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

(am i doing it right?)

Can't decide how rational or irrational this anger is, but goddamn, if you are a small business that is going to close for trainings during hours you are normally otherwise open, maybe share that info in advance somewhere? For the third time in about six months, I walked the six blocks to the local coffee shop that is the only non-Starbucks option near my office, only to find it closed for "training". I was there yesterday around the same time, no sign noting this. Nothing on the website, nothing on any of the shop's social media.

oh hey, quentin tarantino. shame you're still around.

dick.

what is, exactly, the point of sitting in a lane idling with your emergency flashers on, when there are ample parking spaces around where you could pull into to do whatever you're doing and not get in people's way?

i get it if you're like, pulling up to a front door to drop someone off quickly, but half the time I come into my neighborhood, the person in front of me abruptly stops, and on come the blinkers, and they just aimlessly sit there for 5-10 minutes, making everybody go around them. a lot of them are delivery drivers but it's like, come on, your car isn't going to get towed in the 25 seconds it takes for you to leave and come back to your car, and the only spots off-limits have signs in front of htem.

not one, but two separate individuals on two separate days joined a one-on-one meeting I scheduled a few minutes prior to start time, but when I joined at start time, they were gone, and not only that, went immediately afk and didn't return for over an hour.

what in the actual hell? like, you join an informal meeting early, see nobody there, and assume it's cancelled, even though it hasn't started yet?

so bizarre

I am 48 years old and I don't think I've ever successfully opened a loaf of bread. The 'tie' looks like it should have some logical method of opening but I've yet to find it, beyond pulling at the two bits of plastic and tightening its death grip on the neck of the plastic. I then, through tears of shame and rage, tear at the plastic, leaving a gaping hole that can never adequately be patched, thus decreasing the life of the loaf.
This has just happened again. I am now going outside. I may be some time.
Yrs, Chinaski.

Are you talking about the little flat plastic thing with a slot in it?

I can work those (sort of). This is like a bit of sellotape wrapped around the neck of plastic - usually around own brand bread (Sainsbury's, this time - we were spoiling ourselves).

This must be incomprehensible to anyone outside the UK, sorry!

Oh I know what you mean. I can't figure that one either

Oh god.. I hate those. I guess it's supposed to be possible to peel the fused together ends apart and release the cinched up neck of the sack (and then.. reseal it when you're done?) but I doubt it has ever been done

My advice on this is to cut the tie up the middle with a small scissors or knife, meaning you can twist the bag closed again after taking bread out.

I can usually part those as the manufacturer intended but closing the bread up again? Nope.

Also we may have the origin story of Tracer making own bread here!

https://i.imgur.com/qiDuE2X.jpg

I have tried with scissors, but they would need to be elfin to get under the sellotape!

I am heartened that it's not just me. And if I see Paxton in the street, I'll clip him, quite frankly.

Scissors or tip of a sharp knife is pretty much the only way to deal with that tape-closure that has a prayer of working. I advise you to stick to that method and just accept your defeats along with the occasional victory. It's better than rage-rending the bag. You can always save that approach for the emotional satisfaction of the attack and destruction of the foe.

the bread i buy (50/50) has the sellotape but the two ends of the sellotape has paper on them to stop it sticking to itself. pull the ends apart, ripping the paper, keep pulling to open the bag.

it's not 100% but works most times

i just pull apart the tape and can usually reseal it. i like to have the best-before date kept on it as we have various loaves/ bread products out, and they're usually seedy ones, so hard to spot mould :-l

this is usually branded bread though. those really narrow hardcore tape closures - no chance

I went to the hardware store yesterday and purchased a box cutter/utility knife, and now I realize I will need a pair of scissors — which I don't have — to cut the knife out of its plastic packaging.

