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

there are a number of candy bars etc with a different company name is the US than europe, licensing agreements in one direction or another.

But as a consumer, how do I know which confection I'm really getting?

wait till you try buying a milky way in the uk

Next thing I'm going to hear is that the Toblerones I get at Walgreens are actually made by ConAgra.

i have never shared a kit kat, fuck u nestle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_hHziEkYXo

all candy is one (1) serving in my world

portion control fans might enjoy this compendium of surrealist poetry amusingly entitled "Making Sense of Portion Sizes"

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/healthy_living/hic_What_We_Eat_Affects_How_We_Feel/hic_Keeping_Your_Digestive_Tract_Healthy/hic_Making_Sense_of_Portion_Sizes

sample:

1 piece of cornbread - is a bar of soap
1 slice of bread - is an audiocassette tape
1-1/2ounces of cheese - is a 9-volt battery, 3 dominoes or your index and middle fingers
1 ounce of cheese - is a pair of dice or your thumb

(starting to sound like ransom note how-tos by the way)

Wondering if i should point out how crappy the chairs in teh place I just had dinner were.
A booth type bench with part of the upholstery ripped to shreds. Can't really be something that people are missing can it?

Went into the bathroom and there's next to no TP and the drier doesn't work.

Looks like the place doesn't get cleaned very thoroughly either.
Shame, I used to like eating in there a few years ago. Probably not again.

Food itself wasn't bad though, not very flavorful and wondering why I suddenly found a stray bit of onion in the thing when there seemed to be no other. Hope that was the only stray thing.

the Excel drag and drop default being to copy numbers "in a series" as opposed to just copying the number as-is. Obviously there's times where you legit DO want to fill a series, but most of the time people at work drag and drop, they mean to copy, and those that don't pay attention that it filled a series instead, and thus wind up fucking shit up.

everytime I get a spreadsheet of phone numbers from someone and there's several numbers in a row that are sequential (1-888-555-5555, 1-888-555-5556), I pretty much know what the fuck happened.

also the USPS phone system. You can get to customer service. but it's insanely hard. because if you keep trying to hit "0" right when you get in, it's going to demand you tell them what the call is about, and if you refuse, it will tell you "customer service is NOT AVAILABLE".

which is fair, they don't want the wrong calls going to the wrong place, but then even after you PICK an option, and then hit "0", it STILL tells you that you have to tell them what the call is about. The only time that "0" works is when you've reached the end of succession in a series of choices - once you've picked the last subtopic there is.

And SOME subtopics outright DON'T let you advance - ie, if you go into a tracking number option, it will tell you the information in the system is the same that a representative will see, and denies you the option.

really frustrating when someone, the mail service starts forwarding your mail instead of your father's, in error (enjoy the Slayer cd, dad!)

USPS phone system is hell on earth.

Eight years ago, my mother's mail kept getting forwarded to me after I moved (her first name is mine plus one letter at the end, which happens to be the, letter my middle name begins with).

They claimed twice they gave feedback to their couriers to pay attention to the name but they continued to screw it up until the forwarding ran out.

this time? My dad, whose name isn't anything like mine, moved out of my house and set up forwarding. My mail showed up at my parents' house with the forward sticker which had his name on it. Even the customer service lady couldn't figure out how they screwed it up. Neither of my other roommates had it happen to them.

Just now getting some of it re-routed.

^^^ rational anger

This entire California culture of advertising your life through cute stickers on the back of your car is irritating as shit to me. I DGAF how many kids or pets you have or whether you ran a half-marathon, full marathon, color run, whatever. Don't quite get how slapping a dead person's name and details across your back windshield isn't tacky as shit, either.

THIS SHIT

http://i61.tinypic.com/20hakcn.jpg

yes to all of that

got bad news... it's not just California.

0.0

A friend just posted on Facebook that a Judy Blume book had been BANNED - "crazy!"

What kind of brain do you need to have to think that, in the UK, in 2015, it would become illegal to sell a decades-old novel about a girl getting periods, and this wouldn't have been in the news?

tesco vitamin tablets only tell you there are vegetarian if you peel the label to reveal the ingredients. peeling the label stood in the aisles is a fiddly and suspicious-looking business.

the Excel drag and drop default being to copy numbers "in a series" as opposed to just copying the number as-is. Obviously there's times where you legit DO want to fill a series, but most of the time people at work drag and drop, they mean to copy, and those that don't pay attention that it filled a series instead, and thus wind up fucking shit up.

While I will generally agree most heartily with anyone who's ragging on Microsoft Office, this one is simply the difference between 'CTRL + right click + drag' (for sequential numbers) and 'ALT + right click + drag' (for copies of the same numbers). Hard-won knowledge, that was.

people who must loudly proclaim their disinterest in any space related story--like finding water of Mars

whoa, did not know that Old Lunch. knowledge is power!

