this might be rational anger toobut when i am listening on earbuds using the earbud mic control toggle thing to pause a podcast/musicand then when i tap to start playing again & somehow the fkng iphone voice control app starts instead RAGE uncontrolled RAGE THE ONLY TIME IT GETS “used” IS WHEN IT STARTS UP UNWANTEDFUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFF ugh
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 June 2021 00:29 (two years ago) link
mouse is playing up. scrollwheel seems to alternate between scrolling one way and the other, makes getting anywhere in a document a bit of a crapshoot. and it's surprising how bad cursor key support is.
it's also 19:00 in the middle of summer, won't be properly dark for another 3 hours. and people are setting off fireworks.
― koogs, Friday, 25 June 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
xp - I was running recently on Saturday evening, and was trying to skip past a track by double tapping.. I hear the little voice control chime so I clicked it again hoping to toggle it off. I hear that stupid robot voice saying “calling <manager’s name>”. Hear the phone ring sound and silence - can’t tell if he’s picked up. At this point I am standing in the street, frantically ripping my armband off and hung up. A little later, I see he’d texted to see if everything was alright. I still wonder if he heard me panting when he picked up.
― beard papa, Sunday, 27 June 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
oh god horrifyingluckily mine isnt dialing people or i’d be fucked
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 June 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
I just got back from a modest fishing trip. We are all friends that have known each other for a long time, and yet, there is still much to learn. For example, one of the guys is a jam band fan, which I think I knew or suspected, but particularly a fan of the shittiest Colorado jam band music, like this band called the Magic Beans, who (from what he played us) truly suck. The thing is, he has such a weird conception of music, like saying he likes Hendrix but doesn't like distortion (this is the same guy that once told me he likes Neil Young, but not his electric stuff, which is wtf!?), or dismissing my turn for dinner music (Big Star's Radio City) as "too noisy." What the fuck? Big Star?! What is wrong with his ears!? And then, even during the first track, "O My Soul," he tried to zing me by saying they were trying too hard to be funky but weren't, which was what I said about his fave, the Magic Beans. But the Magic Beans *were* trying to be funky! They are one of those jam bands where the bassist has a five string bass because he needs an extra string just to try to sound *extra* funky.
Anyway, my friend is OK, even if he somehow didn't dig Big Star, but those Colorado jam bands, they really piss me off.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 27 June 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
or dismissing my turn for dinner music (Big Star's Radio City) as "too noisy." What the fuck? Big Star?! What is wrong with his ears!?Reminds me of a band I was in (very briefly) in high school. We were tossing around ideas for covers, and I suggested the Replacements’ “Kiss Me On The Bus.” I played the tape, and after no more than 15 seconds of the song, the guitarist freaked out and said, “Woah woah woah!! We can’t play this! We’re not gonna be a...a...HARDCORE PUNK band!” Said guitarist is currently the leader of the Midwest’s top Dave Matthews tribute band.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 27 June 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
lmao
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 June 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
omg what's their name
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 June 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link
let me guess
the Tripping BilliesSatelLivethe Proudest MonkeysCrash into Us
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 June 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
The Ants Go Jamming
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 June 2021 21:11 (two years ago) link
The Between Space
― Eschew things thirty two times before swallowing them (darraghmac), Sunday, 27 June 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
White Caps
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 27 June 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
Neanderthal’s first guess was the correct one.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 27 June 2021 22:36 (two years ago) link
loooooool
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 June 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
haha!
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 June 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
That's hilarious. I actually knew that, because I used to do the listings for a few places, and I'd always see Tripping Billies playing somewhere so had to look them up to learn their deal, since I didn't know the DMB reference. But I guess if I was going to be in a Dave Matthews tribute band, I'd definitely want to be in the midwest's top tribute band.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 June 2021 12:05 (two years ago) link
OK, here's a perfect example of an IR inducing act: when you're doing a sink-full of dishes, and someone comes by and puts another dirty dish on top of the pile in progress. Like, I get that it has to be washed, and I'm going to get to it. And yet, there's something about the blase "oh, while you are cleaning up, clean this up, too" attitude. Which is fair - dishes gotta be cleaned - but also, simultaneously, an insult/affront.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 June 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
Perfectly irrational anger.
― pplains, Monday, 28 June 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
worse when they stick it straight in the bowl.
― In the wastelands of Birmingham and Manchester, massages are back (ledge), Monday, 28 June 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
bowl? i don't wash up in a bowl. sink.
