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

I was waiting in line at the airport just a few minutes ago, waiting for the monitor to ding and tell me what attendant to see. Instead, this person down at the end starts waving and shouting, so I head down there. "I think your monitor number button is broken," I say. "Oh," she says, "I didn't press the button."

Why not!?!?!

Also, I hate the sound of people eating in movie theatres, especially popcorn.

i don't understand the monitor dinging story. i've never waited in a line at the airport where they pressed.. what, buttons? to make a sound that indicates you're next?

At the Southwest counter there is a monitor that dings and says things like "proceed to clerk 34" or "proceed to clerk 21" or whatever. When it's not dinging it's just showing pictures of Southwest staff making silly faces, which I stared at until they yelled me over, which they would not have had to do if they simply pressed the button and made the monitor ding and say "proceed to counter 21."

That's up there with people who knock gently on my front door instead of pushing the doorbell.

And another yes to harbl's turn signal.

13.1 and 26.2 stickers on cars. You ran a marathon, fuuuuucking grrreaaaattt I needed to know.

Everybody, everywhere, always. Maybe better suited for the depression thread. (Not to mistaken for misanthropy - I love people, I just find them deeply irritating)

I don't really deal with Facebook much these days, but I had a couple of friends who whose running devices would automatically post the distance they just ran. "Dan just ran 10 miles!" or whatever. I really wanted to post, like, "Josh just walked a half block!"

"Brian thought about walking from Staples to Trader Joe's but it was like half a block and the car was right there so..."

13.1 and 26.2 stickers on cars.

Yeah if you're so great at running long distances, why are informing me of that while you're driving?

It seems a trifle defensive. Like a beer mug that says "I didn't drink very much last month." Or a cookie tin that says "normally I go gluten-free, but I'm splurging right now."

I like to read this thread imagining it in the voice of Paul Rust and his new no-noes

That's about right.

when I'm trying to listen to music and read an article at the same time on my phone and some James Corden video ad on the New Yorker site keeps popping up and turning Spotify off

Ugghhh James Corden

and the rest.

I'm not sure why I hate James corden so much - everyone seems to live him. But for some reason he has the stink of britpop lad culture on him.

He's an unfunny, untalented, arrogant charisma vacuum. Everyone I know thinks he's a cunt and so do I.

I live James Corden. it's weird and I feel a lot more like myself when I leave the Malkovich machine

He's an unfunny, untalented, arrogant charisma vacuum. Everyone I know thinks he's a cunt and so do I.

― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, January 10, 2017 3:36 PM

^^^^ this

xp Neanderthal heh

But for some reason he has the stink of britpop lad culture on him.

I got the impression England had basically gotten sick of him for this very reason and he was banished over here. Also get the impression his super nice "character" is entirely an act designed to steal some of Fallon's thunder.

hes more stage school than lad culture

the angle he holds his head at warrants serious consideration, like one of those spitting dinosaurs just prior to a strike

a beautiful but deadly addition to american television

When someone says 'are you there' on the phone while having spent the last 40 minutes talking to them and taking 2 seconds to breathe. Strikes me as high maintenance.

(customer)

Technology getting too small to be handled comfortably. Had to pick up a Flash drive at the airport cos I realised i'd left my memory stick at my mother's place. Now got this thing which is 32GB but is the size of a thumbnail including the part you stick into the computer.
So actually being able to take it out of the computer and put in the tv then take it out of the slot there is a pain.
Could do with a handle or something.

Can't get a grip on it if i have it on a multiusb extension thing cos it doesn't stick out as far as the USB connections on the cables beside it.

was it a name brand drive in original packaging? I'm justifiably paranoid guy when it comes to flash memory devices

Yeah, it was name drive bought from name high st type shop. Airport branch.
It's just really fiddly cos the only bit that isn't the metal connection is a couple of mm thick plastic handle strip. So manipulating in and out of slots demands manual dexterity. Not sure how easy to see through bubble pack it would be. Hate to need to use this if I had arthritis or something. Slot on tv is an indent behind the screen so it's a pain. Memory stick was its own handle for things like that. Several cm of body etc.

I'm with you on those, especially the little bluetooth things.

Had to pick up a Flash drive at the airport

Glad I read the rest of the sentence. Was wondering why you didn't tell it to just grab a taxi.

The fact that Justin Theroux's name is at the top of the cast credits in Mulholland Dr., and not Naomi Watts'.

^ For sure.

I wish we also lived in a time when a movie with a female ensemble class was not billed or perceived as a "female movie" VS. whether it's just a good or bad film.

Overheard a relative and my 7-year-old son talking about Ghostbusters this Christmas

RELATIVE: Did you ever see the sequel? People didn't like it as much as the first one.

SON: No, I've only seen one Ghostbusters. Why didn't they like it?

RELATIVE: Well, first of all, the Ghostbusters were girls....

And yeah, I had so many corrections I wanted to make out loud, but the relative was female and I didn't want to jump in to mansplain the canon and timeline of Ghostbusters to her.

don't even get me started on why the cartoon series was called "the real ghostbusters"

Tuomas's idea that somehow rock guitars are The Enemy.

they are though

http://www.clickmusic.com/images/uploads/The-Enemy-300.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8dgZxmo.jpg?1

probably going to catch flak for eating at a fuddruckers but hey, fuddruckers, how the FUCK you run out of BUNS

people turning the most mundane event into a lengthy conversational anecdote:

so i got a man in and i said "can you fix the ceiling fan" and he said "let me have a look" and he had a look and he said "i'll try to fix it" and he couldn't fix it so i said "what can we do now" and he said "i'll check with head office" and he called head office and he said "we should probably replace the ceiling fan" and they said "yeah that's fine you should replace the ceiling fan" and he hung up and he said "we're going to replace your ceiling fan" and i said "thank you" and he said "we can do it tomorrow" and i said "well that'll be fine"

ok so you've got a new ceiling fan

and several new fans right on this thread

when u mistake an opener only bottle cap for a twist off & shred the fuck out of yr hand trying to open it :(

I have done that - ow ow ow.

i did it tonight & it sucks & i was mad

The state of the paving in the main pedestrianised part of town. Supposed to be even but instead large dip after large dip after loose brick. Most of the time during the day you're trying to avoid somebody walking into you anyway.
So won't be surprised if I hear the council getting sued for accidents.
Also when this was first pedestrianised around the milenium it was given to the same firm in perpetuity. So they'd be fixing their own work to the same standard and not making sure it didn't need to be fixed.

People with huge amounts of dangly shit hanging from their rear-vision mirror. Got a lift from a workmate who had mini disco ball, two air fresheners, some Catholic tat and a teddy bear all hanging from there. How the fuck do you see to drive?

i hate that!

when u mistake an opener only bottle cap for a twist off & shred the fuck out of yr hand trying to open it :(

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 January 2017 14:59 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is deliberate sabotage on behalf of bottle cap designers imo. they all look the same ffs.

1. People who talk on cell phones while on the bus

+

2. Who also happen to be directly behind you and coughing but you cannot tell if they're covering their mouth.

= IA

3. And whose entire conversation consists of telling people that they are on a bus

when your office has perfectly fine spaces to gather & smoke yet ppl still insist on STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING SIDEWALK

like i dont even have a beef with smoking or anything

it's just the standing around IN MY WAY like fucking dullards that i object to