start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

there's a war on.

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

this is definitely an innocuous thing and it makes me more mildly annoyed than IA, but i don't like when people's facebook comments are nothing more than them tagging other people. put it on your friend's wall or send a private message. comment threads are for actual comments.

Tweets from highly and justly esteemed writers which are noting but their next bookstore signing, and (barf) the most asskissing, "now blurb meee" kind of blurbs (retweeted by blurbee of course) Cmon gimmee freebie culture dammit! Comedians even worse but ft

Musicians not as bad except some are stupid, tweetwise anyway

i find myself getting very ia at people who dont interrogate conversation, who just wait to talk and continue to talk talk talk and barely acknowledge other contributions

i like conversation when it is like a game of tennis. i do not enjoy being the backyard wall against which you repeatedly smash your 'conversation'

a) never ever go on facebook; it is the absolute worst

b) unless you are drunk and desperately seeking human contact; even then it will be a mistake

c) would totally become unhelpfully drunk with jbr/dow/veg tho!

d) first round's on veg

all round to my place for fap :D

annual rolling threads that needn't be annual

-pizza places that don't sell pizza by the slice

(I politely walked out of two pizza places in one day because the first one didn't sell slices after 6 pm and the second one told me there'd be a 15 minute wait because "our slicing pizza is still in the oven.' this was the one time in my life I was tempted to get on Yelp and write some irate reviews)

overly tailored tshirts on casual friday (ie neatly rolled up sleeves, tucked in etc)

just relax and wear a damn tshirt.

Needing to work out if the zip I used in the construction of a pair of jeans last year that I wear regularly or if I just keep forgetting to zip it up. Keep finding it down anyway. So just wondering if it's the zip or my memory.
& it would be the pair of jeans that needs a special needle to sew the fabric.

Wondering how long I'll have to wait until I can comfortably collect a shelving unit without being absolutely p-ed on trying to get it home. Weather is atrocious for last few days and I need to transport this flat pack I bought. Waiting for an actual break in bad weather.

That was supposed to say about whether a zip needed replacing or if my memory was going. Looks like the latter if I forgot to put in the bit about replacing. & i only made the jeans about 3 or 4 months ago so it should hopefully not mean a zip needed replacing yet. Keep finding myself flying low though.

Also trying to work out which side of the fabric i'm using for a pair of tartan jeans should be the outside/inside since they look very similar. & I don't want to get it wrong throughout. Guess that would at least be consistent though.

Stevolende, I have a question about jeans fly covers. Mine constantly bunch up, exposing the top part of the zipper. I have considered that the reasons might be:
- waist is too tight (but it happens on looser waists, too)
- my gut is pushing down on the waistband
- the button hole has gotten loose, allowing the top flap to sag (though I have tried sewing up the button hole without success, possibly due to my lack of skill and understanding)

Any advice on how to treat this problem? Some kind of insert to stiffen the flap?

Here is a pic of the problem.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8569/16069669409_693c9d1c35.jpg

And so it's on topic: this folded flap makes me SO IRRATIONALLY ANGRY

I think I just tend to wear shirts outside my jeans so it's covered up. Will think about it but not sure offhand.

Might be that you need to make sure you've ironed the fly flap. BUt probably not. I don't know if I know enough about construction and subsequent pressures to answer. But could be that it would be good for me to be aware of that for future knowledge.

I've made like 10 pairs of jeans so far so it's still early days. & I'm not sure how successful they all are. Found out that some I'd made some months back really were too large at the waistband. Being largely self-taught I'm not 100% sure what solutions are.

i don't like when people's facebook comments are nothing more than them tagging other people. put it on your friend's wall or send a private message. comment threads are for actual comments.

THIS. When the hell did this kick off? It is irritating. Ive clicked on comments threads that are nowt but tag-ins. Ive even had friends of mine tag me in some other random persons thread. I ignored the callout. PM me or GTFO.

start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3">Karl Malone

Online sellers who aren't satisfied with the fact that you purchased a product from them and did not try to return it or complaint about it, but hassle you RELENTLESSLY to leave feedback, tell us what you think, post about us on social media, blah blah blah

FUCK YOU I gave you money. You gave me a product. We're not married now. I don't owe you anything. I don't have to go to your parents' house for Thanksgiving and I don't have to write a review of your GOD DAMN cocktail shaker. Fuck.

Also:

I was printing out my parents boarding passes from Spirit Airlines last night and they offered the normal nickel-and-dime-you-to-death services and the option to voluntarily pay an additional $1 or $5 to help the airline be more green.

