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

I have never seen that before and found it delightful, thanks for your anger

lol same here

they look like they are playing QWOP

lollll

lol yes it does

I guess when I saw it just seemed like someone thought "WHOA IT'S SO COOL THIS IS WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IN MOTION!" when it so obviously doesn't look anything like the way any real person actually walks.

That gif was inspired by the Ministry for Silly Walks, obv.

IA because it doesn't impact me at all, but I hate when people get on an elevator, press a floor, and then get off at the next stop, which isn't theirs, because they just assumed theirs was next and didn't bother looking at the number.

it makes me IA cos it's so dumb - just like people who ask "is this elevator going down" after walking right by the indicator arrow.

When I worked in a building with an elevator that would be jam packed in the morning there would always be the asshole that would ride to the first floor. Eve heard of stairs, motherfucker????

Poorly timed open door holding also makes me IA. At my job we need to swipe our ID card to get in. In the morning I'm carrying my backpack with laptop unit, my handbag, a drink and the access card. If a dude sees me a good 40 feet away he'll hold the door open for me which means I have start running. This morning one guy got so frazzled doing it our convo went like this:
Me: thank you
The guy: have a great day your'e welcome not a problem. im sorry[

What?????

sunnnnyyyyyy there could be lots of reasons why people can't use stairs that would not be obvious to the casual observer.

I hate the awkward etiquette of door holding, though. And that conversation is LOL.

the whole door holding thing is why I deliberately walk out of the line of vision of the people in the elevator to pretend I'm *leaving* so as to avoid that silly charade.

the alternative is to spit on the floor and shriek "I DEFY YOU" and point at the elevator holder, that will usually make them speed away

this is just straightup rational anger

two lane road in fromt of a construction site narrows to a single lane bc of construction, cyclone fence on one side, orange rubber poles & big signs along the other side to guide you through

woman drives slooowly about halfway along & just STOPS bc she is confused
opens car door
looks around
makes confused gestures at us behind her
while we all YELL
me & the car in front are trapped, we can't turn around or back out, she just needs to fucking go & she just sits there looking confused

she gets out of the car! and goes to the car in front of me to ask what is happening & how does she even & the driver says idk JUST FUCKING DRIVE YOU TWIT or something but it works & she finally moves along

but jeeeeeeesus christ lady

I have never heard it called a cyclone fence before.

can we talk about people who press the handicap button to open doors they are clearly capable of opening themselves?

not sure who i like better, the guy who just hits the button to wait while the door slowly opens or the guy who when someone is holding the door open for him hits the button instead of holding the door for the next person

never quite sure if people think pulling the door will hurt the mechanism in some way tbh

and tbf we have a lift at work that malfunctions if you so much as breathe on the door while it's slowly swinging closed/open

One of the local libraries has doors with those buttons, and I think I'm the only person who doesn't use them.

In a former workplace we were told we must use the buttons or risk breaking the mechanism.

Daycare elevator now has this annoying beep when something gets between the door and the wall. Another point for the button.

I'm not necessarily defending it but some doors with those buttons are hard to open manually so that it feels like you're doing something damaging if you try.

What really makes me IA is when there's an accessible door with a switch and a revolving door and someone with a wheelie bag or stroller or a huge box or whatever muscles their way through the revolving door.

When you're in a crowd trying to get on a bus and giving a bit of space from the person in front of you and some idiot keeps shoving their bag into your back. Like that's going to mean that they get into the space you're occupying or you're crushed up against the person in front of you for no really good reason.

Other bit today was a bus hadn't turned up on time, there was obviously a large crowd of people trying to get on the one bus that turned up a bit late. Another bus turns up after it. The crowd for the first bus is noticeably large, looks like not everybody is going to get on. BUt the bus driver for the 2nd keeps pointing to the other bus. & then takes off without letting anybody onto his bus.
Really want to know what happened there. Rush hour buses here are a pain. They just don't lay on enough buses and ones scheduled don't appear.
Have noticed that buses scheduled for a quarter past the hour just don't seem to actually happen. Whereas the bus is supposed to go every quarter of an hour

this guy at a bar on the beach kept pronouncing 'quesadillas' as "kay sah dill uhs" for no reason other than he thought it was hilarious, even though none of his friends found it funny. while also crowding my space similar to the bus scenario above.

FUCK HIMMMMMM

BUt the bus driver for the 2nd keeps pointing to the other bus. & then takes off without letting anybody onto his bus.

report that motherfucker!

xpost - on mr veg's first trip to Australia he got to see a drunk girl at a bar try to order KWEST A LA DILLAS

oh how he lol-ed :)

all sorts of IA associated with "Quiet Car" trains on regional rail-- but the worst are the people who yammer loudly on their cell phones until the conductor comes over and explains the rules to them. They act compliant, wait until the conductor has moved to the next car, then whip out their phones and start yammering again--as though we're in middle school and the teacher went out for a smoke.

