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

ohhhhhhh noooooooo

ayyyyyup

back on the line briskly like, 'hi!' then noticing i'd hit 'speaker' instead of 'mute'.

Someone did that to their kid once and the other person on the line freaked out thinking they were talking to her.

I think I saw a symbol in the park painted onto the path that was intended to remind people that they should keep 2metres apart, only what they had marked is more like 2 feet than metres. I could see some purpose in printing it larger so that people saw it and remembered it.
Just am wondering how good people's spacial understanding is, so would have thought actually trying to keep something closer to teh real distance would have been a lot more beneficial.
Hope people aren't now going to think they are keeping 2 metres apart when they're whatever that was.

I think it may have just been abstractly copied from a sign that is going around with the social distancing guidelines on.
Do just think that seeing it at that size might just mislead people.

& again the impossibility of keeping that distance in any supermarket is a little frustrating anyway.

Why do the salt the top part of Pringles instead of the bottom? The shape of a Pringle just about fits perfectly on the tongue, but the salty side is wasted.

Please do not make any sort of reference to r*s*lt*nt p*st*, please. We can talk about Pringles without that.

Couldn't you turn the Pringle upside down and rotate it 90 degrees?

or just salt the resulting paste before using it to stick together two intact pringles?

If you turn it upside down and 90º, it becomes wider than it is ... deep.

Maybe for a big mouth like Tracer Hand that would work, but not for me.

respect to tracer for imagining literally the nastiest way to eat pringles (salt-side-out 3-pringle sandwich filled with resultant pringle-paste)

Tracer is the hero we need.

i'm glad someone's finally saying it.

I can't fucking stand it when my kids (particularly the older one) have FaceTime conversations with their friends while walking around the house. She'll carry it around with her when she's making a snack in the kitchen, or brushing her teeth, and so on. I'll be sitting there, reading a book, and she'll just walk up and go "hi, dad!" And I'll look up and she has the fucking phone in her hand, hanging at her side, swinging around, and often ear buds in, too. I think, 1) that's got to be the worst video call ever and 2) why not go audio only if you're not going to look at the screen and 3) your life is not a fucking reality show, you don't have to broadcast every last second and 4) if it's come to just hanging around me while the phone is running, and your earbuds are in, and making non-conversation, then ... maybe you should just get off the phone and 5) I don't want to be in your reality show, get that thing away from me. I tell her it's rude to both everyone around her as well as the little five inch friend she has perma-streaming on the other end.

kick her out imo

Done.

in times like these rash moves are sometimes necessary

Same same same.

My kids have discovered Facetime.

Nothing like hanging out, socks up on the desk and looking at weird tumblr, when lo and behold, it's the floating head of my mother next to me, being held aloft by one of the brats.

― pplains, Tuesday, November 3, 2015 8:20 PM

afk people in video games. right now i'm doing this more than probably ever (video games) considering, lol, something's gotta pass the time, half the times we start virtual games and a motherfucker disappears 2 minutes into it, ruining it.

also not that it applies atm, but waiters who come to your table and just look at you and don't say anything. I'm like a vampire, I require invitation, so not getting a "hi my name is xxx, what would you like?" leaves me to stare back silently until one of us blinks or walks into traffic

Similarly, I got take-out yesterday, paid at the counter and, since the cashier immediately went back to their phone, sat down to wait for my presumably not-ready-yet order. Ten damn minutes later it becomes clear that one of the several bags that had been sitting on the counter the entire time was mine. The cashier had given me zero indication that my order was ready, or that it was one of the bags already sitting out, and was apparently unbothered that I was sitting there waiting for no reason while my food grew cold right in front of me.

when i go to play a funny game that will make me laugh, and it's filled with some asshole who responds to every prompt with the same forced unfunny meme.

memes used to have a communal aspect to them, now half the time it's one unfunny dick saying the same shit over and over again until someone else joins in because they want him to shut the fuck up and move onto something else.

it's like the dude that says "that's what she said all the time", but even when it doesn't make sense.

one unfunny dick saying the same shit over and over again until someone else joins in because they want him to shut the fuck up and move onto something else

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Realised last night that after months of seeing offers for a month's free trial of Netflix they no longer have tehm at the moment. Assume it must be because they've had as many new members as they need.
ho hum.
Wondering if I should go ahead anyway.
Been putting it off cos I spend a lotof time listening to podcasts as it is.

I signed up for them Stevo and think it is a load of shit tbh. As soon as season 4 of Rick and Morty is finished I'm cancelling them.

loads of the series that get raved about on these hallowed pages are absolute garbage, I'm afraid to say!

Clicking on the Facebook logo of a corporate site to see their Facebook page and instead, getting treated to a pop-up window requesting me to log into my account so I can share the damn screen I'm on.

Why can't this guy get hold of Mojo magazine for me if he can get hold of Uncut.
I always associate them are they done by different p[eople now or something.
Thought they were 2 of the bigger UK music press.
Now this guy's claiming that the normal Irish distributor doesn't carry Mojo.

