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

i find myself getting very ia at people who dont interrogate conversation, who just wait to talk and continue to talk talk talk and barely acknowledge other contributions

i like conversation when it is like a game of tennis. i do not enjoy being the backyard wall against which you repeatedly smash your 'conversation'

a) never ever go on facebook; it is the absolute worst

b) unless you are drunk and desperately seeking human contact; even then it will be a mistake

c) would totally become unhelpfully drunk with jbr/dow/veg tho!

d) first round's on veg

all round to my place for fap :D

annual rolling threads that needn't be annual

-pizza places that don't sell pizza by the slice

(I politely walked out of two pizza places in one day because the first one didn't sell slices after 6 pm and the second one told me there'd be a 15 minute wait because "our slicing pizza is still in the oven.' this was the one time in my life I was tempted to get on Yelp and write some irate reviews)

overly tailored tshirts on casual friday (ie neatly rolled up sleeves, tucked in etc)

just relax and wear a damn tshirt.

Needing to work out if the zip I used in the construction of a pair of jeans last year that I wear regularly or if I just keep forgetting to zip it up. Keep finding it down anyway. So just wondering if it's the zip or my memory.
& it would be the pair of jeans that needs a special needle to sew the fabric.

Wondering how long I'll have to wait until I can comfortably collect a shelving unit without being absolutely p-ed on trying to get it home. Weather is atrocious for last few days and I need to transport this flat pack I bought. Waiting for an actual break in bad weather.

That was supposed to say about whether a zip needed replacing or if my memory was going. Looks like the latter if I forgot to put in the bit about replacing. & i only made the jeans about 3 or 4 months ago so it should hopefully not mean a zip needed replacing yet. Keep finding myself flying low though.

Also trying to work out which side of the fabric i'm using for a pair of tartan jeans should be the outside/inside since they look very similar. & I don't want to get it wrong throughout. Guess that would at least be consistent though.

Stevolende, I have a question about jeans fly covers. Mine constantly bunch up, exposing the top part of the zipper. I have considered that the reasons might be:
- waist is too tight (but it happens on looser waists, too)
- my gut is pushing down on the waistband
- the button hole has gotten loose, allowing the top flap to sag (though I have tried sewing up the button hole without success, possibly due to my lack of skill and understanding)

Any advice on how to treat this problem? Some kind of insert to stiffen the flap?

Here is a pic of the problem.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8569/16069669409_693c9d1c35.jpg

And so it's on topic: this folded flap makes me SO IRRATIONALLY ANGRY

I think I just tend to wear shirts outside my jeans so it's covered up. Will think about it but not sure offhand.

Might be that you need to make sure you've ironed the fly flap. BUt probably not. I don't know if I know enough about construction and subsequent pressures to answer. But could be that it would be good for me to be aware of that for future knowledge.

I've made like 10 pairs of jeans so far so it's still early days. & I'm not sure how successful they all are. Found out that some I'd made some months back really were too large at the waistband. Being largely self-taught I'm not 100% sure what solutions are.

i don't like when people's facebook comments are nothing more than them tagging other people. put it on your friend's wall or send a private message. comment threads are for actual comments.

THIS. When the hell did this kick off? It is irritating. Ive clicked on comments threads that are nowt but tag-ins. Ive even had friends of mine tag me in some other random persons thread. I ignored the callout. PM me or GTFO.

start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3">Karl Malone

Online sellers who aren't satisfied with the fact that you purchased a product from them and did not try to return it or complaint about it, but hassle you RELENTLESSLY to leave feedback, tell us what you think, post about us on social media, blah blah blah

FUCK YOU I gave you money. You gave me a product. We're not married now. I don't owe you anything. I don't have to go to your parents' house for Thanksgiving and I don't have to write a review of your GOD DAMN cocktail shaker. Fuck.

Also:

I was printing out my parents boarding passes from Spirit Airlines last night and they offered the normal nickel-and-dime-you-to-death services and the option to voluntarily pay an additional $1 or $5 to help the airline be more green.

So not a service, just some random fucking guilty bullshit about how if we want this airline to be more environmentally friendly, give us extra money. We're already paying extra money to check a bag and have more leg room than a chicken a 12-by-12 factory farming crate, and now these fuckers have the nerve to try to extort money for their environmental initiative? I'm still so angry about that I can barely form a coherent objection to it.

