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

people having long screaming fights in public with their S.O. ... on their phones.

There was a college-age girl doing this in Park Slope, squatting on the sidewalk, the other night, *across the street* from where i was using the ATM. I could hear every word. I gave her a broad smile and yelled "You don't have to yell when you have a phone, asshole!" Made my evening.

Thank you, we need to clean up these streets

People who don't seem to know the difference between data aggregators and critics

websites that don't tell you you can't do something until you're at the very end of the process flow

packages that instruct you to "tear here to open" but don't when you do.

(accompanied by feeling - possibly irrational - that this didn't use to happen as often as it does these days)

i hate the fairly recent thing in social media where an image is cut down to fit the template so you click it expecting a full-size version to open up as an overlay or whatever you call it, and it does open up as that but it's... smaller ???? because they cram the whole picture into the window rather than letting you scroll

especially in twitter, where they also need to fit in the tweet itself so the picture is just tiny

How unrandom the 'shuffle' function is on just about any music player application. I know true randomness is very difficult to achieve but every time I to listen to my catalog on shuffle it's 3 songs off the same album in the first twenty songs, out of thousands of albums!?

otm

packages that instruct you to "tear here to open" but don't when you do.

― how's life, Sunday, March 27, 2016 11:46 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(accompanied by feeling - possibly irrational - that this didn't use to happen as often as it does these days)

― how's life, Sunday, March 27, 2016 11:47 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I briefly ran a perforation machine at a paper factory after high school, so I get this way about perforations in general that don't work the way they're supposed to. And I think you're right that this didn't used to happen in the good old days. But I can confirm that, while a properly-calibrated perforation doesn't happen on its own, it ain't that effing hard to pull off if you have, like, any motivation whatsoever.

Worst with the tear here shit is where its a glued-down foil lid with a little tab, and you pull at the "tear here" tab and it just comes off.

http://36.media.tumblr.com/1b39c361d3a39f9d01e84233aedadd19/tumblr_o25gxh8aJk1qh59n0o1_500.png

I had a sour patch kids that didn't open right and thought of this thread.

I just want to know what kind of fucked up kryptonite-plastic alloy they're making chip bags out of now, the shit doesn't tear in any way. Flap is just a cruel joke.

Maybe I'm just getting old, maybe I need a scissors holster on my belt, should come free with a fucking golf shirt

i solved the problem by just eating the bag

there seems to be a hair on the screen of my touch-screen windows-based laptop

*gently attempts to brush hair from screen*

all open windows are rearranged, resized, Window Media Player is launched, all fonts set to 58, task bar disappears

lol yeah laptop touchscreen has been a nuisance approx 1000x more then it has been useful

Windows/Microsoft is a source of so many of these. Guess eventually I'll have to give up my $75 Dell Laptop and shell out $10,000 for an entry-level Mac.

Understandably peevish thread

they aren't even touch-screen anymore, they are gesture sensitive - just wave your hand within a foot of the screen and it'll flip over your powerpoint pages.

Could you just blow on it?

mobile websites w/ locked menus & banners that reduce the scrollable part of the screen to like 1.5 inches

I installed a VPN adblocker in iOS and that solved a fair bit of that. Not all, but much of it. The only drawback is the VPN blocks all apps not just safari/chrome, so it makes siri not work, among other things. I can live with that tho.

Just wondering, is Windows 10 a blight to a lot of people? I keep finding things buffering when i go to do nearly anything. Don't think it was as bad on Windows 7. So wondering if t might be a better thing to go back to that.

Is there a beta element to the system? Was it released before they ironed out all the kinks.

Fine on both my boxes

There were bugs, they got improved, but it still pisses me off. Things like the Windows button, goes through phases where you can't click on it (only right-click).

I haven't switched to Windows 10, but man, Microsoft sure wants me to know that I can every fucking time I reboot.

They highly encourage you to embrace the destruction of your computer, think of it as a scorched earth strategy

Most of my Win 10 problems are display/graphics card probs

Clicking on the Facebook icon on a website, expecting their Facebook page but getting the "Share our website!" pop-up instead.

