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

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.

I'm going to start rolling with my own.

Another Microsoft Office related complaint: that terrible "read only" view that documents automatically open in for recent Word versions, until you select "edit document"

It's like having to push a button every time you want your refrigerator to cool your food.

EXACTLY

Oh, you wanted to look at this in READABLE VIEW?

Here's your sandwich, would you like me to stack the ingredients on it and close it for you?

Go to File->Options->Trust Center->Trust Center Settings->Protected View and uncheck whichever ones or all of them.

With computers in general, although I find Word is particularly annoying about this, I am always amazed at what the developers assume frequent users want.

an enormous part of the market for mainstream computer products is people who don't know much about computers and are terrified of computer based threats. anything a developer can do to make it look like these people are being protected = $

I doubt the developers have much to do with these decisions fwiw

i work with a lot of people who are new to computers and also need to learn to use ms word, and it's gotten a lot better imo! there's less cluttery crap on the standard blank doc and the templates are useful. i do have complaints about the reliance on tiny indecipherable constantly changing icons instead of words, but that's every app/program/everything.

I think carl meant "developers" as in "the entities that develop these programs" and not "software developers"

but as a software developer my first instinct was to make the exact same comment xp

They could make even more money by charging an extra $5-10 for a no-bullshit, "you clearly know what you're doing here" version of their software.

tbf Microsoft has done that with Word, forever, and the clumsy bits are just their attempts to guess what you want when it can do eight zillion unrelated things, of which you will use two

Yeah I just meant "people responsible for making these decisions." I did not mean to disparage software developers.

Also the version of Word I use has like a bazillion industry- and firm-specific add ons so my experience is not representative. Like I'm sure not everyone uses a version of Word where a key combination I often mistakenly type randomly switches the language/character set to Chinese.

Also honestly I appreciate computers and software that I can use without thinking about it too much, but I hate it when <insert whoever makes these decisions here> make it hard to change settings for more advanced users.

the checkout divider bar things

I'd bet it gets really crazy sometimes at the store that sells those things!

whole foods has cheeky little messages on theirs now

I assume that customers use random groceries to separate the checkout dividers they're buying at the checkout divider store.

Go to File->Options->Trust Center->Trust Center Settings->Protected View and uncheck whichever ones or all of them.

All my "Protected View" boxes are unchecked, but Word email attachments still open as Read Only.

Depending on version, some also say something like "this file came from the Internet and could be dangerous."

The way that my sewing machine looks like it's continuing to sew despite one side of thread having run out.
So I get to the end of what I assume is a finished seam and find one long piece of thread and 2 largely separate sections of fabric. Pretty difficult to get the seam exactly the same again but otherwise fixable but time consuming.

xp also windows explorer folders that default to "optimize this folder for Pictures"

In an online series of photos, the next/previous buttons are not in the same place on every page.

Kids vandalising the sign that the Friends of Merlin Woods put up in the woods yet again. So it's lying shattered on the ground instead of being up and visible so that people can look at where all the paths through the forest are and what local wildlife to look out for.
Annoying shits, not sure what they get out of it. Is it some kind of fulfilment they get for destroying things, the kudos of being known as the guy who took out the sign somebody else put hours of work into?

Annoying shits, not sure what they get out of it. Is it some kind of fulfilment they get for destroying things, the kudos of being known as the guy who took out the sign somebody else put hours of work into?

What, were you born 35? That's exactly what it is. I mean, I'm an old fuck who hates kids too, but I remember the joy of wanton destruction very well.

Yea I mean I spent hours in the catwalk at age 18 destroying shit in high school.

Nowadays I'd be screaming at me if I caught me

- when businesses have private social media accounts. Why? Why are you bothering?

When [redacted name of government agency] makes the contractors jump through hoops to do anything online. Apparently the hackers aren't stymied by the existing infrastructure, but I can't take an online course on IT security?

re: the checkout line divider thing

Yesterday I was loading groceries onto the belt and for some reason the clerk, while checking someone else out, kept picking up a divider and dropping it behind the stuff I had set down--while I was still setting more stuff down. I kept taking it off and she kept putting it back down. I felt like I'd entered a Seinfeld episode.

What the hell.

at some point she said, "Is this all your stuff?" I had to wonder if she was having a flashback to a previous checkout experience.

i get aggravated by meaningless accolades. for instance today someone, when chatting about the new Slayer, said it was their best album since Christ Illusion.

Christ Illusion was two albums ago. by that measure, the new album had a 50/50 chance of achieving that milestone. whoopty fucking do!

I came home to find out that my boy, Slayer, received a trophy for nothing - a best album since Christ Illusion trophy! While I am very proud of Slayer for everything he does and will encourage him till the day I die, these trophies will be given back until Slayer EARNs a real trophy. #slayerfamilyvalues

lol

when people pronounce silicon dioxide as "silicONE dioxide"

you're coming to a four way stop sign slightly ahead of another driver, but the other driver comes to a stop well before the sign, so they can be all like "well I stopped first so I can go first." Monsters.

that plinking noise fluorescent lights make when they flicker

gnnnnghhhhhh

that plinking noise fluorescent lights make when they flicker

Wishing I didn't live too far out of town to stick around and not worry about missing buses home.

Going on the Ladbrokes website and seeing my last motherfucking losing bet on display, get fucked you parasites.

Dear whichever neighbour is playing the shitty bassy music with the shitty 180bpm 4/4 bassdrums for 15 bars then a bar off then 15 bars on etc forever,

please just play something which fills all 16 bars with bassdrums for me to sleep through, that fucking gap is driving me crazy

my neighborhood has two festivals a year. one really really sucks and one is ok. but i think it's really rude for people to come and park on my street for them especially when they invent their own parking spots like by fire hydrants. take one bus.

big festival weekend here too. luckily no one lingers past 7 pm because this place is so uptight.

Started getting extreme problem swith Mozilla Firefox where it just isn't connecting ma lot of the time without being refreshed.
Now only getting partial pages on things like Facebook with a lot of the connecting icons missing.

A pair of jeans that I've had to unpick about a million times. So is unlikely to ever be exactly couture. Hoping that I'm not totally ruining the fabric while doing so.
Bloomming course i wanted to find out about that was supposed to start next week not having enough people turn up for it to run or so it seems so far.
Will have to wait until new year possibly. Well, I have a book on the subject anyway but do find those courses a bit handy.

tescos have changed their little 6-packs of strawberry yoghurt so that they are now 4 pots of strawberry and 2 pots of apricot. apricot!

and the actual pots now have square corners with a ridge near the bottom making it impossible to get the last bit of yoghurt out.

the fuckers.

MAybe they were getting yoghurt mountains, especially in apricot. & they need to get rid of them rapid like. So every person who can't get to the bottom of a yoghurt tub will be incentivised to start a new one.

Otherwise, Tescos not the greatest but apparently the most proliferant, endemic almost pandemic?

THe EU used to call the stocks of surplus food supplies mountains so you'd get butter mountains, beef mountains and so on. So if you were on the dole getting butter vouchers you'd be supplied with butter that came from the butter mountain. & all the beef they'd feed people in homeless hostels came from the beef mountain.

When fast food people for whatever reason don't give you your drink cup and make you wait for the meal and then they give everyone in front and behind you theirs.