I'm underemployed right now working as a temp in a law firm.. I got a ton of overtime last week but I am FUCKING FURIOUS because I HATE overtime and I hate my line of work because Im subject to the whims of capricious lawyers who dont give a fuck about my life or free time (or common sense/decency). The irony being I'm making time and a half and have a bunch more money than I would yet I am still FUCKING FURIOUS because theres a lot more overtime in the future.

It also doesnt help that because I'm a temp I'm realizing about 2/3ds of what my employer is paying the temp agency, which is basically the same amont of money I used to make like ten fucking years ago.

thanks obama

^^^great CSR, there, carl. *screams*

I was a participant in the following exchange last week:

Cashier: 'Thanks for shopping with us. Can I take your e-mail address?'
Me: 'No...'

Hate it when I'm too fast for a website. Site loads, I put the cursor on something like "SEARCH" and click, but in that split second between those two actions, the site has loaded up just a little bit more and I wind up clicking on something like "CONTACT US".

When I started at TCS they encouraged us to ask ppl for their email addresses at the register. At first they said it like, "Hey, people might want to know when we have sales! Just ask, if they say no, that's fine obvs." By the time I left they were offering positive incentives to workers who got the highest percentages of ppl to give them an email. I got the feeling negative incentives were right around the corner.

Radio Shack has been really obnoxious about the email stuff for years

lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago

I just had one of those, cash purchase of an overpriced-yet-undeniably-effective hair care product for one of my daughters from a salon I visit for no other purpose.

"What's your last name?" "Is it 'Dusty' Perry?" "I'm supposed to ask." "How do you spell your last name?" "Who normally does your hair here?" Ha ha ha, who does my greying, thinning hair.

Canada Goose Parkas

It also doesnt help that because I'm a temp I'm realizing about 2/3ds of what my employer is paying the temp agency

Not to stoke any further IA, but it's possible that you are grossly overestimating the cut that your temp agency is willing to part with.

Very true. I used to be temped for Accounts Payable jobs, so the most hilarious thing to me was knowing the 'big secret' of exactly how much the company was paying for my services because I was the one processing the bill! (Of course temp agencies never ever want their temps to know this stuff).

I recall more than one job where I got hourly $13, and the agency was getting $22, and that this ratio was pretty usual, so, I got more than half, but less than 2/3 of the payout.

However, and this really ticked me off, one job that was largely funded by taxpayer dollars paid me way less than half of the outrageous sum the temp agency got! I think I got $9 out of $25 bucks on that one! No business like soaking the people.

temp agencies take that much?! damn.

i guess companies will pay to screw people out of benefits

Most of the times I was ever offered to 'go perm' it was usually with a pay cut from what I had been getting as a temp ('but you'll get benefits') so, no, thanks.

One reason I did temp for a long time was that the pay rates had at least something to do with demand, whereas permanent positions tended to be successfully squashed. While it was humiliating in some ways to have the agency taking a lot of money for doing nothing but landing me the spot, that did save me a lot of dreadful human resources interviews and frankly, I just wouldn't have found those positions on my own. I also used to see the most interesting trainwrecks: places where I'd take over the suddenly vacated position of an embezzler, a revenge case, a blazing incompetent. Whole little histories there. The work of course was more boring than not so regular changes of scenery were helpful as well.

lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago

That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):
http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/

I particularly enjoyed VIII and XV, if you've got better things to do than read the whole collection of longwinded rants. But who would have better things to do than that?

omg XV is amazing, I have no idea what that is

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t53/baldie0522/doin-brum.gif

baldie doin-brum.gif

ia: egregiously bad service in restaurants. i'm sooooo chill and forgiving about minor food service slip-ups. i don't care if you smile. i don't care if you refill my water without me having to ask. if i don't say when i'm ordering that i'm allergic to XYZ food item (which would be a gross overstatement, since my food allergies are really trivial), it's a minor inconvenience but not the end of the world if the kitchen forgets to leave it off. i just want a baseline level of transactional ease if i'm gonna choose your place over other places. i had work to do last night and i ran out to get a quick takeout order so i could scarf down some food and meet my midnight deadline. i ended up waiting probably 40 minutes for a dish that at most would take ten minutes to cook from pre-prepped ingredients and assemble in a styrofoam box. and the restaurant was busy, but not slammed. it just made me very stressed out. which is my problem, not theirs. i don't handle stress well. 40 minutes is a long time to wait though.

no i in yr a

so to speak

the level of stress made my a feel i

_lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago_

That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):
http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/

I particularly enjoyed VIII and XV, if you've got better things to do than read the whole collection of longwinded rants. But who would have better things to do than that?

