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

What's really ben bugging me for the last couple fo weeks is facebook suddenly jumping off what I'm in the middle of reading or writing because a new message has been added to my feed. I don't remember that always happening and think its only been recently that it's started but it is really annoying.
IS it a Mozilla Firefox thing?

I just thought there was more stability on what you were actively engaged with. But people have been complaining about Facebook design for ages anyway.

I've got this work doc of promos in Google Drive. One of them is about the big money part of our state and the header is The Specific Northwest.

And Google Docs will NOT stop trying to correct Specific to Pacific. Look, Google, I know it's an idiot pun, but LEAVE IT ALONE.

lol

A former coworker used to say "pacific" instead of "specific." She used to write it, too. Your spreadsheet would confuse her terribly.

Did you ask her to pacify what she was talking about?

No I tried not to talk to her too much. It always left me confused and a little headachy.

She's the one who would use "vice" instead of "versus" as in "We need to decide whether to have the meeting in the conference room vice the break room." Which was obviously a corruption of "vice versa" but until I figured out wtf she meant, deciphering her emails was challenging.

She had a whole slew of linguistic idiosyncrasies.

people who make physical contact with you or stand in such a way that they're sweaty arm is on you, when public transport is not full enough for this to be unavoidable

She's the one who would use "vice" instead of "versus" as in "We need to decide whether to have the meeting in the conference room vice the break room." Which was obviously a corruption of "vice versa" but until I figured out wtf she meant, deciphering her emails was challenging.

She had a whole slew of linguistic idiosyncrasies.

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Wednesday, July 1, 2015 1:40 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tat vice thing isn't because she sees it written as vs is it? Seems to be a common abbreviation. Could see that tying in with a further confusion with the vice versa though. THough that is confused since it means 2 things gets swapped usage with equal focus or something to that extent. Or that a rule works both ways.

I think this one might be legitimate IA since it didn't affect me directly, but for about ten minutes yesterday evening, I watched person after person try to navigate around this dude who was wearing a huge backpack and standing in the middle of a narrow train platform. People would approach, attempt in vain to get around him, excuse themselves once they realized he was unaware of their presence, he would move out of their way...and then he'd step right back where he had been once they were past him. I think I was feeling the cumulative frustration of everyone I watched do this dance with him.

people's inability to treat their backpack or their bags as physical objects and not invisible magic satchels is a great source of irritation on public transport.

Shoooooooot honestly the MOST ia I get isn't even about people walking or using transit badly. That stuff is RATIONAL imo. It's when, like, I try to shut a drawer and something sticks and by the third time I feel this rising urge to slam it even though I know it won't fix anything. The application of force for emotional emphasis, mostly the fury I can feel working its way up my spinal column.

Yes I am five.

The other day a teacher here told me a story about when she worked as tech support for the trading floor and one day a trader THREW A BLACKBERRY at her because he didn't know how to use it and he got mad. I might start recalling this story whenever I feel a tantrum coming on, just to remind myself how nagl it is.

yeah that kind of thing does get me too. when i come in from work sometimes i do a little clean of the kitchen before cooking, like if anything has been left around - and i might leave my earphones in, they can snag on the knob of a drawer and get yanked out of my ears - it creates this instant incendiary rage, i have to take a deep breath.

much of the stuff on this thread is p rational.

xpost otm - anger is embarrassing

Best way to do jigsaws always uses a large mallet though , dunnit?

Re the backpack thing, I was taking my cat to the vet a few days ago and was on a thankfully fairly empty bus, where some dickhead with a double-bass strapped to his back was standing next to the exit doors, completely blocking them, despite there being plenty of other places he could stand. When people wanted to get off the bus they would have to ask him to move because he seemed completely oblivious to the doors opening right next to him, and even then he'd just turn around a bit so you had to squeeze past him. I thought of this thread at the time, because I did feel a bit pathetic feeling angry about this basically harmless kind of oblivious selfishness.

i might leave my earphones in, they can snag on the knob of a drawer and get yanked out of my ears - it creates this instant incendiary rage

OMG RIGHT?!? What is this? I don't even know if that one is IA. It feels like something more primal, maybe a fight or flight response to one of your senses abruptly shutting off. Like a wolf has torn your ear off and you need to punch it in the dick ASAP.

it is fucking maddening - i think it is some kind of primal response.

Yes! That's the epitome of (one type of) IA. Hitting your head on a corner too. Besides these things, I never get so angry I holler and throw shit or want to fight.

Re people unaware of their space, yesterday I walked through a tunnel of scaffolding narrow enough that people had turn sideways to pass by each other. Near one end of the passageway two women stood chatting and gesticulating so only one person could pass at a time. At rush hour, on a packed street for fuck's sake. Thinking they were doing an experiment for the nearby school of psychology.

I will throw a shoulder into someone's backpack to get them to move it. Even better when they have it on one shoulder and it falls. No time for that shit.

