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

when you come back to your office desk and someone has dragged your chair away to speak to someone else at their desk

or else adjusted the chair height so you sit down violently like a fucking moron who can't use furniture

or used your keyboard and put up those little keyboard chocks so the keys are all at the wrong angle

i mean i know cold water can be a shock after 30 minutes in the steam room but a polite "brrr" or something like a mixture of a dog and a horse is obviously the way to go.

"brrr, dog. amirite?"

or used your keyboard and put up down those little keyboard chocks so the keys are all at the wrong angle

fixed

you put one down so the other goes up innit?
Like chocks down, keyboard up.
Chocks away and the keyboard takes off from a WWI airfield.

huh
I'm spending way too long trying to work out which one people mean

chocks is the name for the little feet that come out of the bottom side of a keyboard.
It's also the name for the little blocks that kept wheels on vehicles from moving while they sat stationary on a display ground.
warfilms often had pilots saying 'chocks away' as part of their take off procedure. Though I may have got the 2 wars confused in that aspect. Think it was WW1 anyway.

oh yeah I got that, just whether I mean up or down! It's like flammable or inflammable
The keyboard should be elevated

So should proper airplanes.

ONly if they're kept subterraneanly or on an under deck surely? Can't think of other times you'd need to stick a proper airplane in an elevator. & what's a proper airplane anyway, one with the correct etiquette?

Right. I was thinking of prop planes.

well a propeller plane is propelled by a propeller which is what one might say kept it elevated, like.

pplanes

every video you click on these days doesn't just STOP AS IT SHOULD when it's over, instead it KEEPS GOING, usually segueing ungracefully into something COMPLETELY UNRELATED and then you have to search thru your tabs and windows to find the video and stop it

Aaggghh fuck you kindle books "27 mins left in book" "87%" ... "read on for a preview of his next book!"
I want to know when i'm near the end goddammit

The break room at work has two soap dispensers next to the sink labeled "dish soap" and "hand soap" and it is the same soap in both dispensers.

^ totally rational

Is that a fixture or somebody thinking ahead and having a spare container at hand?

I don't know. I like to think there was an idyllic time in the past when there really were two different soaps as labeled but then the economy went into the toilet and now you wash your hands and your dishes with generic Dawn.

THink I've just written off my tv.
Fucketyfucketyfuck.
So never going to see the end of season 1 and 2 of Fringe on a large screen tv. & at least I won't be bothered by how badly insurance prices in the Boston area were effected by them trying to suspend place names on things like telephone wires above residential areas. Gosh what a relief.
Is that too Pollyanna even for me?

Cleaned the screen without checking how it needed to be cleaned , then watched a couple of hours of Supernatural where it seemed to be working ok, Went over to watching Fringe and the picture was sticking then going dark.
Fuck, think I no longer have a working tv.

show up to mr veg's second cousin's graduation party, total small family chill outdoor party. we got her a card and a little cheesy inspiration book, no big woop

my sister in law comes up hugs hello and says loudly in front of everyone DIDNT GET THE NO PRESENTS MEMO HUH? *laughter*

i love her to death but she loves being the one to break that kind of stuff to me, like I'm a stupid child & i fuuuuuucking hate it

it was all i could do not to smack her in the face with the gift bag.

>:(

you should have punted the gift bag over the fence and yelled PROBLEM SOLVED

punted the sister in law over the fence

she didn't get the don't be a wagon memo

lol

What kind of crazy person has a no presents rule?

I mean especially if she just graduated college. Good luck finding a non-retail job in the next 5-10 yrs. Take what you can get FFS.

no one needs a dozen copies of 'oh the places you'll go'

that was not the book i got her fyi

or 'oi the places you'll walkabout'

ken stabler bio iirc

When people tweet screenshots of articles and highlight certain text, but instead of using OneShot, they just highlight it in Safari/Chrome, thus leave the Copy popup at the top.

Like, you'd think one might be able to enjoy all of the incompetence-induced downtime granted us by the nightmarishly awful IT department at my place of employment, but I really don't. All I can think about is how appalling it is that those people both a) make a ton more money than I do and b) are somehow still employed.

Ugh yes. That was how things worked in state government. The nadir of my IT dealings was when I got a virus on my computer and called for help only to be told that the only person in the entire IT department who could deal with a computer virus leaves at 3 pm.

Haaaa. All-too familiar.

Among all of the usual issues we have to deal with daily, I keep running into this escape character error in one of our laughable in-house systems (as in, it was created from scratch and is maintained by the jokers who are constantly breaking things). In my past capacity at a different job as a low-level IT-ish person who worked with SQL constantly, it's an error that I could probably fix myself if I had access to do so. When it occurs to me, I will re-send my help desk ticket on this error as I have done for the past...three months? Where it seems to fall into a black hole for a week or two before I get a follow-up from someone asking if the issue was resolved to my satisfaction and who subsequently assures me that they'll get to the bottom of both the ongoing issue and the ongoing nonresponsiveness of their team before that person falls into a black hole of their own and I go through the whole process again. One of these days, I'm going to collect all of that correspondence and send it directly to the director of IT. For all the good it'll do.

While it is absolutely disgusting that the lion that was killed in Zimbabwe was killed and in the way that it was. I'm a bit surprised to discover that the symbol of an Independent country appears to be named after the founder of the country it was before Independence. Not sure if the name Cecil would have any referent than the first name of Rhodes who founded rhodesia or at least had it named after him.
Which would have me wondering who is appointing national symbols in Independent African states. Hopefully not the same people who were running the country before independence?

our office shares a communal bathroom with another company

there's this woman that i have crossed paths with, but from the first time i ran into her she was all OH YOU AGAIN, as though I had seen her a hundred times. i've seen her maybe twice in my life.

i havent seen her in months & i saw her today and she was like HEEY ITS BEEN A WHILE

listen lady i dont know you, i dont understand why you are trying to make this a thing but please stop it, it's weird

i dont want a bathroom friend

;_;

that sounds like something I would do as an awkward joke

That reminds of a woman who worked at the other company on my floor at this job in Atlanta. She sold Avon and was always accosting other women in the bathroom with catalogs.

Could you not just pointedly wipe your arse with the catalog?

I feel like to do it pointedly, I would have had to let her watch me wipe my ass, which would have defeated the purpose of not wanting to interact with her in the bathroom. But maybe I could have just pooped on the catalog and left it on the counter next to the sink.

lol

when my dad was a kid his grandparents did have a sears & roebuck catalog in the outhouse for arse wiping

avon catalog probably too glossy

I once saw a neighbor kid wipe his ass w/ snow while we were out snowmobiling.

a licky boomboom down

Is this going to turn into the "Things I've Seen Used for Wiping Asses" thread? If so, I've got an IA complaint to make.

i bear no responsibility for this diversion

xxp hah!

When someone in a videogame forum says "I am having second thoughts about my pre-order" it drives me bats. It's like a combo ineffectual threat slash consumer bragging slash free marketing voting with your dollar idiot who is too stupid to realize he already GAVE the company his money in the company 100% is in the right to wring this impulsive fool for all he is worth.