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

lol peaceful oat goblins

I love this series. I think carl agatha showed them to me?

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7593/17015056065_546d577448_z.jpg

xp to plains:
it makes you think of a command economy, where prices are set and the ten percent is the allocation for the workers, or so they are trying to make you think

but really, it is like places with weird taxes when you're on vacation and you're away from home and have no idea what sales tax, vice tax, and VAT (what is this) will be until you get rung up at the cash register. then you sigh and figure you'll not have something from the minibar, to make up for it, fuck this city/state/country

lol business lamb and pond kings

manageable rainbow log

that seems like a really unpleasant shopping experience. like either you do math on every item uh one ninety three, add nineteen point three to that, or else you're like i'm getting this but i have no idea what it costs. ANNOYING!

I always think about the Dollar Tree cashier, standing there all day going "That'll be $2.14. $7.49 please. Just $1.07. You don't have change?"

And know how you find the cheap grocery store, the just-getting-started non-denominational church or charity drop-off center in a new town? Just keep your eyes peeled for the "Wal-Mart Drive" street sign.

I love this series. I think carl agatha showed them to me?

Yes and if you check your text messages, I asked you what the url was so I would post these here. Great minds etc.

Wow, is that "(tiny print) Plus a charge added at checkout! Plus some more charges!" stuff even legal? Seems like it would be not legal in the UK but I might be wrong.

Is their repeat custom entirely from people who never add up the total so everything looks really cheap at the shelves and then they're not even surprised at the checkout because they didn't bother keeping a mental running total? (PS I am a dumb Brit and found sales tax really confusing in the US so after a few days of being there I just totally gave up on trying to keep a running total, so this would get me for sure.)

I'm a bit annoyed because I bought something which was priced at 1.79 at the shelf today only to be charged 1.99 at the checkout, and I remembered that the exact same thing had happened at the same shop with the same item a few weeks ago, and I queried it that time, and it took like 10 minutes while managers were called to inspect my receipt and look at the shelves and give me a 20p refund, and I felt like a total asshole for spending ten minutes quibbling over 20p. So today I fell for it again and didn't say anything. Well done me.

Also I love Jesse/carl's ads, obv.

I grew up in a state with no sales tax, and it took me YEARS to get used to buying something only to have the price be higher than what it said on the sign.

The reverse of that is occasionally I'll go into places (liquor stores, mostly) that have price tags with the tax already figured in.

This is rare, so when I do hear "Yes, sir, that'll be exactly $6.95," I'm pleasantly surprised.

The airport short-term parking lot got hit with a mandate to start charging tax. They take out their frustrations now on the customers, asking for $2.17 now at the toll booth.

Round the shit up to $2.50, no one will care, airport.

I kill myself laughing whenever anybody posts ad from Apple Cabin. POND KINGS

Parking decks that look like they're about to slide over and fall.

I get that the tiers have to be slanted since most non-Romney buildings do not furnish elevators or stairs for automobiles. Still, they make me uncomfortable.

http://i.imgur.com/6n3Iwu7.png

Oh wow, there are many more Apple Cabin ads than I ever knew about!
http://liartownusa.tumblr.com/tagged/AppleCabin

WARNING: That link is SFW, but the rest of Liar Town is pretty risky.

Why is that parking deck also wavy?

Google maps image.

Tuna do-overs lol

Why is that parking deck also wavy?

As soon as I dedicated myself to a Google Image Search of parking garages, all I could find were the ones that played by the rules and had level tiers (usually with one of those spiral ramps in the corner that look pretty cool.)

So yeah, Carl's right. Had to go to Street View to find my biggest offender.

The cable company sent some equipment to my home address via UPS. UPS shows that it was delivered on April 1, signed by me (yet also "Left at: Other - Released"). My building has no doorman and people steal packages from the mail room all the time, as evidenced by the frequent notes raging at the landlords for not "doing something" about the thievery (??). Anyway, I neither signed for the package nor did I give permission for it to be left in the mail room.

I called the cable company and the guy said repeatedly, "I imagine you will be receiving the package today or tomorrow." After a lot of conversation it came to look like UPS returned the package to the sender, but updated the status w/ the wrong info.

So I'm going to the cable company's office to pick up the equipment, BUT the guy on the phone needed to know what had been shipped to me so he could tell them to have it ready. The only description on the order is "Digital Converter," but the guy said I had to specify exactly which kind of digital converter o it could be ready for pickup. The cable company doesn't keep records of exactly what kind of equipment they ship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LRUARifU0Q

Huh, I missed that episode.

