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

Is there a statute I'm unaware of dictating that the credit card readers at the checkout of a given business must be meaninglessly proprietary and function in a slightly different fashion than credit card readers in every other place of business? Can we maybe just agree on an SOP and eliminate the guesswork? It's like if every business had an unspoken standard for a particular way that paper currency had to be folded or passed before they would accept it as payment.

And, yes, I get that this is like the most maximally-petty IA ever. I can own that.

the closest grocery store to me had this series of hurdles i had to leap just to make a payment. first the cashier would ask me "credit or debit?" and i'd say credit, they'd hit a button and say go ahead, and i was then prompted to select...credit or debit. i had to then swipe my card, approve the amount, sign, etc.

the new amazon recommendation page is a bit odd. mine has, amongst the usual books and videos, the following categories:

Mobile Phones and Communications - seems to be mostly USB chargers
Portable Sound & Video - USB chargers and more
Vehicle Accessories - mainly usb chargers
Computers, Components & Accessories - chargers for usb

enough already

> That extremely fluey feeling you get for days after getting a flu shot.

not had this in any of the last 3 years. the first year it did feel like i'd been shot in the arm for about 2 days but i've never had flu symptoms.

That no fucking 7/11 near me ever fucking has the lo call Gatorade in big size...or more flavors than gwape

Drives me crazy that I have to push "cancel" to go into credit mode instead of debit.

There's also a fuel pump in the neighborhood that lights up a red light with the word "GO" on it when it's accepted your info.

lol... Kroger?

Targets here do that stupid cancel thing. Publix doesnt.

Having this extremely weirdly slow nosebleed: every 6 hours or so one nostril fills with semi-dried blood, gets emptied, starts again. My nose is as lazy as I am.

hell yes, wmc.

I mean, what the shit.

http://i.imgur.com/OLnptFM.jpg

(^^ not my pic.)

I'll never say anything again about white people taking pictures of their bagels: https://instagram.com/explore/tags/krogerfuelpoints/

Wow, I thought I was doing great when I got regular for 1.65 on Saturday. That person had to have redeemed hella fuel points on that tankful.
xp

Got it for $1.48, but hell, it was already $1.88 regular price.

Shoulda taken a picture, I know.

What's it like to live in 1986?

surprisingly good dialup speeds

Fuckin Tandy is on the fritz

Didn't know you knew Jessica.

Oh yeah. Back here in '86, she's just as spry as ever.

When people say (or articles propose) that "Old Movie/Novel has Become a Reality," ignoring the fact that the movie or novel was a satire or fictionalization of something that was already a reality at the time.

I get IA pretty much every time I hear a sudden loud noise. How dare you disturb my state of tranquility!

THat I only just heard that if you leave a credit card behind in a shop and don't find out until days later they may have destroyed it and not told anybody.
I guess it does avoid any chance that staff will disappear with it. & does seem to operate on the premise that if it was a legitimate card the owner would be back ion contact with them in a matter of hours.
I had thought they would return a lost card to the bank it was issued from, probably way out of date on that front.

BUt there must be people out there who only intermittently use the card in their pocket and therefore wouldn't miss it until too late.

Finding it odd that Channel 4's It Was Alright in the ..... whatever decade has Nigel Farrage as a talking head for no particular reason. Isn't that overly humanising a dodgy politician that should be kept as marginalised as possible?
Maybe I'm just watching overly trash tv

people who have their phones UP TO THEIR FACE yet talk on speaker, please die

cosign

when u order something online and they start sending u catalogs in the mail

people who have their phones UP TO THEIR FACE yet talk on speaker, please die

Close kin to the people who have conversations like so:

1) Hold phone up to face horizontally, shout directly into bottom of phone
2) Move phone around skull so bottom of phone is pointing directly at ear when other person is talking
3) Return phone to shouting position

yes that is actually what this person was doing! what the fuck!

and this girl was like 25 so i'm not buying the hard of hearing defense with which some brave captain will surely swoop in to save her

My kids have discovered Facetime.

Nothing like hanging out, socks up on the desk and looking at weird tumblr, when lo and behold, it's the floating head of my mother next to me, being held aloft by one of the brats.

