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

I do NOT like the "like a photo by touching it" feature on the Android version of Instagram.

that stupid fucking message that comes up when you're doing software updates in Itunes 'you have changed your settings on your phone' and it gives you the option to apply/don't apply and either way it undoes the update and you have to start again and I always forget to just x out of the notification RAGE

Watching cylindrical objects roll on supermarket conveyor belts cos people don't realise they stay still if you put them lengthwise.
So wine will be shaken up as will beer.

That is watching drinks bottles and cans rock back and forth on a conveyor belt since they're moving in time with the motion of the belt. I don't drink much wine but did thik that you weren't supposed to shake the bottle up and cans may just froth massivel if opened post shaking.
Lay them lengthwise and they stay on the one spot since they're not rolling back and forth with the rhythm.

tbh the wine you buy that gets paid for via conyevor belt is not much affected by a bit of rolling, it's not like yr disturbing the crust in 100-yr-old port

wow rude

when people treat the name of a restaurant as if it's a proper possessive noun, no matter what

walmart's

people reversing into parking spaces

when people treat the name of a restaurant as if it's a proper possessive noun, no matter what

― goole, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 8:59 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why is this a thing??? my boss does it and it just baffles me. i never encountered in the uk afaicr

goole otm

VG otm

Nope

getting super IA at the gated communities around my office, fuckin mollycoddled assholes. a HUGE automated traffic sign, the kind they use for highway closures / construction etc, set up outside one at the moment to remind them to bag their fucking leaves for collection

they've had their street repaved *twice* in the past 2 years!

i hate them & everything they stand for

going to proudly just let my leaves settle on my yard in celebration of not living in a gated community

Leaves decay and feed the dirt, people act like if they're not picked up they'll choke out all life on earth

when people treat the name of a restaurant as if it's a proper possessive noun, no matter what

― goole, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 3:59 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love this

Manspreading on the New York City subway

Are you telling me that there are people who say "Subway's" and "Pizza Hut's"? Is this a regional thing?

McDonald's's

Old people I grew up around said Wal-Marts and K-Marts.

me too, old and young

McDonald's's

No, no, no, it's MacDonald's's.

And if you've ever wondered why my family and I live where we do, it's 90% because of this.

http://i.imgur.com/sZ4Fuil.jpg

Travellers came back after being evicted from their squat park up once. Council had put some large concrete blocks on the access ramp the travellers had used as access.
I think the ramp is for disabled/pram access from the square I live on into the park.
When the travellers came back the first time they dragged the blocks out of the way. Presumably with ropes attached to a vehicle. Blocks lay on their sides in the path for weeks until the council could evict the travellers again.
After that the council put about 100 of these blocks at about €400 each down the length of the path and at various other points around the park. These things aren't exactly aesthetically pleasing. So parts of the park are a bit of an eyesore.
They also don't work. Last Friday the travellers returned and dragged blocks out of the way again. Council has now evicted again.
Now they've placed sets of 6ft blocks in some strategic places. These include totally blocking that access ramp.
Surely there has to be some way of blocking incorrect vehicle access that doesn't block disabled/pram access and doesn't look ugly.

I'm assuming that original blocks are building blocks so about 3 foot long, 2 foot tall roughly. & possibly they were what the council had at hand and thought might have some effect. They've now been shown not to.
& the idea that the park is going to have these items dotted around it permanently is a bit of a drag.

Local paper was complaining about the park being a bit of a state before they were introduced.

getting p ra tbh

The whole thing where people rake leaves and grass clippings and pay to have someone take them away, then pay to have someone else bring them huge piles of mulch, which they then spread in their gardens? Or they SUVify down to Home Despot and buy big-ass plastic bags of soil, mulch, humus, compost, etc. It doesn't make me angry, just seems prissy and creates busywork.

You could jut let things take care of themselves, like they did successfully for billions of years before you arrived. Or, if you're into stewardship, mow the leaves and grass together and you have efficient mulch. Or if you're so inclined, compost it all and now you have dirt.

Concert venue websites that update their calendars on a daily basis so you can't see who had played there last night.

omg yes

there was one local event venue that either had their website's time zone set up weird or their event management part of the site was fucked, and events would disappear from the site once they'd begun

That giant leaf vacuum is insane. What. Why not just let the leave be on the ground? AFAIK around here they just let em fly all over the damn place (and clog the storm drains lol)

I always forget that i can take the leaves from the front of the house where the trees are, to the back of the house where the beds need a good mulching. So thanks for the reminder.

going to proudly just let my leaves settle on my yard in celebration of not living in a gated community

― mh 😏, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 8:41 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm glad my new community isn't gated. the one at my old community was infuriating. I think I mentioned before, but they only let one resident per house put a number in the box, so if he wasn't home when you dialed the gate code - tough, they had to tailgate.

the weirdest incident was a few weeks ago, my last few nights in the old place, it's late at night and this dude who looks to be in a mondo hurry pulls into the community behind me. he goes to the call box, I go to the resident scan, and scan my card, right around the time that he presumably gets buzzed in by his friend.

I go in first and he follows up behind me, then he passes me at 30 or so mph in the oncoming lane (speed limit in the community is like 10 as it's winding). he zips through the community, and then stops next to the security guard, who is parked on the other side, preventing me from getting by. he chats with him, then leaves, and then I start to go and the security guard shouts WHOA, where are you going? do you live here? I'm like "yeah", and then he asks "why didn't you scan your card" and I said "I did!" and he was like "well that guy just told me you tailgated him in" and I'm like...."no, if anything he might have tailgated me in, he came in behind me then passed me at a fast speed" and he was all like "oh I'll go follow him then".

uhhh....so yeah, fuck gates. hasn't stopped the community from having a high theft rate, though I was never impacted fortunately. raccoons out the wazzoo too.

There's one stall in the office rest room, and for some reason, people like to close its door upon leaving.

Meaning that once every couple of times I have to use it, I first have to crouch down to see if there's any feet under there.

still won't identify the people who pee while crouched position, standing on the seat though

*while in a

Can't you just push gently on the door?

i share a mailbox with someone that just doesn't pick up their mail.

every day i have to dig through their entire pile in case something new for me has been muddled in with it.

Can't you just push gently on the door?

Two things would either happen, fifty percent of the time.

1.) I'd get an I'M IN HERE! yelled at me at top volume, or

2.) The occupant would remain curiously quiet, I'd open the door and be met with

http://i.imgur.com/gFKsunQ.gif

9-5 at the Overlook Hotel

i have no idea where that gif came from, but i guess today is truly a day to be thankful

two things would either happen, fifty percent of the time.

1.) I'd get an I'M IN HERE! yelled at me at top volume, or

2.) The occupant would remain curiously quiet, I'd open the door and be met with

I made the mistake of entering a bathroom without knocking, because I thought it was the entrance to a multi-stall bathroom, but instead it was the entrance to a one-seater bathroom, which did lock, but not everybody tended to lock them. so I open the door and there I am making eye contact with one of my trainees who is on the toilet.

I felt so bad and embarrassed afterwards and didn't call on that person the rest of the day out of guilt.

(in my defense this was my first day in this building, which was in another state, and I foolishly assumed their layout was similar to ours, shitter-wise)

Can't you just push gently on the door?

Also a day later I remember, THE DOOR OPENS OUT.

This function used to come in handy back in the days when the lights would turn off after ten minutes, and I would open the door to activate the sensor to turn them back on.

it was the entrance to a one-seater bathroom, which did lock, but not everybody tended to lock them

You shouldn't blame yourself for other people's baffling life choices.

Do you lot not have those locks with "occupied" on the little dial?

Vaguely resembles this:

http://i.imgur.com/upL6M2Q.jpg

Do you lot not have those locks with "occupied" on the little dial?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, November 25, 2016 10:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not in the bathrooms pplains describes, or most public restrooms (at least here in FL). Port-a-potties are usually the only ones that have the 'occupied' thing. not everybody seems to know how to use them but with the latter it doesn't matter cos there's usually so many available the chances of walking in on someone are p minimal.

re: non-door locker comment upthread, I too don't get not locking the door when you're on the can but *shrug*

Urgency?
Or traumatic incident in past of being trapped in a toilet and everybody finding out?
Leading to one having to slink away with tail between legs hand in notice, move to a new town where people aren't still talking about it.
Or something.

the former probably.

c) comfortable with putting it out there for all to see d) idiot who forgets how things work

There's these two guys on a bus I take around 6 AM who are always chatty and especially about politics. The rest of the bus is half asleep and just trying to get some relief before work. This is probably irrational, but I just wish they'd shut up.

morning people are horrible

haha ^ yup

I wonder what would happen if the sane among us just looked at the chatty morning types and shhhh-ed them.

people who ask a question and then keep fucking talking immediately after so nobody can answer

argh my new boss does this

I had a three-person meeting with him and the team lead last week and it was so infuriating when he asked questions about the details of what I was working on and then as soon as I started answering he would just talk over me and ask something different for the team lead to answer

and all our team meetings last 3x longer than they're supposed to and nobody can get a word in edgeways e.g.

boss: [rambling, vague monologue which finally reaches something which appears to be a question]
worker: well first we'd need to -
boss: I mean what I'm saying is -- [more vague ramblings, repetition of original question or possibly a different question with some of the same words in]
worker: OK we just did something which should -
boss: [muses on the nature of the universe for an hour]

prob for coworker thread but IA at a person who sits in their cubicle & calls out to coworkers like a goddamn toddler instead of getting off their ass & walking over

Okay, this PizzaGate horseshit is doing it today.

The dumbest fucking thing I've ever seen, obviously some 4chan trolling designed to whip moron Trumpers into a frenzy. And it's working.

people who have a policy for reservations that involve leaving a voicemail and say "we'll only call you if there is a problem".

so...how do we know for sure you got our message?

