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

ugh those kids-stuff-selling groups all seem to be 80% populated by people (parents!) who don’t understand what basic civil communication is and think their stuff is worth more than it actually is. I cannot deal. And it makes me worry (more) about the world!

This one is generally lovely and civilised, not too many 'huns'

I am cursed with serious eyebrows (more like one very serious eyebrow tbh) and regularly do a wee bit of maintenance to avoid becoming Dennis Healey.

I am irrationally angry at men who don't. Guys who apparently don't mind random hairs growing out and down and floating around in front of their eyes.

getting rid of extraneous eyebrow and ear hair will make you look years younger as you and your non-grooming peers age imo

they get tough and wirey the more you do it tho

my ear prongs are like spikes theae days

Finding it odd that next door neighbour who share a street door with has reached late 20s or mid 30s or whatever without realising how to use a door latch. She stopped me on the stairs as I was heading home at the weekend and said she wanted to have the door locked at night and she would make sure it was unlocked during the day. NOw I've gone down and found the door open but in a way that if it shut, blew shut whatver it would be instantly locked.
She left me a rather creepy note a couple of years ago after she managed to lock herself out cos she went out without a street door key. & presumably some kid came along and messedaround with the latch meaning it shut. So assumed she might have learnt the way it worked by now.

Just wondering how you get to taht age without having encountered a door latch since I thought they'd be something most people would encounter in childhood. Or is it viewed as archaic technology these days. Thought it was a pretty basic every day fixture most people would have to deal with regularly. & she's been here for like 3 years.

I have encountered people way into adulthood that did not know i) how to load a stapler, ii)how to change a lightbulb iii)that when a smoke detector beeps the battery needs to be changed etc. etc. Most people are completely clueless or just have random holes of basic knowledge.

When she stopped you on the stairs you should've confirmed whatever but also let her know that the door can automatically lock if blah blah...so she should keep a spare key hidden somewhere.

Usually get IA when a speaker in an auditorium steps from behind the lectern and saunters to centerstage, usually with arms extended and bellows I DON'T NEED A MIC, EVERYONE CAN HEAR ME, RIGHT?

Today was great though. We had a guy pull that trick and our boss was "Well, actually, some of our employees work remotely and can only hear you through the microphone."

TAKE TWO STEPS BACK, ZIG ZIGLER.

Ugh yeah I hate that
"Actually people may need to use a hearing loop" is a good one

I am super annoyed by the way even (or especially) the best produced podcasts all rely on similarly generic moody or whimsical music farting around in the background. I get it for a visual documentary; if you have a long slow shot of trees, sure, play some music. But when someone's being interviewed for an audio presentation, I don't need some minor key drone or dixieland jazz to tell me how to feel.

It's like the podcast version of a laugh track.

I listen to several podcasts that acquire their laugh track by recording in front of an audience who are laughing. You should write to them and tell them they're doing it wrong.

That's how to do it right! Live audiences are cool with me.

But I'm not sure there are usually live audiences invited for in-depth true crime podcasts.

true crime podcasts make me IA. or maybe not totally I tbh. my gf listens to podcasts to sleep - and it doesn't really bother me or assist me in sleeping usually - and the other night she was listening to that super popular one "my favourite murder" and just how glib and mawkish it was bugged the hell out of me

Podcasts where the hosts are drinking. Like this kind of shit: Martinis & Murder: Hosts Daryn Carp and John Thrasher chat about creepy crimes and mysterious murders... while mixing up martinis!

xpost Yeah, my wife wanted me to listen to Broken Harts, and it just felt so gross, not just because of what made me IR, but because in the end there were 6 kids killed, and I really don't gaf about the "mysterious" state of mind of those responsible.

Basically shit like that xpost is just an excuse to use whimsical musical cues and the sound of people mixing and sipping drinks.

I am super annoyed by the way even (or especially) the best produced podcasts all rely on similarly generic moody or whimsical music farting around in the background.

doubly annoying when you use a podcast app which trims silence

Amazon pricing the same product drastically different according to what color it comes in. Like, this was an aspect of capitalism we used to try to obscure or keep secret, but now it's like, ahh fuck it lol

I kind of love that one, assuming I'm not all that concerned with the color. It's why my kid has had three insanely bright orange winter jackets in a row and now has a pair of fucked up red and blue camouflage boots - he doesn't care, and they were half the price of the 'normal' colors.

i kind of hate that this guy at work calls me "buddy" all the time. "hey buddy". i'm not your buddy! and if i am, we're the kind of buds who literally only say "hello" to each other when they run into each other in the hallway

about like being called "little pal". I'd hate that.

There's another guy in the office whose first name starts with 'T'.

The other morning, someone went "T-Bone!" as he walked in.

All I could think was "Better you than me, Buddy."

Please stop me from having "discussions" at work dinner. Replace discussion w "nathalie being an asshole." I just cldnt stop. Stepping stone theory? Jesus, guys.

People writing in books. (Rather than writing on scraps of paper as bookmarks, etc.)