And that's another thing: Looking for information/art and finding nothing on official website, but discovering 48 image folders on the FB page.

when one of a website's menu listings is 'information'.

I watched The Simpsons a few weeks ago (when Scharpling and Wurster did guest voices), and I was IA that the characters were occasionally fucking around on cellphones and half paying attention to other people talking. Like, I get that that's real life, and I have no attachment to modern day Simpsons, but it felt so irritatingly out of place on the show I've missed the last fifteen seasons of.

Like I said, it's been a few weeks and it's still stuck in my craw. Hardcore IA.

"Hi! It seems as though you're using an Adblocker..."

I'm yet to have my PC remind me let alone force me to upgrade to win10 oddly. But I have disabled all updates and I ignore all those flags in the bottom right so fuff to Microsoft.

xp "Hi! It seems as though you're using an Adblocker..."

YES TO THIS. If it just whines about it, whatever (I see you, Guardian), but if it outright wont let me view the site, then fuck you site you lost my clicks.

And yeah its weirdly jarring seeing the Simpsons using iphones and tablets now, but I suppose thats because a lot else about the show hasnt aged a day.

Is there still an antenna on their huge ass TV?

fuckin xyzzzz__ and James Morrison and o.nate and everyone else on the what are you reading thread being awesome and having great suggestions because they've already read every goddamn thing

(i am not actually angry, and indeed very much appreciate the suggestions, just feeling lame)

I did upgrade one of my computers to Windows 10, found that nothing worked because there were no drivers and promptly reinstalled Windows 7. Of course it still reminds me constantly to upgrade to Windows 10.

Anyway that's not why I'm here. I'm here because why it is impossible for flat-pack furniture companies to deliver all the parts necessary to assemble their furniture? It's taken them over a week to deliver our sofa and 4 pieces of wood are missing now it finally got here. It seems this happens all the time, you'd think they'd check.

people that use April Fool's Day to go "omg I'm pregnant" and nobody believes them and they still do the 'shocking reveal' at the end of the day anyway

April Fool's Day in general is starting to make me IA. I wasn't affected by the Gmail April Fool's Day "prank" but I'm peeved thinking about everyone who was. This was a fun day when I was a kid and my friends and siblings and I would punk one another in a harmless way but now it's a day for every sociopath's inner Improv Everywhere to shit on people who just want to get through the day.

Yeah I pranked a co-worker once into thinking a project was cancelled and I stopped when I realized I was screwing up her day/planning and from then on have stuck to harmless things.

I always worry that I'm going to have like a heart attack or something and that a family member will post about it on FB and everybody will go "HAHAHAHAA GOOD ONE".

(the first prank was many years ago)

I also hate that due to AFD I had to actually check to see if the Google AFD prank actually happened or if it was a prank within a prank. I hate this fuckin day.

Those places that have just the one Freestyle coke machine.

Cos when it breaks like it did today at Mons and none of the staff knows how to fix it...YOU DRINKING TEA OR WATER BOIII

patsy cline car commercial

Is there any reuse value in a stolen tv satellite reception dish as in the kind of thing that Sky use? I'm just wondering why I would see one in the top of a bush as i walked to the bus stop earlier.
Or alternatively, one of those things has got too much weight on it to be blown in anything short of a hurricane from the side of a building to a bush that's about 200 foot away from even the closest house isn't there?

Maybe the fact that that is puzzling me is the most annoying bit. But fact is there was this object that I would think was probably too heavy to be blown to where i saw it earlier. Wind had been howling loudly through whatever gaps in the building I live in make that howling noise anyway. So my first thought was that it might have blown there but now I'm thinking it would be too heavy.
But maybe they are lighter than they look so they don't cause damage should they be blown off in a storm anyway?
But I'm thinking that flight trajectory for a loose one is either vertically down or parabolically down

resale value thing there was me wondering if the dish had been stashed. it was in the top of a bush about 6foot plus off the ground which had me wondering if it had blown there.

spending the morning cleaning because visitors are coming, then the visitors treading mud all over the carpet as soon as they come in.
I swear this happens with at least 75% of visitors, despite having two doormats and one long plastic mat by the door.

and they've usually driven here and parked right outside

how does this even happen