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

So I go to a food truck on my break. There are no other customers. They take my order and I stand there waiting as they prepare sandwich after sandwich. Perhaps you should mention when I order that I'll have to wait 20 minutes for you to fill a phone order from a construction site. Or maybe you could just pause and make my fucking food since I'm actually standing right there.

crab legs googling kinda my favorite story of the week.

xp That's entirely rational. That is infuriating

Eating crabs - not just the legs - is A Thing in my region. One time, I found myself coaching non-English-speaking diners at a nearby table, using very bad high school French and lots of pantomime.

Like pistachios, it's a lot of work for comparatively little food, so it can be calorie-neutral (or even net-negative).

Anyway this is among the skills I had to learn pre-internet and pre-smartphone, so I am a little irrationally jealous of that story. So many things are so much easier now.

Like if you're on a date, and you see something on the menu you don't know how to pronounce, you can excuse yourself to the restroom and come back sounding all sophisticated like Bond, James Muthaflipping Bond.

Srsly, neanderthal. I think we've uncovered you as a spy.

― pplains, Friday, February 10, 2017 10:00 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i no tell special prosecutor, i no tell you

damn these new accordion style post-it notes, stanely kubrick is surely rolling in his grave

Aw, coleslaw is probably my main regret about becoming vegan. Yes, I know there are alternatives, but they're not the same.

I was all set to dig deeper into this 'unforkable coleslaw' topic, then I saw it was in the IA thread and thought better of it.

"Aw, coleslaw is probably my main regret about becoming vegan."

!!! you must have really really liked coleslaw.

how many tons of colesaw do you think are thrown away in those little white cups at restaurants every year?

IA for the day: the corner cafe is closed for Feb. It was the closest good coffee to my store. I don't like going to the Greek place. They have those pods of coffee. The bong store two doors down has dollar cappuccino in those machines and sometimes i do break down and get one of those. But that's not like actual coffee. So i go to the bakery across the street yesterday - which was friday - and i don't see the usual container of coffee by the door and i ask and they say they are out for the day. I leave and walk a couple of blocks to the co-op market. Which defeats the whole quick cup of coffee idea. Today i went back to the bakery to get coffee and they said they only have coffee during the week. ????

So i went to the bong store.

I really gotta clean out my old coffee maker at the store.

just wanted a coffee....

the bakery is sadly empty of baked goods too. and they are closed a lot. i think most of their business is wedding cakes? its kinda sad to walk into a bakery and see so little food.

I was about to post, "What about the place on the corner?" and realized you were talking about the place on the corner.

now I'm wondering if the bong store has coffee

yeah, brass buckle is taking a month off and regrouping.

x-post

i was so excited when i saw a bakery was opening up across the street. i thought it would be a real bakery. they have, like, cookies and some cupcakes. and then they do cakes and pies to order. but don't actually sell cakes or pies in their store. it's a bummer.

ffs scott i wasn't craving cake 20 minutes ago

People giving you a series of instructions that you'll never remember instead of just giving you a handy reference to look up

So essentially this: https://xkcd.com/783/ but with other things like recipes
'that's the Nigella Lemon Polenta cake, you can find the recipe on her website'
'great thanks, I'll do that'
'it's really easy, you just cream together 200 grams of butter and 200 grams of sugar'
'oh right'
'then you just add 3 eggs and 300g polenta, alternating'
'ok, I'll look it up later'
'but I use ground almonds instead'
'ok good tip'
Then add the zest of two lemons'
'mm'
'then just put it in the oven for 40 minutes'

FGGFGFGFGFF

That was my handover at my new job and you are otm

conversely when u give ppl a handy reference & but they for whatever reason abhor written instructions & prefer to continually ask you how to do a thing & your "it's the first part in the instructions i gave you" falls on deaf ears RAGE

I feel the same way about physical locations.

"Sounds like a plan, I'll be there. What's the address?"

"Well if you're coming from Broadway, you're gonna want to take a left on Fourth because Fifth is a one-way. Do that, go down about six blocks..."

"Ha, ok. I don't have a pen to write this down right now. Do you know the address?"

"These directions are pretty simple, you don't need the address. Anyway, six blocks, start looking for a brick apartment building. There are a lot of apartments around there so–"

i fucking HATE that. there've been a few times where people told me they didn't know the physical address, just how to get there, so I'd be like "k, when you find the address let me know" and walk away

used to hate the "just follow me" system for that reason - nowadays with GPS it's kinda not used as much but I was like "sure, it'll be fun getting stranded at red lights and being forced to drive close enough to you to prevent other cars from getting in front of me and cutting people off when you suddenly realize the turn is coming and erratically change lanes last minute".

Newspaper websites that fade the text after a paragraph and replace the test with a 'more' button.

I used to think it was to save bandwidth but they fill up the rest of the page with multiple other half-articles so it can't be that.

