if you wanna dry your face with a hand dryer go ahead but have the common courtesy to point the blower back in a handwardly direction when you're done, you disgusting savage.
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 09:46 (ten years ago) link
enormous image of actual handdryer in question for illustrative purposes:
http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Images/Products/size_3/HD2400MA.JPG
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 09:47 (ten years ago) link
There's a facebook group called "Lost <cityname>" . . . This morning some dude is going on about how we need to save some giant concrete plaza with a fountain because he waded in it as a kid.
the town where I grew up in the 80s was a giant pile of ugly 50s concrete stacked under a permanently grey sky, and I did still get a pang on hearing that a particularly ugly and illogically arranged gum-tarnished slab of an open-air mall had been knocked down
brb going to look up which parts of town were replaced by something not made of concrete, or at least made of slightly newer and less gum-spattered concrete, and bemoan their loss on social networking groups
― slippery kelp on the tide (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:16 (ten years ago) link
plz consider bemoaning in the following threads:
Defend the Indefensible - Concrete Architecture
Deposed buildings
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link
I got IA every time someone said the word "chatter" yesterday on the radio
― joygoat, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
my IA of the day: when a bus/train is standing room only, and you position yourself so as not to block the aisle completely, and then someone else stands right beside you even though there's more room elsewhere, and both of you together are blocking the aisle, and you know people think it's your fault at least as much as theirs
(or, if you are fatter or less pretty than them, you know people probably think it's mainly your fault bcz of course ugly people are dumb and careless and of course fat people are taking more space and oxygen and Twinkies than their fair share, but hey)
― slippery kelp on the tide (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:24 (ten years ago) link
speaking of radio: people are usually from a place, except on music radio, where they're 'out of' a place
'that was a band out of portugal'
jesus christ
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
xxxp I neither want to bemoan or defend concrete. I know my post was p. anti-concrete but there are nice bits of concrete architecture and then there's Swindon. "Deposed buildings" thread looks interesting though
― slippery kelp on the tide (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:28 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I like concrete! This plaza was never meant to be a wading pool, it's just that disgusting savages were never chased out.
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
here is the plaza in question, in its heyday. not embedding in the thread:https://sphotos-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/526971_10200606219461440_189540018_n.jpg
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
On the page for my town, not a month goes by where some old person wistfully bemoans about the bygone days of sipping coffee at Sambo's.
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
Granted, I wish there was a 24-hour restaurant on that hillside now instead of Walgreens and the paint store, but I've managed to live with it and not bump the same thread every four weeks.
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
oh lol pplains
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
ia: the phrase "chattering classes" (for the idle rich, i guess. working-class people don't chatter, ever.)
related ia: when (e.g.) the NYT calls a demographic "the ___ set" (collect 'em all!)
― freelance helgenberger (get bent), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
although i love the band the monochrome set and think it's a clever name!
― freelance helgenberger (get bent), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/FMuQz78.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
I think I was debating an idiot, the same guy is now going on about some convenience store chain which is run by "those people" or something. I have only seen one of them total, so he's either generalizing his experience to everyone, or he lives in some part of town I probably am not visiting.
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
I was assume any convenience store chain not headquartered in the Des Moines area is run by "those people."
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
possibly!
I think our convenience stores are more governed by the fact that there are a couple pretty nice chains that generally stick to certain markets/store sizes so if you are locked in a neighborhood that can only support a smaller store and it's not rural, you're going to get whatever independent operator thinks owning a gas station in 2013 is a good business plan.
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link
another addition to this thread:
I was walking back past the bar after grabbing a slice of pizza and a soda over the weekend and a guy I know started asking me about whether I liked the pizza from that place and started launching into a merits of pizza places discussion, with the base being that I was eating mediocre pizza.
dude it's 1AM and I wanted a slice of pizza, jesus christ
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
We have a real estate column at the paper and Kum & Go is making its forays into our market. If I have to edit something one more time about an LLC out of West Des Moines, Iowa.....
And really. Kum & Go?
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
I really hate non-metalheads that post 'funny GIFs' about 'metal' people that are only funny to people who know nothing about heavy metal
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
hahaha you are getting Kum & Go
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
I blame these dudes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGC3063J-co
― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
Are your open to a 15 minute "discovery" call with me next week to see if there is a potential opportunity to expand the conversation with members of your team?
A "discovery" call?
