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

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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.

lipitor retriever (brownie), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link

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.

pplains, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link

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

Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link

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

pplains, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link

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.

Josefa, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link

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.

carl agatha, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link

Ew what are you people going to cook?

Evan, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link

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

pplains, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link

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.

Je55e, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link

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, 29 May 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link

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.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link

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?

Stevolende, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link

Only 15717 posts and counting.

Aimless, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link

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.

pplains, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link

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*

educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link

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

carl agatha, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link

yep

educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link

yknow what I hate? someone ripping the shit out of a tape gun in the middle of a quiet afternoon. and then randomly doing it over...and over...

it's unavoidable. as a serial tape-gun user I understand the conundrum. but that SOUND when you are not expecting it. ugh i hate it

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link

it's like the internal sound of the fabric of my patience being ripped to pieces

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link

I support the creation of a new thread.

So corn starch kills ants, but what about roaches? I wouldn't want to accidentally feed a roach while killing the ants.

Je55e, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link

boric acid is the thing to use for roaches.

leno dunham (get bent), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link

^^^ yes and dont waste any nuclear weapons you might have laying around.

heres a little boric death chamber:

http://www.wikihow.com/Kill-Cockroaches-or-Ants-Without-Pesticide

educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link

nb borax is different from boric acid. i think borax is safer to play with. i can't seem to find diatomaceous earth but it sounds awesome. my house has some carpet beetles.

omg i'm really hungry and i just wrote differen't and assid

veryupsetmom (harbl), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link

Substances and mixtures imported into the EU which contain Borax are now required to be labelled with the warnings "May damage fertility" and "May damage the unborn child".[23]

huh

veryupsetmom (harbl), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link

unless you're the type of person who feels the need to stack it 6" high at every door and windowsill effectively kill each and every single ant that infiltrates the domicile *cough*

pplains, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link

yeah if corn starch kills ants, it must follow that lots of corn starch kills lots of ants

veryupsetmom (harbl), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link

right yes borax.

so we have the choice of:
a mass ricin style delayed poisoning with cornstarch (ants only)
drying them from the inside out via dehydration with borax (ants and cockroaches)
scattering diatomaceous earth (crushed fossilized hard shell algae essentially) which will slice their bodies to shreds (slugs and small insects, bed bugs, fruit flies, earwigs, tomato hornworms, snails, ticks and cockroaches)

so many ways to kill

educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link

don't forget spraying them with hairspray - works well with ants espeically if they're climbing up a wall you don't really care about, then you can leave them shellacked to the wall to serve as a warning to the other ants

i am ant hitler, sorry

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 22:18 (ten years ago) link

both of my kids have had come in with tick burrowed into their skin in the past week and the dropping fruit from our persimmon tree attracts insane amounts of fruit flies every summer. i feel a diatomaceous earth purchase coming on.

educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link

I'm still wondering if roaches would feast on cornstarch.

Je55e, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link

it's probably like a perfect bulking food for roaches and will turn them into horse-sized monsters

veryupsetmom (harbl), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link

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.

You can buy booze in grocery stores in WA now!

kate78, Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link

True, but in the year since the law kicked in I have yet to buy liquor in WA. I live right over the Idaho border and booze is easily 25% less in the state liquor store over there. Cigarettes are like half the price there too because it's Idaho and who are you to tell them they can't smoke?

It'll be funny next year when all the Washingtonians still buy smokes and booze in Idaho but all the Idahoans will be heading over this way to buy weed.

joygoat, Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link

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.

You can buy booze in grocery stores in WA now!

― kate78, Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:26 PM (2 hours ago)

hey wait now, mn does not have state owned liquor stores, and they close at 10 on weekdays depending on city ordinance. they are closed sundays which is stuuuupid

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 30 May 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link

State owned or not, it just seems that buying liquor or higher than 3.2 beer in MN is a pain in the ass.

joygoat, Friday, 31 May 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link

I didn't mind while I worked at Liquor Depot off Washington. "New Year's Eve? Let's close at 10, and buy the way, feel free to buy your drinking resources at cost."

*Sniff*

pplains, Friday, 31 May 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link

the sound of drumsticks clicking to count off a song

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link

relatedly, bass players who do brief little noodly things right after a song finishes, like a little string slide or a quick thump.

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link

I believe I have the same hatred for guitar solos.

FYI: This thread has been retired. Here is the new one:

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

educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link


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