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

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lol

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 March 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link

oh jeez, comprehended that as Family Circus the first time.

Thought, well hell, that's a handsome mechanic right there!

pplains, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link

Or maybe not, forget I mentioned it.

http://i.imgur.com/7UcC9iV.jpg

pplains, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link

Right after Jeff and I started dating he got a tired changed and the mechanic neglected to securely screw the tire back on (or however they affix tires) and it fell off his car as he was driving down the road away from the mechanic.

Anyway, washing machine works. Now who wants to come over and help me fold all this god damn laundry god damn.

from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 00:50 (nine years ago) link

a machine that continuously folds clothes, now I'd buy that.

pplains, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 00:55 (nine years ago) link

I like folding laundry sometimes and also I am a savage

mh, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 00:56 (nine years ago) link

What are you doing for the rest of the week?

from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link

a machine that continuously folds clothes, now I'd buy that.

be careful there, pplains. I hear that sort of thing can backfire on you.

http://sites.lwhs.org/animation12/files/2012/11/sorcerer-300x209.jpg

Aimless, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link

I do seem to remember there being a somewhat pointless-seeming replica of the Ghostbusters car by the Bruce High Quality Foundation in a Whitney Biennial show.

― five six and (man alive), Thursday, March 5, 2015 10:22 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, they are all the kids of rich, famous artists. That's the point of that piece.

Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link

the people in Bruce High Quality are?

five six and (man alive), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 02:09 (nine years ago) link

My barber opens at 7:00. At 6:41 there were damn 4 people in line. Now there are 3 more.

It makes me consider going to the sports-themed chain across from my house and actually having to ask for an "MVP" or "Varsity" or "Jr. Varsity" cut. But that's for the irrationally embarrassed thread.

a girl with colitis (Je55e), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:59 (nine years ago) link

wait so when you say barber are there mutliple barbers or do you have to wait for like 4 ppl to get their hair cut??

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:25 (nine years ago) link

There were 2 barbers to start the day. Two guys ahead of me requested the one who cuts my hair. Not a terrible wait but I get (irrationally) frustrated that other people get there so early.

a girl with colitis (Je55e), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link

How much does your haircut cost?

Jeff, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link

the worst is when you show up early at the salon and while you're waiting people who made online reservations stroll in and are taken before you

ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link

There's got to be other barber alternatives reasonably convenient. I mean, having a barber in your building is the most convenient, but is there somewhere near work where you could go on a lunch break or someplace you could go in the evening?

from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link

but morning is when you get hungover barbers who don't feel like talking

ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link

We need to find the über of barbers.

Jeff, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link

I work downtown so all of the barbers are fancy and charge 2-3 times what my normal barber, over in the shopping center across town, charges.

He gets snuffy every once in awhile because I don't see him every other week like some of his other customers, but it's a chore to leave work during the day.

pplains, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link

just be a fancy man who goes to a hair stylist and make an appointment for the next haircut when you get one. if you decide you don't need one that week, reschedule.

mh, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link

ilm thread revives about new albums that piggyback on threads about their last album, or their last bit of news. for example, all of the discussion about the excellent new sleater-kinney album has been on Sleater-Kinney breaks up and all the discussion about last year's gerard way album was on My Chemical Romance call it a day . Start new threads for new albums people!

how's life, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link

long-ass ILE movie/tv thread titles that include the names of director, writer and 4 or 5 actors.

ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link

customers who don't reply to emails ever...it's like they only want to be the sender, not the recipient idgi

and ppl who dont acknowledge emails at all even just to say thanks

rude

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link

and this is when you have email-heavy communication with ppl

not group emails or advertising or whatever

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link

xp to self: All of the Viet Cong discussion has been on the thread for their former band women

how's life, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link

There's got to be other barber alternatives reasonably convenient. I mean, having a barber in your building is the most convenient, but is there somewhere near work where you could go on a lunch break or someplace you could go in the evening?

