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

Oops...it being the seat not a drink

the bluetooth remote we use with the ps4 has a hair trigger when playstion is off. accidentally bump the remote, move it, handle it wrong or touch any button by mistake & on comes the playsation. makes me raaage

Browsing Amazon's "Selected CDs Under £5" category as their recent spamblast urged me to, except half of them cost over £5 and are still in the under £5 category

Amazon's search results piss me off regularly. They allow a lot of miscategorization and the prices are never restricted to the range you select.

The landlord changing the bins on the estate over from individual household bins to 2 major dumpsters this week. This coincides with the hottest time of the year so I'm really not looking forward to having to deal with the bin that food waste goes into, normally bad enough dealing with my own at this time of the year when it's only emptied once every 2 weeks. Normally meant a swarm of flies swarming every time the lid was opened and a rancid pool at the bottom. Now there is exponentially more stuff going to be in the dumpster & I('m not sure for how long.
Would [prefer it if food waste was going to compost system as the old system we had up til last year had it. The council compost system is apparently running very well and is certainly not going to landfill. hate the lack of autonomy over something like that. But a decision like taht is 100% up to the landlord here.

As to the bins themselves I had to pick one up yesterday cos it was lying on its side. Or taht is to say I saw it lying on its side and picked it up. In doing so I noticed the weight of it which means not everybody on this block would be able to do that. & it was pretty empty so would hate to see what would happen if it was full.
I also noticed the height of the side is pretty tall which is going to be a problem for some people around here. It's about arm height on me and I'm around 6ft.

Also there is supposed to be a key system being introduced with a specially cut key that they're claiming will cost €100 to replace. Leaves me wondering how long it will be before people start losing their keys and what effect that will have on litter in the area.
Apparently this key is being done to make sure taht people outside the block do not use the bins. It is also being cut to mean that it can't be cut to pass on to another person and also to mean that it will have to be in the lock for the lock to close.
It all sounds really complicated and leaves me wondering how long it will be before things go wrong with the system. I'm seriously going to miss the ease of going to the foot of my stairs to my own bin when I need to empty the household rubbish containers. Not needing to remember to take a special key with me to see what mess other people will have made.
Oh & they turned the colours of the bins around, the last time we had a green bin it had food waste going into it and a blue one it had recyclables going into it. Back then if the wrong thing went into the bin it wasn't emptied and you got an orange sticker telling you to sort out your bin for collection in a fortnight's time when that colour bin was emptied. Really hope this doesn't do anyth ng like that.
Ho hum.

Further to that , going to throw some stuff out earlier today only to find that the lid of one of the dumpsters is locked. It looks like it needs a triangular key to unlock. Not sure if that is something we are due to get or if it would be something that every bin crew would automatically have.
Assume it is more some kids messing around or something.

Also my sewing machine having a screw that won't budge in a place I can't get much purchase on since it's on the needleplate where i can only use the undersize metal multitool thing that came with the machine. Think the screw slot (where you put the screwdriver in) is going to go if I try to force the multitool, seems like the sides are giving anyway. So can't clear the dogs and get rid of the birdnesting happening under my fabric.
Also can't find my small screwdriver which I was using last night & I need to retension the bobbin case.

that trash system seems like a bureaucratic nightmare, yipes. too much that can go wrong.

yeah, think it's started already between the dumpster being knocked over and then being locked. It was the same one both times btw & this within the first few days of inception. Could hope it was just teething problems but I expect it ain't.

Letting agent came around to sort out bin this morning and found out that the key she had to go off and fetch didn't fit the thing. So has to get a new one from the bin company.
Wonder how the bin got locked, not sure what you can lock one of those triangle key jobs with if the meter key doesn't fit. Would be thinking it could just be kids messing around but if that's an odd size key needed to fit the lock not sure how they do that. Is it something they could do with a penknife fitting or something?

So, new bin system showing its impracticality from the word go. & people haven't even been given €100 keys to lose yet.

Every time I eat anything at my desk, no matter what it is, the little oik opposite me goes 'ooh, what have you got there, Charlie?'. If he does it again I fear I may get violent. What is the appropriate response? This morning mine was: 'it's a new thing, it's called a banana'.

Did not know your name was Charlie.

