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

I'm not necessarily defending it but some doors with those buttons are hard to open manually so that it feels like you're doing something damaging if you try.

What really makes me IA is when there's an accessible door with a switch and a revolving door and someone with a wheelie bag or stroller or a huge box or whatever muscles their way through the revolving door.

When you're in a crowd trying to get on a bus and giving a bit of space from the person in front of you and some idiot keeps shoving their bag into your back. Like that's going to mean that they get into the space you're occupying or you're crushed up against the person in front of you for no really good reason.

Other bit today was a bus hadn't turned up on time, there was obviously a large crowd of people trying to get on the one bus that turned up a bit late. Another bus turns up after it. The crowd for the first bus is noticeably large, looks like not everybody is going to get on. BUt the bus driver for the 2nd keeps pointing to the other bus. & then takes off without letting anybody onto his bus.
Really want to know what happened there. Rush hour buses here are a pain. They just don't lay on enough buses and ones scheduled don't appear.
Have noticed that buses scheduled for a quarter past the hour just don't seem to actually happen. Whereas the bus is supposed to go every quarter of an hour

this guy at a bar on the beach kept pronouncing 'quesadillas' as "kay sah dill uhs" for no reason other than he thought it was hilarious, even though none of his friends found it funny. while also crowding my space similar to the bus scenario above.

FUCK HIMMMMMM

BUt the bus driver for the 2nd keeps pointing to the other bus. & then takes off without letting anybody onto his bus.

report that motherfucker!

xpost - on mr veg's first trip to Australia he got to see a drunk girl at a bar try to order KWEST A LA DILLAS

oh how he lol-ed :)

all sorts of IA associated with "Quiet Car" trains on regional rail-- but the worst are the people who yammer loudly on their cell phones until the conductor comes over and explains the rules to them. They act compliant, wait until the conductor has moved to the next car, then whip out their phones and start yammering again--as though we're in middle school and the teacher went out for a smoke.

I'm not necessarily defending it but some doors with those buttons are hard to open manually so that it feels like you're doing something damaging if you try.

yeahh the one at my evening class place is v heavy and when you push/pull it you can feel the mechanism grinding in a disturbing "you are destorying something" manner

but lately it opens automatically just as I get there. I guess there is probably a pressure/motion sensor but tbh the receptionist looks bored enough that I almost believe she presses the button every time someone approaches, so I often announce "thank you" as I enter (partly in case of that and mostly as a shorthand for "I know where I'm going so I don't need to stop at reception kthxbye"), which probably also makes someone IA somewhere

I let my young kids push on those door opening buttons (because kids like pushing on buttons) and am sometimes worried that they will continue doing this as adults

i dunno the thrill of riding in an elevator died off at some point in my twenties

Still get excited about elevators. And trains.

ok i still love trains

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I rode Amtrak back from Milwaukee on Sunday and rode on the quiet car and it was so calm and quiet and pleasant I'm thinking about taking a day off and riding a train somewhere and back.

on the Gilligan's Island cartoon from the 70s the castaways walk looked like that Abbey Road GIF. The Skipper walked like Ringo and Gilligan walked like Paul.

this guy at a bar on the beach kept pronouncing 'quesadillas' as "kay sah dill uhs" for no reason other than he thought it was hilarious, even though none of his friends found it funny. while also crowding my space similar to the bus scenario above.

Someone I knew overheard a guy order FAH-juh-TAZZ in a Chi-Chi's once.

in a 2015 where many people say Chipoltie nothing surprises me

when you buy what looks like a normal, if small, packet of biscuits and when you open them they're in a stupid plastic tray and there are literally SEVEN in a pack.

DVD menus that don't play an episode when you select it and press 'play' because obviously you need to press 'select' or 'ok' instead

Irrationally angry about businesses that expect you to send back a form and don't include a pre-printed envelope (don't care if postage is paid or not).

I should probably instead be IA about my own inability to find the stack of blank envelopes I have somewhere, or about how my spidery handwritten address will look horrible and I'll be irrationally ashamed of how unprofessional it looks, but it's easier to be IA at the sender instead.

when you buy what looks like a normal, if small, packet of biscuits and when you open them they're in a stupid plastic tray and there are literally SEVEN in a pack.

OMG, I used to buy these oatmeal dark chocolate chip cookies that were the best but one time I bought them and the box felt funny. I opened up the box (the same size of box they'd always used) and the plastic tray was about 1/3 smaller and sliding around in the box, and the cookies were also about 1/3 smaller and denser and not as good. Soooooo IA. Never bought them again.

This has to have been mentioned somewhere upthread, but: losing something while sitting in place and being unable to find it even though it could not possibly be more than a few inches away from you at most. THE. WORST.

