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

very that

and why is that when somebody says they tolerate you they act like they’re doing you a huge favour that required unimaginable personal sacrifice and expect gratitude for managing to be less of an asshole

because language has died and, much like time, it's become meaningless. now let's celebrate the end of discourse by accepting that listening without speaking is not a sign of weakness.

thanks for attending my ted talk. hopefully the last one ever btw.

(xpost to things that make you irrationally happy: what if everybody on earth got so fed up that we all just took a vow of silence? "don't bother that guy, he's so angry he refuses to speak" seems like the real power move tbh.)

The best thing about the pandemic has been walking into stores with a mask on and not saying a word to anyone the entire time I'm there. People say hello, I just nod, and that's seen as perfectly acceptable.

When software or a website asks me if I want to do something like turn on notifications, and the options are “Yes” or "Not Now", implying that it’s inevitable that I'll give in down the road. Actually, I don’t want what you’re trying to peddle, so just give me a "no". The Windows 11 upgrade is being particularly tenacious about this.

I'm 100% with you.

I really have to slow my roll getting irrationally angry at things like this, the assumptions AI makes on me personally. "Not Now", "Maybe Later", "I don't want to have incredible discounts emailed to me..."

I even get a little riled up over the electronic signs on the interstate. PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN. Listen, bud, I don't have my fucking phone out. Quit admonishing me for things I haven't done!

If you are waiting in a line for a coffee shop/restaurant/whatever for more than five minutes and you don't use any of that time to decide your order before it's your turn, you should be summarily removed from the premises.

Was surprised that there was a fairly long line for a mid-afternoon weekday at a local coffee shop, but had just enough time for a short wait and to get my coffee. After about 7 or 8 minutes, when I'm about five people from the register, the lead guy turns to the group of four people he's with (comprising the rest of the line in front of me) and says, "so what do we all want?", which was met with a variety of responses:

"huh, I don't know"
"jeez, everything looks so good, I can't choose!"
"what does the barista recommend?"
"oh! I hadn't even started looking yet"

I left after a further five minute wait, empty handed and grumpy for my meeting.

Feel you on that, I cannot stand people who insist on quizzing food cashiers like “how is the blah blah blah? does it have caramel? my doctor says blah blah”, probably some deep seeded insecurity on my part. I was eating a lot of fast food a few years ago and you’d get these guys pulling up to drive thru windows just like yammering for a minute straight and I’m like “what are you even saying? are you reciting moby dick?”

I remember the exact moment when a cellphone pissed me off.

Thinking it was 1997 or so. Standing in line at Blockbuster. Cashier asked the guy in front of me in line something reasonable like "Did you want to pay your overdue fees?" or "You've also got The Lion King reserved. Would you like to take that with you today as well?"

And this pie-eyed dude said not a word, just whipped out his flipphone and started jabbing digits with his phone.

It got me that, sure, this fella had showed up in public without a clue to what he was supposed to be doing. Got a little peeved by how he didn't answer the cashier's questions. But the biggest thing that brought me down was knowing that I'd be dealing with this kind of shit for the rest of my life.

Well. Maybe not dealing with it at Blockbuster, but you get my drift.

I get a specific question about a health concern or allergy or something, sure. I just can't understand standing in line for that long and not even putting a second of thought into what you might want to order until you reach the register.

Yeah, it all leads back to my theory that if everyone in the world was even just 15% more aware of their surroundings and how their actions impact others, the world would be vastly improved.

It doesn't directly affect other diners, but same thing gets me when the menus are on the table, but the rest of the crew is gabbing.

That's me, clearing my throat, "Say, let's take a look at the menu so we know what we want when Layton gets back here."

> aware of their surroundings

they need to teach this to kids. hell, parents too. don't stop and check your phone in the narrowest bit, don't walk 4 abreast, walk behind your dog so the lead isn't across the path. and if you're approaching a crossing and there's only one car coming and nothing behind him then don't make him stop, wait until he's passed.

TIL that pplains experienced the brief overlap between video-rental stores and mobile phones

good times, we were all so innocent then

xpost - honestly something I try to instill in my son as much as possible (stand back when the elevator door opens, don't rush in; don't stop suddenly on a crowded sidewalk; etc)

xp to plains, his name is brayden! (we are in a chili's)

i am a super bitch about people not being extremely efficient when ordering. just this afternoon an older couple were in front of me at the coffee shop, asking the barista whether or not the free magazine on the counter gave any tourist recommendations (they were probably Sundance people idk). many sighs and eye rolls for me.

i discovered early on that my boyfriend likes ordering 'that thing on the menu that no one ever orders and they will probably be out of.' he also likes asking for recommendations. we do a cute little fred and ethel routine every time. actually i usually just walk away because i'd rather not witness it lol. true love.

ordering the one thing on the menu that is clearly a different type of cuisine than whatever the restaurant generally serves is an easy IA for me

Moodles, a lot of very nice restaurants intentionally place a "safe" entree on the menu for noobs. Often it is chicken.

Hence, it's a decent (not infallible) rule of thumb to not order chicken in a restaurant, unless that restaurant specializes in chicken.

That said, my neighborhood has some places that are (say) Thai/Laotian, and no one is shamed for ordering from the Thai side of the menu if that's what you want. Or Bolivian/Mexican, where it's okay to order a chimichanga if that's what you want.