So not a service, just some random fucking guilty bullshit about how if we want this airline to be more environmentally friendly, give us extra money. We're already paying extra money to check a bag and have more leg room than a chicken a 12-by-12 factory farming crate, and now these fuckers have the nerve to try to extort money for their environmental initiative? I'm still so angry about that I can barely form a coherent objection to it.

I'm underemployed right now working as a temp in a law firm.. I got a ton of overtime last week but I am FUCKING FURIOUS because I HATE overtime and I hate my line of work because Im subject to the whims of capricious lawyers who dont give a fuck about my life or free time (or common sense/decency). The irony being I'm making time and a half and have a bunch more money than I would yet I am still FUCKING FURIOUS because theres a lot more overtime in the future.

It also doesnt help that because I'm a temp I'm realizing about 2/3ds of what my employer is paying the temp agency, which is basically the same amont of money I used to make like ten fucking years ago.

thanks obama

^^^great CSR, there, carl. *screams*

I was a participant in the following exchange last week:

Cashier: 'Thanks for shopping with us. Can I take your e-mail address?'
Me: 'No...'

Hate it when I'm too fast for a website. Site loads, I put the cursor on something like "SEARCH" and click, but in that split second between those two actions, the site has loaded up just a little bit more and I wind up clicking on something like "CONTACT US".

When I started at TCS they encouraged us to ask ppl for their email addresses at the register. At first they said it like, "Hey, people might want to know when we have sales! Just ask, if they say no, that's fine obvs." By the time I left they were offering positive incentives to workers who got the highest percentages of ppl to give them an email. I got the feeling negative incentives were right around the corner.

Radio Shack has been really obnoxious about the email stuff for years

lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago

I just had one of those, cash purchase of an overpriced-yet-undeniably-effective hair care product for one of my daughters from a salon I visit for no other purpose.

"What's your last name?" "Is it 'Dusty' Perry?" "I'm supposed to ask." "How do you spell your last name?" "Who normally does your hair here?" Ha ha ha, who does my greying, thinning hair.

Canada Goose Parkas

It also doesnt help that because I'm a temp I'm realizing about 2/3ds of what my employer is paying the temp agency

Not to stoke any further IA, but it's possible that you are grossly overestimating the cut that your temp agency is willing to part with.

Very true. I used to be temped for Accounts Payable jobs, so the most hilarious thing to me was knowing the 'big secret' of exactly how much the company was paying for my services because I was the one processing the bill! (Of course temp agencies never ever want their temps to know this stuff).

I recall more than one job where I got hourly $13, and the agency was getting $22, and that this ratio was pretty usual, so, I got more than half, but less than 2/3 of the payout.

However, and this really ticked me off, one job that was largely funded by taxpayer dollars paid me way less than half of the outrageous sum the temp agency got! I think I got $9 out of $25 bucks on that one! No business like soaking the people.

temp agencies take that much?! damn.

i guess companies will pay to screw people out of benefits

Most of the times I was ever offered to 'go perm' it was usually with a pay cut from what I had been getting as a temp ('but you'll get benefits') so, no, thanks.

One reason I did temp for a long time was that the pay rates had at least something to do with demand, whereas permanent positions tended to be successfully squashed. While it was humiliating in some ways to have the agency taking a lot of money for doing nothing but landing me the spot, that did save me a lot of dreadful human resources interviews and frankly, I just wouldn't have found those positions on my own. I also used to see the most interesting trainwrecks: places where I'd take over the suddenly vacated position of an embezzler, a revenge case, a blazing incompetent. Whole little histories there. The work of course was more boring than not so regular changes of scenery were helpful as well.

lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago

That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):
http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/

I particularly enjoyed VIII and XV, if you've got better things to do than read the whole collection of longwinded rants. But who would have better things to do than that?

omg XV is amazing, I have no idea what that is

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t53/baldie0522/doin-brum.gif

baldie doin-brum.gif

ia: egregiously bad service in restaurants. i'm sooooo chill and forgiving about minor food service slip-ups. i don't care if you smile. i don't care if you refill my water without me having to ask. if i don't say when i'm ordering that i'm allergic to XYZ food item (which would be a gross overstatement, since my food allergies are really trivial), it's a minor inconvenience but not the end of the world if the kitchen forgets to leave it off. i just want a baseline level of transactional ease if i'm gonna choose your place over other places. i had work to do last night and i ran out to get a quick takeout order so i could scarf down some food and meet my midnight deadline. i ended up waiting probably 40 minutes for a dish that at most would take ten minutes to cook from pre-prepped ingredients and assemble in a styrofoam box. and the restaurant was busy, but not slammed. it just made me very stressed out. which is my problem, not theirs. i don't handle stress well. 40 minutes is a long time to wait though.

no i in yr a

so to speak

the level of stress made my a feel i

_lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago_

That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):
http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/

I particularly enjoyed VIII and XV, if you've got better things to do than read the whole collection of longwinded rants. But who would have better things to do than that?

