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

Well, now... Look I know this is the Irrational thread, but those dividers serve a purpose.

We've got a five-lane state highway that divides our neighborhood in half. Some time before my time, they added dividers and turn lanes into the middle lane to sort of tamper down the traffic. They've since added fancy street lights and everything. It feels much more like a boulevard than a state highway now.

But going back to before my time, there was a McDonald's, a KFC, maybe a Wendy's? They all closed shop and went down the hill to the neighborhood without the frou-frou streetlamps. Good riddance! said my neighborhood association.

Didn't learn all that until one day when I asked why the comic book store had a drive-thru window.

by four-lane I meant two lanes in each direction, not like a freeway or anything

lol that’s kinda funny xpost

"oh, you're not interested in talking about food? why?" <talks about food for 45 minutes>

This. But in my case replace "food" with "obscure 19th century operas"

^ just think how handy that conversation could be if you ever appear on Jeopardy!

I’m rationally angry at everything and it’s terrible.

"do you have a wife? ... does she work? ... really? oh, women do that now, don't they?"

How old was this person?

44

WTF. Were they being sarcastic? I dont understand anyone our age thinking in that manner.

this is the most irrational of A’s

i joined a fb group a while back for local fans of a podcast. i went to a couple of their bookclub events a few times but the convos were barely ever about the books so i stopped going. but i swear all they ever want to do is meet up. like ALL the time. for anything. drinks, movie, tour of a local tourist attraction, blah blah. it drives me batty.
i’m not obligated to go so it shouldnt annoy me but i am me so of course it does. ie quit being so social jeez louise enough already

lol that sounds like the FB group of the bf's podcast. I had to unfollow it because they dont talk much about true crime, they post loads of gross memes and swears instead ;/

this is the modern version of “my book club just drinks wine and half of them never opened the book”

WTF. Were they being sarcastic?

not even for a second, although apparently he’s still bitter from a protracted divorce

god i signed back up to fb last week (for reasons, shut up), no way am i getting involved in crazy shit like clubs for people who aspire to read books

that fucking smug superannuation ad with all the smug fuckwits doing that fucking smug hand thing with their fucking smug hands can fuck right the fuck off

I get IA about people who act like a bed frame is some essential piece of real adult furniture, and that not having one is a sign of immaturity or something.

For some reason this opinion seems to be held mainly by women, who lament that many men are content to sleep on mattresses on box springs, or on mattresses on the floor. I've done plenty of all three, and I have a bed frame now, with a headboard and everything. It makes hardly any difference at all. It just seems like pointless snobbery over a thoroughly non-essential household item. But people will express it as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.

I was reminded of this today when I ran across this twitter thread (I promise I don't go looking for things like this), in which the discussion extends to what are apparently the wrong kinds (and colors!) of blanket to have:

The biggest lie in rom coms is that men have bed frames??

— Batul Hassan (@BatulMH) January 19, 2018

I slept on a yo (Korean relative of a futon) most of my childhood, and a futon directly on the floor between college and marriage. Since getting married, I have been able to manage a futon on a platform. But almost all conventional beds are way too squishy for me.

headboard = you can lean pillows against it and sit up in bed to read without the pillows sliding between the bed and the wall

I've always wanted one of these. Lay in bed at night, dream about Hershey Special Dark.

https://i.imgur.com/2fb9Pes.jpg

And then when my wife leaves me because I spent so much money on the headboard, I can point to it still hung on the wall and say, "That's where my bed used to be."

read “my wife” in borat voice

It's said in more of an Entwhistle way.

headboard = you can lean pillows against it and sit up in bed to read without the pillows sliding between the bed and the wall

― mh, Thursday, January 25, 2018 7:28 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I never had this problem when in my mattress-on-a-box-spring-on-the-floor days. The bed was flush against the wall. But if you're saying that a bed frame with a headboard is better than one without, then I agree.

ppl using the the grave accent as an opening quote mark

― mark s, Friday, September 22, 2017 5:24 PM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yessss

Also: using the grave accent as apostrophe. Baffles me that this is seen not infrequently over here, given that on the Norwegian keyboard, the actual apostrophe is on an unshifted key, while the grave needs shift + key + next keystroke.

when people ask you for a piece of information, like an email address, and say "go ahead", you start providing it, and then they stop you and say "oh I'm sorry one second".

