Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

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"hamberders" - like hamburgers isn't a stupid enough sounding word

new card readers in LIDL seem to need there to be contact rather than hovering over reader. Is taht a security measure or a step backwards.
Was surprised o find out taht it doesn't seem to read without actually touching card to screen. Have used these new readers twice so far, thought it might be coincidental first time but 2nd seems to confirm it.

JUst occured to me that contact might bypass anybody being able to read your card remotely but not sure how BS taht is. Just seems to be moving back into a stage i thought we had moved away from a few years ago.

readers only installed last week.

Wondering how much ambition or plain politicking ther eis in the idea that Ireland is going to be in a position to move from status 5 lockdown to status 3 at teh start of next month and down to 2 for 2 weeks around the 25th of next month.

T^hought these things were supposed to be dynamic to state of teh pandemic.

Also going back into status 5 without having done a stack of preparation that should have been underway since the start of teh last lockdown.
Not sure what to believe about statuses anymore but this just seems like it's not going to be doing what is needed, if it is already.

pornographies that feature massaging as a preamble to serious sexy business: jfc get your massage house in order! what you are presenting are very bad massages! very bad indeed! vaguely running your hands up and down someone's back for a quick minute is not a valid massage, and certainly no reason whatsoever for someone to get worked up in a hormonal sense so that sexy times ensue. not at all! what you are doing is an insult to the let's see if this goes somewhere community. i regret nothing; every massage that was just a massage i have delivered in good faith. on occasion there was a bonus. if not, i still upheld my end of the bargain.

but porn, you're supposed to deliver the rarely-attained promise. how am i supposed to be convinced of the validity of the boinking when the preliminaries are all perfunctorily managed? work that tissue deeply; i got some stress-related issues locked up tight in there. work those out and then you can work me out, capiche?

in conclusion and in summary, bad massage makes bad porn. i should not be so upset at this but look at the world we live in.

Pornographic films also show people who very bad at delivering pizza and fixing plumbing as well.

porn often has shockingly low artistic ambitions

oh, i know all that. that's why this is on the irrationally perturbed thread, not the valid reasons for getting huffy thread.

otoh, you wanted to be an actor, so dig in. i can give a half-decent massage and i don't even have an imdb profile. acting is reacting, and you're not even trying to achieve situational veracity. give your acting partner some semblance of a diegetic reality to respond to, fer cryinoutloud.

when book titles use 'biography' to mean 'a history of', e.g.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/London-the-biography.jpg

wtf is up with the vaporwave cover art

I read that and the metaphor (of the city embodied, the city as a person deserving of a biography) is there. But it seems a trifle grafted on. Perhaps as an afterthought, to justify "biography" (which sounds sexy) as opposed to "history" (which sounds dry). Maybe? I dunno.

That was the conceit imo, and agreed that it was halfarsed too

Was going to be a wise-ass and post a bio of this guy, but the author was already way ahead of me.

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Dryer we bought has a default "energy saver" setting. It never gets anything dry on this setting, however it makes me feel guilty to turn it off.

it may not dry anything, but it tumbles your laundry into a state of exhausted submission

They should make a dryer that sighs when you disable energy saver

a disappointed sigh or a relieved sigh?

disappointed for sure

people who lean into a group photo unnecessarily

Dear whoever invented the type of lock system (that german lock manufacturer ABUS uses) that forces me to turn my key FIVE TIMES every time I open or close the back door to my house: fuck you.

Related: my front door has two separate locks that must be opened together. Infuriating when you are carrying shopping/work bags etc… check your privilege two handed lock designers

Love to check the filmography of a director you love and spot something completely new to you and you hunt it down and it turns out to be a 6-minute act of prostitution for BMW or Cartier or some such shit.

To the cosmic cockblocker that has decreed that I shall never have a boyfriend:

Fuck you.

I'm tired of being polite and understanding when men ignore me. I'm tired of lashing myself into going out and doing something, only to be the only person not part of a couple or larger group. I used to live by the motto "it's better to be alone for the right reason than with someone for the wrong," and I don't believe it any more--probably because I did rely on it for too long.

