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

i had one in my bathroom that would come on, then dim suddenly, then get gradually brighter. it failed completely soon afterwards. i ended up buying a new LED lightbulb, 1/6th the energy usage for the same brightness, 25 year lifetime (about 4x more expensive than traditional bulb). vg, would buy again. i had trouble finding one as bright as the one it replaced though, ended up shuffling a few around until i was happy with what was where.

lights are typically on a different circuit to other electricity.

THanks, might just sort outif i can get up to the light fitting and change the bulb. ceiling is pretty high in this room. So getting at the actual wiring may not be taht easy. & the light fitting socket itself needs a ladder to get up to.
I don't remember when I've had to replace one of these things in this room, that one may have replaced a normal lightbulb or may have replaced another CFL.
Just surprised by this seeming to die, or like somebody had actually turned it off, then coming back on to normal, staying like that for an hour or 2 then doing something similar again. It stayed off abit longer the last time. Then came back on again.
I tried it this morning , thinking that it might just blow when the switch was turned on since normal lightbulbs tend to but it came on as normal.

So hoping a new one works ok. Especially since i have no idea who I need to get hold of about wiring if that was teh problem.
Previous landlord changeovers have been accompanied by letters announcing them and saying who one needs to get hold of etc. Now we've just seen a sign saying the Blocks been sold and another tenant said they tried to get onto the previous management agency to find something out to be told that the block was no longer under their supervision.

I've also had CFLs bulbs that start dim when I turn them on and then get brighter, so it's likely just the bulb is at the end of its life. The smell may be from the bulb, like a flourescent tube's ballast going bad (that burned paper smell).

The worst are those recessed lighting bulbs, they do that all the time and short out inside of 6 months, at least in my experience. Once, my flatmate went into the bathroom and the overhead recessed bulb full on exploded and showered him in tiny glass shards :/

people who go to parking garages where there are clearly two different lanes in which they can pick up a ticket, and everybody files into ONE lane. mostly cos at Pointe Orlando, when they do that it causes a bottleneck and then you often can't squeeze by to get into the empty lane, due to the way its designed.

Wondering if it is a constant any time you have a film made in any specific location you're familiar with to be wondering why the film's geographical logic doesn't follow the real one.
Sat and watched a show yesterday where a plot point hinged on a teen having to wait for a bus home to a location that was about 50 feet away from where he was standing.
So wondered if that was true with somebody any time there was external shooting in any film.

Or is it all supposed to be covered by suspension of disbbelief or artistic license or something.

teens r lazy

Yeah, I used to get amazed on the crowds of teens/young students waiting for the bus into the university which was about a 10 minute walk away, back when I lived on that side of town. But that is another point.

Thought it weird also that if the teen was standing where he was standing waiting for a bus on the actual service he was waiting on he'd get to the end stop in a 10 minute walk. But there you go

So wondered if that was true with somebody any time there was external shooting in any film.

This happened to me when watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier, since the big Sam Jackson car chase sequence near the beginning makes no geographical sense whatsoever. In fact, it starts and ends at the same intersection in downtown Cleveland.

Wondering if it is a constant any time you have a film made in any specific location you're familiar with to be wondering why the film's geographical logic doesn't follow the real one.
Sat and watched a show yesterday where a plot point hinged on a teen having to wait for a bus home to a location that was about 50 feet away from where he was standing.
So wondered if that was true with somebody any time there was external shooting in any film.

There is a poetry slam movie set in DC where one of the slam scenes in a club is set in Fez, under the old Time Cafe in Manhattan. At one point the protagonist runs out of the club and across town to the...Lincoln Memorial.

This is why I could never watch the Blues Brothers with my stepdad from Chicago.

Blues Brothers is mostly accurate, iirc.

He saw the sign for the funeral home where they first get stopped and went nuts when they suddenly appeared inside the Dixie Square Shopping Center.

I get the same way during Smokey & The Bandit, so who am I to point fingers.

Ha, yeah, forgot about that. That would be like an hour-long chase.

