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

And then my post needed actual fixing...

A very large man on the next table at Pret keeps squeezing through the 20cm gap between my table and his, instead of going around, and his butt keeps brushing like a THIRD of my table, so I have to move my food aside, and I can't move my table because it's next to a wall.
He just did it AGAIN when he left. Some girl has taken his place and had the genius idea of moving that table over.

In My Humble Opinion (IMHO) one of the big problems the Patriots have had is shutting down opposing offenses. The Seattle Seahawks showed why this is important. You can score 35 points a game but if the other team is scoring 42 points a game, you still lose! I think Belichick knows this and is giving a greater emphasis to defense knowing Brady and their offense can score enough to win. Stopping the opponent from coming back late in the game is what had been missing.

whhhhyyyyyyaaaarrrrrrhhhhhhulksmash

Intellectually I know that pollen is part of plants' reproductive citizens. BUT GODDAMMIT WHY DO I HAVE TO HAVE AN ALLERGY TO WHATEVER'S BLOOMING RIGHT NOW, AND WHY DO I HAVE TO LIVE WITH MY MUCOUS MEMBRANES' STAKHANOVITE PRODUCTION OF SNOT? MY THROAT IS RAWER THAN SUSHI RIGHT NOW.

"Citizens"? I meant to write "functions"! See how this damn throat has distracted me?

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj53/psmjr/harry-reems.jpg

daily, searching getty images makes me furious

Eating in public places that are not specifically cafeterias, break rooms, restaurants or other generally accepted spaces designated for eating should be banned forever.

please elaborate

as i eat at my desk...

I'm sympathetic to that one as when I was office-bound, I flat out had to eat at my desk on some extremely busy days, as many times my lunch was a working lunch (or I had to at least be monitoring emails/instant messages).

and sometimes there just flat out were no tables available downstairs in our cafeteria (and our break rooms aren't suited for eating).

what about parks?

Eating in non-eating spaces is a thing which makes me irrationally embarrassed -- or I thought it was irrational, but now I know it makes other people angry maybe I should be even more embarrassed.

In angrier news, meine Deutschlehrerin hat meinen Bleistift gestohlen. It was a good pencil too and I get irrationally attached to stationery and I spent five minutes mentally formulating the politest German way to ask if it might be my pencil but she didn't stop talking for long enough to ask before she swept it into her bag.

when people clip nails in public into their handbag or backpack or whatever, i'd rather they let it fall on the floor because otherwise i'm picturing a handbag full of fingernails, and maybe they put corn chips in there too, so i'm picturing them sitting at home eating corn chips from their handbag and occasionally chomping on some nails.

I get ia/iembarrassed when people bring outside food into a starbucks or a place that already sells food. an old coworker of mine used to bring her lunch from home with her to the cafe we ate at sometimes and I couldn't stand it. she wouldn't even order coffee!

i get angry when what they bring in is more delicious-looking than anything on the menu.

i get worried that i'll be sanctioned

Eating in non-eating spaces is a thing which makes me irrationally embarrassed -- or I thought it was irrational, but now I know it makes other people angry maybe I should be even more embarrassed.

I'm honestly asking, what kind of non-eating places? Because any place can become an eating place if you put your mind to it!

yeah I am curious abt this too

parking lots? dancehalls? janitor closet?

The first thing I thought of was the bus, train, and the train platform.

Also you know what I hate it when people eat anything other than popcorn and candy in movie theaters. I don't want to smell your Jimmy John's sub or whatever bullshit ~~synergy~~ the movie theater has going on with a fast food franchise.

I am sure a bunch of you are going to say that you do this, and my own beloved Je55e does this, and I don't love any of you any less but the smell of your nacho cheese is distracting me from this movie about a haunted tricycle or whateverthefuck.

i have been known to eat a hotdog maybe like twice in the movie theater, but I always feel weird doing it

I don't like when people eat on benches or other common areas outside. Especially when it's something like a salad and they have it precariously balanced on their lap and the wind is blowing and they pull a bottle of salad dressing out of their pocket and then their napkin blows away.

they have bottles of dressing in their pocket???

dress for dinner iirc

I am sure a bunch of you are going to say that you do this, and my own beloved Je55e does this, and I don't love any of you any less but the smell of your nacho cheese is distracting me from this movie about a haunted tricycle or whateverthefuck.

― carl agatha, Wednesday, May 28, 2014 7:31 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

honestly I don't like ordering nachos when going to a movie cos it's loud and don't wanna disrupt other people but also COS I CAN'T HEAR when i'm crunchin on em

I wouldn't care how loud they are, but those nachos are ass.

if they actually called them 'ass nachos' in FL they'd probably triple sales

Clothing patterns that have mistakes in them like cutting lines in the wrong place. & only realising that's true once the garment is finished according to the incorrect pattern.
So a really nice shirt I was making has a fundamental flaw in where the neck is cut so a feature doesn't work the way it should.

Not being able to correct the tension on my sewing machine. Hope this does become clear before long, not sure how secure some stitching is because of this. Maybe I just need a better sewing machine from a more reputable firm than the one I got from LIDL. Need to find a sewing machine donor.

Eating in parks is classic and nothing to embarrassed or angry about. Eating in a park is what a picnic is!

Try to eject USB, "The device is currently in use. Close any programs etc etc"

I already closed EVERYTHING motherfucker, now give it up I want to go home

occasionally I print to a huge plotter at work. *using photoshop*

so later or the next day or whenever, I open EXCEL. when you print: the motherfucker defaults to the goddamn plotter & not the last printer i used in excel!! whyyy

i've only accidentally printed a spreadsheet on the plotter once but it's goddamn infuriating

fuuuck all machines

- trying to navigate an endless stream of people walking in the opposite direction staring down at their phones

I've come to the conclusion that 5% of the driving population think that the sequence of who proceeds next at a four-way stop is based on waiting time instead of position. Each afternoon, I run a gauntlet of two or three of these intersections located in our touristy district and yeah, out of a hundred drivers, I'd say I've got to put up with five drivers a month who think that since they were third in their line and I was second, they get to go first since there were there longer.

