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

in the IA thread*

you are otm though

Package "delivered" to my development group mailbox 2.5 hrs ago. Checked my mailbox and no package. Online tracking form says give it 24 hrs before reporting (assuming a trust in people walking wrongly delivered mail to the right house? which I've done in the past here, so logical, I guess)

Not that this Zebra cd is a critical delivery (although ... Zebra!), but tired of being defensive for the USPS under DeJoy, and yet having intermittent delivery failure and delivery dread on anything ordered. Almost a Seinfeldian reservations rant, re: the implicit trust in having a package smoothly delivered, watching the delivery status daily, and being disappointed at the end.

My parents, living on an island in the Pac NW, talk about FedEx drivers seemingly randomizing their deliveries (packages left on ferry terminal, in the island-side ferry shelter, at the top of lanes for the houses at end, etc.). And personally, Amazon deliveries are hit or miss re: leaving items leaning against my back garage or making an effort to put it out of general sight on the front porch. Easier just to specify Amazon dropbox delivering to the local Walgreens pharmacy.

Maybe this is rational annoyance, but feels irrational in that I'll probably get the disc in a few days and really, immediate gratification isn't an issue.

I suspect that, in addition to some legitimate cases of human/machine error, that some mail carriers are intentionally marking items delivered before they're delivered, to try and meet whatever draconian mail delivery metrics are in place, that they can't realistically meet due to DeJoy's kneecapping of the USPS. if that's the case, I can't say I blame em, but depending on the package, can be fairly stressful.

my brother's engagement ring was marked 'delivered' AND marked as signed for when I was housesitting for him, but nobody had left anything or come to the door. i eventually found the mailman who produced the package minutes later when I asked about it, ending my brother's brief panic attack.

Yep, agreed - setting unrealistic metrics does drive error. I'd rather wait a day for a package, than stress over an incorrect delivered status.

Locally, USPS has notified our various HOAs that thieves have duplicated group mailbox passkeys, which adds an additional layer of stress.

NHS have sent me a 3rd copy of their GP Patient Survey asking me how booking appointments at the local surgery works and what i think of that. only i've not been there for ~4 years now and i know everything got turned upside down by covid so any information i give is likely to be wrong.

Not that this Zebra cd is a critical delivery (although ... Zebra!), but tired of being defensive for the USPS

Tired of asking Who's behind the door?

"feel good" news stories.

just no. stop immediately. i'd much prefer propublica doomy deep dives than that dystopian propaganda. fucking infuriating.

"Here's the next bit of bonus content from our film for you lovely subscribers!

Raw footage of our extended interview with XXXXXXX. Filmed as part of an interview for the XXXXX documentary.

We shot an incredible amount of footage for what would end up being a final 117 minute film and so we're making over 25 hours of bonus content available for XXX Patreon subscribers."

i guess i'm paying for each bit of that content then. and it's video, the audio i can listen to whilst walking around, video is no use to me.

This commercial with this prissy female voice talking about "the vag".

I'm sorry but dollars the way they center "the vag" - terfy and gross.

This is not being liberated. You have "a vag". Big deal. Talking about it in a commercial is not a milestone for human rights. FFS.

here are all of my problems with the world, summarized:

phones are too damn loud

People with phones, ditto

Civilization was a mistake; return to apedom

i very much agree with this smartphone-inspired anti-human sentiment and it reminds me of how i've always hated everything.

thanks, everyone.👍🏻

In more than 8 years and nearly 7800 posts I can't believe no one has once mentioned gas-powered, obnoxious leaf blowers. Hating them is obviously not irrational, but what makes me want to strangle the operator of one of these instruments of Satan is when they have a twitchy trigger finger so the noise is constantly modulating every three to five seconds, as in: rrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrr

I swear some day I will go berserker on one of these idiots.

saaame

hate them so much

yes, I hear that noise coming from an adjacent yard on a weekly basis

Addendum: people cleaning their precious cars is desperate enough at the best of times but at 8 o'clock EVERY Saturday morning with that poorly modulated high-pressure hose? Fuck OFF.

leaf blowers are one thing in society that i think everybody hates. i had to run one at an old job sometimes and my supervisor explicitly said, "this is a last resort and if you need to use it, you will have to explain yourself." lol

I remember visiting DC one time and the roar of gas-powered leaf blowers was coming from the garden in front of the EPA building.

I think Austin is probably on the right track here: preemptively hate absolutely everything and everyone.

You will never be disappointed. And you may occasionally be pleasantly surprised.