Whoa thank you, aps! I read the first few of those when it was first posted, but missed the great ones you pointed out plus my favorite, the one w/ Stoned Craig going "I'm hungry, Paw." (Which I've said a lot to various people over decades for no reason I can discern, so maybe it's just part of the collective human drive to say it.)

Stoned Je55e

OK that Brum story looool
Original Brum theme was instrumental but TIL there is an extremely lengthy modern version

bill gates the spider

News sites showing handheld video but blurring out the edges? I feel like I see something like this every week or two. Sorry, this is some really traumatic video.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/dying-among-strangers-metro-victim-found-fellow-riders-who-tried-to-save-her-life/2015/01/13/98f6c37e-9b7a-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html?hpid=z3

lately every time i watch some crappy viral video prank, i get IA imagining myself just out and about trying to run an errand and getting trapped in a viral video prank. like that dumb telekinesis coffee shop thing.*

*maybe the reactions are fake, idk.

It's very likely my last dying words will be "Turn your phone sideways if you insist on recording this."

Yeah, it's not because something is being blurred out, it's because people don't shoot in landscape and for some reason news organizations have chosen to present it like that. I think they should just reject all portrait videos.

Why can't phones just format videos in landscape regardless of the position of the phone?

camera sensor orientation? the actual sensor isn't square iirc, I may be wrong

those takeout containers with interlocking flaps - eating from them makes me ia bcz the flaps get in the way

i usually dump it out onto a plate of something but sometimes you can't & raaaaage

Like Chinese take out containers?

if you hold it from the side you are holding down three of the flaps automatically

Blurred margins - you'll also see this sometimes when shows re-run old 4x3 segments in their new 16x9 format.

Was cutting up a carrot for some soup for dinner and lost about half of it to the 3 slices just rolling right off the cutting board and onto the floor.

I hate it when that happens. I'd finally found a brand of brown basmati rice I could actually stomach (not a fan of brown rice normally), and then one day the new bag tasted like mould/dirt when it was cooked, and so did a second bag. Its put me off trying to eat it even though my diabeetus says I should.

I never got anything in my Christmas stocking growing up, or indeed ever. I grew up just thinking Christmas stockings were part of the decorations people used to make the home feel more festive and that only in the olden days did people actually fill them with gifts.

I've got one little burst of irrational anger filling my brain about never having been considered beautiful that I've turned on myself and it's so foolish because I know it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but I can't help but wonder if that's why I never truly felt "picked" by anyone and if that's why I've remained single, even though I could also attribute that to life circumstances, a lot of which were beyond my control. But... I just wanted to be pretty and wanted at some point in my life, goddamn it, and now that I'm an old crone I feel like I missed out on that.

I irrationally hate stockings because they're usually filled with stuff you don't want or need and, which is going to be clutter or in the trash within a few days, all to manufacture a Hallmark moment of alleged glee that will be instantly forgotten.

They are a big deal in my wife's tradition template, so I acquiesce.

My upbringing had periods of scarcity and periods of plenty. Even in periods of well-offitude, my family tended to err on the side of a few nice things rather than a ginormous pile of stuff. "If three presents was enough for Jesus, it's enough for you."

My wife's family tended more toward "if you can see the floor on Cjistmas morning, you have failed." My mother-in-law is famous for buying complete truckloads of presents that are mostly crap.

in my family stocking fillers = 'shit that was too annoying to wrap'

Advent calendars are the new stockings but usually with better stuff.

I just learned yesterday that apparently toy DRUMS were promoted as Christmas presents, no doubt helped by the song which was published in 1941, partly because they were sold cheaply and took up a lot of space under the tree! Supposedly a bright toy drum helped fill out an otherwise sparse Christmas morning appearance.

