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

To the extent that this "omg Starbucks cups are only red and green this season and do not feature intensely religious iconography like snowflakes and reindeer, it is another assault on Christianity!!!" thing is a legitimate outcry

Well it isnt really, as it transpires.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/10/1448007/-Simply-Red-The-Con-Man-Behind-the-Rightwing-s-Starbucks-Cup-Freak-Out

People who live and work in the city, get married, move out of the city to the biggest McMansion they can afford, then complain about their work commute. CAUSE AND EFFECT, MOTHERFUCKER.

this was probably already covered but...

when a web page is loading (slowly) and you try to click on a link, but then new content loads that causes your link to shift and you click on something else instead

the absolute worst. think i mentioned this sometime in recent years.

nothing worse than this has ever happened to anyone.

I'm clearly suffering from Early Onset Grumpiness. I find myself more and more frequently IA about all kinds of things. I think my patience for nonsense in general has basically bottomed out.

me too, I got IA in Boots today (big drugstore chain) at the amount of 'gift' bath & body stuff. aisles of it. and I say this as someone who quite likes beauty products. I just think the world would be better if only the best 10% of them existed.

people who sit at the goddamn vending machine poring over every product as if they're at a Michelin star restaurant poring over world-class dinner options and not merely deciding if they want their M&Ms with or without fucking peanuts

"Your estimated delivery date is:
Sunday, November 15, 2015"

not going to happen, because that is obviously a work address and the office is closed at the weekend. LIKE IT WAS THE PREVIOUS 3 TIMES.

it's a complete waste of their time but i can't see a way of pointing this out to them.

Online grocery delivery substituted 2 items due to them being out of stock. But subbing them with COMLPETELY DIFFERENT THINGS is not how its meant to work, ffs. I ordered celery salt. you gimme another brand, or you dont gimme it. I dont want or need garlic salt, wtf even is that. Likewise, thanku for subbing my requested hard/high proteien flour with THE EXACT OPPOSITE (00 cake flour which I already had).

Oh and no thanks also for not even sending the bag of rice, which you had advertised as a big ticket sale item, but were completely out of. Thanks for telling me.

F U ColesOnline :(

When people justify really bad, implausible writing in biopics/historical fiction with "artistic license" or "reality doesn't always make good fiction."

"Abraham Lincoln's childhood reads better if his parents were both run over by a train engineered by Gavin Booth"

I get up to get off at a bus stop that the bell has been rung for. Some woman in too tall heels sits back down after realising this isn't her stop but sticks her foot right across the walkway, so it's not easy to get past while the bus is moving. Another large woman starts telling the bus driver she doesn't want to get off at the stop, blocking the walkway past the driver while she does so so the bus takes off again without stopping long enough at a stop that several people normally get off at.
& it's pissing down with the rain one might probably expect at this time of year.

But at least I'm not in a European capital city so I guess I'm otherwise safeish.

& my washing machine has decided to pack up right at the time that the building I'm living in is being sold. So really hope I'm going to get another one. Otherwise would be sticking my soaking clothing into wash.

seriously: fuck you, autocorrect on my phone. you think I typed 'shane' and of all the alternative suggestions you don't include 'shame'. THE M IS RIGHT NEXT TO THE N

lol. i hate when my phone suddenly autocorrects every word into beginning with a capital letter. it's arbitrary when it decides to do this

I decided to begin my 35th life anniversary by getting drunk as hell and going out of town without my anxiety meds. have spent most of the day feeling like I'm in a shitty Terry Gilliam flick

(irrationally angry at MYSELF)

the term "prayer warriors" on FB makes my vein pop out. as if everybody praying simultaneously = like using some kind of spiritual proton pack that gets the person extra help.

ya think maybe God lets so many people die because you're annoying the shit out of him with everyone praying for the same person at once? pretty sure if he were to exist, he'd only need to be rung once.

callous thing for me to say obv cos it makes people feel better but years of dogma have made me bitter - esp when in the aftermath, when the person being prayed for dies, they always pull a "well the Lord must have needed another angel" bullshit.