Whoa thank you, aps! I read the first few of those when it was first posted, but missed the great ones you pointed out plus my favorite, the one w/ Stoned Craig going "I'm hungry, Paw." (Which I've said a lot to various people over decades for no reason I can discern, so maybe it's just part of the collective human drive to say it.)

Stoned Je55e

OK that Brum story looool
Original Brum theme was instrumental but TIL there is an extremely lengthy modern version

bill gates the spider

News sites showing handheld video but blurring out the edges? I feel like I see something like this every week or two. Sorry, this is some really traumatic video.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/dying-among-strangers-metro-victim-found-fellow-riders-who-tried-to-save-her-life/2015/01/13/98f6c37e-9b7a-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html?hpid=z3

lately every time i watch some crappy viral video prank, i get IA imagining myself just out and about trying to run an errand and getting trapped in a viral video prank. like that dumb telekinesis coffee shop thing.*

*maybe the reactions are fake, idk.

It's very likely my last dying words will be "Turn your phone sideways if you insist on recording this."

Yeah, it's not because something is being blurred out, it's because people don't shoot in landscape and for some reason news organizations have chosen to present it like that. I think they should just reject all portrait videos.

Why can't phones just format videos in landscape regardless of the position of the phone?

camera sensor orientation? the actual sensor isn't square iirc, I may be wrong

those takeout containers with interlocking flaps - eating from them makes me ia bcz the flaps get in the way

i usually dump it out onto a plate of something but sometimes you can't & raaaaage

I kinda like the idea of having the bristles in front; it's like a front bumper in case you run into anything.

Like a cow catcher!

There should be a brush on both ends and then you just ride it horizontally, like a ski lift.

the witch in this case being the warlock THERON WARE, who has unleashed hundreds of high echelon demons into the material world, more or less just to see what happens

nods, ponders, unleashes hundreds of high echelon demons into the material world just to see what happens

what happens is bad, don't do this ilx

fuck

wheres that button thread

When you're working on a plan to meet someone and you provide the name of a location or an address, but that person insists on you explaining in detail where it is and how to get there rather than considering the possibility that directions can be found instantaneously on Google Maps or Waze.

pressing "bookmark" then "site new answers" and seeing your bookmarked thread still listed as you didn't wait the split second for it to take

Haha, too true

I had to ask a bunch of grown adults to kindly take their shit out of the washing machine/dryer when it's done.

These three roommates moved in when I was out of the country. They do laundry seemingly every day, and they leave their shit in either machine for hours, sometimes even overnight. I have had only one laundry day where I didn't physically move their stuff from the machine.

Is it really that hard? If you don't wanna fold the shit, well...move it to your room and do it when you can. Clearly ya don't give a shit about wrinkles!

They're in their forties!

This exact same thing comes up in my apt building and leaves me flabbergasted every time. How do you leave your wet clothes in the washer OVERNIGHT to the point that they exude the odor of MILDEW?? I mean, you're going to have to wash them again now, right? When do you finally realize you're just not doing laundry right?

Also I'll find the dryer ridiculously overstuffed with partially dry clothes - such a quantity that any fool should see would take hours and hours to fully dry... or you know, you could just dry a regular sized load in a regular amount of time.

innocuous things that bother you irrationally: my coworker keeps picking up his phone and replying to some kind of chat, which to be clear I absolutely do not care about the non-work aspect of (hey, it's 50 minutes into my work day and so far I have looked at ILX and twitter), but the low winter sun is reflecting right off the screen and a bright light jiggles all over the ceiling in the corner of my vision with every little movement of the phone

People who laugh all the time. No-one is that happy. I just assume anyone who does this is psychotic or evil or secretly miserable.

Cleaner that comes in a spray bottle but will not spray if tilted at even a slight downward angle

Guys in the gym locker room who ostentatiously shake up their protein milkshake in a big-boy sippy cup bottle.

i laugh all the time, its good imo

also, one night in a washer is not going to make a wash smell of anything but washed clothes.

You weren't laughing when you met all those ILXors... er....