(there's a local theatre that does this and a few things people have showed up having not gotten a "there's a problem call" only to find out their voicemail was bungled.

also people who sell tickets using Paypal but don't bother to limit the transactions to their capacity so they oversell.

there is some guy who was irritating in some of my college classes. late in college, i was regularly reading metafilter.. and he showed up there! and was nearly as irritating, posting all the time

so now i'm reading stuff on twitter and sure enough, at least once a week i see this motherfucker chiming in on random conversations! shut up, chad!

people who ask you if you can do something late one night and start harassing you the next morning for a response without any regard for whether you even saw the first message or have had any time to think over whether they can do what you ask before their arbitrary deadline

like sorry I didn't respond to you, I was driving 6 hours to Atlanta on a trip with my buddy when you sent in, we didn't get in until after midnight, and we slept in the next day..........

Thats hardly irrational to be mad about tbqf.

People who sit down in the middle of a subway starcase, don't bother to move when a train shows up and hundreds of people start coming up the narrow stairway and then get annoyed about being accidentally trampled.

also not irrational

nothing is really irrational here, all of our feelings are legit. i get mad at everyone who drives to another neighborhood (mine) and parks there. i do it too, but who cares.

also that thing of where you get one item of clothing and it fits so you buy the same thing in a different color or whatever and it's like a totally fucking different size but it's not

ugh fuck that, happened me this week

that is the worst

even weirder is when you like the second one even better than the first, order two more, and both of them are identical, and they're both worse the #1 and the beloved #2

App notifications that don't actually notify you of anything.

I swear, Facebook must've figured out that seeing the number "4" inside a tiny red circle will trigger just about anyone to click and see what surprises they've got waiting. Most of the time, it's non-news like "So-and-so is still waiting on his friend request!" or "This post you have nothing to do with has a new comment."

Instagram has followed the lead now too. I'll click the notifications bug and see, yep, those same three people are still waiting for me to accept or decline their invitation.

Not sure if it's bad bus stop set up or dumb people but the idea that there is no need for people to step away from the doors of a full bus that is about to empty. Or coming the other way the idea that you need to dodge around a bunch of people to get off a bus and will probably come very close at least to colliding with some eejit as you try to walk away from the bus.

Not sure if this is just down to pretty much nothing having been done about changing the layout of the pavement where the buses stop when they redid the square several years ago. I don't think there were any bus stops down taht side where my terminus stop is when the road was also open on the now pedestrianised side of the square.
I can't be the only person who finds that a major pain.

Also possibly even worse si the bus stop where the coaches out of town stop outside GMIT the campus that's most of the way out of town.
IT has a narrow pavement with a bus shelter on one side and the perimeter wall for GMIT on the other side of teh pavement. & it's where you need to stand with suitcases etc if you're waiting for a bus to the airport or to Dublin or wherever.
Just hoping that they will rethink that entire junction when they open the Garda station HQ that's being built opposite. Can't see how that junction is going to work if the main police station is on it as it currently exists.

facebook messenger started sending messages a while back that just say "it's x birthday send him/her a message"

like are u worried i'm not using yr app enough, leave me the hell alone with these non-message messages

I think this one's rational anger but as a help desk agent there's nothing more counter-productive than a client's thoughts about why something is not working and their rampant chatter. I mean, I wouldn't go into a hospital and try to correct a doctor's technique during a surgery. Just let me do my job.

Or just their rampant chatter full stop! Oh god, no I dont need your life story as to what 300 things you did with your phone before you rang us, just tell me what you want fixed and STFU so I can fix it.

haha i almost always have to stop myself from doing that tbh.......

in tv cookery competitions when the judges incessantly remind us that a pannacotta shd wobble and a fondant shd be liquid inside

also not calling pannacotta by its correct name = blancmange

dude in line in front of me at chipotle is explaining the rules of poker to his friend & it's making me IA bcz it's so fuckkng boring

The poker revival makes me IA generally, who gives a fuuuck

is this a revival of the texas hold em thing or still just ongoing interest

in tv cookery competitions when the judges incessantly remind us that a pannacotta shd wobble and a fondant shd be liquid inside

also not calling pannacotta by its correct name = blancmange

― mark s, Thursday, December 8, 2016 12:31 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's panna cotta two words and unlike blancmange it's not cooked

xp ongoing interest, I guess, for the kinda guys who vape

IMPORTANT CORRECTIONS TO MY IRRATIONAL PANNACOTTA BEEF INCOMING, BOTH WIDELY CONTESTED

They do pannacotta beef now?

milk pudding with a twist

^ Jarvis cocker voiceover

guys, it's all just fancy custard

in a sense there is nothing that is not fancy custard

im a fancy custard

*wobbles*

i hate when people use burglary and robbery interchangeably

Parents who let their kids run wild in restaurants

oh yeah, shopping carts that are made to look like cars so you can put your kid in it and he can "drive" it and it's fucking huge and your kid is a shit

the declaration that "such-and-such needs to happen" when what is meant is "i want such-and-such to happen and am angry it hasn't"

I'm at the end of a bunch of traffic with about three car lengths between me and the next vehicle and EMPTY SPACE behind me as far as the eye can see. People turning out of side street see me and decide "yeah, this dude'll stop for me even though he's doing 45 mph, I'm in too much of a hurry to wait three seconds for him to pass and get *ugh* behind him, where no cars are coming and I wouldn't be risking my idiot life and his, HERE I GO." This has happened to me approximately a dozen times in the past week.

The IA part comes in when I want to follow them to wherever they're going and kick them in the shins, I guess.

"let me tell you about Naturebox"

in fact, pretty much every instance of podcast hosts pretending to be enthusiastic about whatever niche shit they're having to plug to pay the bills

can i tell u about mattresses

SQUARESPAAAACE!

mbmbam is good at this because they keep doing jokes at least

Armando Iannucci has a good bit about this where he talks about listening to the 538 podcast and in the middle of all of this dry political analysis they'll suddenly & without pausing for breath go "we'll come back to that in a minute, but I just want to talk about underpants for a second". And everyone else on the panel enthusiastically joins in talking about how comfortable these underpants are as if this is normal. I find it more embarrassing than anything else.

wait this one is genuinely irrational: the word "comptroller"

USE THE WORD CONTROLLER IT MEANS THE SAME

(why do i care? I DO NOT KNOW BUT I DO)

that word is up there with that one they use in the us its a political word wtf is it you know the one?

gubernatory!

look you cunts if you didnt know how to spell it there'd have been someone along in a fucking minute dont just guess and have it in all your fucking documents for posterity ffs

SQUARESPAAAACE!

― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, December 12, 2016 1:13 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

squarespace is something i've been hearing about for a long time but i couldn't tell you anything about it really, i ahve no idea what it is apart from some web technology or app?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPKe9ksENk

xp it's a webhosting service. I think.

how is it different from foursquare

Squarespace is web hosting where you have a bunch of templates and can easily modify them to make a decent looking business page or whatever without putting in work coding or designing w/ Wordpress.

This is one that happens to me all the time now:

I'm driving along a major road and turn off into a residential area--the car in front of me also turns, but not because they're actually going anywhere. They've just pulled off the busy road to text someone. But instead of pulling to the side of the road, they let their car roll slowly forward, often weaving into the center of the street so they can't be passed. Until they finally cease moving at a stop sign and then just sit there.

lately here everybody's been aggro-driving lately.

last week this odd lady in a parking garage kept repeatedly honking at me for reasons I can't discern last week.

had someone aggressively tailgating me back from Miami last night on a two lane road, weaving side to side in the lane. and couldn't get over immediately cos there were cars clogging the right lane, tho finally was able to.

had some landscaping idiot aggressively (and illegally) pass me in the oncoming lane outside my neighborhood this morning...

lately the scary thing though is people backing out without looking, almost had my driver's side door caved in at least three times in the last two weeks by people who did that as I was going by.

in conclusion fuck cars, viva feet.

sounds pretty rational to me. just before xmas the number of crazy drivers soars. be careful.

lately the scary thing though is people backing out without looking, almost had my driver's side door caved in at least three times in the last two weeks by people who did that as I was going by.

in conclusion fuck cars, viva feet.

― Neanderthal

This'd be worse if you were on foot, I suspect.

Man, I hate everything involving VR. I hate articles about it, I hate what they look like, I hate commercials that make it seem like something someone wants, I hate the name Occulus Rift. I hate it all. But mostly I hate that it's something that keeps coming back every few years like it's a thing and not like, say, the Nintendo Virtual Boy or the defective glasses Steve Martin makes in "The Jerk."

word, i wish games people would stop trying to make VR happen, it'll always be a gimmick

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I dunno, I thought the same thing 11 years ago about 3D in films, and they finally got that to work. I tried some VR recently and it's fucking amazing, but clunky and awkward in ways which will probably disappear in another decade at most.

Counterpoint: who cares?

Weren't there some big pieces a year or so ago about how 3D is no longer the money-maker it initially seemed to be (this time around), and has already faded in financial efficacy?

no, 3d in films is still clunky and bad, or at least a gimmick

I like vr though

tbh neither is in the end state, but barring VR-style goggles or some great new screen innovation, 3D movies have a bit of a plateau. it's better than red/blue separation but movies are limited in that they are fixed perspective and on a fixed screen so we'll just get larger aspect ratio, better frame rate, and possibly better separation

vr has always been without an end point and having individualized views at a reasonable framerate is good. the video game starting point for consumer use is nice because virtual worlds now have a walking dimension. watching movies, where the director or dp no longer frame action and you can do a full range of movement, would be weird

the narrative vr video clips are fun but weird because you can draw attention, and you should, but I can still look at a blank wall while a character talks behind me

the thing with websites insisting that you disable Adblock is catching on ;_;

The checkout at tescos last night finished by saying 'ho ho ho, Merry Christmas' and instead of being a charming seasonal gimick it just sounded creepy.

That's your punishment for shopping at Tesco.

the thing with websites insisting that you disable Adblock is catching on ;_;

Fu Forbes.

A door lock that can lock but leave the key the wrong way up to extract. Or that will allow your key to turn in the barrel while attempting to lock it while not doing so. So you have to check that lock has engaged. The idea that you have to arm a lock in a too specific way when you have a head full of flu and you're in a hurry.

