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

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

another sign that most of FL is not "the South"

I just remember as a kid saying "why is the man in the restaurant asking if I want salad dressing with my turkey"

I manage to get all the stuffing, stuffed. Lots up the neck and over the breast, under the skin. It’s a good way to keep the chicken/turkey breast meat moistened.

Just had the radio on in the car and the jingle said "the best sixties hits of the sixties" !

dear roasted red pepper,

you fucking troll. you're so proud of yourself, aren't you? "oH lOoK aT mE! pUt Me In EvErYtHiNg!" and it actually worked because of your stupidly beautiful eye-catching shiny red skin. now everything that you get cooked with gets overpowered by your fake tomato texture and your distinctly bland flavor. and then, the indigestion and burps that continue to mock me for hours afterwords are all your pleasure no doubt.

you are the poison mushroom from japanese mario bros. you are the sleeve of dark side of the moon in the charity shop bin that actually has a mantovani record in it. you are the prick who replaces sugar with salt. no one likes you.

but you just keep fucking showing up.

you are beautiful.

now off you fuck.

sincerely,
I'VE HAD ENOUGH GOD DAMMIT

Amen

I prefer green or orange roast peppers fwiw

don't even get me started on cherry tomatoes. PICK A SIDE, YOU COWARDLY DOT. AND WHO THE HELL LET YOU IN THE SALSA!? >=/

I went to the new burger hotspot and the trap music was soo loud. The sign behind the counter said all burgers come with pickles and onions. I order a cheeseburger and the stoned cashier / dj says “that’s it?” And I say yes. I get the burger and repair to my local watering hole to sit and enjoy it. It looks small as I unwrap it…and indeed it’s just a cheeseburger. Nothing on it. Ffs

they've reduced the plastic used in yoghurt pots / guacamole etc by not providing lids. so once you open it you can't reseal it.

USA Today articles have this annoying, big black circle with a white 'X' in it, that you reflexively click on to get rid of, but the X actually...takes you back to the home page of USA Today!

the fuck

Any Gannett website — USA Today, regional papers, local TV stations — is unnecessarily excruciating.

am I the only idiot clicking on the big X on the top left corner of tweets thinking it will close the window or something

Not that I think this is particularly "irrational", but good lord it is really starting to feel like the wild west on the roads these days. Signs, stoplights and traffic laws are just mild suggestions at this point.

This morning during a short 15-minute drive I saw a guy drive the wrong way down two full blocks because he was mad that he needed to wait for a school bus, saw four people not even slow down at stop signs and watched while not one, not two, not three but four cars ran right through a red light.

To clarify, that was four cars that ran through the SAME red light, one after the other.

it's hard to drive and change Marty Robbins 8-tracks at the same time

here's mine for the day - people who are doing a peer review and provide feedback, which you then make and then request sign-off, only for them to find new things they didn't the first time on each subsequent review. no...that's not how it works!

How about people whom you strive to do a good job for throughout the year and then forget to fill out a feedback form for you. Savages

On the car tip people who don't indicate their intentions send me to some otherworldly level of anger. This is me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rss4YQi9D5o

when you press your phone's "back" button when you're in an app, and instead of going back to the page/ section you were previously on, just TAKES YOU OUT OF THE APP.

my kids' school uses such an app and it makes me furious. Here is the list of messages! go and read one! but if you want to go right back to the list of messages you have to find the special unlabelled icon!

kids' school uses such an app

Say no more.

“Ever hear of pants?” I said

"why are you in a hurry to hang up"

"Because I'm on my way to hang out with you. What is the point of talking en route to hanging out"

when you're getting paid for a theatre gig, they tell you they're all ready to begin doing payouts two days ago, ask you for your Paypal info yesterday, and after you give it, a whole day passes and...nothing.

So..you weren't actually ready to begin payouts, then? (The other company that has paid me to do theatre has usually sent it within an hour of getting your info).

no worries about being stiffed, I've known the guy in charge for like 15 years, I'm just an impatient fella when it comes to money. and they won't tell us how much, either. so it could be like enough to get a coffee or $100.

Robot phone calls where, when you ask the robot if it's a robot, it has a preprogramed little laugh and then lies "No!"

I am a real warm grandpa!