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

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.

http://i.imgur.com/R5hPFmY.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tym4vit.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WLq6bH8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tMdkSAx.jpg

lol
looks like someone needs to take a trip down Funland Drive

> the spelling of yoghurt

i've always spelt it yoghurt, never considered an alternative. until now. wikipedia says yoghurt, yogurt and seven(!) other things. firefox uk dictionary moans at yogurt but likes yoghurt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogurt#spellings

(also, the sainsbury's version of the tiny fromage frais things are 2x strawberry 2x apricot and 2x raspberry (=ick))

Printers and copiers that default to non-collated. Why.

RELATED: I went through a massive shutterstock search for just a regular ol' printer, and you wouldn't believe how many COPY MACHINES showed up instead.

Oh, and by the way. Anyone want to guess where my kid's soccer practice was?

http://i.imgur.com/girRn9N.gif

yoghurt soothes butthurt

xp Field 1? Twist!!!

yoghurt soothes butthurt

this sounds like a runner-up on America's Funniest Home Videos.

You know sometimes it's the smallest things you end up pondering and concluding that the whole world is crazy?
I saw a poster advertising Kit Kat 'snap and share' today.
https://www.asiantrader.biz/newImage/big/1438333250_Kitkat.JPG

This is a new kind of Kit Kat, a chocolate bar that is already DESIGNED to be snapped into sticks and presumably shared if you are so inclined. HOW AND WHY are they introducing SNAP AND SHARE on a bar that you ALREADY SNAP just because you can snap the snapped sticks into EVEN SMALLER STICKS ???
What is this? What the fuck is wrong with everyone? Am I the crazy one?

You aren't crazy. Nestle encourages creeping socialism. They are Europeans.

It's like select-a-size paper towels all over again

I don't get this whole "sharing candy" concept anyway.

"snap & share" --- soon to be the "going postal" of the social media age

What you're seeing is the 11th hour hail mary that allowed some marketing dude to keep his job for another month, when he'll find himself sadly unable to crack the code on a sexier variant of Hellmann's Mayonnaise.

is it a large bar? (yes, 170g, "Contains 11 servings")

i wonder if it's a way to get around the government restrictions for single-serving snacks.

11 servings, it's true. This product designed to be split into halves has 11 servings in it.

10 broken up portions and then the 11th is the default eat the whole thing yourself portion

this product is amazingly stupid

Maybe the eleventh portion is the wrapper.

Wait, hold on.

Kit Kats are made by Nestle everywhere except in the U.S.?

Man, fuck the Masons. I'm more worried about Big Hershey.

I haven't been this confused since the whole Cadbury ban.

there are a number of candy bars etc with a different company name is the US than europe, licensing agreements in one direction or another.

But as a consumer, how do I know which confection I'm really getting?

wait till you try buying a milky way in the uk

Next thing I'm going to hear is that the Toblerones I get at Walgreens are actually made by ConAgra.

i have never shared a kit kat, fuck u nestle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_hHziEkYXo

all candy is one (1) serving in my world

portion control fans might enjoy this compendium of surrealist poetry amusingly entitled "Making Sense of Portion Sizes"

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/healthy_living/hic_What_We_Eat_Affects_How_We_Feel/hic_Keeping_Your_Digestive_Tract_Healthy/hic_Making_Sense_of_Portion_Sizes

sample:

1 piece of cornbread - is a bar of soap
1 slice of bread - is an audiocassette tape
1-1/2ounces of cheese - is a 9-volt battery, 3 dominoes or your index and middle fingers
1 ounce of cheese - is a pair of dice or your thumb

(starting to sound like ransom note how-tos by the way)

Wondering if i should point out how crappy the chairs in teh place I just had dinner were.
A booth type bench with part of the upholstery ripped to shreds. Can't really be something that people are missing can it?

Went into the bathroom and there's next to no TP and the drier doesn't work.

Looks like the place doesn't get cleaned very thoroughly either.
Shame, I used to like eating in there a few years ago. Probably not again.

Food itself wasn't bad though, not very flavorful and wondering why I suddenly found a stray bit of onion in the thing when there seemed to be no other. Hope that was the only stray thing.

the Excel drag and drop default being to copy numbers "in a series" as opposed to just copying the number as-is. Obviously there's times where you legit DO want to fill a series, but most of the time people at work drag and drop, they mean to copy, and those that don't pay attention that it filled a series instead, and thus wind up fucking shit up.

everytime I get a spreadsheet of phone numbers from someone and there's several numbers in a row that are sequential (1-888-555-5555, 1-888-555-5556), I pretty much know what the fuck happened.

also the USPS phone system. You can get to customer service. but it's insanely hard. because if you keep trying to hit "0" right when you get in, it's going to demand you tell them what the call is about, and if you refuse, it will tell you "customer service is NOT AVAILABLE".

which is fair, they don't want the wrong calls going to the wrong place, but then even after you PICK an option, and then hit "0", it STILL tells you that you have to tell them what the call is about. The only time that "0" works is when you've reached the end of succession in a series of choices - once you've picked the last subtopic there is.

And SOME subtopics outright DON'T let you advance - ie, if you go into a tracking number option, it will tell you the information in the system is the same that a representative will see, and denies you the option.

really frustrating when someone, the mail service starts forwarding your mail instead of your father's, in error (enjoy the Slayer cd, dad!)

USPS phone system is hell on earth.

Eight years ago, my mother's mail kept getting forwarded to me after I moved (her first name is mine plus one letter at the end, which happens to be the, letter my middle name begins with).

They claimed twice they gave feedback to their couriers to pay attention to the name but they continued to screw it up until the forwarding ran out.

this time? My dad, whose name isn't anything like mine, moved out of my house and set up forwarding. My mail showed up at my parents' house with the forward sticker which had his name on it. Even the customer service lady couldn't figure out how they screwed it up. Neither of my other roommates had it happen to them.

Just now getting some of it re-routed.

^^^ rational anger

This entire California culture of advertising your life through cute stickers on the back of your car is irritating as shit to me. I DGAF how many kids or pets you have or whether you ran a half-marathon, full marathon, color run, whatever. Don't quite get how slapping a dead person's name and details across your back windshield isn't tacky as shit, either.