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

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?

You can also tear up chicken while wearing rubber gloves (not to rain on anyone's IA parade)

Rubber gloves make me irrationally angry. Because how can you take off the second glove without touching whatever it is on the glove you were wearing your glove to protect your hand from?

peel from the top, turn inside out as you go and then not touch the fingers. Buy the type you get for medical use?

Like latex gloves? They don't seem thick enough for bathroom work.

What kinda dookie-waterfall nightmare do you have going on in there?

Just scrubbing toilets is all. Nothing irrational.

maybe I am a horrible savage but I have never used gloves when scrubbing toilets although I definitely washed the hell out of my hands afterward

Yeah, I use a toilet brush though. Maybe it would wear gloves if using a sponge or rag or something?

I'm cool with using a brush (though apparently you're supposed to throw them out occasionally? Makes sense to me). But wiping down the seat and stuff, with a rag or sponge, I'd prefer gloves. I'm not squeamish, but iIf it (the toilet) needs to be cleaned, I don't want to touch it. And I don't even have any other boys in the house, just my wife and two girls. Parents I know with one or two boys, they might as well not even have a toilet, tell their kids to piss in the corner and be done with it, because that's essentially what they're getting anyway. Man, I know people with boys and cats who do a poor job cleaning up after either and clearly can't smell it anymore themselves. Visiting is like a trip to a zoo, that mix of urine, peanuts and general musk. Yuck. I want to wear gloves up to my shoulder.

Yeah, sometimes toilet brushes just gotta go. Thanks for reminding me.

I dunno, I usually just spray copious amounts of bleach on the seat and let it sit for a minute before I wipe it up, then wash hands thoroughly afterward.

I just dip my hands in bleach and then wipe them off on the toilet.

lol

can't believe you guys figured out my patented methof

I misread that first as meatloaf and then meth, both of which would have been funny responses.

Methloaf

Methloaf of Modern Love.

I saw the typo and decided to keep it

I used to clean school toilets for a living. I had to use gloves then, but I don't bother with my own place. Just make sure you wash your hands thoroughly.

If I chop serranos, wash my hands 20 times, and then try to insert a contact lens, my eye burns like crazy. So I guess I regularly put poop in my eye.