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

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?

just went to a website to read an interview with rza and there was NO DATE ANYWHERE ON IT, i understand we are in hell and it seems like time does not exist anymore here but it does, when you do something it often helps to know when you did it

this is indeed very annoying

otm i hate that

that's entirely rational

Agreed.

every single person who's shared that story of that pebble-sized asteroid that might come near Earth or burn up in the atmosphere the day after election day and going "LOL MORE 2020" as this isn't a thing that regularly happens.

Any song that samples In The Court of the Crimson King

i was watching this one dude's video of him singing a harmonized song, all 4 parts by himself, so I could learn the parts easier. He writes proudly in his description "All done in one take - NO STUDIO MAGIC".

........YOU SINGING HARMONY WITH YOURSELF IS INHERENTLY STUDIO MAGIC YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKER!

this was Youtube

haha that would annoy me very much
ditto anything "uncut"

studio magic means cocaine

Here's the latest

Nick Timothy's beard

i realized constant loud opening and shutting of doors over and over drives me insane. not slamming of doors, but my roommate this morning has opened and shut a door audibly about 10 times in the last 5 minutes.

like why the hell don't you just leave the door open if you are going to keep going in and out of it rather than opening and shutting it each time? (it's not the bathroom!)

this is though also the roommate who has left unflushed turds sitting in the toilet 4 separate times....and this dude's my age!

btw I am moving in January and probably getting a place of my own again maybe a house.

people who ask me for help with shit (like my mother), then the moment I ask any follow-up questions, they're nowhere to be found for 30 minutes, so I can't move on until they reply, and my time winds up being monopolized.

going on 40 minutes trying to help my mother find her Federal EIN for her company that she somehow knew 3 months ago but doesn't know now, and it could have been done 35 minutes ago if she'd answered any of the questions I asked.

"legitimate interest"

yet another way to make protecting yourself from tracking almost impossible