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

There's one regular who performs a block away from my place on a busy corner. He doesn't block pedestrian traffic, but he plays his keyboard WAY too loudly on shitty, crackling speakers. I can hear him 1 block away.

He sometimes wears a gold bead Cleopatra wig and boas. I've only ever heard him play "Dancing Queen" and a couple other songs.

It's not that he's loud that bothers me so much as it is his horrible speakers. Turn that shit down and it won't sound like shit!

One afternoon I came out of Walgreen's and found him being yelled at by a resident of the high rise next door who had called the police. Three officers showed up and looking unimpressed, watched them argue, checked his performing license, and said he wasn't violating any laws.

longish XP

I found him on FB

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I fling sweat on him when I run by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-XenFn6wk4Y

In the true spirit of this thread:

People tweeting about football.

Even more in the spirit of this thread...

People tweeting about football.

People tweeting about football.

I was just gonna post to this thread about how I hate when certain guys when they first meet you keep dropping football into the conversation at random spots to see if they can get you to talk about football. I guess that's innocuous enough, but it's just irritating that some guys have to immediately establish that you're both interested in football

I don't really like social situations and making small talk. Sports are the easiest, least awkward thing to talk about with with a stranger. When I lived back home this was east for me cause I know lot's about soccer, our national sport. Now I live in Canada I've lost that little luxury.

Yeah, I guess it irritated me with this particular guy I met today who was also a bit of a douche anyway. He was this short lawyer guy who was constantly trying to infuse manliness into everything, which was especially ridiculous since we were hanging out with our toddlers at the zoo. He made fun of the "artsy" high school nearby when we were talking about schools -- both my father and I actually went to arts high schools, and my wife is an artist, but I guess I seemed broish enough that he just figured I was on the level.

Argh the football thing was so forced and annoying too, every other sentence it was like "That seal can't even catch a fish -- he should play for the Giants amirite!"

Haha, he sounds so awful.

Yup, and unfortunately he lives in the building across the street from me, it turns out, so I'll probably be seeing him at more daddy outings.

Sports are the easiest, least awkward thing to talk about with with a stranger

Suspect this is true, but being Australian and knowing fuck-all about sport means I basically have no small talk

Re: everyone saying "right?" now. The other one that makes me IA is when people use the second-person when talking about shit I'd never do (sports professionals are esp. guilty of this). "When you're in your third week of training camp, you really have to step up your game." No I don't, dude, YOU do!

Have you never heard of the general 'you'? In fact, such wilful disregard for a very common usage is making me pretty IA right now.

It's common but incorrect; problem is, using the correct 'one is/has/was' sounds stuffy.

IA at people expecting footballers to use grammatically correct English. I KNOW: if it pisses you off, stop watching sport on telly.

I've heard of it (the general 'you'), but it just rubs me the wrong way, especially when used to describe something totally UN-universal. And don't get on my case on the IA thread! It's fucking irrational - that's the whole point.

It's common but incorrect

Actually, it's perfectly correct, and usually preferred in modern English.

don't get on my case on the IA thread

Not even when you're the one making me IA? That's what this thread is for.

Take it to the meta-IA thread!

the use of "you" like that is an attempt to try and make "you" put yourself in the shoes of the person using it. of course the activity may be something you'd never do but i dunno, tbh many friends do things i'd never do but i'm still interested in hearing about how they feel or how "you" feel when you do whatever the thing is. seems a cornerstone of interaction.

That only bugs me when the person saying "you" clearly means "me."

Some motherfucker sales guy keeps calling my office, claiming to know my boss, refusing to tell me the reason for his call. He calls through a client referral service number, and it is my job to screen potential clients.

Last time he called he said, "Whoa there fella! Take a deep breath! Haha! You're getting worked up!" (I was not.) I finally told him that my boss has me screen her calls and he said, "Listen, I'm a lawyer and L!z and I are friends (She HATES that name and no friend would dare call her that) and she won't be too happy about you keeping me from talking to her."

My boss doesn't know this guy and she said I could tell him to fuck himself for all she cared.

He called again today and when I calmly and professionally asked for his info he said, "Whoa slow down there buddy! You're gettin' all steamed up! Relaaaax, buddy, you're gettin' all worked up!"

I AM GOING TO SHIT DOWN THIS GUY'S THROAT IF IT'S THE LAST THING I EVER DO.

Take a magnesium supplement, buddy.

Oh good idea!

In medicine, magnesium oxide is used for relief of heartburn and sore stomach, as an antacid, magnesium supplement, and as a short-term laxative.

