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

Windows 10 has a new surprise. Going to blackscreen after you sign into your computer account.
Appears that the computer misrecognises the location of the desktop display as though you have 2 monitors so sends the image to the wrong place. Makes it look like your computer hasn't booted.

No, the fact that your grandmother was born in Dublin doesn't make you Irish

Should have licences for driving prams innit?
Hate walking down narrow pavements, trying to work my way through a crowd only to find my path is blocked by somebody picking that moment to spin their pram around.

THen walking to a building I have an appointment in only to find out that somebody with a double buggy has parked it right across teh doorway.

Maybe pram clamp/boot things wouldn't be amiss either.

i get why certain things of high, urgent importance or things that can be misconstrued if not spoken out loud shouldn't be handled through email, but some people actually seem to actually take offense that you send them an email requesting something of them at all. like....if we can't do that, why have it at all? one thing if you're sending 35 emails for everything and causing inboxes to fill, another when you know you send one every two weeks.

since this is the irrational thread: I dunno why it winds me up so much that my coworker is so cheap (brings his own bottle of tap water to team pub lunches; never puts money into anyone's leaving collection; charges his iPad and Kindle at work even though he doesn't use either at work, or on the commute since he drives) while always having the latest gadget, new electric car, new designer watches and trainers every few months

I mean it's none of my business and I guess people who do that stuff would tell me that if I didn't piss away a few quid on little things every day then I too could save up for the latest flashy whatevers. they may even be right, I'd rather not add it up tbh

I'm I'm a bar with friends. It's 50 degrees outside, the door is open...the electric fans are on full blast and they won't turn them off.

Centigrade or Fahrenheit?

Kelvin

In all seriousness Fahrenheit

bring those fans here it's 105 right now and we don't have aircon

Yeah, I realised that 50c doesn't make sense. But I'd just read a Facebook post that was moaning about it being minus 2 and again not mentioning the scale. Annoys me, perhaps irrationally.

As does the ilb winter thread, so northern hemisphere-ist

i am so northern hemispherist that i didn't know that you guys actually call these months summer? do you? i thought you just had a hot winter

i guess that's stupid. maybe i didn't think that. i just never thought about it at all.

They eat seafood on Christmas Day and don't shoot fireworks for the Fourth of July. Southern Hemispherists are weird.

Most Yanks don't specify F or C cos we boldly assume everyone uses F. And our backwards units of measure

Fahrenheit makes no sense to me.

and your stupid dates. xp.

People who, in crowded public spaces, realize that they're walking in the direction opposite of the one they intend and thusly perform a quick 180 to rectify the problem. As with people who stop at the bottom of escalators and just outside of revolving doors, YOU CANNOT DO THIS. REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE WHO AREN'T YOU.

Fahrenheit makes no sense to anyone.

I prefer it because you get more numbers.

People who, in crowded public spaces, realize that they're walking in the direction opposite of the one they intend and thusly perform a quick 180 to rectify the problem. As with people who stop at the bottom of escalators and just outside of revolving doors, YOU CANNOT DO THIS. REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE WHO AREN'T YOU.

― Professor Bworlph (Old Lunch), Wednesday, January 13, 2016 2:30 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when people do this in an airport I'll p much flatten them

People who swing their arms out to the side when they walk.

Vapers. Just because it's allegedly safer and legal in public spaces doesn't mean you get to blow a fucking cloud in my face.

the interminable sequence of noises emitting from this 8 year old inkjet printer after every print job

yeah mine calibrates & cleans more than it prints now >:(

Bodywarmers.

i am so northern hemispherist that i didn't know that you guys actually call these months summer? do you? i thought you just had a hot winter

o_0

lol I must admit to having wondered this myself at times A LONG TIME AGO

i am so northern hemispherist that i didn't know that you guys actually call these months summer? do you? i thought you just had a hot winter

I love this.

Wet hot antipodean winter.

just boring whining, but fn bluetooth drives me up a wall, usually works fine, but often you have to 'remove device' then 'discover device' then it says connected but it's not, etc, barely worth the trouble imo

99.9% of technology belongs in the trash (sez dude who seemingly can't go five minutes without technology).

Men in sandals. You're not 3 any more!

^should be viewed more in sorrow than in anger

Disgust?

all appropriate responses

Whoever it is that owns HMV locally have just decided they don't want to keep paying the rent so have lined up somebody to take over the premises and are having a crash sale where all stock must go. I saw up to 70% discounts and all stock must go posters uup in the windows when I was just poping in there to browse for a few minutes.

Some of the staff in there have already been through the place closing rapidly a couple of years ago when it was in the premises facing its current location. So it must be very trying for them. Hope they can recover and get new jobs.

I'm assuming this is just something happening with the Galway premises. ON first seeing the posters i thought they might be repeating the events of a few years back and the firm folding nationwide.

Shame, we're running out of even semi decent places to buy music locally.

Other thing over here is the story that the government want to make An post into a bailiff service. So worried about reliability of getting things through mail order too. 2016 is already looking iffy.

Looks like this HMV thing is happening across this country. Grafton street closed today after it had been around all the time I've been in the country, with the possible exception of the months 3 or whatever years ago when the doors closed in all the Irish HMVs.
I used to kill time in there in the early 90s leafing through the racks and finding obscurities taht hadn't got separate dividers.
Found some great things there at the time. Wish I'd had the money and the time to9 go over there today and go through the racks.

Staff were told on Thursday that the shop in Galway was closing. Posters about the closing sale went up on Friday.
A girl behind the counter in there today said that it was 3 years to the day since they suddenly had the doors closed. I'm not sure of that timing since i thought it was a different time of year but I assume she must know.

& the only other place in town that does sell cds first hand, and isn't just a section of a supermarket, was reducing the prominence of their cd section since Xmas.

Shame really I liked being able to physically sort through cd racks.

Kitchen prep anger: slicing tubes into discs and having stuff roll off on the floor constantly (carrots, scallions, zucchini). I have pretty good knife skills and could zip through the prep if physics would just quit getting in my way, but I have to slow down to keep stuff on the cutting board. If there's a trick to this, I haven't learned it yet.

tilt the board backwards? and put something clean underneath it to catch the escapees?

Is it possible to get a cutting board that is textured enough to keep things still without attracting dirt?

Fucking physics in general, always making shit fall and roll and slip and whatever the fuck stupid shit it thinks is a good idea for some reason.

(This morning's example: tried twice to roll my rolling office chair forward only to have the front wheel catch and tip the chair forward instead. You can't get that one thing right, physics, really?)

Feel like there's an As Seen On TV product that could be of some help.

Slices of my finger rolling off the board onto the floor — cue helpless/aggrieved look.

Caption: "Fucking physics"

(Chopping vegetables, chopping vegetables, suddenly plunges knife into neck) There's got to be a better way!

"Choppin' broccolayyyy..."

Solution: stop eating vegetables

A possible solution to9 the rolling off cuttingboard thing might be to have 3 of the four sides have a raised edge to them. Not sure fi that hinders movement otherwise. Or if anybody selss anything like that.

My cookery teacher has us putting a teatowel under the choppingboard to prevent that moving on the table service but that may be widespread practise anyway.

I solve this problem by not chopping things into discs.

You could try and cut everything square so it doesn't roll of course. But that might not help your culinary project.