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

How bad the first few google images of rachel weisz are

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/709071/26879649/1456414109140/lightbtwn-cryingrachel.jpg

Probably very rational. I went to walk into the local supermarket and some woman with 2 massive dogs is letting one of them piss on the wall that's beside teh path I have to walk down to get into the carpark around the shop. She herself is squatting totally blocking the entrance for some reason and the dog is producing like a lake of pee. So I say excuse me and she actually gets the idea that people might be wanting to walk through this space but I then have to avoid this puddle.
Really some dog owners are scum.

Much like the idiot a couple of days earlier with a similarly massive dog that he's allowing to walk at the end of a leash so between the two of them they're taking up an entire path width that I need to get past.

Tech support or building maintenance depts. that make you submit tickets and then close them out either with no message, or some bullshit like "This issue is resolved" when absolutely nothing has been done.

Agree with the anger at that but I also empathize with the tech support drone who didn't put the system into place but still has to be measured/evaluated based on it.

The Duke Ellington's Ghost character in the animated Netflix series Big Mouth. Doesn't look like Duke, doesn't sound remotely like him, and he references shit that couldn't have happened (e.g., Charlie Parker was still in Kansas City in 1938, and wouldn't have run into Duke in NYC).

It's like they wanted "old-timey swing-era archetype" and thought, "Duke Ellington, yeah, wasn't he a guy?" and maybe they can't tell him from Cab Calloway. And the music cues for the character are decidedly un-Ellingtonian.

A cartoon ghost is ruining a mildly funny show for me.

harrumph :)

Ellington was such a distinctively awesome orator/talker/personality, it is sacrilege to fuck with him. One Ellington thing I got angry about was when watching a 70's Parkinson interview with him. He's talking about his concert in Kabul and says: I wasn't sure these people had even heard of Mood Indigo, and they have their own thing going on there. Then the Brit audience erupts into laughter. Like the idea that foreigns have their own music is just fucking hilarious to 70's Brits.

harrumph :)

I like the show otherwise! But as calzino points out, Ellington was such an interesting personality that making an entirely different personality and calling it "Duke Ellington" doesn't make sense.

It'd be like if they had a character called John Lennon's Ghost who played drums and spoke in a southern accent and wore bib overalls with a piece of straw hanging out of his mouth.

jazz nerds are adorable imo

haven't seen the show but by your description, a white comedian erasing DE's identity seems pretty tone deaf and downright racist. kroll also likes to do the brownface thing with his spanish language radio bit fwiw.

tbf, Jordan Peele does the voice. But...I mean, jeez...

https://youtu.be/WgYwNqr6NfU

that looks like him haha

Yeah, it does look more like him than I remembered from my initial impression (and I'm more used to seeing latter-day baggy-eyed photos of Duke).

The show had talking vaginas and you are bothered by duke ellingtons ghost not being authentic. okaaay :P

Talking CHILDS vaginas more to the point (I loved this show, binge watched it, but felt mildly weirded out at the end at the kids + sexuality thing)

Ha, I only caught the first 2 episodes, and I must have missed that.

all the "hat-tips" that the internet has fostered (inc. irritating contraction h/t and -- as i just saw -- tools saying "chapeau")

SAY THANK YOU OR WELL DONE YOU AGGRAVATING SAVAGES, most of you don't even own hats and (probably) fuck you if you do, your hat is horrible

As with most contractions, the solution is to burn Twitter to the ground.

No we must nationalise twitter and make it better

as i just saw -- tools saying "chapeau"

Oh god please no.

I note that Zippy the Pinhead used to have little "tip o' the pin" bits, well before internet "h/t."

If, during any of my errands today, I hear pharrell's stupid fucking happy song playing, I am going to ask to speak to the manager and tell them to either turn it off or have me removed by security.

The promulgation of "gift cards" priced with 10-20% fees included over the value of the card itself is a complete perversion and the trade in them should be a felony.

Anybody who defends capitalism by suggesting that it rewards any human attributes other than venality and greed should have their literacy revoked and have to take grades 1-12 over again.

Heh, yeah, my relationship with my brother in law really started going downhill when I pointed out to him that there's no moral or ethical component to capitalism, only shareholder value. For some reason that hurt his fucking feelings.

tools saying "chapeau"

this shit is rife on cycling twitter

The phenomenon of apple picking. I now have a peck of not very tasty, mostly green apples that I got from a mostly picked-over orchard, and I paid $20 for it in spite of doing the labor myself.