I'm not necessarily defending it but some doors with those buttons are hard to open manually so that it feels like you're doing something damaging if you try.

yeahh the one at my evening class place is v heavy and when you push/pull it you can feel the mechanism grinding in a disturbing "you are destorying something" manner

but lately it opens automatically just as I get there. I guess there is probably a pressure/motion sensor but tbh the receptionist looks bored enough that I almost believe she presses the button every time someone approaches, so I often announce "thank you" as I enter (partly in case of that and mostly as a shorthand for "I know where I'm going so I don't need to stop at reception kthxbye"), which probably also makes someone IA somewhere

I let my young kids push on those door opening buttons (because kids like pushing on buttons) and am sometimes worried that they will continue doing this as adults

i dunno the thrill of riding in an elevator died off at some point in my twenties

Still get excited about elevators. And trains.

ok i still love trains

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I rode Amtrak back from Milwaukee on Sunday and rode on the quiet car and it was so calm and quiet and pleasant I'm thinking about taking a day off and riding a train somewhere and back.

on the Gilligan's Island cartoon from the 70s the castaways walk looked like that Abbey Road GIF. The Skipper walked like Ringo and Gilligan walked like Paul.

this guy at a bar on the beach kept pronouncing 'quesadillas' as "kay sah dill uhs" for no reason other than he thought it was hilarious, even though none of his friends found it funny. while also crowding my space similar to the bus scenario above.

Someone I knew overheard a guy order FAH-juh-TAZZ in a Chi-Chi's once.

in a 2015 where many people say Chipoltie nothing surprises me

when you buy what looks like a normal, if small, packet of biscuits and when you open them they're in a stupid plastic tray and there are literally SEVEN in a pack.

DVD menus that don't play an episode when you select it and press 'play' because obviously you need to press 'select' or 'ok' instead

Irrationally angry about businesses that expect you to send back a form and don't include a pre-printed envelope (don't care if postage is paid or not).

I should probably instead be IA about my own inability to find the stack of blank envelopes I have somewhere, or about how my spidery handwritten address will look horrible and I'll be irrationally ashamed of how unprofessional it looks, but it's easier to be IA at the sender instead.

when you buy what looks like a normal, if small, packet of biscuits and when you open them they're in a stupid plastic tray and there are literally SEVEN in a pack.

OMG, I used to buy these oatmeal dark chocolate chip cookies that were the best but one time I bought them and the box felt funny. I opened up the box (the same size of box they'd always used) and the plastic tray was about 1/3 smaller and sliding around in the box, and the cookies were also about 1/3 smaller and denser and not as good. Soooooo IA. Never bought them again.

This has to have been mentioned somewhere upthread, but: losing something while sitting in place and being unable to find it even though it could not possibly be more than a few inches away from you at most. THE. WORST.

You may be sitting on it?

Trying to work out if I noticed a really dodgy sales technique for raising prices yesterday or if the general rearrangement of the shop has just left the price tag in the wrong place.
Dark chocolate has been 1.19 for the last while, yesterday while looking for dark chocolate of the 85% type I really like I found a price tag saying dark chocolate was on sale down from 1.49 at 1.19. Still couldn't find the stuff I was looking for but I think that stuff does tend to sell out towards the end of the day, even 6ish. So if i can't find it at 8.30ish it isn't that weird.
They did have the stuff with fruit bits in it which I haven't been buying cos it's got more sugar content.
I thoought there wasa separate price tag for that though.

Also looking in there a couple of days ago, looking at a Singer iron which I can't see a price for. They tend to only have one price tag on a shelf end or raised sign that's hanging from the ceiling or something. & nothing has its own price individually on it. So there's no way of looking at price without seeing it on the group tag.
Maybe it's just a hangover from the idea of it being an open plan shop, but it is frustrating.

Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon Perform "History of Rap 6"

cross reference irrationally embarrassed thread

Like just reading that made me irrationally embarrassed.

yes

The Target in downtown Chicago has apparently gotten rid of the checkout divider bar things that keep people's purchases separate. I've noticed this on two trips now so I have to assume it's actually a thing. The last time I was there, the cashier just kinda picked an arbitrary point to stop scanning the stuff of the woman ahead of me, and she didn't notice until she'd already paid and had to pay twice. I mean, really: why.

We should have a meetup and stage a protest.

I've been trying to get people organized but it seems like no one understands how serious this issue is.

Yeah I hate that divider thing. I always try to scoot dividers down the divider aisle so that they go down to the end of the conveyor belt. had some idiot teen intentionally pushing them forwards a a couple of weeks ago but they are idiots at that age anyway ain't they?

But to intentionally remove them, what the f*** is the thought behind that?
Customer always wrong? It's better to direct them?
I have come across individual cashiers who have got rid of the things and found it a pain. I thought the thing was set up for customer convenience. Blah.