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

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.

xp also windows explorer folders that default to "optimize this folder for Pictures"

In an online series of photos, the next/previous buttons are not in the same place on every page.

Kids vandalising the sign that the Friends of Merlin Woods put up in the woods yet again. So it's lying shattered on the ground instead of being up and visible so that people can look at where all the paths through the forest are and what local wildlife to look out for.
Annoying shits, not sure what they get out of it. Is it some kind of fulfilment they get for destroying things, the kudos of being known as the guy who took out the sign somebody else put hours of work into?

Annoying shits, not sure what they get out of it. Is it some kind of fulfilment they get for destroying things, the kudos of being known as the guy who took out the sign somebody else put hours of work into?

What, were you born 35? That's exactly what it is. I mean, I'm an old fuck who hates kids too, but I remember the joy of wanton destruction very well.

Yea I mean I spent hours in the catwalk at age 18 destroying shit in high school.

Nowadays I'd be screaming at me if I caught me

- when businesses have private social media accounts. Why? Why are you bothering?

When [redacted name of government agency] makes the contractors jump through hoops to do anything online. Apparently the hackers aren't stymied by the existing infrastructure, but I can't take an online course on IT security?

re: the checkout line divider thing

Yesterday I was loading groceries onto the belt and for some reason the clerk, while checking someone else out, kept picking up a divider and dropping it behind the stuff I had set down--while I was still setting more stuff down. I kept taking it off and she kept putting it back down. I felt like I'd entered a Seinfeld episode.

What the hell.

at some point she said, "Is this all your stuff?" I had to wonder if she was having a flashback to a previous checkout experience.

i get aggravated by meaningless accolades. for instance today someone, when chatting about the new Slayer, said it was their best album since Christ Illusion.

Christ Illusion was two albums ago. by that measure, the new album had a 50/50 chance of achieving that milestone. whoopty fucking do!

I came home to find out that my boy, Slayer, received a trophy for nothing - a best album since Christ Illusion trophy! While I am very proud of Slayer for everything he does and will encourage him till the day I die, these trophies will be given back until Slayer EARNs a real trophy. #slayerfamilyvalues

lol

when people pronounce silicon dioxide as "silicONE dioxide"

you're coming to a four way stop sign slightly ahead of another driver, but the other driver comes to a stop well before the sign, so they can be all like "well I stopped first so I can go first." Monsters.

that plinking noise fluorescent lights make when they flicker

gnnnnghhhhhh

that plinking noise fluorescent lights make when they flicker

Wishing I didn't live too far out of town to stick around and not worry about missing buses home.

Going on the Ladbrokes website and seeing my last motherfucking losing bet on display, get fucked you parasites.

Dear whichever neighbour is playing the shitty bassy music with the shitty 180bpm 4/4 bassdrums for 15 bars then a bar off then 15 bars on etc forever,

please just play something which fills all 16 bars with bassdrums for me to sleep through, that fucking gap is driving me crazy

my neighborhood has two festivals a year. one really really sucks and one is ok. but i think it's really rude for people to come and park on my street for them especially when they invent their own parking spots like by fire hydrants. take one bus.

big festival weekend here too. luckily no one lingers past 7 pm because this place is so uptight.

Started getting extreme problem swith Mozilla Firefox where it just isn't connecting ma lot of the time without being refreshed.
Now only getting partial pages on things like Facebook with a lot of the connecting icons missing.

A pair of jeans that I've had to unpick about a million times. So is unlikely to ever be exactly couture. Hoping that I'm not totally ruining the fabric while doing so.
Bloomming course i wanted to find out about that was supposed to start next week not having enough people turn up for it to run or so it seems so far.
Will have to wait until new year possibly. Well, I have a book on the subject anyway but do find those courses a bit handy.

tescos have changed their little 6-packs of strawberry yoghurt so that they are now 4 pots of strawberry and 2 pots of apricot. apricot!

and the actual pots now have square corners with a ridge near the bottom making it impossible to get the last bit of yoghurt out.

the fuckers.

MAybe they were getting yoghurt mountains, especially in apricot. & they need to get rid of them rapid like. So every person who can't get to the bottom of a yoghurt tub will be incentivised to start a new one.