(I know I know, makes people feel less helpless....that's why this one's an irrational anger)

maybe they just want a way to become a warrior wo having to do anything.

sometimes I squint really hard and keep hoping one day lasers come out so I can appreciate that

this is prob rational anger, but are all landlords mildly addicted to trying to subjugate people?

i mostly get on fine with mine but he has real form for berating females - he can be aggressive with me also but i've learned long ago just to create an illusion of him "winning" so that he fucks off for the next nine months.

however i recently told him there's some mould in our newly redecorated bathroom - the roof is a little yellow - there's a long history of this in there. i mentioned that the shower had some mould in it which i removed with industrial mould remover and he then started asking about the cleaner, when she comes in, how good a job she does etc, then asked when she is coming in next as he wants to "have a word".

he kept pressing on this until i eventually had to just say that i paid her and he could raise any issue he had with me - he is like a "normal" family man type with plenty of money, or that's how he'd be seen in the world, but i find this actually reprehensible, the level of effort he's putting in to try and have some time alone with the woman who cleans my house, so he can shout at her presumably or make her feel like shit.

it is incredibly hard not to just unload on him and tell him what a piece of shit he is - treat him with his own medicine, but since i want to keep living there it's not an option.

has aer lingus just totally got rid of its old navigable interface which was user friendly and replaced it with something thta's counter intuitive?
Used to be a set up on the first page that you could enter dates, locatons etc into and now it has a set up that doesn't show you options so takes you to pages you don't need to go to

the term "prayer warriors" on FB makes my vein pop out. as if everybody praying simultaneously = like using some kind of spiritual proton pack that gets the person extra help.

ya think maybe God lets so many people die because you're annoying the shit out of him with everyone praying for the same person at once? pretty sure if he were to exist, he'd only need to be rung once.

Reminds of a recent tweet by one of the "weird Twitter" folks to the effect of, "Guys, please stop praying for my grandpa. He's broken out of his hospital bed and bullets can't stop him now."

JUst wondering if travel sites are more likely to be accessed from smart phones than computer terminals these days. So what I was exepriencing with that air site earlier might have been swapping over to something that was designed for smart phone use and was therefore less good on a computer terminal.

The new Amazon (UK) invoices/checkout summaries. Either they got more confusing or I got stupider.

Item Subtotal: (not the sum of the listed item prices)
Postage & Packing: (hey wait I thought I clicked free shipping but - oh there it is:)
Free Shipping: -(a different amount to the p&p price)

Random unnamed discount: (I have no idea what this was for. maybe it's good! I like discounts! and the total did seem a bit expensive! oh shit, did I accidentally sign up for something?)
Total before VAT: (not an obvious combination of any of the preceding numbers)
VAT: (wait I have to pay VAT on top of the prices now oh what, also VAT is 20% and this isn't 20% of anything)
Total: (admittedly the sum of the two previous lines, but by now I have no idea whether I'm paying what I expected)

Yes!! I'm sure I keep adding stuff with free shipping then there's a shipping charge and I just get confused and do something else

this is prob rational anger, but are all landlords mildly addicted to trying to subjugate people?

I imagine that there have to be landlords who are decent people. Still awaiting empirical evidence but I live in hope.

Sweartogod our landlord is a really nice guy. He's also desperately trying to see our building and get out of the landlording business. Make of that what you will.

Buy the building, kick everyone else out, and start the ilx commune!

i have my first nice landlord ever :)

asked him for some spare keys recently and he'd popped them through the letterbox by the time I got home from work, no charge.

otoh the two landlords before that were satan

I'm sure Ive told the story about the time my last landlord who I unfortunately lived *next door* to, barged angrily into my house one evening shouting abuse and drawing "turn me off" on the wall under a light switch, bcs I'd had the temerity to leave the porchlight on all day, and this somehow made me ungrateful for him having changed the bulb... no, I didn't get the logic either.(it was my electricity on that bulb, not his).

Whenever I see people at the gym who, like, sit on an exercise bike reading a book and barely pedaling at all. It's like, you bothered to take time out of your day to go to a gym, and now you are passive-aggressively wasting your time because you are too good for, or too scared of working out or something. Get over your weird hangups and just work out.

http://www.carolwrightgifts.com/emojikins-as-seen-on-tv_43084_zoom1.jpg

People who bitch loudly and incessantly about stores that put Xmas shit up before Xgiving.

