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

how irrational is this anger: driving on the motorway i overtake someone in a yellow car then move back into their lane. 30 seconds later the lane slows down, i can't move back out to overtake as the overtaking lane is full but after a couple of cars there's a gap so i indicate. the yellow car comes up behind me, moves into the gap and overtakes me. obviously i overtake it again a minute later.

lol yellow car was listening to Lita Ford and eating Twizzlers and had no idea you were the same car

probably looked over their shoulder when overtaking as well.

boxes with lids, that are almost-but-not-quite square, so that the lid will only fit two ways out of four, but you can't immediately tell which.

not mine but Mr Veg’s

a local deli makes these italian sausage sandwiches that are mr veg’s favorite (sausage, peppers onions on a sourdough roll). almost always, as logic dictates, they put the sausage lengthways in the bread roll

but every now and then an agent of chaos will cut the sausages in smaller lenths and put them in the bread roll *crossways*

it only happens very rarely. but it drives mr veg ~insane~

(i find it hilarious)

https://i.imgur.com/NhnP927.png

Well if you give me 1.28 more seconds, I might just have one for ya!

people who join a virtual meeting significantly early (like 30 minutes), and start talking and acting surprised when they don't get much response

Last spring, my son was on a zoom call with his class. The lesson concluded and everyone left, saying bye! bye! to each other.

My son walked away, but my wife noticed one little girl still in there:

Every one's gone now!
I'M ALL ALONE.
Well.
Bye chat room!

people who join a virtual meeting significantly early (like 30 minutes), and start talking and acting surprised when they don't get much response

okay what now

I generally don't start our training WebEx meetings until 30 minutes prior to class start (since my OT is limited), and usually most learners don't arrive until 5 minutes prior to 10 minutes after (because our systems are so slow).

But sometimes there's one eager person who joins training mega-early and hear silence on the line (since it hasn't started yet), and start barking "HELLO, HELLO?". and I don't always reply right away because maybe I stepped away to take a leak, or I haven't yet connected to the audio portion, so they freak out and disconnect and reconnect and wonder why they can't hear anything.

it's like....we didn't start yet. we won't be starting for a half hour. relax. I usually try and say "hello" if I'm connected to audio and I hear them, and let them know we'll start in a half hour, but I've had a few people try and talk my ear off for a half hour, and it's like...I'm actually doing work right now! I'm preparing to teach your class! Give me five minutes please, then I'll listen to you talk about the TV show you watched last night!

a local deli makes these italian sausage sandwiches that are mr veg’s favorite (sausage, peppers onions on a sourdough roll). almost always, as logic dictates, they put the sausage lengthways in the bread roll

but every now and then an agent of chaos will cut the sausages in smaller lengths and put them in the bread roll *crossways*

There's one local Italian place that makes their sausage, pepper & onion sandwiches by slicing the sausage into discs and distributing them throughout, rather than slicing them lengthways and laying them in the roll. It's fantastic; I order from them all the time for specifically this reason. (They also include slices of potato in the sandwich, and that rules too.)

I'm probably missing something, but why not start them when it starts? Or five minutes early to let people check that their setup's working?

I just like to have everything up and running early so if there's any tech issue I catch it early on. I do communicate and say "hello" 5 minutes prior so people know I've seen thema nd recorded them as here. I just get wigged out by people who show up a half hour early and wanna talk me to death - esp when they know what time it starts.

"Hello and welcome; thanks for joining. I'm going to go on mute for a while, as I'm focusing on something else. We'll start at the top of the hour."

and then I go to the bar

Yeah "focusing on something else" can certainly be "focusing on drinking enough to be able to tolerate the inanity that I am about to experience"

When anyone super famous appears on a US chat show and there's 10 fucking minutes of whooping then famous person waves and there's another 5 minutes of cheering then the host goes "ladies and gentlemen... Famous Person!" and everyone cheers for another fucking week then Famous Person says how great it is be be back on Show X or back in City Y and we go again then it's commercials.

Whenever Americans argue that there's as much cultural variation from one US state to the next as there is between European countries, as though France, Spain, Romania, Austria, Finland, Greece, the UK, etc., were just these lumbering monoliths with no regional diversity of their own, to say nothing of the sweeping dismissal of linguistic differences that this view implies. Drives me up the fucking wall, it does.

