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

no one needs a dozen copies of 'oh the places you'll go'

that was not the book i got her fyi

or 'oi the places you'll walkabout'

ken stabler bio iirc

When people tweet screenshots of articles and highlight certain text, but instead of using OneShot, they just highlight it in Safari/Chrome, thus leave the Copy popup at the top.

Like, you'd think one might be able to enjoy all of the incompetence-induced downtime granted us by the nightmarishly awful IT department at my place of employment, but I really don't. All I can think about is how appalling it is that those people both a) make a ton more money than I do and b) are somehow still employed.

Ugh yes. That was how things worked in state government. The nadir of my IT dealings was when I got a virus on my computer and called for help only to be told that the only person in the entire IT department who could deal with a computer virus leaves at 3 pm.

Haaaa. All-too familiar.

Among all of the usual issues we have to deal with daily, I keep running into this escape character error in one of our laughable in-house systems (as in, it was created from scratch and is maintained by the jokers who are constantly breaking things). In my past capacity at a different job as a low-level IT-ish person who worked with SQL constantly, it's an error that I could probably fix myself if I had access to do so. When it occurs to me, I will re-send my help desk ticket on this error as I have done for the past...three months? Where it seems to fall into a black hole for a week or two before I get a follow-up from someone asking if the issue was resolved to my satisfaction and who subsequently assures me that they'll get to the bottom of both the ongoing issue and the ongoing nonresponsiveness of their team before that person falls into a black hole of their own and I go through the whole process again. One of these days, I'm going to collect all of that correspondence and send it directly to the director of IT. For all the good it'll do.

While it is absolutely disgusting that the lion that was killed in Zimbabwe was killed and in the way that it was. I'm a bit surprised to discover that the symbol of an Independent country appears to be named after the founder of the country it was before Independence. Not sure if the name Cecil would have any referent than the first name of Rhodes who founded rhodesia or at least had it named after him.
Which would have me wondering who is appointing national symbols in Independent African states. Hopefully not the same people who were running the country before independence?

our office shares a communal bathroom with another company

there's this woman that i have crossed paths with, but from the first time i ran into her she was all OH YOU AGAIN, as though I had seen her a hundred times. i've seen her maybe twice in my life.

i havent seen her in months & i saw her today and she was like HEEY ITS BEEN A WHILE

listen lady i dont know you, i dont understand why you are trying to make this a thing but please stop it, it's weird

i dont want a bathroom friend

;_;

that sounds like something I would do as an awkward joke

That reminds of a woman who worked at the other company on my floor at this job in Atlanta. She sold Avon and was always accosting other women in the bathroom with catalogs.

Could you not just pointedly wipe your arse with the catalog?

I feel like to do it pointedly, I would have had to let her watch me wipe my ass, which would have defeated the purpose of not wanting to interact with her in the bathroom. But maybe I could have just pooped on the catalog and left it on the counter next to the sink.

lol

when my dad was a kid his grandparents did have a sears & roebuck catalog in the outhouse for arse wiping

avon catalog probably too glossy

I once saw a neighbor kid wipe his ass w/ snow while we were out snowmobiling.

a licky boomboom down

Is this going to turn into the "Things I've Seen Used for Wiping Asses" thread? If so, I've got an IA complaint to make.

i bear no responsibility for this diversion

xxp hah!

When someone in a videogame forum says "I am having second thoughts about my pre-order" it drives me bats. It's like a combo ineffectual threat slash consumer bragging slash free marketing voting with your dollar idiot who is too stupid to realize he already GAVE the company his money in the company 100% is in the right to wring this impulsive fool for all he is worth.

in and

twitter, just generally

ppl who swing their arms really militantly while walking are lol and wtf

but ppl who don't move their arms at all are satanic and hateful imo

Must find acceptable Goldilocks zone for arm swing.

err on the side of excess pls

http://17rg073sukbm1lmjk9jrehb643.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-06-at-9.24.46-AM.png

irl lol

Mookie just made me realise Larry David is the king of IA

http://youtu.be/Za1XVgQhsJU

elaine otm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/you-might-be-an-ambivert_55b8ce95e4b0224d88347f63

Go away, Minions.

There's this guy on a local parent forum who started a thread about how he wants ideas for "Daddy Daughter Dates" -- even putting aside that his daughter is A BABY, this shit is making my blood boil.