Is that common with locks these days.

I'm on an already p. futile quest to look for an artist/painting by searching Google Images for keywords that fit my hazy memory of the painting, which is basically not going to happen anyway, esp since I think it was just by a local-ish amateur artist and adding the place name isn't helping at all

but what's really annoying is that any such quest (see also the ILX thread asking to ID an awesome colourful stripy op-art-ish painting at some Art Basel of yore) brings up a bunch of Pinterest results, like srsly all of my results are at Pinterest apparently, and if you click on one you just arrive at some Pinterest list of eight billion paintings and as soon as you scroll down it goes NUH UH YOU NEED TO LOG IN, NO MORE THUMBNAILS FOR YOU

and even if by any chance the painting you clicked on (or any other painting you have any interest in) is on the first page it doesn't tell you anything about what the painting is or who painted it, it's just like, here are some images without attribution or context, oh noooo you can't see any more of my precious unlabelled images

tldr = FU Pinterest

Pinterest is the ABSOLUTE WORST
I have had projects where it would seem to be the ideal solution but using it makes me throw every computer/device out the window in RAGE

otm

got a speeding ticket in Valdosta in November - 86 mph in a 70 zone. valid ticket, but here's the fun part about Valdosta tickets

*they don't tell you the amount of your fine on the ticket, by design
*they give you a court appearance date
*Obviously, you can waive that date by pleading guilty - there's a spot on the ticket where you can sign to do just that, except nowhere on the ticket do they give instructions for what you're to do with the ticket after you've signed it (no envelope provided either)
*There are no instructions as to how you can pay your fine if you don't appear in court, no website info or details on how you can find out the amount of your fine
*I easily found the website searching on my own, but to pay it, you have to enter your citation number and fine amount. To get your fine amount, you either have to call a number or look at the schedule of fines they post online and find your violation on there and manually input the amount yourself.
*You make the payment, and then later you get an email telling you if you sent it to the right place and for the right amount or not
*Because I was 16 mph over, I can then get a secondary $200 "super speeder" ticket from the State of Georgia later.

wtf is this nonsense?

(tbh I'm not really 'angry' so much as I'm fairly sure I figured it out right, just amused at how ridiculously inefficient the whole process is)

I got a speeding ticket here in Southern California, pretty similar runaround bullshit. Best part is the ticket is $35... PLUS any little fee they feel like adding to it. New municipal building fund. New road construction. Starbuck's for the guys in the station fund. So it wound up being $240, would've been $300 if I had opted for traffic school; I'm poor and have a spotless driving record so I had to go for the former.

Just for the record, though, when I lived in NJ I got pulled over twice for speeding and neither time did I get points or a ticket, one dude gave me a warning and the other a small citation for not changing my address on my license (I had just moved and it slipped my mind) which wound up costing nothing when I had proof of changing it. So speed in New Jersey, I guess.

if you get caught speeding in virginia they ban you from virginia

can i get banned from kansas #bansas

Wondering if the opacity of speeding tickets in particular states has any connection to how POC in those states get fine-mined for revenues?

people who type "this is my surprised face" on FB with no actual picture to refer to.

Wondering if the opacity of speeding tickets in particular states has any connection to how POC in those states get fine-mined for revenues?

No doubt about it. Also makes it easier for cops to throw POC in jail for the slightest justification

Graphics used in online news stories to represent the threat of hacking/viruses/vague computer-related danger, such as the skull thing a third of the way down in this article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38517517

Boy do I have the thread for you: security flaw could allow hackers to

Haha oh god, how have I never seen that before.

i hate when i have my turn signal on but the road curves so before i make the turn the signal comes off and i have to put it back on again

Good one

omg yes

Definitely that.

And that every news site on earth now throws a blaringly loud video of the story into every text article.

that is the worst, especially on mobile sites.

especially when the video is hidden somewhere on the page and you can't find where it is to disable it or it freezes your shitty chromebook

the crinkling of plastic packaging/bags on overnight flights

actually that's pretty rational nm

the lone ornament that appears on the floor after you have packed up the tree & all the decorations

yesterday i found a rogue pine needle in my hair

I was waiting in line at the airport just a few minutes ago, waiting for the monitor to ding and tell me what attendant to see. Instead, this person down at the end starts waving and shouting, so I head down there. "I think your monitor number button is broken," I say. "Oh," she says, "I didn't press the button."

Why not!?!?!

Also, I hate the sound of people eating in movie theatres, especially popcorn.

i don't understand the monitor dinging story. i've never waited in a line at the airport where they pressed.. what, buttons? to make a sound that indicates you're next?

At the Southwest counter there is a monitor that dings and says things like "proceed to clerk 34" or "proceed to clerk 21" or whatever. When it's not dinging it's just showing pictures of Southwest staff making silly faces, which I stared at until they yelled me over, which they would not have had to do if they simply pressed the button and made the monitor ding and say "proceed to counter 21."

That's up there with people who knock gently on my front door instead of pushing the doorbell.

And another yes to harbl's turn signal.

13.1 and 26.2 stickers on cars. You ran a marathon, fuuuuucking grrreaaaattt I needed to know.

Everybody, everywhere, always. Maybe better suited for the depression thread. (Not to mistaken for misanthropy - I love people, I just find them deeply irritating)

I don't really deal with Facebook much these days, but I had a couple of friends who whose running devices would automatically post the distance they just ran. "Dan just ran 10 miles!" or whatever. I really wanted to post, like, "Josh just walked a half block!"

"Brian thought about walking from Staples to Trader Joe's but it was like half a block and the car was right there so..."

13.1 and 26.2 stickers on cars.

Yeah if you're so great at running long distances, why are informing me of that while you're driving?

It seems a trifle defensive. Like a beer mug that says "I didn't drink very much last month." Or a cookie tin that says "normally I go gluten-free, but I'm splurging right now."

I like to read this thread imagining it in the voice of Paul Rust and his new no-noes

That's about right.

when I'm trying to listen to music and read an article at the same time on my phone and some James Corden video ad on the New Yorker site keeps popping up and turning Spotify off

Ugghhh James Corden

and the rest.

I'm not sure why I hate James corden so much - everyone seems to live him. But for some reason he has the stink of britpop lad culture on him.

He's an unfunny, untalented, arrogant charisma vacuum. Everyone I know thinks he's a cunt and so do I.

I live James Corden. it's weird and I feel a lot more like myself when I leave the Malkovich machine

He's an unfunny, untalented, arrogant charisma vacuum. Everyone I know thinks he's a cunt and so do I.

― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, January 10, 2017 3:36 PM

^^^^ this

xp Neanderthal heh

But for some reason he has the stink of britpop lad culture on him.

I got the impression England had basically gotten sick of him for this very reason and he was banished over here. Also get the impression his super nice "character" is entirely an act designed to steal some of Fallon's thunder.

hes more stage school than lad culture

the angle he holds his head at warrants serious consideration, like one of those spitting dinosaurs just prior to a strike

a beautiful but deadly addition to american television

When someone says 'are you there' on the phone while having spent the last 40 minutes talking to them and taking 2 seconds to breathe. Strikes me as high maintenance.

(customer)

Technology getting too small to be handled comfortably. Had to pick up a Flash drive at the airport cos I realised i'd left my memory stick at my mother's place. Now got this thing which is 32GB but is the size of a thumbnail including the part you stick into the computer.
So actually being able to take it out of the computer and put in the tv then take it out of the slot there is a pain.
Could do with a handle or something.

Can't get a grip on it if i have it on a multiusb extension thing cos it doesn't stick out as far as the USB connections on the cables beside it.

was it a name brand drive in original packaging? I'm justifiably paranoid guy when it comes to flash memory devices

Yeah, it was name drive bought from name high st type shop. Airport branch.
It's just really fiddly cos the only bit that isn't the metal connection is a couple of mm thick plastic handle strip. So manipulating in and out of slots demands manual dexterity. Not sure how easy to see through bubble pack it would be. Hate to need to use this if I had arthritis or something. Slot on tv is an indent behind the screen so it's a pain. Memory stick was its own handle for things like that. Several cm of body etc.

I'm with you on those, especially the little bluetooth things.

Had to pick up a Flash drive at the airport

Glad I read the rest of the sentence. Was wondering why you didn't tell it to just grab a taxi.

The fact that Justin Theroux's name is at the top of the cast credits in Mulholland Dr., and not Naomi Watts'.

^ For sure.

I wish we also lived in a time when a movie with a female ensemble class was not billed or perceived as a "female movie" VS. whether it's just a good or bad film.

Overheard a relative and my 7-year-old son talking about Ghostbusters this Christmas

RELATIVE: Did you ever see the sequel? People didn't like it as much as the first one.

SON: No, I've only seen one Ghostbusters. Why didn't they like it?

RELATIVE: Well, first of all, the Ghostbusters were girls....

And yeah, I had so many corrections I wanted to make out loud, but the relative was female and I didn't want to jump in to mansplain the canon and timeline of Ghostbusters to her.

don't even get me started on why the cartoon series was called "the real ghostbusters"

Tuomas's idea that somehow rock guitars are The Enemy.

they are though

http://www.clickmusic.com/images/uploads/The-Enemy-300.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8dgZxmo.jpg?1

probably going to catch flak for eating at a fuddruckers but hey, fuddruckers, how the FUCK you run out of BUNS

people turning the most mundane event into a lengthy conversational anecdote:

so i got a man in and i said "can you fix the ceiling fan" and he said "let me have a look" and he had a look and he said "i'll try to fix it" and he couldn't fix it so i said "what can we do now" and he said "i'll check with head office" and he called head office and he said "we should probably replace the ceiling fan" and they said "yeah that's fine you should replace the ceiling fan" and he hung up and he said "we're going to replace your ceiling fan" and i said "thank you" and he said "we can do it tomorrow" and i said "well that'll be fine"

ok so you've got a new ceiling fan

and several new fans right on this thread

when u mistake an opener only bottle cap for a twist off & shred the fuck out of yr hand trying to open it :(

I have done that - ow ow ow.

i did it tonight & it sucks & i was mad

The state of the paving in the main pedestrianised part of town. Supposed to be even but instead large dip after large dip after loose brick. Most of the time during the day you're trying to avoid somebody walking into you anyway.
So won't be surprised if I hear the council getting sued for accidents.
Also when this was first pedestrianised around the milenium it was given to the same firm in perpetuity. So they'd be fixing their own work to the same standard and not making sure it didn't need to be fixed.

