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

- two irrational anger threads running at the same time

Do people still use terrestrial tv channels anywhere. Priority was to try to set up channels which was what screen spent time saying.

yes, everywhere. vastly more concentrated viewing is still done of linear broadcasts than nearly every pick-and-choose online option.

Typo on the last keystroke in a long search string, realized immediately upon hitting 'enter'. OH, COME OM!

ommawayk

facebook's way it gives you a list of suggestions of people or things any time you type any word of 3 letters or more, and moves the screen to accommodate said list making it very easy to link in a random person / organisation.

I blame Apple for the lack of instructions. The pro forma Quick Start guide is all I expect from any electronics these days, and while I can usually figure things out, since they're typically not much more elaborate than "plug in, turn on, that's all it takes!" if anything goes wrong it's hard to troubleshoot.

Over the summer we got these two cheap little red Ikea side tables to put drinks on by a firepit, and they each came with a 35 page instruction booklet that was essentially "wipe dry and store when not in use" in three dozen languages.

when u mute someone in MS Teams cos they're unmuted, breathing heavily, have background sounds going haywire, and they don't respond to you asking them to mute their phone.

and then after u mute them, they unmute themselves and the noise resumes....so you mute them again, and they unmute themselves.

u think I wanna hear Darth Vader eating applesauce?

i have a sketchbook in my head of the people Neanderthal describes attending his online classes and it's a rogue's gallery of the hideous and incompetent

waiting for the first toilet fart

Got a lens for the phone camera for Christmas. No directions! Just either (a.) scan the QR code or (b.) break off the USB drive from the card inside the box and stick it inside your computer.

But it was Christmas morning, and I just wanted to quietly read the instructions without having to pull out my Samsung Android Galaxy?

I got the same kind of lens from Wish a year ago for like a buck. Except those didn't come with a USB drive inside.

When I did try out the USB, it opened Spotify and just left it hanging there?

We are all Samsung Android Galaxy now.

I mean, hey. Where else can you download three different kinds of Firefox browsers, not including the one called "Phoenix" that just kinda looks like a Firefox browser?

Now finding that Virgin Horizon box keeps asking me to sign in to circumvent the parental guidance thing before every showing of Barry.
Can't work out how to completely turn off the setting which is stupid if everybody in this house is going to be an adult who is over the age of consent.

Looked it up online and seems to have been a problem for at least the last few years people complaining about it in 2014.
BUt seems to have stepped up again recently

how do people constantly forget how to submit their timecard. like it was the first thing I wanted to learn so I got any OT coming my way

Did u cc rhondaaaaaaaa

RHONDA!!??

rhonda is away from her desk

Flipside is my manager every 30 days sending me a "Don't forget to to time-track!" email. Dude, I fill this shit out every four hours.

I clocked in on xmas eve for the first time in nine monthd it was glorious

Love my mom to death but listening to her clumsily try to help her similarly computer illiterate friend get into a website is truly the 7th layer of Hell.

guilty lol

english bands, used to seeing post-vat prices in shops, who put those prices into bandcamp, not realising that BC will always(?) add the 20% again.

12 quid for a cd is ok, 12 + 20% + 1.50 postage and it's getting ridiculous.

7.99 for digital version, => 9.58

(american are used to pre-tax prices, but then the state tax is usually <10% so not so much a problem)

Is it just me that finds the fiddly bits of sellotape/sticky-back plastic used to seal-up loaves of broad fantastically irritating? I hardly ever manage to get one open without resorting to a shiv and never manage to use them to re-seal. Fuck off, I say.

Nb, not prompted by the new bread thread.

the stuff i buy (that 50/50 stuff) has a loop of sticky stuff around the neck of the loaf but the two ends that would normally stick together, glue to glue, are instead stuck to a V of paper which you can rip apart.

yeah they used to have those little tags which worked fine

the stuff i buy (that 50/50 stuff) has a loop of sticky stuff around the neck of the loaf but the two ends that would normally stick together, glue to glue, are instead stuck to a V of paper which you can rip apart.

This should work in theory but invariably doesn't.

