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

Time was a man could kick his tires in the street.

i'm not stupid! not if you run over something on the road is what i'm saying

Fair point, harbl.

Mine has two tiers of lights. One that sort of tells you that something is wrong in general with the balance that is always on and then another one that switches on for a particular tire when the weather changes or when the tire is really flat. And yeah, whenever I have to have it changed it is expensive and takes a long time since I take it to the dealership and they have to send it over to the other dealership or whoever it is the actually still fixes it.

Oh yeah, one time I had to go through this as well at inspection time since the two that I hadn't had to change for other reasons already were bald.

One time my tire pressure light went off and i stepped out of the car to look at the left rear tire and there was a bear hiding underneath, waiting for me.

All I could think was "Not again"

Bear say high (pressure) to you?

Slight variations in touchscreen keyboards. I have an iPhone for work, a Sony android phone for personal and a Samsung android tablet. They all have qwerty layouts but accessing shift - alt - ctrl - symbol - emoji type stuff is all different. This means muscle memory messes me up every time I switch devices.

Ugh

AFAIK, the keyboard on all those devices is just an app that can be replaced by a third-party variety which would then hopefully work pretty much the same on all platforms? I've been using Microsoft SwiftKey myself on my last few Samsung phones.

That would mean learning a new keyboard then potentially finding out the apple version isn't identical to the android. I'll just stay irrationally angry.

Today's peeve - when you track your delivery driver to one street away then he fucks off to another part of town.

Ugh.

I’ve gotten into it a little with a couple of delivery guys recently because they weren’t wearing their masks properly and wanted to come in through the inner door past the outer lobby instead of dropping the packages there as instructed. They act hurt that I won’t let them do me this big favor of moving the packages a few extra feet at the cost of a few Rona droplets.

when you're playing Zoom games with friends on Steam and there's a tutorial and half the people talk over the tutorial then everybody complains they don't know how to play.

I hate muscle cars, or really any vehicle augmented to be aggressively loud for no reason. There's a guy down the street who has a Mustang (I think), and him just backing out of the garage sounds like an earthquake.

oh i love aggressively loud classic (esp muscle) cars

but i hate aggressively loud motorcycles or new cars

I love noise

I guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylhsbfQTPDQ

Agreed on the loudness hate. Living across from a gas station and just off the main thoroughfare, grateful for my street-side double panes. I don't hate the daytime muffler overcompensation, but the revving and roaring away between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. - sorry, dude, you're a dick for your self-absorption. I want to pummel your car with a bat.

I'm not sure how irrational it is, but I'm finding myself increasingly angry by people who swat down any "politics talk" because it makes them uncomfortable.

We have a neighborhood email group that is generally pretty quiet, mostly just people asking for specific repair recommendations and the occasional older person complaining about "shifty" characters. This morning a neighbor shared some links to troubling stories about a judge up for reelection on our ballot, which I was thankful for seeing before I voted. But the moderator of the group responded within less than thirty seconds about how this was completely inappropriate and the group "needs to remain free from political discourse" blah blah blah. I don't know, this is exactly the kind of thing I would LOVE to hear from my neighbors, especially if it impacts our community so directly. I'm just so tired of this immediate shaming of any political talk whatsoever.

Maybe there should be a separate neighborhood politics board for the people who want that

I don't love it when people try to avoid politics or act like they are outside politics, but I understand not wanting to shit up neighborhood talk with political animosity.

Yeah I get the point about stirring it up, but I also feel like politely sharing resources and articles is a bit different from shouting about how great your preferred candidate is, but I suppose it's pretty hard to count on Americans not to stick with column A without sliding into column B. I was just happy to have some more resources about local judges which, in a very solidly blue state, is arguably the most important part of our ballots.

some people started a "no rules" discussion group after being told not to talk politics in the neighborhood FB group, and then the mods began kicking people out if they were anti-Trump

because being against something I am for is putting a restriction on my freedom

There's a local hot dog stand down the street that really offers so much more. Great burgers, super sandwiches, an array of sausages, etc. It's run by great people, very generous, and literally everything they make is delicious. Every week since the pandemic began they've been offering a family meal special, essentially a creative comfort food one-off that feeds 8+ people, give or take, for about $65-$75, which is an incredible deal. Of course that's typically too much food for a family of four with two picky teens, so we've only gotten it a couple of times, but they do usually offer the same meal as an an individual serving, too. (For example, this week is the Italian wedding soup, bread, caprese salad, and a big pan of lasagna bolognese, a ton of food, but you can get all that stuff as an individual meal, which honestly feeds two.) So there's that. But then they also have an array of others seasonal items and one-offs, from an incredible pot roast sandwich or meatball sub, so things like a gyro sausage (lamb sausage and lots of the usually gyro components) to a turducken sausage (with stuffing and gravy and cranberry on top) to the Rudolph around Christmas (it's reindeer, with blueberries mixed in the filling). All awesome. And this is on top of the everyday awesome menu which sometimes has its *own* specials. Like $5 burgers one day, buy-one, get-one another day, and so on.

I am irrationally angry because everything is so fucking good, from the fries up, but I just can't keep up ordering from them every single week, let alone every single day. Yet taking a week or two off means missing so much stuff that may not be offered again for months, if ever.

What a bunch of assholes.

nailing the spirit of the thread there

fuck those generous guys and their amazing selection of food

Shopping for a new fridge on an emergency basis, I kept seeing upgrades to "counter-depth fridge" for a more money. I assumed I didn't understand what this was, but, yup, it means you pay more money for a fucking SMALLER FRIDGE just so it lines up with your counter.

