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

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

ok i feel better
definitely need to avoid this program though

Ha Just 15 minutes ago I subscribed to this podcast b/c my therapist recommended one particular episode (not the fear one).

I do hate that but I also hate it sometimes when programs do what you suggest and default to the last one, e.g. if 99% of the files I edit are in a standard documents folder but one day I need to use the same software to edit some configuration file in an obscure location or something that e.g. Google Talk has hidden in its own downloads folder, and then next time I open a document it shows me that folder and not the standard one

in short, why can't software just read my mind

(but please don't actually read my mind either, it is full of junk and secrets)

xxp I just heard the first Invisibilia double-bill this week and kind of liked it - it was good for my walk home, where I don't want to think too hard about anything because I might have to check out for a minute and concentrate on not being hit by a car etc - but while the interviewees were interesting, the questions the presenters asked were so point-missingly "so, a bad thing happened. did that feel bad?", and at one point they were almost falling over each other to emphasise that they totally didn't know anything about this mental health gobbledegook because lol not crazy, I mean this stuff is for the crazies, right? and I felt embarrassed

(ok, I just checked and I've heard the Thoughts double-bill but not the Fear one yet)

i heard the thoughts one
it wasn't so bad tbh
it contained some essential truths -- i guess it's the way they're delivered that makes me want to barf

mostly it's the radiolab-style
my irritation is totally irrational

the radiolab guys make me IA so I can totally relate

Me too. I thought this was way less irritating than Radiolab though.

have not heard yet

Radio lab cuts right through me, so so annoying.

wow i was thinking invisibilia was local because its ad spots sound so low quality. i already hate it without hearing it. i hate the radiolab style so so much.

(how do you feel about people whispering on the radio)

because i totally hate it

yeah what's that thing it says at the end? go into the light? something?

i am just getting increasingly stressed and IA at npr-y things, yelp, gentrification, obama, idk

same

I actually got legitimately IA to an extreme about Serial, as you can read in the clusterfuck Serial thread

I cannot really account for my anger about that show and its fanbase, or my hate-tinged obsession with it

The first ep of Invisibilia didn't bug me too much but I totally get why it would be grating. I hate that call & response kind of editing they did sometimes, e.g., when talking about intrusive thoughts, one subject said "murder" then they cut to another saying "murder" then "arson," "arson" or what have you.

Truly irrational, but I hate it when I see patrons using the new drive-thru at Sonic.

At the grocery store yesterday there I was 2nd in line at the self check-out, even though there was an open counter available. I pointed it out to the person in front of me and they said "That's ok, these other people are almost done, I'm just waiting to use theirs." mjsbfsjkfb

Do you understand how lines work?

When you're next in the line for check-out and the cashier closest to you logs out and fucks off, seemingly oblivious to a queue full of grumbling people.

same IA that I post all the time: fking grocery store customers who just leave their cart in the middle of the aisle while they wander away to inspect cans of whatever RAAAAAAAGE

pull it to the side ffs

one day I'm just going to walk up & flip it over.

When you're next in the line for check-out and the cashier closest to you logs out and fucks off, seemingly oblivious to a queue full of grumbling people.

I hate this too, but I have also been a checkout chick and I remember how at first I felt too bad closing up on a line of people, and I'd always just keep serving people until the line was gone...and then I would only have like 5 minutes of my break left. After a while it was like grab that 'closed' sign and *BOOM* FUCK YOU ALL I AM ON LUUUUUUUUNCH. I would try not to be oblivious though. Oblivious was reserved for the million customers who tried to ask me for help on my WAY to the break room. I learned head down/eyes averted/completely deaf very quickly.

Also trolley rage is not irrational, VG. It is the only sane response to regular people being total assholes.

> pull it to the side ffs

yesterday:
"oh, just let me get out of your way"
(moves pushchair directly in front of the stuff i wanted)

When you're next in the line for check-out and the cashier closest to you logs out and fucks off, seemingly oblivious to a queue full of grumbling people.

This does not happen in the USA. At least not in my USA.

