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

'Please create a password' [note: no parameters for doing so are listed anywhere on the page]

(enters password)

(red error text) 'Your password must contain at least one number'

(enters new password)

(red error text) 'Your password must contain at least one uppercase letter'

(enters new password)

(red error text) 'Your password must contain at least one special character'

(smashes computer monitor with bookend, faxes picture of two middle fingers to company in question)

An innovation I'd like to introduce is password entry screens having the password rules there for you to read - "OK, so one capital letter and one number, think I can guess what I put"

I assume that effecting such an innovation must be deeply complicated and/or prohibitively expensive. Otherwise it surely would've been universally adopted by now.

The sub-IA in this sitch is that I'll go in thinking 'okay, yeah, I know what password I'm gonna use here' but by the time I've had to reconfigure it two or three times it will be in a form that I will completely fail to recall the next time I visit the site.

(Yes, I know that there are technological palliatives for quandaries such as this but just let me continue to be a little bit of a Luddite, whattayasay 21st Century?)

those 'special broadcast messages' before you get to the main menu of an automated phone line should not take THREE MINUTES

"angry" is perhaps too strong of a word for it, but get very irritated when, as I am at one of the locations I have to travel to for work on a regular basis, I'm forced to pay to park in a parking garage that always has 15-20% of the empty spaces inexplicably blocked off or inaccessible and I end up forced to park on the roof, out in the elements anyway. not that I have a fancy car to be concerned about or anything, but part of the appeal of garages is being able to have even a little shelter from the heat and rain and I feel like if you are going to make me pay full price for "luxury" of parking IN a garage I should actually be parked IN the garage.

ch4 have gone straight from new episodes of tv series into repeats of an earlier series without making it clear. got about halfway through an episode before realising i'd seen it before.

life's too short to watch repeats of Old House, New Home

Linda Evangelista’s “what in my bag” video for British Vogue has turned me around on those hats

when you're in the middle of ordering something on a website, and it tells you that you HAVE to create an account to place an order (ugh), and then after you do so, it takes you to some home screen and away from the order you were just placing, and/or empties your cart.

when it asks for name and address and a) it's a download and b) you're paying by paypal which will supply the address for you

no sorry i absolutely cannot have these registered as irrational because this is heading into "shoot the developer" territory and all righteous men would allow it

my current number 1 innocuous thing that makes me irrationally angry is shower head grip brackets on riser rails that DO NOT ADEQUATELY HOLD THE SHOWER HEAD.
Either it's too loose, or the shower head is too heavy and flops down and can't be adjusted, or it's immovable.

It's 2023, sort it out.

Also making you register and put in all your personal details before giving you any postage costs, so when you abandon the order because sending it costs 3x the thing itself you will still be plagued with spam from the shop forevermore.

Do you have an old iPhone case that you're trying to give away for free on Craigslist? Make sure you make a new post every day, okay?

the problem is that enough people haven't seen the post

Having to renew our annual vehicle registration online and find out that, for the third time in the last five years, they've once again changed the third party payment portal, forcing me to once again create an all new registration and password for something I use once a year.

One small perk about living where I live now: if your car is more than 12 years old (ours is a 2009), you can get a permanent registration and never have to deal with that bullshit again. My wife just changed her license from NJ to MT and it's good for 12 years. They're very DGAF about some things.

sellers who re-post the same exorbitantly expensive items on my Discogs wishlist every single day

streaming services autoplaying whatever is next before the end credits even begin, forcing me to locate the remote in the dark to "cancel" said autoplay, often unsuccessfully

magazines I've subscribed to for decades that still include like four annoying, tree-destroying subscription cards

autoplay during end credits RAGH

sellers who re-post the same exorbitantly expensive items on my Discogs wishlist every single day

the beginning of the end in retrospect

Having had to do a bunch of highway driving over the long weekend - when the posted speed limit is 70 and traffic is generally moving about 75ish, but that one semi that is going 60.2 mph decides that it is absolutely crucial to IMMEDIATELY pass that other semi that is going 60.0 mph.

saw three out of four lanes taken up with overtaking lorries yesterday. the way some of them pull out is terrifying too.

