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

This has been going on for a while, but whenever I go to a politically charged event, like a school meeting or a protest, there is always a contingent of activists or righteous actors who instead of clapping choose to snap, like beatniks at a poetry reading. It kind of drives me nuts. I get it, but I hate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89M8wJRtccw

Adverts for sports events, sports television channels, and bookmakers, showing gaping-jawed sportspeople (usually footballers) and fans looking half like morons devoid of higher brain function and half like they want to eat your children.

so accurate reflections of objective reality make u irrationally angry huh

reality is infuriating, maybe that makes me rationally angry *doffs fedora*

Another IA-maker are food recipe blogs that are all formatted the exact same way, with a couple of pages of cutesy, pored-over personal blather interrupted by aggressively staged photos of the recipe in progress, with all of the margins packed with what appears to be ugly, automatically generated ads and sponsors. Even when the recipe looks good it feels like a quick-buck vector for generating revenue, with the recipe almost an afterthought. (Helpfully, many of these sites have a "jump to the recipe" link, but that just implies they know all the preceding stuff is useless filler.)

I had never noticed the presence of a "jump to recipe" button. Went to check one of my go-to recipe blogs and she had one. So thanks!

I’m hoping glazed chicken wang is a typo.

There's a thing in many newer cars where one headlight turns off if that side's turn signal is engaged. It makes them look like very expensive padiddles, but then they disengage the turn signal and everything snaps back to normal.

I noticed one of those the other day! I am assuming that it only happens with the daylight headlights – you wouldn't become a very slow strobe light as you're making that turn at night into the abandoned quarry, right?

You wanna know how to ruin my day? Show me a drawstring backpack!

I was at a Fourth of July fundraiser and this teacher got up and made a production of this tune called "The President's Rap" which she said she used to teach her kids.

I was expecting some fun, corny Wakko from Animaniacs esque rap with clever rhymes and mnemonic devices to help them memorize the names.

Instead she just played a recording of some dorky dude over a Casio-preset beat just saying the names of the Presidents in his approximation of a "hiphop"voice over a Casio-preset beat.

The second verse...was just the names again.

I don't know if I was aggravated more by the sheer laziness of it, or the fact that the "rapper" didn't start making faux-vomit noises after he said "Trump"

(obv this happened a while ago)

Your annual reminder (male northern hemisphere readers) to dust off the sports shorts and body warmers now that winter is on its way. Socks no higher than the ankles.

Credit card chip-readers that aren’t anchored down to the counter in any way, so the whole unit just slides away from you when you try to push your card in. I mean come on, make the tiny effort to properly install it, people are going to use it constantly, and not all of them will have an extra free hand to hold it with! Hrrrrrghh it makes me so angry!!

yeah, and then because it slides away from you while attempting to insert, you have committed a card read error and you have to wait a few seconds for the thing to reset and the clerk to say "ok, try it again."

I have been getting very annoyed when people don't tie their hair back during reality shows during active or messy events.

certain updates to my work computer create desktop shortcuts that i cannot delete without administrative privileges

it would be absurd to track down an administrator just to delete them, so they hatefully sit there

how about an empty desktop?

right click desktop > view > uncheck show desktop icons

yeah but there are other desktop icons i use

a request for an additional monitor might be good cover for you. just put the icon on that one and leave it off to the side, turned around even.

At a Slayer meet and greet...

Security: can everyone hear me?

*Less than half respond as they can't hear her as she has a quiet voice and is standing near the end of the line*

Security: ok here are some important instructions for you that i am going to address only to a small subset of you. Everybody got that?

Us: No.

Security: Great, glad everyone knows what they're doing! Bye.

I already know the instructions from last time but y'know could it kill ya to wait for an affirmative response before plowing ahead

create desktop shortcuts that i cannot delete

will the icons let you sequester them into a desktop folder named "Useless Shortcuts"?

I have the same problem at work, and I’ve done that. The next morning there they were again, like something out of a horror movie.

People who spend all day spamming and lecturing their local friends to vote in municipal elections when many of us either have no election today or live in an unincorporated section of the county and can't participate.

ugh agree

whether their friends can participate or not, tbh

the firefox logo now has purple in it.

I think the purple's a great touch, tbh, but they should have kept the fox.

purple doesn't exist, it's a hoax, ama

That here in the New World, when scheduling something, nine times out of ten, I have to type '2' and then 'tab' and then 'tab' again and then 'PM' instead of just '14' and 'return'.