You may be sitting on it?

Trying to work out if I noticed a really dodgy sales technique for raising prices yesterday or if the general rearrangement of the shop has just left the price tag in the wrong place.
Dark chocolate has been 1.19 for the last while, yesterday while looking for dark chocolate of the 85% type I really like I found a price tag saying dark chocolate was on sale down from 1.49 at 1.19. Still couldn't find the stuff I was looking for but I think that stuff does tend to sell out towards the end of the day, even 6ish. So if i can't find it at 8.30ish it isn't that weird.
They did have the stuff with fruit bits in it which I haven't been buying cos it's got more sugar content.
I thoought there wasa separate price tag for that though.

Also looking in there a couple of days ago, looking at a Singer iron which I can't see a price for. They tend to only have one price tag on a shelf end or raised sign that's hanging from the ceiling or something. & nothing has its own price individually on it. So there's no way of looking at price without seeing it on the group tag.
Maybe it's just a hangover from the idea of it being an open plan shop, but it is frustrating.

Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon Perform "History of Rap 6"

cross reference irrationally embarrassed thread

Like just reading that made me irrationally embarrassed.

yes

The Target in downtown Chicago has apparently gotten rid of the checkout divider bar things that keep people's purchases separate. I've noticed this on two trips now so I have to assume it's actually a thing. The last time I was there, the cashier just kinda picked an arbitrary point to stop scanning the stuff of the woman ahead of me, and she didn't notice until she'd already paid and had to pay twice. I mean, really: why.

We should have a meetup and stage a protest.

I've been trying to get people organized but it seems like no one understands how serious this issue is.

Yeah I hate that divider thing. I always try to scoot dividers down the divider aisle so that they go down to the end of the conveyor belt. had some idiot teen intentionally pushing them forwards a a couple of weeks ago but they are idiots at that age anyway ain't they?

But to intentionally remove them, what the f*** is the thought behind that?
Customer always wrong? It's better to direct them?
I have come across individual cashiers who have got rid of the things and found it a pain. I thought the thing was set up for customer convenience. Blah.

I'm going to start rolling with my own.

Another Microsoft Office related complaint: that terrible "read only" view that documents automatically open in for recent Word versions, until you select "edit document"

It's like having to push a button every time you want your refrigerator to cool your food.

EXACTLY

Oh, you wanted to look at this in READABLE VIEW?

Here's your sandwich, would you like me to stack the ingredients on it and close it for you?

Go to File->Options->Trust Center->Trust Center Settings->Protected View and uncheck whichever ones or all of them.

With computers in general, although I find Word is particularly annoying about this, I am always amazed at what the developers assume frequent users want.

an enormous part of the market for mainstream computer products is people who don't know much about computers and are terrified of computer based threats. anything a developer can do to make it look like these people are being protected = $

I doubt the developers have much to do with these decisions fwiw

i work with a lot of people who are new to computers and also need to learn to use ms word, and it's gotten a lot better imo! there's less cluttery crap on the standard blank doc and the templates are useful. i do have complaints about the reliance on tiny indecipherable constantly changing icons instead of words, but that's every app/program/everything.

I think carl meant "developers" as in "the entities that develop these programs" and not "software developers"

but as a software developer my first instinct was to make the exact same comment xp

They could make even more money by charging an extra $5-10 for a no-bullshit, "you clearly know what you're doing here" version of their software.

tbf Microsoft has done that with Word, forever, and the clumsy bits are just their attempts to guess what you want when it can do eight zillion unrelated things, of which you will use two

Yeah I just meant "people responsible for making these decisions." I did not mean to disparage software developers.

Also the version of Word I use has like a bazillion industry- and firm-specific add ons so my experience is not representative. Like I'm sure not everyone uses a version of Word where a key combination I often mistakenly type randomly switches the language/character set to Chinese.

Also honestly I appreciate computers and software that I can use without thinking about it too much, but I hate it when <insert whoever makes these decisions here> make it hard to change settings for more advanced users.

the checkout divider bar things

I'd bet it gets really crazy sometimes at the store that sells those things!

whole foods has cheeky little messages on theirs now

I assume that customers use random groceries to separate the checkout dividers they're buying at the checkout divider store.

Go to File->Options->Trust Center->Trust Center Settings->Protected View and uncheck whichever ones or all of them.

All my "Protected View" boxes are unchecked, but Word email attachments still open as Read Only.

Depending on version, some also say something like "this file came from the Internet and could be dangerous."

The way that my sewing machine looks like it's continuing to sew despite one side of thread having run out.
So I get to the end of what I assume is a finished seam and find one long piece of thread and 2 largely separate sections of fabric. Pretty difficult to get the seam exactly the same again but otherwise fixable but time consuming.