That also made me wonder about rocking horses as a traditional Christmas gift, something that can be self-made (not bought) out of scrap lumber and have a huge presence in the appearance of things under the tree.

I would have loved a toy drum as a kid … I actually got a few as an adult to put contact mics on and run through electronics but …

My family xmas stockings were “impulse buys near the register” that my mom bought when shopping for other things … except my mom would be shopping for office supplies or groceries so stockings would include: boxes of paper clips, crazy glue, some weird soup in a can, a pen, post-it notes, and a plastic kitchen gadget

If I was truly blessed, there would be a plastic bag with the coins she cleared off dad’s dresser when she was cleaning

lol incredible. A can of soup! Did you...mind, as a kid? Did you know that was kind of weird?

lol incredible. A can of soup! Did you...mind, as a kid? Did you know that was kind of weird?

Truly amazing.

For awhile we had a tradition of giving an award for the most boring present. My mom won every year (prize went to the giver not the recipient) . At one point she started to feel bad about her streak, so I gave her a two year old IRS publication so that I would win. My dad only won most boring once, and that was because he forgot to put the gift in the cardboard box before wrapping it, so he won for “empty cardboard box”

I love that, sarahell.

As in if I had given her a current year IRS publication, it might have lost to something else!

It's really beyond perfect, a caricature of perfection itself.

my brother and I used to have a similar contest, only it was with gag gifts. it went from little tiny, cheap gag gifts, to the point where on two years, the gag gift was the most expensive gift I got him (which isn't to say I gave him cheap real gifts and expensive gag gifts, this was back when I was better off financially and spending a lot on people at Christmas).

he got me a Donald Trump chia pet, a few Tim Robinson based t-shirts including Calico Cut Pants stickers he somehow found, and a Steve Urkel shirt that said "Make America Did I Do That Again", stuff like that. I got him a huge painting of Steve Urkel (don't ask, he's a legend in my family), an autographed photo of MC Hammer (and one of Dave Coulier), and a copy of Vanilla Ice's motocross movie Cool as Ice.

needless to say I won every year, we've scaled back a ton and now it's mostly bargain bin crap we get each other as a joke

well except last year he wound up giving me guitar pics with photos of me and my dad on them right after my gag gift and i was like 'i didn't even finish laughing yet and now i'm crying'...lol

I never gave it much thought but our "stocking" as a kid was each having... a pillow slip, filled with our presents. No fancy santa sacks for us, we just used a regular old cotton pillowcase lol. It seems weird now I think back on it.

same here (Glen Waverley and Ringwood in the 70s)

My birthday is right after Christmas and my mom made me a stocking with an embroidered snowman and my name in sequins on it while she was pregnant with me that I still use 46 years later. It is one of my most treasured things.

It's so annoying when you are watching an auction on eBay and the price, which began really low, ramps up at the last minute to within a dollar or two of the items cost new from a regular store. Like, come on guys, ease off the gas!

We've received your parcel. Delivery is due:
Wednesday, 19 March 2025*
Delivery is estimated between:
12:39pm and 4:39pm*
*Please be aware any time or date shown is not a guarantee.

four hour window with resolution of a minute. and then a disclaimer that this is not guaranteed.

see also: 'up to 100%'

walked by my coke 12-pack just now and saw it said "Real Magic(TM)" on the side. speaking as a witch, this pisses me off a lot. unfortunately james randi is dead. can, i don't know, bill nye or something go after these fuckers? the signs all over portland are always saying that he's The End, so can he end this bullshit?

i didn't notice initially because i was too busy rolling my eyes at the Coca Cola Company having this new technology that they're really impressed with that allows you to get a coke that says "Bro" on it instead of "Coke", and they just mix them all up in the 12-pack. like great, if i want to buy a 12-pack of coke it has to include cans that call me "bro". other options printed on the container are "sis", "homie, "dude", and "friend". now i _know_ there are plenty of guys who will, like, throw out a coke can rather than drink a coke that says "sis" on it, i'm not that fragile. that said there's an imbalance there. "sis" is not equivalent to "bro" in us vernacular slang. "girl" is the approximate counterpart. are there cokes in that 12-pack that say "girl" on them? this is one of those things that some people might _think_ is irrational, but i'd argue is actually completely rational, and shows that patriarchy and transphobia aren't a personal failing but a systemic prejudice promoted by capitalism. i get misgendered by machines way more often than i get misgendered by human beings.

