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

the other day at karaoke (which is loud enough as it is, and I've lost a bit of hearing due to concerts and the like) a casual acquaintance asks me how I'm doing and I didn't catch it so I ask her to repeat cos I refuse to be the guy that nods and laughs and pretends he knows what he heard and she says passively-aggressively and somewhat annoyed, "I just asked how you're doing!" as if I'd screwed up the one unforgivable social cue.

how hard is it for people to understand that sometimes you just outright didn't hear shit the first time and aren't actually being rude/unattentive?

people from the southwest u.s. using "proper" to describe dance music they like.

― Mademoiselle Coiffures (mattresslessness), Tuesday, May 12, 2015 6:06 PM (5 days ago)

did u find my website about proper virginia reel & contredanse music :(

when I'm in a public restroom and someone turns on the faucet in the sink and leaves the water running as they leave. This happens all the time (just now, in fact). Must be people used to dealing with automated faucets.

people who sit in unoccupied seats prior to an event/match because they think they're entitled to them since nobody's sitting in em yet. seems to happen all the time here, like the guy yesterday who was sitting in mine (it's a front row behind goal seat, one very unlikely to be 'available') and then just moved over to the one next to it, until the people that owned those showed up, so he moved into the next row. rinse. repeat.

like it's one thing to do when it's an empty event and move down to unoccupied seats (which is usually permitted), but when it's a mostly sold-out lower bowl filled with 40,000 people, come on!

worse was two weeks ago when this group of parents decided their kids were entitled to the two seats next to mine (despite their tickets obv being elsewhere) and essentially assumed I'd just babysit them as they sat several rows away. as the kid ran up and down the aisle kicking a ball and basically being the way an unsupervised kid would be when his parents aren't around to tell him not to.

This endless onslaught of FB reminders of what Memorial Day should *really* be about. We know...we don't need a smug reminder every fucking year.

Skin tags. Sometimes I'm tempted just to grab a pair of nail scissors and start snipping, but I'm sure that is not a good idea.

Oooh that made me wince and clutch my neck just thinking about it arrrrgh.

I have done the tie-dental-floss-tightly-around to cut off blood supply thing once or twice, but who has the patience?

having to click to see instagram pics on twitter

not sure if I'm IA at twitter or instagram or people who tweet nothing but instagram links but I'm IA at something

when one end of the cord/ribbon in the waist of your trackie bottoms/pyjamas gets pulled all the way through so you have to spend about AN HOUR trying to thread the other end back through

Do you know the safety pin trick? Pull the whole thing out, stick a large safety pin through the end of the cord, then thread it back through. Easy breezy.

He's right.

omg
university education taught me nothing

I cut off a skin tag with a pair of nail clippers once. I was drunk at the time. It wasn't an unpleasant process, but I'm still squeamish about the prospect of doing it again.

My wife had a primary care doctor who confirmed that it's no biggie if they're small enough. I've snipped a couple with the scissors on my swiss army knife.

._.

my skin tag horror story

(tldr a tick burrowed into the base of my skin tag and cut off the blood flow so it went necrotic; I tied it off with dental floss and cut it off with scissors. I would not recommend this method of skin tag removal, but it worked out just fine for me & didn't even leave a scar)

*cries*

(sorry)

what is a skin tag

hanging bit of skin kind of like a skin colored mole

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fucking lawn mower/weed whacker/sidewalk edger/hedge trimmer machine noises

i forget that these are a part of every summer

from my back porch i am watching this landscaping dude awkwardly maneuver a huge stand-up riding mower on this tiny fucking parcel of an urban residential lot. we are talking like 8 x 12 feet of grass here

there are 3 different lawn care machines roaring within 3 houses of me right now

one of my neighbors hires a 5-man team of landscapers to manicure this minuscule little yard

do you work at home?

ha yes on fridays i do and my back porch is typically a wonderful place to work

My neighbor used to use an assholish lawn service that blew all his grass clippings into my garden

marcos your neighbors need to embrace the Chicago-style yards and swap out the grass for cement, a handful of mulch, and some poorly maintained monkey grass.

Finding out a friend/local living legend in the cartoon and animation scene was turned down for support from the big local public space/street art collective because he "Wasn't famous enough".

