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

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.

I totally get this

for any conversation that is going to last more than a minute or 2 I have to be moving—either walking or driving somewhere. I will return calls when having to run an errand somewhere, I'll start dialing as soon as I get into my car or heading out on foot

i just got another request for a call and had to ask "can we please just do this on MS Teams, I've been on the phone for two and a half fucking hours with meetings"

Yeah, calls are stressful. I find it pretty hard to speak naturally on work calls with people I don't know. I feel like all the air has gone out of my lungs, and I can only just stumble through and hope that I don't sound completely bizarre or robotic.

I think it's my normal social anxiety exacerbated by the absence of visual cues.

I really don’t mind being on the phone, I just feel impatient w/ it if I’m not getting something else done simultaneously

I've been working on a google docs file recently and the other night when I opened docs instead of saying "last opened a week ago" or "last opened yesterday" it said "you usually open this file around this time" - FUCK YOU GOOGLE DOCS YOU DON'T KNOW ME.

I've always hated using the phone. I think it dates back to when I was a teen and there was a craze at school for prank calls: our phone was in the kitchen, so my mother was witness to my humiliation. I'm 50 now and thought of calling eg my father can hang over me for days.

"clean food"

I don't even understand what appeals to people about this. And it's invariably something super-processed.

there's a term for Pension called "Qualified Pre-retirement survivor annuity", which is legally abbreviated as QPSA. we just kind of pronounce it "kwip suh" for ease.

one of my colleagues is training and keeps saying it "Kwa spuh" and it's driving me nuts because that doesn't even make sense, the S comes after the P, not before.

like it's a dumb thing to be annoyed by but I took my headset off cos it was making my blood pressure rise at the ILLOGICAL NATURE OF IT

I know targeted ads are an age old complaint, but about a month ago we started researching new mattresses and my wife and I were sending each other links and reviews, etc, so of course every app I use gets bombarded with targeted mattress ads. Which, whatever, but I find myself wanting to scream at my phone, "not so smart with the targeting are you? we already picked and bought one".

I love when you get spammed by the company you just bought a mattress from, as if you might be receptive to buying additional queen sized mattresses for all the other bedrooms in your apartment

god help you if you buy one medical splint ever; corporate america thinks you are in permanent recovery forever

i played a Manowar cd, and not FB is suggesting ways that I can conquer the neighbors in adjoining apartments and annex their units

lol Neanderthal

scream at my phone, "not so smart with the targeting are you? we already picked and bought one"

I take the opposite view: I find it comforting that they don't already know that I've already bought a blender or whatever. Gives me hope that I stilll have a smidgen of privacy.

The truly evil thing would be if marketeers were fully integrated with your banking transactions, the details of all your purchases, and with all internet-connected IoT devices.

Then the ads would all be like, "Hey madpuffin, how about some accessories for your new Oster Blendomaticizer 3000 in cherry red, which would also nicely coordinate with your 2009 Sunbeam Toastermatic. Also, your toilet told me to tell you that your toothbrush is getting old."

I take the opposite view: I find it comforting that they don't already know that I've already bought a blender or whatever. Gives me hope that I stilll have a smidgen of privacy.

This is a good point!

of course that is what they want you to think.

what the blenders want you to think at least

I can only tell you that the fucking things absolutely do nothing for whiskey, despite what the labels say

There's a guy across the street that owns three cars. He and his family are nice; I've got no problem with him. Owning three cars is dumb, but I've got no real problem with that. He's only got a two car garage, so at least one of his cars is parked on the street all the time, even overnight, which is also kind of dumb, but I've got no problem with that, either. The car that's usually parked out front his his nicest car, a luxury car, but I've got no problem with that. What makes me IR is that at some point a couple of years ago that nice car got slapped with one of those super hard to remove giant stickers in the driver's side window (typically for parking where you shouldn't park, often in someone else's permitted space). Fine, that's his problem. Except for all these years now the sticker has been basically only 80% removed, like he got it mostly done but then just ... gave up. And every time I look out the window I see his car, with the driver's side facing my house, and the 20% remains of the sticker and its gluey residue glaringly present on his driver's side window and ... man, why don't you just finish the job and scrub it off!!!!!!???!! Just do it! Or, hell, you have the money, the time, a big family - make someone else do it! But why remove just 80% and leave the rest of the sticker scum ??!

New toaster has a setting specifically for bagels. I tried it out today on a three-day-old bagel and discovered that this setting only toasts the cut side, not the other side, so my bagel looked done but was still stale and tough when I took a bite. Clearly they designed this to work only on fresh bagels. Given that most of the point of toasters is to give stale bread a longer lifespan, why would you design a feature that only works on fresh bread?

Wait now hang on the point of a toaster is not to be relegated thusly