I don't understand how people can talk for minutes at length without pausing to allow the other person to say anything. just had a work call with someone who basically talked for 5 uninterrupted minutes. like how do you even know I'm still here when you're talking

― Riposte Malone (Neanderthal)

i try not to do his because it's rude as fuck, but yes, i absolutely do this. i love to hear myself talk. also, there's a thing called "rubber-ducking", in which i figure things out in the process of talking to other people. it's called "rubber-ducking" because it works just as well if you explain something to a rubber duck. this is a really rude way of treating other people and i notice that autistic people tend to do it _a lot_. there's a reason we have a reputation for poor social skills.

also, i just have a lot to fucking say. that second paragraph of mine? i literally talk like that in person. particularly when i've just had coffee. when i talk to one of my therapists, a lot of times it's just me ranting for an hour straight, because it's the only time i get to express myself honestly.

in answer to your last question, i don't. literally i've lost connection with someone and i don't realize until like five minutes later. just fucking deserts if you ask me.

The perfect gift to put in a Christmas stocking would be a pair of socks. A nice pair. But plz don't stuff them in there any which way. Slide them in carefully. After all, they are a gift to someone you love, right?

― more difficult than I look (Aimless)

petition to rename socks in a Christmas stocking "stocking packers"

I've got one little burst of irrational anger filling my brain about never having been considered beautiful that I've turned on myself and it's so foolish because I know it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but I can't help but wonder if that's why I never truly felt "picked" by anyone and if that's why I've remained single, even though I could also attribute that to life circumstances, a lot of which were beyond my control. But... I just wanted to be pretty and wanted at some point in my life, goddamn it, and now that I'm an old crone I feel like I missed out on that.

― We Live as We Dee, Alone (deethelurker)

totally not irrational. also fucking patriarchy :( i could talk for hours about _that_ bullshit too, but you don't need to hear it from me lol

My family xmas stockings were “impulse buys near the register” that my mom bought when shopping for other things … except my mom would be shopping for office supplies or groceries so stockings would include: boxes of paper clips, crazy glue, some weird soup in a can, a pen, post-it notes, and a plastic kitchen gadget

― sarahell

my family were just poor. one year my dad got me a lewis grizzard daily calendar with all the pages before my birthday torn off. i felt bad for him. for being broke, not for having a lewis grizzard daily calendar. if you could still get a job as a newspaper columnist saying things of no significance whatsoever like lewis grizzard did, that's what i'd want to do for a living. i miss people like that, lewis grizzard, erma bombeck, i mean, they weren't _great_, and that's the point for me. you could have a career writing ephemeral stuff. instead "wilhoit's law" comes from a blog commenter moonlighting from his day job as a classical composer.

my oldest brother, on the other hand, was just kind of an asshole troll. one christmas he wrapped up a giant slab of concrete and put it under the tree for me and marked it "fragile". for a "stocking stuffer" he gave me a videotape of holocaust atrocities. he was horrified when i insisted on watching it. well, i had to, because for all i knew it was something really cool that he _labelled_ as "holocaust atrocities" to prank me. nope. holocaust atrocities.

he sent me a glitter bomb once for my birthday, explaining that the cards with glitter on them were too expensive, and hell he could do better than that himself. i used to invite him over to my house and he'd spend the whole time on MiiVerse telling people on the "Big Buck Hunter" forums that they should adopt a vegan lifestyle. then he'd get our MiiVerse account suspended and we couldn't play online games for the next month. once, haha, once he logged onto my internet account and started making death threats under my name against republican presidential candidates, haha, and then i got kicked out of college, but it was ok because when the secret service came to our house he admitted that he'd done it.

my oldest brother can be kind of an asshole sometimes.

I like the phrase "rubber-ducking", it's something I encounter in a number of different places on a daily basis, so it's good put a name to it.

Please remove the bag from your back in crowded circumstances.
Or i will rip it from your fucking shoulders.

