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

nor the sacrifice of the simple pleasure of the fortune cookie to the fucking tech market

People who attribute the pissiest of things, like finding a good car park space, to the efficacy of prayer

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, February 6, 2022 6:17 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not exactly the same thing, but my wife and I always thought it was funny that people seem to make such a big deal out of finding a "good parking spot," and we had a running joke about an imaginary blog called goodparking.blogspot.com where people submit photos of their "good parking spot" (part of the joke of course being that there is no way to tell from a photo that a parking spot is good)

possibly great way of ensuring you never get to use it again innit.
Would think one aspect of that would be not letting the cat out of the bag or you are creating competition.

JUst being put n mind of Abbie Hoffman releasing Steal This Book containing a stack of loopholes that people like Emmet Grogan had apparently bee using to get free stuff. Not sure if it did immediately close those loopholes cos I only got the book like 30 years after initial release but would be surprised if they did remain usable much after a widespread release like that came out

Calvin Trillin has a similar bit; he claims to have once founded a magazine called "Beautiful Spot: A Magazine of Parking," which lasted for one issue.

can't watch it rn sorry if missing context there

wrong thread ffs

john wilson did a parking episode and it was great

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

guess I believe in God now

I don't want God to give me a great parking space; I want God to give my enemies flat tires every morning.

people who back into parking spaces are my enemies

amen

yes! the worst are people that do this in parking garages during peak times.

my favorite parking moment was sitting at a cafe in Paris and watching a tiny car attempt to parallel park in a too small space. Instead of giving up, it rolled back until it locked bumpers with the car behind it, pushed that car backwards until it had enough space to park. I wish people did more of that here.

Calvin Trillin has a similar bit; he claims to have once founded a magazine called "Beautiful Spot: A Magazine of Parking," which lasted for one issue.

― Lily Dale, Sunday, February 6, 2022 6:43 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Whoa

ye love ppl that back out of car park spaces or what?

that's what you are supposed to do. you wait until no one is coming, then you leave. if you back into the space people are forced to wait behind you. you have to drive backwards either way! backing in is not the right thing to do.

it is IMMORAL

and it's just so smug

i believe i'm on record on this thread saying as much, i stand by it

backing out is ime more disruptive. idk where ye can see so much better reversing out of a space but it's def not the easier or quicker way I see it done tbh

more disruptive to you

I'm really not getting this

other cars just disappear when ye all happen to be reversing out into the roads that are so crazily busy when people are reversing in?

roads?

roads,thoroughfares, whatever!

these are parking lots

well I'm not backing out now

fremme neppa venette

now i'm curious how one backs out into a road and makes oncoming traffic wait somehow

When my mother drives

Here's the big subtle difference about backing into parking spaces:

• When you pull in frontwards and then back up to leave, the people waiting for you are happy to see you leave. Take all the time you want, buddy, because now I've got a space and my long hard journey is over.

• Whereas if I'm having to stop for a minute every. single. time someone ahead of me gets a space, I would never shop JC Penney's again.

Fwiw, I'm mostly most annoyed by it in small parking garages, esp ones that serve a typical 9-5 work force, where there isn't room to maneuver or any other aisles to use and you just have to sit and wait for Dipshit McMagaman to spend three minutes trying to squeeze his F150 into a tiny spot while reversing.

the parking lot at the local grocery store always turns into an utter clusterfuck when this happens, and yes, more often than not it is an oversize truck that's attempting this maneuver.

who are you people who don't just abandon your vehicle while it's in drive, tuck and roll, and just go about your business?

pivoting, this one is a theatre "semantics" one but one that can apply to any assignment in which your availability needs to be known:

when you get asked for 'conflicts', when there isn't actually a schedule yet.

If there's no schedule, I quite literally can't give you a 'conflict'. if you're asking me to tell you dates/times I am for sure unavailable and when I am available, I'm giving you my 'availability', and then you're using it to build a schedule.

and tbh I get annoyed at this because if you say "we'll always rehearse Monday - Thursday", I don't have to tell you about every day/time I have anything going over 1-2 months, and I'll know what days I shouldn't make other plans. whereas if it's completely open, I'm more likely to just make plans whenever the fuck I feel like and then we wind up having lots of people missing everyday.

bin day. everyone puts their binbags out the front for roadside collection. only the cable company gets there first and closes the road so the bin lorry can't get down it, meaning the garbage goes uncollected this week

still, the foxes will be happy.

The guy who owns the RV park we live in changed over the bigger dumpster to a smaller dumpster, probably to save money. Except that it's overflowing every week.

