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

aka COMBAT PARKING

paramedics & firefighters i know tend to habitually do this in case of quick getaway which is fine

but sitting in a parking lot waiting for some bozo to reverse his boat-sized pickup into a spot is enraging

90% of ppl that i encounter doing this are terrible drivers who suck at reversing & shd be murdered

everyone else, yr good

I saw I Australia angled parking spaces at the curb facing away from oncoming traffic to encourage this "rally" parking.

Also everyone had their rear view mirrors pulled toward them at a 45° angle which I couldn't understand either.

Never heard the phrase "rally parking" before this thread but when I visited a friend in Singapore he pointed out that 99% of the cars there are parked this way - something to do with orderliness or planning for the future or some other supposed shared cultural norm.

This friend had also lived in Thailand (where we were also going to visit) and told me to compare the parking there. When I got out of the Phuket airport and looked for a cab everything was just parked in a giant swarm with empty cars left in neutral so people could push them out of the way as needed. Our cabbie had to move a couple to get his car out.

now that's more like it

loool omg i love it

chaos!

I send an email with queries about a baby class

auto response: "Thank you for contacting *class*...If you are looking for more information on our classes including venues and class times, please visit *website I have visited 1000 times*
If you experience any problems booking or have any questions about the classes, please get in touch."

Me: Hi, not sure if I need to email/call again to get a response to my questions"

auto response: "Thank you for contacting..."

AHHGGGHHH

my (corporate) workplace has an online driving class as part of our yearly junk, required if you drive for work at all. it strongly encourages backing in to parking spaces as backing out of parking is responsible for something like 90% of parking lot accidents

having been hit in a parking lot, seems to make sense to me

also there are parking spots in my (north american!) city that are 45 degree angled like those pplains just mentioned. it's in an area that's been redone in the last decade, and yes, it's back-in parking

we're also getting a bizarre number of roundabouts/traffic circles now, with a bunch of idiots not really knowing how to use them. I have some anger for the people who refuse to acknowledge that different road patterns than they're used to might be ok

Thing about "rally" parking is having to wait for the person in front of you (and perhaps the person in front of them) taking two or more tries at backing in just right, especially when most of these [North American] fuckers are driving huge-ass SUVs. Whereas, parking front-in allows the driver to do this sensible thing of waiting until traffic behind them is gone and then backing out.

Making "rally" parking mandatory to cover for the mistakes of the stupid penalizes the other 95-percent of the drivers out there.

I'm all for roundabouts though. They should replace every four-way stop with one of those. (There, that's three IA threads now where I've stated that.)

I only bought into "rally" parking once I got a vehicle with a backing-up camera display that has little guide lines I can line up with the parking space lines

imo cars of the future, before they become self-driving, will be 90% cheats telling you how to drive better

I've still never driven a car with either GPS or even satellite radio.

hah, my friend has a garmin gps thing, of the stick-it-to-the-dashboard variety that we used on our trip to the chicago suburbs. given that apple maps' voice is siri, we decided that directions from the garmin thing needed a name. so we claimed it was steve giving us directions. steve garmin, navigator supreme

tbh I trust the google maps person more

xp never heard of that (guide lines on backup camera display), that's actually a brilliant idea

i think GPS is more common than satellite radio, these days, especially as the aforementioned Garmin boxes

but can you really trust steve

check siri any time you like
but you can never steve

We have a car iphone holder now and use google maps a lot driving in the city, only because traffic is so unpredictable.

Google saved me ten minutes by routing me in a way that had me crossing railroad tracks and walking over a bridge.

Amazon product Q&As where the As don't A the Qs

Q. Is it any good for gaming?

Sorry i do not no
JOHN answered on 3 Dec. 2014

I've never used it for gaming and its not a smart tv either so wouldn't know, just for viewing.
Martin J. answered on 3 Dec. 2014

I will be able to answer that on Xmas morning :-)
Shane Robson answered on 4 Dec. 2014

I am not a gamer so not sure sorry
LAMBROS answered on 4 Dec. 2014

Sorry Richard I can't help you as I'm not a gamer.
Giro answered on 4 Dec. 2014

"Rally" parkers oh god... i guess it's supposed to be some badass "i'm hot shit" thing but it just makes me think of fannypacks or pedometers

USPS claims a package was "delivered" to our "mailbox." It was a pregnancy body pillow. I don't think that fits in our mailbox.

lol was it sunday delivery? amazon's been helpfully using usps for sunday delivery now, and it's a complete crapshoot whether things actually arrive

I did pay extra for express delivery (I have Prime but this was a matter of H being able to sleep and I felt very urgent about it). And it was for Sunday, I mean I didn't specify Sunday but that was the date they gave me when I chose express.

When you say "been helpful" you mean you think I should call Amazon to complain about the delivery failure?

I couldn't reach USPS because of MLK day obviously.

Yes, tell Amazon that the USPS fucked up and they'll ship you another or refund your money.