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
Naked Skype, pretty sure.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
do people do that? naked skype? kind of wondered
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
If you can use technology for sex, I imagine somebody has done so.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
I'm always behind the useful technology curve, getting all the useless gadgets and missing out on essentials like this naked skype
* shakes fist in anger *
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
*shakes fist*
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
people caused a traffic jam today by standing on an overpass with crude IMPEACH OBAMA and DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION signs
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
when people in a drive thru insist on 'checking their order' in the drive thru lane for like 5 minutes, blocking or partially inhibiting people from passing them, instead of just PULLING INTO A SPACE THAT IS LESS THAN 100 FEET AWAY TO DO IT THERE IN PEACE.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
I think they're thinking "If I park away from the window and then come back with a 'missing item' claim the worker will think I'm faking (stashed item in car)."
No less annoying.
― nickn, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
"oh, ye think im gonna fall for the olde 'hide the hamburger in the glovebox than come say ye didn't get one' trick? Off with ya! next!"
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 22:12 (ten years ago) link
You don't want to pull away because then you'll have to get back in line or go inside.
But you do want to check it fast. Best piece of advice I ever heard was to count the items in the bag. You get a double taco, burrito supreme, order of nachos and a regular taco. 1-2-3-4, that's four things. If you get home and you got two double tacos or a nachos supreme, hey it's tacotown.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 23:09 (ten years ago) link
admittedly I don't closely check my bag, though I"ll always know if they left out the fries as I eat them while I drive, and usually by the time I drive the 1 mile home, they're already gone.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
the wendy's by my office is the fastest drivethru I've ever been to -- you pull up to the second window after paying and they're practically throwing your food in your car and glaring at you while you get back into gear to drive away
like no shit they're leaning out the window with yr bag of food before you've even said 'hello' - it almost feels like you're insulting them to check the bag (but I do anyway)
pplains otm with the # count, it's only way not to be a slow pain in the ass
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
the guy today tho didn't even check his food right away, at the window. This guy got his food, then pulled forward like 200 feet to where he was at the far end of the drive through lane, well away from the window, but still in everybody's way, and he was just sitting, idling there. I had already gotten MY food and was trying to drive away but he was still sitting there until he figured out "uh dur, someone behind me would like to leave" and finally moved.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
lame
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
first rule of drive through is FUCKING KEEP MOVING GODDAMMIT
only in florida can you drive 200 feet away from the window and still be in everyone's way.
I've gotten lost in the driveway of an Ormond Beach applebees before.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
My grandmother and I watched a local news story last week about a guy who called 911 when McD's fucked up his drive through order. They interviewed him and he actually seemed pretty normal. He said he learned you should always check your order before you leave the window.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
a woman in a shitty cafe near my work has three times made rude comments behind my back (so she thinks) because i didn't hear her call my name. every time she thought she was getting away with it, except once when she saw me catching her scowl at me. i've just done a load of web reviews calling her out for being crap at stealth snark, and even now i am ia about that woman.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 8 August 2013 07:46 (ten years ago) link
Wait, eh? She works at the cafe, and you Yelp-dissed her?idgi
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Thursday, 8 August 2013 08:07 (ten years ago) link
lol
― carlos danger zone (mh), Thursday, 8 August 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
dude jamming up my facebook feed with over-filtered instagram photos of NYC, the city in which we both live. Really tired of instagram filters in general, especially on your otherwise boring photo of a deli.
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Thursday, 8 August 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
I had that happen with a friend who moved to Detroit and took it upon herself to document every single abandoned house or building there. Bold, daring choice as I was completely unaware that Detroit has experienced such strife.
― joygoat, Thursday, 8 August 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
csv files in excel where you forget to just close without saving to save it, and instead when you try to save and it asks you to override and you say yes and then it asks you if you know you will lose formatting and you say yes and then it asks you if you know there's an existing file by that name and you say yes and it's like 900 dialog boxes just to get out of the fucking thing jesus CHRIST wtf
also i've tried to turn off all the HP printer dialog boxes because I sit right next to the printer and hey guess what I can hear/see stuff printing don't need to have three giant simultaneous dialogs flashing all over my screen gaaah leave me alone
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 August 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
homes built on slabs. ugh.
― pplains, Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:00 (ten years ago) link
no basements in your part of the country, right?
― carlos danger zone (mh), Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link