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

I like the lists. All of the ones I've seen posted up have had the type of good conversation mh mentions. Also it makes me nostalgic b/c it's very web 1.0.

Those ename "quizzes" really do suck, though, they're not even quizzes, they're literally just "please click on this and we'll spout some nonsense while we scrape your data". At least meitu and faceapp give you amusing pictures while they do it.

Ive been googling re faceapp to work out if theres anything suss going on there and havent found anything (i havent used it). Aside from the accusations of raceism.

it definitely lightens the skin tone of people when you choose the "hot" option, which is probably the racism bit (which is valid, I said that the first time I read it and they turned Rick Ross into an albino)

I didn't mind the ten gigs, one's a ringer thing because a) half of my friends are music writers or similar and b) silently judging the five women on my timeline for posting YOU GO GIRL memes as part of the marketing for their chosen MLMs was getting boring.

I mean, I don't bitch about it, but my least favorite part of an ILM poll thread is at the end where everyone starts posting their Top 50 Violent Femmes songs or whatever. I just don't care!

the whole thing is just "check out my music tastes", plus a dumb little game whose only goal is "please comment on my music tastes"

in other words, not very different from what we do here

yeah idk it's also a self-selector of whether you list the most recent cool shows, your favorites from when you were a kid, or the dumbest ones you can think of that make it genuinely hard to guess

tbh it's a lot more illuminating to hear about musical taste from people who aren't constantly cranking out lists, even if their tastes are pretty middle of the road. ilm lists are so specific that I'm not going to get into an interesting conversation with someone about how they ranked one song a spot higher than another on their best Gino Vannelli best singles list

judging by the people I see doing these lists, the joke is "Can you believe that I, a person with such impeccable musical taste, went to see Motley Crue and Bon Jovi in concert?"

Yeah, this isn't about taste, this is about randomly guessing which random show some person randomly (or intentionally) did or did not see. It might as well be a personality test. "Which State Fair Band Are You!?"

that's a bad joke and is 100% indicative of a particular attitude and a strong indicator of how that person views their tastes and is distinctly triangulating them against that joke entry!

how is it not about taste when it's nine "look at my good taste" entries and one "this is distinctly a joke" entry

Because a bazillion of them are "look at these ten shitty acts, guess which one I didn't see."

This is what my feed has looked like this week x 300:

http://i.imgur.com/42SO3N6.jpg

well I bow to your bazillion facebook contacts, my focus group was a lot smaller

I have such few Facebook peeps, and they were all posting this nonsense.

I've seen 11 of the acts on that grave, can you guess which ones?!

I don't really care to *scrolls*

would encourage anyone who dislikes this meme to do a version with skynyrd as their fake

I only accept pre-'77 skynrd performances and will argue in the comments you did not actually see real skynrd

Someone I know just listed ten Grateful Dead concert dates/venues.

that should kill it

bowing to that person as a master of the form right now

You're gonna throw your back out with all that bowing.

ravages of age

ilxor tarfumes did a funny fake list on facebook and i laughed.

The stage plot on that headstone bugs me because the cabinets aren't behind the musicians and there are no monitor wedges. One might charitably concede that this is from the era of in-ear monitors, maybe? But that doesn't fit with the list of acts.

Also the musicians are all ghosts.

how is it not about taste when it's nine "look at my good taste" entries and one "this is distinctly a joke" entry

Get yourself some better friends.

Yeah, I had Nickelback as one of my nine.

Performative sneezing. There is no need to engage your vocal chords at all, let alone make everyone in the room jump and frighten small children.

^^^my mum used to do this, less the explosion than the lead up to it, she sounded like melanie griffiths in when harry met sally >:(

i am a loud noseblower i fear but that just makes ppl laugh on the bus

I'm a loud sneezer but I'll work to better myself

People who work at theme parks seem to think that everybody else is so interested in their fucking theme park life.