The shipping date is not the same as the date when you slapped a label on a package which you then let sit in your home/warehouse for another week. Fuckers!</hank_kingsley>
― I Scream For Ice Cream But Also Just All The Time And For No Reason (Old Lunch), Monday, 28 June 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
when people get mad at you for sending a message on Messenger at an "inappropriate time". i.e. "come the fuck on, I can't answer this right now!"
Just because someone sent you a message doesn't mean they EXPECT YOU TO READ IT AND REPLY RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE. I mean sure there ARE people like that, but fuck them, they're the exception, not the rule.
i remember being at a dinner with friends after we'd seen Endgame and one friend who couldn't join us but had seen the movie with us messaged in our group chat, discussing Endgame and asking people what they thought about certain things. And some of the friends at dinner started audibly bitching about it, like "JESUS CHRIST does this girl think I'm going to have a discussion about Endgame while I'm AT DINNER" and after about three people had whined about it, I said "You know you can mute the convo on Messenger, wait until later to read and reply to it, and that your loud bitching is way more annoying to me right now than the message our mutual friend sent, right?"
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 July 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
I get IA when I think about how there exists all this technology to warn tech users of likely spam and scam calls (see iOS/iPhone incoming call tags, email filtering, etc.) but when it comes to cutting this stuff off closer to the source, before it inundates the end user, it's all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(yes I realize it's not quite that simple, but I have to imagine that putting even 1/8th of the energy/tech spent on labeling and sorting on the user end into chasing it off at the source, things might be slightly less obnoxious)
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
Something like 95% of the phone calls I receive are from my good friend Spam Likely.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
Sorry, Scam Likely. Spam is his wife.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
good news: here in Canada, Bell wants to use proprietary "artificial intelligence" ML tech to block spam/scam calls at the source. How they will do that and how you would know they were fucking it up is, naturally, a secret
― rob, Friday, 16 July 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
tbc: these calls are an extreme nuisance (I was getting lots of fake CRA [our IRS] calls for a while), which is why it's so galling that one of the country's worst companies is leveraging perfectly rational anger to undermine the regulatory control
― rob, Friday, 16 July 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
one thing I find hilarious, and it's not even spam. back in 2010, Fandango had these little tasks you could do in order to earn free movie tickets. some of the stuff involved purchasing shit so of course I wasn't about that, but some cases it was just signing up for a trial or something. so me being relatively tight financially, I signed up for a consultation on health insurance plans. of course I got flooded with texts and calls about it for a few weeks.
every so often I still get these messages because I'm still on their list and have no idea how to opt out.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
I'll go you one better:
One summer when I was 11 or 12, I got bored and called every toll-free number I could find in the house, asking for catalogs, stickers, promo products, etc. Our mailbox filled with up so much crap. Hammock catalogs, Coca-Cola schwag, free records for the blind (I mean, how were they going to know over the phone?) The rural letter-carrier, driving her sedan with the wheel on the wrong side, started driving straight up to the house to drop off bags of this junk mail.
It eventually died down, but that hammock catalogue kept coming well into this century. Hell, it might still be going to the new owners up there.
― pplains, Friday, 16 July 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
Any email or article that starts with "As you may already know..."
Know what? I didn't know. No one tells me shit. Thank you for reminding me of that.
― pplains, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
Of all the irrational things to set me off:
"As some of you know, we are no longer using the calendar on the intranet to request a room reservation."
― pplains, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:12 (two years ago) link
Idk why it bothers me so much, but I get really annoyed when people say "asymptotic" when they mean "asymptomatic"
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Sunday, 25 July 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
me too but I suspect it's autocorrect in a lot of cases
― kinder, Sunday, 25 July 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
I don't know that it's anger as such, but it does verge on it at times, and it's certainly irrational... My worst hours of the day are between 5-7pm - generally when I'm at home. I feel restless, unsettled, emotionally troubled and often close to snapping. I have no explanation for it and can't tie it to any particular experiences or ongoing issues.I say this because I'm currently sat in a bleak Starbucks (it's cavernous, like an airport at the end of the world), waiting for my 13yr old daughter and her mates to finish filling their foodholes in Nando's, and I feel utterly at peace, thoroughly glad I'm not at home where I'd be pacing, wondering what to do with myself. (I have a loose theory that it's to do with thresholds. I find the dawn oddly hard to navigate too. Shrug.) Does anyone else experience this or anything like it?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
i have hours of irritability between the transition from work to outside life, mostly because I'm already anticipating what I have to do after work before I've finished work and it annoys me because then the 'freedom' i was going to get becomes ....not freedom.
also those are the hours that if I plan to do something that night, I figure out what I plan to do, and if I have no idea after 7 pm, I get annoyed and restless.
that's the closest I get to it.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
When I'm at home I think about all the "home projects" I should be doing but am not, and this, I think, contributes to the restless anger. When I'm out there is nothing I could be doing to those ends even if I wanted to, so it doesn't bother me.
