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

I can only tell you that the fucking things absolutely do nothing for whiskey, despite what the labels say

There's a guy across the street that owns three cars. He and his family are nice; I've got no problem with him. Owning three cars is dumb, but I've got no real problem with that. He's only got a two car garage, so at least one of his cars is parked on the street all the time, even overnight, which is also kind of dumb, but I've got no problem with that, either. The car that's usually parked out front his his nicest car, a luxury car, but I've got no problem with that. What makes me IR is that at some point a couple of years ago that nice car got slapped with one of those super hard to remove giant stickers in the driver's side window (typically for parking where you shouldn't park, often in someone else's permitted space). Fine, that's his problem. Except for all these years now the sticker has been basically only 80% removed, like he got it mostly done but then just ... gave up. And every time I look out the window I see his car, with the driver's side facing my house, and the 20% remains of the sticker and its gluey residue glaringly present on his driver's side window and ... man, why don't you just finish the job and scrub it off!!!!!!???!! Just do it! Or, hell, you have the money, the time, a big family - make someone else do it! But why remove just 80% and leave the rest of the sticker scum ??!

New toaster has a setting specifically for bagels. I tried it out today on a three-day-old bagel and discovered that this setting only toasts the cut side, not the other side, so my bagel looked done but was still stale and tough when I took a bite. Clearly they designed this to work only on fresh bagels. Given that most of the point of toasters is to give stale bread a longer lifespan, why would you design a feature that only works on fresh bread?

Wait now hang on the point of a toaster is not to be relegated thusly

Toast Poll

I hit the "bagel" button on my toaster most of the time when I mean to hit the "cancel" button because "cancel" lights up during the toasting process, implying in my mind that something is already happening there and I need to push the other one.

why do ppl want one side of their bagel cold, is my question

can't think what the wording of what I thought was a well knownquote on how you pick your represenative so taht I can search engine it. Think it's a late 60s era statement about how you'll never get an absolutely perfect hero on white horse and shouldn't really be lookingf for one.But you can pick someone who you can actually fight/negotiate into a workable situation for the time of their representative office.
buggng me cos I thought it was a good summation of teh situation when i heard it.

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I guess if you have a fresh chewy bagel and just want to put a crisp toasted edge on it without losing the freshness, it makes sense? Seems like a bit of a niche market, though; I bet there are more people out there trying to make stale bagels palatable than there are trying to put a perfect toasted finish on a bakery-fresh bagel. (The more words I write here, the more unappetizing bagels sound tbh.)

Now I want a bagel.

otm

I wonder if Josh is suppressing all of the very rational reasons to be annoyed by this guy and they're all coming out on the sticker

Nah, there's nothing annoying about them. They're good people and good neighbors. It's just the sticker!

Owning three cars is dumb, but I've got no real problem with that. He's only got a two car garage, so at least one of his cars is parked on the street all the time, even overnight, which is also kind of dumb, but I've got no problem with that, either. The car that's usually parked out front his his nicest car, a luxury car, but I've got no problem with that.

methinks the Josh doth protest too little

food is such a nightmare

the toaster is really hot inside, it gets both sides warm but it toasts the cut side

never had a fresh bagel

signed, dude who only lived in a city for a few years

I guess I’ve been to NOAH’s BAGELS before but never noticed a measurably more pleasing bagel bottom than store bought

please fp that post for “bagel bottoms”

lol I am so bad at reading posts, I need to eat something ;_;

bagel bottom memes
boots with the fur

Out on the road today
Josh saw the partial remains of a parking violation sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside Josh's head
Said don't look back
You can never look back

Heh, it would be funny if it was a Cadillac. All the other stuff, like objecting to someone having three cars or leaving them out all the time, is more or less rational. It's the sticker residue ire that's irrational. Especially since it's a fancy car. Clean that shit up, neighbor! You're so close!

There's the remains of a sticker
On your Cadillac tonight
You don't know how desperate I am for it to be gone
And it looks like I'm losing this fight

Now I kinda want to know what brand of car is because rhyming "Lexus" is a totally different ballgame from rhyming "Mercedes-Benz" or "Infiniti" or whatever.

This is how you remind me

Stickerback

Out on the road today
I saw an Acura with some residue
A little voice inside my head said whatcha gonna do
Get some Goof-Off and a razor blade
Maybe Goo-Gone, you'll have it made
Thought I knew what love was
Etc.

It's a four-door Tesla. Looks like it's not there right now, but when he comes back I can take a picture.

Oh that explains it, if you remove the sticker on those it invalidates the warranty

loved your whiskey quip upthread

Car in question:

https://i.imgur.com/If14S8s.jpg

You've done so much work already, just finish the job! Its looked like that for I think over two years!

