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

he likes sexual media, just not televised media and popular music

I, for one, do not like arguments in television shows or disagreements in music. They should only happen in youtube videos where people loudly argue with each other. It's embarrassing to experience conflict outside of conflict-specific media.

Well yeah it's trash. CSI and shit. Fuck that. Sex and violence too often combined into hateful fearmongering stuff.

hey Once-ler, you've found a kindred soul! time for irrational happiness

Disagreements in Music sounds like a 90's Eno album

WTF is once-ler.

https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/58869725/lorax2.jpg

a onceler is NOT a lorax, dude.

-people who sit there having convos with you when they can see that you have headphones on. you know I can't hear you and you're just gonna have to repeat yourself - maybe wait to start the convo after I've actually taken them off

I presume a onceler is one who oncels.

when did ilx become seussical

Ugh the headphone thing. I dont have an office, so headphones are my "door's closed, go away!" flag. Not that it ever, ever works.

My hatred of lip sync got a little less irrational today upon learning that

- the Grammys had actually asked them to return their award
- Rob Pilatus from Milli Vanilli committed suicide as a result of constant ridicule

The industry just completely threw them under the bus. So now whenever I see Jimmy Fallon doing a lip sync I have to imagine him dancing like a jackass on the grave of Milli Vanilli.

I knew about fact 1, but not 2, blimey :/

frank farian the dude who did the milli vanilli vocals also did the boney m male lead vocals back in the 70's

ugliest dude ever, no fuckin wonder he got attractive people to do his bidding for him

wow and remarkably committed to his questionable haircut

I never really understood why it was such a big deal re Milli Vanilli when it had been a thing since at least Boney M if not before and thru lots of Italodisco hits etc

sometimes I will see someone claim that Baltimora's frontman/dancer Jimmy McShane is definitely the singer on "Tarzan Boy" despite any claims to the contrary and I laugh at the thought of a guy from Derry pronouncing "signal" as "see-nyal", which is not only such an Italian pronunciation but also one you probably wouldn't even think of if you were doing a fake Italian accent

no disrespect to him as there's another guy who met a sad end (AIDS; came back home but disowned by religious parents)

shit kids made their parents shell out big bucks to see a bunch of melonheaded goofuses don Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costumes and pretend to play instruments on that shitty Pizza Hut concert tour. I think everybody was more put off by the 'secrecy', but that wasn't the group's fault. They were frequently demanding to be allowed to sing on their recordings and weren't allowed to go blabbing about it either. yet they got hit with the most fallout from it.

yeah, we don't mind hearing beyonce's studio songs, even though we all know she's garbage live

but, but, but her performance!

thank the creative team for that!

IA @ the woman who parked her car sideways across two handicapped spaces and sat in the driver's seat talking on her cellphone. I honked my horn at her 4 times, but I don't think she got the idea. she probably thought she was doing nothing wrong because she was inside the car and she could move if anyone needed the spaces. gtfo.

garbageperson

sometimes I will see someone claim that Baltimora's frontman/dancer Jimmy McShane is definitely the singer on "Tarzan Boy" despite any claims to the contrary and I laugh at the thought of a guy from Derry pronouncing "signal" as "see-nyal"

Wait, I always just assumed Baltimora were an Italopop band. Didnt know about any irish frontman!

ha i just thought it was a one-man irish dude outfit. now it's beyond obvious to me that it's italian.

Kinda dull, but when I'm waiting to cross the road, a long line of cars passing, and the last car of the group stops to let you cross. It slows everyone down, and now I have to interact with them by doing a little head-nod/wave thing and a half-run across the street.

they always fuckin do that

i never run

i hate when cars stop for me unless there's a red light - it throws everybody out, i do that dithering thing where you've still got to look the other way...just let me cross when there's a natural gap, i'm not giving you a courtesy medal for anything

i can't stand when someone's trying to turn onto a two lane road, but another vehicle is leaving that two-lane road from the opposite direction, and instead of just going into the wide open lane, they wait for the other vehicle to leave.

IT"S BIG ENOUGH FOR TWO VEHICLES WITH A LITTLE SPACE LEFT OVER! the fuck you think is gonna happen, the other car is going to magically expand and consume your vehicle? stop making me wait behind you.

