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

how irrational is this anger: driving on the motorway i overtake someone in a yellow car then move back into their lane. 30 seconds later the lane slows down, i can't move back out to overtake as the overtaking lane is full but after a couple of cars there's a gap so i indicate. the yellow car comes up behind me, moves into the gap and overtakes me. obviously i overtake it again a minute later.

lol yellow car was listening to Lita Ford and eating Twizzlers and had no idea you were the same car

probably looked over their shoulder when overtaking as well.

boxes with lids, that are almost-but-not-quite square, so that the lid will only fit two ways out of four, but you can't immediately tell which.

not mine but Mr Veg’s

a local deli makes these italian sausage sandwiches that are mr veg’s favorite (sausage, peppers onions on a sourdough roll). almost always, as logic dictates, they put the sausage lengthways in the bread roll

but every now and then an agent of chaos will cut the sausages in smaller lenths and put them in the bread roll *crossways*

it only happens very rarely. but it drives mr veg ~insane~

(i find it hilarious)

https://i.imgur.com/NhnP927.png

Well if you give me 1.28 more seconds, I might just have one for ya!

people who join a virtual meeting significantly early (like 30 minutes), and start talking and acting surprised when they don't get much response

Last spring, my son was on a zoom call with his class. The lesson concluded and everyone left, saying bye! bye! to each other.

My son walked away, but my wife noticed one little girl still in there:

Every one's gone now!
I'M ALL ALONE.
Well.
Bye chat room!

people who join a virtual meeting significantly early (like 30 minutes), and start talking and acting surprised when they don't get much response

okay what now

I generally don't start our training WebEx meetings until 30 minutes prior to class start (since my OT is limited), and usually most learners don't arrive until 5 minutes prior to 10 minutes after (because our systems are so slow).

But sometimes there's one eager person who joins training mega-early and hear silence on the line (since it hasn't started yet), and start barking "HELLO, HELLO?". and I don't always reply right away because maybe I stepped away to take a leak, or I haven't yet connected to the audio portion, so they freak out and disconnect and reconnect and wonder why they can't hear anything.

it's like....we didn't start yet. we won't be starting for a half hour. relax. I usually try and say "hello" if I'm connected to audio and I hear them, and let them know we'll start in a half hour, but I've had a few people try and talk my ear off for a half hour, and it's like...I'm actually doing work right now! I'm preparing to teach your class! Give me five minutes please, then I'll listen to you talk about the TV show you watched last night!

a local deli makes these italian sausage sandwiches that are mr veg’s favorite (sausage, peppers onions on a sourdough roll). almost always, as logic dictates, they put the sausage lengthways in the bread roll

but every now and then an agent of chaos will cut the sausages in smaller lengths and put them in the bread roll *crossways*

There's one local Italian place that makes their sausage, pepper & onion sandwiches by slicing the sausage into discs and distributing them throughout, rather than slicing them lengthways and laying them in the roll. It's fantastic; I order from them all the time for specifically this reason. (They also include slices of potato in the sandwich, and that rules too.)

I'm probably missing something, but why not start them when it starts? Or five minutes early to let people check that their setup's working?

I just like to have everything up and running early so if there's any tech issue I catch it early on. I do communicate and say "hello" 5 minutes prior so people know I've seen thema nd recorded them as here. I just get wigged out by people who show up a half hour early and wanna talk me to death - esp when they know what time it starts.

"Hello and welcome; thanks for joining. I'm going to go on mute for a while, as I'm focusing on something else. We'll start at the top of the hour."

and then I go to the bar

Yeah "focusing on something else" can certainly be "focusing on drinking enough to be able to tolerate the inanity that I am about to experience"

When anyone super famous appears on a US chat show and there's 10 fucking minutes of whooping then famous person waves and there's another 5 minutes of cheering then the host goes "ladies and gentlemen... Famous Person!" and everyone cheers for another fucking week then Famous Person says how great it is be be back on Show X or back in City Y and we go again then it's commercials.

Whenever Americans argue that there's as much cultural variation from one US state to the next as there is between European countries, as though France, Spain, Romania, Austria, Finland, Greece, the UK, etc., were just these lumbering monoliths with no regional diversity of their own, to say nothing of the sweeping dismissal of linguistic differences that this view implies. Drives me up the fucking wall, it does.