A friend of mine lived near the Dixie Square in 1979-80, which was closed at the time. Suddenly one day it appeared open, lit up, and fully-stocked. Two days later, closed again. He thought he'd imagined its phantom reopening until he saw the Blues Brothers months later and realized it was done for the filming.

This shit is worse when you live in a country like Australia or Canada and your country gets used as a cheap stand-in for America; recognisible Melbourne or Sydney or Toronto landmarks are supposed to be somewhere in downtown Bumfuckville, USA

yeah there was that Jackie Chan one (Mr nice guy, I think?) where he'd run into Block Arcade in the CBD, and emerge from some random spot in Fitzroy or some crap.

I get cravings for candy at movies. But don't want a whole box of the shit. The Regals near me always have 50 cent candy machines. I always have singles and no change. There is always a change machine next to them

None of them ever. Fucking. Work.

This is more US-centric than what JM was talking about, but Robocop (set in New Detroit) always kills me with its shots of Dallas.

http://i.imgur.com/1N8ycLS.jpg

THAT'S THE FUCKING REUNION TOWER, THE MOST FAMOUS LANDMARK IN DALLAS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE MURDER OF A U.S. PRESIDENT.

what if the movie wasn't filmed in dallas, they just cgi'd the tower in for its deep and obvious symbolism

i saw a movie that was actually partially shot in Orlando last year. was fairly good overall but they kept talking about the Suntrust Building downtown like it was some landmark that every Orlandoan cherish as some kind of landmark when in reality it's just where people go and take a piss when they're drunk.

tbf, that's like the #1 pastime in Orlando

Wondering how amateur using a reversed version of a pretty well known image of a band as a magazine cover is. Just seen the next Shindig. That staircase image of Love has been around for years. It actually has another shot in the sequence taken from the other side of the stairs. So why they've gone ahead with that image escapes me. Seems like a stupid mistake. But that isn't the first time I've seen or read something like that in there.

I work with someone whose boyfriend came in to see her, and he was wearing a fedora. This alone is annoying. But then later found a hat brush and cleaned it while he was wearing it. This drove me mental for some reason.

people who laugh when they're angry as a means of saying "I'm sorry I'm being such a dick but this should be soooo obvious to you".

Finding that my boyfriend has been unironically posting in threads called 'Do you reckon you'll have sex today?'. But it's cool because he's proven himself to be a feminist with all his unresearched writing about the sex industry.

so my phone can do all this amazing magical stuff but doesn't have a tiny LED near the USB port so I can plug the charger in in the dark?

Looks like exiting managing company canceled the rubbish collection and new landlord hasn't introduced themself or picked up such things.
So the rubbish compound is accumulating and looks like it'll overflow.

Also finding out that my problem with the lights recently has been experienced by at least one other tenant in the block.

When people post Humans of New York type stories that involve unbearable tragedy to facebook -- I start reading them in the middle of a workday with no preparation for what I'm going to read, expecting a cute story or something, and then suddenly I'm reading about a mother watching her seven year old slowly die and I have to fight not to bawl uncontrollably. It's not that I think the stories shouldn't be shared at all, it's just that there's something about having it sprung on you out of nowhere when you're not at all emotionally prepared and maybe even have people walking by your open office door.

yeah I saw that and just had to shut my phone down and go do something else like hug my toddler

podcasts that try to sound like npr, with incidental music & sound effects in the background while ppl are talking

shows that are on npr like snap judgment and ted radio hour and some other thing with their stupid jumpy editing

i found this washington post podcast about presidents, but I got halfway through the george washington one & they kept adding sounds all the time, like were talking about the revolution & there's clopping hooves & marching boot sounds
gaaaaah stop it, i get it

Jeans that don't have a belt loop in the centre at the back.

Hey, California

You can use the bike lane to turn right when there isn't a dedicated turn lane. You do not have to completely stop in street traffic and execute a geometrically perfect 45 degree turn. Also you could use your turn signals. Before you're halfway through your turn.

Oh and when you're making a left turn you don't have to swerve halfway into the next lane just to get the right angle. If you know how to drive that fucking behemoth SUV/pickup/Area Denial Vehicle.