I cut the tape like gyac mentioned, then use a previously saved Paxton clip to reseal the bag.

that tape makes me swear loudly every time, i fucking hate it
excellent addition to this thread

I snap my clips down the midline to yield two terrifyingly fast and accurate finger-flick projectiles

Get thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I snap my clips down the midline, sunshine

the use of "boomer" in the colloquial sense. i don't _mind_ being called a boomer, i'm not a prescriptivist, but i had this conversation today:

"yeah my mom's a boomer"
"really? you look about 20"
"i'm 22"

A LITTLE CLARITY WOULD BE NICE.

OK,

rushomancy.

Electricity and Gas bills. always annoying that they are both due on the exact same day rather than being different salary months but...

Electricity: £92.10 in credit, because of all the recent government payments
Gas: £92.03 in debit...

can i put the credit towards the debit? no. the two accounts are unconnected despite the name and address for each being identical, and the same card being used to pay both bills.

rushomancy.

― pplains

seriously though, "actually i'm not a boomer" is the most boomer response ever. the gen x response is to shrug, mutter "whatever" under my breath, and move on with my life.

i had this conversation today:

"yeah my mom's a boomer"
"really? you look about 20"
"i'm 22"

Born in 2000 or 2001, so the mother would have only needed to have been 36 or 37 at the time of the birth to qualify as a boomer. This doesn't seem unlikely?

always super annoyed when a writer’s bio says “published/bylines in” and then proceeds to list literally every publication that’s published them. bylines in nyt, vogue, pitchfork, teen vogue, cool blog, defunct mag

That’s irrational obvs because thread, but we do that because commissioning editors read Insta and Twitter.

irrational! i’m a writer too! i just think it should be narrowed down to five or so “, among others,” instead of like, thirty

*something mildly annoying happens to someone*

"OH GODDAMMIT, I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN, IT'S A FULL MOON TONIGHT"

Guilty. Also big on "why does this have to happen to me?" and "Of course! Today!"

I think I got it from my father. I'll try to stop.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2657.To_Kill_a_Mockingbird

annoyed by the rounding of two of the corners of these books. what books have every looked like this outside those moleskin notebooks?

I think it may be a bit more widespread design choice. Think I noticed it on a recentish book I picked up last year. Can't think which one right now.
Think I prefer straight corners though.

Maybe they're better for reading in bed.

It's an affectation instead of a useful feature, and it fits the theme of this thread beautifully.

Things provided as m4b files not mp3s. FUCK OFF.

things provided as avif files not jpgs

(webp also)

could do a poll for most annoying file format, right now as far as daily annoyances go it's .pages but .ram might be my all-time choice.

RealAudio metadata file?

yeah, lots of memories of thinking I'd found an mp3 I was looking for and instead it was a broken realaudio stream.

annoyed at Calexpo, where they hold state fairs, rv shows & bridal expos & whatnot

Huge permanent electronic signs at both major entrances now mostly used for local advertising

but that *should* theoretically (surely) at least promote a current major event when it’s happening right?

but no

a couple of poorly placed tiny plastic sandwich boards by the roadside are your only notice of the day’s event

meanwhile the giant electronic signs continue to tell you about vape stores & bad mexican food 2 miles away

not irrationally "angry" but any time I see a tv show where someone opens the door for someone, and that person enters the house, and they laeve the door wide the fuck open, I cant' focus on the scene cos i'm so bugged about the door being left wide open

Perfectly able-bodied people who, instead of simply using the handle to pull or push a door open, push the handicapped button to make the door open agonizingly slowly.

xpost - as a corollary to that one Neando, it always takes me out when a show or movie is set somewhere and during some time of year when the outdoors is absolutely bug-drenched but the characters seemingly live 24-7 with huge open patio doors and windows with no screens

absolutely no sane person in the Midwest would leave that many windows and doors wide open without screens in June, no matter how pleasing the temperature!

Perfectly able-bodied people who, instead of simply using the handle to pull or push a door open, push the handicapped button to make the door open agonizingly slowly.

― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, April 18, 2023 10:16 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

My local pharmacist has a door which will only open from the inside by pressing this button, which is a whole six feet away from the door. They don't have a decent sized sign to tell you this is the case either. Every fucking time I forget and try to pull it open.