Performative sneezing. There is no need to engage your vocal chords at all, let alone make everyone in the room jump and frighten small children.

I was just thinking about this in bed this morning after scaring the shit out of my cat.

At work I was sitting in on a trial for almost 2 months, during which time I struggled to sneeze not-too-loudly. It couldn't keep from engaging my vocal cords. Usually I tried to muffle the sound by sneezing into the crook of my arm, when I could catch it in time.

It's definitely gotten worse with age, but IDK why.

tbh I find people who suppress their sneezes worse, I always fear they are doing themselves damage.

Oho god yes especially when they hold their nose!!! You'll damage your eardrums!

I did that a few times during this trial and it hurt my ears and eyes and sometimes it. Lee out my mouth, making a raspberry/motorboat sound. Far worse.

Let the wind go free, wherever thee may be is my own philosophy. But with a beware the follow through cautionary nb, that should be applied more rigidly to farts than sneezes imo.

tv characters who are only famous when it suits the story (frasier being the obvious example). right now i'm watching some terrible chinese drama with a woman who in one episode is so gobsmackingly a-list she has to wear giant sunglasses everywhere, and in the next episode so anonymous she can chuck a tanty in public and go totally unnoticed, and it's really getting up my arse.

otm. Also, when a tv show decides that characters aren't working and sideline them (like the kids in Designated Survivor) but then make sure that the remaining characters mention them in every episode so people don't get upset or something

*googles "chuck a tanty"*

Makes me angry when houseguests empty the dishwasher but put everything away in the wrong places. It's cool that you're helping, but just ask! Because now it's a household scavenger hunt for me, which is extra work, often when I least expect it. (I'm looking at you, missing oval yellow Fiesta ware plate.)

See, my IA begins when they put the items into the wrong places inside the dishwasher.

public restroom design makes me IA -- like the handtowels are over *here* but the trash can is over *there*
it's just ridiculous to me that they're not side by side. or the handtowels directly above the trash can.

AND don't make people walk across these huge weird bathrooms just to dry their fucking hands!

it drives me crazy. most of these places are new and it's like, okay great you have a copper basin and a fancy floor to ceiling mirror but your floor is covered in water and there's trash everywhere good job

that walk is part of the air drying process

Makes me IA that if I ever have to use the public restroom at the station while switching trains I end up getting chased out by screaming psychotics for disturbing their reports to homeworld while security guards look at their phones and drool.

Makes me angry when houseguests empty the dishwasher but put everything away in the wrong places. It's cool that you're helping, but just ask! Because now it's a household scavenger hunt for me, which is extra work, often when I least expect it. (I'm looking at you, missing oval yellow Fiesta ware plate.)

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, May 4, 2017 9:53 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree. when you are a guest in my home, don't worry about doing anything. when i go to your place, i want to relax and enjoy myself as a guest, i don't want to do your dishes

See, my IA begins when they put the items into the wrong places inside the dishwasher.

This is where it begins! Actually, this is maybe the second or third step. The first is them leaving glasses and dishes and mugs all over the place, so you can't tell whose is whose and which are still clean/in use. Then you put them in the dishwasher, and an hour later there are new glasses and dishes and mugs all over the place, which if you don't catch they load incorrectly into the dishwasher, along with other things. And then you have to run the washer, which you've been doing twice as much as usual because there are more people, but if you're not fast enough they put away the clean stuff in all the wrong places.

This past visit, I had guests fold our dinner napkins ... after dinner. It wasn't until I went to put them away that I realized they were dirty. Thanks for nothing, assholes. What are you, three?

Don't even get me started on dishwasher SOP's.

my IA begins when I have guests in my house tbh

I honestly kind of like when guests put dishes away because it makes me ponder the arbitrariness of some of the organizing principles my wife and I have organically developed over the years, like why these two coffee mugs go on the small shelf next to the sink while all of the other ones go in a cupboard, where the use once a day vs. once a month utensils go, etc.