People who pull out of a space in an alley and decide to back up while you're walking towards them, only to stop and text on their phone. Wtf

fuck screen protectors. not once in my entire life have i been able to successfully put one on a phone. ~lint~ can suck it.

(and then two minutes later i dropped my phone and chipped it, but that anger is probably not irrational tbh)

people that still haven't figured out how to determine whether an elevator is going up or down before getting on it

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There's something uniquely awful about when you're speaking to a customer service rep in another country and they use some kind of boilerplate customer service phrase in a slightly off/wrong way:

"Hi, I'd like to book a flight for tomorrow"
"Yes, great, thank you, well I do understand your concern."

It's like this extra layer of passive-aggressiveness where they've memorized an already annoying passive-aggressive phrase and are clearly just saying it on autopilot which also feels passive aggressive.

And of course that is irrational, they're probably on autopilot bc they're on 12 hour shifts and it's not their fault that american consumer capitalism requires these sorts of incantations of them.

if it makes you feel any better they're earning a pittance xp

yeah, again, IA

recently i bought some airpods, one was busted and they had to go back. this week i bought a lightning-to-3.5mm adapter, no sound in one channel, had to go back. today i bought some bluetooth headphones, something's rattling around in the fucking earcup, they have to go back. so utterly fucking over this.

A thing I have acknowledged but have yet to come to terms with is that technology in practice is just a loose and inconsistent approximation of what it's actually supposed to do. Unless what it's supposed to do is alternate between working properly and inducing rage strokes, in which case my bad.

wouldn’t be surprised tbh. nearly half of all the tech things i’ve ever bought have been faulty out of the box. at least i’m buying from reputable retailers who swap on the spot.

I mean, seriously it’s got to the point where i check the more expensive stuff in the shop (e.g. phones) just so i don’t have to go back.

can't stand my neighbours, which is probably rational

- co worker on one side of me constantly eats raw carrots and the crunching is driving me murderous. I think I have misphonia or something
- co worker behind me has some seriously effed up sinuses or allergies or something and sneezes NON STOP ALL THE TIME. I mean I feel for the poor guy buy jesus. I mean it is relentless, snotty sneezing and nose-blowing. Erry day.

...it occurs to me i may have ranted about the latter on here before oops.

I feel for you. Cannot imagine how awful I would feel having to hear carrot munching or sneezing or nose-blowing all the bloody time. Capitalism has stuck us co-workers too close together imo. It's not right.

(yes, I blame capitalism)

We sit at long, open benches with piffly partitions front-facing, but no partitions at all for the people next to each other, it sucks.

That's fucking horrid, bordering on abusive.

So it's like sitting next to each other like you would at a lunch table? Damn.

today i bought some bluetooth headphones, something's rattling around in the fucking earcup, they have to go back. so utterly fucking over this.

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 November 2017 23:19 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on friday i went to take them back and they stopped rattling as i was going back to the shop. tonight, the day before a public holiday (when obv i can't go into the shop), they're rattling again. this anger is probably rational by now.

We sit at long, open benches with piffly partitions front-facing, but no partitions at all for the people next to each other, it sucks.

Agh that sucks, I would hate that.

The other related dept in this building also sit side by side with no partitions, and there's talk about moving both depts in together, which I'm p. sure means "cram all you lot in like the rest of them", and I'm dreading it tbh. Hate being shoulder-to-shoulder or back-to-back with people and expected to turn off some primordial part of my brain which feels like it has to constantly monitor any tiny noise or movement within 2 metres of me, so I can concentrate on spreadsheets or code instead. Not built for office life tbh but def not built for any other kind of job either so here we are.

The people in this office do love their crunchy food which drives me mad too (I try to take a 20-minute break when I see the guy next to me open his lunchbox as it always contains a giant stick of celery, a load of carrots and 2 apples) but the office food noise currently driving me most insane is the guy who eats pistachios all through the morning. Something about the tiny sound of a pistachio shell cracking every 10 seconds for a long stretch of each day is bizarrely enraging to me - but apparently not to anyone else in this office. Thanks, brain.

XP sounds irritating