People with huge amounts of dangly shit hanging from their rear-vision mirror. Got a lift from a workmate who had mini disco ball, two air fresheners, some Catholic tat and a teddy bear all hanging from there. How the fuck do you see to drive?

i hate that!

when u mistake an opener only bottle cap for a twist off & shred the fuck out of yr hand trying to open it :(

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 January 2017 14:59 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is deliberate sabotage on behalf of bottle cap designers imo. they all look the same ffs.

1. People who talk on cell phones while on the bus

+

2. Who also happen to be directly behind you and coughing but you cannot tell if they're covering their mouth.

= IA

3. And whose entire conversation consists of telling people that they are on a bus

when your office has perfectly fine spaces to gather & smoke yet ppl still insist on STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING SIDEWALK

like i dont even have a beef with smoking or anything

it's just the standing around IN MY WAY like fucking dullards that i object to

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4. to five call recipients in immediate succession, because this type of person can't bear to be quiet for more than 10 seconds

although i'd rather they bore their friends/family shitless than yapping at me while i'm wearing headphones, which are the internationally reognised symbol of leave-me-alone

yet ppl still insist on STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING SIDEWALK

same people who step off escalators and just stand there

yes ugh

and stare at you like farm animals when you excuse yourself past them

"why would you need to go somewhere? this footpath is enjoyable to stand on"

BAAAAAA

walk up sheeples

vape up sheeples

3. And whose entire conversation consists of telling people that they are on a bus

This is better than what I usually hear on subway--today a guy on phone threatening to beat up a woman, every other day a bunch of homophobic slurs

When a subway car arrives and all the seats are empty but people are crowding the doors in anticipation of getting off at the NEXT stop. And even though the train is not moving they won't budge from their positions to let you through to the seats.

when people i don't know who have no interest in actually shopping/buying come in my store and start talking to me and ask me how my store is doing financially. last week, some stranger asked me if i can pay my rent. this is after i told them that i've been there for 8 years. seems rude. and makes me irrationally angry. but i came frome a family where such things were just. not. done.

sometimes i will return the favor and ask them how their job is going and if they're doing okay.

also seems a little mean. "i don't want to buy anything i just want to incredulously/disingenuously ask you how you can make a living doing what you're doing."

i should just guilt them from now on. why don't i guilt them? "I do okay, It's always nice when someone comes in and buys something from a local shop. I REALLY appreciate it. Let me know if you need help finding anything."

When a subway car arrives and all the seats are empty but people are crowding the doors in anticipation of getting off at the NEXT stop. And even though the train is not moving they won't budge from their positions to let you through to the seats.

― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:53 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

keep coming across this on buses. A crowd of people stand towards the front or blocking the stairs obscuring the fact that there are seats on the back row downstairs or half of upstairs being free.

With the bus thing the crowd seems to accumulate as people assume that there can't be anything beyond the crowd.
I've wound out calling out before taht there are seats at the back.

Even if there is a reason for people to be standing it seems to take a while for the idea to sink in that people should move down the aisle.

same people who step off escalators and just stand there

Always imagine them thinking, "The floor quit moving. Something must be wrong!"

The halfway-point of those is people who rush onto a subway/train when it's about to leave then stop, not thinking "maybe other people are in the same situation, and are about to arrive in the small of my back".

Also people who step off and stand in front of the elevator door looking dazed and then move away just as the doors close, leaving the people waiting to get on stuck outside

This is a student thing big time

> some stranger asked me if i can pay my rent

maybe he was going to offer to torch the place for the insurance money if you were struggling?

(i might have read too much ed mcbain)

i should just guilt them from now on. why don't i guilt them? "I do okay, It's always nice when someone comes in and buys something from a local shop. I REALLY appreciate it. Let me know if you need help finding anything."

100% yes

Scott's non-customers remind me of the jerks I used to deal with working at a record store after I had my arm broken by a mugger. How much I loved telling that story to every curious middle aged man who came into the store and pestered me about my cast.

"You should SEE the other guy!"

keep coming across this on buses. A crowd of people stand towards the front or blocking the stairs obscuring the fact that there are seats on the back row downstairs or half of upstairs being free.

There was someone standing on the stairs on my bus last week (it was quite full but there were other viable standing places and a few seats left) who did not move when I walked down the stairs, even when I said "excuse me". He eventually moved quite sullenly when the bus finally stopped, as if it was a great surprise and inconvenience that anyone might need to go downstairs to get off the bus.

Someone will prob be IA about people like me who wander round moving buses, because yes it's dangerous and ideally we could all remain seated until the bus is stationary, but in my experience neither passengers nor bus driver want to wait for slowcoaches if nobody goes through the door immediately

I'm glad it's not just Los Angeles people who are unfamiliar with the concept of mass transit.

This weekend some guy got on with his bike and stood with it right in front of the door, when there was an empty, marked bike/suitcase/stroller space literally 4 feet from him.

And that makes me curios, do other cities allow/provide for bring bicycles on trains?

Not allowed during rush hour in Chicago. Still see the occasional asshole trying to squeeze one on a packed train though.

You put them on a rack on the front of the bus here.

Then you take it off at your destination and ride down the sidewalk, nearly hitting me and the other pedestrians.

LA buses have racks on the front too, but I'm always sure that if I used it, when I got off I'd be thinking "Now what did I need to do first?..." and ten seconds later realize my bike is carrying on without me towards who knows where.

DC has both the bike racks and specified bike-on-rail times.

London lets them on trains when not at rush hour, and some non-rush hour subway lines including the one which connects the main train termini. Folding bikes are far more welcome, of course.

When I was in london I was surprised to see a delivery guy getting off the overland train carrying a bike. THink he had a pizza type delivery case/bag in one hand and had a delivery company logo on the back of his jacket.
Hadn't thought they'd factor in fares into delivery costs if the guy had a bike.

I've been getting IA about people who say "sorry" in response to my "excuse me" as we negotiate around each other on a sidewalk. I've noticed this a few times in the last month and I just want to yell at these people. You don't have to bring apologies into it. You didnt injure me. We're just trying to traverse the same narrow band of concrete.

arent you bald and six feet plus

id say sorry tbh

I would be one of the people hl is angry at, but tbftm I don't see much difference between "sorry" and "excuse me" anyway. What are you doing on the sidewalk which requires excusing?

when u mistake an opener only bottle cap for a twist off & shred the fuck out of yr hand trying to open it :(

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl)

yeah i ain't got time to figure out that shit, i just use bottle openers on all bottles whether they're twist caps or not

keep in mind this is the IRRATIONALly angry thread, Tim

I was merely agreeing that hl's anger was irrational, in the face of hl's own rationalisation of this blatantly irrational reaction to innocent apologising. :)

lol fair :)

I would be one of the people hl is angry at, but tbftm I don't see much difference between "sorry" and "excuse me" anyway. What are you doing on the sidewalk which requires excusing?

― Tim, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 7:26 AM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like "excuse me" is just a polite thing to say to acknowledging a mild inconvenience, whereas "sorry" should be reserved for apologizing for an offense. I feel like there's a heavier connotation to that word. But yes, I acknowledge this is probably irrational.

I'm just talking about two people walking past one another on a sidewalk here. Perhaps there is a trash can or planter in the way which necessitates slightly more maneuvering than usual.

xps to Darragh: I'm an imposing presence, no doubt, but try my best to compensate for that through mild manners.

The worst is when I'm maneuvering down a sidewalk past someone obviously talking on their phone or to a person beside them. I say "excuse me" as I pass but the person is taken off guard and yells something like "EXCUSE YOU" or "you don't even say excuse me?"

What I'd like to say back is "Jesus, how long have you been in philly?"

Obliviously

I tend to say "pardon me," which can mean anything from "I hope you will forgive my rudeness in imposing on your personal tranquility" to "get the fuck out of the way, ya jackhole."

HL never come to England then. I could be saving a family from a burning building and I'd still apologise repeatedly for it

In the UK, it's a mark of citizenship to be able to say 'sorry' in dozens of ways, only one of which has anything to do with apology.

if you say "excuse me" , how's, what rejoinder do you prefer? they ignore you?

"no problem"

"no worries"

"you're excused"

"Bet you're not sorry though."

"don't come the innocent with me"

"excuse me"

*headbutt*

americans feel it a sign of weakness to say "sorry" because it implies fault for some reason. we really hate that, admitting fault

Yeah, sorry about that.

I apologize if anyone feels slammed into a wall by my shoulder

"sorry" implies not so much an admission of fault, but an abject state of mind

The best apologies are when someone says "I'm sorry YOU feel that way".

"I'm sorry if you were offended."

I had a co-worker who used to sit across the cube from me, so I'd hear her calls,and at least 3 or more times a day, I'd hear her say (in a calm demeanor) "Well, I'm sorry I offended you".

I was like...what the hell are you saying to these people that you have to say that multiple times a day?

And if I offended you, I'm sorry, but maybe you needed to be offended. YOU CAN'T BRING ME DOWN.

lol

yeah but also there is 38% too much offence taken so its really context driven tbh

god, how many mustaches are in this video anyway? I demand an inventory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxcJW6bs5os

Best ST song

Unless your name is Bruce, in which case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9nkzaOPP6g

It's probably RA not IA but the number of idiots shitting themselves about Bandcamp donating to the ACLU, like the ACLU is staffed entirely by black bloc anarcho-communists and not entirely reasonable people standing up for THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION said idiots claim to love.

