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

"must be nice to have some financial help from your folks." "no, it's actually fucking horrible. i hate myself every time i have to ask for it."

My usual reply to the condescending/snotty "must be nice" is, "Yep, it is. Stay in a job more than 2 years and you might get some privileges too!"

Heh, I've used that rebuttal sometimes, a little more softly.

I get the "must be nice" mostly frequently from parents when I talk about going out, sleeping in, or travel to fun places. "YES, IT SURE IS" I say to them.

xps - Carl, you have dispensation to use Happy Monday after an onerous request. This is totally acceptable. Harder to pull off with Happy Wednesday, though, which I hate even more than Happy Monday, now I come to think of it.

when you just want someone to believe in you and it feels like no one does

Feeling this pretty hard as a student. You're a student too...

When you've got a deadline to meet but another person needs to submit something to you and that other person's deadline passed LONG ago and that other person doesn't have even a minimally legit reason why you haven't been given that material yet.

My supervisor, who so far has been one of the chillest people I've ever met, today blew up at the person in question. I'd like to take a bath or watch a movie, but I've been told to expect this item to come in tonight. (Just as we've been expecting it for the last three days....)

I know it's tough finding something new on the Web to talk about, so recycling stuff is gonna happen.

But I hate it when subjects over six months old get trotted out with intro lines like "An astronomical artist has created eye-opening illustrations..." Why yes he has. I also hear there's this Spanish painter who has painted a controversial piece of art focused on the tragedy of Guernica.

I know, it's the Daily Mail. They got to my little hobby site about three months after everyone else did, trumpeting its debut and getting nearly every fact in the story wrong. Watch out for October 2013 when that wolf story gets told again.

similar to that, I hate how people don't read dates on articles. so when two events of the same nature (ie, someone eating human flesh) occur in the same timeframe, a number of related articles always pop-up within the week, as the media likes to report like-minded articles, but often many of them are from 6-8 months ago and only get new exposure because of the new trend.

so then I'll see a friend post OMG, WHAT IS GOING ON, THREE PEOPLE HAVE DIED OF AMOEBA WITHIN THE LAST 3 DAYS, and then I'll look at the last article and it's from a year ago.

also, and this is a really lame thing to get angry about, but I hate it when fanboys don't know their own material.

I used to know this girl who was hella into Star Wars, and talked about it all the time. And one time she did a presentation to a group of us about Star Wars, and kept referring to Endor as "Andorra". I'M NOT EVEN A STAR WARS FANBOY AND I KNOW THAT'S WRONG, JEEBUS.

http://talkingwithtami.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/endora-bewitched.jpg

I'm nowhere near that close being a fanboy - I don't think I could stomach someone giving a presentation on Star Wars.

But that said, those little decal stickers you see on the back windshields of SUVs? The ones that illustrate the family members? The stickers that make me IA anyway in the first place?

When I saw the window the other day that had a big Darth Vader, a big Princess Leia next to him, a smaller Luke Skywalker, and an even smaller pet-sized Chewbacca – even I got IA about how fucked up that was on so many different levels.

those little decal stickers you see on the back windshields of SUVs? The ones that illustrate the family members? The stickers that make me IA anyway in the first place?

Oh good, it's not just me then.

I once saw one with a halo over one of the kids' heads. Just wanted to pull over and lay down in the floorboard.

Saw this on a car yesterday:

http://cdn.www.babble.com/wp-content/blog_uploads/18/files/stick-figure-family/stickfigure3.jpg

It took me 15 minutes to understand the signif of the halo, because I wasn't aware that these window-clings were a thing. Actually it took me up until kate posted one.

Oh no was the halo because the child had died????

At first I thought it was because that kid was better than the other kids.

because that kid is David Boreanaz imo

It was on the back of this donkey I saw coming back from Nazareth.

Cutsey little parodies like the flying saucer one also make me IA. See "My kid can beat up your honor student", etc.

Except for the Calvin ones, which seem like an ongoing parade of irony and meta humor. The perfect example would be of Calvin pissing on an Obama 'O' logo followed by a Calvin praying at the base of the same 'O'. No I've never seen that, but it would be awesome if I did.

