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

We sit at long, open benches with piffly partitions front-facing, but no partitions at all for the people next to each other, it sucks.

Agh that sucks, I would hate that.

The other related dept in this building also sit side by side with no partitions, and there's talk about moving both depts in together, which I'm p. sure means "cram all you lot in like the rest of them", and I'm dreading it tbh. Hate being shoulder-to-shoulder or back-to-back with people and expected to turn off some primordial part of my brain which feels like it has to constantly monitor any tiny noise or movement within 2 metres of me, so I can concentrate on spreadsheets or code instead. Not built for office life tbh but def not built for any other kind of job either so here we are.

The people in this office do love their crunchy food which drives me mad too (I try to take a 20-minute break when I see the guy next to me open his lunchbox as it always contains a giant stick of celery, a load of carrots and 2 apples) but the office food noise currently driving me most insane is the guy who eats pistachios all through the morning. Something about the tiny sound of a pistachio shell cracking every 10 seconds for a long stretch of each day is bizarrely enraging to me - but apparently not to anyone else in this office. Thanks, brain.

XP sounds irritating

TBF our office also has wall to wall windows 13 floors up with views of the city and suburbs and bay in all directions, and we have a pool table and 2 playstation cubbyholes and a giant espresso machine so like, I cant complain :)

i fucking hate it when chinese people call me “uncle”, doubly so when they massively overdo it in the space of a few minutes

Rounded corners on eg Facebook comment boxes.

ohhhh lord 2pac big please talk to this sucker cause they killing FB they taking the pain and struggle of social media the only thing we coulda express our minds and pain. and these suckers took it and made it look like garbage thats why we get judge so much cause these shit dont be making sence

Assholes smoking joints on the subway. Yeah, bro, now I get to go pick up my kid from school with a clothes that smells like weed. Sessions, get on this now!

OK!

<shuts down all public transport>

local sandwich shop’s menu display has reached nonsensical proportions

large menu board display
+
little printed pieces of paper taped on menu board with additional items
+
hanging signs attached to menu board with additional items
+
at least 3 plastic stands on the counter with more items
+
separate small table with laminated flyer listing more “new” items (these new items are at least 5 yrs old)

there is literally no complete menu, not even online.

and if you don’t know which of the 900 displays to look at, you miss out on some a+ sandwiches

it’s fkn STUPID & it drives me insaaaane

then when you finally choose one, they're out of a key component.

ia today: when you ctrl+c something in one document, go to another document to paste it in, highlight where you want it to go, then click ctrl+c instead of ctrl+v

otm

the software I use every day at work also likes to put things in your clipboard without asking, which is super annoying

xp, and if it's anything like the sandwich shops round here it's in a tiny cramped shop (obv that bit isn't their fault) where you can only see the display board if you're at the front of the queue, and if you spend more than 0.2 seconds contemplating the options once you're at the front then everyone behind you gets super restless bcz they're in a hurry and they want their lunch

(also not anyone's fault cz I am totally an impatient queuer too, but if you aren't already familiar with the menu you have to blurt out the first kind of nice thing you spot and then immediately stop looking to avoid regrets)

God yes it's an actual daily struggle that last one I feel like I spend most afternoons consumed by lunchers remorse

i refuse to patronise those kind of sandwich shops, literally cannot deal unless i can peruse the selection in peace for as long as i need

http://www.underconsideration.com/artofthemenu/project_images/shopsins_PDF_01.jpg

How large is the soup?

It says it's large. I'd take their word for it.

xxpost yeah if you’re a newbie that place would be v stressful

it’s also why i order the one sandwich I know bcz it’s too daunting to change it up

Zoomed in immediately on cream of spinach poutine in that insane menu, that wld do me

Observational anecdote: I'm a little ashamed at the schadenfreude I experience watching the IA well up in the Starbucks employee in my work building, but it's like comically OTT how constitutionally unfit he is to be working in that environment.

Starbucks guy: (forced smile) 'Hi, can I help you?'
Customer: 'Hi, can I get literally just a coffee? Like the lowest impact order I could possibly inflict upon you?'
Starbucks guy: (pained grimace with raised eyebrows, mild incredulous headshake, deep sigh) 'Okaaaay. Can I get a name?'
Customer: (makes eye contact with and nods at barista) 'Oh, he knows me, I'm in here every morn...'
Starbucks guy: (strained, verging on panic) 'Can I just...can I get a name, please?'

He acts as if everyone that ever lived and everything that ever happened is a personal inconvenience to him, so I only feel a little bad about the delight I feel in watching him shit his pants.

My OP IA

not exactly IA but more gobsmacked incredulity and mild annoyance

Power steering in the car got out of whack, horrible clunking grinding noises when you turned the wheel, high pitched whine, very disconcerting. Anyway, took it into the mechanic for repairs and quickly diagnosed the pump as the issue.

