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

Talking crosswalk speakers.

WAIT. TEN. NINE. EIGHT. SEVEN. SIX. FIVE. FOUR. THREE. TWO. ONE. SCOTT STREET. YOU MAY NOW CROSS SCOTT STREET.

These things help the blind, sure. But the people living in the apartments behind me must be going insane.

Also, the one on my route pronounces Cumberland - which we locals kinda slur as "cumBURlend" - as Cum. Bur. LAND.

There are assistive devices for the visually impaired at some bus stops that give the upcoming bus arrival times if you push them. To alert visually impaired people to their presence, they constantly beep. Beep beep beep beep beep beep nonstop. I feel like too much of a heel to get IA at them individually so I redirect my anger to the fact that those devices aren't ubiquitous and therefore have to make a noise to announce their availability.

PP, you can't win for losin'.

I'm not blind, so I don't know if this is on the right track, but -

It seems like a blind person, who has to rely on an expanded focus of their four other senses, could resent those noise-making machines. "I can't hear if any cars are coming because there's this goddamm pole next to me shrieking these electronic bleats."

Some but not all of the pedestrian crossing units here have a little spinny device underneath for blind people to tell when it's safe to cross. But since they don't all have it and since the new units are in a different position to the older ones (this has been making me IA for unrelated reasons - the new one near my flat makes it harder to see the signal than it used to be) I have no idea how any blind people ever manage to find it.

"Remember when you had to take the BAR exam, I drove in the snow for you"

What the fuck is this whiny entitled bullshit? Does Drake have any idea what a god damn huge undertaking a bar exam is? It's a multi-day endeavor that people spend three years of schooling followed by three months of full time studying preparing for on which the rest of the person's professional future hinges, so yeah, you're damn right you drove in the snow for someone who had to take a bar exam. It is almost the very least you could fucking do to support that person, and you're a cretin to bring it up as evidence that you always do so much for someone. If you think driving in the fucking snow and taking a bar exam are equivalent, you are as terrible as people on ILM are always saying you are.

God that song gives me a headache.

This week I am angry about shoes!

I have horrible short flat wide fat feet so most shoes don't fit, and now I have stupid orthotic insoles because I keep having mystery knee problems which are probably something to do with my horrible short flat wide fat feet, and apparently right now shoes are really shallow-fitting and barely have room for my feet, never mind my feet plus giant wedges.

But shoes not fitting in the shop is annoying but OK. What I am angry about is the shoes which seem to fit in the shop so I spend my money and I wear them for real a couple of times and realise they just aren't working for me. Or maybe I wear them 0 times outside my carpeted flat but I was still stupidly optimistic enough to remove the tags, or they've actually stitched the insoles in so that I have to rip the stitching to put my own insoles in, and then the insoles don't fit but I've damaged the shoes so I can't take them back.

Also shoes let water in and my feet get wet.

Really I'm angry at my own feet more than shoes, but I've been angry at my own body shape for decades so I felt like enjoying the novelty of being angry at shoes instead.

people who stand in front of the buttons in the lift, when there's nobody in it.

aps as a person with horrible feet I am full of empathy and identification with your post.

people who stand in front of the buttons in the lift, when there's nobody in it.

is this some sort of Schrodinger's Elevator?

a pressing question.

Just trying to get a rise out of garda.

My favourite sign of all time was the one in an airport departure lounge.

On the wall: "No Smoking".

Then the same message, below. In braille.

So, blind people have to feel the entire wall(s) before they can know that they are allowed to smoke or not?

blind smokers have it twice as bad

nobody as colloquialism for v few people :)

blind smokers always claiming they didn't see the sign. get out of this one chumps.

SMOKING IS NOT ALLOWED ANYWHERE WITHIN MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. AND DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT PARKING IN THE WHITE ZONE, BLIND PEOPLE.

Is there a reason that I can't rewind through an MP4 file without losing the sound. I've just had the same thing happen on a 2nd episode of the same show, I went off to do something else while the show was running so tried to rewind by about 10 minutes only to find that it was now playing silently. That is after having heard the dialogue in what I'd assume was the right place when it was first playing.
Wound up having to rerun the first show from the beginning after trying to restart it and fast forward only to find out that sound was seriously out of sync.
Anyway finding this weird and not fully understanding the technology. Rewinding seems to be working ok on other file formats.

Oh yeah probably crucial point is that this is trying to show files held on a memory stick through my tv. Has tended to work ok for months though there have been some instances of things being out of sync where I'm not sure if it is down to faulty file or faulty set up. Also not sure if how full the memory stick has any bearing on this.

