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

-that whistling text alert every fucker on the train seems to use

yes, yes, yes. Every fucker in our lab, too. Or at least one fucker who gets a lot of messages.

i think i killed most of the ants by putting a small buffer of borax where they were coming from. it took about a day but no ants are walking around now.

ugh this is a neverending IA for me

person A: hi i am emailing you with a request that consist of a single question and no instructions
me: hi i need instructions from you to complete this request
person A: ... [no reply]

THAT EMAIL DID NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION IN IT WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU WALK AWAY FROM YOUR DESK AFTER SENDING THAT NONSENSE

In Chicago, particularly in the downtown business district, pedestrian traffic is very heavy so when people do that bullshit where they pull into the intersection without being able to get through and then the light changes, they suddenly find themselves trapped because pedestrians don't give a fuck about their dumb asses and block their way forward, and then cars on the perpendicular street go crazy with the honking and the cursing and the near misses as they swerve around the blocking car, while the driver just sits there looking like a total idiot. It is beautiful and swift justice and I admit to sometimes catching the driver's eye and just slowly shaking my head at him like I'm really fucking disappointed in his behavior.

haha I do this so much

I actually saw a cop give someone a ticket for this the other day and was so happy

I also bang on their car midnight cowboy style

people seem to get really mad when you bang on their car, which is funny cause I mean it's metal, I'm probably not gonna break it

Teenaged me used to do that to drivers who thrust the nose of their car inside the crosswalk I was trying to use.

I personally wouldn't bang on somebody's car unless I was prepared to have an actual fight, which I never am because I wouldn't even know where to start. I'd probably just drop to the sidewalk and start squealing.

But that's not really my point. My point is that it's interesting that people would respond violently to someone touching their car when, like you said, you're probably not going to break it.

driving a car turns people into monsters and the car becomes part of your monster-body so it's taken as if you physically pushed them

Some drunk dingus spit on the car share car Jeff and I were driving a few months ago, but I didn't get angry because he was so wasted and there's just something so ultimately impotent and embarrassing, like I was really embarrassed for him, about somebody spitting on a thing to express their anger about it. This does not disprove your theory, however, because I wasn't driving, though, and Jeff didn't notice so he might have gone monster car if he had.

Cars dent very easily and cost lots to repair. I think deciding if you're prepared to fight before deliberately damaging someone else's property over an innocuous piece of annoying driving makes sense.

'innocuous piece of annoying driving'

I should probably point out that a hood thump was unlikely if the driver was some kind of large meathead. Best deployed when driver was some kind of annoying preppy mom.

yeah I have the benefit of being bigger than most people

I was more amused by the drunk spitting bro more than anything else.

iatee r u secretly swole, always imagined u as a weedy little nerd like me

'Thieves Like Us' was a key song for me. Getting over & coming to love its 'lol 1980s' sound was a point of no return. Love it unreservedly.

that's quite a subtle way of telling us that posting on the wrong thread makes you irrationally angry

I actually saw a cop give someone a ticket for this the other day and was so happy

I have seen cops just hang out at Bay/Bloor (busy-as-hell intersection in downtown Toronto) and hand out a ticket every time someone did this, which was literally every single time the light was green. It was so AWESOME.

savages itt

you know what's cooler than pedestrians CARS

lately I've started slowing down when I'm in crosswalks with no signal and a car is creeping forward

being given a fork instead of chopsticks because i'm white

just now i passively-aggressively asked for chopsticks in chinese just to drive the point home, but fucked it up and ended up going 'chopsticks chopsticks' in english, which made me even more ia

lol

and i just dropped a dumpling and vinegar went everywhere, so now i'm feeling a massive dick

wait whose dick

lol!

iatee r u secretly swole, always imagined u as a weedy little nerd like me

I'm not super swole but I'm 6'2 and in pretty decent shape so I'm big enough to not find very many strangers intimidating. I will probably just get shot tho.

People who park on pavementsd so pedestrians can't walk by on th epavement and are forced to go in the road. Tends to make me want to walk down the inside anyway preferably with a sharp object protruding. Not that I do that, just feel the inclination to.

Plus furthermore having cars semi blocking pavements with wheely bins adding further to the blockage which is a normal situationon a Friday in one of the estates I have to walk through to get to the training centre.

A car will NOT sustain damage from somebody bangs on it unless they're kicking it or really pounding on a door panel, which I don't think iatee or carl do/did.

I have done it, and for maximum obnoxiousness, I knocked on the cars like you'd knock on a door.

guy parked outside my house, what makes you think i want to listen to the same shitty club music xm radio station they play in the gym

I've never hit a car! I'm afraid of getting beat up!

yeah i would never do that. i always assume asshole drivers are aggressive people who might hit you or worse.

gah last night these douchebags were trying to plow through a very large crowd after they got stuck in that above position on 14th st (a bad place to be stuck blocking the box) and some other proud pedestrian not only banged on their car but refused to move and tried to get the asshole drivers to get out of their car. my friend was quick thinking enough to get their license plate.

I've banged on the back of cars if they almost hit me. I think I've scared the shit out of some people doing it. I think they thought I was a flash mob.

I've banged on cars, mostly the ones who run red lights. I've had maybe two guys yell at me afterward, but what are they going to do, leave their car in the middle of traffic during rush hour?

what are they going to do, leave their car in the middle of traffic during rush hour?

