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

when you go through the drive-thru and they are forced by corporate to say "welcome to this place would you like to try our blueberry broohaha today?" forcing me to say no thank you before i can order what i came here for.

that's just too much extra interaction first thing in the damn morning.

Last UK politics thread was always at the bottom of my bookmarks and easy to find. New one is in the middle. Fucking Tories.

all coworkers who clear their throat more often than once every 5 minutes (coworker currently on <10s), whether due to temporary or permanent affliction, to be sent on a training course about how you probably don't actually need to keep clearing your throat if it's just a bit tickly and you're not about to say something and also how come you haven't noticed that clearing it is evidently not doing any good anyway, and then made to work from home

(why should they get nice things? yes, we should all get to work from home if we like, too)

I'm at a bar on a cruise ship. It's choppy and windy and the receipts are often blowing away and the bartenders are making no attempt to grab them, just keep walking by them as receipts eventually fly everywhere including the pool area.

Idk why it makes me mad other than it seems incredibly stupid. The gratuity is auto added but still.

Just looking at that sitch from my own perspective, whenever someone is all 'LOL, WGAF' in re: a casually-abdicated responsibility whose cleanup becomes someone else's problem, yeah, it make me pretty IA.

actually read this as *people* blowing away and briefly thought Neaderthal, put down your drink and do something!

Lol

"for all my powers..."

This started back when Gilmore Girls was on tv but I really hate how they don't fill coffee cups when shooting scenes. It's especially terrible when people are walking around with a tray of takeaway coffee. I noticed this again during The Irishman. SO LAZY.

https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/at-last-a-tv-show-that-gives-you

I WOULD WATCH THIS SHOW.

That is one of those things that, once it was pointed out to me, I can never un-see. Also: characters hanging up without saying good bye, traveling all the way over to an apartment/restaurant to say three things to someone then leave (often leaving most of a meal unfinished, and just laying some cash on the table instead of getting a bill/paying). Obviously, I completely understand why they don't film that, but...

It's changing slowly but (again, for understandable reasons) also, the degree characters talk on the phone rather than text, especially for brief conversations or comments.

Also when there's an over-the-shoulder shot and the person whose back is to you speaks, you can tell they're not saying anything (just enough jawline is visible to make it obvious, etc).

Probably the 100th time I've posted this but

- 'easy peelers' that aren't

team lunch:

"hey, let's just split this 14 ways" says person on more money than me and who ate way more. yeah, let the juniors subsidise your lunch.

"brb, bio"

*Get in car, leave*

why are there so fucking many almost but not entirely identical sizes of cheap takeway tupperware containers so when you're searching in your (unnecessarily large because you hate throwing plastic away) stash it's almost impossible to find a matching lid?

I was delighted when back home at the weekend to see that my sister shares exactly that problem with me.

lol i feel you. i tried to clear out most of mine and leave myself with 6 that i thought were identical and i still seem to have an odd lid

this entirely relatable anger is 100% rational imo

haha. I rebelled against the teachings of my mother, who stacks all the boxes together and lids together separately, and I stack them as lidded boxes. I consider having the cupboard space to do this one of those millennial luxury things like drinking avocado lattes for every meal or whatever.

why are there so fucking many almost but not entirely identical sizes of cheap takeway tupperware containers so when you're searching in your (unnecessarily large because you hate throwing plastic away) stash it's almost impossible to find a matching lid?

― Paperbag raita (ledge), Monday, February 3, 2020 2:07 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lately , I have been wanting to switch from cheapo Rubbermaid and store brand containers to some kind of permanent containers. Just don't know what to get. We mostly use sandwich-sized boxes for everything.

The rubbermaid boxes tend to crack (usually from being dropped while frozen) but the lids are more resilient, so I went through the cabinet and we had maybe 6 sandwich boxes and something like 30 lids.

lol i feel you. i tried to clear out most of mine and leave myself with 6 that i thought were identical and i still seem to have an odd lid

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Monday, February 3, 2020 2:12 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is a universal truth.

See also: socks lost in the dryer.

I’ve never lost a sock, don’t know what ppl are on about wrt to this apparent epidemic of lost socks

lost socks, bane of my existence for real. has science discovered where they go?