― nickn, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alzheimers-disease/expert-answers/sundowning/faq-20058511
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
Ah, so it's just incipient dementia. Nothing to worry about then :)
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
I totally have the 'projects' thing too. My house has the best people, music, film collection and books but it's the one place I don't really seem to be able to relax and enjoy those things. Weird (but probably not that weird). I totally recognise the threshold between home and work thing neanderthal. The promise of freedom vs the reality.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
on a serious note part of the reason for sundowning w dementia (as i understand it) is a lot to do with the long shadows & low light dementia affects their eyesight/ability to process light & shadow so as the shadows get longer it causes anxiety because they perceive the shadows as gaping holes in the floor/walls etc - its v scary for them
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
I would move to Quito.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
JUst been ht with teh first Custos charge since Brexit postage took effect. Dang really not sure what is being charged so is An post taking 3.50 Eur for something as well as VAT needing to be payed.oh my, pretty broke anyway so possibly should take a long break before buying new stuff but god really could do without this.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 23:51 (two years ago) link
So for any minor charge on VAT or anything to do with customs An Post can charge an Admin charge of €3.50. Drag like totally.Won't be buying cheap buttons from China again then. Or free p+p cds from UK branches of cd shops.Do hope Ugly Things isn't automatically €5+ more to get to me.Anybody feel like overturning Brexit at all?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 29 July 2021 00:33 (two years ago) link
Lidl changing its loo roll unit size from a portable, fits in the bag 4 pack to a bulky inconvenient 6 pack. Wonder if that is now too big to fit in people's storage space too.Now if they'd just asked me I woulda told them NO. It just ain't right like.May have even worked out cheaper per roll but can you carry and store it? I mean prioritise innit.
― Stevolende, Monday, 2 August 2021 06:54 (two years ago) link
Why haven't Lidl done an "Ooh Aah... Just a Lidl Bit" ad campaign yet?
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 2 August 2021 08:08 (two years ago) link
Idiot bus driver yesterday. I pressed the bell for the next stop as we pulled away from the previous one. This driver pulls back out of traffic and opens and closes the doors to cancel the request. I ring the bell again to make sure my request is logged. I think he's actually blocking traffic and manages to miss a light by doing this. I don't get it I've rung bell for next stop as we have just passed or left previous stop for years. I've seen others do the same.Traffic had just been at a standstill for the previous couple of stops. so I'd wondered if I needed to get out earlier and walk from the previous stop but it had cleared by this point. Wouldn't have been helped by this guy. Doubledecker bus at a narrow point of the road.I know the layout of streets around there so know where to take shortcuts to get to places. I was also running later than I wanted as it was which is why I'd been looking at the road to see state of traffic.Just trying to work out if he'd seen me trying to see what traffic was doing so craning neck to see road. Which would be ablist attitude anyway even if it wasn't just nosy. & I don't think has any justification for this. Aargh . I'm puzzled by this cos as far as I'm aware it is pretty normal to ring bell for next stop as you go by previous one or leave it.
Also weird to see traffic full enough to be behaving like that. I don't think it has done for months but I only go into town a couple of times per week.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 5 August 2021 07:41 (two years ago) link
I now have an irrational hatred of Dutch cooking (which I used to love) because my brother married a Dutch-American girl and at every family get-together, they monopolize the kitchen, especially the stove.
We used Italian recipes, so our family -brother included- has initiated a food war. We use the instapot for sausage and I force my way onto the table by making Italian dishes at home that can be heated in a microwave.
I know it's petty and passive-aggressive, but there are some things you don't do to an Italian.
Plus seeing my brother show up his own wife and her family is hilarious.
― Donald Duck Loved Walt Whitman (I M Losted), Saturday, 7 August 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
lol
― calstars, Saturday, 7 August 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
I thought the Dutch were good at going 50/50 on everything.
― pplains, Saturday, 7 August 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link