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

http://www.itsyummi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mustard-potato-salad-feat.jpg

That looks like egg salad

Strong mustard component, as all potato salad should have.

Wasn't Strong Mustard Component an Elephant 6 band?

I'm sure most of my posts are about this but
FUCCCKKK YOU INFINITE SCROLL

Wasn't Strong Mustard Component an Elephant 6 band?

― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.)

Rejected Butthole Surfers album title, iirc.

Boomerang

hell yes

they'd defend Milo's speech from government censorship or suppression if necessary

A little more than that (though that alone is enough for bemusement from countries that actually have hate speech laws):

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/12/514785623/the-aclu-explains-why-theyre-supporting-the-rights-of-milo-yiannopoulos

More importantly, I'm pretty sure Jeff's second picture is cauliflower cheese.

I can't live like this here.

First thing this morning a dude sat down on the bus and I briefly looked at him, to which he replied: "What the FUCK are you looking at?". There's some people in the city that if you look at for a split second, they'll try to instigate a fight. It's not the first time.

sounds like he had a bad case of irrational anger to me :-(

i can't tolerate people who spell my first name wrong

harbI?

yeah, that is my legal name, mh

people keep writing harbyl

fwiw I did the capital i as L trick

at my place of work i go by my given name "jamie" because my glasgow accent saying "jim" is always interpreted as "gem" in canada - something that makes me IA

Have you tried Jamesie yet?

have you tried practicing it in a ridiculous canadian accent? I'm picturing when a british actor does a bad american accent.. "Hi there, my name is Jim" *face contorts*

people can't pronounce my last name. It is a bit of an unusual name, but it is short and pronounced exactly as it is spelled, and it gets mangled all the time.

I get that weird anxiety that maybe I have a speech impediment or can't pronounce my own name when people repeat it back incorrectly

people correct my pronunciation of my own last name. "oh, you mean x?" no i don't mean x. if i meant x i would say x.

saying "jim" is always interpreted as "gem"

Jim, Gem, Gym ... I guess it's good that we only talk here in letters.

i can't tolerate people who spell my first name wrong

I was given an odd name that I've legally regularized. No one could pronounce the old one correctly (including me, and evidently my parents as well). Long story, not worth it.

The IAness I wish to discuss instead is about strangers going to short forms without invitation and without asking. Not every Elizabeth wants to be called Liz. Not every Joseph is a Joe. Not every Patrick is a Pat. Not every Jennifer is a Jenny. People think they're being friendly and familiar but to my ear they're being rude.

If you switch around a few letters in my wife's name it contains a swear word-- I always wonder, when people made this mistake with it, if it ever crosses their minds that this can't be the correct spelling and maybe they should look at it again?

The IAness I wish to discuss instead is about strangers going to short forms without invitation and without asking.

Totally a legitimate complaint, but I've always wondered why.

I've got a friend named Matthew and GOD FORBID anyone slips up and calls him Matt. Then there are two other friends of mine, Clayton and Clay.

My name is Tre. Only way it could be shorter is if it was Re. I've always been secretly jealous of everyone with polysyllabic names who have dozens of variations. Even guys named Bob can be Bobby if they want. Wear a different name every day of the week.

hey tre tre

maybe with a hyphen, idk it's your name

your name is now.... T-Ray

YMP = Maurice Micklethwaite

YMP also = ragingly OTM about short forms of names

Yours, Not An Andy.

it drives me fucking nuts that americans don't know how to pronounce 'craig'

Wut

Assume you mean that it should rhyme with "vague" (approximately), as opposed to "leg"?

yep! fucking 'cregg' is bullshit grrrrrr

Also Graham

tru

Assume you mean that it should rhyme with "vague" (approximately), as opposed to "leg"?

Why would it rhyme with "leg"?

Because that's how we say it.

Rhymes with "Greg."

But I thought Americans were all about nobly trying to standardize English spelling and remove inconsistencies where possible? It's like my longstanding (intensely tedious, I can only apologize) bugbear about "Auld Lang Syne" and where/how/why/when the idea took hold that it was pronounced, "Auld Lang Zyne", I mean, why, wtf?

my name's pasta

i can't tolerate people who spell my first name wrong

― assawoman bay (harbl), Friday, 24 February 2017 00:21 (sixteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lookit I don't wanna start a fight but we haven't even established that you pronounce it correctly so I mean

there is only one way to pronounce my name so that is not the problem. the problem is people who need to make all Cs Ks and all Is Ys and add Es to everything.

tom d powerfully otm

XP skilfully avoiding my cross examination imo!

C'mon, my fellow Americans, "ai" is a diphthong and it is not pronounced like "eh." I've always pronounced "Craig" to rhyme more or less with "vague." Is this a regional thing?

when you're typing an address into Google maps and the address you want autocompletes so you move to click on it and the damn address CHANGES right as you do that