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

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

beauty product company, why would you put a voucher for '20% off your first order' inside the packaging of my existing order?

Trees disappearing from all parts of town which I read yesterday was a policy being carried out by councils across Ireland.
Seems absurdly short sighted to get rid of a pretty vital part of the ecosystem to the extent I'm seeing.
I thought it was some far more local process that seemed to me to be misguided as I saw it happening for the last 6 months or so.
Now I see there's an online petition talkling about councils across the country doing this. Chopping down healthy tress for no good reason.

Which isn't irrationally angry, just deeply aggrovating. I thought there were supposed to be more trees being planted to help slow down climate change. Seems intentionally negative to do the opposite.

Ah, cutting down healthy trees for no reason (which includes bullshit reasons like them not fitting in with a new landscaping scheme) is the most infuriating thing to me! Moloch makes his coziest den in the brains of the bureaucrats who order such trees cut down and the slack-jawed chainsaw wielders who do the deed. To cut trees down needlessly really is a crime against nature.

You're right, the government should do something about people who cut down trees for no rea...

oh wait

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-news/about-a-dozen-trees-cut-dumped-into-potomac-river-at-trump-golf-club-in-va/2019/02/28/992ce89a-3a14-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html

people who try to help

doubly so when i say “you’re not helping” and they keep trying

Accidentally clicking links/buttons with my right thumb when I'm scrolling on my phone.

I told my wife "helpful people are a nuisance" a few years ago and I'm pretty sure it irreparably damaged our relationship.

luke mcgregor

pedestrians who press the crossing button without checking if the road is clear anyway

?

Britishes things.

I do feel guilty if it clears before it turns green!

Me too! You feel kind of like you should wait just because you've pressed the thing, but of course it's better to cross and get the hell out of sight before a driver arrives.

I also feel guilty if a bike has to stop suddenly for the lights because I know cyclists hate that.

The crossing near my work used to change almost immediately after pressing the button, so I would wait until I couldn't see any cyclists (only a shortish stretch of road is visible), but they keep messing with the timing, i.e. now it mostly takes 30 seconds so there's no point in timing it, but about 1 time in 50 changes immediately just when I've carelessly pressed it and a bike is right there.

I'm looking forward to the days when (on quietish roads) lights are green for pedestrians by default and change when a car or bike is picked up by the sensors on the traffic light.

In my (American) experience pedestrian crossing buttons are useless things you push repeatedly to work out frustration over never getting a walk signal and finally having to sprint across the street between cars.

The UK is magical place.

https://i.imgur.com/cM9Q4vn.png