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

A weird but incredibly common thing: I'm walking on a nearly empty sidewalk, just me and some person ahead who is stopped and looking at their phone. Just as I'm passing the person they begin walking, at the exact same pace as me, so that I end up walking uncomfortably side by side with them until one of us turns off somewhere.

Had that exact thing happen to me while running yesterday. More embarrassment than anger for me though.

yeah, I guess I only get angry when the person is talking loudly into their phone right next to me, or when they start doing weird stuff like veering into my path and forcing me against a wall.

Oh, that would be fucked up.

I'd be tempted to shout OI FUCK OFF PHONIE but ymmv

Finally got a standing mirror but the person who dropped it off at the charity shop apparently didn't hand in the screws that attach the side of the mirror to the stand. & it looks like it's a non standard size.
Long handle to go through the stand.

But do have a lead on the location of one possible source for others. NIce to find a really helpful tool shop owner. He couldn't help with his shop and said the fitting may have been brought back from abroad. Did show me taht I onlty have to take the screw and the fitting with me if i go to the other place. I'd gone in with the mirror itself. Will be good if I can sort it out anyway. Been after one for a while.

I've got a few items on the go sewing wise and will be good to have a decent full length mirror to check them in .
Be a pain if i can't find the right size screw thogh since mirror rounded and needs the stand to stand.

stevo i gotta say you're IAs are one of a kind

Yeah they dont seem very IA :/

omg why the fuck did i type you're

Kind of IA at having to track down right size screws cos they weren't included. & seem to be non-standard. Which might just mean what should be ideal tool isn't usable.
May be why the thing was given to charity.

Electricity outage seems to have hit half of this town. I just rang to enquire and gave up as a disembodied voice continued through a seemingly endless list of places effected.
Plus they don't know how long for.
I didn't think things happened like that anymore. Thought areas effected would be very localised.

affected

I like Stevo's mellow IAs

Internet "petitions" for stuff that aren't actually petitions at all, but just meaningless statements that you agree with something.

Recently I've been seeing ones where you're just signing that you support Clinton becoming president or oppose Trump becoming president. We already have a tool for making that statement - it's called voting!

I hate having houseguests who, when offered a number of options of things to do, reply with "whatever you want to do." Well, if I wanted to do whatever I wanted to do I wouldn't give you a choice, dummy, I'd just do it, and besides, if it was just me I'd likely be doing something else. You're my guest and I'm the host, and I'm trying to be a good host, but you're just sitting on your ass and that is not an option! In fact, that's what I'd be doing if you weren't here!

"Well, I was going to go to the top of the empire state building anyway, so let's do that. That's what I typically do on Saturday afternoons."

Or, alternatively "Great. So let's take care of my Costco shopping, do a quick workout at my gym, go through my bills and then maybe watch some tv."

I'm going to drink bourbon while reading, then masturbate, then maybe take a shower. You cool with that?

When I import an old album into my iTunes and it automatically tags the year of release with the most recent reissue. Example: I put Cream's Wheels of Fire into my library yesterday and it said 2014 under year. GTFO. Seriously?

Alternately, when the box for "Album is a compilation of songs by various artists" is automatically checked and it's clearly not a compilation. Example: I put Jimi Hendrix' Band of Gypsies in my library the other day and it wasn't showing up Jimi Hendrix because some fucking bastard had checked the box when they submitted the information to the database. Inexcusable.

there was actually more than one Jimi Hendrix, that's probably why. it was like the whole Gallagher situation.

all of them died simultaneously choking on vomit tho, very odd coincidence

Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher, Gallagher, Gallagher 2, Clu Gulager... Itunes can't keep up.

In other news, Carl's Jr. has a new hamburger called the Bacon 3-Way with a racy commercial that does a great job of combining America's dumbfuck lust for meat with America's dumbfuck lust for objectifying blondes dressed up like 1980s video chicks. Fuck you, Carl's Jr.

(Fuck you, Hardee's, in the Southeast)

We don't get those commercials for Hardee's.

Like Paris Hilton eating the hamburger or whatever? Only saw that on the Internet.

Now, Norm MacDonald voicing the little yellow star? Yeah, that one was on all the time.

Hardees burgers are insane compared to what they offered when I was growing up (has to do w/ who owns them now obv). even their most modest burgers had like 7000 calories and usually gave me Montezuma's Revenge.

I loved Hardees growing up cos they had the California Raisins figurines you could buy

I loved Hardees growing up because they were the only fast food chain that had hot dogs.

ahem Dairy Queen1!!1!

Didn't have DQ or Der Wienerschnitzel in my neck of the woods.

Oh I guess we had Orange Julius too but that was in one very specific mall.

Orange Julius gets filed under things I irrationally love.

I always heard McDonald's and BK and the bigger chains didn't have hot dogs because of the the higher potential for kids choking and lawsuits, but that would only make sense if no one sold hot dogs except for hot dog places, and they made you sign a disclaimer.

McDonald's originally didn't sell hot dogs because they thought of it as a big city thing.

there was actually more than one Jimi Hendrix

Bullshit, I cry! There's only one Joni Hendrix that made an album called Band of Gypsies. There is no excuse for such ludicrous actions as clicking the "various artists" box!

but that would only make sense if no one sold hot dogs except for hot dog places, and they made you sign a disclaimer.

You should see the paperwork Der Weinerschnitzel makes you fill out before you eat there...

Hendrix didn't play all the instruments, so it is indeed a various artists collection!

Terrence Trent D'arby played the zither I think on it

Go to hell, the lot of you!

Joni Hendrix?

Oh, hell.

Wishing pain on whoever sent their ~4y/o kids out into the street to scream and shout and play some surprisingly loud plastic bongos starting at 7:15am on a Sunday

people who post what row/aisle they parked in at theme parks on FB.

tempted to burgle them

wait... what? Explain?

like if you go to Universal you might be in the "Jaws" parking lot, row 433. sometimes people want to note to themselves by sending a text or something so they remember where their car is. I have this one friend tho who checks-in to the theme park and posts where he parked his car on FB for everybody to see.

completely innocuous and harmless but for some reason I find it annoying - like I need to know where they parked their car?

we've talked about those faux-flow-charts that pubs put on sandwich boards outside, right?

i saw someone chalking one this morning, which had reduced it down to one decision diamond. 'is everything ok?' and both yes and no branches ended up immediately at 'come in for a coffee'.

worse still, he was copying this down from a piece of paper. like he couldn't remember the simplest thing.

also, the tesco's on the way to work has rearranged about 10% of its stock. couldn't find half the things i normally buy.

Was at a breakfast place the other day that boasted on the board in big letters "Now Serving Stan's Donuts!" And then right under it "Proudly supporting local farms and businesses," with a list of some regional farms. But Stan's is an LA-based chain, and donuts are probably the easiest thing to source locally, so it kind of undercuts the message. It would be like saying "Now Serving Starbuck's!" above the "Proudly Supporting Local" sign. Should have been "proudly supporting THESE local farms and businesses."

Also, they had a chef's special omelette described by the server as having onion, peppers, ham and cheddar. AKA a Denver Omelette, or Western Omelette, so call it that! Also, it's nothing special, so don't call it that.

people who post what row/aisle they parked in at theme parks on FB.

tempted to burgle them

I've never heard of nor seen such a thing.

it might be confined to the one friend of mine who does this.

lol what?

It might be confined to people who live in the Orlando, Fla., metro area.