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

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People who browse my store and dont find anything they wanna buy but cant leave without making a point of they will definitely come back to buy something to me. Just leave its cool you dont have to lie to me.

Maybe this would be fine if it didnt happen all the fucking time. Just fuck off.

Yesss. We get a lot of people who spend ten minutes quietly browsing and then practically yell "THANK YOU!!!" as they leave. Just fucking LEAVE, that's all the thanks I need.

I just started noticing this, but am getting more & more IA about people (coworkers mostly, also a couple of friends) who turn every moment of their lives into a story that takes like, 45 minutes of retelling

I'm longwinded on paper but in person I cannot truncate my life experiences enough to just end the awkwardness of even talking about it in the first place. But so many people I know just do these one-person shows everytime I see them

I do not understand these ppl. Like, every time, they legit tell the mundane events of their lives like telenovellas; trips to the vet, a car alarm going off, parking in a no parking zone; SAGA. how is everything in your life an EVENT with so many names & so much fking draama?

drives me crazy

also the assumption that I care THAT much about these non-dramas, i dgi

Oh dear thats the fap fucked

im always fascinated when im on transit and can't help but eavesdrop someone's phone conversation when all that is discussed, at great length and in greatly animated fashion, is the excruciating minutiae of the individual's life. as in a half hour anecdote about shopping for a couch where literally nothing remarkable happens

there's also a woman who walks by my building when i get home from work and am letting my cat out on our balcony to touch noses with the neighbor cat through the fence, who every day walks by on her mobile phone, probably on the way home from work, always talking about something really quotidian and unremarkable

occasionally, when i leave for work earlier than usual i pass by her in the morning doing the same thing on the way to work

i only phone someone if i need to arrange something

the other day i was reading a plain text internet discussion forum and there were some people on it talking about how in their daily lives they are frequently confronted with people talking about the most inconsequential things in great detail and this was both bemusing and irritating

isn't all of this basically seinfeld

not that i ever liked it

oh I don't actually get ia about this i just find it funny because talking to someone on the phone about everything that happened to me that day is not something it would ever occur to me to do

'... and chill' meme

As far as longwinded sagas go, there's a particular variety I really hate, and it involves people who don't understand the rules of drunkenness - specifically the rule that the deeper both parties are in their cups the simpler their stories need to be. Individual outbursts of dialogue should become shorter as well. If conversation can't turn more salacious it should at least not get more boring.

I was at the bar the other day with a woman and we'd been drinking for hours when suddenly she launched into a comparative study of her home mortgages past and present. She was oblivious to the reality that a) it is nearly impossible for the booze-addled brain to follow such a tortuous story filled with dry detail, and b) she's going to have to tell me the whole story again some other day because I'm probably forgetting this entire phase of our conversation.

talking to someone on the phone about everything that happened to me that day is not something it would ever occur to me to do

yeah this. Almost daily, pn the way to work, there'd be some person or other (almost always women, though I dont think it matters) who is having a long winded yammer about everything and nothing on the phone. At 7.30AM. On the tram. WHY? What is SO IMPORTANT that it cant wait til evening or lunchtime? I'd see some women have an endless boring call, end it, and immediately call someone else and start all over again! FFS shut up.

Haha. I always feel for the person on the other end.

"Yeah, I'm on the bus. Yes. On the bus. I'm on the bus. Yeah."

talking to someone on the phone about everything that happened to me that day is not something it would ever occur to me to do

in you I recognize a member of my tribe. some day we may meet and exchange knowing nods.

"we'd been drinking for hours when suddenly she launched into a comparative study of her home mortgages past and present. "

haha this is def a thing. horrible thing.

Meditation

You might be doing it wrong. Unless you attended the Mike Love School of Angry TM.

the Mike Love School of Angry (TM)

can anyone recommend a beginner's guide to Buddhism book? I want to explore Buddhism, but I don't want to waste my time with some innocuous sounding school that actually turns out to be Evil Buddhism.

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Have you tried Racking Your Neighbors on the Wheel of Life-And-Death; A Beginner's Guide to Evil Buddhism?

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grown men who dress like little boys

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grown men who dress like little boys

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this always bums me out. feeling it right now wrt hoodies and sneakers of IT people we share the floor with. presenting as an adult is kewl guys, you should try it at some point!

i have my schlubby days too but that's different than looking like the freshest 9th grader all the time.

Throw in the guy riding around on a tiny fucking razor scooter and i want to trip them over.

Ew

Posibly worse: same scenario, but guy is in full business suit, riding tiny fucking razor scooter thru the CBD.