Blooming both want things to not open too soon and my monthly reading habits not to change.

I can't believe how worked up this has gotten me, but it's more due to the stupidity of it.

I went onto the Metallica.com store to buy some digital releases. I've spent a half hour trying to buy two digital releases, and every time it gets to billing, it gets stuck, because it shows no shipping options available (cos they're fuckin' DIGITAL) and tells me to check my address, and doesn't let me go any further.

If I add a physical product to it, it works. so if I add a 59 cent stencil to the order, suddenly I can get to the final screen. but then it makes me buy shipping at $5. if I remove the product...IT LEAVES THE $5 SHIPPING FOR A DIGITAL ITEM.

I can't believe how stupid this is designed and I guess nobody ever complains cos most people buy physical items too.

Just get it from Napster.

There it is

Can't wait to get the 14 cd reissue of Load

Here's mine on a related note: I went to Epic Games to get the free GTA V for PC this weekend.

(I've got a PC that can barely load Minesweeper, but hey, it gives me something to "shoot" for!)

The next thing that happened has been happening way too frequently lately. I create a new account, go through the whole process, and then at the end, it says "You already have an account! Sign in with that!"

I promise I've never had an account with Epic Games before this weekend. I go through the motions again like a crazy person and yup, get the exact same result.

Then I get the idea, Why not reset my password? I do and go through the motions of that. This time, I log into my account with no problems.

Except it's not my account. It's Otto Baker lll's account. You might not know him as Otto because his friends probably call him Tre – which, btw, is my name too.

Anyway. Otto/Tre downloaded Fortnite from Epic a year ago and was never heard from again. But now I've got to be Otto if and when I ever successfully boot GTA V up on this crap PC.

But here's thing that I got irrationally made about. The welcome screen spells out our name in all-caps. And that's where I learned that this idiot didn't spell his name Otto Baker III like I would have. No. His name on epic was OTTO BAKER LLL.

OTTO BAKER LOL LOL LOL

Haaaaa

You could have done a lot worse than “Otto” though

wait, how did someone else register an account under your email?

I don't know!

I get trebaker, tre.baker... dudes who go by trevon and I guess just forget about the second part?

Maybe he registered, never got the confirmation email and gave up, actually leaving his Fortnite hanging there in limbo. I DON'T KNOW.

My government name isn't really Otto though, nor was his. Hell, I guess that asshole Secretary of State under the first Bush was a Tre Baker too.

ahh my friend used his gov't name as his email and he was the first person with his exact name to get a gmail, so he constantly gets other peoples emails cos they forget to put "j✧✧✧.ja✧✧✧.jinglehei✧✧✧.schmid✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧" and just leave out the "43" or w/e.

so that makes sense.

Yeah, I got both my day-to-day name and the government one.

Boy, my dad was pissed about that last one.

I get this shit all the time, I'm firstinitialsurname@gmail, and both personally and professionally annoyed at the number of companies that swear that you need to click this link to confirm your email address, but it's a bluff, they'll send you "today in Zoosk" emails from now until the end of time even if you don't.

I've said all this before on the misdirected emails thread, but

The Trebaker one gets all the gamer spam, the college recruiting, the military recruiting, fashion deals for stuff I'm way too old for. A definite African American vibe that runs through it all.

The Ottobaker one – that's the one where I get the Trump spam, the fwd:fwd:fwd threads about the only people left in this country to do all the work is you and me and you ain't doing sh*t!, the rental agreements, the surveys from car dealerships, the announcements that another alumni of the bowling league has passed away due to heart disease.

I live in two worlds –– and I wish they'd both stay out of my inbox!

On my ilx address, I get a lot of teeth x-rays and invoices for Colgate.

https://i.imgur.com/wcKMUPU.jpg

i'm here to say it's very stupid of xfinity's automated customer service system to have a fake typing sound. we know no one is typing! what is the point of this?

is taht part of that Innocent Smoothies aesthetic? Is the sound of somebody typing on a computer keyboard different inherently to a person typing?
Maybe its just to show taht the line hasn't gone dead?

i have one pixel in the middle of my monitor that has gone off and is lit bright green at all times

it is driving me bonkers

my kindle has a scratch in it that is letting bright light through, probably cat's fault

it did occur to me that the typing sound was supposed to signal to people that they are still on the line. it was just annoying. i then i had the most pleasant call with comcast, the "my promotion ran out and you are charging me $95 for internet" call you have to have every year. i recognized the guy was in baltimore from his accent and he said "oh because i say tieuuu, right?" usually they sound like they're in texas or something.

Typing would be a better sound than that chka-chka-chka electric popcorn sound it sometimes makes.

Kate sometimes you can massage angry pixels with a fingertip and they will ease up or switch off

Every time I visit any website in the entire world (except, mercifully, this one) I have to do all or most of this to see one paragraph of relevant text

Manage cookies
Block notifications
Press x to close 'get the app' banner
Mute/close autoplay advert
Close a popup
Wait for all spurious surrounding click bait bollocks to load before body text

Who decided that this was the user experience we all wanted?