COMING NEXT announcments on screen 5 minutes before the end of the show, which is just when the denoument is happening.

ie the horror channel just then, Night Of The Demon, just as the demon appears for the last time COMING NEXT covering the bottom 25% of the screen, white on red.

I know I'm not alone in this and I don't think it's necessarily irrational, but holy crap, how can YouTube keep making the user experience even worse? I've made my peace, such as it is, with the constant ads before every video, but this ever more prevalent trend of inserting the ads into the middle of videos is pretty much rendering it worthless. Tried to watch a three and a half minute music video with my son this morning and it was twice(!) interrupted by ads, once about 30 seconds in and again about two minutes in.

I feel like I'm going to hell for this, but there was a news story about two women who wanted to contribute to their food bank so both went to a supermarket and spent £30 each on groceries which they then took to the food bank. Most food banks will happily accept monetary donations so they can spend it on what they need and it doesn't incur any risk of going to a supermarket in a pandemic and then having a TV crew to come and film a report about it.
I realise I haven't donated anything myself for a while so going to rectify that.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/im-begging-you-stop-donating-canned-goods-to-food-banks

I remember during one Louisiana hurricane in which the water system got trashed, people in Los Angeles were trying to send bottled water there.

It looks like my bank hjas decided to update its smartphone app to only work on smartphones later than my device. I thought, ok that is a real pain and seriously inconveniences me. I thought I found a work around like I could do online banking through internet on phone and on my desktop. So that was not as handy but workable.
NOw I go to online bank and to sign in I need to have the app on my device to confirm my account is being legally accessed. Otherwise i need to wait 10 days for another device to be delivered so I can mess around with taht too.
Jesus what a bunch of arseholes.
I need to access my account now to pay bills and rent and things what the fuck are they playing at.

This AIB?

Have had an awful fuckin time of it with them lately

no the other lot.
but is this happening in several firms at the same time. competition like.

just want to give a shout-out to universities and other institutions which insist on job applicants filling out a 24-page word document application form with six separate personal statements detailing your qualities in regards to six different aspects of the role, taking about eight hours to fill in properly, then send you a two-sentence form rejection email four weeks later, or maybe not even that.

"The mEdiA iS buRying tHis sToRy!!!!"

(Link to washingtonpost.com)

GAH

I got the FBP notice about how FB had updated tehir code to stop teh Revert site from working earlier thsi week. I'm now stuck with what appears to be the mobile version on my desktop.
Can't see any controls to tell me how I change from that to any other view.
Shouldn't be a big deal but this is an annoying set up.
Would be good to be able to access some set of controls over the look at least.

looking for articles about bedroom lighting and almost all of the photos are taken in broad daylight. Wtf!?

Don’t know why I used “broad” there lol

Podcasters laughing too long and loud

https://media1.tenor.com/images/12de075016d16170b1308032794fd61f/tenor.gif

Re ads at start of/in middle of Youtubes, Adblock Plus does stop all of that

Mind, it wont work if you are youtubing on phone app or say, AppleTV/PS4 etc apps.

Having a Boiler Room DJ set stop every 5 minutes for an ad break nearly pushed me to the brink the other day.

on my laptop with my adblocker (ublock?) i don't see YouTube ads but do have to wait whilst the clock ticks down.

irrationally angry that someone posted pandas in 'bear say hi to me'

Companies who expand wildly beyond their initial purpose. Tesco (supermarket) - hey we're now a mobile phone service provider! And a credit card company! And a bank! Oakley (sunglasses) - buy our rucksacks and shoes! Google (internet search) - play our videogames! (that went well)

Fun fact for you: the name of the world's largest advertising company, WPP, originally stands for "Wire and Plastic Products". (The company used to make shopping baskets.)

didn't tesco have a digital music store? yes - https://www.tescoplc.com/news/2012/tesco-buys-digital-music-platform/

my tablet is a tesco hudl (which i guess isn't too far away from telecomms)

i'm at an airbnb with a decorative platter featuring a map of michigan with cutesy illustrations for each town (car for detroit, cherries for traverse city, etc).

there's also a drawing of a city skyline for chicago but it includes none of the buildings most people would associate with the chicago skyline. like why would you not draw the willis tower or hancock building?