Concealed-carry permits are getting easier and easier to come by these days.

I know, you'd think those asshole drivers would think of this when they cross me.

lol

people who make a blatant swallowing noise halfway through a sentence. makes me incandescent with rage.

I'm confident in my speed to run away from any potential conflict. They'd have to leave their car behind and chase me for miles.

I dig scooters but i hate stupid scooter riders. One dude yesterday rolling down a busy 4 lane road holding a coffee in one hand, weaving all over the place & darting in front of cars not signalling. And stupid girl today who parked her scooter on the sidewalk directly in front of handicapped parking (when there were parking spaces and other more suitable areas to park a scooter) so no handicapped ppl could actually use that widened portion of the sidewalk INTENDED for their use

some ppl are idiots

scooters are still cool

i had barely parked in a parking spot and was straightening the car, and some shitbag in an suv tried to pull straight into the next spot and kept parping her horn at me. very, very long time since i've actively wanted to jump out of the car and scream at someone

and then the parking machine swallowed all my money because governments are too special to give change

fuck today is what i'm saying

bleh

My complete irrational anger – because it's completely irrational – is aimed at the motorcycle parked in my crowded lot, taking up a whole space when he could, you know, park in the fire zone or the handicap ramp area.

So I'd rather this guy drive a car? He's got to park it somewhere legal, right? Probably my most irrational of them all.

I try to be a polite motorcycle parker by a) parking near the back of a spot so drivers know the spot is taken before they get their hopes up and b) by leaving enough room for another motorcycle or parking next to an existing motorcycle who has done the same. I've come out of stores or the gym to find two other bikes in the same spot with me.

D'aw.

I'm IA at my own internal clock. Every time I set an alarm now, I wake up 15-20 minutes early -- but I really wanted those few minutes of sleep!

have they considered maybe I like the demons being in there?

In the US school system, do you get lessons on history around the world? Like WW2, ancient civilizations, French Revolution, Russian Revolution? In Brazil, we'd always have 2 different teachers, one for 'World History' and the other for just Brazil. Sometimes it was hard to tie the 2 togethers...

Also, BR history we did try to get as close to the end of the 1960s/1970s Military Dictatorship (we had others, that's why I have the year there), and some political reform things (like the 1988 Constitutional reform), but I feel we do lose a bit in looking at other details, like trying to explain our external debt, or our economical situation in the 80s with hyper inflation. It also had nothing on the strikes done by the steel workers in SP (where Lula rose to prominence)

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We learned some pretty basic world history, certainly ancient civilizations, world religions, medieval europe, crusades, industrial revolution, wwi and wwii, etc. A massive amount was left out and there was definitely a failure to tie US and world history together well. I don't recall covering the Russian Revolution at all. My US history experience wasn't terrible but it kind of stopped at the Vietnam War even though it was already the late 90s.

I recently discovered this little fast casual italian place by my office (run by an actual Italian dude from Italy) with surprisingly good food, but it has all these weird quirks that irritate me. First, there isn't enough light inside so it always looks closed even when it's open. Second, the menu is behind you when you're facing the ordering counter, which is very awkward. And there's just something awkward and off about the place, the staff, the ordering process.

Today was my third time and I ordered "Vegetables Parmigiana" off the pasta menu, which I know isn't like a traditional Italian dish but it sounded pretty good. When I went to pick it up, I asked if the pasta was ready, and the woman said "It's not pasta, it's just grilled vegetables." The dish is literally on the pasta menu, and every single other item on the pasta menu is, you know, pasta, and there is no indication that it doesn't have pasta (nor does every other pasta dish expressly state that it includes pasta, because, you know, it's the pasta menu).

To be fair to them, I raised this and they offered to add some penne pasta without any argument about it. Still weird.

that is weird

Every so often you run into these places where they really know how to cook food and are somewhat confused about running a food business. I keep wondering if maybe the concept is more along the lines of something that works in Italy (notwithstanding pasta-less pasta) and not as well in a small US city, because it tends to be kind of empty in spite of the high quality of the food and lack of options around here. For example the atmosphere is closer to a Chipotle or a Chopt than a restaurant, but they sell beer and wine, but they close at 5pm so there's no dinner crowd. I don't think US office workers tend to have a drink at lunch unless they go to a proper restaurant.

I know the type— there used to be a pretty good taco place here in Philly, which still has a dearth of good Mexican restaurants. Their hours were wonky and like the place you mention, they closed quite early but sold beer and wine. It could have been a perfect late-night bar/taco joint, but they couldn't figure it out. Meanwhile, the place was empty most days from 2-5p. They closed during the pandemic.

I have been a canvasser, and know how difficult and shitty it is, but don’t fucking wave at me enthusiastically like I know you— this just makes me upset when I realize you are a stranger trying to sell me a cause

Ugh, I have canvassed too, and I generally hate any false or disingenuous familiarity. Just be up front with me - you are asking for donations or signatures or trying to sell me something. It's your job. Don't tell me you were just chatting with my neighbor John to gain my trust or use some canned line that tries to hide the fact that you're doing what you're doing.

Also, canvassers for charity who want money but can't actually accept money, only take your bank details to charge you every month forever. Fuck off with that bullshit.

Exactly.