Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

Nice to know they have such faith in their pilots.

You couldn't buy toothpaste on Sundays? Is that true?

State court workers making me IA today-

Me: I'm checking in for an agreed order that's not on the call.

Clerk: (not looking up) agreed orders are at 9:30. (Time is already after 9:30) Have a seat.

Me: will I be called?

Clerk: (slowly looking up and staring at me for a couple beats) I told you have a seat, didn't I?

"No reading while court is in session!"

???

You couldn't buy toothpaste on Sundays? Is that true?

Like 30 years ago, there were some awful blue laws. Most of them are gone, but you still can't buy a bottle of booze on Sunday.

Even Delaware dispensed with that nonsense a few years ago.

At least we can race horses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_laws_in_the_United_States

ugggh

An action is required by my coworker so that I can complete my morning's task. I email requesting action, asking them politely to please take a look and let me know when it's completed. Coworker replies with a passive confirmation that yes, said action needs to be completed.

I KNOW THAT. Otherwise I would not have sent the email, capiche? it's like they know exactly what I'm driving at and are avoiding the direct question because they know it requires THEM actually DOING something. something that will take literally 2 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND7yJ7sMosk

amirite?

That video induces such face-twisting rage.

Because it accurately portrays people dragging their feet over nothing at work or because you don't care for Paul Rudd?

I love that clip and I replay it in my mind at least once a week.

Pick any answer, you won't be wrong.

It's a lot cuter when Paul Rudd does it than an actual 3-year-old, trust me.

That movie makes me IA.

You couldn't buy toothpaste on Sundays? Is that true?

Like 30 years ago, there were some awful blue laws. Most of them are gone, but you still can't buy a bottle of booze on Sunday.

― pplains, Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:14 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Last night, Sedaris, after complaining about the blue laws of his NC childhood, was left speechless for a few moments when someone informed him Arkansas blue laws are still in effect. I thought they were still common across the south but I guess not.

I am pretty sure that blue laws are still effect in NC. At least ABC stores (state controlled liquor stores), which are the only place you can buy hard liquor, are closed on Sundays. And you can't buy beer or wine in stores or restaurants before... is it 11 am? Some time that corresponds with roughly the time that church ends.

And when we lived in NC, bars that did not sell food had to present themselves as private clubs (one that we particularly liked kept index cards with "member" names on them, even) but maybe that has changed since 2004.

You can't buy or be served booze before noon on Sunday in New York City.

That can't be true..is it? I feel like no bodega has ever stopped anyone from buying beer...ever.

In Michigan on mandated days (like Christmas Day, motherfuckers) all the gas stations/convenience stores actually CHAIN THEIR COOLER DOORS SHUT. I feel like I would have noticed that in NY.

It's widely flouted, but true. I have seen brunch places actually follow the law and refuse to make bloody marys before noon.

i hate when i take vacation from work and make big plans but get nothing done except watching 1000 arrested development episodes and then when i actually do something it is like that wet hot american summer clip

oh also i vacuumed up like 30 small ants in the bathroom

While visiting from NC, I was surprised by the alcohol-related laws in DC, Philly, and NYC, which seemed at least as oppressive as any in NC. Eg, no booze in grocery stores, Sunday restrictions. Xp

OTOH, Michigan and IL blew my mind w/ their hard liquor in Target. It was like seeing bongs for sale there.

Sounds like its cornstarch time xps

why wont god let us drink the liquor he created for us to drink

NYC has beer in grocery stores but no liquor. Wine seems like a question mark because I thought it was a no but I see it pretty often in small quantities.

whoa i had never heard of that cornstarch thing! i'm going to go get some. then i will put it in the bathroom, then i will throw away 50 things. i'm on my way to not being irrationally angry.

It took me moving away from Michigan to realize that their booze laws are like the best I've run into - you could buy liquor, beer, and wine at like 50 places in my small town, and not being able to buy after 2am or before noon on Sunday was never a big deal.