I don't really consider my anger so much "irrational" in this specific case, but I still hate how much anxiety it gives me when I need to address a problem created by someone else at work. In the long term my catching it saves us a ton of headache down the road, but in the short term it means we need to slow the process down for a few days and a few people have to redo some paperwork (myself included). I don't feel bad about doing my job to the best of my ability, but I really don't enjoy getting the nasty emails and voicemails because I'm "slowing things down" or "creating roadblocks" by doing the right thing.

"angry" is very strong but anything that suggests that yknow a person over the age of 80 passing away is, well, very sad or whatever, i just cant see it.

its well past innings, pls god if i get that long id manage one last scoff at anyone doing anything other than raising a fond glass to me tbh

I feel that.

Richard Pryor had a good point, how "people always say 'Well, at least he lived to be 92!' Motherfucker might've wanted to see 93!"

My grandmother, who lived to be 85, used to sit on the couch and tell me, "I just don't get it? Why do I keep waking up each morning?" When she finally did cross the veil, I was happy that she had finally found peace.

I just saw a gif of the Larry David "pretty pretty pretty good" quote that was edited badly so he appeared to just be saying "pretty...pretty...pretty...pretty...pretty" and it drove me completely batshit. Then I remembered posting this to this thread, which it turns out was all the way back in 2013

1) Those badly edited movie/TV gifs with subtitles where it doesn't really look like the person in the gif is saying the thing in the subtitle because not enough was captured

when I see scientific talks or documentaries about the history of the universe or the big bang, I get angry when they call that first moment "creation"

We have a very limited vocabulary to describe abstractions that have no connection to the universe we live in. For example, to describe what 'existed' before time or matter did.

TOLERATE AND ACCEPT DO NOT MEAN THE SAME THING AND ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

very that

and why is that when somebody says they tolerate you they act like they’re doing you a huge favour that required unimaginable personal sacrifice and expect gratitude for managing to be less of an asshole

because language has died and, much like time, it's become meaningless. now let's celebrate the end of discourse by accepting that listening without speaking is not a sign of weakness.

thanks for attending my ted talk. hopefully the last one ever btw.

(xpost to things that make you irrationally happy: what if everybody on earth got so fed up that we all just took a vow of silence? "don't bother that guy, he's so angry he refuses to speak" seems like the real power move tbh.)

The best thing about the pandemic has been walking into stores with a mask on and not saying a word to anyone the entire time I'm there. People say hello, I just nod, and that's seen as perfectly acceptable.

When software or a website asks me if I want to do something like turn on notifications, and the options are “Yes” or "Not Now", implying that it’s inevitable that I'll give in down the road. Actually, I don’t want what you’re trying to peddle, so just give me a "no". The Windows 11 upgrade is being particularly tenacious about this.

I'm 100% with you.

I really have to slow my roll getting irrationally angry at things like this, the assumptions AI makes on me personally. "Not Now", "Maybe Later", "I don't want to have incredible discounts emailed to me..."

I even get a little riled up over the electronic signs on the interstate. PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN. Listen, bud, I don't have my fucking phone out. Quit admonishing me for things I haven't done!

If you are waiting in a line for a coffee shop/restaurant/whatever for more than five minutes and you don't use any of that time to decide your order before it's your turn, you should be summarily removed from the premises.

Was surprised that there was a fairly long line for a mid-afternoon weekday at a local coffee shop, but had just enough time for a short wait and to get my coffee. After about 7 or 8 minutes, when I'm about five people from the register, the lead guy turns to the group of four people he's with (comprising the rest of the line in front of me) and says, "so what do we all want?", which was met with a variety of responses:

"huh, I don't know"
"jeez, everything looks so good, I can't choose!"
"what does the barista recommend?"
"oh! I hadn't even started looking yet"

I left after a further five minute wait, empty handed and grumpy for my meeting.

Feel you on that, I cannot stand people who insist on quizzing food cashiers like “how is the blah blah blah? does it have caramel? my doctor says blah blah”, probably some deep seeded insecurity on my part. I was eating a lot of fast food a few years ago and you’d get these guys pulling up to drive thru windows just like yammering for a minute straight and I’m like “what are you even saying? are you reciting moby dick?”