The cost to refill the pump?

$5.61

Like, almost every other repair ever done on the car runs easily $100 or more. And yet this one problem was the cheapest repair ever? It sounded so bad it gave me PTSD from the time when the rubber boot on my universal joint literally tore off and fell out on the road while I was driving. I thought it was that level of nightmarish repair.

Weird.

Good, obviously. But just so randomly ridiculously inexpensive I'm still kind of amazed 2 days later

I just got a bill for £600 for replacing a water pump on my car after misdiagnosing so I am a bit miffed. most will be paid by insurance co but still.

people who do GoFundMes and ask for an arbitrary amount without explaining what it is going for.

(I donate to GoFundMes for friends all the time, but usually they are clear about why they need it and what it's for)

Hotel mode on TVs so you can't adjust the brightness and it resets the volume when you switch it off & on, because what kind of fool would try and watch tv with a sleeping baby in the room? Figured out how to disable it. Nothing on anyway.

JUst not getting the Xmas thing in Galway this year.
Is there a reason that the students had an XMas all day do on the 16th of BOIvember where everybody was wearing Xmas jumpers and getting vomiting drunk around town in the late afternoon.
Then teh Xmas market in the town's main square starts on the next day 17th of November, and this year runs to the 8th December. Odd up til now I think it's gone 22nd Nov to 22nd Dec which to me makes more sense. People wanting to get Xmassy at Xmas time.
NOw there's like 17 days between the end of teh market an dXmas day. &I don't know what they have planned afterwards.

I thought the black Friday week was closer to the traditional Xmas day usually too. That's on this week.

I mean LIDL starts in with teh Xmas stuff before Halloween and I think the other Supermarkets are similar. BUt this seems to be an entire town wanting a calendar to be rewritten. Is it happening elsewhere too?

it’s that special time of year when 9,000 people in china wish me “happy thanksgiving!!!!!” because they think the whole world is exactly like north america

this is infinitely dumber and far less hilarious than christmas day, when they send me stock photos of an apple. not any special sort of apple, just a plain apple. because it’s christmas.

<3

Better than photos of apple stock tbf

You mean they think the rest of the world is like the U.S.

Canadians already had their Thanksgiving weeks ago.

oh yes of course

this is infinitely dumber and far less hilarious than christmas day, when they send me stock photos of an apple

OK what. Why?

there’s a pun that doesn’t work in english (and tbh barely works in chinese) where part of the word for christmas eve (平安夜) is sort-of-but-not-really like the word for apple (苹果), and at some point a billion people missed the pun and got the idea we give out apples at christmas

i found this out the hard way, after a not-insignificant number of chinese people sent me photos of apples all at the same time

even weirder is when you go to a major chinese shopping mall in december and there’s a giant purple xmas tree out the front

yes

purple

Every time I see an SUV or a “crossover” with matte black paint I want to hulk out just enough to flip it over into the middle of the nearest golf course, preferably the 11th hole or so.

IA at myself:

whenever i plan a dinner party ie Thanksgiving or Christmas w family, the menu seems fine right up until the day & then I spin into a full mental panic of self doubt & self loathing
THERES NOT ENOUGH
THIS SUCKS GROSS UGH NO
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

etc

it’s the worst & it drives me insane. stupid brain

it means you're a good host

or a nutter

bmw logos
mercedes logos
lexus logos

.. the list grows

VG i do the same anytime i make something someone else will eat. i'm a good cook, but i'm also a complete nutcase.

i ran out & bought salad fixings 2 hours before guests arrived bcz of my total blind panic

but whole Thanksgiving “dinner party” lasted 2 hrs tops & was perfectly enjoyable in every way, ppl ate the salad but i dont think it made much difference lol

dude posted his Gofundme again. he wants to raise $1,500 due to his car accident, because he states his car was left undrivable and without it, he can't work his second job.

Except he still hasn't stated what the money is for. Presumably his car insurance would pay for the car repairs, and I can't imagine he has a $1,500 deductible (many lienholders won't even let you have a deductible that high). Usually insurance provides a rental car, though maybe he did not elect that on his policy. Is it the deductible? A rental car? Lost wages?

I don't know the guy really or I'd ask him (he's more a friend of a friend) but just irks me when people aren't specific.

After 2 years Firefox on my phone has decided to change around the order of the tabs on my home page.

I was just in a public bathroom--

opened the door and it hit into a dude standing there looking and his phone

another guy standing blocking the sink looking at his phone

another guy standing blocking the paper towel dispenser looking at his phone

like unless there's another 9/11 going on right now you dudes can (mumble mumble)

those people who corner you at work social events and begin their small-talk torture with "so what's the adam story?"

the adam story is fuck off

once upon a time there was a oh is that the time the end