Seems the worldwide internet story today is about the balloon minion blocking traffic outside Dublin. Not sure if they had anything like the wind we had last night but if they did would explain why the giant inflatable got loose.
Funny this I'm even seeing this from people Stateside.

It's funny because we thought all Irish people were green, not yellow.

I once saw a neighbor kid wipe his ass w/ snow while we were out snowmobiling.

― Je55e, Friday, July 31, 2015 9:24 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a licky boomboom down

― kinder, Friday, July 31, 2015 9:38 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lollllllllllllllll

thank u goole and dog latin, top tier posters obv

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footnotes or appendices in novels really annoy me. both when they're almost entirely unnecessary, and even more so when they're a mix of necessary and unncessary.

i'm reading "to the lighthouse" at the moment and my edition has a really stupid appendix. the kind of one where like "teapot" will have a number beside it and you think "hmm well i know what a teapot is but maybe this is a hidden meaning" and then it says "a household instrument used to hold tea, a hot liquid drink popular in the british isles"

or the footnote takes the opportunity to give you an intepretation that's subjective. attention spans are short enough already without this shit.

i mean unless it's something deep with obscure language and references

― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, July 14, 2015 7:16 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink_

Norton Anthologies were the worst for this. I got the feeling that annotations were the result of a summer intern project or something.

Footnotes in a short story I just read.

[1] breeches = pants
[2] standard = flag
[3] specs = eyeglasses
[4] billet = lodging for a soldier
[5] Ryazan Cossacks = Cossacks from the Russian town of Ryazan
[6] Pravda = a popular newspaper of the Soviet Union
[7] Lenin = Russian political leader (1870-1924)
[8] spinning = creating yarn or thread from material such as wool or cotton

I've now seen two of those segway-without-a-steering-column things "in the wild" - both being used by fully ambulatory young men - and idk they just make me apopleptic. Why are you too lazy too EVEN FUCKING WALK WITH YOUR TWO LEGS (which, btw, are a greater engineering marvel than anything humanity will ever invent), why are you wasting money/resources/technology on one of the most worthless applications possible I just cannot even GRRRRRRR

To me, standing in one place is probably even more tiring than just walking. IDGI.

Because they are fun to zoom around on?

my friend housesits for another set of mutual friends a lot & she is kind of dramatic about small things. every time she housesits she will do some dramatic facebook post about how "i couldn't find the cat at midnight & i was SO scared & looked for an hour but its ok i found her & now i need a drink"or "omg the cat got in a fight with another cat!! she's okay but omg I need to lie down"

i'm like DUDE. congratulations on housesitting but you're unnecessarily alarming your friends!! if the cat is ok then STFU on fb about it & just tell yr friends when they get home! jeezuz

but ppl who don't move their arms at all are satanic and hateful imo

I taught myself to walk moving my arms when I was about 12 because people had started to comment on it.

Obviously that was to hide my satanism and hate, but I'm not sure people can't tell anyway.

All kinds of new IA comes with having a baby:

like, when I'm out pushing a stroller on the sidewalk, is there a law that requires homeowners who come out of their houses and see me from a house or two away to jump in their cars and pull them back to block the sidewalk as they idle and look at their phones? Also, does the tough looking guy with the Tea Party Patriots bumped sticker who comes out on his porch to glare at me think I'm going to abandon my kid on the street to go bare-knuckle brawl with him?

Tourist woman stomping on my foot and staying on it as I walked through the market, she just stepping backwards without looking. I'm standing there silently annoyed and she starts saying something in a foreign language to her friend. Like I'm a pickpocket or something, not that she's mindlessly not watching where she's going.
You have to keep stopping suddenly as you walk through that market as people either stop suddenly or walk across your path suddenly.
& they tend to walk around in large spread out groups in a not very wide market street. So more, god aren't tourists annoying? Or maybe just, aren't crowds of people annoying.

This definitely qualifies as IA: Hate it when people talk about "creating memories."

LIke eating a cake and saying you're creating crumbs. I can't explain it properly, but it bugs me.

And this is outside of the whole schmaltzy aspect of that phrase too, which is a whole other story as well.

fuck memories

Next time I'm scrawling out a list and I'm asked what I'm doing, I'm going to say, "Making mem'ries!"