Who has ever said that?

Now, Tuscaloosa and Auburn might be as different as Finland is from Greece, but they're actually in the same state!

It's a really common trope in my experience. I've also heard Canadians make the exact same case (about the US, that is).

Also, I gagged at that comparison – I'd be willing to start a nuclear war over this.

I hate it when I'm driving around listening to the radio, and the DJ talks about what a lovely day it is, good temp, breeze, not too humid, and I look at the thermometer on the dash and it's already several degrees higher than the high she said it would be, it's hot and humid outside and generally a windows-up AC-on kind of gross day just a few miles from wherever she must be broadcasting from.

my dash thermometer is typically several degrees higher than the actual temperature, which is what makes me irrationally angry

It’s sampling the temperature just above the road, for the most part, which is why it’s higher than ambient in sunny weather and colder than ambient on winter mornings.

In my experience it seems higher than ambient in summer but relatively accurate in winter.

ah i was wondering where it was getting the temp. that makes sense.

Also, that DJ likely voicetracked her shift, and was just going off on what the forecast had said.

Also your car is a big piece of metal that's been sitting in the sun warming up (not least because it's simultaneously a greenhouse due to sun through windows). And also because of pavement, as Matthew notes

also cars are assholes

Well, yeah.

there's as much cultural variation from one US state to the next as there is between European countries

this is plainly wrong, wrong altogether, unutterably wrong, and simply wrong. but getting angry at such wrongness would, if pursued faithfully in all instances of wrongness, destroy one's sense of well-being in its totality, so that it certainly qualifies as an irrational anger.

Some states have Circle K, some have 7-11, many have both!

Some have Wawa!

There’s no trombone emoji!!

Loads of standard western orchestral instruments missing, it's an absolute scandal; I needed a bassoon one the other day and I'm not sure there's even a flute??

Time to prepare a proposal for the Unicode consortium on the matter

I misread that as a missing trampoline emoji, and I thought, how would you depict a trampoline as an emoji?

There’s no trombone emoji!!

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a bit of imagination please.

a peach and an aubergine, innit

ken c! I thought you'd left us!

had to Google aubergine!

Guess who's back???????

(the answer is Eminem, as always)

Hahaha, hi Ken!

Oh, and as far as the thread topic is concerned, I get IA at the Californians in the "Mexicans mad at food" group I joined on FB who think their cuisine is superior in every way to the cuisine in Texas when Cal-Mex is just as inauthentic and potentially shitty as Tex-Mex, and their rabid support of a problematic fast food chain (In-n-Out) doesn't do them any favors, especially when the Texan equivalent (Whataburger) is a much better corporate citizen. I know it means nothing in the grand scope of thing, meaning it's irrational, but it still irks the shit out of me, so it fits within this thread's parameters.

took me until something like 4 years ago to find out why an aubergine was called an eggplant. The purple version doesn't really show it, plus its a long bulbous veg taht doesn't really appear egg shaped. BUt the Asian variety is white and round.

LIDL have just started selling a version that is that old aubergine shape but has white and purple streaks. can't recall the name.

Grafitti is the name

Borrowed from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان‎ (al-bāḏinjān, “the eggplant”), from Persian بادنجان‎ (bâdenjân), from باتنجان‎ (bâtenjân), from Sanskrit वातिगगम (vātiga-gama, “eggplant”, literally “the plant that cures the wind”). Doublet of brinjal.

I was sending an email with "Cuisinart" in the subject. Just as it does here as I type this, "Cuisinart" gets a little squiggly red line under it indicating it is wrong or misspelled or somehow worthy of extra grammatical attention. But in the body of the email I was writing it for some reason *didn't* call attention to Cuisinart, gave it a pass. And yet, in the same email, I accidentally typed "slizing" instead of slicing, but it didn't underline "slizing." What the fuck is a slizing?

you're not supposed to know

It's when you shoot daggers with your eyes

xpost Hmm, I never considered it was a secret, good point!

Slizing up eyeballs?