Agh I managed to be 'too organised' and signed up for a new energy supplier nice and early but wasn't organised enough to read any of the letters about transfer dates so now leaving 5 days before my current contract and have to pay exit fees. FFS what a waste of money that I don't have :(

A place I wanted to see about getting a course through's phone set up. I tried ringing before 10am and got puton hold that hada repeated message about how an operator would get to me shortly until the line suddenly went dead. I rang back and tried another couple of options none f which actually connected and just went dead.
Rang back after 10 and just had the phone continue to ring until it hit an engaged tone.
Wonder if there is any intentionality behind this. Need to go down in the general vicinity of the place at some time this week to collect some boots I've had reheeled so can go into office but otherwise the place is off my route to anywhere and a bit outof the centre of town.

Would think they could at least have a voicemail set up. Would think that would be a bit more up to date for a place that calls itself a technology institute. But thinking of what Brina eno says in his Peel lecture that technology is 'the stuff that doesn't work yet' can see his point with regards to this place.

I might as well be standing inside a giant nose

thank you carl for this beautiful phrase from 6 months ago which I have thought about many times since then

these past few weeks I have been inside a giant mousewheel. skrrrt skrrrt skrrrt skrrrt. skrrrt skrrrt skrrrt skrrrt

q1. what are you doing which requires screenfuls of text to fly past too fast to read, a couple of times a minute, and can I introduce you to the Page Down / Home / End keys instead?
q2. why do I hate noises so? (there is sniffing too, there is a nose inside my mousewheel and it makes my brain itchy and I want to go home)

I swear to christ, Adobe and their fuckin updates. makes me stabby

yesss. and if you're not paying attention you've just installed mcafee which you'll then have to uninstall.

consider the amount of updates they push on you multiplied by the time each update takes to install multiplied by the vast number of users and the amount of human productivity lost is enormous.

it's insane!

and photoshop or any of the other suite programs go through what amounts to another upate every fucking time you OPEN it, like whyyyyyyyy

so much hate

Adobe is such an odd company - their products are widely used but everybody hates them and their practices and proprietary nonsense and they seem so cumbersome and poorly run it's a miracle any of their stuff is of any use at all.

i like the actual programs like Photoshop InDesign & Acrobat a lot, but everything that goes with it is just a giant bag full of pooping screaming cats

The thing that makes me crazy is that they are pushing everyone toward their cloud stuff, but they don't offer a cloud photos storage with any decent amount of space! So now I have Lightroom syncing with Flickr through a third-party plugin, but who knows when that will break...

People who ask you a question, you let them know it's a good question but something that we're going to cover later...then they keep asking follow-ups

I have been IA since the aughts that you can no longer glean any info from an image's url b/c now it's always hosted at imgur/tinypic, etc

But reverse image search just about makes up for it.

This should go on the irrationally happy thread, but the other day, I was looking for a larger version of a headshot. As a last resort, I deleted the file name from the URL, and whaddya know, the company's full fuckin' directory showed up - with like eight different sizes of the headshot I was looking for.

I was allll

http://i.imgur.com/9qQxHWv.gif

:D

having skin cancer on my shoulder, despite that part of me last seeing the sun in the very early 1980s

:( that's some bullshit

Ok, those fucking explainer articles on websites like Vox. Objectively, sometimes they are well done and useful, but I can't stand this shit of some smug putz 5-10 years younger than me with a BA in political science being like "Here's EVERYTHING you need to know about extraordinarily complex foreign political situation, presented in a totally objective way."

This thing that drivers do when you're both approaching the same four way stop intersection by you're going to get there a second ahead, where they come to a stop 10-15 shy of the white line so they can "stop first" and therefore go through first.

4 way stops tend to have a short-circuit effect on the human brain.

xp a month later and you're still mad about that huh

jeez apparently

I have the exact opposite problem. One day, I expect the occupants of the cars in front of me to get out after trying to wave the other one through, shake hands, slap backs and shoot the shit while I either back up in reverse or ram on the fuck out of them.

well if love is good

amazon logistics trying to deliver a third lot of packages to a work address (includes company name) on a sunday. same result as the last three times... the building was closed.

oh man--People who write pedantic notes on flyers. For example, at work someone put up a flyer for an exhibit of Civil War photos etc. The top of the flyer says "Ephemera of the Great War"--it is obviously a scan from an old poster, probably from the 19th century. Some genius wrote on the flyer "The Great War= World War I"

since they're all great in their own way, that is helpful....

:/