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

The ones in Chicago, at least the last time I bothered to go in, had a dearth of general interest magazines but a surprising selection of porn. So that probably answers my previous question.

Same thing I wonder about airport bookstores: Who the hell is buying porn at these places.

The Books A Millions in Chicago are all garbage, too. I don't understand how they continue to exist when Borders/Barnes and Noble went tits up.

― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Monday, February 9, 2015 12:18 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same reason cockroaches survive?

They are like the Radio Shack of bookstores.

Uh...

Hey, 95 years pretty good for a cockroach.

spotify's gross rerecorded versions of popular songs that are not tagged as rerecordings & masquerade as the real deal ughhhhhhh

Oh man the college bookstore here has some cheapo radio station that just plays cover versions of popular songs to save money and it's just the worst.

Have I posted about DIY chain B&Q itt? Because they also have that and I have an eye-twitch thanks to it.
It's a really odd selection of songs too, on a loop

I have spent a lot of time in B&Q :(

spotify's gross rerecorded versions of popular songs that are not tagged as rerecordings & masquerade as the real deal ughhhhhhh

LOL that used to happen a bit on emusic back in the day. Artists that basically didnt have any licencing agreements with emusic would only appear on these DODGY Cleopatra compilations or whatever with a shitty live version or someone else covering the song.

Once in a while I used to get fooled by an artist rerecording on cd or tape, usually some oldies band I didn't really know anything about.

people swiping their tablets

or whatever it's called, the big flourish as they turn a page or w/e

while i'm here, i love being able to sit around and not do shit while the rest of you deal with your children

cool

people who really believe that you should love a band, truly, to wear their t-shirt, maaaaan

ios games that don't let you listen to music/podcasts while you play them LOOKING AT YOU HERO EMBLEMS YOU JERK

Bank websites that won't let you in no matter how many times you go through the "Reset password" routine.

Can a fabric be of such a loose weave that it stretches from being one size to another from being cut to trying to contystruct a pair of jeans. & then do it again when recut?
Something is going seriously weird with this build anyway. I thought I cut the thing to the standard size I've cut all my jeans, then stitched it in a way that should have had it pretty snug only to find out it was a few cm wider when I thought i should be finishing seams before adding a waistband. I then took it in a further 3cm. & now find out that it seems to be too wide again.

Normally wouldn't want to go any narrower at this poiint cos jeans wouldn't go on.

Maybe it is just the fabric. I've been getting good results from a cotton/linen blend now trying a linen/viscose one.
Welll can't keep working on the same thing. & since it was made for a different purpose maybe it's time to relegate it to not fully successful experiment. & finish them to the best I can. Bummer.

Wifi at chain cafes whose sign-in page obliterates all tabs I had open on my browser, not even allowing the Back buttons to get me to where I was.

My work-around is opening Safari first to sign in b/c I never use it, but sometimes I leave Chrome or Firefox open and every tab turns into Welcome to Starbucks! or Panera or whatever. Including pinned tabs.

This shit has ruined my Christmas shopping, research, and work countless times.

Use history.

Using history is A) needless extra clicking and typing, B) insufficient if the tabs were not loaded very recently and I can't remember exactly what they were, and C) not helpful w/ the annoyance of repinning tabs.

I suppose I should use a session manager (which I would have to install and set up on Chrome).

But still, it's shitty of those signals to fuck up my tabs.

[2005] all your tabs are belong to us [/2005]

Sorry for your loss, Je55e.

people who are waiting for someone in a parking lot or having a convo with someone and just sit in the middle of the lane instead of PULLING INTO A FUCKING PARKING SPACE AND NOT BLOCKING EVERYBODY

cute boho girl at market working my last nerve today

like i saw her & was like omg you are adorable

next time i see her she had all her groceries spread out on the sandwich order counter like she didnt understand baskets or shopping carts there's no room to put in an order so i say "hi excuse me can i get in here" & she moves them to one side slightly like she just lives to be in the way

i saw her again outiside yknow just standing in the middle of the the walkway with her bike twirling her hair just hanging out

she's looking RIGHT AT ME as I am walking towards her with my cart full of stuff

and i'm thinking she sees me so she'll move but no she just keeps on looking at me and standing there blocking the walkway til i stop & say "excuse me" and she moves and is surprised that this is a thing that is happening

i swear, these fuckin adorable people who act like fking alien visitors who dont grasp basic human customs

i just

A woman sitting behind me on the train yesterday was having a shit fit about this stroke sign awareness billboard (Face Arm Speech Time - F.A.S.T.) because problems with someone's face, arm, and speech are all symptoms of a stroke, whereas time stands for "time is critical," which is more of an admonition so it didn't fit. It was kind of hilarious and I wanted to turn around and tell her there was a place on the internet where she would feel right at home called the Irrationally Angry thread.