All of our modern appliances, from dishwasher to dryer to the car, have these hyper sensitive fail-safe alerts that are far more intrusive than actual failures. I waste so much time figuring out why a light is on, or a warning has activated, or something has automatically shut off, and it's never for the reason those alerts exist.

OK, I don't know if this is irrational, but it does make me annoyed. We have two places for guests to stay: the second floor, where they get a bedroom across from my kids bathroom, and the (finished) basement, where they get a bedroom across from a full bath all to themselves. When my mom visits she prefers the basement, where she's right by her own bathroom. But my in-laws, they insist on staying upstairs with everyone else and clomping down two floors to the basement to use that bathroom/shower. Fine, it's their knees. Except my wife's stepdad insists on using the powder room by the kitchen on the 1st floor, right by where the family is often hanging/cooking/reading, and he's as loud as a particularly flatulent elephant. Just go down one more floor to the basement and shit in peace and privacy, dude! No need to constantly share the news with us.

xp house fires are pretty inconvenient fyi

it's irrational, like the thread says

always a fair comeback

There is this couple I often see with a huge American Pitbull Terrier called Bud. He's an adorable dog but they are a set of arseholes. She pissed me off the other night complaining that my led head-lamp was blinding her, and this was out in the middle of nowhere without any public lighting. I was thinking: much better when people creep about in the dark and you can't even see them fucking coming or you trip up in the dark and break your ankle (again). My dog is a creature of routine and always stops at the same point to go back on the lead and he gets a biscuit as a reward. One day he didn't do it cos Bud was there and he was eager to see him. All I said to her husband was: " ah so that was why he went bounding forwards, to play with Bud, he usually waits for me". And he replied showing his horrible yellow teeth and with a smug look " you mean as opposed to him bounding backwards". I've never felt such violent urges in my life. I wanted to beat his stupid head to a fucking pulp and I keep rewinding that moment and coming out with a withering putdown/witty repartee rather than just him the murder stare. But they obviously hate me as well and I suppose most human interactions that go wrong are very irrational!

when a witch is riding a broom, the brush bit shd be the HEAD not the TAIL

i entirely agree that this is a battle long lost hence a v silly thing to still be annoyed abt -- and if this were possible i'd say it makes me look worse than ilxors on the "words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you" thread, but this is NEVER possible and the fool is me here, battling for the correctness of beliefs about witches (but nevertheless right not wrong)

Shouldn't the brush be in back, both to cut down on wind resistance and to help steer?

the broom should be vertical so you don't fall off.

https://i.redd.it/hcqyevb9gpi31.jpg

How about the brush pointing up and the stick pointing down?

https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/broomwitches01-720x975.jpg

First known depiction, 1451, what did they know in those days though.

correct (also scientific, look at the engraving of the waves)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/59/9d/dc/599ddc8f1ddf709ff52f78e81e458a90.jpg

in addition: accurate depiction of cat's mood

The broom head would rather seem to obscure the view in the direction of travel.

the key entry in this discussion comes (as you'd expect) from contributor "rowrrbazzle", invoking james blish's "the day after judgment" (which is almost certainly where i inherited my opinion from, tho i'd forgotten this passage was in it) (the witch in this case being the warlock THERON WARE, who has unleashed hundreds of high echelon demons into the material world, more or less just to see what happens) (what happens is bad, don't do this ilx)

(i also found quite a funny write-up in THE SUN of the irl male witch who hates harry potter but i'm not going to link that bcz fuck murdoch)

(all the ppl invoking aerodynamics need their heads slapping a bit)

Yeah we are discussing the aerodynamics of a mAgicK FlyInG sTiK

I kinda like the idea of having the bristles in front; it's like a front bumper in case you run into anything. And you could have aerial combat with two brooms slamming into each other, like bumper cars. If it were the other way round, you'd just have sticks sliding past one another (which sounds, um, racy and not in a Quidditchy way)

I kinda like the idea of having the bristles in front; it's like a front bumper in case you run into anything.

Like a cow catcher!

There should be a brush on both ends and then you just ride it horizontally, like a ski lift.

the witch in this case being the warlock THERON WARE, who has unleashed hundreds of high echelon demons into the material world, more or less just to see what happens

nods, ponders, unleashes hundreds of high echelon demons into the material world just to see what happens

what happens is bad, don't do this ilx

fuck

wheres that button thread