Just wait til you see what they charge for not including a handle or the outside of the door i.e. an 'integrated' model

people pay fortunes for fridges that pretend to be regular old warm kitchen cupboards

damn I'm going to have to start buying fridges again now, for the last decade I've been getting them for free from the child trust fund as a disabled carer. The last one was quite an unnecessary change, but it was the last year I could claim one. So I sent this perfectly working Hi-sense one to the fridge graveyard and found out afterwards my younger (zero-contract struggling) brother has been living without a fridge for a year now. FFs I'm bad on so many levels here.

yeah, just for a further layer of self-hatred, my lame attempt at a "For Fridge's sake" joke probably is shit as well!

i have one friend who confuses "diuretic" for "diarrhetic" and will tell people not to drink lots of tea et al cos it might make them poop.

i'm like....it ain't even spelled the same!

I get really annoyed when people misuse the word "fulsome". Then, I get really annoyed at myself when it becomes time to type the word "fully" or "wholly" and my brain gets evil and screams "just use the word 'fulsome', you stupid fuck"

remember the weird lemonade diet that told people to drink the poop tea so they would cleanse their bowels? that was diarrhetic

oh god, i knew people that 'used' that

I get really annoyed when people misuse the word "fulsome".

Yeah, tell it to Johnny Cash!

I hate it when medicines or doctors advise you to avoid coffee or other diuretics, but that's dumb, because *any* liquid is a diuretic, in that it will make you pee, and the (relatively) tiny amount of caffeine in coffee or tea, while, yes, a more dramatic diuretic, would have to be consumed in immense quantities for its diuretic properties to really kick in. Drinking a lot of coffee or tea doesn't make you pee any more than drinking a lot of water or beer does, and the notion that drinking too much of anything might lead to dehydration is counterintuitive and dumb.

microsoft word bullets and numbering. i know you were humming along just fine but what if for number 10 we got rid of the hanging indent and changed the left indent from .25 to .39, and if you try to change it it will look weird for reasons you won't be able to figure out, also there's no way for you to copy the paragraph settings to match it to the bullet that is not ruined. don't try to backspace to get it into the first half of the list. you can't backspace anymore. good luck using the ruler to slide everything into PLAAAAAAAACE

there's no way for you to copy the paragraph settings to match it to the bullet that is not ruined

Yes there is

Ctrl-shift-C: copy format

Ctrl-shift-V: paste format

Or define and apply a style

oh i only knew about the defining styles thing which is too annoying. i already fixed this the cumbersome way but i will copy format the next time it shits itself.

i am mostly in a bad mood from people suggesting edits that i don't like

Cool. Longer answer:

Ideally you would (and should) use styles for this. Get one paragraph looking right (whatever "right" means to you). Select that mofo.

Go to the styles menu and choose "define style based on selection" Alternatively, if there was already a style associated with that paragraph, then choose "update style based on selection."

If you are extra clever you can even restrict future users of your document so that they can only use the styles you have defined.

If you are not handy with styles, see above. Get yr cursor inside a paragraph that you like the look of. Ctrl-Shift-C. Boom, the paragraph-level formatting is copied.

Then get yr cursor inside a paragraph that you don't like the look of. Ctrl-shift-V. Boom. The settings you copied are now applied to your new paragraph.

There are wrinkles when you also have to deal with character-level formats, but let's set that aside for now.

Numbering going wonky is another story, and there, the right mouse button is your friend. You can restart numbering, join the numbers to a prior list, or put in something wacky and custom of your own.

Hope this helps

I work on an iMac. I use six different Spaces. I jump to different Spaces by pressing ⌘+(Space #).

I also do a lot of text editing in our web CMS. When I need to format some copy into our Header 5 style, I have to go up to the drop-down menu at the top and scroll all the way down to it. When I want something bolded, I only have to press ⌘+B.

A few weeks ago, I was working at home. I only have three Spaces on that computer. By habit, I hit ⌘+5 to go to my Adobe Space and instead, the copy I had highlighted in the CMS transformed into my Header 5 style. Suddenly I realized how foolish I had been and how many hours of my life I had lost by having to go all the way up to that drop-down menu.

So I got back here to work and switched all my Spaces shortcuts to Alt+(Space #). Which of course means, I have spent the last few weeks hitting the wrong keys or rolling back to different tabs in the browser or even my favorite, somehow turning everything but the blue filter on in Photoshop.

It would be a lot easier if I could change the shortcut for Header 5 and go back to ⌘ for the Spaces, but I honestly can't tell if that function occurs in either my computer, my browser or my CMS software.

It probably would be easier to just change everything back and use the drop-down menu again, but I have blind faith in myself that I can do this, man, I can stop hitting ⌘ when I mean ALT and vice-versa.

And when I fail, yes, I get irrationally angry.

my current IA is office instant messaging habits

Hi
(i reply right away)
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can i ask you a question
(i reply in the affirmative right away)
....

etc

OMG JUST DO THE GREETING & QUESTION IN ONE MESSAGE

the slow rollout of waiting for you to type & edit the introductory pre-questionfanfare drives me up the goddamn wall

i do that sometimes. i think it’s because i don’t want to come across like all mr barrelin into your life with a task/request/question without stopping to say hi. in real life you’d establish a bit of a “hey how ya doin”

IRL though, you don't go up to a coworker and go

"Hey, Bob. How's it going?"

"Oh fine. What's up?"

...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
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"Was wondering if FTB Bank had sent over their compliance forms to us yet? We've got their proofs all ready, but haven't heard back from Jeff, their operations guy."

except i do

sometimes i shorten the first part to 'hi, bob'

of course if the space station is actually on fire i will skip that part obv