I’ve never lost a sock, don’t know what ppl are on about wrt to this apparent epidemic of lost socks

i don't own a dryer, which may be part of the answer. but when i hang them up, i hang them up together. NEVER LOST A SOCK, PEOPLE.

ilx is just a big industrial tumble dryer, socks show up then disappear

i have never lost a sock since i started doing my own washing

the mother, god rest her, had a fuckin attrition rate worse than vietnam tho

HOSE ZONE LAYER is where the socks go.

I once read that socks don't get lost in the dryer (seriously, how could they?) but in the washer, where they can get dumped along with the wash/rinse water. We only notice after the dryer phase when matching them up.

Ahem, u are all wrong, this book had all the answers decades ago.

https://i.ibb.co/D1WG8SS/MV5-BNTg3-Nz-Vl-ZTct-Y2-Zj-NC00-ODVm-LTgz-NDct-ZTM4-MDZk-NGI0-NDMy-Xk-Ey-Xk-Fqc-Gde-QXVy-Mz-I2-MDEw-NA-V1-UX182-CR0-0-182-268-AL.jpg

I SAW HIM ONCE, BEHIND THE WATER HEATER

'Hi, you sent me the wrong book. Instead of sending me Blah by Blabbity Bloo you sent me Blech by Blippity Blam. FYI, the ISBN of the incorrect book you sent is 123-456-7890. Thanks.'

'Hi, in order to help us look into your issue, could you please provide the ISBN of the incorrect book that we sent you?'

I mean...just...are there people walking around whose brains have completely dissolved? Is that possible? It seems increasingly possible.

Auto-responses where the AI (such as it is) doesn't check the message for the ISBN, because people so rarely include that in the first complaint.

OK, still something to be IA (or RA) about.

I've run into a string of bad luck in trying to get an old book that, afaict, is only available through third-party sellers on Amazon. It's not incredibly rare or anything, but I've bought the book three times from three different sellers and every single time they sent me a different, completely unrelated book. When I contacted the sellers, each of them responded by saying they didn't have the book I bought and don't think they ever did. In fairness, all three times my money was immediately refunded and the sellers told me to just keep the book they sent, but I'm starting to wonder if there's some convoluted scam that allows sellers to dump unwanted stock. Especially when two of the three sellers keep popping up saying they have the book again and again.

That sounds like the beginning of a Paul Auster novel.

I ordered a used book a little while back and received a book whose only similarity to the book I ordered, in terms of particulars, was its employment of the same Elizabethan-era painting on the cover. And I first thought the mix-up was understandable, seeing as how both were books about Elizabethan England, but then it turned out that they never even had a copy of the book I ordered. And I found myself wondering: what exactly is your method of organization, bookstore? By what means do you catalogue your wares? Is it possible that none of your staff understand words and that you have to store all of your books with the covers facing out in the vain hope that you'll be able to track down a book on the basis of vague visual information? It still puzzles me when I think about it. And then my nose begins to freely bleed.

Lunch your providing the ISBN of the incorrect book in your initial message was probably a one in 47,000,000 occurence. Before she was able to process that sentence, her brain probably overrode it, anomalous as it was, and she only saw black white space, the same way when untouched indigenous tribespeople see carrier ships on the ocean, they assume it's hallucination

OL I wonder if there is a scanning service which allows automatic listing by snapping a pic of the cover? I remember some iOS app like that for maintaining your DVD library.

I probably would've been more sanguine about the ISBN thing if my 9-to-5 didn't already feel like Gogo and Didi endlessly talking past one another. I don't need that nonsense leaking into the rest of my life, man.

In fairness, all three times my money was immediately refunded and the sellers told me to just keep the book they sent, but I'm starting to wonder if there's some convoluted scam that allows sellers to dump unwanted stock. Especially when two of the three sellers keep popping up saying they have the book again and again.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 February 2020 21:20 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This looks like an opportunity to me. Just keep ordering the unstocked book and you'll build a library of free books to read and/or sell on.

MatthewK, there are a lot of apps that can do this - BookScout, Goodreads, half.com when it was going.

I'm noticing this a lot at work:

The Men's bathroom is cleaned and the maintenance person leaves the door propped open to air it out. Long after the floors have dried dudes go in and use the toilets WITHOUT CLOSING THE DOOR

does the cleaner leave the ladies loo door open

We share a building with four other offices, but just have one set of toilets. At least one man (I think more) has a habit of shutting the men's toilet door after he's finished instead of leaving it ajar, this means you think there is someone using it, and the only way to find out is to try the handle or knock. I guess whoever they are they probably feel annoyed at those of us who leave it ajar, for some other reason I haven't considered.