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

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second-hand smoke - even a tiny waft - makes me cough at best, retch at worst esp when pregnant. overdoing the lynx/perfume is just as bad.

kinder, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link

I feel like ppl think I'm being pass-agg when I violently cough but it's genuine! It can't really be avoided though unless it's somewhere obnoxious like a cafe

kinder, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link

I'll pass a smoker on the sidewalk and take deep breaths. Ah. Reminds me of the good times, of my grandfather, of my youth, of playing in the band.

Wasn't always the case. Used to gag when I'd pass a smoker on the sidewalk, back when I was undergoing chemotherapy.

pplains, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link

Kinder, I’m with you — and I’m an ex-smoker. Curiously, though, only certain cigarettes make me cough/retch.

rb (soda), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link

This is irrational but: ads on free Spotify for Spotify premium. "Pay us and you can listen without these annoying ads... stop us doing this... and thiiiisss... are you ready to throw your phone across the room yet?.... How about another ad straight after this one?"

kinder, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link

it drives me nuts when people judge me for doing a drug a few times a month and they smoke weed every day, and that's not a big deal? I wish people would stop comparing their addictions.

Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link

I find the stench of weed more offensive than cigs tbh.

weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link

the fact that Elijah Wood seems incapable of wearing a shirt that he doesn't button up to the top button

circa1916, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link

this book is not for you https://www.amazon.com/Buttoned-Up-London-Penguin-Underground-Lines/dp/1846145686

-_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link

Rhyming m with n

gass mccoombes (qiqing), Thursday, 3 August 2017 06:52 (six years ago) link

can i add 'Deep Heat' to the second hand smoke and excessive perfume mentioned above. k, thx, bye.

koogs, Thursday, 3 August 2017 10:52 (six years ago) link

Every time the "New Aphex Twin Record" thread shows up on SNA on Zing. I've fallen for that guy's new record so many times. I honestly wish he would stop. He's like the goddamn Simpsons.

El Tomboto, Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link

look, i understand
the cough you have had for 2 months something to do with allergies & yr taking stuff for it and you are just annoyed by it as me

& its barely a tickle now

but still

jesus fucking christ

throat clearing
every.thirty.seconds
is driving me up the fuuuuuuucking wall

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 August 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link

When that happens to me I get some ginger candy or something. Just for the sake of fellow humans.

Humidty got me IA today. I want to live in a solid block of ice or on the surface of the sun right now. Anywhere dry.

The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 4 August 2017 02:24 (six years ago) link

HUMIDITY I mean.

The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 4 August 2017 02:24 (six years ago) link

when people say "because (a)" but never get around to saying "(b)"

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 4 August 2017 06:20 (six years ago) link

^^^^

weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 4 August 2017 10:40 (six years ago) link

can i also add 'fish and chips smell' to the list of banned smells? (not because it's unpleasant but because it's making me hungry)

koogs, Friday, 4 August 2017 11:25 (six years ago) link

ppl who tell a long story, wind up by saying "so long story short" & then basically retell their same long story again aaaaaagh

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 August 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link

People who get on a train at the origination stop--an airport, for instance--and say, "Wow! Look at all the empty seats on this train! I guess no one's riding today. Therefore I will ignore the overhead racks and put my suitcases on a three person seat, then I'll lie down on another seat and go to sleep with a newspaper over my face."

Then the train hits the second stop a few minutes later and 7000 people get on...

President Keyes, Friday, 4 August 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link

wondering what the story was behind something I saw from a bus window on the way into town. A car had collided with a bollard or something and had plastic cones around it and a bunch of civilian or at least not police around it. That is 2 or 3 people who had taken it upon themselves to stop the traffic at rush hour so that the car could be pushed out into the road and then what I'm not sure.
I assume they couldn't be aware that there was a tailback leading to the bottom of the road and presumably beyond since the road goes out of sight up the hill before the bus turns.
Not sure what the best thing they could have done there was, maybe leave the car until traffic cleared or get somebody with some authority over the road or understanding of traffic flow to be involved. Not sure how long that lasted, it was clear when i went back by a couple of hours later.

Stevolende, Friday, 4 August 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link

people who interrupt a meeting to laugh at some stupid, inconsequential gaffe they made, like saying the wrong client name or something.

yes, let's stretch this meeting on longer while you guffaw at yourself.

Neanderthal, Friday, 4 August 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link

I can't stand people telling me my shoelaces are untied, or semi-untied, or that my bag is open. I know they are just trying to help, I wish I could appreciate it instead of getting inwardly annoyed for no genuine reason whatsoever, it's something I have to address at some point.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 4 August 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link

"honey I just don't want you to triiiiiiiip"

Neanderthal, Friday, 4 August 2017 22:47 (six years ago) link

There is a bright blue plastic shopping bag in the front garden of my shit for brains neighbor. When the wind opens it up a bit I can see it contains a sweater and possibly a pair of trousers, too. The bag's been fouled up by mud and rain. It's been lying there, in the middle of his front lawn (just 10x12 feet), for over a week now.

I know he knows it's there. I've seen him seeing it. And yet he doesn't pick it up or take it inside. And it's driving me absolutely INSANE.

Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 5 August 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link

Similarly someone left a bottle and a card labeled 'alice' on our porch last week (10 flats). Someone brought it inside. Nobody here called Alice. Someone put it back outside. It's inside again now...

koogs, Saturday, 5 August 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link

drink it

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 6 August 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link

dont u want adventure

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 August 2017 00:57 (six years ago) link

legally change your name to alice before you do it

assawoman bay (harbl), Sunday, 6 August 2017 01:06 (six years ago) link

put your key on the ground before you drink it

estela, Sunday, 6 August 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link

FEED YR HEAD

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 August 2017 02:34 (six years ago) link

I can't stand people telling me my shoelaces are untied, or semi-untied, or that my bag is open.

Ugh yes I once had a stranger stop me in the street to stridently inform me my phone was sitting in a spot in my bag where "anyone could just walk up and steal that you know, Im just saying". (it was perched in a side pocket poking out a tad).

I told her "well I've been doing that for 2 years and never had a problem but THANKS for your advice" and she pulled a face and walked off.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 6 August 2017 06:40 (six years ago) link

Should have told her "why, were you planning on stealing it?"

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 6 August 2017 06:41 (six years ago) link

an energetic stranger once bounded up and 'fined' me in the street for not smiling, approximately 15 minutes after i'd learned a friend of mine had died

estela, Sunday, 6 August 2017 07:00 (six years ago) link

Oh please tell me you put them straight

kinder, Sunday, 6 August 2017 08:15 (six years ago) link

I have a bag with a zip that works its way open presumably from the motion of me walking so assume that other people may have the same. So have told people their bags are open before and been thanked for it. Would think it was a courtesy to ensure that other people's property is safe.

Also used to be quite knocked out by the amount of street crime happening because of people having valuables in too easily got at places when I used to sell posters and magazines on the streets of Dublin. Always thought it was because it hadn't dawned on the vioctims taht their valuables were vulnerable so they might benefit from being told to be careful.
But there you go.

Stevolende, Sunday, 6 August 2017 08:35 (six years ago) link

along estela's lines, I was on my way to pick up a friend from her job and on the way, my best friend called to tell me a mutual friend of ours had finally succumbed to her ovarian cancer. So I'm emotional and sobbing on the drive, and finally get to my destination and idle, still emotional, and I accidentally park over the white line.

2 minutes later, a woman taps on my windshield, looking pissed, and angrily tells me "You're parked in TWO SPOTS" before storming off. which, to be fair,she couldn't possibly know I was distracted and she wasn't wrong, but at the time, she was literally the *only other person* in the lot and she had parked her own car on the opposite end, nowhere near me, with about 18 other spots empty....so was it REALLY that important?

Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 August 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link

I suspect she saw my state though because she very quickly left after telling me

Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 August 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link

I worked with this guy, a nebbish-looking Eno guy who was our production coordinator/studio manager. His work enemy was our chief engineer, this Ron Swanson of a bear who believed the machines were sentient.

Eno's favorite aunt died and with the funeral in the afternoon, he shows up for work in a suit. As he's tying up some loose ends for the day, the engineer passes by and goes, "OH, nice suit. WHOSE FUNERAL?"

Eno replies, "My aunt. She died of cancer on Monday." To which the engineer realizes it's not a joke and sheepishly says "I'm sorry," before quickly disappearing into his shop.

And that sly sideways look and barely-noticeable grin Eno gave me, the third-party witness sitting in the newsroom, is one of my fondest memories of that place.

pplains, Sunday, 6 August 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link

Awesome <3

Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 6 August 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link

Heh. Similar happened to my ex N, he turned up to work one monday and it was very sombre and quiet in the office and he said something like "geez, its quiet in here, who died?" ... it turned out one of the senior coders had died in a plane crash the day before and he didnt know. Erps.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 6 August 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link

the whole concept of cracking wise when the mood is less than light is alien to me, because usually my first question is "what's wrong, are you ok?" if I ask anything at all.

Neanderthal, Monday, 7 August 2017 02:41 (six years ago) link

Oh please tell me you put them straight

lol sorry kinder, i was too sad to talk so i crankily waved her off but shortly after that i had a small surge of temporary cheer due to the terribleness of her timing and general demeanour

estela, Monday, 7 August 2017 06:26 (six years ago) link

so guys did you hear CHRIS PRATT and ANNA FARIS split? Love is OFFICIALLY DEAD!

:|

Neanderthal, Monday, 7 August 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link

i don't know where to put this. i called an electrician and the voice said "<name> electrical, please leave a message." i waited a few seconds for the beep and the voice said "HELLO ARE YOU THERE??? PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE"

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 08:31 (six years ago) link

Sounds like you got an answering service. They should have made it more obvious, they usually say <company>, what is your message please?" or similar, so I can see how it'd confuse.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 08:43 (six years ago) link

yeah, there was no beep or anything, and he didn't ask "what is your message?", he said it as a statement like you would on a machine

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 09:57 (six years ago) link

when netflix randomly makes you sign in

mark s, Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link

I know it's not cool to get all pissy about old people in the twilight of their years, BUT. . .

I swear to god, how do they go about from store to store, using a non-cash payment of some sort, and yet, never actually learning how to use it correctly? Three times today, I was behind different elder people who had to have the clerk at the counter do most of the work for them at the card swiping terminal. I also wonder if this sort of thing doesn't make them really susceptible to identity theft. The law of averages says that they will eventually run into a less than upstanding store clerk who will no doubt take advantage of the situation somehow.

I get IA and then start to simultaneously feel bad for them. Just, completely flustered.

And I'm just there. Waiting to pay for my broccoli.

he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Saturday, 12 August 2017 03:19 (six years ago) link

the problem is paying for broccoli

sorry, pvmic etc

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 August 2017 03:29 (six years ago) link


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