"skye is a WiFi music receiver for your music dock designed to soundtrack your life."

she said I could tell him to fuck himself for all she cared

Good to know, but a bit unprofessional.

I would simply say, "I consulted with Liz regarding your repeated calls, and she has assured me that she has no interest in speaking to you." Then, if he tries his usual "whoa there" shit, you may say, "Liz further assured me that you can go fuck yourself for all she cares and that I should convey this to you." That should do it.

Tell him you are going to soundtrack his life with the sound of your foot in his ass.

i got a sales call on my direct work number from the washington post and i told the guy i was not interested and he said why aren't you interested and i said i don't live in washington and don't read the newspaper and then he said why don't you read the newspaper. i think he was a turing machine but i hung up before i could find out.

but y dont u read the newspaper

why don't you read the newspaper

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why

yes but why

ten years ago i saw a red sox-phillies game at the soon-to-be-demolished veterans stadium. (red sox won in extra innings; both teams walked like 10 batters.)

i still get calls/emails from the phillies once a year or so although i have never lived in philadelphia. i blame mordy

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Ha

THinking of moving to a new email server since yahoo's one now stinks. Think this is probably even worse than the chatlists they messed up last week.
So wondering if there are any decent well known servers that aren't likely to change format at whim without giving the user any choice. At yahoo I could at least move back to the old style up until a few months ago but this new thing is even worse.
If i'm not seein g this wrong there doesn't seem to be a setting that doesn't have both the list of unread messages and the message you're reading competing for screen space. Whereas you used to be in either the mailbox area where you could see what messages you wanted to look at or the message itself so both had adequate screen space, they've now gone and messed this up entirely.
Hoping that tomorrow I'll wake up with a clear,well slept head that can view this set up clearer and find an easy way around this but I just think that this is yahoo screwing up wholesale. & likely to repeat continually
Aaaaarghhh

Seeing pages and pages of complaints about the format change at yahoo up at their own feedback page and them not taking people's requests and putting settings back tio something usable and instead coming out with messages like this

"Yahoo is continually developing and testing new product concepts in an effort to offer the most delightful experiences for our users. We randomly expose test pages to a fraction of our users, and your account has been included in a test group."

which I think really sucks. So somebody does think it is prudent to run a guinea-pig programme like this without warning, request or above all the option to opt out. I've seen a lot of people threatening to leave this service over the last few days. Presumably at least some of them will have done so by now.
So I'm wondering, since so many will have reached the end of the time limit they set before leaving , if Yahoo have payed any attention to it and are doing anything about it.Wonder if many people will have actually immediately closed down existing mailboxes, knowing taht other people will be taking a while to catch up with the news of moving. So it would look like an empty threat if the account wasn't completely cancelled.
They've included paying customers into the change also without warning. Wonder if they can be sued?

People bringing up The Golden Ratio or The Fibonacci sequence out of nowhere, claiming they explain all this deep stuff about the universe. They would never do math even if their lives depended on it, but somehow this formula is understood on an intuitive level and proves that all things are connected.

Emotional responses are well-known for being able to 'imprint' on random stimuli, even the Fibonacci Sequence.

Our health care rep led a mandatory meeting this morning about the new rules that start on Oct. 1, Jan. 1, etc.

He first asks if there are any questions. A coworker asks something about blah blah blah it's early still for me, and dude whips out a bundle of two-dollar bills and hands her one. Another coworkers begins asking a question, and before she's finished, he's already handing her a two-dollar bill.

And throughout the hour-long meeting, he kept doing that which struck me as really odd since his whole tone was "this is going to cost you more so poor people won't die."

subscription cards in magazines

pp: ....what?

Our insurance rep kept handing out two-dollar bills to anyone who happened to have a question. One of our know-it-all employees probably made $8 for not shutting up.

Not handing out bundles of two-dollar bills, I should say.

When they make so much profit that they can equip reps with wads of cash to give away at random, it makes you... think.

I just can't fathom the thinking behind that, and also why $2

I work for a business publication. I'm around fatcats all the time. Some of them ain't so bad. I can deal with a Rockefeller Republican much better than I can with a Huckabee Republican.

But Good Lord. Come to my office, talk about how our rates are going to go up because so the rates for the poor, sick and elderly can go down, and pass out weird American currency to anyone who pipes up was simply bizarre.

The free bagels were good. I definitely enjoyed more than two dollars' worth.

That's tone deaf at the very least. Also weird and annoying.

You guys should have cleared his float with the most irritating, banal questions you could think of.