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

> Wikipedia, you're still on notice for making me actually have to click on the magnifying glass instead of just hitting Enter or Go.

the skype web login has two fields. pressing tab to go from 'name' field to 'password' field submits the form, before you've filled in the password.

the 'name' field says 'name or email'. enter the email and it goes away and looks up the name and replaces your typing with that (after refreshing the page)

also, after resetting my password the website worked immediately, the phone app took 15 minutes before it let me in (same password) and it was 2 hours before the windows version would accept the new password.

"Yellow Cab, how can I help you?"
"Hi, I need a cab to <address>, thanks."
"(heavy sigh) Sir, the first information I'll need from you is your phone number."

OKAY THEN HOW ABOUT YOU ANSWER THE PHONE WITH "YELLOW CAB, CAN I HAVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER, ALSO I AM A DICK"?

Which reminds me of another thing that happens ALL THE TIME these days (and which I feel like I must've complained about here before) where you have to set up a password online which you only get the parameters for after your initial attempt has failed.

• Search fields that already have information inside them, so 9/10 times you perform a search for "SEdowntown pizza placesARCH."

for years the #1 search term on my work's website was "Enter search text here"

Re the cab one, dont you have the system where it sees your caller ID and already knows that info? Where we are, when you call it goes "would you like a booking at your most recent pickup address of 123 fake street?". Especially handy if you drunkenly call from a mates landline at a party and you dont know their street address, ha.

people that share links of songs/videos with me and act butthurt if i Haven't watched them and commented within 2 minutes of transmitting

having to set up a password for pretty much anything that you aren't going to use at least a couple times a month makes me IA.

this website that i'm visiting for the first time ever because i clicked a link that someone i like posted, do i want to subscribe? do i want to subscribe before i've even seen the article that was linked to? no, no i don't.

The Onion becoming a subscription page that only let you look at something like 2 articles in a period of time if you were simply a visitor. Not sure fi taht's still the case but i don't think I've looked at anything on there since it happened and i do think I noticed myself wanting to check siomething on there or read more of something I sawa headline for earlier today for the first time in a while.

Before anyone asks, Americans don't have this problem.

People who poop their dogs in the cemetery

I feel sorry for anyone who poops a dog tbh

keep it in the cemetery and off my lawn, fuckers

company has a private youtube account but when they want to share multiple videos with the company of course they do it with the raw video via cloud so it takes foreeeeever to download each of these huge goddamn files over our shitty internet

gah

lmao why on earth wd you share a raw video file w/ someone unless you were sending it to them to edit

Yeah I'd just push back on that and say "nup. not downloading this. Put it on our channel"

the Quick Selection tool in photoshop (and it's not-quick-selection idiosyncracies) is gonna push me to actual murderous violence one day

If I had a nickel where I'm trying to crop something to an exact dimension, and nail it on the first fuckin' try! only to realize that I hadn't set the ratio and was still on "normal" in the first place....

I could fill a thread.

I hate when people Lync msg at work ask me "can you message" and I say yes and they go "what # can I call you at".

I SAID I COULD MESSAGE, not that I had time to chat on the phone (which you know doesn't allow me to multi-task).

I hate it when some IMs me at work for some favor or other but first has to very slowly go through all this hi, how are you, what's new, nonsense. You are interrupting me, please get to the point quickly so I can get on with my life.

oh god yea. "hope you are well! how's the rheumatism? and the wife and my kids? yuck yuck....anyway just wanted to tell you you're fired"

ugh the smalltalk windup to work requests is so faux quaint & fucking maddening

like, omg you are paid to do this! as am i! you can just fucking ASK me to do a thing without the details of my weekend, it's honestly ok

also i hate smalltalk in life generally it's the most overrated incomprehensible thing to me

the way to disarm them is to give them unexpected answers

"Hi, good morning!
'morning.'
"How are you today?"
'in the midst of taking a wicked crap right now - I'm not gonna lie, the prognosis does not look good if I go with two-ply'

Online shop recommendation robots that basically go, "You liked a book by JOHN SMITH, have you considered this book by JOHN SMITH?"