In New York, a new thing, not sure if it's happening elsewhere: people coming in the opposite direction who refuse to walk on the right side of the sidewalk and insist on walking on the left (to your right). Maddening.

People who cant walk properly in big cities in general. Usually tourists.

Agreed. But these are all definitely locals. It's something weirder, more pernicious, that's going on!

That reminds me, for the past several months, on a certain stretch of relatively wide sidewalk, people have been stepping into the street, on our right, to pass us. Rather than to the left.
????
It's mostly students, though I have seen older folks as well.

The Inuits say that the Earth recently wobbled off its magnetic poles. I think there is general directional pandemonium as a result.

I have been getting really irrationally annoyed at people who walk onto escalators then stop (usually so you can't get past). Pretty sure 90% of this thread is about such people though.

I have been getting really irrationally annoyed at people who walk onto escalators then stop (usually so you can't get past). Pretty sure 90% of this thread is about such people though.

Oh yeah, that's bad. How about people who wear giant backpacks on public transport and take out five or six people when they swing around?

People who browse my store and dont find anything they wanna buy but cant leave without making a point of they will definitely come back to buy something to me. Just leave its cool you dont have to lie to me.

Maybe this would be fine if it didnt happen all the fucking time. Just fuck off.

ppl in stores who act like this are the worst. just wander through the aisles haphazardly not looking where anyone else is. i was at ikea a couple weeks ago and this dude was standing in the middle of the pathway that ikea has where they have arrows. he was taking up too much room and talking to his wife or whomever but there was plenty of room for me to walk by. the minute i walked by he steps backwards and i duck out of his way, because i'm not a savage so i'm paying attention to where my body is, and i keep walking. when i get like 10 feet away he says not quietly "people never say excuse me when they walk by anymore it's incredible." like this is my fault you take up all the space?

always amazes me when people decide to move without bothering to scan the area around them and then acting stunned that someone else actually occupies the space around them.

I once got smashed into by this guy at work because I was leaving the elevator, and he was entering, and he was walking onto the elevator with his head facing the complete opposite direction talking to somebody. he was apologetic but y'know.

friend of mine actually got a concussion at Universal studios cos a dude who wasn't paying attention basically steamrolled her, and then didn't even stop to see if she was ok.

people who stop immediately after walking out of a store... sociopaths.

this week i saw a person fling a cigarette butt onto the road, like while walking down a busy street and chatting to a friend. i was honestly so astonished by this that i came very close to confronting them about it. like... who do they think picks that up? i know i shouldn't expect such a person to have an eyepatch and a hook for a hand but they looked like a normal fairly decent human being - i just couldn't believe it. i did wonder if it could be cultural, like are there european countries where littering like this is normal or okay?

cig butt throwing is the fucking worst.

we've had many wildfires in the US started due to shit like that (discarded cig in a wooded area).

people who stop immediately after walking out of a store... sociopaths.

this week i saw a person fling a cigarette butt onto the road, like while walking down a busy street and chatting to a friend. i was honestly so astonished by this that i came very close to confronting them about it. like... who do they think picks that up? i know i shouldn't expect such a person to have an eyepatch and a hook for a hand but they looked like a normal fairly decent human being - i just couldn't believe it. i did wonder if it could be cultural, like are there european countries where littering like this is normal or okay?

You're kidding, right? People have been putting out their butts on the street and not picking them up as long as there's been smoking. I'm not saying it's right, but ingrained behavior over generations doesn't just vanish overnight. Kind of like smoking itself.

Do you mean actually throwing it, as opposed to like dropping it on the floor and stamping it out?

yeah that's the distinction i mean. i mean i know people kind of sheepishly or otherwise dump butts outside buildings, but this was like someone walking down a busy street in a nice part of london, not like a carpark outside a pub or whatever. it just struck me as so strange.

and THROWING IT, i mean like tossed out of one hand into the middle of the road. i genuinely couldn't believe someone could be so mundane and heinous all at once.