn roads goddammit