Who has ever said that?

Now, Tuscaloosa and Auburn might be as different as Finland is from Greece, but they're actually in the same state!

It's a really common trope in my experience. I've also heard Canadians make the exact same case (about the US, that is).

Also, I gagged at that comparison – I'd be willing to start a nuclear war over this.

I hate it when I'm driving around listening to the radio, and the DJ talks about what a lovely day it is, good temp, breeze, not too humid, and I look at the thermometer on the dash and it's already several degrees higher than the high she said it would be, it's hot and humid outside and generally a windows-up AC-on kind of gross day just a few miles from wherever she must be broadcasting from.

my dash thermometer is typically several degrees higher than the actual temperature, which is what makes me irrationally angry

It’s sampling the temperature just above the road, for the most part, which is why it’s higher than ambient in sunny weather and colder than ambient on winter mornings.

In my experience it seems higher than ambient in summer but relatively accurate in winter.

ah i was wondering where it was getting the temp. that makes sense.

Also, that DJ likely voicetracked her shift, and was just going off on what the forecast had said.

Also your car is a big piece of metal that's been sitting in the sun warming up (not least because it's simultaneously a greenhouse due to sun through windows). And also because of pavement, as Matthew notes

also cars are assholes

Well, yeah.

there's as much cultural variation from one US state to the next as there is between European countries

this is plainly wrong, wrong altogether, unutterably wrong, and simply wrong. but getting angry at such wrongness would, if pursued faithfully in all instances of wrongness, destroy one's sense of well-being in its totality, so that it certainly qualifies as an irrational anger.

Some states have Circle K, some have 7-11, many have both!

Some have Wawa!

There’s no trombone emoji!!

Loads of standard western orchestral instruments missing, it's an absolute scandal; I needed a bassoon one the other day and I'm not sure there's even a flute??

Time to prepare a proposal for the Unicode consortium on the matter

I misread that as a missing trampoline emoji, and I thought, how would you depict a trampoline as an emoji?

There’s no trombone emoji!!

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Friday, 31 July 2020 23:31 (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

a bit of imagination please.

a peach and an aubergine, innit

ken c! I thought you'd left us!

had to Google aubergine!

Guess who's back???????

(the answer is Eminem, as always)

Hahaha, hi Ken!

Oh, and as far as the thread topic is concerned, I get IA at the Californians in the "Mexicans mad at food" group I joined on FB who think their cuisine is superior in every way to the cuisine in Texas when Cal-Mex is just as inauthentic and potentially shitty as Tex-Mex, and their rabid support of a problematic fast food chain (In-n-Out) doesn't do them any favors, especially when the Texan equivalent (Whataburger) is a much better corporate citizen. I know it means nothing in the grand scope of thing, meaning it's irrational, but it still irks the shit out of me, so it fits within this thread's parameters.

took me until something like 4 years ago to find out why an aubergine was called an eggplant. The purple version doesn't really show it, plus its a long bulbous veg taht doesn't really appear egg shaped. BUt the Asian variety is white and round.

LIDL have just started selling a version that is that old aubergine shape but has white and purple streaks. can't recall the name.

Grafitti is the name

Borrowed from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان‎ (al-bāḏinjān, “the eggplant”), from Persian بادنجان‎ (bâdenjân), from باتنجان‎ (bâtenjân), from Sanskrit वातिगगम (vātiga-gama, “eggplant”, literally “the plant that cures the wind”). Doublet of brinjal.

I was sending an email with "Cuisinart" in the subject. Just as it does here as I type this, "Cuisinart" gets a little squiggly red line under it indicating it is wrong or misspelled or somehow worthy of extra grammatical attention. But in the body of the email I was writing it for some reason *didn't* call attention to Cuisinart, gave it a pass. And yet, in the same email, I accidentally typed "slizing" instead of slicing, but it didn't underline "slizing." What the fuck is a slizing?

you're not supposed to know

It's when you shoot daggers with your eyes

xpost Hmm, I never considered it was a secret, good point!

Slizing up eyeballs?