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

STUFF DANGLING FROM REAR VIEW MIRRORS IN CARS. I mean, you’re in your 1.5 tonne potentially lethal wheeled machine driving near pedestrians, but let’s hang an air freshener or a lucky charm in the MIDDLE OF YOUR FIELD OF VIEW because it’s “protective” or “nice”.

do you drive

well yes, and I don't have shit dangling from my rearview mirror, nor do I wear a blindfold

My gaze is generally to the left of the rearview mirror unless I'm looking in the mirror.

I get IR whenever we're driving around and my wife inevitably immediately starts digging through her purse at her feet for her phone or a tissue or something, which blocks the passenger side mirror and window with her head and hair, and this is always right when I'm about to turn or get on the highway or something and I can't use that mirror or see out that window and even if I don't necessarily need to I WANT TO.

yeah im much more bothered about wing mirrors and unobstructed rear view than....the middle of the windscreen

It's the general principle of obscuring part of the driver's view, coupled with the fact that moving (dangling) things involuntarily draw attention. If a pedestrian or a cyclist happened to be in line with the rearview mirror, hanging something inside the car which could distract or delay the driver noticing the person is dangerously negligent. I don't see why that's hard to understand.

seems reachy imma give it a 3

It's on a spectrum with people who furnish their car interiors like a sweet little palace of cute, so that they forget they're in control of a tonne-plus of high speed machinery which can easily kill someone. Driving is serious, no exceptions.

hate these official visits from the committee for anger rationality

b-but my anger is DISPROPORTIONATE

very fair of course very fair

I just started watching How to Get Away with Murder for the first time ever and Dean Thomas's head tilt acting method is driving me crazy.

Matthew K OTM.

You might keep your gaze to the left, but there's still shit comin' at you from the right.

Just hang a fucking dreamcatcher over your computer monitor. I mean, you'll still be able to see 75% of your screen, right?

yr being ridiculous now

You're supposed to hang the balls on the trailer hitch, deems.

i do but then its a bitch not to fall of when we hit a pothole

Matthew K OTM.

You might keep your gaze to the left, but there's still shit comin' at you from the right.

FP'd you for racism, trying to get Matthew Killed on the road

nice point there sic - I was recently a passenger on a long drive in the States and I would def have had a major wreck if I had been driving

when you tear down at the dotted lines on the plastic wrapping around the top of the pill bottle or the new bottle of poppers and it doesn't tear all the way down so you start tearing laterally thinking your tear will surely spiral around to the bottom of the wrapper, finally freeing your bottle of said wrapper, but the tear stops spiraling downward at the point where there is the most tension in the wrapper, leaving half a band of plastic just under the lid which then requires extremely advanced nanosurgical knife skills to remove, and ten minutes later after much nitpicking your bottle is finally free of the goddamn plastic wrapper that was supposed to be so easy to remove.

I just twist the lid as though there's no plastic wrapper, and it all rips off with a satisfying feeling that this is how Hulk opens pill bottles.

the blue plastic things they put in pill bottles, which are the first thing to fall out every single time you try to shake out a pill, are disgusting savages

I keep opening cardboard pill boxes at the end with the drug info leaflet getting in the way.
I never remove the leaflet to prevent this happening again and I annoy the fuck out of myself with it every time.

that the previous IA threads werent locked

xp this is my superpower, every fucking time.

Picture of me updating a two-year thread that should've been locked:

https://i.imgur.com/xcg4NQM.gif

Feeling irr. ang. today that I have to vacuum AGAIN, I seriously just did and it's already all dusty again.

fuck dust, fuck all dust

Like, hey dust, what does it tell you that I vacuum you up EVERY WEEK? Does it tell you that I want you to come right on back and congregate in your nice little corner again by the bookshelf? No, I want you to STAY VACUUMED UP how can I make that any clearer?

It's you. The dust is you.

People wearing shorts in the winter

Especially if also wearing gloves

I had this argument with a guy who said, "You'd wear a t-shirt while wearing pants, right?"

You can't argue with these lunatics.

Last year when it snowed in England I saw grandparents wearing huge coats taking their grandchildren to school, and the poor kids were wearing shorts. In the snow!

sandals guy sounds like every town in a climate with actual winter has to have one or two shorts guys who wear those shorts even when there's 3 foot icicles hanging off every building

― iMacaroon dragoons (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, September 4, 2013 9:35 AM

At Missouri, we called those guys "Iowans."

― pplains, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 9:37 AM

I did my undergrad at a school with lots of engineers and CS majors and a 3-1 male-to-female ratio that was in a place that got ridiculous amounts of snow. There were always at least a few super nerdy guys who walked around campus in shorts and t-shirts all winter. I always wondered if they were somehow immune to such worldly needs like warm clothing (and nourishing food and personal hygiene) or if they had calculated the effort involved in dressing appropriately for short walks from their dorms to the classroom and realized it wasn't worth it.

There was also always one guy who would wear a wizard cloak and carry a staff of some sort around - it was a different guy every year, but it was a role that was always filled.

People who back into parking spots. Why do you do that? It takes up more time and space to back in, and when it's time for you to leave you might think you're getting out faster, but a) while that may be true it really only matters if you've robbed a bank and b) because we can't see your reverse lights we can't see that you're leaving when we're looking for a spot. So just park normally, you big dummies.

because you are a better driver than someone who drives in nose first because its easy and takes an age and a risk to get out because fuck it everyone knows driving properly is difficult hey

people who back out of their own driveways without checking for traffic on the street because "fuck you this is my house."

Yes! I absolutely get IA at people who back into spaces.

Some places most people back in (Hawaii, asian countries).

Is that in parking lots or on the street (parallel parking)?

Parking lots (google hawaii backing into parking spaces). In most places in the US you can't park backwards (ticket) on the street/parallel?

I was thinking parking lots too, did not know that about Hawaii.

You also have to back buses into spaces.

also in countries where you have to be able to drive in order to drive

I only learned to drive this year and was only told how to back into a space, in fact the instructor led me to believe this is the 'proper' way to do it. Maybe because it's on the test? I have the feeling that going in forwards gives you difficulties getting to the curb somehow?

if i backed into a parking space I wouldn't be able to get stuff (buggy, shopping) into the boot.

Read an interesting article about people backing into parking spots. First of all, apparently it's a big thing specifically in Hawaii. Who knew? (xpost I know you did, because you mentioned Hawaii, but I meant generally.) Second, the article linked it to the premise of delayed gratification, where people do the harder work early in return for easy egress later. I still think it messes up the rhythm of busy parking lots though. I know where I am specifically it's actually a ticketable offense, too, because it makes it hard for the police to see your license plate stickers to make sure they are up to date.

I knew of Hawaii because I lived there for a short time and there are a lot of memes about it. I only get annoyed when people tediously parallel park in large spaces that they could've easily driven straight into.