*taps the sign*

And you may occasionally be pleasantly surprised.

― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, March 6, 2023 2:16 PM

this is fake news. there will be nothing pleasant. ever.

(am i doing it right?)

Can't decide how rational or irrational this anger is, but goddamn, if you are a small business that is going to close for trainings during hours you are normally otherwise open, maybe share that info in advance somewhere? For the third time in about six months, I walked the six blocks to the local coffee shop that is the only non-Starbucks option near my office, only to find it closed for "training". I was there yesterday around the same time, no sign noting this. Nothing on the website, nothing on any of the shop's social media.

oh hey, quentin tarantino. shame you're still around.

dick.

what is, exactly, the point of sitting in a lane idling with your emergency flashers on, when there are ample parking spaces around where you could pull into to do whatever you're doing and not get in people's way?

i get it if you're like, pulling up to a front door to drop someone off quickly, but half the time I come into my neighborhood, the person in front of me abruptly stops, and on come the blinkers, and they just aimlessly sit there for 5-10 minutes, making everybody go around them. a lot of them are delivery drivers but it's like, come on, your car isn't going to get towed in the 25 seconds it takes for you to leave and come back to your car, and the only spots off-limits have signs in front of htem.

not one, but two separate individuals on two separate days joined a one-on-one meeting I scheduled a few minutes prior to start time, but when I joined at start time, they were gone, and not only that, went immediately afk and didn't return for over an hour.

what in the actual hell? like, you join an informal meeting early, see nobody there, and assume it's cancelled, even though it hasn't started yet?

so bizarre

I am 48 years old and I don't think I've ever successfully opened a loaf of bread. The 'tie' looks like it should have some logical method of opening but I've yet to find it, beyond pulling at the two bits of plastic and tightening its death grip on the neck of the plastic. I then, through tears of shame and rage, tear at the plastic, leaving a gaping hole that can never adequately be patched, thus decreasing the life of the loaf.
This has just happened again. I am now going outside. I may be some time.
Yrs, Chinaski.

Are you talking about the little flat plastic thing with a slot in it?

I can work those (sort of). This is like a bit of sellotape wrapped around the neck of plastic - usually around own brand bread (Sainsbury's, this time - we were spoiling ourselves).

This must be incomprehensible to anyone outside the UK, sorry!

Oh I know what you mean. I can't figure that one either

Oh god.. I hate those. I guess it's supposed to be possible to peel the fused together ends apart and release the cinched up neck of the sack (and then.. reseal it when you're done?) but I doubt it has ever been done

My advice on this is to cut the tie up the middle with a small scissors or knife, meaning you can twist the bag closed again after taking bread out.

I can usually part those as the manufacturer intended but closing the bread up again? Nope.

Also we may have the origin story of Tracer making own bread here!

https://i.imgur.com/qiDuE2X.jpg

I have tried with scissors, but they would need to be elfin to get under the sellotape!

I am heartened that it's not just me. And if I see Paxton in the street, I'll clip him, quite frankly.

Scissors or tip of a sharp knife is pretty much the only way to deal with that tape-closure that has a prayer of working. I advise you to stick to that method and just accept your defeats along with the occasional victory. It's better than rage-rending the bag. You can always save that approach for the emotional satisfaction of the attack and destruction of the foe.

the bread i buy (50/50) has the sellotape but the two ends of the sellotape has paper on them to stop it sticking to itself. pull the ends apart, ripping the paper, keep pulling to open the bag.

it's not 100% but works most times

i just pull apart the tape and can usually reseal it. i like to have the best-before date kept on it as we have various loaves/ bread products out, and they're usually seedy ones, so hard to spot mould :-l

this is usually branded bread though. those really narrow hardcore tape closures - no chance

I went to the hardware store yesterday and purchased a box cutter/utility knife, and now I realize I will need a pair of scissors — which I don't have — to cut the knife out of its plastic packaging.

I cut the tape like gyac mentioned, then use a previously saved Paxton clip to reseal the bag.

that tape makes me swear loudly every time, i fucking hate it
excellent addition to this thread

I snap my clips down the midline to yield two terrifyingly fast and accurate finger-flick projectiles

Get thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I snap my clips down the midline, sunshine

the use of "boomer" in the colloquial sense. i don't _mind_ being called a boomer, i'm not a prescriptivist, but i had this conversation today:

"yeah my mom's a boomer"
"really? you look about 20"
"i'm 22"

A LITTLE CLARITY WOULD BE NICE.

OK,

rushomancy.