Speaking of neighbors' cars, everyone in my house was kept awake the other night by a car alarm that kept going off for almost an hour between one and two in the morning. But that really belongs in a different thread, because it's not innocuous and my anger is rational.

The idea that we would ever be interested in the living room and name of the go compare opera lad makes me want to hunt down his agent and everyone else involved in the meeting and rip parts of them out

wow video I grabbed off youtube and converted to MP4 has added like 300 hours before the performance I was trying to grab.
So need to get a fi9le editor to snip that bit off. Still reading as 133MB so something very odd going on but am seeing that the performance can be accessed on my computer at least.
Wasn't feeling very wide awake this afternoon so sticking through a performance based on Greek tragedy wasn't quite getting me there. Thought this would be easier and i could watch it later.l

Re: JiC's car. I was imagining a small bit at the bottom front of the window, but that shit would make me mad too. It's right in front of your face when you look to the left!

Mailkorder bookshop taht I only have contact for through a hub marketplace where tehir entry for a book I am looking for hasa note about current situation for delivery. That says taht it may be possible taht items from this seller may not be able to send to your address tahnks to Brexit and pandemic. Buut doesn't state this to be certain and this is the on ecopy I'm seeing this side of the Atlantic.
So I've written to them prior to ordering and asked if they can deliver here or otherwise I may have an address in the UK that I would be reluctant to use (actually taht may not be relevant to this situation and hope it isn't going to be later).
To which I've got a response asking me to provide the order number and further details before they offer any help. To which I've said twice taht this wasa question I asked prior to making an order. & then got a further request for the order number. I'm not sure if this is an automated response taht has changed slightly or an officious person who hasn't seen that the fact taht this was a question has been spelt out to them.
Drag is taht this si a book I could use to improve my sewing which is a major pastime with me. & it is the only one I'm seeing for sale reasonably cheap this side of the Atlantic.
Is this Catch 22 or something more base

actually what makes this worse was last night they sent me a message containing every previous message they got from me and still asking for this non existent order number

A friend is organizing a group of us to go on a fishing trip in late spring/early summer. None of them are close to best buddies or anything, but I like them all, we've known each other for many years, and never mind that I haven't fished in decades, this is not the time to say no to anything like this. However, I just noticed that one of the folks is a friend that doesn't drink and barely eats anything (no sugar, iiic, no bread, plus a few other no-nos) for vague health reasons, and voluntarily started going to AA a few years back for ... secret pot smoking? ("Seven years sober!" he announced the other night). He's also extremely likely to bring his acoustic guitar and play folk songs. (Related: once I told him I was listening to the new Neil Young album, and he asked me if it was electric. I said yes, and he said "oh, I only like his acoustic stuff.") Which is a long way around to say that friend or no, he sounds like he might be a drag on a weekend fishing trip.

John Belushi that guitar!

I have another friend prone to busting out his guitar and singing, too. I can't stand it. We'll be by a fire, just having a conversation, and the next thing I know he's strumming and playing "Hey Joe." I don't want to hear that!

Take a Bluetooth speaker and bump "Freebird" every time he reaches for the capo

this is deeply irrational

like its quite silly tbh but i have to vent

I follow a person on Instagram who sells vintage gowns & fancy clothes from the 1920’s through 1980’s - really cool stuff that I enjoy just from a fashion perspective

She has a lot of sheer dresses that would have traditionally been worn with a slip/petticoat/etc underneath. But she always models them in a bra & undies. On the one hand cool, she has a great body ... but it drives me bananas bc it changes the look of the dress! do i have to see your barely nude body every time?

i sound like a total uptight prude this is such a dumb IA but it bugs the hell out of me lol

message her and helpfully tell her it alters/undermines the look

then come back here and let us know if she's modelling them without underwear

lol

Reminds me of a story my aunt tells about a coworker (presumably named Joyce, but my aunt calls her Schmoyce) who made all her own clothes because whenever she tried on clothes in a store fitting room she would always turn out to be wearing the wrong color bra and would look like THE WRATH OF GOD!

i have one friend who, if we're getting ready to meet up in person, calls me on the drive there, like always....not to talk logistics, just to...chat.

I'M GOING TO SEE YOU IN TWENTY MINUTES, why do we have to talk now? we're going to use up our conversation for later!

I usually don't answer unless i'm concerned that something's wrong, but....idgi!

that would drive me insane

I'M GOING TO SEE YOU IN TWENTY MINUTES, why do we have to talk now? we're going to use up our conversation for later!

Dear friend of mine cranking up my IA meter last Super Bowl Sunday.

https://i.imgur.com/gZRIlSx.jpg

And yeah, my name's Tre Baker. Text 501-433-1037 for an ass-kicking.

tbf, you did qualify it with "nearly."

Or is it the hand gesture emojis you're IA about?

Do they make sour cream Doritos?

make sour cream bread crisps, with either onion or spring onion. coolah boolah