Im already dreading the politics that are gonna seep into concerts i go to

Xp lol the only concerns I saw were that the aclu has enough cash right now and other local left orgs could use the cash. imo if you shit your pants about the aclu, u deserve to walk around with shitty pants

Word and word!

we have a hd antenna & cheap tivo service

tivo keeps "adding" channels that we can't get & its bloody annoying

people who fucking pace back and forth

That somebody would park so far forward outside a streetdoor on an access stairwell that you have to consciously watch yourself exiting. Means that navigating large objects in and out of doorway would be a hassle.
Seems like front wheel must be up to pavement.

People who, while trying to exit a parking lot, pull far forward and block the sidewalk even though its obvious the street is so busy they won't have a chance to pull out for a minute or so. And when they see that they're blocking a bunch of pedestrians for an unforeseeable amount of time make no attempt to back up but rather make us walk halfway into the street to get around them.

Also, when I've walked halfway across a crosswalk and a car tries to turn left in front of me. This is obviously insane, so the car will driver will beep the horn as if to say, "Hey, why don't you pause in the middle of the fucking street and let me pass by so I don't have to press on this pedally thing under my foot and lose 5 precious seconds." If you don't do as they ask they usually flip out and start shouting.

i'm pretty sure all motorist-related anger is rational. like when i was crossing at the crosswalk last week and had to stop in the middle of the road because this driver was driving sloooowly toward me and not stopping because they were looking at their phone. i wanted to kick their car door. but i didn't. i mean the driver was about 2 feet away from me and i was staring at them and i was standing in the middle of the road and they had no idea i was there. not a clue. that made me very rationally angry.

i always want to yell "hey, crosswalk!" but i feel like i'm gonna end up sounding like dustin hoffman in midnight cowboy so i just glare at people.

i'm really big on crosswalks. i always use them unless there isn't a car anywhere near me for blocks. i see so many people with small children and babies just running out into the middle of main street in town and kinda just hoping people will stop for them instead of just walking 50 feet to the crosswalk. drives me nuts.

sounding like dustin hoffman in midnight cowboy would be awesome tho

Is a crosswalk is a pedestrian crossing where pedestrians have the right of way? What we call a zebra crossing?

http://nacto.org/wp-content/themes/sink_nacto/views/design-guides/retrofit/urban-street-design-guide/images/conventional-crosswalks/carousel//crystalcity_nn.jpg

Yes.

Keyes OTM. Always want to do one of those 70s cop show moves where I jump and slide across their front hood.

xp
Yes. And in California, at least, all intersections are considered crosswalks even if unmarked.

So cars have to stop when you step on to them?

I did actually get out of the car one morning and scream at a truck that went right by a school bus that was picking up kids and had its lights on. that made me insanely mad.

yeah, you're supposed to wait at the crosswalk and then cars have to stop. though they often just go right by you. but it's a state law here in massachusetts i think. you're supposed to stop if you see someone waiting.

or cars will stop on one side of the street and like i said you can be stuck in the middle of the road waiting for people on the other side to stop.

Because, as a non-driver, I hate when pedestrians thank drivers for stopping to let them across when what they are thanking the drivers for is not breaking the law and mowing them down and leaving them a mangled mess of broken limbs and torn flesh.

the driving culture in britain is god awful. whenever i come back to vancouver from visiting home i am surprised that as a pedestrian i am treated like the royalty of the road. this happens mainly because there are stop signs at almost all intersections, but even when there aren't drivers will tend to let you by.

i think people who have lived here for years still think of main street as a sleepy little street where they can walk wherever they want but it's really not sleepy anymore and people get hit by cars all the time. which is why i wish everyone would just use the crosswalks.

yeah, around where I live the cars never stop, even though there a big "Yield to Pedestrians in Crosswalk" signs. It annoys me irrationally to see people just standing there and waiting. Just step out and cause a three car pile-up, cucks.

there are laws, people ignore them, which is dumb because if it's at all busy and the town isn't dumb, eventually they end up with an actual light or stop sign being installed and now drivers have to stop all the time instead of just having to pay attention to determine whether a stop is needed

there were a couple crosswalks installed around town with painted lines and a yellow pedestrian crossing sign that has blinking lights that are activated by pushing a button when you want to cross. my policy is to hit it and immediately start crossing, and if people act aggrieved that a human actually wanted to cross a street, I smile and emphatically point at the blinking sign, slowing my crossing to do so

"thanking the drivers for is not breaking the law"

ha, this is true. thanks for not killing me!

there are often traffic stings in L.A. where cops will pose as innocent pedestrians and walk into the crosswalk and cops down the street will pull over anyone who doesn't stop.

i always assume around here that people driving up to a stop sign or crosswalk will NOT stop. i assume it more since we had a kid. what i think is amazing are the people who passive aggressively walk across the street or step in front of you as you're driving and force you to stop for them. like...they don't want to get hit but they're being such assholes that they make you screech to a halt. i don't think these people are trying to kill themselves, really. (though our wedding coordinator's husband a few days before our ceremony, he was driving on a freeway here and a 16 year old girl ran out in front of his car and killed herself that way...so nm)

i'm also a fan of not thanking drivers but making passing eye contact with cars that are turning or slowing to acknowledge that I, human person who is walking, acknowledge their presence so they sure as hell pay attention

yeah if someone is driving quickly like nomar said I'll wait for them to go through, but if I'm already standing at the crosswalk and some asshole a block away obviously could see me if they were looking, I'll start to cross but give myself space to jump back

fuck em, they shouldn't be going 45 mph in a semi-residential area with crosswalks and can have fun wearing out their brakes

it definitely scared me when my kids were younger. i wanted them to be able to walk around main street but people wouldn't see them AT ALL when they stood at the crosswalk. but i would just tell them they had to wait until people stopped. and then i would tell them that most people were really drunk in town and they had to be really careful. i still tell them that.

"there are often traffic stings in L.A. where cops will pose as innocent pedestrians and walk into the crosswalk and cops down the street will pull over anyone who doesn't stop."

I would LOVE if they did that here.

I thank drivers all the time just not at a pedestrian crossing where I have right of way.

there are often traffic stings in L.A. where cops will pose as innocent pedestrians and walk into the crosswalk and cops down the street will pull over anyone who doesn't stop.

I wish they did that here.

(xp) hey!

note that this stretch of road I'm thinking of used to be four-ish lanes wide with parking on one side and an occasional turn lane in the middle, and it was re-painted a number of years ago with the idea there are a lot of businesses that could use foot traffic and it's not a long stretch. so it now has, depending on the area, one or two parallel parking lanes, two bike lanes, two lanes for traffic, and a middle turning lane

right after they did this, assholes would be so angry they had to go 30mph and would zoom around you in the bike/parking lanes. wtf.

we live at an intersection on a residential street which is pretty notorious (among the people who live at this intersection) for drivers not stopping. i mean not just merely slowing down a bit, but full on accelerating through the stop sign. speed limit is 25, you see people going 60. i see people with kids in their car doing this. or people drag racing. the "drive like your kids live here" signs don't work, i guess.

9 out of 10 Subarus will always stop for me when i'm at a crosswalk. just sayin'. anecdotal.

after midnight probably 50% of the cars going by don't stop. i kinda don't get it, i feel like it's a symptom of being at least mildly sociopathic.

we live on a street that the police use as a launching pad. it's wide and usually free of cars at night and it gets them across town the fastest. kind of annoying. ambulances too. and drunk people at night use it that way too.

There's an annoying crosswalk near my house at the bottom of a hill. The road curves up the hill so you can't see if any cars are coming until they come round the bend and are nearly upon you. It's a 25 MPH street but everyone uses it as a speed slope like "I don't mean to be going 50 but gravity, man." Of course there's also a school across the street and a blinking caution light, but whatever.

Every time I tried to drag my elderly blind dog across that crosswalk some car would come whooshing down at us. One guy started angrily honking the second he saw us. That nearly made my head explode. I stopped in the middle of street and we had an epic staredown and ended up reversing and going down a side street.

he ended up reversing

xxp see, that's the other thing that annoys me about the pedestrian-friendly street I'm mentioning -- it's two blocks down from a wide road with few stoplights that's mostly empty. if you want to drive fast and bypass traffic... go up two blocks! terrorize the people living up there!

President Keyes for the hardman pedestrian award

we put our left blinker on to go into our driveway the other day and someone passed us from behind on the left! how insane is that? they went into the other lane and passed us because they couldn't wait the TWO SECONDS it would take for us to pull into our driveway!

i actually had a truck go onto the sidewalk to pass me when i was turning into my driveway once. onto the grass because two seconds was too long to wait.

good argument for throwing a box of nails into the grass on that side

that thing of the big truck making a big show of passing you and then you just end up right behind them at a stop sign? always baffles me. then i tailgate them....

omg I hate that, too

I spent over half the year having to detour to a busy road with a shitload of stoplights for part of my daily commute due to bridge construction. Every day, without fail, someone would zoom around me during the one section where the road would open up, and I would always be right behind them at the stoplight. It was on a downhill section! It's like free driving, you just roll!

also bicycles will zip right past you at a crosswalk. the law does not apply to them. even when cars are waiting for me and i'm crossing the streets bikes will zip right past me. because they suck and are above all mortal laws. kinda like when i see someone jogging and i'm waiting for a stop light at the intersection and they just jog through the intersection. because that is like being a car apparently. joggers are cars.

I do a lot of yelling in cross walks.

"Learn to fucking drive!" is a favourite of mine.

all this stuff is rational though. my IRRATIONAL anger on the road is reserved for:

http://www.hamptonsedge.com/images/slide3.jpg

I'm so afraid I might hit them that i really want to hit them! and always with the science professor beards. they outta be outlawed. the bikes. not the beards.

there was a guy who lived near me in center city philadelphia who rode one of those in the streets of philly! city streets! so insane. i don't get it. i think i actually started a thread on those guys once. (99% of them are guys. #anecdotal)

Recumbents are good for people with bad backs who have trouble riding traditional road bikes, fuck off.

