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

in a 2015 where many people say Chipoltie nothing surprises me

when you buy what looks like a normal, if small, packet of biscuits and when you open them they're in a stupid plastic tray and there are literally SEVEN in a pack.

DVD menus that don't play an episode when you select it and press 'play' because obviously you need to press 'select' or 'ok' instead

Irrationally angry about businesses that expect you to send back a form and don't include a pre-printed envelope (don't care if postage is paid or not).

I should probably instead be IA about my own inability to find the stack of blank envelopes I have somewhere, or about how my spidery handwritten address will look horrible and I'll be irrationally ashamed of how unprofessional it looks, but it's easier to be IA at the sender instead.

when you buy what looks like a normal, if small, packet of biscuits and when you open them they're in a stupid plastic tray and there are literally SEVEN in a pack.

OMG, I used to buy these oatmeal dark chocolate chip cookies that were the best but one time I bought them and the box felt funny. I opened up the box (the same size of box they'd always used) and the plastic tray was about 1/3 smaller and sliding around in the box, and the cookies were also about 1/3 smaller and denser and not as good. Soooooo IA. Never bought them again.

This has to have been mentioned somewhere upthread, but: losing something while sitting in place and being unable to find it even though it could not possibly be more than a few inches away from you at most. THE. WORST.

You may be sitting on it?

Trying to work out if I noticed a really dodgy sales technique for raising prices yesterday or if the general rearrangement of the shop has just left the price tag in the wrong place.
Dark chocolate has been 1.19 for the last while, yesterday while looking for dark chocolate of the 85% type I really like I found a price tag saying dark chocolate was on sale down from 1.49 at 1.19. Still couldn't find the stuff I was looking for but I think that stuff does tend to sell out towards the end of the day, even 6ish. So if i can't find it at 8.30ish it isn't that weird.
They did have the stuff with fruit bits in it which I haven't been buying cos it's got more sugar content.
I thoought there wasa separate price tag for that though.

Also looking in there a couple of days ago, looking at a Singer iron which I can't see a price for. They tend to only have one price tag on a shelf end or raised sign that's hanging from the ceiling or something. & nothing has its own price individually on it. So there's no way of looking at price without seeing it on the group tag.
Maybe it's just a hangover from the idea of it being an open plan shop, but it is frustrating.

Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon Perform "History of Rap 6"

cross reference irrationally embarrassed thread

Like just reading that made me irrationally embarrassed.

yes

The Target in downtown Chicago has apparently gotten rid of the checkout divider bar things that keep people's purchases separate. I've noticed this on two trips now so I have to assume it's actually a thing. The last time I was there, the cashier just kinda picked an arbitrary point to stop scanning the stuff of the woman ahead of me, and she didn't notice until she'd already paid and had to pay twice. I mean, really: why.

We should have a meetup and stage a protest.

I've been trying to get people organized but it seems like no one understands how serious this issue is.

Yeah I hate that divider thing. I always try to scoot dividers down the divider aisle so that they go down to the end of the conveyor belt. had some idiot teen intentionally pushing them forwards a a couple of weeks ago but they are idiots at that age anyway ain't they?

But to intentionally remove them, what the f*** is the thought behind that?
Customer always wrong? It's better to direct them?
I have come across individual cashiers who have got rid of the things and found it a pain. I thought the thing was set up for customer convenience. Blah.

I'm going to start rolling with my own.

Another Microsoft Office related complaint: that terrible "read only" view that documents automatically open in for recent Word versions, until you select "edit document"

It's like having to push a button every time you want your refrigerator to cool your food.

EXACTLY

Oh, you wanted to look at this in READABLE VIEW?

Here's your sandwich, would you like me to stack the ingredients on it and close it for you?

Go to File->Options->Trust Center->Trust Center Settings->Protected View and uncheck whichever ones or all of them.

