start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

That FAST advert was on TV a couple of times yesterday and I thought the same thing re 'time'

Irrational because it's clearly a language thing but: Americans referring to treasure hunts (with clues leading to the next clue) as 'scavenger hunts' which are a different thing!

When people ask me to remind them about something later. Take a load off Annie.

Oh I passionately hate that. Keep your own meticulous to-do list, don't exploit mine!

Americans anyone referring to treasure hunts (with clues leading to the next clue) as 'scavenger hunts' which are a different thing!

fixed

people who play Smoke on the Water in guitar stores

or ANYWHERE

http://homepage2.nifty.com/csta/music/vari/ww102.jpg

i went into a rage earlier trying to convert some e-tickets into PDF's to put on my kobo, as I don't have a printer. It is more like a rational self hating type of anger really because I have been through this a few times and haven't got any better at doing it. Like every time I end up googling "HTML to PDF" and fucking about with malware ridden waste for an hour like a noob. All for a 1 Hour "Bounce Session" in Castleford (>_<)

Kids have some weird app where you can make a cat play guitar by tapping it. Took me awhile to figure out the cat's playing Smoke on the Water because the kids just tap-tap-tap-tap as fast as possible, making every note a sixteenth note.

I'd almost sit down with them and teach them the correct meter, but we all have to pick our own battles don't we.

Concert venues where ticket holders and seekers have to stand in the same damn line

I take it the name Father John Misty is a joek on acid-folk and hippie-dippie nostalgia in general, maybe incl. his having been in a CSN-type harmony band actually apparently seriously named Fleet Foxes. Now Rolling Stone says his new album is good like Randy Newman, which makes me IA or RA because one RN always was enough. Also the latest incarnation of Firefox has fucked me up several times lately, incl while trying to type this, wtfff???

Concert venues where ticket holders and seekers have to stand in the same damn line

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:43 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, fucking hate this, seen it with movies too -- you buy tix to beat the crowd, make sure you get a seat, then you get stuck behind the ticket line.

i have cumulative IA for the people who get all the way to the top of the movie ticket line and then have no evident plan about what it is they want to see or how many tickets they might need or how they would like to pay for them or whatever else it is they could possibly be discussing at such earnest length with the poor beleaguered cashier.

IA about some customer service right now. How come I can't just email the company my question? I have to register and give you my home address and phone number first? It's not like a non-customer would want to go through the trouble of asking your support desk, I already paid for your product, but now you want my personal info so you can make even more money off me.

I mean, welcome to the world I guess, but still. Damn.

Also having a really bizarre moment where I try to run an .exe file and Windows comes up with the message that "Windows cannot find the file"! And it asks me to please "make sure I typed the name in correctly"! Oh, I must have made a typo, because Windows is a text-based operating system, I forgot about that! Thanks for the help, M$, keep doing the lord's work making shit software!

is your system's PATH statement too long, could be, or you have system file corruption

No, it's just a file in a folder I right-click and hit 'run', just like every other file. I'm pretty sure it's a 32-bit file and I have a 64-bit system or something. I've downloaded it repeatedly and it always says the same thing. Even copied it to different folders. Hopefully they will get back to me. It's for a motherboard BIOS so no way in hell am I touching it.

wo some sort of expert assistance

i have cumulative IA for the people who get all the way to the top of the movie ticket line and then have no evident plan about what it is they want to see or how many tickets they might need or how they would like to pay for them or whatever else it is they could possibly be discussing at such earnest length with the poor beleaguered cashier.

― estela, Sunday, February 15, 2015 6:59 PM

Same here with supermarket lines, and it's usually older people, who suddenly realize they have to pay for all that stuff they loaded their cart with.

Firefox supposedly reopening on the pages you closed it on but instead reopening to pages you were on much earlier. Not sure how it bookmarks but it really doesn't seem to do a good job. It also doesn't update any pages so those that reopen will still be on the time that you left them on. I tend to have a tv guide page open and expect it to open at the right i.e. current time but it will still be on the page from whenever earlier despite the site being dynamic.
What I'm talking about with the reopening of much earlier pages is if I'm somewhere in a site when I close the internet application I can wind up with the page of the website I haven't visited in days being what it's opened on. Tends to happen with demonoid or some chatlists where they are subdivided into different subjects.

Also where when I do reopen hoping to be able to pick up a thread I was on earlier it can just go to ho me once I click the page header. Happens all the time with this site. I see the headline is on the top of the page among a few at the top of the screen. Click on it only to be returned to Site New Answers

I haven't gone back to using Chrome yet but I think they did at least stay on the pages you exited. I think ther were other problems with them though.

Concert venues where ticket holders and seekers have to stand in the same damn line
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:43 PM

Or even if they don't there is usually never any kind of signage as to who stands where and if you ask the people already in line or the security guys they just grunt and stare at you so you stand around for ages wondering if you'll make it in even though you've already paid for tickets

Firefox supposedly reopening on the pages you closed it on but instead reopening to pages you were on much earlier.