One of my friends was nearly killed in Wyoming last fall while cycling from Cleveland to Seattle. She just had the piece of her skull they removed re-inserted last Friday, and she's still re-learning how to walk right now. I don't find jokes about running over cyclists remotely funny.

recumbent bike guys are benign presences but it's weird how they all look like ron rifkin or bob balaban.

I remember reading about an elderly woman who was killed in a crosswalk by a bicyclist blowing through it. San Francisco, I think.

"President Keyes for the hardman pedestrian award"

Hopefully not the "There are old hardmen pedestrians, and bold hardmen pedestrians, but no old and bold hardmen pedestrians" award.

On average, cyclists in the US kill fewer than 1 pedestrian per year.

On average, motorists in the US kill between 800-900 cyclists per year.

Fuck off.

in terms of lapd, i've had the worst luck in the downtown la area, they're super strict there

never had problems on the westside but i'm mostly a law abiding resident

the suburbs are a free for all obv

recumbent bikes really, really need those visible tall flags on them

there's a particular small street in west hollywood/hollywood where a bunch of cyclists have marked territory and if you're on it it's hell because they take up the entire street and go nice and slow

oh stop i'm not gonna hit anyone. but it's fine to express your irrational anger toward my irrational anger here. x-post

i think it takes a lot of faith in your fellow man to ride one of those things though. they are hard to see and people go out of their way to avoid them on the road. often going into another lane entirely to keep their distance from them. which is kinda dangerous. and it's harder for someone who is riding one to avoid people/cars than on a normal bike i would imagine. they just scare me a little when i have to pass one. like its gonna fall over into the road. which is also irrational. there aren't a lot of them though. so, not much of a problem.

nothing beats the moped fear when i lived on marthas vineyard though. so frightening. people weaving in and out of traffic. sometimes riding on the road and sometimes on the side. lots of people who had never been on one before too. even bikes on the vineyard could be scary to drive near/around. they have put more bike paths on the island though. those roads were just not made for that many cars/bikes/etc.

i'm very careful around bicycles. but, like with car drivers, not everyone knows how to ride safely. which is why i'm careful. i just think there are too many big fast vehicles out there now. and most of them see bikes as a nuisance. i don't even think riding a bike is fun anymore. maybe if i lived in iowa or someplace with no people.

recumbent bikes seem much less rapidly maneuverable than conventional bikes. just try imagining a peloton made up entirely of recumbents. it would be static as hell. I think it is that lack of maneuverability that inspires drivers with secret dread. as a frequent pedestrian, I'd hate to have to walk anywhere that a lot of recumbents were zipping around, too.

i also don't care if i have to go slow. which seems to make me the minority. people (cars AND bikes) have to go so fast and they do stupid stuff all the time. definitely makes me angry. especially now when people drive tanks.

and i haven't even talked about how i want to kill the people who don't use their blinkers yet. which is a LOT of people these days. so dangerous!

oh yeah, there seems to be a law I didn't know about that if you're driving in a residential area you needn't ever use turn signals

As a pedestrian the combination of state laws and a regional respect for crosswalks here is still shocking and great, at least compared to Michigan where it's basically fuck you if you're not in a car. I was back there this summer and behind a motorcycle with a Washington State plate and watched him instinctively stop to let some pedestrians cross and all the other cars couldn't understand and just blew by him.

But as a frequent driver around a university this mindset combined with entitled or oblivious students is terrifying as they frequently cross streets without even bothering to look around or signal their intentions, regardless of weather or darkness and completely ignoring the laws of physics required to stop a car going 30 miles an hour on snowy roads.

I think people are Michigan-esque here in that there are a bunch of drivers who think all streets are 55mph highways that occasionally go through small towns/commercial areas even when they are in a dense pedestrian district

A lawyer who specializes in head injuries once gave me the following rundown: imagine a $4 million dollar settlement for a disabling car accident. That's if you were crossing the street at a crosswalk when the walk light was in your favor. If you were crossing the street somewhere other than a crosswalk, cut it in half. If you were crossing when the walk light was not in your favor, cut it inn half again.

A car knocked me off my bike once. I got about $1600 for it.

A bike knocked me off of my horse once. Now I can't add numbers.

A horse and a recumbent bike walked into a bar once. The bartender said, why the long faces?

Rod Stewart walked into a bar once. The barkeep poured gasoline on him and light him on fire and everybody thanked him afterward .

rip he was sexy

LIDL repackaging fairtrade bananas so the package labeling is the same colour as the other varieties. Used to be distinct enough to spot so you could tell at a glance if they had them in. Now got to pick up packs to check.

I work in a corporate building which also provides ESL classes for children in the afternoon. I get IA when these kids run in and out of the bathrooms screaming, with little regard for keeping the bathroom clean. Maybe this belongs in the disgusting savages thread.

the spelling of 'reneges' is an absolute disgrace

People repaying you for basic decency. I helped out someone having a medical emergency the other day, and I come into the pub today (she's barstaff in my local) and I have 5 pints in the barrel for me. And it really bugs me - it feels like turning ordinary social interactions into a material transaction. Or something. I can't quite express why it annoys me so much - hence this thread.

I understand that completely. But hey, it doesn't completely sound like an "ordinary social interaction" or "basic" decency is what compelled her to comp the pints for you.

Meanwhile, I called the cops on a burglary in process at my neighbor's house last summer while he was out of town, and he promised us some home-baked cookies. Guess who hasn't gotten his cookies yet?

I think you're allowed to break in and take whatever cookies you find

It wasn't her for most of them - she bought me a pint, the rest was from others. But perhaps it's the same part of me that hates compliments? And I didn't do what I should have - I wanted to call an ambulance, and she told me not to. She was admitted to hospital later - I should have ignored her. But regardless of this case, it bothers me when people insist on repaying stuff: you help each other and that's it.

Obv. Cookie promises should be fulfilled.

sounds like they were just celebrating you being a good person with an unofficial toast

Yeah dowd I think you're off base here. Don't look at it as a transaction or repayment - I doubt they think of it that way! It's more like "here is a token of our gratitude - a physical symbol of the esteem we hold you in for what you did"

you did them a favor, by buying you a beer they had an excuse to order one for themselves

keep in mind this is the IRRATIONALly angry thread, Tim

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 12:34 (one week ago)

:) indeed

You should have asked for all 5 pints at once and then poured them on the ground one by one in protest

Worst yet

My step-dad has this thing about restaurants offering something free - like desserts or comped drinks - to make up for inferior service (like a long wait.)

His point is that he doesn't want to be "bought off" for his inconvenience. I'm not sure how else a restaurant manager is supposed to make amends with a disgruntled customer, but I see where both sides are coming from.

This is a different situation from dowd's, but it got me thinkin'.

Agree with step-dad.

xp it doesn't fix the problem just masks the symptom

door to door marketing with horrible value propositions

i tend to avoid most people knocking on my front door unless it's a recognizable neighbor, or a car is broken down right outside or something and someone needs help.. or a girl scout with cookies..

talked to a couple people from the local phone/internet company who were letting people know they were now offering fiber internet in the area and were trying to sign people up. i use the cable/internet company and, while there are service interruptions on occasion, it's pretty much fine

i was listening to their spiel until i finally asked what speed their offering was and it was 12mbps and i was like GUYS LET'S NOT WASTE ANY MORE TIME THAT IS REALLY BAD. my irrational anger is strong when people are going door to door with horrible value propositions

Don't want to mellow mh's harsh, but want to say one thing about the popular notion of Girl Scouts going from door-to-door with cookies that they are selling. They may sell door-to-door, but usually not like that.

In actual practice, what they do is go around with an order form. Then they return (weeks later) to deliver the cookies you ordered. Payment is due when you get the cookies, not when you place the order.

We are going through this in my house just now, so I'm reflecting on how different those logistics are from the movie/TV idea of it, which is a Girl Scout showing up with cookies and asking if you want to buy them.

Carrion.

thanks for scoutsplaining

I have had both girl scouts showing up with cookies I previously ordered, and one family that did the trick where you order a bunch of boxes and then sell them later

also, I ate the cookies

"talked to a couple people from the local phone/internet company"

these can be scammers who don't actually work for verizon or whoever. they end up tacking big charges to people's phone bills. usually old people. and sometimes if you ask them for a card or i.d. they get nervous. and they will often have nothing in writing that they will give you. bad news.

the irrationally angry part for me was that they would come to my store and say they were verizon and they had no idea if i already had verizon service. because they don't actually work for them!

i've yelled at them in my store. for rational reasons.

i mean, i don't know if that was the case here. but phone/internet people from actual phone/internet companies don't usually go door to door. they were coming to my store almost once a month. they looked like hoodlums. very sketchy.

Someone was doing that in our neighborhood recently. A neighbor called Verizon and was told they don't do door-to-door sales. I don't answer the door for any salesmen/charities anyway. Had a canvasser for clean water action ring my bell at 8:30 pm a few weeks back. Can't imagine they do well with that tactic.

I have worked for hard-up charities/nonprofits in the past and still I cringe at the tactics. I wish I could communicate how much more I'd give them if I knew it would lead to them not bothering me ever again, in any way.

One of my idle fantasies is to be rich enough to make extremely conditional donations, like: "Okay, here's $50,000 for this year. Next year's contribution will be the same... except that I will decrease it by $1,000 for each piece of postal mail I receive, $5,000 for each e-mail, $10,000 for each phone call, and $49,000 for any door visit."

shit, there goes the verizon scam I was going to pull on scott

I figured they were likely a reseller or some sort of marketing group trying to sell product but sheesh, at least make it sound tantalizing

Today being snowy as fuck, I get ia at seeing drivers gun it when trying to get unstuck. I'll offer to help, with sand and/or a push, but ffs, if gunning it didn't work the first time, why would you insist on it as a long-term strategy?