I bet it still is, too

I had a guy like that - curious about everything that happened on my desk to the point of ooh-ing all the time. He didn't call me Charlie though. I put a stop to it by blanking him, mainly, but it took a few weeks.

Yes, (hello!)

I can't be too rude to this guy because I rely on him for work stuff, but I hate it when people comment on what I'm eating or ask what I'm having. It's like, buzz off and get your own lunch.

ia (mostly at myself, but also the lousy economy) for whatever money i make being eaten up by bills

"oh yay, a paycheck. oh boo, my monthly payment for that dental work i had done two years ago."

easy solution don't pay your bills until you're rich

not paying your bills is good for the economy. it puts food on debt collectors' tables.

We live by a stop sign intersection and probably 15% of the cars that go by simply blow through it. I'm seriously considering becoming one of those crazy dudes with a megaphone and start yelling at drivers who don't stop. It makes me want to live in the country tbqf.

I feel you 100%. I'm afraid our daughter's first words are going to be "SLOW DOWN ASSHOLE" because pretty much every time we're out on the street I end up yelling at an idiot driver.

I'm convinced you have to be a sociopath to intentionally run stop signs so I believe all those studies abt people in modern society now.

They really don't follow street signs in the country though.

JFC these 3 people in their early 20s sitting behind me on the bus

"I'd love to get the communications position but we'll see what The Lord decides."

"I'm thinking about going to grad school but it's really a 'Lord's will' kinda thing."

"No I can't work with Camille. She has a different theology - she believes women should be leaders in ministry."

"So I found out Natalie applied for the same position as me. It was awkward and I told her I would pray that she got the job. So that's what I'm doing but still, I want the job so I dunno... maybe The Lord will decide I should get it? I'm just trying to stay faithful."

"I overslept and I thought I was gonna be late. The Lord was looking out for me though and the Metra was delayed because of a signal problem so I caught my train after all and made it to class on time."

I fucking hate that casual tone like Jesus is just this guy who makes hiring decisions and holds trains for some guy.

Ah - they're Moody Bible Institute students.

That reminds me - my brother took my mom to an ear specialist b/c she has been having vertigo due to displaced otholiths. I helped him find this doctor b/c he has good background and he's part of a respectable practice group.

He confirmed the problem was errant osoliths and my brother asked what the doctor thought they should do. His answer: "The first thing to do, of course, is to pray and trust in God's will."

I've thought about what I would do in that situation and I'm pretty sure I would immediately walk out and inform whatever appropriate people and agencies of this hack's proselytizing. (Though he did get her on physical therapy to get the ear pebbles back home.)

Fucking Moody Bible Institute.

I get the Moody Bible Institute confused with Perry Bible Fellowship.

I'm finding it really weird having seen what the small print on the Michael Parkinson ad for Over 50s insurance says. Or subtitles or whatever you'd call text on the lower part of the screen.
There's a lot of warnings about how long term payment into a fund like that might mean you pay in more than you pay out and that if you stop making your regular payments you will lose everything you paid up to that point.
What has hit me over the last couple of days since reading this has been whether it was there all along or if the wording is the result of some legislation that was passed after the place was sued or something. Just seems like an odd thing to incorporate into an ad unless forced.

Also somewhat tarnishes Parkinson's reputation being associated with something that if I'm reading that right sounds like a bit of a scam, doesn't it?

Those schemes have been like that for a while, I think. Guardian Money consumer problems etc has them occasionally.

Same as 'your home may be at risk if you don't keep up mortgage repayments' I guess

When I worked in radio, the best part of doing an auto commercial was the mumbled disclaimer at the beginning. If you were long on time, you could go back in and start removing .03 second gaps of silence, and really make that thing blur.

Dear cyclist,

Thank you for ringing your bell at me when you finally pointed your eyes at eye level but in fact I have been watching you all the way down the street as you gaze around at everything except the pavement in front of you and weave one-handedly all the fuck over the place, so I am already well aware that you're there and have been doing my best to exercise my psychic powers to stay out of your way

also, fuck you

Disgusting savages who get on the bus and ignore the driver as though she/he is some automaton part of the machine. Not sure why it bugs me so much, but it wouldn't surprise me to see a driver go berserk Elephant-man-style one day.

what should they do, serenade him?

argh sorry, i forgot this is the irrational anger thread

People who show up at the movies ten minutes late and make an exagerrated show of looking for seats as if they cant believe the only two are up front

Just say 'thanks' or 'hi', like a polite person would

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Did the elephant man go berserk? I watched it only Monday and short of the one "I am not an animal" thing when he was surrounded he seemed pretty chill even when being flogged by Bytes.

