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

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!!!

When you're on a bus with two doors and you ring the bell for the next stop and wait by the big disembarking-only door and the driver only opens the front door, so you have to run down the bus and push through all the people getting on, all before the driver drives off

When you run for a bus at a stop and then it doesn't leave for several minutes and two other buses pull in and go past

(and if you'd paused to look at the timetable before getting on the driver would've driven off and there wouldn't have been another for ages, or the timetable would just be wrong anyway)

Basically just trying to get anywhere induces rages in me. Rargh.

I'm on what was once called teh best bus service in town but it is becoming increasingly unreliable. So it is difficult to tell when to head for a bus, should I go for the one that is most likely to get me to town on time if it actually appears or the one before it and possibly get stuck at the stop while that one doesn't appear. It's a pain when trying to connect with another bus route to get to a course I do on the other side of town.
BUt thankfully I'm not the guy who got to the bus stop early yesterday to give him plenty of time to get into town to see a guy about a potential job only to find that 3 buses didn't appear.
I think at certain times the buses take a bit of a different route around teh bypass road that runs parallel with the one that my locla stop is on and only connect back to the route on the next main road which is about a 10 or 15 minute walk away from that stop.

So I've been wondering if the other bus services around town ares till relatively worse than the one I'm on to the degree they were before and the bus service around town is just going to bits. Looks like they've started using the double deckers taht were mainly brought in to service my route on the other routes around town. Seemed to semi sort some of the problems out at the time they were introduced so hoping they are going to increase the muber of double deckers around town instead of just mmoving th eones that are on my route off it to service other routes. The route hasn't become any less busy the number of passengers just needs to be accommodated in smaller space if they do that.
Not sure of budget bus service around town has and each new bus is €250,000 which struck me as huge at the time I heard it.
Would be much better if there was a reliable bus service everywhere around town. But then that's a constant.

Trying to work out if I've got a faulty computer memory slot. I've been stuck with the machine buffering a lot since I put Windows 10 on it. So bought a bar of memory which arrived last week and I installed it only to find that the memory hasn't gone up from 3GB to 4.
& machine was biffering again this morning.

Stevo are you on 64-bit Windows 10 or 32-bit? Does your computer have a 64-bit processor? If you're still on 32-bit you'll only be able to see the first 3GB of memory iirc

Right, that might explain things, thanks.

THough not sure, I was running a couple of scans from different places to check that the memory installed right. One just hada n empty slot showing and the other had readings for slots that had serial numbers with one in the sequence missing.
Could see how taht possibly might tally with what you said about only 3GB being recognised or shown or whatever but it was why I was thinking it might be a faulty slot. But if it is only showing 3gb as working that was what I was going from that made me buy another stick of memory in the first place.
Maybe I just need to try building a bigger computer which I've been thinking of doing for a while but not got together to act on.
Motherboard is from prior to Windows 10 anyway so may be something that needs to be upgraded.

& I did get a cheap 32GB memory stick out of buying from the memory bar suppliers too. But was hoping i'd see a noticeable improvement on the existing computer.

gifs that show a person mouthing like 2 random words in a 1.5 second loop with a 30-word sentence in subtitles

people putting their fingers on my screen

Ugh, yes. Also, people using uncapped pens as pointers in the same situation. I have grabbed pens out of people's hands before and said "you were a half inch away from putting ink on my screen" and they were like "buhhh, whaaa?"

I kinda find public transport v soothing APS.

NB my alternative is driving.

gifs that show a person mouthing like 2 random words in a 1.5 second loop with a 30-word sentence in subtitles

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so otm!! I often wonder what the point of these are!? Like, there's usually no reason this has to be a GIF! Other than that it's shiny and it catches people's eye, but it's pretty irrelevant.

I hate it when there's a whole string of 'em in a row, usually from some wiseacre commenting on the Graham Norton show.

Those gifs-with-words generally can get fucked, when theyre the sole content of a fucking huffpo or buzzfeed style article. And I avoid those sites but its started to leech into sites I like, like Junkee.

ime one of the worst traits a human can have is that thing where they need everyone to know that they know a thing but they know that just saying the thing makes them look like an ass ("actually...") so they have to use anger as a vehicle of communication

like "UH why do football fans wear eye black to games? don't they KNOW that the player use it to reflect the sun and thereby see the ball better? do they not even KNOW that"

it isn't even worth responding to because it doesn't fucking matter and it's clear that you don't really give a shit and also shut the fuck up why am i near you

the phrase "lions, tigers and bears, oh my" used in any context by anyone ever

lions and tigers and boobs - wait, what?

Ok, boobs i can live with

Being inexorably pressured into the position of having to communicate with clients via text message because they won't check their email more than once a week.

I don't want to sound like a luddite, but how in the world did email became such an antiquated relic?

I know right? As I think I kvetched above, I missed out on a friends bday cos she invited me *the day before*, cos all her inviting had been done by twitter.

Erm that said Ive only invited people to mine next week by facebook, heh :/

on my last project, sometimes I'd find a potential defect, and not being a tech person, would want to run it by the tech team to determine if it was actually a defect, or if I was doing something wrong.

they got mad and said I needed to just start a defect task, that they had *too many emails to read* - couldn't even get to the ones clearly marked as needing attention. so I asked if they really wanted me to send a defect even though I wasn't *sure* it was a defect or my own mistake or if anybody had already submitted one (cos they wouldn't give me a list) and even though a defect took three times as long as an email to write only to wind up being cancelled if it wasn't needed.

they said "yes".

Found out today that the reason one of the communal bins was missing earlier this week when I went to chuck things out was somebody had set it alight last weekend. It's not 100% certain who at the moment but people are blaming local youth who were seen in the vicinity.
Wishing the letting agency would dos omething about those bins anyway since the housing they're in is in a constant state of foulness.
I'm just hoping that when this block gets sold the new owner will be able to do something. Probably shouldn't be holding my breath though.
& in a rented space over here it's the landlord that has the say on bin arrangements apparently. Or at least that's what i was being told when the bin arrangements were changed a couple of years back.

& I think they moved onto these disastrous communal bins because a fire marshall had told the letting agent relevant to this block that it was safer than having th eindividual bins at the bottom of the stairs that had worked ok for the first 6 or 7 years I was here.

Finding my camera out of charge when i go exploring the alternative bits of the paths through the woods between here and the centre where I take a photography class. & it subsequently turning off when I'm wanting to take shots of untrodden parts of the woodlands.