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

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.

Weather getting even worse and still not collected flat pack. Had stiff neck on Monday the one day this week when there hasn't been really bad weather, think it was actually calm and sunny.
Snowed last night and now there's a major storm happening tonight and tomorrow.
i was just hoping I'd be able to get this thing home on the bus. Which will be a load of fun in itself. Thing is about 5 foot or so long which means it's a bit awkward. Maybe will have to get taxi and I'm really broke this week.

xp
I don't know your floors but you can rinse stuff off.

Having so much fun trying to get my cursor to keep things selected so it can organise them. Not sure where flaw lies is it a thing with Windows 7 or something.
JUst tried to sort out a load of music on Foobar and instead of it clicking ad dragging a set of tracks it would just shift the highlight across other tracks or click and start playing on any track among several selected.
Then just had even more fun trying to scroll up a page elsewhere on this site to try to click on the link to here.
aaaaaargh

These cutsey little browser messages that appear when a problem occurs.

For example, I guess Firefox didn't shut down properly last night, so now I've got it over here in the other window saying "Well, this is embarassing…" Like it somehow dinged my bumper as it was trying to back out of its own driveway.

The worst is Chrome. "There's no way you can see this PDF of your parcel map because we're Chrome and AWWWWWWW SNAP!"

while we're on computer issues - windows programs which, when you go to open a file, always take you back to some obscure folder on your hard drive rather than the last one you were on, meaning if you want to open multiple files you have to go through the rigmarole of locating the folder you wanted each time.

Oh yeah that sucks. Why do they do that?

there must be a 1337 way of stopping that. it's so frustrating.

i can admit that i am irrationally angered by the npr program "invisibilia"
i hate the way they edit it
the topics are just barely quasi-deep and today i learned the urgent lesson of "your fears aren't real"
the style of speech exemplified in that program annoys me
ugh

invisibiiiilya
so precious, so deep

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.

So this ridiculous shit just happened
-------------------------------------

"I'm available to help you move Sunday"

"Cool, I'll need you at 1"

*today arrives*

"Confirming we're still on for 1?"

"Ugh idk ask my boyfriend he's coordinating"

"O....k?"

*I ask him*

"He says because you're tired the U Haul stuff is going to happen tomorrow"

"What? How can we do it tomorrow, i don't see how that's going to w-..."

"OMG TALK TO YOUR BOYFRIEND JFC HE'S IN THE SAME ROOM AS YOU - why are you telling me?"

*silence as the realization sinks in with friend the absurdity of what they're doing*

gah, massive spoilers in the commentary tracks of dvds. I'm watching them as i go so saying that a character dies in episode 14 in the commentary of episode 3 is a dick move

(although at this point even the covers to said dvds are spoilers. character A must survive season 8 because he's on the cover of season 9 dvds...)

The Sopranos were bad about this, the season posters.

i put disk 3 in the machine instead of disk 2 yesterday and i thought i'd lost my mind. took me 20 minutes of wondering how they got where they were (half-naked, locked in a container) to realise the mistake. it doesn't help that they sometimes play with time in the cold opens anyway.

Ok, so you're definitely not watching The Sopranos.

Got a notice from UPS that an eagerly anticipated package will be arriving some time between 2:00 and 6:00 pm. Hear a knock on my door at 10:30 am, but I ignore it because I'm on a work call and it's almost always someone trying to sell me roofing service or some bullshit, but of course I then find a note from UPS on the door, they couldn't deliver, so now I have to pick it up at one of their locations tomorrow.

I don't know why it bothers me so but it grates me to have someone keep trying to sell me after I've said "ok". my mother does this all the time. It only really bugs me when I'm involved in something and each extension of the conversation is a further distraction.

"Neanderthal, can we put together an order for groceries? for a few items?"
"Yes"
"Because there's a lot of items we're out of, we need to replace..."
"Ok."
"Because we need like beverages and some lunch items."
"Ok."
"It's not going to be a huge order, it's..."
"I said ok already!"

it's one thing if I'm a guy who perennially says 'no' to everything but I don't.

(it's one thing if the convo requires my input but if I'm asked a "yes" or "no" question I get annoyed at having to answer "yes" five times, it feels like being subjected to a computer 'are you sure you want to do this?' test)

I've got a co-worker, who I get along with, who talks all the time.

Hard at work on a project, he wants to know if a schedule can be adjusted. But instead of just asking "can the schedule be adjusted?", he was like Neanderthal's someone up there — except instead of saying "ok", I just sat there and made eye contact with him as he went on his spiel. He even almost faked me out, going "can the schedule be adjusted... ...because with all the other work coming in..."

Finally, he furrows his brow and says to me, "I'm not asking for much, just wondering what your thoughts on about it because—" and I finally interrupt. "I'll tell you my thoughts once you're finished talking."

He realizes what he's been doing and clamps it. So I tell him that the schedule can be adjusted.

All that to say. don't bother with the ok's. If they continue to "ask" after you've already said yes, let them keep going. Maybe they're trying to sell themselves.

"Things you hate that are not socially acceptable to hate"

is just a different way of saying 'irrationally angry'

Overlap with unpopular opinions (and variants)

xp yeah idgi there seem to be several of those threads active

ILX's aging demographic firmly in shouting at clouds territory

Pull to be the youthful voice saying "who cares?!" but that's just a variant of the same old trap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQhX8PbNUWI