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

this is not a huge ia, but i feel cheated when i click on something i think is going to be an article and it's a speech/interview that's only available as audio or video with no transcript. part of it is the way these sites self-promote such content on social media -- they're gonna get that click even if the potential clicker is out in public and can't *play* a video file at that moment. and i absorb more by reading than i do if i have to watch someone saying the same words out loud.

Ugh yeah I hate video only articles/intervews. At least give us a transcript!

cosign

Hell yes, I'm on that train as well. Videos can get fucked

LOL at "happy family with glockenspiel music"

I swear when I read that the commercial started to auto play in my brain.

http://www.theonion.com/video/christ-article-a-video-36101

Wondering why certain threads on here just don't open when I'm accessing the site through my mobile phone. Happened on a couple this morning while others worked. They totally timed out and my phone said it failed to connect to the internet.
Has happened at other times too.
So not sure if its the length of a URL pathway, somebody else writing as I'm trying to access the thread, the actual connection though as i said other threads seemed to open ok while returning to the couple that didn't after finding one that did open ok I was still unable to access them.

Would think that if something on a site worked other things would and this is a text based thread not image or video so really don't get it.

twinge of IA at the alphabetical organization of this list

n carolina
nebraska
nevada
new jersey
new mexico
new york
n hampshire
north dakota

Nah, that seems like very rational anger.

whoa. what the fuck is wrong with people?

new carolina
north hampshire

And it's from Craigslist!

It's not even wrong right.

fuck that list

fuck it

going to donate blood, which i have to do because of having motherfucking haemochromatosis (even just the sound of it is really quite atrocious); being refused from donating becuase I didn't have photo ID (I don't drive and didn't happen to be carrying my passport because I'm not a maniac). What the fuck do they think I'm going to do, criminally donate blood in somebody else's name? And so what the fuck if I did? They screen it all for HIV, hep C, hep B, etc etc, and to see what blood type it is, so who gives a fuck who the hell it came from? Meanwhile I'm standing around with my iron-rich fucked-up blood getting liver damage while I wait 4 weeks for a proof of fucking age card to turn up in the post.

My wife is banned from donating in the U.S. basically forever because she lived in Germany in the mid-'80s. Mad cow concerns, because there's no test/screen for Mad Cow.

That blows James :( ID wise Im in the same position, so I *do* carry my passport everywhere now, cos its all I have and chemists have taken a liking to asking for ID when you ask for codiene, now grrr.

my uncle died of cjd am I off the hook

KIds spending the summer holiday breaking all the trees along the paths through the local woods. Obviously not bad enough trying to break all the ones around the park.
Oh well, it's nature, I'm sure it will grow back, or since it isn't man made by them it can't count or something.

Oh yeah, as a kid I spent a ton of time in the woods. There was a local swimming hole and we all used to climb trees and jump into the water and stuff. Personally, I was personally inspired and awestruck by the beauty of nature, but some kids just liked tearing the branches off and eventually all the wonderful trees died and fell in the water and no one swims there anymore. I fucking hated those kids.

- when husband's write Amazon reviews for their wives

And IA I've Been Watching A Lot of Nail Polish Videos on Youtube Edition
- when people put rainbow colors out of order (ROYGBIV, motherfuckers)
- when people are trying to be "nail vloggers" (oh god shoot me) and their shit is just filthy dirty and gross. Like, if I want to see some weird, dirty tweezers and a discount paper towel covered in old nail polish spatters and a disgusting water marbling cup, I'll just look down at my desk, okay? Ugh.

There's also a lot of nail vlogger (arg)/beauty vlogger (arg arg) crossover and there's this whole subgenre of "Get Ready With Me" videos and I can't tell whether their existence makes me IA or my fascination makes me IA but something in there is giving me a headache.

who has the best nail game on youtube?

