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

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....

:/

news stories excitedly talking about what's coming to Netflix

like netflix streaming killed a lot of DVD stores, if you guys had frequented those establishments maybe you could have seen batman begins before this.

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.

― koogs, Sunday, October 18, 2015 1:12 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have never had this problem with UPS, but Amazon sometimes has been using these smaller shippers, e.g. one called I think Lasership, that I have had problems with.

yeah Lasership have had that exact problem at offices - they're not used to bulk/big volume deliveries to warehouses/office buildings and they approach said deliveries like they would at a residence. couldn't believe the time I had to have a call with their manager to explain what a "loading dock" was and why they had to go to it to drop off a package.

This is more of a "was I being IA here?" than anything, but: yesterday I was in the supermarket with my other half, already a bit flustered because he always grumps about "wanting to get out of here asap" and making me feel rushed. Anyways, I'm standing in an aisle and he grabs me by the arm to move me out of the way of someone wanting to pass. Someone I was well aware was there and couldve moved around me in all honesty. It boiled my brain but I figured I was being unfair so I just bit my tounge... til he did it again 5 mins later and I blew my stack at him :| It just felt so... patronising? I think hes so used to cat-herding his kids he forgets I'm not one, sometimes. Or something. I told him to fucking stop it because it was patronising and he looked so hurt, I felt like a shithead.

But I really do hate it when people forcibly move me aside as if I'm completely unaware someone's come up by me and I wasnt going to move my damn self!

Can definitely see how that would give you the shits. I suspect that I think hes so used to cat-herding his kids he forgets I'm not one, sometimes. is about right--you tend to go on automatic people-wrangling pilot in public places

Yeah thats about what I figured. I was a bit upset at how IA I got about it though. I had to walk away from him, I was seriously about to scream. Maybe I was just hung over or something.

Mr Veg is a line-hunter & can get suuuuper intense about finding the shortest line. He grabbed or poked at me once or twice when I was not in the mood for it & got full RAAAGE

I've chilled him out since then a bit, lol

They get in the zone or something, idk

like I hate the supermarket too but you just have to get zen, it takes as long as it takes

Damn straight. The minute someone presses me with "just get what you need and lets go", all of what WAS in my head to get flies out of my mind and I stand there flailing like Grover.

Which, is on me tbh, lol.

I hate rushing in grocery stores cos even if I came for specific things, there are often other things that I either forgot I needed or didn't know I needed

or usually some badass snack I've never heard of that I want to eat lots and lots of once I see it

and queso. can't ever leave without queso

I'm standing in an aisle and he grabs me by the arm to move me out of the way of someone wanting to pass. Someone I was well aware was there and couldve moved around me in all honesty. It boiled my brain

Yeah this would've made me IA too! An ex would sometimes grab me to stop me crossing the road in front of an oncoming van I might not have seen or w/e - I appreciate in hindsight that "please do not die" is a kind thought but it always put me in "raarrghhh I am an adult I know how to cross a road do not just grab me and push me around!$%(£" mode, even if I hadn't seen it, and even though (or tbh possibly because) I fully acknowledge that I'm not great at noticing all the stuff around me, judging how fast it's going, getting my limbs to react promptly and coordinatedly, etc

(I usually had seen it tho)

I hate rushing in grocery stores cos even if I came for specific things, there are often other things that I either forgot I needed or didn't know I needed

yeah, me too, I don't like to rush straight to the exact items I think I want in the actual aisles part, always make time to look at the discount displays, etc

but tbh I too "get in the zone" once I've got my stuff and just want to pay and get out, and then I get irate abt people that get in front of me, lines that go faster than mine, that way they always open a new line just exactly when you've put everything on the conveyor and can't pick it up fast enough, and immediately people from the back of the queues with massively overloaded trolleys barge to the front

supermarkets, like any kind of travel, are good places to be zen about. too easy to stress over otherwise.

that said... the last twice there's been no 'baskets only' service at the local supermarket which has meant queueing up with the trolley people. but the worst is that my usual route around always ends adjacent to the basket checkout (lane 1) and if that's closed then the nearest other checkout isn't lane 2 or 3, it's always lane 10, about 30 yards of doubling back.

supermarkets are chaos vortexes. you're constantly dodging and weaving between half-blind geriatrics and hyperactive children while trying to intentionally/not intentionally crush them with your steel cart from hades, all while calculating if you're really saving 52 cents on that carton of orange juice

I'm at my best and worst in grocery stores.

I'm at my best when the store functions as my own personal dance party, which on a good day it does.

when you're on one of those on demand channels and all the episode guide has is the overall summary of the series - ie, you're trying to figure out if that's one of the Rick and Morty's you've seen and the ep description says "Rick and Morty are a duo that regularly get into hijinx, bro"...