1) Hold phone up to face horizontally, shout directly into bottom of phone
2) Move phone around skull so bottom of phone is pointing directly at ear when other person is talking
3) Return phone to shouting position

Is this some kind of "I wont get cancer this way, so there!" stupidity?

...which reminds me, my bf's kids mother wont let the 2 kids have phones, why because cancer. nrrrrgh.

Trying to woodturn in a limited space in a classroom with a lousy layout. So there's a not very wide space 3 or 4 feet deep that you're occupying and trying to coordinate holding a gouge properly to cut with. Other people keep trying to walk through the same space for no apparent reason, suddenly appearing inches away from you either in front or behind you and expecting you to move out of their way or jogging your elbow. So you can't concentrate on what you're trying to do.
Otherwise, bad enough that I keep catching the wood with the gouge as I try to take my hand away. Gouging a surface that I thought I'd mainly finished. So having to go back and trying to smooth off an area that now has a trench cut into it. Took up time I should have spent elsewhere and meant I totally reshaped what I was cutting.
Also sneezing for ages from the sawdust in the air. Or glasses steaming up when I put on a nose/mouth mask. There were points yesterday when I couldn't see at all.

1) Hold phone up to face horizontally, shout directly into bottom of phone
2) Move phone around skull so bottom of phone is pointing directly at ear when other person is talking
3) Return phone to shouting position

You don't know her life. She could have been a contestant on the Apprentice

She coulda been a contenda!

Traffic controllers who a) seem distracted and disinterested and/or b) give contradictory signals to easily-confused motorists and/or c) are working an intersection with functioning lights. The ones I encounter generally seem to encompass all of the above criteria. Cue IA.

it's a lost art

yeah the apprentice is where i first spotted that kind of behavior xps

- People who request a read receipt for EVERY EMAIL including replies. Yeah thanks you pompous mothereffer.

maybe they have attachment issues

sat down with half an hour to finish off the last 20 pages of the book i was reading this morning. hadn't figured on the last dozen pages being 'thank you' from the author. left high and dry after 10 minutes.

worse imo: 300 page book ends on page 280 on a cliffhanger, next 20 pages are a "preview" of the next book and an assortment of adverts for other books

(I read some crap-to-mediocre SF book which did this; the second half of the book I was limping along going "well I've got this far, I may as well finish it to see what happens" but noooo)

(I don't remember what the book was but it turned out to have been published on the same industrial estate I work on; they're lucky I was reading it as a Christmas holiday take-on-family-visits book or I might have been tempted to drop in)

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

― kinder, Thursday, July 23, 2015 10:09 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes! though the cliffhanger "read the next two not-yet-published books to find out what really happens!" last sentence was an extra kick in the should've-stopped-reading-on-page-30 pants

especially when I have so many other books lying around which I really did stop reading on page 30 for no particular reason

attention spans are difficult

i will know better for next time

i usually read public domain stuff which i reformat myself - no surprises. actually, part of the reason i started reformatting things before reading them was the 8 pages of legal bumpf at the end of gutenberg texts (and their shitty tocs and cover pages)

my kobo seems to have stopped telling me percentages when asleep. it still puts the crappy banner saying 'sleeping' over the cover, but now it contains no useful information.

people who insist on instantly stopping dead in their tracks when they're right in front of you at a theme park

being at a theme park

theme parks

When it's science fiction, assume it's a trilogy. I swear they're not even publishing stand-alone books anymore unless you're, like, Neal Stephenson.

Yeah that shit has totally ruined the pleasure of picking up a random SF book at a thrift store or used book shop. I have to track down two more volumes? No thanks

mysteries are the same way now too, loads of detective series of every stripe

Mystery series I don't mind 'cause they're usually stand-alone enough that you don't need to read them in chronological order. I've been dipping into John Sandford's Prey books for a year or so now, and there are like two dozen of those, and/but the only real way to tell where each one falls in the series is that occasionally he'll drop in a mention of something that happened in a previous book, or he'll tell you how old a given character is at that point. But the stories themselves are always single-serving.