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

I've had three completely stupid incidents with revolving doors in the last two weeks. I hate them. They make men turn into macho pricks.

1) I went to get a sandwich. I came back into the building where I work, through the revolving door. The man in front of me loses his shoe somehow. I kind of manage not to smirk but then he turns around and glares at me: "Did you push that?" I say no, truthfully, there are enough people going through this revolving door so that there isn't a need to push at all, the door keeps turning itself. We both exit into the lobby of the building and he says "You did. You pushed the door." Now. Pushing a revolving door isn't something that would be seen as unacceptable in my experience but I didn't say that. I didn't push the door so I just said, No I didn't push the door. "LIAR!" This is a work environment, I don't get why he was so angry. Well I do, his shoe came off and he had to blame someone else.

2) It was raining a lot today. I felt good because I'd shown and then kind of taken a lost man where he needed to be. I guided him while covering him from the rain, sharing my umbrella. I was getting a sandwich again. As I came back in, through the fucking revolving door, the guy (a different guy) in front pushed the revolving door so fast that all of a sudden I knew that there was a problem. My umbrella was in the quadrant of the door but I wasn't going to make it so I had to let it go. The umbrella is now going around the revolving door by itself and I look like a dick.

3) Tonight at a different revolving door, near where I work. This one is a pain in the arse because it gives a lot of resistance. You have to really push it. I'd been watching this guy in a bright blue suit as we were both walking up the bridge to where we needed to be. He was drunk or something. He was with two very attractive tall women who were really into him. They were ahead of me and as they entered the revolving door he grabbed them both and the three entered the same quadrant. And stopped moving. Fuckers. This one needed pushing. They didn't push and I entered after them, minding my own business, I expected it to move smoothly and when it didn't I hit my head on the glass right in front of the super model blonde cackling her coke face at me.

amazing

do you have a history with revolving doors? where are you that they're so common?

Good question.

I deal with a minimum of three revolving door usages every weekday so you have my sympathies, kraudive.

The most irritating issue I've had recently was when the newspaper dude dropped unbound stacks of the free daily directly inside two separate revolving doors, such that someone would have had to exit the building via other doors and pick up the papers for anyone to be able to actually use the revolving doors. Just...why.

Young ppl growing beards. it makes you look dishonest and weak.

before anybody defends this, might I remind you this is the irrational anger thread.

Blah blah projection blah blah

That's it. We're kicking you out of ISIS.

people who use the phrase "so and so debunked this" to discuss someone who merely offered a differing opinion on something subjective

Hey ogmor, this is Canary Wharf, east london

are there places in the world with high concentrations of revolving doors or is everywhere just filled with people who suck at them? everyone here sucks at using traffic circles but i can at least take solace in knowing britishers have some idea of how they're supposed to work.

people who use the phrase "so and so debunked this" to discuss someone who merely offered a differing opinion on something subjective

― Neanderthal, Saturday, April 16, 2016 6:45 PM (2 hours ago)

yes. And "we already destroyed this article on twitter" meaning that we had a morning of circle-jerky like-minded sneering at an actual piece of well-reported journalism

ah ok, I am only familiar with the lifts of canary wharf thanks to the great beno - https://youtu.be/AcpUyPILN34 - but it seems like a sufficiently odd place yo generate a high number of such incidents

people who use the phrase "so and so debunked this" to discuss someone who merely offered a differing opinion on something subjective

― Neanderthal, Saturday, April 16, 2016 6:45 PM (2 hours ago)

Do you have an example of something subjective someone else believed was "debunked"? That sounds frustrating but I've never witnessed anyone say that.

The other day someone was talking about the Gira rape accusations and someone indicated that his wife and ex-wife "debunked" or "refuted" the claims.

Which while events like that aren't sure, the people referred to weren't present and could not "debunk" or "refute" anything.

Also lotsa blogs like "xxx debunks liberal myths "

Sure = "subjective"

I watch a lot of stupid ghost hunting programmes and the American ones seem to have recuperated the term "debunked" from their opponents, and often say things like "we debunked this orb being from an insect or camera flare", when what they actually mean is "we decided to say it was a ghost because that's the point of this programme".