It's taken me forever to figure out how to stop Firefox from doing that. I don't want all my old pages opened. Sometimes, they're the ones that caused the crash in the first place and when Firefox tries to open them all back up again, guess what happens.

I admit, I'm not the greatest user. Sometimes I'll look up and realize I've got 30 tabs open. My solution is to close the entire window and open a new one. But at the end of the day, I'll just quit all at once.

POint with me was that I did want it reopening the windows that were open when i shut down but it seems to bookmark at some earlier stage. Don't know when exactly. is it being overloaded by having a few windows open?

Get a session manager add-on. Whichever one I use is very helpful, though I got under the hood a little too deep and muffed up something up. Now it re-opens to pages I will not visit until years in the future.

When people ask me to remind them about something later. Take a load off Annie.

Today I learned that the lyrics are "Take a load off Fanny" which name/word's first meaning for me is has become the British one.

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/20/the-weight-of-our-ears-take-a-load-off-who/

When I scroll down to read the comments/info under a youtube video (yes, I know, my gravest mistake right there) and then I want to go back to seeing the video and I press the Home key, which rewinds the video to the beginning

(all other overriding of scrolling keys like up/down arrows also pisses me off but this is the worst. THE WORST.)

online & podcast film/tv critics who are pathologically hung up on plausibility and often employ the phrases "totally took me out of it" "you have to follow the rules of the world you create"

idk I mean I'm completely eyeroll-y at people who hem and haw about "plot holes" for films like Batman (srsly saw a 35+ post thread about whether it was possible for Batman to escape the nuclear detonation in Dark Knight Rises), but I do think films should be internally consistent at least.

these two doofuses rolled up in a van behind me tonight at the gas station. waiting for my pump. apparently the two unoccupied pumps on the other side that were unobstructed by any object or vehicle were insufficient or they were unfamiliar with the concept of turning around. went inside to the food mart after gassing up, coming back out minutes later to see them still waiting behind my car, waiting for my pump at an empty gas station.

idk I mean I'm completely eyeroll-y at people who hem and haw about "plot holes" for films like Batman (srsly saw a 35+ post thread about whether it was possible for Batman to escape the nuclear detonation in Dark Knight Rises)

fuckin eyeroll nonsense imo. you are 100% notm

TO THE BATTHREAD

just 35+ seems awful low for a superhero-related argument tbf

(ftr if anyone can escape a nuclear detonation it's batman i mean come on)

oh what he's got his anti fuckin nuclear cape on that day bollocks

five posts and counting let's make this happen guys

anti fuckin nuclear cape and cowl

idgaf if he was wearing simon cowl he's the worlds richest rarebit after that blast

c'mon man he's the fuckin' batman - his superpower is being prepared for everything! no way would a mere trifle like being at ground zero of a colossal nuclear explosion do anything other than maybe ding one of his cowl's ears.

all this so he could what take a sneaky fortnight off in Paris with some chick from work? bollocks.

actually it's pretty well-documented that the batman is skilled in bomb disposal:

https://33.media.tumblr.com/d0b71509084e45fdb2e5a673203c6b8c/tumblr_mnw7mcMiWo1raa96go1_400.gif

I think everyone has their own level of how much internal inconsistency/implausibility they accept. My brother drives me nuts on this, he will dare to enjoy literally ANY FILM even when major plot points hinge on complete nonsense and won't be argued into not enjoying it. 'it was fun, you shouldn't read too much into it' gahh

Never watch season 2 of broadchurch btw

love that neither the nuns or the mom are phased by the bomb in the least

"oh look it's Batman - go get em tiger!"

The kind of stuff I'm talking about is this: I heard some guy from Battleship Pretension saying he couldn't watch "Jane the Virgin" because they have a multi-generational household in it, and he didn't think it was realistic that people would want to live with their grandparents. Another guy pointed out that such households are common, especially in lower income families. The first guy's response was "Okay. But I wasn't buying it. It took me out of it." The fuck?

That gif perfectly describes my current work status.

That Jane the Virgin critic is a wiener.

xp that is unreal.

PEOPLE WHO SNEEZE LOUDLY

my irrational explanation is that they need to get laid or have better sex

he couldn't watch "Jane the Virgin" because they have a multi-generational household in it, and he didn't think it was realistic that people would want to live with their grandparents.

The whole of Italy and Greece would like to have a word with this chap.

PEOPLE WHO SNEEZE LOUDLY

This is very IA-inducing. Also multiple-sneezers. Even if it's like, a family member who suffers from seasonal allergies and I KNOW he is miserable and doesn't want to be sneezing. After like the 6th sneeze I want to scream at him to shut up.

Also I'm sure I've mentioned this in a previous thread but it cannot be overstated: people with colds who sniff constantly instead of using a goddam tissue. Especially in quiet commuter trains.