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

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?

Does it have anything in between Grand Rapids and Sleeping Bear Dunes?

draw the willis tower

fped you for this

wanted to say sears but tried to remain factually correct

xp muskegeon gets a lighthouse and luddington just gets a leaf

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?

How old is it?

the water is out in my apartment and i am ready to cut a bitch

xp from sometime within the past 15 years, definitely after both buildings were built

ayiyi forks this happened to us a few months ago. it was only out for like 36 hours but those 36 hours were INSANE.

<3 <3 <3 iconic

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Muskegon_Breakwater_light.jpg

haha oh shit i never looked that lighthouse up but the drawing on the shitty platter is like standard lighthouse white color, definitely not a red one. stupid platter

I just spent 10 minutes trying to open one of those twist to pop-up soap dispenser tops and actually had to resort to a youtube video for tips. And there were a lot of videos!

I now know the secret, btw, AMA.

OMFG I have the same issue with one, I mean dont you usually just rotate the spout and it pops out, so WHY ISNT IT WORKING GAH

The secret is ... there are actually *three* parts! The spout part, the neck that screws/attaches onto the bottle, but then a *third* independent part, a ring between the spout part and the neck. When you twist the spout part, you have to make sure the neck (the bottom part) is totally immobilized, otherwise the ring in the middle rotates, too. At least, that's how it was successfully explained to me on the internet.

My entire life is beset with problems like this. I assume it's a punishment (and my innate clumsiness).

the water came back on btw. my insane landlord who lives in the building (and is pushing us to borrow money from family to try to start looking to buy a co-op so maybe it's a good thing) was pacing and screaming on his phone to the plumber in the hallway for hours. what a nutjob.

when two decisions need to be made, the second relies on the first, the second person makes their decision but requires the first person to make theirs, and the first person is unreachable for 8 hours, reading messages, but not replying to them.

i can't stand being on the phone. i literally hate it. even if i use speakerphone I'm basically enslaved to the room I'm in, all I can think about is "when will this be over?", and then anybody else who is trying to get my attention, I get overwhelmed if I have too much competing stimuli.

literally talking to a friend at work who has a neighbor who is doing loud construction and it's stressing me out trying to hear over it, while someone else is trying to msg me for stuff, and I know I have to make another call right after, and then eat lunch.

I get the benefits of the phone but loooord I've moved beyond it.