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

like everyday, pedestrians are super variable in being dumb fucks or decent

people who walk on the left side of the sidewalk and wonder why people keep almost slamming into them

I mean I hate everyone equally: pedestrians, drivers of cars, film set crews, delivery trucks, construction sites. Hate. Haaaaate.

fair

People in general have just become completely careless about how they interact with the world.

we gotta care more to counteract

i care because U do

I had a pedestrian in Cocoa Beach a few months ago start crossing A1A in front of oncoming traffic, nowhere near a crosswalk, during rush hour on a Friday. Kept walking despite the onslaught of vehicles only to stop walking at the last second as I approached, seeming to think I was going to slam on my brakes at one of the busiest streets and risk getting plowed into to let her finish jaywalking.

So she was basically standing in the middle of the road while cars on either side rushed by her.

fuck man

recently a rogue bus driver ran a red light while i was half way through the crosswalk. called transit police and said we need keanu cuz there is a rogue driver on yer network

I hate it when someone leaves the vacuum on button depressed when it's unplugged, so that as soon as I plug it in it vrooms right to life and scares the shit out of me (even if it's usually my fault).

What pushes this over to Rational Anger is that when we step foot out of the office she starts yelling, "Give me privacy! This is a confidential zone!"

Because I'm a dick like that, I'dve just replied with "oh really? Cuz we can all hear every word you say and btw Ive recorded most of it, its pretty hilarious"

lol

Because the loud talking situation has not improved, I very passive aggressively asked one of my coworkers yesterday after I got off the phone, "Hey, do I talk really loud when I'm on the phone?" The immediate response was, "No, why?" I just kind of shrugged and said, "Oh, no reason. Just want to make sure I'm not. . ." —I kind of looked up and away as if in deeper thought and intentionally paused for an abnormal amount of time here— ". . .interrupting anyone's work." It did not hit the mark, as I'm currently being forced to listen to a different coworker's very one-sided conversation about the benefits of therapy dogs for vets with PTSD. Noble cause, absolutely. Necessary to repeat, "It's such a huge life improvement for those people" countless times? No. Work-related? Also no. This is a fourty minute phone call thus far.

Also, not affiliated in way whatsoever, but in heavy slow traffic on the freeway, I'm very scared to follow too closely. I usually hang back thirty feet or so from the car in front of me and just coast. Why does the person behind me need to tailgate me? As if by tailgating me, I will tailgate the person in front of me and somehow all of the thousands of cars in this traffic jam will magically start going the speed limit. The best is when that tailgating jerk behind me gets the opportunity to pass me. They do so in a very aggressive manner and quickly accelerate up to the car in front of me, slamming on their brakes so they can tailgate that person now. You are now (maybe) one car length ahead. You'll definitely get there two, maybe even three, microseconds sooner. Fucking champion of the freeway, dude.

When you are at the drive thru, hear a prerecorded order asking you "can i take your order", starting to speak the otder, then having real drivethru person bark HOLD ON A MINUTE

speaking of which, the proliferation of led tv-type menu screens that change all the time, I can't fucking decide what to order that way

haha yeah Popeye's does that, drives me insane

Argh Londoners who move out of London and then talk like they've invented the idea of there being anywhere that isn't London AND THEN continuously complaining about their daily commute into and out of London.

every large city with suburbs ever imo

yeah but I'm irrationally calm about burbs livers doing this; it's the ones who move to Bristol or Norwich or wherever and do it.

Not sure if we've mentioned this before but: People whispering to each other in the office. There's been an increasing amount of it here and it drives me nuts. There was a manager at my old job who would do it too. He'd go up to someone, cup his hand to their ear and move his mouth in an exaggerated fashion while darting his eyes around the room. It was like an exercise in making people feel uneasy

Notifications on Facebook that link to the board not the comment. So you need to work through a stack of entries to find the original comment, or the response. If you can be bothered. So obviously missing life changing input.

But seems to be set up to be more frustrating than useful.