The cable office was a VERY VERY LOUD PLACE but the two young women who helped me were super nice and very pleasant to talk to. Even when I turned really dumb and misunderstand clear and simple statements (e.g., when one said, "Patty is getting your new the converter. Be sure to send back your old one so you don't get billed for it," I turned to leave.) one of them said, "It's OK! You've got a lot going on!"

Plus I got to see lots of ducks and geese, including a Canada Goose sitting on eggs in its ginormous nest.

i hate when people call them canadian geese

what would you rather call them2

I guess they're technically "canada geese," huh! I've never heard anyone actually say "canada goose" when referring to the birds, just "canadian geese"

pardon my ignorance

you're excused this one time on this thread

I saw a goose drinking a Canadian Dry one time.

the Canada goose makes me extremely angry at least once a day

Do you work at a golf course?

office campus just outside the city with retaining ponds and a creek

i kinda like them for their brazenness but they shit everywhere and are mean

http://www.cheapever.com/upfile/20131018/Canada-Goose-Mens-Chateau-Parka-Black17784.jpg

^ poops all over the sidewalk, chases small children, hisses angrily

"Who me?"

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

"Take off, eh?"

This goose was cool. It was sitting on a huge nest built amid the biggest heap of empty 40s you've ever seen. Big fucking birds.

Under all the empties were the bones of park drunks gone missing. Those remaining tell each other that their comrades sobered up and are living the straight life, or packed up and moved somewhere warm but they give the geese a wide berth.

is a Godspeed You Black Emperor quote?

it's like the "in bed" fortune cookie thing but you say "i open my wallet and it is full of blood" instead

The way some later episodes of the Simpsons and futurama do this thing where they have a line that they think is so amazingly funny that they play it again after the credits

I'm not even watching those shows (right now or in general) but it just popped into my head that they would do this & I got a little bit annoyed

I was thinking today about the Cadbury Crème Egg and how a) it used to be way bigger/better and b) the New Zealand 80s-era TV ad for it, which came on only around Easter, was always my favourite ad ever, and then when I was about 15 they stopped running it and put up some other bullshit ad. It used to be that this would just make me kind of sad to think about, but today it made me SO angry. How dare anyone change something I like.

I guess I can be thankful for YouTube though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olF-KP4J4ew

FYI once they get home, Canadian geese are lovely and polite and clean up after themselves

lol

prepackaged salad containers that are so full you can't mix in dressing without it going everywhere

Ha those Apple Cabin ads remind me of the Didldidi ads from Mitchell and Webb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jVLp-n9ww

BTW
The way some later episodes of the Simpsons and futurama do this thing where they have a line that they think is so amazingly funny that they play it again after the credits

Ive seen every Futurama episode and you've lost me on this, I dont think Ive ever seen them do any post-credits stuff. you sure its not just your TV station replaying a bit?

some networks that are showing syndicated cartoons do that but yr right in that it wasn't necessarily part of the orig episode

i remember Comedy Central doing that a lot with their run of Futurama, but they did that with all of their shows

Can't work out why my main cold water tap is dry, not turning on.
NObody's been in the flat apart from me as far as I know,Certainly shouldn't have been.
There were workmen in the square during the day but I don't think they were doing anything with water, just road surfacing as far as I could see.
& other taps are running. Though not sure if every other tap is going to be based on storage water of some kind.
& from what I'd understand a faulty washer would only mean a tap was more likely to drip, not seal up the water through a tap.

I haven't had any warning about water being turned off.
First reaction was is this something to do with the water charges but I haven't heard about this happening with anybody else or seen any warning about it.

Puzzling and hoping it is something that gets sorted out by tomorrow.
Assuming that would mean I can't do a clothes wash until it's sorted either.

Not sure where the water stop would be for the flat. Would assume that one would have to switch it off in order for water to stop running in a flat. & would also have assumed that this flat wouldn't have a large storage unit I wasn't aware of. though it does have a boiler, not sure how much water would be in that.
Water was working earlier, I took a shower before I went out. Filled a kettle a couple of times etc.

I pay the rent each month and my brother pays cable and utilities. whenever there's an appliance breakdown I'm always expected to notify the super/landlord, which ok, fine. but when there's an issue with cable/utilities, my brother, either because he hates talking on the phone or is just lazy, outright refuses to call to fix it. and Bright House will only talk to the account holder. we had one month where he let the cable box sit broken for a month without calling, until I finally called pretending to be him because I couldn't stand to keep reminding him.

no matter how many times I bitch him out it just seems to make him want to help less. eventually I'm just gonna refuse to pay cable one month.

I thought your brother already paid cable and utilities