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

Anyway, my own personal IA re: exercise is that the only type of exercise I tend to want to do is swimming, but I don't have access to a pool. Grrrr, someone give me a pool, damn it!

― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:56 PM (one hour ago)

I feel you on this. There are public pools near to me, but for various reasons I can't/won't be in a public place in a swimming costume, so I just want someone to give me my own private pool. Give it to me now!

I don't like the thought of going swimming locally because 1. argh might know somebody 2. it's expensive 3. it seems hard to find a time/place to just turn up for a casual doggypaddle round the shallow end, because it's always Kids-Only Swim Time or Super Hardcore Swimming In Lanes Time.

Last year we were going to a hotel with a swimming pool and I thought it would get rid of all 3 problems so I bought a swimming costume and was kind of excited to go swimming for the first time in forever. But then the hotel pool was also entirely booked up with kids' swimming lessons, so I still haven't used my new costume. Meh.

(Possibly 0.1% rational anger: hotels that advertise a swimming pool as a feature and come up on the filter view on booking.com for said feature but actually you can only use the pool at weekends)

Not only do I not want to be seen being all lumpy and bare-legged in a swimming costume in public but also I last swam 20+ years ago and I was really bad at it as a kid, so now I am an adult that can't swim and that's going to be embarrassing.

I did and thought all of those things then went swimming and it was fine
it'll be fine!
fecking swim timetables though, indecipherable and you need to know when term-time is etc

they might only lane off half the pool?

walking is good for you! just doesn't need a treadmill is all.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 18:18 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

See also: running

Well, yeah. But I could have sworn I've seen that walking by and large has similar benefits to running, without a lot of the side effects.

oh, I see what you mean. I honestly don't feel very comfortable running outside, between traffic, weather, etcetera, though I love walking.

There are enough factors at play to make me give walking on treadmills a pass.

I did once see a man slowly walking on the treadmill in jeans and formal leather shoes, still wearing his jacket. He doesn't get a pass.

Walking on a treadmill is lower impact than walking on the sidewalk/pavement, because of the harder surface of the sidewalk/pavement vs. the relatively cushioned surface of any standard treadmill. That's why I'd be more likely to walk on a treadmill, or even better, rely on a (low-impact) elliptical machine for cardio. Also, while I'm on year 11 of a 15 year mortgage (i.e. I "own a home"), my back yard is laid out awkwardly and would not be able to accommodate a pool, and the only public swimming pools in town are clear across town and often overpopulated and not exactly sanitary places. Grumble grumble. (Thanks a ton for adding your $0.02, emil.y and a passing spacecadet! Also, that sucks about the hotel pool situation!)

Can't remember who posited this IA already but I was reminded this morning of the only driving-related IA I have yet to work on: those morons who slow down to turn before indicating. Like, I have all the patience in the world for people who indicate before slowing down to turn and they could take a minute for all I care, but I feel like we haven't yet evolved as a species to the point where we can read each other's minds, so slowing down for seemingly no reason at all is the very definition of NAGL. Maybe in a few years I'll be chill about that too, though. It's very rare that I encounter that "in the wild", so to speak.

There are a lot of things about police that make me IA, but at least here they seemingly almost never bother to signal.

There are a lot of things about police that make me IA, but at least here they seemingly almost never bother to signal.

You live in Chicago; your A's about the local police are all completely R.

I have been arrested over 30x as a result of becoming homeless for a time, and I have no complaints with the cops. Then again, I'm a white male.

Several people I know were victims of injustice, however.

I'm fortunate enough to live in a city where the local police are relatively free of corruption and extrajudicial violence. It's far too easy for me to take that for granted and forget that this is not the reality with most of the police departments in the U.S. (at least). I am spoilt by this and I suppose my IA about this is my tendency to forget that and assume this is the rule instead of the exception. But this is for another thread, I fear. (And you were very much a "victim of injustice" as a member of a vulnerable community [i.e. the homeless].)

Happy fun IA time: still not having been gifted a pool by the magical pool fairies. Where are they at my time in need?

"Time OF need", I should say. IA #2: occasionally fucking up the English language.

