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

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Bodywarmers.

ledge, Friday, 15 January 2016 08:59 (eight years ago) link

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

Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Friday, 15 January 2016 12:20 (eight years ago) link

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

kinder, Friday, 15 January 2016 13:19 (eight years ago) link

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.

If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Friday, 15 January 2016 13:31 (eight years ago) link

Wet hot antipodean winter.

mutually aquatinted (doo dah), Friday, 15 January 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link

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

rip van wanko, Friday, 15 January 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link

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

Professor Bworlph (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 January 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link

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

James Morrison, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:40 (eight years ago) link

^should be viewed more in sorrow than in anger

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 15 January 2016 23:21 (eight years ago) link

Disgust?

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Saturday, 16 January 2016 04:09 (eight years ago) link

all appropriate responses

James Morrison, Saturday, 16 January 2016 06:53 (eight years ago) link

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.

Stevolende, Saturday, 16 January 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link

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.

Stevolende, Sunday, 17 January 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link

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.

WilliamC, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link

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

koogs, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link

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

Stevolende, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link

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?)

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 18:49 (eight years ago) link

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

lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link

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

WilliamC, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link

Caption: "Fucking physics"

Evan, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link

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

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link

"Choppin' broccolayyyy..."

nickn, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 20:03 (eight years ago) link

Solution: stop eating vegetables

kinder, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link

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.

Stevolende, Thursday, 28 January 2016 14:35 (eight years ago) link

I solve this problem by not chopping things into discs.

ilxors ananimus (onimo), Friday, 29 January 2016 09:32 (eight years ago) link

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

Stevolende, Friday, 29 January 2016 10:40 (eight years ago) link

Calling the ground outside the floor.

tokyo rosemary, Friday, 29 January 2016 12:45 (eight years ago) link

I just apply the five second rule and dont tell anyone half the carits ended up on the floor.

Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Saturday, 30 January 2016 07:31 (eight years ago) link

Sponsored stories on news sites.

Ad h (onimo), Friday, 5 February 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link

Composers posting MIDI demos of acoustic pieces on Soundcloud.

Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Sunday, 7 February 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link

That stupid allegedly sexy/flirtatious finger-biting pose assumed on movie posters but never actually seen in real life, a la http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/image-base/Movies/W/When_in_Rome/posters/When%20in%20Rome%20movie%20poster%20Kristen%20Bell.jpg

like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Monday, 8 February 2016 00:19 (eight years ago) link

Did you ever wish you could get that caraway seed out of your teeth?

maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 February 2016 00:21 (eight years ago) link

FPd for hating Kristen Bell.

Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Monday, 8 February 2016 01:16 (eight years ago) link

(Not her best poster, I'll grant.)

Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Monday, 8 February 2016 01:16 (eight years ago) link

avocado egg rolls

lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 8 February 2016 01:37 (eight years ago) link

when i click "remove bookmark from thread" instead of "bookmark"

lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 11 February 2016 22:48 (eight years ago) link

friends who fly over to visit *only you* but "dont want to be a bother" about getting picked up from the airport

jfc it's a 20 min drive i'm not sending a horsedrawn fucking carriage

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:31 (eight years ago) link

People willing to wait in line more than 45 minutes for restaurants need to re-evaluate their priorities, imo.

Darin, Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link

Dear wife of my so-called best friend: For the second year running, you have "forgotten" to invite me to your birthday drinks until the eleventh hour, because you "forgot" I'm not on twitter and wont see your posts there, despite the fact Ive not been on twitter and you have for many years now.

Dont toss a sulk when I have to decline because less than 24 hours notice on a Friday when i have kids means I might have other things on. Grr.

Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:55 (eight years ago) link

....probably not irrational at all, but eh.

Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link

FTR I'm loving parent Trayce.

It's dummy on dummy crime (sunny successor), Friday, 12 February 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link

People who say "this happened to x and I" instead of "this happened to x and me"

Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Saturday, 13 February 2016 01:22 (eight years ago) link

FTR I'm loving parent Trayce.

ikr!

still have some side-eye for her co-parent tho

mookieproof, Saturday, 13 February 2016 01:26 (eight years ago) link

me three!

<3 watchful mookie

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 February 2016 04:02 (eight years ago) link

Aw youse guys <3

Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Saturday, 13 February 2016 06:28 (eight years ago) link

where did "yaaaaaaaasssss" come from and has the perpetrator been murdered yet

gaz coombes? yo he don't got NUTHIN ta prove! (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 February 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link

I believe it came from black trans culture, which casts your question in a pretty depressing light.

how's life, Saturday, 13 February 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link

yes cos clearly I knew that when I posted it.

gaz coombes? yo he don't got NUTHIN ta prove! (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 February 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link

probably one of those things that would be obvious if I heard it out loud rather than saw it typed by very not-back, not-transgendered people all over my feed

gaz coombes? yo he don't got NUTHIN ta prove! (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 February 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link

I believe it came from black trans culture, which casts your question in a pretty depressing light.

People from traditionally oppressed groups can be annoying as fuck sometimes, and it's okay to admit it.

the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 13 February 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link


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