I like hearing multiple bandsaws from different driveways harmonize together

fireworks, gunshots or nailgun

fabric bandaids - did they always unravel this fast? i swear the current ones shred 10 minutes after you put them on
fucking maddening

oh man I came in 2nd in my first grade spelling bee- the last “word” was “great aunt”. I spelled it G-R-E-A-T-A-U-N-T and was shocked when I was told I was wrong. The kid who won spelled it G-R-E-A-T-hyphen-A-U-N-T. My immediate take was, “what the heck is a hyphen, I’ve never heard that word in my life!” Certainly we didn’t learn hyphens in first grade. Forty years later, my current take is “WTF, that is two words and no way in hell is it hyphenated.”

I won it in 6th grade and went on to the state competition. The same kid had by then moved to a different school, and he was also representing his school at the state finals. I am pleased to report that, even though I didn’t come close to winning at that level, I did make it way further than him.

― epistantophus, Monday, August 19, 2024 3:15 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I came in second in I think 5th and made it to the ward spelling be (one level below the city-wide). I was doing reasonably well, but I got a judge with a thick dc-maryland accent and the word was "Autarchy." I could not fucking make out what she was saying no matter how much she repeated it, it sounded like "AWRCHRTRGARCHY" I can still hear it ringing in my head. I got out on that word.

Lol it had to be a mush of closed vowels

God, the ice cream van, specifically the tuneless warbling of the music they play. I live in a relatively quiet area, but there are lots of houses around and I can hear the fucker doing the round for over an hour before he turns up practically outside our house. Once it pulls up, it's loud and the music wheezes and oscillates, like a low-powered toy on its last legs.

There's quite a lot of old folk in our close and they all wobble out, clutching their bank cards, for their cone of sludge and sprinkles, sharing their tales of bunions and varicose veins. I imagine having to work inside the tiny cab, sweating, purple, literally powering the amp with a turning crank like an organ grinder.

I have no residual joy from my youth about this either. It's irrational anger all the way down.

^ a minor masterpiece

otm

Businesses that leave ALL their lights on when they're closed. Particularly car dealerships, but plenty of others too.

God, the ice cream van, specifically the tuneless warbling of the music they play. I live in a relatively quiet area, but there are lots of houses around and I can hear the fucker doing the round for over an hour before he turns up practically outside our house. Once it pulls up, it's loud and the music wheezes and oscillates, like a low-powered toy on its last legs.

There's quite a lot of old folk in our close and they all wobble out, clutching their bank cards, for their cone of sludge and sprinkles, sharing their tales of bunions and varicose veins. I imagine having to work inside the tiny cab, sweating, purple, literally powering the amp with a turning crank like an organ grinder.

I have no residual joy from my youth about this either. It's irrational anger all the way down.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 30 August 2024 17:02 (one week ago) link

Ha, great post. This took me back to hot, air-conditioning-less summers in New Brunswick, NJ in between my college years. There was this one particular truck that sounded like a skipping record, it just played these same three bars of 2/4 music over and over again that sounded like possibly the end of some tune. There was another one that randomly punctuated its music with a recorded "HELLO?" in the voice of a middle-aged New Jersey Jewish woman. I'm also now remembering the revolting smell of my summer housemate Joey's room - feet + weed + booze + old window AC + no outside air, just disgusting.

We kept hearing the ice cream man and his off-key music around the neighborhood this summer, but never spotted him.

Finally, on a walk, I saw him — a dude on a bicycle? With a big basket of ... orange snacks? I couldn't figure out what they were, but it couldn't have been ice cream. Woulda melted too soon.

That day, the warped jingle was playing "Deck the Halls". This happened last month.

Mom does this annoying thing where she'll ask me a question, and if I don't answer within whatever arbitrary period of time she sets, she just does whatever she wants.

Like tonight, an old friend is coming over to watch election results with is, so we decided to get a pizza. She msgs me to ask "when should we get it", and I hadn't talked to my friend yet to see when he was coming, but he pings me and he tells me sausage.

I go back to mom to say we can do it now, can we get sausage and she's like "oh I already ordered it w pepperoni"

Only 15 minutes had passed!

My daughter just showed me a snowflake she'd cut out at school, carefully following instructions to fold the correct kind of triangle. It was very detailed and impressive. And had eightfold symmetry. (I blame the school obviously.)