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

_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.

It happens about once in every four occasions in London. Yes, there are lunch schedules and breaks people have to factor in, but this is not the rational, reasonable thread, is it?

Do you not use the box light system?

http://i.imgur.com/c6JxjSn.jpg

Where a cashier about to go on break would turn her/his aisle's light off and then serve only the customers who are still in the line at that moment?

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.