I was just having this experience this morning. Think it's a recent problem. Related is that clicking the notification that a new person has liked my page takes me to... my page. I kind of understand why, but surely it would be better to give some sort of information, or even not allow it to be clicked.

how's life at 10:54 19 Jul 18

FUCKING traffic signals that they've put up but haven't turned on yet so they're just swaying there in the breeze with burlap sacks over them for a week. JUST FUCKING TURN THEM ON WHEN YOU PUT THEM UP!

― how's life, Friday, March 9, 2018 8:30 PM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

These things still aren't turned on yet.

That whispering thing with the cupped hand to ear is nuts. I thought you just meant talking in a hushed whisper.

https://i.imgur.com/DeB6gIh.png

I haven't clicked on that notification button since February. It's gone all the way up to 63 at one point, usually hovers around 54, but recently dropped down to what you see above. In other words, those little white numbers are there just to get you click on something, like a chicken playing tic-tac-toe. Meaningless otherwise.

Haha, and boy did I come across like a trenchant commentator just then.

It is meaningless. I've seen it grow into the 90s, and because I still didn't click it, it decided to just give up and be lowered again.

It's all meant to get you to click, and the longer you don't, the more it will broaden its definition of what a "notification" is. Someone tagging or messaging me, sure. But the longer you hold out, the crazier the notifications get. "Someone someone is going somewhere sometime in the future", "you might like [no I won't]", stuff like that.

See people who are obviously about to go home from work and then just ... don't? Drive me batshit. Why are you still hanging around and touching shit on your desk like you're going to cry at having to leave it? Why are you endlessly coming up with shit to say to people nearby who clearly just want to work? "Oh and another thing, I had a great cake at lunchtime!"? Very good. Why has your jacket been half-on for ten minutes?

Stand up, jacket on, sling hook.

(God, the person who prompted this post has just sauntered back to tell that poor deskmate that she needs to have a think tonight about what her favourite cake of all time is and report back tomorrow. GO HOME.)

even worse are people in the office who say nothing to you all day, until they see you leaving for the day and decide that that's the right time to have a conversation

^ also when they’re not nice to you until you leave or they leave and they beam that shit eating smile at ya

the people in the parking garage at work at 8am just sitting in their cars dicking around on their phones.

A stranger standing or sitting so close to you that their arm hair scratches you repeatedly.

the people in the parking garage at work at 8am just sitting in their cars dicking around on their phones.

I used to see this a lot when working temp jobs. I'd pull up to the hose clamp factory at 7:55 and stroll past the full-timers who were just sitting in their parked cars, listening to the radio. Took me... about a week... to realize they were out there to avoid spending even one extra minute they didn't have to spend inside that place.

Parking garage sounds a little less blue collar, but still.

I do this because I want to send texts / check personal email / goof off on instagram, and as soon as I go in my building I'm on the work wifi and can't do that any more.

i work at a university so who knows who these people are (they're too old to be the students).

i worked with a guy whose hours were til 4:30 but every night he’d still be hanging around jawing with the boss till well after i left at 5

he was my best workfriend & it made me so ia

he was an oldschool sales guy, i think he thought it would help his career & i just wanted to shake him & say “it’s not worth it man”

maybe he liked talking to the boss

guys, sometimes i wory about ye

Talking to the boss? Class traitor. There are people in my work who hang around for anything up to an hour after they've finished - I would prefer to put that down to the shitty UK transport system but the fact that it's always old sad employees who (likely) have no life outside strikes me as significant.

I used to have a manager who'd stay late. Occasionally, I'd stay late too with some extra work. She'd make me IA by yelling from across the room, "PLAINS. WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE? GO HOME."

Finally, I once stooped by her desk on my way out and told her I think I figured out why we both stayed past five sometimes. Yeah, why's that? she asked.

"Because you've got an empty nest at home... and I don't."