When you're working on a plan to meet someone and you provide the name of a location or an address, but that person insists on you explaining in detail where it is and how to get there rather than considering the possibility that directions can be found instantaneously on Google Maps or Waze.

one night in a washer is not going to make a wash smell of anything but washed clothes

then apparently my neighbor is leaving her wet clothes in there longer than one day, which makes her even crazier

front load machines smell/get mildew really fast if there is moisture left in them for hours. I also have had past roommates get into an endless cycle of rewashing the same load because they kept forgetting.

Re: Google Maps/Waze - there are some pretty bad directions given in those apps. But that said, you could still look at the map and figure it out yourself.

Über and Lyft always try to take sunny home on the interstate, even though another block north and you're in our neighborhood.

Trust me if they ask me, they’ll arrive anywhere but their goal

arah inside i was chortling tom

You and me both, Darragh, you and me both.

The patronising chummy voice Evan Davies puts on when he's talking to young people. Guessing my anger is irrational because if these young people felt the way I do he'd get lamped every time.

he probably just doesn't interview the kind of people who'd rip the piss out of him in front of a camera

that's not fair on Evan Davies. he puts on that irritating chummy voice with everyone.

The baseline ED voice is bad enough, yes, but he was interviewing first time voters the other day and it got significantly worse

when i pay for something with apple pay on my watch, and at least 1/3 of the time the cashier says “oh my god oh my god it’s the future!! how amazing!!! THE FUTURE!!!!”, but (a) the four people in front of me just paid with their iphones which is exactly the same thing and (b) the excited cashier is wearing the same watch and could switch on apple pay in seriously 15 seconds

those fucking stuffed reindeer antlers that people put on their cars. extra anger if they have the red rudolph nose on the front grill

Lol my roommate has that

Fuckin hate it

And the elf legs coming out of the trunk, "Ooh, you're so edgy."

It’s kinda gross the way the antlers flop back and forth after sudden hard braking

i imagine the solidarity these people must feel when they see someone else driving down the road with the same stupid decorations.

Same for those fuckers who have eyelashes on their headlights.

Just been rechecking old addresses for street numbers on Google maps and finding I'm being dragged to the next street when I try to zoom in. Happened a few times on different shots/streets. It's been a few years since I was at the addresses so I needed a closer look to check I had them right.
Filling out a form, like.
Don't really get why it does that is it a gap in the file or something. Photo only taken from a certain angle so close up leads you to next geographical point in database? Otherwise just blooming frustrating.

when you go through the drive-thru and they are forced by corporate to say "welcome to this place would you like to try our blueberry broohaha today?" forcing me to say no thank you before i can order what i came here for.

that's just too much extra interaction first thing in the damn morning.

Last UK politics thread was always at the bottom of my bookmarks and easy to find. New one is in the middle. Fucking Tories.

all coworkers who clear their throat more often than once every 5 minutes (coworker currently on <10s), whether due to temporary or permanent affliction, to be sent on a training course about how you probably don't actually need to keep clearing your throat if it's just a bit tickly and you're not about to say something and also how come you haven't noticed that clearing it is evidently not doing any good anyway, and then made to work from home

(why should they get nice things? yes, we should all get to work from home if we like, too)

I'm at a bar on a cruise ship. It's choppy and windy and the receipts are often blowing away and the bartenders are making no attempt to grab them, just keep walking by them as receipts eventually fly everywhere including the pool area.

Idk why it makes me mad other than it seems incredibly stupid. The gratuity is auto added but still.

Just looking at that sitch from my own perspective, whenever someone is all 'LOL, WGAF' in re: a casually-abdicated responsibility whose cleanup becomes someone else's problem, yeah, it make me pretty IA.

actually read this as *people* blowing away and briefly thought Neaderthal, put down your drink and do something!

Lol

"for all my powers..."

This started back when Gilmore Girls was on tv but I really hate how they don't fill coffee cups when shooting scenes. It's especially terrible when people are walking around with a tray of takeaway coffee. I noticed this again during The Irishman. SO LAZY.

https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/at-last-a-tv-show-that-gives-you

I WOULD WATCH THIS SHOW.

That is one of those things that, once it was pointed out to me, I can never un-see. Also: characters hanging up without saying good bye, traveling all the way over to an apartment/restaurant to say three things to someone then leave (often leaving most of a meal unfinished, and just laying some cash on the table instead of getting a bill/paying). Obviously, I completely understand why they don't film that, but...

It's changing slowly but (again, for understandable reasons) also, the degree characters talk on the phone rather than text, especially for brief conversations or comments.

Also when there's an over-the-shoulder shot and the person whose back is to you speaks, you can tell they're not saying anything (just enough jawline is visible to make it obvious, etc).

Probably the 100th time I've posted this but

- 'easy peelers' that aren't