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

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

Means you can run riot and they don't know who to blame.

User 213: why doncha all go fukk yerselves

I am a big fan of coleslaw, and have no idea why Jeff posted a picture of potato salad up there.

Shit I didn't wanna say but yeah

What???? This is what potato salad looks like:

🗻

Invisible potato salad

http://www.itsyummi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mustard-potato-salad-feat.jpg

That looks like egg salad

Strong mustard component, as all potato salad should have.

Wasn't Strong Mustard Component an Elephant 6 band?

I'm sure most of my posts are about this but
FUCCCKKK YOU INFINITE SCROLL

Wasn't Strong Mustard Component an Elephant 6 band?

― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.)

Rejected Butthole Surfers album title, iirc.

Boomerang

hell yes

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

A little more than that (though that alone is enough for bemusement from countries that actually have hate speech laws):

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/12/514785623/the-aclu-explains-why-theyre-supporting-the-rights-of-milo-yiannopoulos

More importantly, I'm pretty sure Jeff's second picture is cauliflower cheese.

I can't live like this here.

First thing this morning a dude sat down on the bus and I briefly looked at him, to which he replied: "What the FUCK are you looking at?". There's some people in the city that if you look at for a split second, they'll try to instigate a fight. It's not the first time.

sounds like he had a bad case of irrational anger to me :-(

i can't tolerate people who spell my first name wrong

harbI?

yeah, that is my legal name, mh