Ordering chicken strips from a seafood restaurant makes me IA, but I also recognize that some people just don't have a good relationship with food outside their comfort zone. Ordering something like raw oysters from a hot dog stand is far more questionable to me. Your example of restaurants with mixed cuisines is a different thing, I wouldn't be bothered by that at all.

we should give these food service workers a break and not treat them like they’re google… they do not have an infinite amount of fucks to give.. they’re not getting paid enough to be your Starbucks Sommalier or w/e.. I really don’t agree with the whole “but it’s their job” thing.

not just food service workers, I remember when I got my finger stitched up several years ago the doctor told me at the end “thanks for being an easy patient”. I was probably just being myopic at the time but the way he said it made it seem like the dude was getting hounded all day by “difficult” “unreasonable” patients.
I don’t know, maybe he was actually an asshole, it was pretty much the only thing he said.

Personally I have been a food service worker, a health care worker, and a retail worker.

In almost every situation my sympathies are going to be with the worker. It takes a LOT for me to be an irate customer.

It takes a LOT for me to be an irate customer.

Same. Rarely, a worker will show such a complete disregard for engaging with the basics of their job that it's clear they've stopped even pretending they're there to work. This happens less than 1% of the time.

I get more IA about systemic failures, planned obsolescence, bureaucratic nightmares, catch22 stuff like "You can't submit a ticket without a case number. And you don't get a case number until you submit a ticket."

Very rarely is it the individual employee.

"deep seeded"

sorry

Journalists who use the phrase “pixelated ink” to mean “writing that has originated online”, or basically any journalistic “flourishes” that are non-jokes or unintentional anti-humour

"adult beverage" is still the worst of that sort of thing.

Listening to some truly appalling 70s country records today for some reason, and that particular mocking imitation of a camp/gay voice that conservative men from the southern states of the USA do... I have no idea how anyone can put up with hearing that.

Like Lindsey Graham?

Not that familiar with him to know if he does that, though what I've seen is loathsome of course.

Chuck, I have a similar beef with "dead tree" to mean paper.

Cell-phone calls in a public library. I want to strangle these people. (I know--"public." It's supposed to be irrational, right?)

I remember years ago being politely asked by a library employee to go outside with my phone after stupidly answering my phone in the library without thinking. For the most part it seems like they don't do that anymore.

adverts featuring someone dressed up as comedy einstein

eg Oppenheimer

lol

How about Philip Glass operas with the same?

I remember when I got my finger stitched up several years ago the doctor told me at the end “thanks for being an easy patient”. I was probably just being myopic at the time but the way he said it made it seem like the dude was getting hounded all day by “difficult” “unreasonable” patients.

Either that, or a couple finger sutures were on the easy end of his day.

My doctor has a sign that says something like, "If you feel like you're being rushed, it's because we are too! If you have multiple issues or need more than an hour to discuss your issue, please make multiple appointments." I was surprised to see something so blunt.

DOCTOR: "And it also appears that you have cancer."

ME: "Hey, Doc. I only made one appointment today. Save that one for next time!"

“Can you pause while I check my deductible again?”

Longtime lurker, first-time poster on this thread.

This story about getting lousy treatment from Ryanair made me so mad. Not so much the overbooking thing itself, but the illegal actions, the outright lying, the refusal to apologise or listen to passenger concerns or anything. It absolutely fucks me off how companies like this can just do what they like and nobody does anything about it. Even the journo here admits he will continue to fly Ryanair, because what choice does he have? I reckon if everyone in Ireland sat down and refused to fly Ryanair for six months, we could force them to stop doing shit like this before it becomes routine. (I know we won't. I know it's a fantasy. I just wanted to give out about them for a second.)

I just hate them so much. Anyway, that is all.

Not that I am seeking any nostalgic return to the "good old days" or early air travel or anything, but I struggle to think of any other example of an industry that so drastically moved from a business model built around treating fliers like royalty to looking at them as incidental chattel at best.

i struggle to think of any industry that hasnt tbh

I get your point, but at least most industries at least try and fake giving a shit to your face. The last few times I've flown it couldn't have been more plain that every airline employee I encountered throughout my trip was annoyed by my mere presence.

Uncreative writing makes me IA

Everyone on linked in when they get laid off: “all good things must come to an end”
When they get a job: “and so it begins”
the professional community is awash in banal idioms and this is why working sucks.

Hmmmm, yeah. And everyone on LinkedIn is "passionate." I wish someone would say, "I feel zero passion about this job, but I gotta eat."

Not that I am seeking any nostalgic return to the "good old days" or early air travel or anything, but I struggle to think of any other example of an industry that so drastically moved from a business model built around treating fliers like royalty to looking at them as incidental chattel at best.

Airlines are my go-to counter-example to the idea that the free market will produce the best outcomes for consumers, or is responsive to them. All it's done is create a race to the bottom to wring a few more dollars out, and obviously no one has asked for reduced meal service, more fees, etc. Hell, last time I flew Delta, they didn't even give me the full can of soda--just enough to fit into the plastic cup.

If you have multiple issues or need more than an hour to discuss your issue

an HOUR to discuss something with your doctor? as a resident of the united kingdom, let me just say: eh heh, eh heh heh heh

_If you have multiple issues or need more than an hour to discuss your issue_


an HOUR to discuss something with your doctor? as a resident of the united kingdom, let me just say: eh heh, eh heh heh heh

On reflection, it sounds like one of those rules that’s written just for one person. I wonder if there is a patient who is a real talkative hypochondriac.