As a teacher, I don't have set hours, and can leave as soon as my responsibilities are complete. However, I usually stay 1-3 hours after the day's official end so that the next day won't be terrible. Though my required hours are something like 7:30 – 3:30, I'm usually at school from 6:45 – 5:00. People who work in education and clock-in/clock-out on the actual contract make ME irrationally angry.

really pisses me off when a new artist is introduced and given praise out the gate and comparisons to David Bowie or Prince - then they play their stuff and it feels rude to even put them in t he same wheelhouse as those two. The artist has the last name Lenoir, he is canadian and rumours are he will win best album shortly - when interviewed on CBC he said he wanted to make a grand album statement and that he was disenfranchised with people putting out EPs and streaming music - real bring it back to when music was music lad, fuck off

(xpost) My first couple of years, I would stay ridiculously late--like 6:00 or 6:30 (mostly because I was paralyzed by fear). As time went on, I'd clear out earlier and earlier, and now usually get away within 15-30 minutes of final dismissal. But I arrive early--around 7:15 for a 9:15 start. I'm a little down on teachers who arrive and leave only five minutes before and after they're obligated to, but not irrationally angry; almost all of them have family commitments I don't have.

my doctor's office has a patient portal, which is great because you can see all of your blood work results there, appointments, etc.

except in the link to the Portal on their website, when you click on it, it doesn't go to the Portal. it loads a PDF page containing the link to the Portal which you have to copy into your browser.

what the fucking fuck

lol

IA at a random assortment of guys i know and/or just follow on Insta who ALWAYS have their mouth open when they smile in a selfie. like it’s their brand or something. i fucking hate it.

people who have listened to 5 minutes of hip-hop their entire life getting up in arms about Eminem's Beastie Boys album cover tribute as if tribute art hasn't been a thing for ages within the genre.

would be more sympathetic if they were just saying this is a shitty example of it, but they're describing it in much the same way that people described samples in the 80s - "STOLEN"!

xp like, slack jawed, or wide open, or do you just mean not close-lipped? always smiling close-lipped is kinda weird in its own right imo

I just found out that the local LIDL and therefore probably other branches differentiate between a cash register being shown to be open and closed by the same intensity light in the same place showing as either red or green. I hadn't realised they were supposed to be visibly different until the girl on the till of a closed one pointed to a light to show me that it was supposed to be closed today.
Not sure if it's down to my eyes or if it is as completely interchangeable looking to other people, especially in the neon light of the supermarket.
Would think they might have arrived at so0mething more immediately differentiable. I had to look at the on light and the off light closely to be able to see a difference.

& if i am colourblind i don't think it's in a rare way. Just seems to be a stupid idea to go around doing things that way.

Would think that it would be more noticeable if they switched the light off instead of having a similar shade of a colour that looks pretty similar be the differentiation.
bah humbug.

To clarify, this is a recent set up where to tell customers not to join the end of a queue for a checkout till the shop has come up with a system where the change the colour of light on a transparent piece of glass with the till number on. The light shines through this number which is suspended somewhere above the conveyor belt. The colour of light is most visible down the side of the pain of glass i.e. the however many millimetre wide thicjkness between the two sides of the pane of glass/plastic.
Difference mainly seems to be in hue since object, brightness etc are all the same. & as a signifier it seems way too close.

I'm wondering if it is my eyes but don't think it could be a thing that I would be alone in differentiating.
Found it odd that a checkout girl was pointing to a lit light and expecting me to see it as obviously different to another lit light of a very similar shade.

& would have thought that things like simple colour blindness would be a consideration in designing a thing like this and they would add another element.
As it is you are looking at a see through pane with a light somewhere around it so you are seeing straight through it. & it is below whatever other neon light the shop is lit with. None of which helps tell the slight difference between the 2 supposedly distinct options.

& would have thought that things like simple colour blindness would be a consideration in designing a thing like this

ime it appears often not to be taken into consideration. Red/green lights in the same place (LEDs on various devices come to mind) are usually more or less indistinguishable and thus quite useless to me. It does sound like you may have some colour vision deficiency (and red/green is the most garden-variety of them all), except it seems a bit strange that you haven't noticed it in any other context before.

The shades of red/green used for traffic signals most places I've been are an exception; these are not easily confused even to me (plus it probably also helps that the red and green are in different positions).