Unless we both pull up at the same time and they're on the right. Of course that means then that they try to wave me on out of turn.

I get a lot of really annoying sales calls at work because I work for a big law firm with a published phone directory and everything thinks I've got millions of sweet big firm dollars to invest in their mutual funds (or that I have anything to do with deposition or translation services, or that I can make purchasing decisions about large office equipment for my firm). So anyway ING Direct called and left a voicemail and I deleted it because I don't have time for that shit, but then someone saying he was the supervisor of the person who left me the voicemail sent me an email (actually sent it to the other c. agatha at my firm who was here before me and so got caga✧✧✧@big✧✧✧.c✧✧ as his email address whereas I got cfagatha@biglaw ("f" for "fuck your sales calls")) saying to please call this dude back because it was important and I was like, oh, well, okay maybe this is something that I forgot about? So I called and this is not a sales call but they are making appointments with people at my company to review our 401Ks blah blah blah this is totally a sales call.

The irrational anger here is at myself for not trusting my instincts. I'm debating whether to return that dude's email and tell him he sucks, but that's probably a bad idea from my work email. He totally sucks, though.

the same washington post guy calls my direct line at work every so often. last time i picked up because it was 6:30 and i thought no one would call that number unless it was important at that time. at first i was telling him i don't read newspapers but now i've resigned to say we already get it and he says thank you. so maybe he won't call anymore.

getting tricked into listening to a long diatribe about how Kubrick's Shining was nothing like the book and how terrible of a movie it is. it's a guy I generally like, but he sets up these bear trap conversations that start out innocently enough but he's just setting you up to talk about whatever crazy hobbyhorse he has today and then you're like nooooooooo and everyone leaves and you're stuck listening to him just u_u

and he demands eye contact and responses, so I can't look at my shoes before he's ducking his head looking at you all RIGHT? RIGHT?

but if you argue with him you'll be there all day

ugh it's the worst

this is the same guy who calls 2001 the 'worst adaptation ever' and rants on and on about The Sentinel being required reading when he was in school and I'm like, dude, Arthur C Clark COWROTE THE SCRIPT wtf and he's all 'I don't care who wrote it' and I'm like, 'Even if it's the AUTHOR of your beloved Sentinel?' SHUT UP JUST SHUT UP YOU ARE CRAZY AND EXHAUSTING WHYYYYYYYYYYYY

He sounds very annoying.

Quite.

there's this silly joke in the theatre community where the owners of the theatre/etc say "if you liked the show, tell your friends! if you didn't, shut up, we got your money!". real 'hah hah', y'know, but innocuous.

However, there's this local playwright who, for somewhat reason, has a following and still gets her scripts/works produced despite them being horrible dreck. and she ends her productions by saying 'if you liked it, tell your friends. if you didn't, tell your enemies.'

WTF SENSE DOES THAT MAKE? "Oh man totally shined my archnemesis from childhood, told them to go see this play that wasn't actually any good."

VG are you hanging out with Stephen King?

ughh i wish

he's a really nice guy but when he's on a tear he's just...idk...agressively stupid?

Hah, not sure why I should continue the discussion that I started and apparently never came back to, but I was mostly intending it to be other indoors, "quiet" spaces where others might be trying to do things that require concentration. Very specifically, it was reacting to two aggravating co-workers:

One likes to eat potato chips on and off throughout the day and I swear to god he must practice the forms to put his mouth in to maximize echo and volume as he chomps. It's vastly irritating when I'm trying to concentrate on a conference call during which I can barely hear one of the other parties (fuck you very much open plan offices!).

The second is a guy who likes to reheat leftoves and they are almost uniformly noxious smelling things.

"The book is better than the movie" is usually just a lame stealthbrag for "I read a book"

solidly I in my IA i am sure but i just received an auto-generated confirmation from a hotel 'signed' "with warmth" from the hotel manager. why would you claim something so patently false? did you really expect to project warmth? how can anyone believe any expression of sincerity or emotion from you as an individual if you are willing to put your name next to that?

"The book is better than the movie" is usually just a lame stealthbrag for "I read a book"

― Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Wednesday, June 11, 2014 3:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as a subset of this, I grow impatient with people who smugly ask me "uh, did you read the book?" when I say I like a movie adaptation of a book. Whether I did or I didn't, the film stands on its own merits. And the kicker, when I say I did and they act dumbfounded like nobody else could have read the book, seen the movie, and came up with a different conclusion than them. I had a friend arguing with me about how terrible the Catching Fire adaptation was for its 'ham-fisted' performances by the characters, nevermind the fact that it was written fairly histrionically, almost as if it was an action film on paper, to begin with!

Half the people I talk to who trot this out generally are the types who don't account for the difference in medium. Any change in content is deemed unacceptable, and edits for time are viewed with derision as if they would have preferred a 9-hour movie. Then I find out what movie adaptations they do like and they're these horrible, rote renditions of books that follow them closely but don't adapt the style to something better suited for the screen.

Alternatively, it's sometimes code for "I think books are a superior artform to film but I won't openly admit this." If you really love both mediums and have spent time with them, you realize it's impossible to expect a film to be "faithful" to a book.

oh yeah, it's almost always code. these are the same people who seem to want to ignore that visual elements are an integral component of filmmaking as opposed to focusing so much on the damn narrative.