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

I will confess to being the guy that stopped at the jump off point for a ski lift once. It was my first time and I was shaky on my skis. Oops.

Ha I am the person who just falls off the ski lift like a fainting goat. Which is why I haven't been skiing since the mid-90s.

I'm sure I've said this elsewhere, but those times when people stop at the tops/bottoms of escalators are the moments when I come closest to putting my hands on a stranger and moving them out of the way (I actually took a tumble on an escalator once because the lady in front of me didn't consider the logistics of moving her granny cart off of the escalator step until she was already at the bottom). That shit is the ridiculous extreme of the increasing lack of attention people pay to those around them.

you can kind of do a gentle "sorry" and edge past someone with a hand on them, sort of.

you have to cup them very hard otherwise they won't take you seriously.

you have to do an ear clap

or simply prod them with a knife

too much mustard on a sandwich

when you keep hitting the wrong letter over and over and over on iphone keyboard

too much mustard on a sandwich

I don't think this is possible unless it's a PB&J + M.

iphone keyboard generally is maddening.

Try wiping the mustard off and then typing the text.

but then the phone will taste bland

i like *some* mustard, not fuckin giant spoonfuls of it

Yes, same with all sandwich/wrap condiments eg pickle and never-not-overused hoisin sauce

Writers who put gobbets of untranslated French in their books with no context to make it clear what the French bits mean

I thought thats what was happening in Game of Thrones for a whole fucking season when the dothraki were jabbering away in their own language, with no subtitles. I was like "come on, a bit is fine but what the shit is going on here!?"... then we realised we had somehow downloaded a rip with missing subs. :/

I watched the most recent Planet of the Apes movie under similar circumstances, puzzled at the endless sign language, felt very dumb

lol trayce

Ha, one of the first DVDs I bought was for Mystery Train, but I couldn't figure out how to turn on the subtitles.

I had seen it before, so when I'd watch it with friends, I'd quietly narrate what I remembered the characters were saying, when it wasn't obvious.

I finally figured out that turning on the French subtitles actually turned on English subtitles.

i sat through half an hour of Play Time not realising that the tv / dvd aspect ratio was screwed up and that the subtitles were off the screen.

The only time I ever tried to watch Sophie's Choice was on AMC or TCM, and it took me a little while to realize that the extensive untranslated scenes in Polish were a case of omitted subtitles rather than a strange stylistic choice.

I (uh, I mean a friend of mine) watched Russ Meyer's Up! on youtube this past weekend and the first 10 minutes or so are in German (guy pretending to be Hitler getting spanked/abused by a dominator). The youtube title has "(ENG)" in it, because I presume a lot of people didn't stick it out, and complained.

Via the obamatrade.com that Hoos linked elsewhere -- people who can't do cartoon word balloons right, and always have the stem sticking all the way into the speaker's mouth.

my friend is on a massive round-the-world trip & posting pics & travel journal updates on a FB group as she goes, which has been super fun to keep up with.

but uuughhh a couple of her friends are tsmug passive aggressive "been there too" commenters. never impressed or happy or encouraging, always leaving some faux-cheery comment that ensures no-one will be under the illusion that she has done or seen something they havent

FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFF

haha I've known some people who are that way about illnesses of all things

"oh you got something? yeah, I had that about a week ago."

The one joke I think of but surprisingly have never written or said out loud - on Facebook or even ILX - is when someone posts a pic of them in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa or at One World Trade Center, I always want to reply back with "So where's that at?"

Because 9 times out of 10, there's no context, just a caption of "Feeling a lot of history here" underneath them looking at the Pyramids.

no that's good, you should work that

I got a buddy who posts "I'm glad you were born" on everybody's FB when it's their birthday. Maybe I could become the "so where's that at?" guy.

another friend of mine is also travelling but she posts endless uncaptioned photos on IG

most of it is forests and lakes and stuff that is beautiful but jfc a location would be nice

I have a friend that does this with band photos - "these guys rocked!" Etc

"26 years since we last saw these guys"

those are people who don't go to many shows apparently

then again everyone knows that These Guys are the best band of the last 30 years

"These guys" in the last example were Bob playing again for the first time in 25 years, I think.

And they go to multiple sites per week, generally. Primavera week was just a cavalcade of unnamed band photos.

(Sites = shows)

vg fb seems not to agree with u this week what's up its just ppl posting themselves

i'm just cranky lol

People who take too long at soda - fill stations.

People who use "on crack" to describe any minor eccentricity

People.

I get mildly IA when there's a movie poster where the names listed across the top don't line up with the cast members pictured below. like in the image the star of the film is at the center but their name comes first and is over the head of a supporting actor.

yes! I have this poster:

http://www.mauvais-genres.com/4041-thickbox/carrie-turkish-movie-poster-81-stephen-king-sissy-spacek-brian-de-palma-horror.jpg

It's one of my prize possessions but sometimes when I look at it and get so annoyed that Sisssy Spacek plays a flaming car, John Travolta plays Margaret White, and Piper Laurie is a school gymnasium.

Seminal roles.

I'm not sure if this anger is irrational tbh, but Ihave a friend who owns a 3 bedroom penhouse apt in St Kilda (the swanky seaside suburb in my city, million $ views and pads, basically). All she ever seems to do is whine about her lot, though. When they got the penthouse, she whinged because it wasnt the converted church she'd dreamt of. Now, shes comlpaining because she wants to drop everything and work in NYC for a year but cant afford to do so without selling the apt which she cant do cos her husband still like, needs to live somewhere.

I just want to slap her. She can afford something like all this and yet its not enough.

Not looking fotrward to trying to dismantle my walkman to replace the hard to get at battery. have heard that it can lead to the control panel not functioning which seems to be happening anyway. Also wondering if if I've had a replacement battery sitting in a drawer for a couple of years, is there any way of checking that the battery is still functioning? It's one that gets charged inside the walkman through a power lead. I bought the battery when I was first thinking the previous same model walkman battery seemed to not be charging properly.
Otherwise my trusty companion of the last couple of years is going to remain defunct and the hundreds of hours of music in it can't be heard. Bummer.

Really should listen to myself saying that I shouldn't use the sewing machine after a certain time of night cos mishapps occur. I forgot to check what bobbin thread I had on and now have to unpick it.
Hoping that my Gordon dress tartan jeans have enough excess on the trouser cuff to turn up properly otherwise they'll look weird.

Need to learn to touchtyope again so letters don't habitually land in the wrong order.

Also getting really fed up with trying to watch video files on my tv from my memory stick and finding out that they don't get read. & the file is recognised as having 00:00 duration when it should be perfectly ok. Don't seem to be able to find files for a certain series that works.
Can you get drivers for the tv like you could for a computer?

Stevolende, when you posted about the Walkman before I thought it was actually a Walkman cassette player. I thought it was interesting that you were using one regularly.

yes! I have this poster:

🗻

It's one of my prize possessions but sometimes when I look at it and get so annoyed that Sisssy Spacek plays a flaming car, John Travolta plays Margaret White, and Piper Laurie is a school gymnasium.

That's what makes that poster great.

That's true.