Oh God I hate those programs

I love them, but I really just watch them to see how people can spin a story out of nothing. Also kind of enjoy psychic programmes for a similar reason (especially as some of them look SO shit at cold reading it surprises me they allow themselves to be filmed, even for a show that is positive about them), but every time I watch one of those I remind myself that they're actually conning people out of money and then I get sad.

lmao @ "we debunked this orb"

xp otm and in that order

bands that don't spring for a damn rehearsal space

i mean, i love annoying the neighbors + wasting 30 minutes setting up as much as anybody but

"working musicians often play with multiple disjoint bands blah blah blah"

James fucking Corden. Little simpering, gerbil-faced kiss-ass.

Finally getting around to replacing the batteries in a clock that seems to have slipped from telling the correct time to still telling time several hours out. Surprised to find that it did seem to be continuing to run when I thought they normally just stopped and had the second hand ticking between two points.
But then finding out that the nail has gone into the wall which is presumably not much stronger than being plaster with nothing actually solid to it. NOt sure what you make a dividing wall out of but still hoping it would be a bit more solid.
So now got to work out how to get at the thing and get the nail out. It's a few feet up on the wall behind the kitchen sink so not the easiest to get at.
So loadsa fun

So yeah wondering why a clock manages to stop long enough to rest its time when its just been sitting on a wall. Though it did appear to have some kind of web stuff across the back of it when I took it down.
& why walls are soft enough to allow nails to sink in them up to the head while you're trying to maneuvre a clock onto them where the clock's hung since it was bought a couple of years back. Blooming useless innit?

reset it's time (to one about 4 1/2 hours out) while it's just sitting on a wall with nobody actually resetting it. But continue to run for at least a week afterwards.

I've noticed my watch will stop for several minutes to several hours when the battery is getting low. And then start up again as if it's OK.

Clocks with hands seem to struggle when the batterys low, well mine does anyway, I guess because on the 6-12 upswing of the second hand it hasnt enough power to move the mechanics against gravity? At least thats how my clock on a stand behaves when the battery is low.

Saw the trailer for the "Independence Day" sequel and there's some scene where Jeff Goldblum is looking at some huge offscreen thing and says, "It has its own gravity." EVERYTHING HAS ITS OWN GRAVITY, MOTHERFUCKER. I wanted to punch the TV screen and, having thus punched, have the writer say, "Ow!"

Mozilla Firefox giving me some nonsensical propagandistic BS about how great it goes with Windows 10 on the day I have continual trouble with it.
Can't get beyond a dialogue box asking if I want it to try to stop script. Doing nothing when pressed and then popping up again.
Should I go back to Windows 7?

Ipad app that wont work unless i update it, when there us no update available

people who give innocuous news stories the Snopes-like treatment whenever there's one minor discrepency

People who ask you to spell your name for them 4 times while you're holding out your ID card to them

People who misspell your name in an email reply despite the fact that your correctly-spelled name is clearly visible in the email they're replying to.

people, basically

fuckin slow driving idiots who don't actually merge but just drive very slowly all the way down the merge lane til it disappears and just assume that the traffic will magically part for them

As someone who's largely a non-motorist, I am with you on that 100%. They deserve to be shamed by car after unyielding car until they run out of gas and have to walk.

this is a small one, but people who suggest doing things outdoors, or like "maybe we could meet in the park" when it's 6 degrees outside, just because it happens to be sunny. like just give it a month and it'll actually be warm.

I'm kinda that way with people who always want to do things outdoors anytime it's nice out, too. Like, ugh, what am I, a pioneer? And I've seen the sun like a couple thousand times now, I'm not a baby who lacks object permanence and squeals with delight every time it peekaboos at me. Let's just be real: most of the good stuff is indoors anyway.

I exaggerate only slightly.

People hate me cos I always insist on the outdoor beer garden/back courtyard at the pub even in winter... but, I'm a smoker, so deal with it.

maybe you should deal with it

otoh yr winter isn't that xtreme, so whatever. thanks for coming inside that one time i met you!

I thnk back then we could still smoke inside anyway haha! :)

But yeah its not like its ever subzero.

go outside it's a nice day, thanks MUM

i love any chance to go outside if it's nice weather, because I work inside 8 hours a day in my apt.

but 6 degrees, fuck that.

professional newborn photos where the baby is pushed into a position it cannot get into itself such as putting its head in its hands with elbows on the ground

Take your kid to work day

Is this actually a thing? I dont think Ive ever worked places that do it... how would it work, having dozens of bored toddlers/tweens/etc in the way?