Christmas creeps

slightly mispronouncing actors names

"Julianna Moore"
"Pierce Bronson"
"Joseph Gordon Lovitt"

The advertising formulation 'If you liked X then you'll _LOVE_ Y!', when it's apparent to everyone on earth that Y is a cynical, half-arsed attempt to rip off X

"From the studio that brought you ___!"

Casual games that send notifications at 02:55

So , finally got some actionon the washing machine front. GOt sent one out today.
IT's a washer dryer but there are no instructions in the manual as to how to use the dryer. Several ways of setting up wash cycles, nothing about setting up the dryer. can't even tell if it is supposed to automatically switch onto dryer after a wash. If it is it doesn't seem to have worked.
Only thing i can see it able to do is set up a drying cycle that lasts 16 minutes and I can't see that being right.

Looks from an advice booklet that came with the instructions booklet as though there should be specific instructions for setting up the dryer so wondering if I'm just missing a booklet or what.

Previous machine was much easier to see how to set things up.
The guy who delivered it said he just grabbed one from their storage place or something. So am hoping i have got a good one. He had to undo the packaging around it anyway so it was new or at least unused.
But not the best set of instructions and I can't find anything online that doesn't simply reproduce the contents of teh boklet taht only talks about wash cycles.

& of course the reason is that the landlord took away a broken washer/dryer and replaced it with a washing machine without a dryer which is a drag over the winter.

I nearly fucked up a brand new Bosch washing machine last year by not removing the transit bolts, it was quite traumatic at the time and the 2nd time I had made the same mistake.

Oh god I had a horror of that with the machines I got delivered last year - I hadnt paid close attention to the delivery men's unpacking and setting up/plugging in of the washer and dryer and when they left, I thought "er... did they take those bolts out?". Couldnt see em, they hadnt mentioned it, and now they were installed there was no way I was gonna shift them on my own. I just crossed my fingers and started the machine up and was lucky.

If they are still there the spin cycle becomes quite violent and then you ponder how much damage has been caused to this appliance that you haven't even started paying for yet!

I think I'm just suffering from a lack of communication between the various letting agents and the various repairmen. Had one guy come out to my place a couple of weeks back, look at the machine, say it was probably kaput because it was a heating element gone & they don't get replaced any more. Then tell me I was going to hear from the office over the next week, & then when I did hear it looks like it was a response to an earlier email I'd sent rather than to this guy having reported back. I finally got the agent who was looking after this premises ring me the next week and say he was going to come over and check the machine, to have me respond wondering if he was aware that somebody had already been around a week and a half earlier.
So this guy had never come around to see what the machine being replaced was and thinking back I'd been refering to it asa wasghing machine rather than a washer/dryer. So may have been better if I'd actually had this guy come around too cos he would have known better that it was one thing rather than the other. Not sure if that letting agency had been looking afte rthis property when I'd been given the previous one.
Now just wondering if I can survive without that drying facility. Hope I'm not going to wind up with mildewed clothing.

Thinking i can untangle the thread that's wrapped itself around the spindle under the bobbin I was trying to thread. So spending ages while I'm trying to watch some show on tv driving myself up the wall trying to unravel it so that it can be used. seemed like almost a reel full. Well finally saw sense and gave up so just wasted it. Hope taht isn't going to repeat

That coupled with just missing the bus last night while I was trying to get the sewing machine home so I get into rush hour time with a large box on me that I have to fight through a crowd to get onto transport. Saw the one I missed seemed to be half empty.
But there's always a bus disappears from the timetable at the beginnning of the rush hour so there's always twice as many people need to get on the one that does appear.
Thanfully did manage to get to a rear corner seat so didn't have the entire crowd pressing up against the thing.

BUt I do no have a sewing machine that should be much better than the previous one so I can get down to building even more of a wardrobe. hopefully catch up with all the things I've been meaning to make all year, if I can just get the energy together.

at the supermarket checkout today he wasn't pushing the things he'd scanned down the little slope into the bagging area but just leaving them on the flat bit at the top by the scanner. was a surprisingly awkward place for me to reach.

boomkat's audio player which has no volume control must die. it's bad enough that radio6 and radio3 play at wildly different volumes but boomkat is just taking the piss.

Yeah apparently putting a volume control on Flash (or whatever) audio is a computing problem on par with passing a fucking Turing test.

blog pieces with the theme/structure: "I read a bunch about foreign place and though I thoroughly understood it, but then I traveled there for two weeks, and now I actually do."