Yes! That's the epitome of (one type of) IA. Hitting your head on a corner too. Besides these things, I never get so angry I holler and throw shit or want to fight.

i don't like surprising physical contact. like once a few years ago, but still when both in our 30s, a friend clapped me across both ears like "HIYA" as i was walking down the street. i was completely disgusted - i couldn't hide it. he is a great guy but i was irate like the below vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOgTCbz-XmU

maybe this is why he did it, though i doubt he knew of my distaste for horseplay

a friend clapped me across both ears like "HIYA" as i was walking down the street.

hate that shit

The craziest thing I ever saw with a backpack was a couple of years ago at a big film festival premiere at Lincoln Center when a dude came in late and sidled down, let's say, Row 20 looking for his seat - positioned with his back and backpack toward the screen - and as he passed, one by one his backpack was banging the heads of all the people in Row 19. All you heard was, "Ow!" "What!" "Damn!" "Hey!" He must have banged five people this way, including ladies with fancy hair - they all reacted, and the dude STILL didn't realize he was doing anything wrong. He noticed NOTHING.

(The film was Michael Haneke's Amour, haha)

browsing the web sucks

no i do not want to download your app
no i do not want to subscribe to your site
no i do not want to watch your fucking sponsor's video ad
just let me read your dumb article and stop taking over my screen with popups

The best is when the dumb article has an embedded YouTube at the top that I eagerly and foolishly click before the dumb popup ad video starts autoplaying, leading to both videos playing at once until the popup lets me Skip Ad. Then I've got to rewind the damn YouTube about 10 seconds, but that is NEVER as good as when you click play and watch from the beginning, is it?

haha

worst is articles on variations of 'what's wrong with my child' - when to call 999 etc - and impossible-to-close 'subscribe!!!' boxes cover the whole page. That is some evil shit.

How does €250,000 sound for each of several buses the local bus route is running. I don't even think they're overly tasteful. Just really surprised by that being cited as the price per this afternoon.

Could just be the fact that I can also process that as a quarter of a million Euro for a not very special bus which appears to have some computer related features GPS meaning that the bus's location can be seen by sattelite if you have the correct apps or whatever.

I just think €250,000 should signify something other than a 2015 double decker bus. Does that sound standard for something like that?

Also strikes me taht the local bus service isn't that great. I'm on the most frequent route and it gets delayed heavily and I don't know what other routes around town are like since this is the main bus I use. & my route got 4 of these new buses. I'm told that the previous buses were falling apart so I'm left wondering what the rest of the town's service is like.
Read in the same article that mentioned the bus price that there was €1.5million being invested in the local bus service. You'd hope that would be a great improvement. Not sure if that is the full investment for a period of time or anything, just seems like an absurdly large amount to spend on 5 new buses. But I know nothing about the price of vehicles of any kind so maybe that is just what things cost these days?

US new transit vehicle Costs for 2013-14:
http://www.apta.com/resources/statistics/Documents/Table22_VehCostTransitLength_vehicle2014.pdf

Doesn't show double-deckers though.

browsing the web sucks

no i do not want to download your app
no i do not want to subscribe to your site
no i do not want to watch your fucking sponsor's video ad
just let me read your dumb article and stop taking over my screen with popups

yup. no i do not want to be forced to watch the first ten seconds of an ad when those first ten seconds don't even tell me what the product is. it's just a happy family with glockenspiel music and no brand names or visual clues. you had one job.

this is not a huge ia, but i feel cheated when i click on something i think is going to be an article and it's a speech/interview that's only available as audio or video with no transcript. part of it is the way these sites self-promote such content on social media -- they're gonna get that click even if the potential clicker is out in public and can't *play* a video file at that moment. and i absorb more by reading than i do if i have to watch someone saying the same words out loud.

Ugh yeah I hate video only articles/intervews. At least give us a transcript!

cosign

Hell yes, I'm on that train as well. Videos can get fucked

LOL at "happy family with glockenspiel music"

I swear when I read that the commercial started to auto play in my brain.

http://www.theonion.com/video/christ-article-a-video-36101

Wondering why certain threads on here just don't open when I'm accessing the site through my mobile phone. Happened on a couple this morning while others worked. They totally timed out and my phone said it failed to connect to the internet.
Has happened at other times too.
So not sure if its the length of a URL pathway, somebody else writing as I'm trying to access the thread, the actual connection though as i said other threads seemed to open ok while returning to the couple that didn't after finding one that did open ok I was still unable to access them.

Would think that if something on a site worked other things would and this is a text based thread not image or video so really don't get it.

twinge of IA at the alphabetical organization of this list

n carolina
nebraska
nevada
new jersey
new mexico
new york
n hampshire
north dakota

Nah, that seems like very rational anger.

whoa. what the fuck is wrong with people?

new carolina
north hampshire

And it's from Craigslist!

It's not even wrong right.

fuck that list

fuck it

going to donate blood, which i have to do because of having motherfucking haemochromatosis (even just the sound of it is really quite atrocious); being refused from donating becuase I didn't have photo ID (I don't drive and didn't happen to be carrying my passport because I'm not a maniac). What the fuck do they think I'm going to do, criminally donate blood in somebody else's name? And so what the fuck if I did? They screen it all for HIV, hep C, hep B, etc etc, and to see what blood type it is, so who gives a fuck who the hell it came from? Meanwhile I'm standing around with my iron-rich fucked-up blood getting liver damage while I wait 4 weeks for a proof of fucking age card to turn up in the post.

My wife is banned from donating in the U.S. basically forever because she lived in Germany in the mid-'80s. Mad cow concerns, because there's no test/screen for Mad Cow.

That blows James :( ID wise Im in the same position, so I *do* carry my passport everywhere now, cos its all I have and chemists have taken a liking to asking for ID when you ask for codiene, now grrr.