Otherwise, Tescos not the greatest but apparently the most proliferant, endemic almost pandemic?

THe EU used to call the stocks of surplus food supplies mountains so you'd get butter mountains, beef mountains and so on. So if you were on the dole getting butter vouchers you'd be supplied with butter that came from the butter mountain. & all the beef they'd feed people in homeless hostels came from the beef mountain.

When fast food people for whatever reason don't give you your drink cup and make you wait for the meal and then they give everyone in front and behind you theirs.

lol they forgot just ask for your cup

Lol I would if they didn't immediately disappear this time.

I should be angry at myself for eating this stuff tho really

Ah, yes! Manufacturers who devise packaging that requires you to waste a part of the product. Those bastards can roast in hell, because you know they probably did it purposely and even if that wasn't their primary motive, they certainly don't give a shit about it.

the spelling of yoghurt

(it's actually fromage frais)

poorly wrapped rice paper rolls that collapse into the dipping sauce >:(

my ready meal veg lasagne does not have a top layer of pasta + bechamel + cheese, but instead the top layer is vegetables with approx three centimetre-wide balls of cheese which have now melted into a tiny sad puddle

at least the vegetables resemble real vegetables which I guess is a step forward in vegetable lasagne technology

Not really that angry but kind of bewildering. I was going to the store the other day and as I walked up to the door two frat looking guys were leaving. They were both wearing sandals shorts backwards baseball cap and a white t shirt w their frat on it. The first one swung the door open and marched out with the second one close behind, talking on his phone with one hand free. It was one of those situations where the polite thing to do if you're leaving a store and someone is entering would be to hold the door open.

Well that didn't happen. The second frat guy kind of made a flinch as if to protect his phone from the incoming door and WHAM the door slammed into his arm and he let it just shut closed as he left. The door really came down loud on him so I wasn't too upset at the faux pas. But it seemed like an microaggression of machismo. He was willing to injure himself just to avoid going out of his way (moving his arm for 1-2 seconds) to do something for somebody else.

And of course these are the people who are going to be CEOs, politicians, etc. basically running things in 10-20 years.

"sandals shorts backwards"

Thoughts upon reading this:

1. What the hell are sandal shorts?
2. Oh my lord, is the Kriss Kross backwards pants thing coming back in style?

It's cool, though, I've got it figured out now.

wanting to just lay in for the night and watch Netflix and having only enough food and water to make it necessary to leave so you don't wanna start an episode of something just to stop it but you don't want to get up to go to the store so you hem and haw about it and oh hey it's 12 midnight, time to sleep, problem solved.

After having spent all those ages straightening out what I'd messed up on the crotch of my new jeans. Unpicked and re-handstitched loads of it. Then cut the thread off the needle i'd been using and caught a bit of the fabric as I did so so they were holed before really being worn.
THankfully its not at an overtly visible point but it has weakened them, possibly even more so than the continual unpicking.
KInd of like the finished results otherwise so major pain.

Ah, yes! Manufacturers who devise packaging that requires you to waste a part of the product. Those bastards can roast in hell, because you know they probably did it purposely and even if that wasn't their primary motive, they certainly don't give a shit about it.

― Aimless, Thursday, September 24, 2015 1:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Along those lines: for the longest time, the deodorant I use had a circular dial at the base that allowed you to fine tune how far you wanted to extend the stick. At some point, they turned the entire oblong base into a dial, thereby requiring either an entire half turn of the dial or the consumers' ability to somehow supress their all-too-understandable horror at a more frugally-rotated dial that left the base out of sync with the rest of the stick. It was an unforgivable transgression, and one that I'm still clearly rattled by.

I find a book reproducing work by an artist/designer I greatly admire. It's sealed in a cellophane wrapper so I can't really look at it but go on faith that contents will be good.
When I do get to look at it the reproduction is good and clear.
But at the 2nd look through I can see a section shows through to the back of the cover.
It looks like the book is too heavy for its binding. I can already see sections coming away. So am worried that pages may separate from each other making it difficult to look through.
Can't take it back for a replacement cos its a remainder shop & won't have one.
Is rebinding expensive?
Not sure what good reproductions of William Morris there are in book form.