WELL it depends on what you're looking for, and I'm a little IE about this and it makes me feel like an insane person that I even have these opinions but:

Lady for what's called "live swatching" aka "watching someone paint her nails and talk about the nail polish" - http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2xivpFV73dnQRxmUBGBrQ
For nail art and voiceovers so soothing I'll be she's on at least a few ASMR playlists - http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAB7Lx8dbFBzNYcO9DyBhvQ
For nail art and the second most soothing voiceover - http://www.youtube.com/user/SimpleLittlePleasues
For charismatic Canadian nail art humor - http://www.youtube.com/user/simplynailogical

in orbit probably has better formed opinions than I do on this issue, as she is a long-standing expert and I am a mere dilettante.

no, dont' be ie. thank you.

I know we discussed being too mentally drained/tired to read as much as we used to on the parenting thread, but honestly there have been nights where the most soothing thing I found to do before bed was curl up and watch "jessface90" paint her nails for 20 minutes.

lol

i get mad when i hit the button to remotely unlock my car and it only unlocks the driver's side and i'm trying to put something in the passenger side

This subdivision in Texas:

http://i.imgur.com/F4Dn4ie.png

I mean, leave politics aside for a moment, though I'm not even sure a Texan would want to live on Richard Nixon St. How come it goes LBJ, JFK, to RMN? Is it because LBJ was a Texan and needs to be on the outside to give room to his rattlesnake to stretch out?

If you go to the map and hit Satellite view, you can see why there are two Dwight Eisenhower Streets (they're eventually going to connect.) And if you visit the Realtor.com page, you'll even see that the little nub next to Ike's is going to be Ulysses Grant St. (Maybe a more hated president in Texas than Nixon?) Grant was a big time general like Ike, but who's going to go in after him? You see Garfield over there, so you'd think Hayes would slide in there, but no. He's already out there connecting all these little cul-de-sacs. Abraham Lincoln maybe? Lincoln and Garfield, side-by-side at last.

I like ol' William Harrison St., since no one past or present ever called him that.

http://i.imgur.com/oKxS6Hf.png

I would find it entertaining as heck to live on Nixon St.

needs a bar on hayes street called 'lemonade lucy's'

John Tyler St. is made up exclusively of his living grandchildren.

Taft Court; 100% cul de sac

I figured your anger was from the fact there's only one street that connects to the rest of the city.

They just have a George Bush st not a sr and a jr.

NOt sure how much sense order of Presidents makes anyway and are they going to expand the network until they have all the Presidents covered? Still quite a few missing. Are there going to be Gerald Ford and James Carters there?
NOt seeing one for the current president there either. Or is it standard protocol not to name things like that after the current one?

pixies in the grunge section of a local record shop.

i have no idea at all why i give a shit about that but

totally 1st world problems but: my family ask for what I want for my birthday. I give them a list of stuff I want/need - CDs, baby equipment, whatever. They then tell me my presents are on their way, they'll give me something when I see them next, etc etc. So I hold off buying the CDs I want or equipment I need in case they're getting it for me. But this goes on for months and I don't even know which things they're getting! I'd really rather just buy this stuff myself but then they nag me about what I want, and if I don't tell them anything they buy me random stuff that I'd rather not fill the house up with.

Giftbuying should be restricted for kids only or maybe close romantic partners.
I have a whole other rant about aggressive gift-giving in my family but I will sound crazy.

Yes, yes, yes, you are not alone.

In fact, I feel like we may be kindered spirits.

Gosh yes. Well, the second part especially. I really don't see the need for friends to invest in gifts or cards on my birthday/Christmas but some insist on it and then I feel guilty if I don't do the same in return and it just escalates from there. I don't need a card from someone I see once a week - just get me a pint or something FFS.

Oh lord there are more of you

it's a circle of obligation and guilt and can't we just all have a pint and forget it all

Yeah, see Sunny? It's me and kinder and dog latin and possibly mh if he's not really taking the piss with that last post.

I would rather go out for a nice meal than get a present 99% of the time. Especially for my birthday. Really don't get it when people make their birthday into an extended celebration, but that's their prerogative.

fuck presents

I will take all of your presents. Problem solved.

My version of this is: 'Mom, you don't have much money and you want to get me a birthday present? Don't waste cash on stuff I neither want nor need.'