(ie, usually this happens in parking lots etc)

Yeah really don't like that supposedly generous road crossing thing. Way too many times when you do have a visible interval screwed up by nervous driver slowing to let you cross.
Thinking about it logically gap may be a traffic light earlier on the road or something.
Think I had several drivers in my hitching years explain theories of motorway traffic moving in waves too.

The other somewhat similar thing is when you're sitting on a bus and its a popular stop so a lot of people want to get off including the person sitting on the seat inside from you. & you say i'll let the people behind go by then let you out. & then you get some supposedly kind soul wanting or insisting that you get out first which screws everything up. Like they're refusing to come any further forward until you've moved but you want to move into the space that would be behind where they've just passed you.

Or once having to dive to get past a wave of people getting off at a popular stop when I've been standing towards the front of the bus. & there's a pole in the middle of the walkway which people are trying to come around both sides of, which means that everybody standing would be herded to the front of the bus. & there are seats behind where the walking part of the crowd are, you just can't get at them because people aren't thinking and just scrambling to get forward.
Maybe only losers take the bus.

oh yeah the bus sucks. When I used to ride a bus to work I got on at a stop (on the right side of road) that was a block away from where the bus had to make a left turn. So the driver would always act like he didn't see anyone waiting at my stop so he could move into the left lane a block early. I would have to run across a lane and bang on the door for him to let me in and he'd claim that no one was at the stop and I must have just appeared from nowhere.

ILX could probably support entire separate 'IA @ public transportation' and 'IA @ motorists/bicyclists/pedestrians' threads.

bus = people who get on when there is no seating left, and proceed to stand at the front of the bus when there's ample room towards the back so that nobody else can get on without shoving their way through forcefully

too rational

Yeah, hate that and will try to tell people when there is seating towards the back. Happens a lot at one particular stop which is outside of one of the 2 major 3rd level education places in town, which is one of the main stops that people get on and off at. could be a number of non-student residential areas that that is the main stop for too.
& was the stop I had to dive around the pole at, as mentioned earlier (pole is actually slightly off to one side in front of optional seating/buggy/wheelchair area.

& students get on the bus and don't look any further down so bus is not able to take on any new passengers unless bus driver recognises space behind them is clear and physically has to ask people to move down.

I feel like a point has been reached where groups of students walking four abreast the sidewalk would rather blankly slam into people coming the opposite way than duck out of the way at the last second. It must have something to do way attachment parenting.

ILX could probably support entire separate 'IA @ public transportation' and 'IA @ motorists/bicyclists/pedestrians' threads.

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Yeah, I have to restrain myself from posting any sort of transportation related woes here. Odds are that millions of people have the same exact peeves no matter how minor they are

Sometimes there is solace in that, though.

I say as long as one party is irrational it still counts.

it has become apparent to me that certain groups of ppl walking on a sidewalk in conversation will prioritize continuing their conversation over moving to accomodate oncoming pedestrians

it's like they can't do both

it drives me insane

failing that, stop in a doorway but continue the conversation if you and your oppo are set to go in different directions.

THIS FUCKING COMMERCIAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LnuWQgL7Wg

Way to make it ALL ABOUT YOU, dude. Like you couldn't even ask her what's wrong? You just had to immediately launch into your nice guy screed about how not all boys are dicks? So gross.

The screed is such awkward exposition too. He could have just offered her a tissue and that would have conveyed the point of the ad that boys sometimes offer people tissues.

Instead it conveyed the point that boys and their feelings are always the center of the universe.

IA because it doesn't impact me at all, but I hate when people get on an elevator, press a floor, and then get off at the next stop, which isn't theirs, because they just assumed theirs was next and didn't bother looking at the number.

it makes me IA cos it's so dumb - just like people who ask "is this elevator going down" after walking right by the indicator arrow.

You've got to do the Larry David helpless/apologetic shrug and smile when they try to get back on as the doors are closing.

carl & jmm otm

OMG, I couldn't see what that commercial was while I was at work but I just saw it on tv and KNEW it was the commercial in question. It totally makes me IA, too.

yeah, it's weird, I feel like in earlier times they would have made that commercial and just had the boy checking to see if anyone was looking and slipping the girl a tissue w/o the "not all boys, m'lady" monologue

I loathe Floridians during hurricane season. all the information in the world on NHC's website and everybody ignores it and goes by what they heard three days ago from the toupeed newscaster. on the one hand if it gets them to stock up on supplies, good, on the other, tired of a bunch of amateur civilian "meteorologists" making their 'guesses'.