There's a middle-aged dude who waits at the bus stop with his razor scooter kicked up, and I'm like, man, we're never going to get bike lanes with people like you standing around like that.

presenting as an adult is kewl guys

This isn't actually true though.

A dude in my neighborhood - a burb dad with a job and a mortgage and shit - commutes on one of them long skateboards.

But I've been working from home for years, and I just realized I look and dress p much like I did in 8th grade.

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Still breathlessly awaiting the day that I see a business dude yelling about the McGiveny account into his Bluetooth while gliding down the sidewalk on Heelys.

this always bums me out. feeling it right now wrt hoodies and sneakers of IT people we share the floor with. presenting as an adult is kewl guys, you should try it at some point!

― map, Wednesday, May 25, 2016 9:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fuck that bullshit. "Professional" dress is largely a way to police class distinctions. So long as your nads aren't hanging out, wear what you want.

Not being subliterate is also kewl.

You know you'd look great in some chinos and a cardigan hon

presenting as an adult a baboon is kewl guys

sorry phil. you're right that, generally, 'dress better' is indefensible. i was trying to relate a really specific instance of that and maybe generalizing too much about it so it was easy to misinterpret. there is one guy in particular i'm thinking of. it's not that he dresses poorly, he dresses quite well if your goal is to look like a next gen mark zuckerberg. so i guess my beef is more with a certain style than with quality. i do think there's a kernel of boyishness to that look in the sense that it tries to override / hack fashion as a thing one should have to concern oneself with. so it's less that i think certain people should dress better and more that 'styles that "just don't care" about clothes' when the people who are sporting them obviously have the means to care about clothes (ti can guarantee you these people make more than i do) are lame and off-putting. obviously this doesn't apply to the sixty year old couple who look like they've been junkies for half their lives who take the bus with me up to the university hospital, though even they look like they put themselves together with more dignity than the junior mark zuckerbergs of the world, i don't think 'glib' is in their vocabulary.

a thing one should not have to concern oneself with, i meant.

No worries, it's just one of those topics that I get really prickly about due to some personal history (not me, but my wife). Generally my feeling is shirts are shirts and pants are pants, and as long as people don't look slovenly or gross I find it hard to get worked up about what people are wearing. (Generally. My niece graduated from HS last weekend and in pictures I saw that everyone looked great except her brother, who wore shorts and a t-shirt to the commencement. Like, come on, make an effort for the occasion.)

Gotcha.

I hate the set up with my street door. I have no bell there or anything to communicate with my flat door 4 flights up. So I have to leave it open so I can be contacted. Also allows postman to drop oversize mail into postbox on back of door.
I've now got an annoying pre teen kid who keeps coming in and hanging around the landing that has my flat on. So I'm sitting watching tv and see this face looming over the wall to my balcony. I go out and tell her to leave for the 4th time this week. The only place in my stairwell is my flat.
I tell her it's a private area and she keeps coming back.
It's creeping me out massively.

Teach her how to be an assassin

I just wonder where she got the idea that was a good place to hang out. Also if anybody's been doing that before I noticed her cos I have heard what sounded like the street door being swung open but could have been the house below me. Also keep thinking I'm hearing people on stairs then assuming that it's from the house.
I have a stairwell leading up to my flat and an empty one next door. They're the sole places the stairs lead to. Flats are above house/maisonettes which are accessed directly from street.
So the only reason anybody should be coming up the stairs is to see one of the residents of the flats.
I had hoped that would be clear.
Mail situation of having open mailbox bothers me but landlord insisted on putting a fire door with no letterbox on my flat.
Could do with intercom from streetdoor. But landlord has been total absentee even anonymous for months.
&I thought most people respected closed but not locked street door.
Now got spoil ten year old who won't simply f off.

Two words: water balloon.

Yeah something along those lines has passed through my mind. But shouldn't need to.
Well could be worse, could have junkies shooting up down there or something.
But I don't want people thinking it is a great place to gather, girl had her friend with her when she came back yesterday. & wanted me to tell her why the access to my flat was a private space.

I just need to work out a way of making that interface with the outside world workable.
Intercom and buzzer, some way of dealing with large packages. So I don't have to walk miles out of my way to go to the sorting office that's miles out of town.

& just realising the summer holidays are just about to begin so there will be more kids around with more time on their hands.

daily workplace conversations about american idol

sick of seeing groomsmen photos where they're all lined up in their superbly ugly suits and sunglasses doing corny spy movie poses or whatever