With computers in general, although I find Word is particularly annoying about this, I am always amazed at what the developers assume frequent users want.

an enormous part of the market for mainstream computer products is people who don't know much about computers and are terrified of computer based threats. anything a developer can do to make it look like these people are being protected = $

I doubt the developers have much to do with these decisions fwiw

i work with a lot of people who are new to computers and also need to learn to use ms word, and it's gotten a lot better imo! there's less cluttery crap on the standard blank doc and the templates are useful. i do have complaints about the reliance on tiny indecipherable constantly changing icons instead of words, but that's every app/program/everything.

I think carl meant "developers" as in "the entities that develop these programs" and not "software developers"

but as a software developer my first instinct was to make the exact same comment xp

They could make even more money by charging an extra $5-10 for a no-bullshit, "you clearly know what you're doing here" version of their software.

tbf Microsoft has done that with Word, forever, and the clumsy bits are just their attempts to guess what you want when it can do eight zillion unrelated things, of which you will use two

Yeah I just meant "people responsible for making these decisions." I did not mean to disparage software developers.

Also the version of Word I use has like a bazillion industry- and firm-specific add ons so my experience is not representative. Like I'm sure not everyone uses a version of Word where a key combination I often mistakenly type randomly switches the language/character set to Chinese.

Also honestly I appreciate computers and software that I can use without thinking about it too much, but I hate it when <insert whoever makes these decisions here> make it hard to change settings for more advanced users.

the checkout divider bar things

I'd bet it gets really crazy sometimes at the store that sells those things!

whole foods has cheeky little messages on theirs now

I assume that customers use random groceries to separate the checkout dividers they're buying at the checkout divider store.

Go to File->Options->Trust Center->Trust Center Settings->Protected View and uncheck whichever ones or all of them.

All my "Protected View" boxes are unchecked, but Word email attachments still open as Read Only.

Depending on version, some also say something like "this file came from the Internet and could be dangerous."

The way that my sewing machine looks like it's continuing to sew despite one side of thread having run out.
So I get to the end of what I assume is a finished seam and find one long piece of thread and 2 largely separate sections of fabric. Pretty difficult to get the seam exactly the same again but otherwise fixable but time consuming.

xp also windows explorer folders that default to "optimize this folder for Pictures"

In an online series of photos, the next/previous buttons are not in the same place on every page.

Kids vandalising the sign that the Friends of Merlin Woods put up in the woods yet again. So it's lying shattered on the ground instead of being up and visible so that people can look at where all the paths through the forest are and what local wildlife to look out for.
Annoying shits, not sure what they get out of it. Is it some kind of fulfilment they get for destroying things, the kudos of being known as the guy who took out the sign somebody else put hours of work into?

Annoying shits, not sure what they get out of it. Is it some kind of fulfilment they get for destroying things, the kudos of being known as the guy who took out the sign somebody else put hours of work into?

What, were you born 35? That's exactly what it is. I mean, I'm an old fuck who hates kids too, but I remember the joy of wanton destruction very well.

Yea I mean I spent hours in the catwalk at age 18 destroying shit in high school.

Nowadays I'd be screaming at me if I caught me

- when businesses have private social media accounts. Why? Why are you bothering?

When [redacted name of government agency] makes the contractors jump through hoops to do anything online. Apparently the hackers aren't stymied by the existing infrastructure, but I can't take an online course on IT security?

re: the checkout line divider thing

Yesterday I was loading groceries onto the belt and for some reason the clerk, while checking someone else out, kept picking up a divider and dropping it behind the stuff I had set down--while I was still setting more stuff down. I kept taking it off and she kept putting it back down. I felt like I'd entered a Seinfeld episode.

What the hell.

at some point she said, "Is this all your stuff?" I had to wonder if she was having a flashback to a previous checkout experience.

i get aggravated by meaningless accolades. for instance today someone, when chatting about the new Slayer, said it was their best album since Christ Illusion.

Christ Illusion was two albums ago. by that measure, the new album had a 50/50 chance of achieving that milestone. whoopty fucking do!

I came home to find out that my boy, Slayer, received a trophy for nothing - a best album since Christ Illusion trophy! While I am very proud of Slayer for everything he does and will encourage him till the day I die, these trophies will be given back until Slayer EARNs a real trophy. #slayerfamilyvalues

lol

when people pronounce silicon dioxide as "silicONE dioxide"