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

the difference between installing cruise control/power windows/etc and switching the system to build such a low number of one-off cars without any options almost makes up for the extra feature cost in opportunity cost

I think that's pretty much the case. There are still a few models left. Almost makes me want to get a Ford Fiesta.

I hate some of the automatic features that come standard on cars. For example, the driver's side door jamb sensor went on the fritz, resulting in my dome light coming on every few moments and all my door locks locking and unlocking themselves. I was able to manually turn the dome light completely off until I got the sensor replaced, but I had to find some sort of ABACAB code out of the manual to deactivate the locks.

Same kind of thing, as I think I already mentioned, when I replaced the battery and then had to go online to find the code to turn my radio back on again.

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/370/MI0002370169.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

that's the point I knew I'd bought a luxury car -- the manual is huge and appears to have most of the cheat codes

my current car is teh first one I've had that has cruise control. I often use it when driving back from Tampa, or en route to Atlanta

other than that, very little opportunity to use it unless you like turning it off every 3 seconds..

I only use it when I'm backing out of my driveway.

chillens can jump out the way

I'm using cruise control on highways now because I have a lead foot and just got a $240 speeding ticket. $300 if I want to do traffic school!

How come?

because you don't brake at the same time as accelerating

I'm sure it works on the wrong side of the road just as good as the right side.

me too!

no idea what "trim level" is

options packages

this led me to find a wikipedia page I'd never have guessed the existence of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_trim_nomenclature

because you don't brake at the same time as accelerating

superannuated racers?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heel-and-toe

I think Car Talk addressed the weird thing with older drivers who are going around with the brake lights always on as a combination of people with bad leg mobility (who probably shouldn't be driving) having a foot on each pedal and people who used to rest their left foot on the clutch who now leave it on the brake because... who even knows why

I can only attest to having driven behind these people on a maddening number of occasions, not to their reasons

It doesn't really bother me until I see the brake lights turn on as we're going up a hill.

sitting in a very quiet waiting room except for one woman who is both chewing gum with her mouth open and texting with the keyboard volume up

It doesn't really bother me until I see the brake lights turn on as we're going up a hill.

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Now that I'm sharing the roads with drivers as a scooterist(tm), I have like 1000 more IAs about driving than I used to. Thought about this thread today when someone in front of me braked every few seconds at nothing in particular...No problem! Just braking! WHILE GOING UPHILL. I was like, if you need to slow down, you know you can just stop accelerating, right? Yay gravity wins again!

In conclusion, people are the worst.

maybe they're very supportive of the gasoline and brake pad industries

oman who is both chewing gum with her mouth open and texting with the keyboard volume up

DEATH FROM ABOVE. AND SIDES. AND UP HER FACE.

lol otm

I think at this point in my life I'm putting off starting new activities etc. because it just means lots more IAs.

Floridians and hurricanes. every year people freak out when someone suggests there's a hurricane and it "might hit Florida". a phrase that gets uttered for pretty much any Atlantic hurricane that is anywhere in the vicinity of land at some point.

my bestie cancelled a pool party at the last minute due to the last tropical storm and the thing was FIVE DAYS away from land at that point, not even close enough to affect our weather!

the only reason I get angry about it is that sometimes people here do really fucking stupid things, like hear a poorly-sourced rumor that there will be a gas shortage due to a storm, and everybody takes 3 or 4 portable containers and fills up. this happened in 05 and of course, 90% of the gas stations were grocery-bagged up for 3 days and all these idiots were smug like "see? I was smart to fill up!". or friends will cancel plans with you 5 days out cos "the storm might hit" and then of course nothing comes (schools are a diff matter, they have to cancel far enough in advance for parents to make plans for the kids so I get why they have to jump the gun).

No, moron, you CAUSED the shortage! it's like fuckin' Terminator shit....

36 years and I still have only experienced 5 canes, and 3 of them were in the same year (to be fair, it was a terrible year).

I do hope, tho, that this current one, if it does deviate, doesn't go anywhere near Louisiana (or any state, for that matter, but esp not there).

went to a karaoke bar last night for a friends birthday, and 2 girls in our group got up and did Tequila

it pissed me off because it was a total troll, just do the easiest laziest song & do the peewee dance. one girl even pretended not to know when to sing

i don't care if you get up and can't sing, i love the effort it takes to try. it's the fact that these 2 didnt try that bugged me. and they werent drunk so that wasn't their excuse

how about when you pull into the gas station and someone has come just before you. they have decided, even though there is no car at the first pump in line, to go to the second pump then stop. you are waiting behind them to see if they will move. nope. put car in park, turn it off. now i have to go around someone and back into the first pump. are you fucking kidding me.

xp. haha, i hate non-committal karaoke. you can be very bad, i personally am an awful singer, but for the love of god, know the words to the song you choose and sing them.

- ppl that drive with their arm dangling out the window

I always hope something horrible happens to their arms.

Stick your arm
Out too far
It may wind up
In another car.

Burm a shave

• Websites with a Facebook button that when clicked, brings up the "Share on Facebook" window instead of the site's FB page.

• New AP style of having to spell out the state's name on first reference instead of just using its abbreviation.

tin-eared attempts at olde world english

Like putting thee and thou and shouldst and dost in, with no ear for what those forms actually meant? Yes.

Or ignorantly putting "Ye" in front of things. Anybody who does that is a pretentious dickhead tbh.

Ye s

People who keep score at baseball games.

people who get off the bus leaving empty bottles to roll around on the top floor (and now and then down the stairs to smash)

tea, tea drinkers, tea cups and mugs, teaspoons, 'ooh yes i'll have another cup ta', fifty mugs to wash by the end of the day, uncountable teaspoons filling up the sink, bloody teapots, cold soggy teabags, stupid little milk jugs, hours spent squashing teabags against the side of the mug...

the bottles thing is actually maybe not that irrational since someone could get hurt

tea is worse than soylent imo so anything attendant on its preparation or removal is a bit grrrr

here's a doozy: when you completely watch a film on MUBI soup-to-nuts, and the listings tells you you are still "watching" it, brief flare of IA right there

The tambourine in Like a Rolling Stone drives me nuts.

Floral print backpacks.

My cat died a month ago; she's buried in the garden. The wife and kid thought it would be nice to have a little grave marker. So I shopped online for something like "pet memorial stone." I chose one, bought it, had it engraved, it was shipped to me, and I put it on top of where I buried the cat. That was a month ago.

I am still seeing web ads every day for pet memorial stones in different sizes and designs.

Dude. I had ONE dead cat. I ALREADY bought the stone. How many dead cats do they think I have, such that they still need to advertise at me?

lol

I wonder what it's like to do funeral arrangements over the internet these days.

recipes that want you to tear up chicken whe it's still hot. like who can humanly achieve this even "just using two forks"
ugh

I am still seeing web ads every day for pet memorial stones in different sizes and designs.

You need to google stuff you won't mind seeing in your feed.

... or else use DuckDuckGo as your search tool.

recipes that want you to tear up chicken whe it's still hot. like who can humanly achieve this even "just using two forks"

I use the forks to first basically rip it up and let a bunch of the heat escape before really going in for the shred.

yes that is the way. But recipe should allow for cooling in the broth.

yeah but it still sucks

> fifty mugs to wash by the end of the day

At work I had one mug, washing it up as I went. At home I have 4 and, yes, all dirty all the time. Maybe the first way is better.

People who leave used teabags anywhere other than the bin though, what is the point?