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

sometimes i wonder if all the petite plights recorded in this thread have given me a false sense of equanimity.

slightly opposite of veg's problem -- people who insist on using the company's IM service or email when they could just walk over a few steps to talk to me face to face

Wondering if the name Kenya Special wouldn't automatically preclude a reviewer from thinking it would contain Nigerian & Ghanaian Afrobeat. I thought I could normally rely on reviews in Ugly Things except for one or 2 writers who thankfully no longer write for the mag.
Having seen this I just wonder if music from the continent from a certain era automatically defaults to be one type from one semi-specific area at least in the minds of some. The West Coart did have some great music come out but there has been recognition of Central & East African music for years, with the latter Ethiopiques ran to 30+ volumes and had at least one companion series that ran to at least 8 volumes.
So I'm hoping that a geographical confusion citing one side of the continent for the other isn't widespread. There is a lot of variety in Africa. Further South in the continent has also had musical recognition.
I would prefer the set itself if it had more Luo than Kikuyu Benga in it. My dad's Luo and i think the music originated with the tribe & it hasn't been widely collected to my knowledge.

my boss uses his phone to call people within the office. even people within 10 ft of his desk. or he just yells to them. once he called me and his voice is loud so i was like well i can just hear you talking so why are we doing this? and i hung up and kept talking. then he was like NOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

Our office is situated so that a few low-paid associates and I are in a small cubicle farm outside of 3 offices including my boss and a couple other higher-ups. At least once a day, the office dwellers will call one another, rather than walk the, once again, ten or so feet over to each others offices. I'm sorta perfectly triangulated to hear both sides of the conversations, which is weird because people tend ot converse differently over the phone than they do face-to-face. Sometimes they do walk over and talk to one another though - it's sorta interchangable I guess depending on whether they want to get up out of their seats.

I'm not IA about this or anything - it's just a little jarring - but your anecdote reminded me of it.

secondary IA is habitual speakerphone users - my old boss did this constantly with his door open & it was the wooooorst

New website design, though "New" meaning in the past year or two, which is entirely aimed at tablets and smartphones. You know, where everything is justified in the middle of the page so it's all one giant long column, and the text is an extra large serif font, and the images are huge and take up a full screen and when you scroll they sort of scroll at their own separate rate. Not sure what to call it but it reminds me of the parallax effect from videogames.

I probably need to just stop browsing with my desktop computer but not a day goes by where I don't read a site that takes 10-15 screens to read that really should've taken 2 or 3.

Wondering how you find out where buses go when the new style for display on London ones just has end destination

I might have complained about this before, but here the buses used to have a painted roll on display at the front where the bus from A to D starts out saying "D via B and C", then at B the driver rotated it to say "D via C", then from C on it would just say "D". Now they have electronic signage, which you'd THINK would be easier to update, but they just say "D via B and C" all the way through the journey, even after B and C.

Not hugely annoyed by it, just every time I see it I think it's needlessly confusing. The I part of this A is that I've never got or even almost got a bus in the wrong direction because of this, nor have I heard of anyone else do so, plus I really hope the driver would tell them - so maybe I'm annoyed on behalf of some people who don't even exist.

http://i.imgur.com/ZIAV1B7.jpg

It was BUZZ that Jessie sort of had a thing with -- Woody was more like a brother to her GAWD.

But the person who has this as their Facebook cover photo right now, they're the GROWN ADULT who should know better anyway.

when there's one lone ornament hidden in the christmas tree after you've taken everything down. oops sorry trashcan for you, rogue ornament

also: fking stupid fairy lights how do I roll up these goddamn things again

also: trying to fit the fake tree parts back in the too-small manufacturers box

somehow managing to lose the clip that allows an old style NW HD3 Sony ATRAC walkman to charge despite thinking I had it somewhere secure. This as far as I can see it means that I have a defunct player on my hands or at least until i can find the charger or a replacement.
So possibly adding in the idea that Sony made its gadgets overly proprietary and overly complex. This came out in the mid or early '00s but may be true anyway. There is no real reason why you would need to introduce this clip thing into the design. It means that there is one more piece that you have to transport and ensure you have any time you want to recharge the thing. So extra fiddle for no great gain.
I also can't edit this player cos every time it interfaces with a computer it asks if you want to reboot it. Otherwise you can't access the contents.

Fuck I loved the walkman despite these flaws. Had a massive amount of music on it even if I would have liked to edit contents to introduce new stuff.

Just wondering if there is any chance of finding a more generic recharge unit. Even if that would still mean I wasn't able to edit contents.

Those little Lindt truffles that everyone always winds up giving as thoughtless gifts or additions to gifts. They're dressed up as some kind of special european delicacy but they're actually kind of cheap-tasting and gross. And you always just wind up with a few bags of them at the holidays, and wind up purposelessly eating them.

yo i'll take yours do you need my address

you're too late

you are so right, they're quite horrible and i would never buy them but i must have consumed thousands of them. it's even worse here because the holidays are in summer so they're always half melted and sort of greasy when you eat them.

i could eat them all day and all night

they seem to wind up melted and half-greasy in the winter too, maybe they just melt easily.

oh and even worse is that they always come in those variety packs of dark, milk and white, ranking from least to most offensive in that order, none being good but the milk and white being especially disappointing.

