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

the worst is the affirmative "uh huh!" in response to a thank you. like its a huge bother to even form words with yr mouth

I do this and I hate it. I've been making a point of retraining myself to say "You're welcome."

I don't say "no problem" because some waitering job or jobs forbade it for the reasons map gave. I think the reasoning is absolute malarkey, but I think "You're welcome," sounds more formal and appropriate from a waiter in a nice restaurant.

What do you say when people sneeze?

NOTHING.

Used to work with a guy who'd mumble under his breath "godblessyu" anytime someone in the office sneezed. What's the point anyway, but especially when no one can hear you?

god hears and that's what's important

"Plug your fucking germ hole."

I say "Down goes the circus"

Befindlickheit

I say gesundheit b/c when I was a young atheist I was opposed to acknowledging God in any way and the habit stuck.

I still do that despite saying stuff like "god damn" all the time.

Now I'm confused with my kid who can't say gesundheit but I don't want to acknowledge superstition, so I've mostly got him saying "achoo" when he sneezes.

i just say to the sneezer "you sneezed".

the anti-"no problem" argument makes me want to poison myself

I actually hate "you're welcome" more, it sounds sarcastic ! maybe that's an Aus thing I dunno

" I don't want to acknowledge superstition, "

Just a lil precious imo. Ppl not actually asking a deity to protect u after u sneeze etc

I'll sometimes go with, "May God bless you and keep you under His wing. Amen and amen."

people who say "everything happens for a reason"

Just a lil precious imo. Ppl not actually asking a deity to protect u after u sneeze etc

Oh yeah, absolutely, hence the cognitive dissonance as I quite frequently ask a deity I don't believe in to damn things to an eternity in hell.

Not sure how my frequent use of "jesus fucking christ" fits into this either.

Did I ever express my IA about the way that people around here pronounce compilation as "com-PIE-lay-shun"? Drives me nuts.

xp i figured. ive the same dissnonance a lot growing up in a catholic culture where every habitual utterance is a religious reference, impossible to unhardwire that shit

When people get annoyed when you ask them to repeat themselves when you're in a loud setting and can barely hear.

Im at a Walgreens where a cashier said "Bless you" to a customer who sneezed and the customer responded, "God bless the United States of America." (4th of July humor.)

(Accidentally posted this in a politics thread but thought it was funny enough to share in the right place.)

when people sneeze i just call the cops and tell them I saw a gun

People with the same Christian name as me make me IA. I'm think I'm genuinely prejudiced against them. In the pub this afternoon there were four of us out of about a dozen people. Hell is other Kevins.

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Okay I think I am most definitely IA about this band The Baseball Project

People who use 'Christian name' when they mean first name and aren't actively Christian (even if they come from a Christian background). Maybe less irrationally angry but more irrationally confused? Obv I dunno if dowd is actively Christian or not, but that terminology always makes me do a double-take.

I mean, even if I were talking to someone whose background meant that their family name went first, I would probably use 'personal name' instead of 'Christian'. I just can't ever imagine using it. It weirds me out.

one thing really getting my goat lately is people doing that "david bowie died and the whole world has gone mad!" landfill meme. i mean there's probably a long list of awful memes and rehashed makes u think/opinions 4 u after bowie's death, but i've seen this a few times lately.

I hate studies and polls that reveal exactly what you might expect. Just made a big deal on the radio about a new study that determined, to absolutely no one's surprise, that religious and evangelical people are more likely to support Trump, and atheists and other relative non-believers are more likely to support Clinton. The poll also revealed that a lot of people support Trump because they don't like Clinton, and a lot of Clinton's support come from people who don't like Trump.

Yeah, no shit. I hope they saved some of that grant money for something more useful. It's like when they do variations of an older, definitive study and come up with similar results. "OMG, people who smoke and watch tv are more likely to get cancer than people who just watch TV!"

People who use 'Christian name' when they mean first name

i imagine most people use it unthinkingly as they do when saying "bless you".

yeah, I had to consciously train myself into saying "given name" rather than "christian name" when I worked in a call-centre and had to take occasionally customer's personal details, I think most people who say it do so automatically. (I was raised Catholic but we weren't abnormally super-religious or anything)

Around here "first name" is more common than either of those.

I just askin people "what's ya muthafuckin' name?!"

people going on about Theresa May's husband being Britain's "first husband" despite the fact that UK prime ministers wives have never been called the "first lady" or had any particular official title as far as I know. (yes, yes, I know this is irrational, before anyone starts)

God, for a moment, I thought Brian May was going to be living at 10 Downing Street.

twitter seems divided as to whether Mr May looks most like Arthur Askey, Sid Little or Hank Marvin (pretty obviously Askey imo)

JUst been trying to reclaim a lot of material from a hard drive that died on me a number of years ago. It does seem to have brought a lotof stuff back but it's now gone again.
& now the folders are claiming to be empty folders again.

I thought i was getting a lot of it back but it kept freezing and the Windows Explorer would turn itself off.

& now i only have half my Gun Club Bootlegs back and a quarter of my live C.O.b. set.
Which is really frustrating.

Ha soref the irrational anger at the first husband stuff can only be compounded by use of the word "hubby" and the sustained crapness of metro.co.uk

People who use 'Christian name' when they mean first name and aren't actively Christian (even if they come from a Christian background). Maybe less irrationally angry but more irrationally confused? Obv I dunno if dowd is actively Christian or not, but that terminology always makes me do a double-take.

I am a Christian. But I just use it because it's what I'm used to - maybe it's because I grew up in the military? But I've been experiencing lots of bureaucracy recently, and I hear christian name a lot.

Is Dowd your surname? I am supposed to be an O'Dowd but my dad dropped the O in an attempt at Anglicising his name when moved to England in the 60's when some folk didn't want to employ Paddies.

I've just had 2 lengths of babycord that have long white text boxes down the side at regular intervals. Boxes say what design and designer are. Haven't completed a garment out of either yet, have cut jdans from both and am trying to work out how these white strips aren't going to show. Previously if things have said design on them it's been along the selvage. These are like an inch in.
So my perfect psych jeans will look weird. Bummer.

xp Nah, was watching Harvey while I re-registered.

Is anyone going to complain about people using 'maiden name' without spot-checking for virginity status?

people who try to avoid speed bumps in my condo complex by driving through the separation in the middle of the bumps. you aren't going to die by driving over one. you will, however, die if you barrel into my lane and hit me head-on.

(ok that's somewhat dramatic but these people don't always correct their positioning after going over the bump so I've almost sideswiped a few who didn't seem to notice there is traffic coming the opposite way).

also - people who ask "are you using this chair" and start taking it before you've even answered "yes" or "no"

Yeah, the worst. Almost as bad as people who move your bag and coat so they can take your seat while you're out for a cigarette. The perils of drinking alone.

god, that. I was doing a play yesterday and in the backstage area there's a little bench and I put my cell there. I come back and don't see it only to discover this woman is actually practically SITTING on it. she was one of two people sitting on a wide bench and chose to park her cheeks on my cell phone?

worse than moving the bag and coat is not moving it and still taking your seat anyway.

Yes, but if someone does that, you're legally allowed to kill them.

What might be at least as annoying is if a group of people reserve all the available seats in a place. Went to gigs in Whelan's where students would reserve teh few seats in the balcony for their friends and expect you to move when they appeared. Which means that only those people are able to see from the balcony.

Kind of sucks really.

probably true elsewhere too.