(This ties into my ia at so few cars in the US being standard transmission; automatics are awful for getting unstuck.)

walkin the dog of the friend I'm housesitting for and was getting mad at the other people who had the audacity to be out with their dogs which got him all worked up and then realized how stupid it was to be mad at people for being outside at 5 pm (I blame having worked 8 straight hours on an aggravating assignment that I had to return to after said walk)

if I leave work at a normal time, not early or late, I sometimes get IA at all the people driving/walking/shopping immediately after work. you know, the most natural time to be doing those things

Mh, is that because you really just want to get home? Doesn't seem too IA to me.

Dfw made reference to that in a speech eh

Xp

when you are making an automated credit card transaction over the phone and after you type in your number they repeat the whole thing back at you. look i know why they do it but it makes me want to flip a table.

if I leave work at a normal time, not early or late, I sometimes get IA at all the people driving/walking/shopping immediately after work. you know, the most natural time to be doing those things

― mh 😏, Friday, 10 February 2017 03:23 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol 'who ARE all these fucking people????'

coleslaw was designed not to be picked up with any known utensil or combination of utensils. if the crystal maze had a food zone i swear the only game they'd need would be to eat some coleslaw.

A fork.

forks are no match for coleslaw

That's how I feel about salad in general tbh. esp when you buy a prepackaged salad which comes with massive crisp leaves and tangled clumps of frisee and an especially blunt, flimsy plastic fork

Was annoyed y/day that the watch repair place wouldn't change a battery because it was 40 minutes before closing time, even though they had 0 other customers and 5 members of staff (2 specifically on the repair and battery change counter) just standing around chatting.

(Possibly irrationally because even though in the past it's always been a 2-minute job I know there's probably the risk that it's a more complicated kind or that something loose will spring out and it'll take a lot longer, plus the faff of getting the tools out and putting them away again or sth, idk)

I agree about coleslaw. IME if a coleslaw is good, it is hard to eat with a fork; if it is easy to eat with a fork, then it is probably not good coleslaw.

One solution is to have it in between buns, e.g., on a pulled-pork sandwich or in a pork tenderloin slider such as this one

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/why-pork-tenderloin-rocks-reason-no-243/2017/02/06/41ea050c-e293-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.eb518c9d5217

O and my IA-ness (IAnus?) about "grocery shopping at 6 PM" is not with the other people who do that. Rather it is with my local grocery store's inability to understand that a lot of people will be running out to get the One Thing They Need for Dinner, and maybe they should have more than one cashier working at that time.

Flashbacks now about the first time I tried to politely eat a particularly springy salad at a work meeting with external people. I left that job not long after.

I ordered crab legs once during a client dinner cos it was on company's dime and I wanted to be adventurous, and having never had them before, didn't realize the sheer work involved!

I couldn't figure out how to crack them and eventually cut myself on one of the crab legs. went to the bathroom, googled "how to eat crab legs", came back out and pretended like I'd been doing it for years, while dabbing at the blood periodically.....

then later found out the client contact was a Birther so I suddenly didn't care what he thought of me

This Android phone kills me.

"Do you want to save your image to 'Photos' or 'Gallery'?" Motherfucker, what?

Yesterday, I finally got my v/m started and after loudly repeating my numerical password back to me (similar to nomar's complaint), it asked me to press one if I wanted my language in English or para español o prima dos.

No big deal, but I press one. The voicemail system then says, "YOU HAVE CHOSEN ENGLISH FOR YOUR LANGUAGE.... QUE HA ELEGIDO INGLÉS COMO SU LENGUA."

Why it tell me that I have chosen one language... in another language? I guess maybe if I was a Spanish-speaking customer and I had pressed the English button by mistake? But if I heard a robot tell me - in English - that I had "chosen Spanish as my language"....

I dunno, makes me IF (irrationally frustrated).

think i need more information on the good coleslaw you can't eat with a fork. scared this might be veering into "this is what good pizza looks like" territory

Mike's Hard Coleslaw

I don't know what kind of coleslaw you people eat but it is a spoon food where I'm from.

i always use a spoon at KFC

even for da chicken

I'm used to coleslaw roughy at this consistently. Even a little finer probably.

http://dfs015ujtdk5e.cloudfront.net/WordPress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/slaw540.jpg

You could go at it with a fork, but you're going to need a spoon at the bottom to get all the slaw juice at the bottom.

Coleslaw is spork food, goddammit.

lol 'who ARE all these fucking people????'

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, February 10, 2017 3:03 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tracer gets me

i always use a spoon at KFC

― Neanderthal, Friday, February 10, 2017 8:24 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Coleslaw is spork food, goddammit.

― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Friday, February 10, 2017 8:32 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Srsly, neanderthal. I think we've uncovered you as a spy.

So I go to a food truck on my break. There are no other customers. They take my order and I stand there waiting as they prepare sandwich after sandwich. Perhaps you should mention when I order that I'll have to wait 20 minutes for you to fill a phone order from a construction site. Or maybe you could just pause and make my fucking food since I'm actually standing right there.

crab legs googling kinda my favorite story of the week.

xp That's entirely rational. That is infuriating

Eating crabs - not just the legs - is A Thing in my region. One time, I found myself coaching non-English-speaking diners at a nearby table, using very bad high school French and lots of pantomime.

Like pistachios, it's a lot of work for comparatively little food, so it can be calorie-neutral (or even net-negative).

Anyway this is among the skills I had to learn pre-internet and pre-smartphone, so I am a little irrationally jealous of that story. So many things are so much easier now.

Like if you're on a date, and you see something on the menu you don't know how to pronounce, you can excuse yourself to the restroom and come back sounding all sophisticated like Bond, James Muthaflipping Bond.

Srsly, neanderthal. I think we've uncovered you as a spy.

― pplains, Friday, February 10, 2017 10:00 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i no tell special prosecutor, i no tell you

damn these new accordion style post-it notes, stanely kubrick is surely rolling in his grave

Aw, coleslaw is probably my main regret about becoming vegan. Yes, I know there are alternatives, but they're not the same.

I was all set to dig deeper into this 'unforkable coleslaw' topic, then I saw it was in the IA thread and thought better of it.

"Aw, coleslaw is probably my main regret about becoming vegan."

!!! you must have really really liked coleslaw.

how many tons of colesaw do you think are thrown away in those little white cups at restaurants every year?

IA for the day: the corner cafe is closed for Feb. It was the closest good coffee to my store. I don't like going to the Greek place. They have those pods of coffee. The bong store two doors down has dollar cappuccino in those machines and sometimes i do break down and get one of those. But that's not like actual coffee. So i go to the bakery across the street yesterday - which was friday - and i don't see the usual container of coffee by the door and i ask and they say they are out for the day. I leave and walk a couple of blocks to the co-op market. Which defeats the whole quick cup of coffee idea. Today i went back to the bakery to get coffee and they said they only have coffee during the week. ????

So i went to the bong store.

I really gotta clean out my old coffee maker at the store.

just wanted a coffee....

the bakery is sadly empty of baked goods too. and they are closed a lot. i think most of their business is wedding cakes? its kinda sad to walk into a bakery and see so little food.

I was about to post, "What about the place on the corner?" and realized you were talking about the place on the corner.

now I'm wondering if the bong store has coffee

yeah, brass buckle is taking a month off and regrouping.

x-post

i was so excited when i saw a bakery was opening up across the street. i thought it would be a real bakery. they have, like, cookies and some cupcakes. and then they do cakes and pies to order. but don't actually sell cakes or pies in their store. it's a bummer.

ffs scott i wasn't craving cake 20 minutes ago

People giving you a series of instructions that you'll never remember instead of just giving you a handy reference to look up

So essentially this: https://xkcd.com/783/ but with other things like recipes
'that's the Nigella Lemon Polenta cake, you can find the recipe on her website'
'great thanks, I'll do that'
'it's really easy, you just cream together 200 grams of butter and 200 grams of sugar'
'oh right'
'then you just add 3 eggs and 300g polenta, alternating'
'ok, I'll look it up later'
'but I use ground almonds instead'
'ok good tip'
Then add the zest of two lemons'
'mm'
'then just put it in the oven for 40 minutes'

FGGFGFGFGFF

That was my handover at my new job and you are otm

conversely when u give ppl a handy reference & but they for whatever reason abhor written instructions & prefer to continually ask you how to do a thing & your "it's the first part in the instructions i gave you" falls on deaf ears RAGE

I feel the same way about physical locations.

"Sounds like a plan, I'll be there. What's the address?"

"Well if you're coming from Broadway, you're gonna want to take a left on Fourth because Fifth is a one-way. Do that, go down about six blocks..."

"Ha, ok. I don't have a pen to write this down right now. Do you know the address?"

"These directions are pretty simple, you don't need the address. Anyway, six blocks, start looking for a brick apartment building. There are a lot of apartments around there so–"

i fucking HATE that. there've been a few times where people told me they didn't know the physical address, just how to get there, so I'd be like "k, when you find the address let me know" and walk away

used to hate the "just follow me" system for that reason - nowadays with GPS it's kinda not used as much but I was like "sure, it'll be fun getting stranded at red lights and being forced to drive close enough to you to prevent other cars from getting in front of me and cutting people off when you suddenly realize the turn is coming and erratically change lanes last minute".

Newspaper websites that fade the text after a paragraph and replace the test with a 'more' button.

I used to think it was to save bandwidth but they fill up the rest of the page with multiple other half-articles so it can't be that.

Test : text

yeah i think following ppl shpuld require a pre-interview & a practice run, at least some kind of screening situation

90% of everyone is terrible at leading a convoy imo

Example from trunk thread (and this is longer than most)

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/12/dark-essays-by-white-house-staffer-are-the-intellectual-source-code-of-trumpism/

Two more things:

Autocorrect. Coffee when I want code, code when I want coffee. Trunk when I want trump.

The Firefox text boxes which requires you to select something before you can paste the clipboard in, and which then replaces the selected thing with the pasted text.

Even if you leave a line before pasting it'll highlight the last word or punctuation from the last line and replace that.

Gimme an address and possibly a corresponding junction, or FRO.