I thought I posted here about calling kids "buddy" is super creepy. But that was the controversial opinion thread.

I hate Bluetooth. 90% of the time it works fine, but 10% it takes 15 minutes of concerted effort turning stuff off and on trying to pair

I'd like everyone, everywhere, to stop talking about astrology immediately

I'm a Taurus.

such a [insert silby's sign here] thing to say xp

I never feel quite so irrationally angry as when I show up at the laundromat and the change machine is out of order

Tromping around with your laundry already deployed and unattended, begging for Dollarama and 7/11 to change your $20 into quarters is the most angering thing I can imagine

You have the most low-impact business in the world, why can you not get the machine serviced, I am fantasizing about breaking everything in sight and leaving a note saying "fix the fucking change machine you dick"

because it's laundering drug money, not your clothes, that's important

know what else fucking sucks about the change machines? they demand just the right bill in some kind of mysterious hard to find condition. you can put a brand new bill in those things and it will repeatedly spit it out. you can put a sort of new bill in it with a fold that won't go away and it will spit it out. the other day i was panicking slightly because the only 5 i had was very soft and worn and had a tear in it. that piece of shit took it on the first try. i was dumbfounded. and of course they have a sign that they will NOT give you change in bills to use in the change machine.

I hate it when a headline on a paywall site catches your eye and you click through, only to find some short blurb of a piece or "breaking news" placeholder that nonetheless uses up one of your monthly complimentary articles.

YES.

I'm tired of websites presenting a new window as a different page? I don't know how to describe it. On desktop, Twitter sorta does this when you click on a specific tweet. I always hit the back button instead of the tiny little x up in the corner.

Tumblr's a better example. Let's say you somehow land on this page: http://yiff.cool/image/182836186761 . If you click on the arrow in the corner, it takes you back to the post the picture came from. If you hit your back button, you go back to the site's home page - which really sucks if you the page has that damned infinite pagination turned on because then you lose your place.

there’s a guy who lives around the corner from me and he makes me so crazily IA. i hate his car. it’s shitty 80’s boxy bmw convertible that would be silver but is dun-colored-grey. it is dirty and gross and in desperate need of a tuneup. it is SO LOUD, louder than 4-stroke lawnmower. and he drives it top-down rain hail or shine so clearly it’s so busted that the top doesn’t work. it looks like it should be collecting rainwater & leaves in the frontyard. i hate it. and him. he is in his 30’s with long straggly dirty blonde hair & a beard & he looks like a deadbeat teacher’s assistant at a community college.

...i think i need an IA intervention, this shit is getting out of hand.

maintain your rage

If it is louder than a 4-stroke lawnmower it could be in violation of a local noise-abatement ordinance or state motor vehicle standards. You could make a phone or two inquiring about this, and casually add information about where the vehicle is normally parked, what time your neighbor tends to start it before driving away (especially if it is early morning hours), and its license plate number. Just to be neighborly, you know.

I've mentioned this before, and I hope it wasn't in this thread, but the amount of GIS results that lead to Pinterest is appalling. Presumably you either want a) to save the image, which is difficult to do on Pinterest, or b) to find more information about the image, or what it depicts, and you won't be able to do that at Pinterest either. In fact, if you're not registered at Pinterest, you'll just get an offer to join. This all makes a very common web activity, searching for images, a pain in the ass and Google knows it.

google is a fucking trashfire for searching for anything now.

Almost as annoying as the soundcloud links on Facebook that redirect you to download the SoundCloud app even if you already have it installed

Pinterest is a fucking travesty and should be wiped from this earth

Names for particular cycles of the moon in the sky:

Blood Moon
Snow Moon
Wolf Moon
Super Wolf Blood Moon

All that shit.

what about Keith tho?

If you ever look out a window and see a Keith Moon, better check yourself because you're Jerry Garcia and have been dead for the past 25 years.

I've had it up to here with charger cables and HDMI cables constantly crapping out on me.

No one in my neighborhood can walk their dog properly, they can't just walk past you on the sidewalk normally and keep going. They either cross the street right away (which I get that some people have aggro or unwell dogs); they wait half a block away to see if you cross the street and then when you don't, then they cross; a guy with a large dog literally shouts to anyone who is nearby that his dog can't be near their dog and they need to cross; or the people who want their dog to play with your dog even if you are on the phone, you are obviously turning away, your dog is pooping or you are walking fast with purpose.

Business websites that won't let you search for a location with anything other than a zip code.

I had to find a place in Malvern, Arkansas, yesterday, and the corporate site kept asking for a zip code. Finally had to look up the zip code and then go back to the site.

(And yes, I know I could've just Googled "McDonalds in Malvern" or whatever, but I was looking for something pretty specific.)

Gov't sites are just as bad. Say I'm looking for all the state senators who represent Little Rock:

https://i.imgur.com/GrbZ4vX.png

Nope.

Govtrack is a little like this, but at least they give you a map to pull and tug on.

yeah that drives me bananas.
why even HAVE a search function if it’s so specific as to be totally useless