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

xpost yeah, I get IA when I notice 20 new tech podcasts on the Pocketcast Trending chart. Also, the 8000 Chapo knock-offs with alternating free/patreon episodes.

Coming to a screeching halt when exiting an escalator should be a felony.

Public stairways, too. But life imprisonment for escalators.

People who look at their phones while walking with an umbrella. You have to have some awareness to avoid knocking people in the head.

Well, obviously, any non-emergency usage of a phone while walking is also an insta-felony.

Welcome 2 my fascist state, hope u like it here.

(I realized recently why posting in this thread didn't sit well with me, and it's that the feeling I'm expressing is usually irrational intense anxiety rather than irrational anger, but that other thread doesn't exist so this one will have to do.)

walking with umbrellas should be a capital offence tbh, get a hat or a jacket with a hood which will make it harder for you to gouge out fellow pedestrians' eyes u savage

walking with umbrellas in cities is a NO.

^ gets it

Urban umbrellas are fine if people are mindful of others. But they so rarely are.

I'm of the very sincere opinion that public schools need to start intensive proxemics education now before the kids of today grow into the human roombas of tomorrow.

Urban umbrellas are fine if no one else is around and it is actually raining hard and not windy. No one knows how to walk with umbrellas.

"Now, class, as you can see, past 25 feet we reach 'the void'. Nobody knows what's there."

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You don't need to use a golf umbrella in the city.

some people got a big head

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no shame in my game

right now i'm mad at all the pinprick lights on my electronic devices that cause my bedroom to not be completely pitch black at night and i spitefully smother them all with pairs of underwear.

I was staying with a friend last month and it drove me crazy the stupid blinking bright lights and humming from powerstrips, printers, bluetooth speakers... the bluetooths were even going off in the middle of the night. I felt like Saul Goodman's brother.

Long before the invention of the blue LED, I stayed with a friend who had a beautiful old grandfather clock and I got up in the middle of the night and stopped the faintly noisy pendulum because it was making me IA and then I didn't admit I had done it.

Nowadays I unsolder the useless lights in any device that I can open up, but only my own devices.

I also carry an umbrella in the city on rainy days, but not for weather protection, only to spitefully thrust its spikes at people who are not as qualified to use an umbrella as I am.

honey, mick's coming over for the sleepover, could you hide the soldering irons?

Umbrellas just add a simple vertical dimension to sidewalk navigation problems. Mind you, shorter people who don't have access to the highest umbrella lanes may indeed have to have their umbrellas taken away.

Wife keeps getting mad at me because I unplug the Comcast box. It makes more noise than a Playstation, even when the TV's turned off.

I also know it's almost time to get up when her phone starts displaying notifications again, lighting up the ceiling.

i turn mine face down at night

er, not that I'm your wife arguing with you

I just don’t understand people who walk on the left side of sidewalk or carelessly umbrella walk or sit on busy public transit staircases or etc who think they are not worse than trump

Those people aspire to be as good as Trump.

there’s a particular language that tech blogs use which is consistently grating and childish, like their brains are off and they’re just banging out whatever their peers are doing

savages who spell it "warrantee", this literally sets my teeth on edge

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Know what? Just pretend like I never posted that.

Taste's very strange / make a grown man cry

cherree pie

Drives me nuts that we have a couple of streaming services, never mind that the internet is one big streaming service, but my family only listens to the same shit that's on the radio. Or shit like Africa or Don't Stop Believing or Billie Jean that I hear all the fucking time everywhere anyway.

Similar annoyance is that my kids listen to all sorts of songs sung by the cast of Glee, but show no interest at all in listening to the original versions by the original artists.

STUFF DANGLING FROM REAR VIEW MIRRORS IN CARS. I mean, you’re in your 1.5 tonne potentially lethal wheeled machine driving near pedestrians, but let’s hang an air freshener or a lucky charm in the MIDDLE OF YOUR FIELD OF VIEW because it’s “protective” or “nice”.

do you drive

well yes, and I don't have shit dangling from my rearview mirror, nor do I wear a blindfold

My gaze is generally to the left of the rearview mirror unless I'm looking in the mirror.

I get IR whenever we're driving around and my wife inevitably immediately starts digging through her purse at her feet for her phone or a tissue or something, which blocks the passenger side mirror and window with her head and hair, and this is always right when I'm about to turn or get on the highway or something and I can't use that mirror or see out that window and even if I don't necessarily need to I WANT TO.

yeah im much more bothered about wing mirrors and unobstructed rear view than....the middle of the windscreen

It's the general principle of obscuring part of the driver's view, coupled with the fact that moving (dangling) things involuntarily draw attention. If a pedestrian or a cyclist happened to be in line with the rearview mirror, hanging something inside the car which could distract or delay the driver noticing the person is dangerously negligent. I don't see why that's hard to understand.

seems reachy imma give it a 3

It's on a spectrum with people who furnish their car interiors like a sweet little palace of cute, so that they forget they're in control of a tonne-plus of high speed machinery which can easily kill someone. Driving is serious, no exceptions.

hate these official visits from the committee for anger rationality

b-but my anger is DISPROPORTIONATE

very fair of course very fair

I just started watching How to Get Away with Murder for the first time ever and Dean Thomas's head tilt acting method is driving me crazy.

Matthew K OTM.

You might keep your gaze to the left, but there's still shit comin' at you from the right.

Just hang a fucking dreamcatcher over your computer monitor. I mean, you'll still be able to see 75% of your screen, right?

yr being ridiculous now

You're supposed to hang the balls on the trailer hitch, deems.

i do but then its a bitch not to fall of when we hit a pothole