It feels as if overflowing garbage bins have been lined up on the sidewalk of my block permanently for about two months now, due to holidays, snow days, intentional work slowdowns by the sanitation workers, and the street being blocked for whatever reason. I envy places that have more sensible garbage collection practices, this is ridiculous.

it has been 3 days of angle grinding and pneumatic drilling and i don't think the cable guys are done yet (although they have moved down the road about 20 yards so it's not quite so loud anymore)

tonight the lightweight plastic fences have all blown over so they cover the paths (the bit of the paths not covered in binbags anyway). i can hear people climbing over them but nobody's thought to just kick them into the road to clear the way for everyone else.

grinding, drilling, cable guys... signs you might be living in a 90s porno

I can't stand people that overshare on social media and yet somehow still play it coy. Kind of like a second cousin to people that humblebrag. For example, I have a friend that posted a picture on Facebook last week that was basically someone's legs in a hospital gown, a POV shot taken by someone lying in a hospital bed, with takeout sitting on a nearby table, and the text something like "TGIF, am I right? Sigh." Someone in the comments even asked "what happened!?" and her response was literally "the usual." I mean, come on! It's not even clear whose legs they were. Hers? Her husband's? Any of her three kids?

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/vaguebooking/

hate it when they post pictures of bands without saying who

Holy shit at vaguebooking. Yeah, that. Like if I posted a picture of a toilet and wrote "pray for me."

Sometimes I have this weird thing happen in instagram on my phone where any use of the volume button while the sound is on on a video automatically toggles the sound off. This drives me batshit and fills me with rage.

I used to have a friend that got off on cosplaying like they were in danger in mundane scenarios, similarly. I unfollowed/unfriended her after this one instance where she typed a status indicating she got on the Subway in the afternoon at a busy time, and there was a creepy guy there wearing a mask (guessing like a balaclava or something, covering his mouth and nose, pre-pandemic). Over time from her comments it became evidence he wasn't actually DOING anything but minding his own business.

but she kept talking about how uncomfortable he made her because of the mask, and got all of her friends to say "omg are you ok? do we need to call the police?", and she was responding to and liking all of these posts within seconds of each other, giving updates that weren't really "updates". it was pretty obvious from her context that she was the only one bothered by the person, as she had indicated it was fairly crowded, but didn't give details indicating he was actually doing anything, nor that anybody else had approached him.

this went on for like a half hour, with her actively liveblogging a dude wearing a mask just sitting there, talking about how nervous and scared she was, until one of her friends finally said "if you're that freaked out, maybe get off Facebook and do something about it?", she finally comes back fifteen minutes later to say she did talk to security after she got off the train and that this person was a regular and I guess a germphobe or something, hence the mask. and that it was nbd.

(now, I have DEFINITELY had friends that actually posted to FB for advice of something scary that was happening to them in real time/wanting to make friends aware.....but that was definitely not what this was.)

when people demand to know your opinion on something, then start a debate on it w/ you after you reply, and then accuse you of being judgmental afterwards.

(co-workers amirite)

Goodreads has just restyled. So it looks naff and harder to look at in the way I was . Dunno why they did it. Or is this just supposed to make it more auspicious , conspicuous or something.
Used to be somewhat good for checking out other people's opinions on books I had just grabbed from charity shops etc . & keeping a database of what i had bought.
It is an Amazon product so probably one I should be avoiding. But was somewhat useful.
Maybe still is, just hate the interface i don't seem to be able to get away from right now.

Too many different NBA uniforms for each team/too many that lack continuity with the team's historic look

Customer service on a gas supplier I'm leaving. Endless hold which rang off after 20 minutes waiting with my phone on loudspeaker a few weeks ago.
I phoned again to try to pay off a bit of what I owed as balance on leaving. Get through to sales Dept who proceed to put me on hold. I gave up after like 10 minutes anyway.
Wanted to make sure I had part paid off and didn't have a large direct debit coming off when I'm broke.
Stupid place has only just set up a website account system that you can pay through. So I am stuck trying to pay this way. Glad I'm leaving but I think I am going to run into trouble over this leaving balance. I don't even get to see what it is until physical bill arrives.

Plus energy prices just rose as of the 1st of May quite massively. 27% roughly. Glad I swapped to a different firm on the 3rd. But this is going to be a pain when I'm already broke.
Looks like Ireland followed a rise that UK had a month earlier. Rising costs and inflation all round.
Plus had slipped out of contract at some point so had no reduction in cost up til then. So did manage to get a deal that means I am paying a lower tariff than pre the rise just shame I didn't get on top of that before. Reduction will only last at rate for duration of this contract so assume standard rate going to be even higher by next year. Partially assuming Eastern European war feeding into this too. So could somebody just erase Putin or sumfin.