Should be a sticker of Bill Watterson pissing on a pissing Calvin.

my dad came home laughing one day because he'd just seen one of the Pissing Calvin decals where the Calvin was also flipping you off, and right next to it was a Christian fish sticker.

I tend to hate bumper stickers in general. saw one once that said "I Think, Therefore I Vote Republican", and left a note reading "You're an idiot" on their windshield.

hahaha that's kind of terrible but it's cracking me up, so good job.

I put a bumper sticker on my old car that said "My Box, My Choice" and I stand by that decision.

would buy

http://compare.ebay.com/like/121088553538?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar

a friend of mine in college set up a side business selling bumper stickers based on 'I own a gun and I vote' -- variations included 'I Wear a Toupee And I Vote', 'I Build Dollhouses And I vote', 'I Raise Turtles and I Vote' etc

I was the proud owner of I Wear A Toupee And I Vote

my box my choice

http://blog.dinoray.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/box.jpg

If I ever was to put a bumper sticker on my car, it'd be something nonsensical like "HONK IF YOU THINK BOB GELDOF IS A CUNT"

OMG this is my shitty work life RIGHT NOW. Photos with no usable filenames, emails with "use this photo" and zero caption info, people who forward work pics to me with "reduce file size for easier emailing" turned on....

Ideally, they will also embed the picture in a Word file for no discernible reason

Yeeesss, James Morisson, that is indeed true hell!

The word file will be 5mb, and no matter what I try to extract a photo from it, it always ends up being a crappy 100k like unusable file.

can someone explain "my box, my choice" to me?

just another pro-choice slogan

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=box

someone was telling me all about this article in the latest issue of scientific american that sounded interesting and possibly controversial and i finally google it up and it is from 2010, and what is interesting and controversial about it is just that it represents things that it no longer makes sense to say in 2013.

no represents, but just says, i suppose.

I just got a letter through the post saying taht the letting agency has cancelled the bin service that I have a waiver for and say they've set me up with a new bin service which presumably I'm going to get billed for. Haven't heard anything beyond that since I got home after the office had closed so the person I talked to was just looking after the office in case of emergency.
I'm really annoyed, surely they should have checked with us tenants first before screwing up our services. I think the bill has been in my name for the last 6 1/2 years so why the hell they're messing me around now is beyond me. nepotism or something? or some other connection to this new service?
I mean,can't see how or why they think we should just change to a new service without any consultation and the first I heard about this was this letter today. So I have rubbish I was just going to throw out and can't do so and presumably won't have bin collected on Friday.

As I type my inbox is getting clogged by e-mails from office staff writing about the results of their "Which superhero are you?" quiz.

'potus' and 'scotus'

these things add nothing of value to the world

idk, they provide a useful shorthand when differentiating from other presidents and supreme courts

they sound gross tho

restaurants that make you come in on some "job fair" day and fill out an application with all the other riff raff, instead of accepting resumes through e-mail or fax. i want to know that i'm on some kind of pre-culled short list before i drag my ass out to your place of business.

"Potus" = poo and flatus
"Scotus" = skin disease of the scrotum

idk, they provide a useful shorthand when differentiating from other presidents and supreme courts

they sound gross tho

ya this would make sense if they were only used in some comparative world politics discussion but 95% of the time someone says 'potus' there is not some crazy confusion about whether you might be talking about the president of the Philippines

back in the bush years you were actually typing an extra character if you wrote 'potus' instead of 'bush'

"...before i drag my ass out to your place of business."

I think this is the pre-culling - Not willing to jump when we say jump? You're not TGIDWH* material!

* Thank God I Don't Work Here

i just right now filled out an online application and got an auto-reply back asking me to come in for an interview at 3pm tomorrow, cuz that's when they're holding interviews. well, reply-bot, i have a different interview tomorrow at 4pm, several miles away, but it's not like you actually care about accommodating *my* needs.

replybots never do. they never do.

Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

i think i've IAed about *OTUS before, it's still the worst. feels like it came out of nowhere and everyone's using it like it's been around forever, but it hasn't been around forever because it's fucking stupid and pointless and ugly and weird

FLOTUS by far the worst tho

FIrst I ever noticed POTUS was All the King's Men and Nixon's memoirs.

You couldn't come up with a better acronym to fit its subject than what the Committee to RE-Elect the President called itself.