YOU JUST SAID "GO AHEAD"

also the one Wawa near my friend is supposed to open its beer cooler at 9 am each day per the sign and on the last two occasions I showed up around 9:30 and it was still locked and had to flag an employee down to open it. I'm like c'mon this is a daily thing!

u ok

sobbin'

There are days when I will not get a chance to shop during the day and find myself buying beer at conspicuously early hours. Kids leave at 8:00 and then I need to get to work immediately; kids start coming home at 3:00, when I'm still juggling work calls. Then there's dinner and bedtime and housework and reading time. If I know I will want some beer, I either need to buy it at 8:00AM or at 10:00PM. Sometimes one gets A Look from the other patrons at the 7-11 or whatev, the decent cleanshaven people of the world who are getting coffee and a bran muffin and trying not to spill it on their suit.

I hate it when advertisers insist on slapping stupid copy all over products. Like the side of a toothpaste tube listing all its uses: "freshens breath! cleans teeth! prevents cavities ..." Yeah, it's fucking toothpaste! Or when you buy, I dunno, milk and it says "try it in cereal, or in coffee, or even in a glass!" or some shit. Or a pack of batteries that suggests using them in flashlights, or clocks, or other electronic devices. Duh. I'm looking at the back of a pack of Q-tips right now and it's all "Variety of uses: applying first aid, cleaning electronics, baby care, household use ..." They're Q-tips, I can use them for whatever the fuck I want, I don't need your help, and just because you have a package doesn't mean you need to cover it with words. Especially since, in an ironic turn, the one thing people really use Q-tips for - cleaning their fucking ears - is not really a legally approved use so doesn't get mentioned.

q-tips are ostensibly to clean the outer loops and whorls of your ears but you know you want to shove that sucker in there and dig a little

Sir I do not

oh *that's* the hole they're meant to go into...

Sir I beg you

when you cancel plans you’d already made to drive for 45 minutes to some family dinner and the very loud patriarch announces “RIGHT, THERE’S A NEW RULE, NO MOBILE PHONES” and then spouts racist/homophobic bullshit for three hours

maybe that can be my bargaining chip: no mobile phones, as long as you stop being a giant cock for exactly the same amount of time

Ha ha when I have dinner with the in-laws I always have to have a phone ready to investigate the Russian news site stories they present as fact

Do people who get their news from RT realize it's a Russian propaganda site and just not care or do they have no idea?

they probably think Rotten Tomatoes expanded into news

Tbrr, some of my loved ones take Rotten Tomatoes user reviews as written gospel, so it's not much of a stretch.

Apparently there is a trend (I don't know how much of a trend it really is) of parents who bring babies on flights giving out "apology" notes/gifts to their seat neighbors? FUUUUUUUUUCK that shit. But also fuck those people for their passive-aggressive excessive niceness and/or excessive self-deprecation. It's a baby. It's what adults start out as. Sometimes they need to go places, even by airplanes. This has been happening since there were commercial flights.

Apparently there is a trend (I don't know how much of a trend it really is)

Words to live by.

I thought it was bullshit when I first read about it, but a guy just suggested it in a facebook parent group (although maybe he just read about it in the same article, IDK).

I'm willing to give parents a pass who have little babies that cry and scream on a flight, but once they get to toddler age or order, they gotta lock that shit down.

toddlers being renowned for their compliant nature...

It doesn't sound worse than when neighbors stick I'M HAVING A LOUD PARTY THIS SATURDAY notes in others' mailboxes.

But yeah, there better be a gift attached to that note, not just some fancy pompamoose calligraphy.

It doesn't sound worse than when neighbors stick I'M HAVING A LOUD PARTY THIS SATURDAY notes in others' mailboxes.

wish more neighbours did this

I'm willing to give parents a pass who have little babies that cry and scream on a flight, but once they get to toddler age or order, they gotta lock that shit down.

― Moodles, Sunday, 25 February 2018 19:58 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No

Don't bring babies

Babies don't need to fly

Babies got by without flying for millions of years