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

i should clarify that mostly i've travelled to the U.K. where people could think at face value that I'm as likely american as canadian

I start to pronounce vowels like a canadian if in canada for more than a week. maybe a stopover before heading elsewhere would be useful

There's a ton of reasonable American tourists but you tend not to notice them over the din from the worst of them.

yeah Tom D OTM

i have a buddy who constantly tries to sound more american than canadian lol

you think you're american, eh

that's what i tell him

i laugh so hard and he's not one to show his frustration but i feel like it bothers him because he talks to a lot of americans when dealing with business clients and they tell him he sounds so canadian

as an american I make sure I have a leaf on my bag when travelling abroad because there's a ton of disparaging attitudes about american tourists or U.S.A. politics for example.

foreigners have sussed that USAers sometimes hide behind maple leaves, so all leaf-brandishers are suspect, too

Manufacturers of maple leaf emblems must be breaking all sales records at the moment.

yeah the maple leaf thing is an old trick. i'm surprised no ones mentioned how terrible aus tourists are overseas, but i guess most of our shiteness is in places like Bali

Yeah I stayed at a resort in Phuket a couple years ago and there were lots of very loud, shockingly tanned Australians with southern cross tattoos smoking and drinking by the pool all day. A lot of the staff assumed my wife and I were Russians because we are quiet and stern looking midwesterners.

people who won't wrap up their convos w/ cashiers at convenience stores while you're trying to put your stuff down and pay

^^^

That everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Complete your transaction AND MOVE ON.

This one is c/o my friend:

A little background, he is on call at different physical rehab. places and everyone is always eating up his time and every minute counts. He told me he had a discussion with a lady about east indian food and she suggested he take her left overs. He didn't have time to eat and had to keep moving, so he told her this. She said she could put it in a to-go container, but he drives around all day in the sun and that food would turn to soup by the time he could take a break. She finally suggested she would do some home cooking and bring it another day.

TLDR point: People really can kill you with kindness

xpost conversely, customer service people who are ott chatty when there is a line of people

line of 4 ppl waiting while this dude bullshits & lols with a customer about his day job, chillaxing, offering to go check in the back for something that customer already said he doesnt really need anyway .. omg wrap it up buddy!!

no beef with friendliness but you gotta be efficient too, my dude

Ross: lol I had a similar situation once in one of my very first jobs, in a pharmacy. A man who I think worked in a nearby cafe? Lovely middle aged Lebanese fellow, once offered me some left over tabouleh to take home. I dunno, maybe he thought I needed a feed, i was pretty skinny back then.

Anyway I took it out of politeness and that night I discovered how much I truly hate tabouleh. Only the man then kept giving me a giant bucket of it every friday after his cafe closed, and I didnt have the heart to tell him I hated it and was just chucking it out.

maybe that's how he got it too. could have been a re-gift every week

Or it was the shitty left over stuff siting in the salad bar all week he wouldve thrown out anyway, ha.

earbuds (which i bought for a fiver in tescos about a year ago when the last ones crapped out on my way somewhere) have gone in one channel so i'm going to feel lopsided all day.

I can' even listen through headphones that only work on one side. it drives me too crazy.

My IA is about animal names in children's entertainment - that thing where the vast majority of animals have first names that alliterate with what kind of animal they are - Sammy Squirrel, Allie the Alligator, Peppa Pig, etc.

It's annoying, not just because surely at least some animals should have last names that aren't just "Crocodile" or "the Elephant" or whatever. Also because there are presumably millions of each type of animal; wouldn't they run out of first names really fast?

Imagine if all humans needed to be named this way: Harry Human, Harriet the Human, Henry Human, Hildegard Human....

Trayce lol :)

Between 2:30 - AM and 4 last night, two women kept on going in and out the front door to have smokes and talking loudly in an accent somewhere between newfoundlander and the Mom from Bobby's World. Honestly I couldn't make out a single word they were saying, it sounded like the most annoying gibberish I've heard from a mouth breather in some time. To make matters worse, their male counterparts came out and started laughing a lot. I'm sure they were guests who came down for the Canada Day celebrations, because no tenant would just hang around the front stoop that late. I wanted to tell them to shut the fuck up but I guess I was pretty sure they weren't reasonable people.

lol alcohol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

looking for replacement earbuds and there are 400 PAGES of results on amazon.

(sennheiser appear to have abandoned the <£30 market)

i had 5 pairs of non-working earphones at home when i looked last night, and two pairs that did (both bundled with devices and not the earbud type i prefer).

It's certainly not in the top100 of worst things Trump has lead to, but dudes on FB posting their Edward Murrow pastiches day after day is really getting old.

i was sick of that prior to Trump too tbh

government programs.

Locked down in red tape and bureaucracy

honestly they do everything but help you, the person on the other end is probably getting a bonus to refuse you benefits. FUCK EM

"If you're facing imminent danger or a child is in danger, press 1. Office hours are from 9-4 PM. Please call back"
wtf

Maybe I am a horrible person but the guy I sit next to at work has some really gross nasal hygiene habits that I can barely cope with. His way of coping with a stuffy nose/cold is to constantly make this gross HRRRRRRKKK snorting sound and sniff all the shit back up into his head. Over and over and over.

He also smells like a mixture of old socks, stale cigarettes, bad insense and BO.

trayce you soud reasonable to me

sound*

my coworker has some kinda congenital sinus something that makes him clear his throat 9000 times a day

when i'm tired it's all i can hear

Argh yes a friend of mine does that (I dont think he even realises). I have that condition where certain sounds just send me to the insanity plane, and sniffing/horking/mouth noises are the worst.

I often cant sit and read in the lunch room at work because it'll be all quiet, save for the sounds of 2 or 3 people eating very loudly with their mouths open. I get this uncontrollable rage/panic and have to leave the room.

getting super super massively fucking ia with people who, when i tell them i'm abandoning my life goals because there is no possible way to make them work, immediately say "have you tried <magic plan to fix everything>?", like in a year and a half of exhaustive attempts that have cost me happiness in myriad ways i never considered that one thing you thought up in two seconds

but have u tho

hush now

:D

I mean, maybe just try talking without moving your lips first and then move on to the part where your buddy talks while you drink from a glass of water.

at least then i'd have something to spit across the table when i double-take

add to cart to see price. no.

^ugh yes

This isn't quite IA but I wasn't sure where to put it...

I've been received calls from Florida for a few months and now they're leaving VM. It's a kid who thinks I'm his daddy and he's wondering where I am. I tried to answer today to tell the kid I'm not his dad, but the call abruptly dropped. It doesn't seem like a prank and I don't think blocking the number is right until someone sets the story straight. Just a weird sitch

yr not my dad?

lol

science has shown Neanderthal is the father of all modern day ILXors.

To be fair, Darth, everything got a little hazy after that shit went down on the lava planet. Are you sure?

Increasingly fed up of the amount of stuff that flies towards you in modern films. Make a decent 2d version without all the gimmicks, you mooks.

(Gravity, currently)