I remember the exact moment when a cellphone pissed me off.

Thinking it was 1997 or so. Standing in line at Blockbuster. Cashier asked the guy in front of me in line something reasonable like "Did you want to pay your overdue fees?" or "You've also got The Lion King reserved. Would you like to take that with you today as well?"

And this pie-eyed dude said not a word, just whipped out his flipphone and started jabbing digits with his phone.

It got me that, sure, this fella had showed up in public without a clue to what he was supposed to be doing. Got a little peeved by how he didn't answer the cashier's questions. But the biggest thing that brought me down was knowing that I'd be dealing with this kind of shit for the rest of my life.

Well. Maybe not dealing with it at Blockbuster, but you get my drift.

I get a specific question about a health concern or allergy or something, sure. I just can't understand standing in line for that long and not even putting a second of thought into what you might want to order until you reach the register.

Yeah, it all leads back to my theory that if everyone in the world was even just 15% more aware of their surroundings and how their actions impact others, the world would be vastly improved.

It doesn't directly affect other diners, but same thing gets me when the menus are on the table, but the rest of the crew is gabbing.

That's me, clearing my throat, "Say, let's take a look at the menu so we know what we want when Layton gets back here."

> aware of their surroundings

they need to teach this to kids. hell, parents too. don't stop and check your phone in the narrowest bit, don't walk 4 abreast, walk behind your dog so the lead isn't across the path. and if you're approaching a crossing and there's only one car coming and nothing behind him then don't make him stop, wait until he's passed.

TIL that pplains experienced the brief overlap between video-rental stores and mobile phones

good times, we were all so innocent then

xpost - honestly something I try to instill in my son as much as possible (stand back when the elevator door opens, don't rush in; don't stop suddenly on a crowded sidewalk; etc)

xp to plains, his name is brayden! (we are in a chili's)

i am a super bitch about people not being extremely efficient when ordering. just this afternoon an older couple were in front of me at the coffee shop, asking the barista whether or not the free magazine on the counter gave any tourist recommendations (they were probably Sundance people idk). many sighs and eye rolls for me.

i discovered early on that my boyfriend likes ordering 'that thing on the menu that no one ever orders and they will probably be out of.' he also likes asking for recommendations. we do a cute little fred and ethel routine every time. actually i usually just walk away because i'd rather not witness it lol. true love.

ordering the one thing on the menu that is clearly a different type of cuisine than whatever the restaurant generally serves is an easy IA for me

Moodles, a lot of very nice restaurants intentionally place a "safe" entree on the menu for noobs. Often it is chicken.

Hence, it's a decent (not infallible) rule of thumb to not order chicken in a restaurant, unless that restaurant specializes in chicken.

That said, my neighborhood has some places that are (say) Thai/Laotian, and no one is shamed for ordering from the Thai side of the menu if that's what you want. Or Bolivian/Mexican, where it's okay to order a chimichanga if that's what you want.

Ordering chicken strips from a seafood restaurant makes me IA, but I also recognize that some people just don't have a good relationship with food outside their comfort zone. Ordering something like raw oysters from a hot dog stand is far more questionable to me. Your example of restaurants with mixed cuisines is a different thing, I wouldn't be bothered by that at all.

we should give these food service workers a break and not treat them like they’re google… they do not have an infinite amount of fucks to give.. they’re not getting paid enough to be your Starbucks Sommalier or w/e.. I really don’t agree with the whole “but it’s their job” thing.

not just food service workers, I remember when I got my finger stitched up several years ago the doctor told me at the end “thanks for being an easy patient”. I was probably just being myopic at the time but the way he said it made it seem like the dude was getting hounded all day by “difficult” “unreasonable” patients.
I don’t know, maybe he was actually an asshole, it was pretty much the only thing he said.

Personally I have been a food service worker, a health care worker, and a retail worker.

In almost every situation my sympathies are going to be with the worker. It takes a LOT for me to be an irate customer.