Similar to dee's ia for people who slow before signalling, i have some ia for drivers who kind of hover--without signalling--slightly in front of me but in the next lane, in such a way that it's clear that they need to get over into my lane. Like, I'd be happy to slow down and make some room for you to get over as soon as you fulfill your legal obligation to use your fucking signal

The library has these cool self-serve checkout kiosks.

After I scan my library card, it asks for my PIN. There's a keypad there to the right of the screen that I start typing on 95% of the time. However, that keypad isn't for PINs. No, the screen displays a huge keyboard at the bottom that you're supposed to do.

And when you do, the integers of your PIN show up real big in a word balloon floating over the keyboard..

Screen's, like, made of real glass too, so it's not easy to tap the numbers.

online accounts that tell you to 'log in with your username or email'
attempt to log in with my email because fuck remembering a username
'we do not recognise your identity'
well you emailed me on this email a few days ago
spend ages trying to sort it out
turns out you need to log in with your username not your email

https://media.giphy.com/media/5XPb0FvIqylqg/giphy.gif

log in with your username or email. or log in using your Facebook or Google account

.....bbuuuuttt what if my email is my Google login?

https://i.imgur.com/LfAXZRS.gif

Dear Fuckwits who decided that the quiet carriage on the train is a good place for a conversation,

The book i'm trying to read is quite solid and heavy. I am seriously dreaming of beating you unconscious with it.

Yours,
Noodle

The quiet carriage these days means the one carriage on the train where people might think twice about listening to music, watching movies, playing games - without headphones - but that's about it.

I always tell myself not to book the quiet carriage because the cuntery annoys me more than if i was just in a regular carriage but i haven't been on a train in a while and sometimes i'm a pie-eyed optimist

I'm pretty depressed and sour today, don't really enjoy succumbing to misanthropy

Just do some meditative breathing and imagine yourself in a beautiful, quiet garden... where there exists a pit filled with the bodies of people who don't respect the idea of a "quiet carriage". Listen to the birds chirping and feel the warm sun on your face. That's the good stuff.

My IA: It's April and it's only going to get warmer and sunnier outside from here on out. Seeing as though this is Texas and I'm not at all a fan of our summers OR the searing sun, this is terrible news. Oh well, never mind; I'll just do some meditative breathing and imagine myself on an ice floe in the middle of Antarctica.

Spring didn't really happen this year, did it?

I always tell myself not to book the quiet carriage because the cuntery annoys me more than if i was just in a regular carriage but i haven't been on a train in a while and sometimes i'm a pie-eyed optimist

― Boles to the Wolds (Noodle Vague), Monday, April 8, 2019 3:01 AM (yesterday) Bookmark

this is exactly right and limmy was just moaning about this on a recent stream

Spring didn't really happen this year, did it?

What's "spring"? Does that season even exist in this state? :(

Every once in a while, we have a very nice spring. Not this year though.

Yeah, I had such hopes today was going to be a rainy, cloudy, dark and dreary day, but alas that was not meant to be. Alexa, play "Only Happy When it Rains".

BTW, is there a thread for RATIONAL anger? Because I've got a lot of righteous anger going on inside my head right now.

Funny. It is very rainy in ATX today.

BTW, is there a thread for RATIONAL anger? 

since 99.999% of rational anger is caused by other humans, the disgusting savages thread usually served this purpose.

I'm not one to complain about spoilers for the most part, but the volume of Game of Thrones spoilers on Twitter right now is making it unreadable, and it's pissing me off.

i have to holdout on Endgame til tomorrow night & GOT til Tuesday, I’m throwing my phone in the trash

This is just going to get worse and worse over the next 4 weeks, isn't it? We have to wait a couple of days for Chinese subs too, so the whole first bit of each week is this silly game. Last week there was even a spoiler on one of the non-GOT threads on here.

when local businesses run those "bring this flyer and 15% goes to [your kid's public school]" promotions. I guess it's ultimately harmless if local pizza shop gets a little extra business and the school receives an extra $387 as a result, but it grosses me out on a level I can't quite explain.

dunno man that seems like a win-win to me. drive customers to a locally owned business that then supports the school! at least that's how it tends to work at my kid's school.

especially because we're fucked for other kinds of funding; otherwise i agree with you that raising money to support schooling is absurd and dystopian.

