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

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.

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

FTR I'm loving parent Trayce.

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

FTR I'm loving parent Trayce.

ikr!

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

me three!

<3 watchful mookie

Aw youse guys <3

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

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

yes cos clearly I knew that when I posted it.

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

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.

I wasn't going for accusatory with my response, but if you dudes want to go with defensive then I guess that's fine.

I wasn't going for accusatory with my response

If true, this puts you among approximately .00000001% of ILX posters, so congrats.

if you dudes want to go with defensive then I guess that's fine

the other 99.999999% of ILX posters

errors in ebooks that i've paid money for. "High-gate" is one word. That it was split across lines in the hard copy version doesn't mean you can hyphenate it in the ebooks. "Myphonerang" is three words.

i'd submit fixes for these but i don't know where to.

oh yeah. in my experience ebooks are sloppy as shit.

navigating footnotes on iphone/ipad

Myphonerang should be a word tho

Businesses that offer free WiFi that doesn't work

^^ seriously the worst

Spent 12 bucks on this chowder
Could you please reset your router
Gratata

Hold music that is interrupted every 17 seconds or so by a spoken message. It's fucking mental torture.

I've said it before but ANY SEARCH FIELD THAT DOES SOMETHING OTHER THAN BE A BLANK FIELD THAT YOU ENTER INFORMATION INTO.

This would include:

• Search fields that already have information inside them, so 9/10 times you perform a search for "SEdowntown pizza placesARCH."

• Search fields that fake you out by appearing to have information in them, even though it's really some sort of ghost word that turns invisible once you set the cursor inside.

• Search fields that offer terms to use that are already in the database. You'd think this would be cool, but no. For example, I frequently use a real estate database to query. I'll start entering the address, and a drop-down will appear offering "JOHN KENNEDY", "JOHN F. KENNEDY", "JOHN F. KENNEDY BLVD", etc. when really, I'd like to search all of those at once simply by looking for all streets that begin with "JOHN " instead of having to do three queries.

• I don't expect to be able to perform boolean searches on every website, but I should be able to do simple things like use quotation marks to search for an exact phrase. Getting the result Couldn't find ""metallica bass tabs"" is ridiculous.

• Wikipedia, you're still on notice for making me actually have to click on the magnifying glass instead of just hitting Enter or Go.

• And search fields that aren't even search fields, just some sort of home key. Maybe I'm tapping it wrong, but I duuno.

Getting the result Couldn't find ""metallica bass tabs"" is ridiculous. a blessing

Listen.

> Wikipedia, you're still on notice for making me actually have to click on the magnifying glass instead of just hitting Enter or Go.

the skype web login has two fields. pressing tab to go from 'name' field to 'password' field submits the form, before you've filled in the password.

the 'name' field says 'name or email'. enter the email and it goes away and looks up the name and replaces your typing with that (after refreshing the page)

also, after resetting my password the website worked immediately, the phone app took 15 minutes before it let me in (same password) and it was 2 hours before the windows version would accept the new password.

"Yellow Cab, how can I help you?"
"Hi, I need a cab to <address>, thanks."
"(heavy sigh) Sir, the first information I'll need from you is your phone number."

OKAY THEN HOW ABOUT YOU ANSWER THE PHONE WITH "YELLOW CAB, CAN I HAVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER, ALSO I AM A DICK"?

Which reminds me of another thing that happens ALL THE TIME these days (and which I feel like I must've complained about here before) where you have to set up a password online which you only get the parameters for after your initial attempt has failed.

• Search fields that already have information inside them, so 9/10 times you perform a search for "SEdowntown pizza placesARCH."

for years the #1 search term on my work's website was "Enter search text here"

Re the cab one, dont you have the system where it sees your caller ID and already knows that info? Where we are, when you call it goes "would you like a booking at your most recent pickup address of 123 fake street?". Especially handy if you drunkenly call from a mates landline at a party and you dont know their street address, ha.

people that share links of songs/videos with me and act butthurt if i Haven't watched them and commented within 2 minutes of transmitting

having to set up a password for pretty much anything that you aren't going to use at least a couple times a month makes me IA.

this website that i'm visiting for the first time ever because i clicked a link that someone i like posted, do i want to subscribe? do i want to subscribe before i've even seen the article that was linked to? no, no i don't.

The Onion becoming a subscription page that only let you look at something like 2 articles in a period of time if you were simply a visitor. Not sure fi taht's still the case but i don't think I've looked at anything on there since it happened and i do think I noticed myself wanting to check siomething on there or read more of something I sawa headline for earlier today for the first time in a while.

Before anyone asks, Americans don't have this problem.

People who poop their dogs in the cemetery

I feel sorry for anyone who poops a dog tbh

keep it in the cemetery and off my lawn, fuckers

company has a private youtube account but when they want to share multiple videos with the company of course they do it with the raw video via cloud so it takes foreeeeever to download each of these huge goddamn files over our shitty internet

gah

lmao why on earth wd you share a raw video file w/ someone unless you were sending it to them to edit

Yeah I'd just push back on that and say "nup. not downloading this. Put it on our channel"

the Quick Selection tool in photoshop (and it's not-quick-selection idiosyncracies) is gonna push me to actual murderous violence one day

If I had a nickel where I'm trying to crop something to an exact dimension, and nail it on the first fuckin' try! only to realize that I hadn't set the ratio and was still on "normal" in the first place....

I could fill a thread.

I hate when people Lync msg at work ask me "can you message" and I say yes and they go "what # can I call you at".

I SAID I COULD MESSAGE, not that I had time to chat on the phone (which you know doesn't allow me to multi-task).

I hate it when some IMs me at work for some favor or other but first has to very slowly go through all this hi, how are you, what's new, nonsense. You are interrupting me, please get to the point quickly so I can get on with my life.

oh god yea. "hope you are well! how's the rheumatism? and the wife and my kids? yuck yuck....anyway just wanted to tell you you're fired"

ugh the smalltalk windup to work requests is so faux quaint & fucking maddening

like, omg you are paid to do this! as am i! you can just fucking ASK me to do a thing without the details of my weekend, it's honestly ok

also i hate smalltalk in life generally it's the most overrated incomprehensible thing to me

the way to disarm them is to give them unexpected answers

"Hi, good morning!
'morning.'
"How are you today?"
'in the midst of taking a wicked crap right now - I'm not gonna lie, the prognosis does not look good if I go with two-ply'

Online shop recommendation robots that basically go, "You liked a book by JOHN SMITH, have you considered this book by JOHN SMITH?"