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

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.

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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.

THIS SHIT

http://i61.tinypic.com/20hakcn.jpg

yes to all of that

got bad news... it's not just California.

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A friend just posted on Facebook that a Judy Blume book had been BANNED - "crazy!"

What kind of brain do you need to have to think that, in the UK, in 2015, it would become illegal to sell a decades-old novel about a girl getting periods, and this wouldn't have been in the news?

tesco vitamin tablets only tell you there are vegetarian if you peel the label to reveal the ingredients. peeling the label stood in the aisles is a fiddly and suspicious-looking business.

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.

While I will generally agree most heartily with anyone who's ragging on Microsoft Office, this one is simply the difference between 'CTRL + right click + drag' (for sequential numbers) and 'ALT + right click + drag' (for copies of the same numbers). Hard-won knowledge, that was.

people who must loudly proclaim their disinterest in any space related story--like finding water of Mars

whoa, did not know that Old Lunch. knowledge is power!

Agh I managed to be 'too organised' and signed up for a new energy supplier nice and early but wasn't organised enough to read any of the letters about transfer dates so now leaving 5 days before my current contract and have to pay exit fees. FFS what a waste of money that I don't have :(

A place I wanted to see about getting a course through's phone set up. I tried ringing before 10am and got puton hold that hada repeated message about how an operator would get to me shortly until the line suddenly went dead. I rang back and tried another couple of options none f which actually connected and just went dead.
Rang back after 10 and just had the phone continue to ring until it hit an engaged tone.
Wonder if there is any intentionality behind this. Need to go down in the general vicinity of the place at some time this week to collect some boots I've had reheeled so can go into office but otherwise the place is off my route to anywhere and a bit outof the centre of town.

Would think they could at least have a voicemail set up. Would think that would be a bit more up to date for a place that calls itself a technology institute. But thinking of what Brina eno says in his Peel lecture that technology is 'the stuff that doesn't work yet' can see his point with regards to this place.