As long as it's local and not Chik-Fil-A. I live in the bluest county in the universe (seemslike) and yet somehow the PTA fundraisers for my daughter's former school were invariably Chik-Fil-Fuckin-A.

Still don't know if it was just lazy/convenient or if some conservative parent engineered it as a dog-whistle or a fuck you to her liberal neighbors.

ah we have a local burger spot that is also owned by parents that does regular fundraisers, and they pitch in at the school a lot. what you've described makes me rationally angry.

I don't normally say anything if someone's sitting in my reserved seat on a packed train, mostly because I don't like talking to people, but also because am I really more deserving of a seat just because I booked on a website that happened to allocate me a seat number?

But this week I have done something to my knee, so y/day I asked the guy in my seat if he'd mind moving, and he turned out to be travelling with the person next to him (tbh if I'd realised I might not have asked) so they both moved, and someone else sat in the window seat and remarked "well I guess I can sit here until someone with a booking turns up" while I sat in my aisle seat.

Then someone with the booking for the window seat turned up, I got up to let him out and of course he didn't budge, the new arrival sat in my aisle seat and insisted her seat number was the aisle seat, and when I said "well I don't mind if you'd like the aisle seat but you've got a booking for one of these seats and I've got one for the other and that gentleman already told me he didn't have a booking" everyone just stared blankly ahead and didn't move.

And today I am eating all the ibuprofen and my left leg still feels like a goddamn tree trunk, so I declare them both terrible people, even though I do admit I might be the terrible person for asking at all - and I'm sure ILX will let me know about it.

am I really more deserving of a seat just because I booked on a website that happened to allocate me a seat number?

yes

bg otm

It's not irrationql anger but more than that. It enrages me when people just leave the things piling up. Then pay. And only then start putting'em away. Ffs YOU ARE HOLDING UP THE QUEUE THAT WAY. ARGH

Spacecadet, you are not a horrible person. Ffs you paid for it. Even w/o an injury, you are entitled to ask'em to move. Jfc.

I don't normally say anything if someone's sitting in my reserved seat on a packed train

I most certainly do.

Once me and Alex were sat on a booked seat and when the lady realised he was on verge of an autistic meltdown, she offered to sit on another seat. I said thanks and we are getting off at the next stop anyway. But I certainly wouldn't have thought less of her if she'd have insisted on the seat. it's the rules of the game - but she was a class act.

"Ffs you paid for it."

Well, that's the thing, I didn't pay any extra for it - I paid for a seat, which I happened to do online, sufficiently far in advance that it also gave me a seat booking. And I do feel v entitled turfing someone out of a seat on a train with 0 free seats and people crammed in like sardines down all the aisles and in the door sections.

Imagine if we could actually have trains with seating room for, say, 95% of the passengers? Like, maybe not 100% but enough that anyone standing has some kind of railing to hold on to and nobody has to be pressed up against anyone else and you don't have to worry you won't be able to reach the door in time.

But I'm also interested that everyone else has said it's OK, so I'll bear that in mind in future! And it's true that if I was sat somewhere and someone said "that's my seat" I would move and not begrudge them it - well, maybe a little grudging if I were in a plaster cast and had 16 suitcases or something.

You didn't pay any extra but you still paid for it. I suppose it's dependent on how long the journey is, you might not want to make a song and dance if you're not going to be on the train very long anyway, but when I'm going to and from Glasgow I'm not going to let some fucker who turns up on a wing and prayer sit in a seat I specified I wanted to sit on.

yeah, like when I used book seats from Leeds to Newquay with a disabled co-traveller I'm actually ready to pull out a blade on anyone with designs on my seats.

I seriously don't understand the way trains are booked here. Why are they constantly over sold? It drives me fucking nuts.

And I'm sorry but if I have a ticket with a seat number on it and someone in that seat doesn't I'm getting the damn seat.