Compared to places like Minnesota, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon that have one state-run liquor store per town that close at 7pm and aren't open Sundays it was positively luxurious.

Also every fucking NYC brunch comes with a mimosa or bloody mary

yeah, i went to visit pops in MI and I was like I just bought a shower curtain and and a bottle of brandy, could this day get any better. no.

Don't get me going on liquor laws, I think it was one of the first things I ever asked Sunny about on the phone.

But crazy shit like having to buy beer inside a bar to take home in PA or back when SC was forced to mix cocktails with those tiny little airplane bottles made me feel a little better about having to stock up on Saturday night for beer on Sunday. And even if that failed, I could always go to a sports bar.

In Missouri, you can walk into any grocery store on Sunday and walk out with a bottle of Jack. You don't even have to pay for it or nothing.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM1NjUxOTg5OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjMxNTIyMQ@@._V1_SY317_CR9,0,214,317_.jpg

Yeah, but on the other hand people pronounce it "Missour-ah," where's your God now?

Actually, the Garden of Eden is in Missouri, but you're right, I guess He's not there.

re: NYC... Actually this did come up recently when the anti-brunch crowd in Williamsburg used the no-alcohol law as a weapon to try to keep people from setting up brunch tables on the sidewalk.

Beer, I believe, is OK as of 2006. It's liquor that's still prohibited. I don't know where that leaves mimosas.

The tiny airplane bottle law was the LOL-iest blue law of all.

Cornstarch for ants? We are developing an ant problem and I have cornstarch and am afraid of poisoning my old sickly cat with ant spray.

Ew what are you people going to cook?

Cornstarch for ants works reasonably well. It looks messy, but less so than having ants running around.

when SC was forced to mix cocktails with those tiny little airplane bottles

My friend worked at a SC-based crab shack that opened a location in Greensboro, NC. She said that at first they priced drinks based on the prices they charged in SC, w/ its tiny-bottle-law. This meant that a Long Island iced tea cost $11, which at a casual restaurant in NC, might as well have been $40.

can we start a new thread? this one crashed my browser twice this morning when i tried to load it.

Got to watch out for buses sometime soon since they are going to be running a few minutes earlier since the kids won't be going to school and thereby delaying them to what is currently the normal timetable. There is only a list of supposed times up as a timetable. That is to say where a bus ought to be baseed on head stops, with no fare stages in between so no real regulation as to where one will be when.
You can currently expect a bus to do what is scheduled as about a half hour trip during the day in about 15 minutes at night. Which means that most of the time the timetable is very out.
So anybody travelling in at the time the schoolkids are normally going in will find their schedules disturbed. At least there is only about 15 minuts between scheduled buses but still I doubt people head in to work very early, so that delay will be telling. Certainly threw people out last holiday time, Easter. I wasn't the only person checking my phone/timepiece to see why a bus was speeding by the stop when I was right on time still walking towards the end of the road. Just got told taht some of them at least were ending already when I bumped into the teacher of the course I'm on dropping his kid off at the child minder's that I walk by en route to the training centre.

can we start a new thread? this one crashed my browser twice this morning when i tried to load it.

― leno dunham (get bent), Wednesday, May 29, 2013 7:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah may be time, this thread is at least 3 years old. So probably is time innit?

Only 15717 posts and counting.

I'm usually the first to say bookmark that shit, but yeah, 15,000 posts in one thread might be a special case.

If I had the ability to find old posts in here (and I don't mean "search" since half the time I don't know what I'm looking for), I'd likely not repeat myself so much.

Cornstarch for ants works reasonably well. It looks messy, but less so than having ants running around.

― pplains, Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:59 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cornstarch works very well because it wont poison carl's cat and the ant's think its some kind of awesome food but back on the hill after dinner their entire crew is DAS. Its not messy unless you're the type of person who feels the need to stack it 6" high at every door and windowsill *cough*

Where do you put it? Wherever it looks like the ants are getting in?