<3

"let me sing you the song of my people"

lol @ both those

That FAST advert was on TV a couple of times yesterday and I thought the same thing re 'time'

Irrational because it's clearly a language thing but: Americans referring to treasure hunts (with clues leading to the next clue) as 'scavenger hunts' which are a different thing!

When people ask me to remind them about something later. Take a load off Annie.

Oh I passionately hate that. Keep your own meticulous to-do list, don't exploit mine!

Americans anyone referring to treasure hunts (with clues leading to the next clue) as 'scavenger hunts' which are a different thing!

fixed

people who play Smoke on the Water in guitar stores

or ANYWHERE

http://homepage2.nifty.com/csta/music/vari/ww102.jpg

i went into a rage earlier trying to convert some e-tickets into PDF's to put on my kobo, as I don't have a printer. It is more like a rational self hating type of anger really because I have been through this a few times and haven't got any better at doing it. Like every time I end up googling "HTML to PDF" and fucking about with malware ridden waste for an hour like a noob. All for a 1 Hour "Bounce Session" in Castleford (>_<)

Kids have some weird app where you can make a cat play guitar by tapping it. Took me awhile to figure out the cat's playing Smoke on the Water because the kids just tap-tap-tap-tap as fast as possible, making every note a sixteenth note.

I'd almost sit down with them and teach them the correct meter, but we all have to pick our own battles don't we.

Concert venues where ticket holders and seekers have to stand in the same damn line

I take it the name Father John Misty is a joek on acid-folk and hippie-dippie nostalgia in general, maybe incl. his having been in a CSN-type harmony band actually apparently seriously named Fleet Foxes. Now Rolling Stone says his new album is good like Randy Newman, which makes me IA or RA because one RN always was enough. Also the latest incarnation of Firefox has fucked me up several times lately, incl while trying to type this, wtfff???

Concert venues where ticket holders and seekers have to stand in the same damn line

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:43 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, fucking hate this, seen it with movies too -- you buy tix to beat the crowd, make sure you get a seat, then you get stuck behind the ticket line.

i have cumulative IA for the people who get all the way to the top of the movie ticket line and then have no evident plan about what it is they want to see or how many tickets they might need or how they would like to pay for them or whatever else it is they could possibly be discussing at such earnest length with the poor beleaguered cashier.

IA about some customer service right now. How come I can't just email the company my question? I have to register and give you my home address and phone number first? It's not like a non-customer would want to go through the trouble of asking your support desk, I already paid for your product, but now you want my personal info so you can make even more money off me.

I mean, welcome to the world I guess, but still. Damn.

Also having a really bizarre moment where I try to run an .exe file and Windows comes up with the message that "Windows cannot find the file"! And it asks me to please "make sure I typed the name in correctly"! Oh, I must have made a typo, because Windows is a text-based operating system, I forgot about that! Thanks for the help, M$, keep doing the lord's work making shit software!

is your system's PATH statement too long, could be, or you have system file corruption

No, it's just a file in a folder I right-click and hit 'run', just like every other file. I'm pretty sure it's a 32-bit file and I have a 64-bit system or something. I've downloaded it repeatedly and it always says the same thing. Even copied it to different folders. Hopefully they will get back to me. It's for a motherboard BIOS so no way in hell am I touching it.

wo some sort of expert assistance

i have cumulative IA for the people who get all the way to the top of the movie ticket line and then have no evident plan about what it is they want to see or how many tickets they might need or how they would like to pay for them or whatever else it is they could possibly be discussing at such earnest length with the poor beleaguered cashier.

― estela, Sunday, February 15, 2015 6:59 PM

Same here with supermarket lines, and it's usually older people, who suddenly realize they have to pay for all that stuff they loaded their cart with.

Firefox supposedly reopening on the pages you closed it on but instead reopening to pages you were on much earlier. Not sure how it bookmarks but it really doesn't seem to do a good job. It also doesn't update any pages so those that reopen will still be on the time that you left them on. I tend to have a tv guide page open and expect it to open at the right i.e. current time but it will still be on the page from whenever earlier despite the site being dynamic.
What I'm talking about with the reopening of much earlier pages is if I'm somewhere in a site when I close the internet application I can wind up with the page of the website I haven't visited in days being what it's opened on. Tends to happen with demonoid or some chatlists where they are subdivided into different subjects.

Also where when I do reopen hoping to be able to pick up a thread I was on earlier it can just go to ho me once I click the page header. Happens all the time with this site. I see the headline is on the top of the page among a few at the top of the screen. Click on it only to be returned to Site New Answers

I haven't gone back to using Chrome yet but I think they did at least stay on the pages you exited. I think ther were other problems with them though.

Concert venues where ticket holders and seekers have to stand in the same damn line
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:43 PM

Or even if they don't there is usually never any kind of signage as to who stands where and if you ask the people already in line or the security guys they just grunt and stare at you so you stand around for ages wondering if you'll make it in even though you've already paid for tickets