Yeah, that too, the way they pull out really quickly in spaces that barely seem long enough to accommodate it. I mean, I'm not unsympathetic that the average semi driver is likely stuck with not great working conditions and held to borderline unrealistic deadlines where it makes that extra 0.1 mph add up over a long haul, but it's frustrating and, at times, dangerous, in the how and when they decide to suddenly overtake.

To the people that use to their feet on cross-walk light buttons: I get it, you didn't want to get covid, but using your feet is gross, use your elbow if you're still freaked out

Those trailers usually have restricted engines that can only go up to 65 MPH. So as much as they'd like to mash down on the gas, they simply can't.

Oh I absolutely know that and I get it, but maybe they should wait for a bigger opening and traffic and not whip into the adjacent lane immediately? But again this is the IA thread so I think it's fair for me to complain.

It's very fair of you!

To the people that use to their feet on cross-walk light buttons: I get it, you didn't want to get covid, but using your feet is gross, use your elbow if you're still freaked out

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, September 5, 2023 1:41 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is me but for toilets. i can only assume people who do this dont wash their hands after they shit.

^^ it me, but only in the absolutely disgusting public park toilets I've had to get used to over the course of my son's baseball season; i do also wash my hands tho

Don't these people have knees or elbows?

A certain Windows program that always opens NEARLY at full screen but NOT QUITE, leaving a nearly invisible gap between it's top right corner and the top right of the screen, meaning every time I go to close it by clicking where the big red X should be, I inevitably close whatever the program/window is that is open BEHIND it.

is it teams? I do that

Speaking of work there's a woman I work with that has wanted my position for a long time which is fine because many people have that position (anywhere between 1-4 on each project), So I talk her up to my higher-ups for a good 6 months and they finally give her the non-position of my back up but include her in all the management meetings.

Since this has happened she has barely spoken to me one-on-one (she used to call me every day) and when she does talk to me it's in front of other management where she nitpicks my ideas and talks over me quite aggressively.

Anyway, my point is, work is bullshit.

When the place that does the best catfish does the worst french fries.

bad french fries are a day-ruiner

I really wish fireworks would fuck off.

My dog was very curious about the fireworks some neighbours were just firing off in our communal gardens, but was not scared. He is now sleeping in his normal, untroubled whippet way.

Tbf, my cat is curled up next to me and besides a cursory glance at the last volley of noise, seems mostly unperturbed.

anyone who uses the phrase “can you just drop this (random document) into a powerpoint”
has never used powerpoint

if ONLY powerpoint would ever allow anything to be that simple

"can you give me this PDF in a form I can edit?"
no, that's not how it works

people who exasperatedly ask you "are you still working" when working during your standard work hours, then proceed to come in anyway and try and have a conversation with you when you're clearly visibly working and get agitated when you can't engage in conversation because you're actually working on something

I can't stand when you have a shit ton of stuff to get done, but you have to do it all by, like, 11am, and you have to wake up early to start it. You wake up, and there's hours of hustle, and you're wiped out, and then you look at the clock and it's not even noon.

im presuming in this scenario you dont just get to chill from 11am onwards

No. But even chilling, it's hard to chill when you're getting end of the day vibes.

im not here to ia lawyer but the few times i am up and getting shit done early its struck me as v classic tbh

Oh, I like it! But then I feel wiped out and don't know what to do with myself the rest of the day. Like, nothing to do, but no will/energy to do anything.

Anyway, irrational.

"hey can we work on such and such"

"Yes but in thirty minutes"

*After only 25 minutes, other person gets impatient, begins working on it by themselves without telling anybody, even though it requires two people, then drops a piece down the garbage disposal, and gets mad at you*

very irrational so don't @ me, I know it's mostly regional, but the use of "stuffing" instead of "dressing" for a dish cooked outside of the bird

when my phone rings but it takes like ten seconds/3 rings for the display to show who's calling so I can answer it

xpost it's weird, I heard "dressing" all the time in the South growing up, and now nowbody here ays it