I have to carry a heavy bag on my back during my commute every day, I am always paranoid about it knocking anyone but honestly the disruption from swinging it off my shoulders, placing it between my legs then having to pick it up every time the doors open, then putting it back on when I get off - that's a whole lot more disruptive and hazardous to strangers than just keeping it on my back. And you know it's not a choice I made, I have to carry two big laptops and a load of other stuff around, if I could have a lighter bag that would be lovely.

On a crowded train I am a big fan of the front carry for a backpack.

Acceptable excuse and solutions. I've calmed down now.

I think my anger is often triggered by people unaware or uncaring about their impact in a social or public space though.

I have learned this week, thanks to multiple PR emails, that there is a metalcore band called Woe, Is Me. Of all the things happening in the world right now, that fucking comma is the thing that is irritating me the most.

I'll never forget this one time I was about to watch a film at Lincoln Center, seated, and from behind me I heard, "Ow!" "Ow!" "Hey!" and so on, and I turned around and it was because of a dude with a backpack who was walking down the row looking for his seat and in the process he was whacking the heads of all the ladies seated in the row just in front of him. Like one after the other, every lady got whacked. And unbelievably, the dude was completely oblivious of what he was doing.

Lol. Just after i posted we went to a free sit down gig and the woman next to me turned to her friend and suddenly her enormous shoulder bag was in my lap.
Who keeps their shoulder bag on sitting at a gig?

I wasn't angry though. It was too apt. I gently pushed it off. She was surprised.

I keep seeing people online loudly insist that the only proper way to eat a bagel is with a two-inch-thick slab of cream cheese. Not only that, but anyone who disagrees, is clearly some interloper who isn't a real New Yorker or whatever. This is total bullshit, and a lot of the people making this claim aren't even Jews.

Supposedly the thick-ass cream cheese was from back when the lox was extremely salty and that’s what it took to offset that.

butter on bagels is underrated

Yes, esp on Montreal style bagels

I’ve also become a “vegetable cream cheese or none at all and spread it normally like butter not the two inch thick ooze that gets all over your face.”

I have to carry a heavy bag on my back during my commute every day, I am always paranoid about it knocking anyone but honestly the disruption from swinging it off my shoulders, placing it between my legs then having to pick it up every time the doors open, then putting it back on when I get off - that's a whole lot more disruptive and hazardous to strangers than just keeping it on my back. And you know it's not a choice I made, I have to carry two big laptops and a load of other stuff around, if I could have a lighter bag that would be lovely.

― zoloft keeps liftin' me (Camaraderie at Arms Length), 10 April 2025 20:24 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

im not trying to be either rude or difficult because i recognise you have posted in vulnerability to share your truth but put your bag on the floor please, thanks

I'm on the tube for two stops, I am very careful that it doesn't get in anyone's way, if I take it off I have to swing it round behind me which is much worse, also if it is on the floor I am unable to move quickly out of the way. if it's crowded I will take it off obviously, but in reality I just avoid crowded tube trains entirely.

like I realise that there are inconsiderate assholes with backpacks, that does not mean that everyone with a backpack is an inconsiderate asshole. and no, putting it on my front does not work, I would topple over in the attempt. it's really fucking heavy and it has made me sprain my knee in a fall just in the last six months. if anyone would like to offer me a job where I don't have to do this every day then I would be extremely grateful.

I keep seeing people online loudly insist that the only proper way to eat a bagel is with a two-inch-thick slab of cream cheese. Not only that, but anyone who disagrees, is clearly some interloper who isn't a real New Yorker or whatever. This is total bullshit, and a lot of the people making this claim aren't even Jews.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive)

they're probably also zionists

idgi

anyway

Yes, esp on Montreal style bagels

― Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 11 April 2025 17:37 (two days ago) link

these are even good plain

"Hey, I'm opening a bookstore. Unfortunately I could only afford a small retail space, but I'm going to make the best of it."

"Cool, you mean you're going to pack every inch of usable space with loads of interesting books?"

"Wha? No, I'm going to preciously display a small handful of books on impractical modernist shelves and refer to my store as 'curated'"

When driving after midnight, I get irrationally angry at stores that leave ALL of their lights on when they are closed.