Irrational in that I have always suspected it to be a popularity contest/ponzi scheme w well-meaning volunteers and fundraisers at the bottom raising the cash to go to hip street artists and art scenesters at the top but just sorta sucks to hear that confirmed from a super talented artist who is struggling rn.

Irrational only inasmuch as I'm not sure that anger is necessarily the most appropriate response, but I'm really really really tired of having to remind people at my work (who are technically above me and certainly make a lot more money than me) how to do their jobs. Guess I should just exit the working world altogether, huh.

something I am really considering today

My city does a pretty good job of keeping the gutters clean with their street sweepers, but on those features that produces curbs on the "wrong" side of the street, like traffic islands, the gutters look like early man middens with sand, dirt, cigarette butts, shards of car light lenses, batteries, etc.

Walkman melting down. Sad, been a dear companion for the last year and a half.
May be a battery thing but looks like changing that can be tricky.
Anyway not acting the way that it has been, buttons not responding and getting stuck in one lp instead of shuffling through all the hundreds of hours on there.

Hope I can sort it, but at the moment it just seems to have a mind of its own.

Finding out I earn slightly less than HALF the average pay for someone in my country (Australia)

I get that my first name is spelled differently than the way(s) the name is usually spelled, and I'm generally resigned to the fact that people are going to misspell it. But there's something about people misspelling my name when replying to an email WHERE MY CORRECTLY-SPELLED NAME IS PART OF THE EMAIL ADDRESS that really rankles. And it happens all the time. I'm always tempted to misspell their name in response. "Dear Bobe..."

^ This happens with my surname despite it being four letters long and shared by about 100m people.

They must like it a lot.

I've got a female co-worker named Lindsay who does this with mine.

i hate hate hate a very stupid thing

one of my friends talks about me to all these other friends she has, like apparently is always telling stories about me to them & so now these friends of hers that I dont fucking know all talk to me like they know me when i irl meet them for the first time or on facebook and i hate it

i dont like people!

and i am insecure enough to wonder if they are pulling my leg & they say my whole name (first & last name) like i am some kind of minor lame celebrity it makes me nervous & suspicious & i dont like it

fin

Wondering if it can really be constantly windy every time i walk across the park. Can't keep my hat on my head. Would think that it would have to be calm at least some of the time.
& watching trees getting constantly buffered by the wind and losing their purchase in the ground.
Have heard that there are people going around intentionally uprooting plants around the park because people I've talked to have seen them do it. Have just seen the end results, young trees lying on the paths around the place. Though have seen people intentionally breaking lower branches of trees, the ones they can reach.

Am certainly aware that somebody has stolen trees from the community garden since there have been 4 missing and the band attaching the tree to its support while it grew strong enough to stand on its own has been cut.

Doesn't seem to have much point apart from the immediate supposed satisfaction of the vandalism.

More of an irritation than true anger, but it is an irritation every goddamn time I see a license plate holder that says "XYZ Alumni", where XYZ is some university or college. This irritates the hell out of me because in almost every case it ought to say either 'alumnus" or "alumna", not "alumni" - and if you're going to brag about your education, you at least ought to do it in an educated way.

I avoid that irritation by figuring it means "[I am one of the select group of] XYZ Alumni" or like it refers to the Alumni Association.

it just makes me think whatever college license plate frame is most popular in the area graduates the worst drivers. in baltimore i like morgan state university alumni drivers are the worst. it's totally not justified but they're drawing attention to themselves.

and yes the alumni thing bothers me too. learn latin, asshole.

perhaps the car is owned by a couple who are both graduates of said university

oh that reminds me, i drive down a street with light rail tracks on it every day. only one lane on each side of the tracks for a few blocks. at least twice a week some idiot double parks on the street, which forces everyone to drive onto the tracks to get around them. of course often following the tradition of double parking where there's an open spot very close by. and people near the light sometimes can't understand why they need to stop where the line is or else they are on the tracks. yesterday this heroic light rail driver stops and just lays on his horn and uses the loudspeaker HEY BRO! YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE! GET OFF THE TRACKS! WHERE'D YOU GET YOUR LICENSE AT? it was awesome.