Preface: I was complaining of an irrational reaction to other people stealing my lifehack of getting up early and being there before opening.

Now calm down and remember you love me.... I have a salon in my apartment building that is open late. But I don't trust them b/c it looks hanky. And if I go once and don't like them it will be awkward seeing them around. And I really like my barber shop and my barber a LOT.

My bitching is like griping about a beloved family member who sometimes does something frustrating.

a girl with colitis (Je55e), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link

Now calm down and remember you love me

What did we say about this?

from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link

I think my post reasonably be expected to cause sputtering from anyone. Calm down and stop being so defensive.

a girl with colitis (Je55e), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link

Can I borrow your blender?

from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link

PDFS THAT DEFAULT TO 200% ZOOM WHEN YOU OPEN THEM, FUCK OFF!!

marcos, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link

JESUS WHAT IS WRONG WITH 100%, JUST OPEN IN THAT

marcos, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link

(prediction: someone will tell me how to specify in adobe what % zoom a pdf opens in)

marcos, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link

PDFS THAT DEFAULT TO 200% ZOOM WHEN YOU OPEN THEM, FUCK OFF!!

oh god yes this. STOP SHOVING IT IN MY FACE!! I would genuinely clench my fists every time this happened at work

kinder, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link

agh I have inherited a script which creates pdfs at work and I do not understand for the life of me how to get 1. the front page the same size as the other pages 2. the default zoom not to be like either 634509% or 0.3%

undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link

I mean the PDFs contain the display size of each element so I tried setting that to be roughly the same, right, but that didn't work (or I did it wrong)... so then I went "well this one is roughly 2.4 the size it needs to be so I'll divide both dimensions by 2.4" which I did first with just the numbers in the PDF file itself but that didn't work so then I resized the original input file and it came out a different size but not one-2.4th of the original, nooo

a bunch of random numbers later it looked okish on my screen but merely differently terrible on my coworker's screen

hate not understanding apparently simple tasks but it happens a lot at work lately, feel like I'm ready for the ice floe career-wise, but eh

undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link

i've never done it but i checked out of curiosity (sorry to be that guy) - you can set zoom % in preferences under page display

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link

Just from a kobo using vantage, I fucking loathe PDF's which invariably always become fucking alphabet spaghetti when you convert them to ebook format.

xelab, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link

private clubs make me irrationally angry
i learned that today

groundless round (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link

like 77? :)

mh, Thursday, 12 March 2015 00:21 (nine years ago) link

at first that made me angry too
but then i realized that anyone was allowed in if they asked

groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 March 2015 00:40 (nine years ago) link

the invitation aspect doesn't bother me so much as having a sub-"secret board" on an public board just seems vaguely idiotic

Nhex, Thursday, 12 March 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link

i rarely post on 77 and much of it is no different from any of the other sub-boards but in principle it is nice to have a de-indexed place that is invite-only (provided anyone can request an invite)

marcos, Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link

calling it an invite is inaccurate iirc, it's more like "please authorize my username"

groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link

my voice is my passport, verify me

mh, Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but clicking "Like" on FB to mean "I acknowledge having read this," even on things the clicker doesn't agree with. My wife does this...it makes me IRRATIONALLY ANGRY.

WilliamC, Thursday, 12 March 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link

People who complain about condos

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 March 2015 02:59 (nine years ago) link

When ppl talk about musicians selling out/ethics of such as a thing that bands were into in the 80s/90s. The idea that this is 2015 and everyone sells out. No they don't! They just don't get free press for whining about McDonalds so you never hear about them

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 March 2015 03:10 (nine years ago) link

ehh....

Nhex, Friday, 13 March 2015 07:33 (nine years ago) link

I don't know. Back in the 80s the Del Fuegos did a beer commercial and like 5 bands wrote songs about them being sell-outs. It was a different time.

ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 13 March 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link

I thought it was the Long Ryders? Or was it both?

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 13 March 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link


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