Major drag since I'm now going to have to work out how to watch this show which I was about half way through without just having to watch it or at least play it in real time from the start.
Is it an MP4 issue that crops up elsewhere?

jfc i hate hate hate people who are posting that "May the 4th be with you shit". I suppose it's a nice vacation from the other insidious memes they usually share but come the fuck on

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b3/74/98/b3749884390859774810072ec3e2b861.jpg

That's more like it.

Today would've been my grandmother's 96th birthday.

How I envied her today.

IA, being on hold version:

Music is fine but for god's sake, don't have some half-tuned radio station blaring static into my ear while I'm holding.
Also it's too loud. It's pretty much always too loud.
A recorded message is fine, too, but maybe have a recorded message that is longer than 15 seconds if you're planning to repeat it on a loop because holy shit I've been on hold for 16:37 minutes (thanks, phone with a timer on it! Also holy shit I've been on hold a long time) hearing the same 15 second loop of advertising for the business that I am already trying to reach and I'm about to run and jump in the river.
Don't tell me that if I don't want to hold, I can go to the internet. I KNOW I CAN GO TO THE INTERNET. I'm calling because I can't/don't want to go on the god damn internet.

Don't tell me that if I don't want to hold, I can go to the internet. I KNOW I CAN GO TO THE INTERNET. I'm calling because I can't/don't want to go on the god damn internet.

YES THIS

i have taken to shouting "i want to talk with a human" whenever it asks for any verbal information at all
sometimes it will take you directly to an agent! i have no patience for phone call sorting systems.

yeah! I do that, too

they can tell when you're about to break

I do that, too!

I also do the "I would like to speak with a human" thing (and I think once I just said "HUMAN").

What really makes me ia is the faux-conversational tone of the recorded responses in those call sorting dealies. "OK! Let me get you that information! Ah, here we are!"

"thank you for calling-" "AGENT"
"please dial one-" "AGENT AGENT AGENT AGENT"

My advice is don't speak to those things. Hit 0 0 0 0 0 - and if that doesn't work then be silent until they send you to a customer service rep.

yelling at machines is fun and it means that when i get to talk with a human, i am ready to be nice

i guess the thing that genuinely makes me ia is when the human behaves like a machine and keeps using my first name too much

Yeah, a lot of times if you don't push any buttons or do anything at all there'll be a long pause, like they're trying to wait you out, and then finally they'll say "Please stay on the line while we connect you with an agent" or whatever.

I love getting mail to myself "Or Current Resident". Makes me feel special.

That little convention is the source of the name of the band The Residents, so they say

re: humans: I start laughing when somebody thanks me after every single sentence I say. This is kind of a call center in India thing mostly.

Also, have you ever had a call where they wouldn't do what you want (adjust a charge, issue a refund, whatever) and so at the end you said, no, I'm not satisfied, but the operator has no other scripted way to end a call, except to ask you one more time if you are "satisfied with our customer service" and they don't know what to say next? It's as if the social contract has suddenly been torched and there's nowhere to go.

Duel

Customer Satisfaction Surveys At Dawn

I could watch:

- Arnold Schwarzenegger re-enacting a bunch of his movies
- Jimmy Kimmel and Jack Black re-enacting that shitty rock ballad video from the 90s
- Kristen Schaal and Mikal Cronin re-enacting "Torn" video from the 90s
- U2 "busking in a NYC subway"

Eff all of these.

My advice is don't speak to those things. Hit 0 0 0 0 0 - and if that doesn't work then be silent until they send you to a customer service rep.

Some companies' automated phone systems don't put up with shit like this - you either answer their questions the way want (and very possibly still never get to talk to a human) or else you get "I'm sorry you're experiencing difficulties. Please try your call again later," and then they hang up. The US Postal Service is the worst for this, but UPS, too, and some government agencies.

Gethuman.com

when jimmyjohns.com asks for your email address and starts giving you the OMG INVALID EMAIL ADDRESS red letter warning message after you enter one keystroke (cos there hasn't been an "@" sign added yet).

I KNOW LET ME FINISH IT JEEZUS

when you go to click in a search bar or w/e on a webpage and then right as you do that it all shifts down slightly & you end up clicking on a banner or a help link

hate hate deathray hate

if I search google for something on ilx, i.e. "site:ilxor.com/ILX something", it ruins my browser's autocomplete for "site new answers," but I can't retrain myself so easily

people from the southwest u.s. using "proper" to describe dance music they like.

is that where MC Hammer lives now?

fucking people on ILX who use "autistic" as a pejorative term. Serves me right for reading a Star Wars thread tbf.

Websites that only give you the parameters for creating a password after you've already input a password that doesn't pass muster. This happens ALL THE TIME anymore. I smash you all.

xp hey, don't blame us SW fans for Shakey