Yessss I thought it was just me! I'm sure they used to be the equivalent of some Aldi knock-off brand, really bewildered when everyone started treating them like luxury. The white ones are a bit of a guilty pleasure though.

probably moaned about this before but
- websites that take you to their mobile version but to their mobile home page instead of to the mobile version of the page you wanted to read, which you then can't find

Worse is mobile websites that want you to install their app and if you don't want to you can't read the website.

Customs wants £17.50 for a package I've been sent as a gift. It's worth $60, which is just over £36. Duty free threshold? Under £36. KILL KILL KILL.

I bet like £10 of that is a fee because they didn't pay it in advance.. That keeps happening to me!

£8 is handling, £9.50 is VAT. The goods were bought in an EU country by my best friend, but sent from the US. $60 was probably worth less than £36 on the day it was sent, but AAAAAAAAARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH.

every day when the shithead in front of me comes into work he says "HEY HEY" in a Fat Albert voice. Another reason to want to punch him.

EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET requiring a fucking "account" and "username" and "password" these days. I just wanted to order some tickets to the theater and I had to set up a whole fucking account, like I'm going to remember my username the next time I go to the same theater in two years.

^^^^^^

yup.

i realize as I approach 40 that pretty much everything makes me irrationally angry. GET THE FUCK OFF MY LAWN YOU GODAMN PUNKS.

Mac computers and the people who defend the new shit.

On the new operating system, highlighting files in different colors have been replaced with just having a single little dot – • – of the color of your choice appearing next to the file. So if your eyes are 40 years old like mine, they're hard to see, especially red yellow and orange.

And the people who defend the new shit - I went on a mac board to see how to change it, and there are people there saying, "Why would you want to change it, eh? You're just not using it properly." FUCK YOU. There are 20 different ways to sort files besides COLOR. I can sort alphabetically, by tag, file size, date created, date modified - YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO TAKE AWAY COLOR TO MAKE IT A TAG.

I go through this with engineers all the time. "But why would you want to have an image appear on the website without a caption?" I'LL ASK THE QUESTIONS AROUND HERE, WE'RE THE JOURNALISTS, OK?

This is starting to get up there with me turning my back on organized religion and the electoral college.

On the new operating system, highlighting files in different colors have been replaced with just having a single little dot – • – of the color of your choice appearing next to the file. So if your eyes are 40 years old like mine, they're hard to see, especially red yellow and orange.

Haha is this true? If I didn't have my coloured files it'd be like losing two years of work. Coloured files are the only good thing about Macs!

EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET requiring a fucking "account" and "username" and "password" these days. I just wanted to order some tickets to the theater and I had to set up a whole fucking account, like I'm going to remember my username the next time I go to the same theater in two years.

Just arrived at a site called smallholder.co.uk when trying to check some stupid fact about honey fermentation & ended up with an error message:

http://i.imgur.com/cxnQ5W3.png

E.K. -

https://discussions.apple.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-23664791-324995/Finder-OSX10-7_10-9-Compare.jpg

Oof. There must be a way to change it back!

rage

they must have gotten unhappy with the previous solution, which was already an adjustment from back when they literally only made the file's icon colored. it bothered me when they started highlighting an entire row around about the time that almost every finder window showed you things in rows.

that's some bullshit

fuck those dots imo

Americans using "gingers" rather than "redheads."

yeah I feel this

i've never liked gingers as a perjorative/descriptor/both

they're using a mobile crane in our lobby to replace some of the lights and BEEPING ALL THE TIME BEEPING ARRRRRGGGGGH

there's nothign I hate more than beeping, booping, alarms, shrill noises they make me crazy

nothing

not even the same colour, innit?

http://spydersden.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/ginger-root.jpg

http://hotforginger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dont-mess-with-gingers-1024x575.jpg

ANY FULE KNO ginger goes another colour when prepared/cooked

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zRtYqRIfVCw/TO2uau-PMUI/AAAAAAAAB_s/Ncb5fhiI1Zk/s1600/Crystallized%2BGinger.jpg

-signed, a baked/prepared/cooked ginger

- Yours etc. Captain B.J. Smethwick in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic.

I have a friend who both refers to herself as a Ginger constantly and plays out the little girl lost routine - it kills me. You used to be so cool, K. Why? Why? (K being the name of the friend I'm never actually going to call on this behaviour.. Any similarities with posters is merely coincidental)

yeah I have a friend like that too. idgi

#gingerproblems

pssh, people with red hair are just redheads but gingers have natural ginger hair and usually freckles and are pretty cool imo

Shld be more joeks about pickled ginger, amirite?

oh what a pickle we're in

http://youtu.be/C7W2bUqOMYw?t=1m4s