I probably already complained about this one, but websites with slow loading images and ads. Everything jumps around on the page, and you try to click on something but you hit the wrong link because nothing stands still. Psjgapjgaljfapjfzkvz!

90% of everyone is terrible at leading a convoy imo

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, February 12, 2017 12:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like the friend of mine in high school who was driving like 40-50 mph through neighborhoods as a shortcut and expected me to do the same in a Geo Metro w/ 3 cylinders

or our friend of a friend who would floor it through orange lights at intersections & leave us stranded, and brake erratically when moving through traffic

i wanted to slap her when we got out of the car

I use it as a ruse to get rid of people I don't like. tell them follow me, punch it to 100, losing them in the dust, move to a new town, change my appearance and ID

Hello world
punch it

(Wtf?)

I feel the same way about physical locations.

"Sounds like a plan, I'll be there. What's the address?"

"Well if you're coming from Broadway, you're gonna want to take a left on Fourth because Fifth is a one-way. Do that, go down about six blocks..."

"Ha, ok. I don't have a pen to write this down right now. Do you know the address?"

"These directions are pretty simple, you don't need the address. Anyway, six blocks, start looking for a brick apartment building. There are a lot of apartments around there so–"

― pplains, Sunday, 12 February 2017 17:26

Yeah I think there was an XKCD cartoon about that one time >:/

i carpooled with a friend to a work retreat once, she drove. after about 30 minutes i learn she never looked up the location/address, was going by hearsay on how a friend got there this way once a few years ago but had no idea which highway, exits, nothing

i nearly murdered her

we lost cell service halfway there so had to frantically gps & write down the exits, i was so mad

i dont mind navigating but jfc maybe have some idea of where we're going

WTF WHO GETS IN A CAR & JUST WHATEVERS THE DIRECTIONS

ha yeah my brother tried to drive us to a friend's house on the other side of the city, about 25 mins away if that. Got hopelessly lost for most of the day. He'd printed off the step-by-step directions off Google maps but to be fair there was one section that made no sense. But he didn't have an actual map or anything in the car (and this was before everyone had internetty phones) so was just driving around hoping that the road in the instructions would suddenly appear.

I have to give ppl weird directions to our house because the actual address is "15/123 Fake st" but the street our front door faces is "15 otherstreet" for stupid reasons (block of townhouses, we're at the back). But I still give people the actual damn address as well!

Also: when u give ppl a handy reference & but they for whatever reason abhor written instructions & prefer to continually ask you how to do a thing

OMG this happens to me frequently at work. We sign on new resellers to sell the internet we wholesale. The initial training involves a comprehensive set of YouTubes and documents that show EVERYTHING in detail about using our system. But then its all "no no, we read it all, it seems straighforward" until a week later when theyre on the phone every 30 minutes asking for help on some stupid little thing that I'm like "this is what you do for a living how do you not know this ffs".

"I'm a visual learner"
'cool - these are visual instructions. read em'

I get annoyed by people who have lived in an area for years and are still unfamiliar with the major points of interest like parks, rivers, libraries-- but know every place you can buy fucking food

agreed

looool

It's probably RA not IA but the number of idiots shitting themselves about Bandcamp donating to the ACLU, like the ACLU is staffed entirely by black bloc anarcho-communists and not entirely reasonable people standing up for THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION said idiots claim to love.

lol oeld, but I know a bunch of black bloc anarcho-communists who are "fuck the ACLU" for their position that they'd defend Milo's speech if necessary, like dudes this is literally their thing, they're the ACLU.

they'd defend Milo's speech from government censorship or suppression if necessary

Mailing lists you sign up to that, every day, seem to come from a different randomly generated email address, so that EVERY FUCKING TIME you have to extract them from the Spam folder or constantly tell Outlook to show the images, so that even though you actually want to read them it all becomes too bloody hard

The one I'm wrestling with right now has a From: field that looks like this... Daily Review [no-reply=dailyrev✧✧✧.c✧✧.a✧@mail✧✧✧.atl✧✧✧.rs✧✧✧.n✧✧]; on behalf of; Daily Review [no-re✧✧✧@dailyrev✧✧✧.c✧✧.a✧]

email comment forms that don't work and are your only provided means of contacting a company about an issue

fuckin webex confrrences that make you sign in & then you verbally give your name on the call too& it still shows you as User 213 like wtf was the point of any of that signing in shit

Means you can run riot and they don't know who to blame.

User 213: why doncha all go fukk yerselves

I am a big fan of coleslaw, and have no idea why Jeff posted a picture of potato salad up there.

Shit I didn't wanna say but yeah

What???? This is what potato salad looks like:

🗻

Invisible potato salad

http://www.itsyummi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mustard-potato-salad-feat.jpg

That looks like egg salad

Strong mustard component, as all potato salad should have.

Wasn't Strong Mustard Component an Elephant 6 band?

I'm sure most of my posts are about this but
FUCCCKKK YOU INFINITE SCROLL

Wasn't Strong Mustard Component an Elephant 6 band?

― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.)

Rejected Butthole Surfers album title, iirc.

Boomerang

hell yes

they'd defend Milo's speech from government censorship or suppression if necessary

A little more than that (though that alone is enough for bemusement from countries that actually have hate speech laws):

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/12/514785623/the-aclu-explains-why-theyre-supporting-the-rights-of-milo-yiannopoulos

More importantly, I'm pretty sure Jeff's second picture is cauliflower cheese.

I can't live like this here.

First thing this morning a dude sat down on the bus and I briefly looked at him, to which he replied: "What the FUCK are you looking at?". There's some people in the city that if you look at for a split second, they'll try to instigate a fight. It's not the first time.

sounds like he had a bad case of irrational anger to me :-(

i can't tolerate people who spell my first name wrong

harbI?

yeah, that is my legal name, mh

people keep writing harbyl

fwiw I did the capital i as L trick

at my place of work i go by my given name "jamie" because my glasgow accent saying "jim" is always interpreted as "gem" in canada - something that makes me IA

Have you tried Jamesie yet?

have you tried practicing it in a ridiculous canadian accent? I'm picturing when a british actor does a bad american accent.. "Hi there, my name is Jim" *face contorts*

people can't pronounce my last name. It is a bit of an unusual name, but it is short and pronounced exactly as it is spelled, and it gets mangled all the time.

I get that weird anxiety that maybe I have a speech impediment or can't pronounce my own name when people repeat it back incorrectly

people correct my pronunciation of my own last name. "oh, you mean x?" no i don't mean x. if i meant x i would say x.

saying "jim" is always interpreted as "gem"

Jim, Gem, Gym ... I guess it's good that we only talk here in letters.

i can't tolerate people who spell my first name wrong

I was given an odd name that I've legally regularized. No one could pronounce the old one correctly (including me, and evidently my parents as well). Long story, not worth it.

The IAness I wish to discuss instead is about strangers going to short forms without invitation and without asking. Not every Elizabeth wants to be called Liz. Not every Joseph is a Joe. Not every Patrick is a Pat. Not every Jennifer is a Jenny. People think they're being friendly and familiar but to my ear they're being rude.

If you switch around a few letters in my wife's name it contains a swear word-- I always wonder, when people made this mistake with it, if it ever crosses their minds that this can't be the correct spelling and maybe they should look at it again?

The IAness I wish to discuss instead is about strangers going to short forms without invitation and without asking.

Totally a legitimate complaint, but I've always wondered why.

I've got a friend named Matthew and GOD FORBID anyone slips up and calls him Matt. Then there are two other friends of mine, Clayton and Clay.

My name is Tre. Only way it could be shorter is if it was Re. I've always been secretly jealous of everyone with polysyllabic names who have dozens of variations. Even guys named Bob can be Bobby if they want. Wear a different name every day of the week.

hey tre tre

maybe with a hyphen, idk it's your name

your name is now.... T-Ray

YMP = Maurice Micklethwaite

YMP also = ragingly OTM about short forms of names

Yours, Not An Andy.

it drives me fucking nuts that americans don't know how to pronounce 'craig'

Wut

Assume you mean that it should rhyme with "vague" (approximately), as opposed to "leg"?

yep! fucking 'cregg' is bullshit grrrrrr

Also Graham

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Assume you mean that it should rhyme with "vague" (approximately), as opposed to "leg"?

Why would it rhyme with "leg"?

Because that's how we say it.

Rhymes with "Greg."

But I thought Americans were all about nobly trying to standardize English spelling and remove inconsistencies where possible? It's like my longstanding (intensely tedious, I can only apologize) bugbear about "Auld Lang Syne" and where/how/why/when the idea took hold that it was pronounced, "Auld Lang Zyne", I mean, why, wtf?

my name's pasta

i can't tolerate people who spell my first name wrong

― assawoman bay (harbl), Friday, 24 February 2017 00:21 (sixteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lookit I don't wanna start a fight but we haven't even established that you pronounce it correctly so I mean

there is only one way to pronounce my name so that is not the problem. the problem is people who need to make all Cs Ks and all Is Ys and add Es to everything.

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XP skilfully avoiding my cross examination imo!

C'mon, my fellow Americans, "ai" is a diphthong and it is not pronounced like "eh." I've always pronounced "Craig" to rhyme more or less with "vague." Is this a regional thing?

when you're typing an address into Google maps and the address you want autocompletes so you move to click on it and the damn address CHANGES right as you do that

C'mon, my fellow Americans, "ai" is a diphthong and it is not pronounced like "eh."

How do you pronounce the word "said"?

saw-yeed

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the idea took hold that it was pronounced, "Auld Lang Zyne"

I'm no linguist, but I suspect this wasn't the result of an idea, but another example of Grimm's Law. The dipthong ng is voiced and it is simpler to follow it with a z than an s.

I'm no linguist either, is there another example where an S sound becomes a Z sound? Anyway it's Scots and no-one in Scotland says "Auld Lang Zyne".

is there another example where an S sound becomes a Z sound?

How do you pronounce the word "realise"?

At the start of a word.

.. or even, 'The dipthong ng is voiced and it is simpler to follow it with a z than an s.'

We need La Lechera to sort this for us.

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