And by "helpful" I mean "mean well but USPS's sunday delivery is not good"

Amazon product Q&As where the As don't A the Qs

Q. Is it any good for gaming?

Sorry i do not no
JOHN answered on 3 Dec. 2014

I've never used it for gaming and its not a smart tv either so wouldn't know, just for viewing.
Martin J. answered on 3 Dec. 2014

I will be able to answer that on Xmas morning :-)
Shane Robson answered on 4 Dec. 2014

I am not a gamer so not sure sorry
LAMBROS answered on 4 Dec. 2014

Sorry Richard I can't help you as I'm not a gamer.
Giro answered on 4 Dec. 2014

― give rob da bank a gun... (onimo), Monday, January 19, 2015 2:30 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

People who pipe up to answer support form questions like this:

Can this TV be controlled with PlayStation 3 Remote Control? 5 days ago
Sorry, I have no idea about that.

does it stream amazon instant video 3 days ago
Sorry, we haven't tried that. But it is the best tv in our house.

Can I use my amazon prime account to watch videos on this tv, without another devise? 6 days ago
As far as I know you can. I do not use that service so I am not 100% certain.

― Je55e, Monday, February 17, 2014 1:16 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on a related note, this happened to me recently:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6F8aGxCUAED0PH.jpg

Is that posted because Cuba is actually in the northern hemisphere, or because of the recursion?

In communist cuba, star looks at you.

Amazon reviews not being edition specific is a right pain too.

That I had to go and get management to sort out buzzing distortion on film sound before Birdman.
Not sure what it was cos I don't know the equipment. It got sorted pretty rapidly when I told them.

Am left wondering if other people recognised it wasn't likely to right itself. Or what the problem was. A whole range tinnily distorting. Right on the frequency or whatever people talk on.

Got sorted right in the middle of the 50 Shades of Grey trailer. The existence of that film/book series is bad enough itself

signage or printed materials that have e' instead of é, i mean COME THE FUCK ON YOU HAVE A POWERFUL COMPUTER IN FRONT OF YOU SURELY YOU CAN FIGURE OUT HOW THE FUCK TO MAKE é APPEAR!!!

It looks so weirdly sloppy and awful!!! I HATE IT SO MUCH

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/916/MI0001916153.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Had Tea' as a name in a story last week. Not Téa, as in Fox Mulder's wife, or even Teá, but T-e-a-apostrophe.

It's got to be hard for Americans who have an accent mark in their names. And some people get named with inappropriate apostrophes.

Amazon reviews not being edition specific is a right pain too.

It bugs me when people give a low rating to a product b/c a seller screwed up delivery, or on Netflix when a movie when the quality of sound is bad. They fuck the ratings.

What I was referring to was Amazon having reviews of all versions of the same recording mixing together in a hodge podge so you can't really tell if a certain version is the one to get because all other issues of the record will be grouped together.
Or even all recordings under the same title when it comes down to an artist having both an lp named after what goes onto become a hit song which in turn leads to various compilations having the same title.
Thankfully there are a few other places where you can check different editions but it would make things a lot easier if Amazon made it policy to separate reviews for the editions they were intended for.
Not sure if taht was clear from earlier post.

My first name is Tre. T-R-E. But thanks to this joker:

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

I get called Tré every so often. As if my name is French for "very" instead of Italian for "three".

whistlers
cash machine lingerers
late night phone-in casino programmes

2 big ones

-how insanely difficult it is to plug a cord into a power outlet in the dark
-how when you're outside and on the phone with a business, somewhere in their automated menu tree, and every time a slight breeze comes up the business thinks you are saying something so the whole process gets reset or messed up

how insanely difficult it is to plug a cord into a power outlet in the dark

arrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh SO ANGRY! For a while I had only 1 bedside outlet to share between my lamp and my phone charger, and this was HELL. It would have been quicker to just get out of bed and turn on the overhead light but NO THEN THE FUCKING PLUG WINS

-having to press number options for support calls on a mobile phone

choice between not hearing half the options because you're fucking around trying to get the keypad to pop up and the screen to stop going dark or putting the thing on loudspeaker and irrationally angering those around you

The top pin on my three pin plug for my phone charger folds down on a pointless hinge mechanism. This makes it almost impossible to use in the dark. The pin moves slightly down of its on volition and the pins then don't line up with the holes.

I get a strange feeling of victory when I manage to shock myself by touching the prongs on a plug when I'm plugging something in, sight unseen. It's a victory tingle.

i heard another promo for ~invisibilya~ and i think one of the more annoying things about it is that the hosts sound like they are trying to make their topic sound sexy with their intonation, tone of voice, etc. like covertly. yuk.

fucking slobs in our office bathroom who can't take time to discard paper towel IN the trash, just let it fall to the floor in the general direction

there's a recessed trashcan in the wall under the papertowel dispenser and a freestanding trashcan by the door

there's always a paper towel on the floor by one trashcan or the other & it makes me INSANE

PICK IT UP
PICK IT UP
WTF

you work in my office?

oops outing myself as using the ladies' room obv