Test : text

yeah i think following ppl shpuld require a pre-interview & a practice run, at least some kind of screening situation

90% of everyone is terrible at leading a convoy imo

Example from trunk thread (and this is longer than most)

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/12/dark-essays-by-white-house-staffer-are-the-intellectual-source-code-of-trumpism/

Two more things:

Autocorrect. Coffee when I want code, code when I want coffee. Trunk when I want trump.

The Firefox text boxes which requires you to select something before you can paste the clipboard in, and which then replaces the selected thing with the pasted text.

Even if you leave a line before pasting it'll highlight the last word or punctuation from the last line and replace that.

Gimme an address and possibly a corresponding junction, or FRO.

I probably already complained about this one, but websites with slow loading images and ads. Everything jumps around on the page, and you try to click on something but you hit the wrong link because nothing stands still. Psjgapjgaljfapjfzkvz!

90% of everyone is terrible at leading a convoy imo

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, February 12, 2017 12:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like the friend of mine in high school who was driving like 40-50 mph through neighborhoods as a shortcut and expected me to do the same in a Geo Metro w/ 3 cylinders

or our friend of a friend who would floor it through orange lights at intersections & leave us stranded, and brake erratically when moving through traffic

i wanted to slap her when we got out of the car

I use it as a ruse to get rid of people I don't like. tell them follow me, punch it to 100, losing them in the dust, move to a new town, change my appearance and ID

Hello world
punch it

(Wtf?)

I feel the same way about physical locations.

"Sounds like a plan, I'll be there. What's the address?"

"Well if you're coming from Broadway, you're gonna want to take a left on Fourth because Fifth is a one-way. Do that, go down about six blocks..."

"Ha, ok. I don't have a pen to write this down right now. Do you know the address?"

"These directions are pretty simple, you don't need the address. Anyway, six blocks, start looking for a brick apartment building. There are a lot of apartments around there so–"

― pplains, Sunday, 12 February 2017 17:26

Yeah I think there was an XKCD cartoon about that one time >:/

i carpooled with a friend to a work retreat once, she drove. after about 30 minutes i learn she never looked up the location/address, was going by hearsay on how a friend got there this way once a few years ago but had no idea which highway, exits, nothing

i nearly murdered her

we lost cell service halfway there so had to frantically gps & write down the exits, i was so mad

i dont mind navigating but jfc maybe have some idea of where we're going

WTF WHO GETS IN A CAR & JUST WHATEVERS THE DIRECTIONS

ha yeah my brother tried to drive us to a friend's house on the other side of the city, about 25 mins away if that. Got hopelessly lost for most of the day. He'd printed off the step-by-step directions off Google maps but to be fair there was one section that made no sense. But he didn't have an actual map or anything in the car (and this was before everyone had internetty phones) so was just driving around hoping that the road in the instructions would suddenly appear.

I have to give ppl weird directions to our house because the actual address is "15/123 Fake st" but the street our front door faces is "15 otherstreet" for stupid reasons (block of townhouses, we're at the back). But I still give people the actual damn address as well!

Also: when u give ppl a handy reference & but they for whatever reason abhor written instructions & prefer to continually ask you how to do a thing

OMG this happens to me frequently at work. We sign on new resellers to sell the internet we wholesale. The initial training involves a comprehensive set of YouTubes and documents that show EVERYTHING in detail about using our system. But then its all "no no, we read it all, it seems straighforward" until a week later when theyre on the phone every 30 minutes asking for help on some stupid little thing that I'm like "this is what you do for a living how do you not know this ffs".

"I'm a visual learner"
'cool - these are visual instructions. read em'

I get annoyed by people who have lived in an area for years and are still unfamiliar with the major points of interest like parks, rivers, libraries-- but know every place you can buy fucking food

agreed

looool

It's probably RA not IA but the number of idiots shitting themselves about Bandcamp donating to the ACLU, like the ACLU is staffed entirely by black bloc anarcho-communists and not entirely reasonable people standing up for THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION said idiots claim to love.

lol oeld, but I know a bunch of black bloc anarcho-communists who are "fuck the ACLU" for their position that they'd defend Milo's speech if necessary, like dudes this is literally their thing, they're the ACLU.

they'd defend Milo's speech from government censorship or suppression if necessary

Mailing lists you sign up to that, every day, seem to come from a different randomly generated email address, so that EVERY FUCKING TIME you have to extract them from the Spam folder or constantly tell Outlook to show the images, so that even though you actually want to read them it all becomes too bloody hard

The one I'm wrestling with right now has a From: field that looks like this... Daily Review [no-reply=dailyrev✧✧✧.c✧✧.a✧@mail✧✧✧.atl✧✧✧.rs✧✧✧.n✧✧]; on behalf of; Daily Review [no-re✧✧✧@dailyrev✧✧✧.c✧✧.a✧]

email comment forms that don't work and are your only provided means of contacting a company about an issue

fuckin webex confrrences that make you sign in & then you verbally give your name on the call too& it still shows you as User 213 like wtf was the point of any of that signing in shit