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

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.

Yeah gross

gross, but not as bad as the people I've spotted on the highway down here who like to chuck their fast food debris out of the windows of their speeding cars

ugh. also spitting.

chucking anything out of a car is pretty fucked.

https://media.giphy.com/media/kum9D2Wqqxyrm/giphy.gif

Eurgh that just reminded me that two weeks ago i was sat outside the fox in haggerston, having a pint and waiting for my friends and i got chatting to some other people outside... only for some fucker to throw eggs out a speeding car window at us. I didnt get hit but this one guy got hit by two, one right in the face. It was absolutely vile. Poor guy.

That didnt make me irrationally angry though cos its not irrational to think thats fucking disgusting.

> Your IP address is in a range which has been blocked on all wikis.
> Start of block: 09:04, 7 April 2016
> Expiration of block: 19:05, 6 October 2016

you've blocked roughly 1/4 of english mobile phone users from editing wikipedia pages for 6 months?

what kind of brain deficiency do you have to have to treat a merge lane in a traffic jam as some kind of magical empty lane that no-one's using

i would love an in-car taser for these assholes that duck out & try to merge back in 500 ft later

and these same assholes then just keep rolling up along side you without even trying to get a break in traffic & just creep until the lane has disappeared like the point is to physically merge with my CAR

sorry, got stuck in a lot of traffic these last couple of days, so much in-car shouting I had to vent

Every time I read about some fucking Internet troll getting thousands of dollars from a bullshit sympathy campaign on GoFundMe or wherever I want to just start punching people and flipping cars.

Veg, as long as there's a dotted white lane and no "No Passing" signs around, those cars are in the right and may be helping alleviate traffic.

Every time I read about some fucking Internet troll getting thousands of dollars from a bullshit sympathy campaign on GoFundMe or wherever I want to just start punching people and flipping cars.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:01 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait can anyone do this or?

I well could use £50k. I'd actually use to do something too, maybe.

Im not an internet troll though, i just earnestly post about football wrestling and how shit my personal life and trying to start my own business can be.

and these same assholes then just keep rolling up along side you without even trying to get a break in traffic & just creep until the lane has disappeared like the point is to physically merge with my CAR

These assholes are my least favorite assholes. Someone did this to me the other day (in San Francisco, no surprise) and I just cut them off and drove slightly in the other lane so they had to pull behind me. It is one of the perks of having a wider car.

The worst assholes in this regard are the ones who refuse to merge into the lanes going to 80 E (Berkeley/Sacramento) and effectively slow down Westbound traffic to San Francisco because of their sense of entitlement. This is totally rational anger.

My pet peeve is the exact opposite because you're impeding traffic when you do that.

http://i.imgur.com/2cYbLhW.gif http://i.imgur.com/GkWQAEo.gif

The biggest assholes are the people driving cars

the issue is "consistent speed" - people here in that situation will speed up in the empty lane and then slow and swerve, leading to a chain reaction of stop and go

It's already stop and go. If anything, using the extra lane would move the point of stopping and going up a little further.

the car queue in the "zipper merge" animation scenario above seems beyond optimistic

Similar thing happens in my town (which is not San Francisco, I admit.)

Here's where a single line forms, going toward North Little Rock, in the far left lane.

http://i.imgur.com/bTeuYl5.png

Even though there are two lanes available, some commuters will throw a shit fit if you try to use the right lane. Why?

http://i.imgur.com/mhLhJ8p.png

Because waaaaay up here is this sign. Fair enough, any merging does need to happen before this point, but there's no use in starting it half a mile back the other way.

http://i.imgur.com/beP7Sb0.png

THIS IS WHY THERE IS MORE THAN ONE LANE. THIS IS A MAJOR ADVANTAGE CARS HAVE OVER TRAINS.

It's already stop and go. If anything, using the extra lane would move the point of stopping and going up a little further.

― pplains, Sunday, May 22, 2016 11:27 AM (10 minutes ago)

that's the thing -- in the scenarios I see, it is not stop and go already.

AND the stupid 80E people are making traffic worse for the 80W San Francisco people, who as I see it, are totally blameless in the fact that there are too many people getting on 80E. We should not be inconvenienced by the 80E people choosing to drive a more high-traffic route.

The biggest assholes are the people driving cars

congrats on being privileged enough to not require one!

lol yes the privilege of mass transit

the privilege of living somewhere where there is mass transit, where it's safe to walk to it ...