Tesco's self service checkouts.
If you need to look up fruit etc that doesn't have a barcode, you click on 'look up fruit' or whatever and this stupid twat recorded voice says "find your favourites... or have a browse!"
Yeah, I'm just going to stand at this self-service machine, 'browsing' pictures of all the different fruits and vegetables you sell one by one, for my own entertainment, while the queue grows murderous behind me.

Also fuck off to my local Sainsburys self service checkouts who have onions listed under 'L' for 'Loose onions'

I always wondered what people meant when they said they wanted to buy a loosey

xp yeah, what's that all about? why would anyone do this? also, the Tesco voice guy has a really RP accent until he says 'clubcard' on which he switches to a really broad 'scan your cloobcard to win cloobcard points'

all your clubcard points add up!!
thought he was telling me off first time

Tesco's self service checkouts.

local cvs has self-service checkouts -- which is bullshit in itself -- spread out against a wall; for some reason whenever they are all occupied/broken the first person waiting stands like 25 feet away, forcing the line to instantly run into an aisle of goods

i hate ill-used space

M&S ones have the poshest voice. 'Please follow the instructions on the pyin pad'

I spend a lot of my time in supermarkets :(

THANK you for SHOPPING at SAVEmart

Asking for hot at a Thai restaurant and getting not just mild, but completely chili-free, heat-free food.

the reverse bigotry of low expectations

People who use the wisp of power that they wield to drop a turd in your day just to briefly alleviate their justified feelings of insignificance.

Finding the mail box flap standing vertical and not remembering it being so when I last left it. So wondering if somebody else is looking through my mail or if it's so stiff that I'm thinking I've closed it and it's just been left that way.
So hoping that mail hasn't been nicked but always having the nagging doubt. Like bummer.
But if I locked it postman would have no way of dropping things larger than letterbox size into it.
Just hoping that fabric I have on order hasn't been and gone.

How odd, WC. ime, asking for "hot" at a Thai restaurant is more likely to be taken by the kitchen staff as a challenge thrown down to surpass the customer's previous personal record.

That's my experience too, and I really wanted that "take that!" scoville punch yesterday. I think the kitchen staff at that particular place are a bunch of sleepwalkers who didn't even read the ticket, but the other (better) Thai place in Tupelo was closed yesterday.

That's a good example of irrational disappointment, yeah. If I order something hot and it comes mild, it could literally be the most delicious meal I've ever had and I'd still be like aw

IME, you should ask for "Thai spicy" and insist that you really do know what that means and that you can handle it. (Have we discussed this before?)

Ha, yes, I think so. I told the server "I want it hot but I don't want the cook to try to prove anything, y'know?" so maybe they put the reverse whammy on me for kicks.

when the dude at Moe's looks at me suspiciously like I just cut the line when I hop to the far left corner where you're supposed to pick up internet orders. I'm followin the instructions yo.

-the 'h' in Meghan Trainor's first name. I know it's a perfectly valid variant spelling but it irritates me.

Getting ink stamped on my wrist to prove I've paid for some event. It's insulting and the ink is very likely to rub off on my sleeve.

People on Facebook (or wherever) posting a quote and writing, "THIS" after it.

Most internet meme language irrationally bothers me in the same way I used to hate people IRL quoting Seinfeld or SNL as a substitute for wit.

^^

They learned it from us!!!

didn't Seinfeld himself knock that kind of behavior once? something like that buying a greeting card was saying "yeah, whatever this guy said" or something

how difficult it is, in certain lighting, to tell how much salt you're shaking

Knew a guy who shook the salt into his palm before dumping it on the food for this reason, and to safeguard against very generous shakers.

i was gonna say "inability to find an easy quiet place to work while you're out of town the day after a concert and supposed to lead training the next day"....and then I discovered LiquidSpace!!!