Anyway, my complaint: Google knows where I live so why does Calendar say "summer back holiday" in 4th august when that only applies in Scotland? Ditto the recent orangeman holidays.

I thought he meant the Dancehall guy. PON DE RIVER! OFF THE BUS!

I am pouring all of my IA into driving these days. Guy zoomed out of a gas station into the left turn lane (across two lanes of oncoming traffic) then swerved back into the right lane because it turned out he wanted to go downtown and not get on the freeway, which are obviously two easily confused destinations.

If one of the branches of your shop has been closed for a year, maybe take it off your website and stop talking about the exciting new menu? YEAH?

People who show up at the movies ten minutes late and make an exagerrated show of looking for seats as if they cant believe the only two are up front

this. you're late... just suck it up and sit down.

Maybe it's philistinism but passages of untranslated French in recently-published, otherwise English-medium books are increasingly annoying me. My French comprehension is ok but the underlying idea that anyone smart enough to read actual books will inevitably have a B1-level understanding of French, as opposed to German, Italian, Mandarin or nothing other than English, seems wrong-headed and elitist, idk.

Also people on the phone who ask for telephone numbers and wait until you are half way through to mention they don't have a pen and have to run off to find one.

people (either cops, rental car folk, parking attendants) etc who are terrible at their job, don't make clear, fully formed hand motions to the person they're addressing, and then blow up when the person doesn't do what they wanted them to do.

had a cop scream at me for making a right turn where he was conducting traffic cos he'd sent the other side. problem is he'd also clearly gestured in my direction that it was ok to go - not my fault you don't know what you're doing Holmes.

That's a good one. Related to that, I think, is the bar bouncer stationed outside the entrance looking completely blankfaced and uninterested until you've walked past him and three paces into the bar and then he barks out at you demanding to see your ID. (Also the very idea that I might be underage).

omg this happened to me last night

paratransit bus stopped outside the store, in a v small tight-space parking lot

security guard is trying to help driver direct traffic - i pull up & guard gives the universal hand signal for "halt"

so i stop

and when i stop he makes this exasperated face & points and is like NO. KEEP MOVING

wtf dude

learn your hand signals ffs

It boils down to "I know what I meant! why didn't you?"

yesterday too, I'm fresh off a 60 hour work week (which is what I was traveling for), and just spent 90 mins in Chicago traffic to get to the airport, and moments ago just got sent to ANOTHER security line cos the other one had just filled up. So I'm finally there, worn out, and ready to just get something to eat. Suddenly, a TSA employee opens a second line to speed up the flow through. She gesticulates awkwardly towards her line to the people in front of me (which confused a few of them), and then finally sees me, and makes a harsh 'over here' gesture at me.

I'm like - "ok", and immediately begin moving, and she looks at me and says "You wanna come now or wait in line all night" in an aggravated, low tone. Gee, sorry I didn't anticipate your random Charades or mutterings and anticipate your signal before you gave it! Then she is uber polite to the people in front of me, and when I get there, glares at me, and says "ID!" in a louder than necessary tone, even though I was obviously already holding it out, ready to hand to her(I fly all the time, ffs). Then she grumbles "Alright, move on Neanderthal" in an aggravated tone.

to think I was *this close* to being a TSA agent before finding another job in the 11th hour ten years ago. I could be a dick to ppl 24/7 and get paid for it!

i can't believe she called you a neanderthal

yeah it set me back too. was even weirder when imago showed up and she crossed her arms and said 'YER BANNED'

A new hotel opened up in downtown Cleveland last year called "ALOFT" and it's everything you might expect from a name like that, but last night I noticed for the first time ever on their signage that it says: ALOFT A Concept of W Hotels and I just wanted to blow the building up. I can't sleep in a fucking concept, ALOFT, or use a concept's minibar.