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

Basketball players that chew on their mouth guards and it just hangs out of their mouth.

aka steph curry

the backlash is in full swing!

Veg, no, just made desperate eye contact with the barista, with whom I'm friendly. I'm pretty sure she blinked out "help me" in Morse code.

i got a card for a free drink at whole foods coffee because i got behind an elderly woman who took forever to make her order and kept going on and on about how she orders the thing at starbucks. then asked where she could find magnesium, the guy was like sorry idk, she ran off to get it and he was like "sorry" and gave me the thing.

Yesterday I was at a WF and the guy ahead of me tried to pay with his iPhone (Apple Pay) but that didn't work so he tried a credit card and that didn't work either, so I bailed on that line to a spot behind a woman with a lot of stuff. When she finally went to pay she used her iPhone too and couldn't get it to work, but at least the clerk was able to go around and do it. All I could think of was "Is it so hard to just use a credit card, people?"

It really shouldn't be so hard for Whole Foods to take Apple Pay.

Basketball players that chew on their mouth guards and it just hangs out of their mouth.

My pet peeve is when they do this.

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

Whats a slack channel? is that like a group skype chat or something.

https://slack.com/is

So, yes.

so would you actively watch a channel that literally had nothing going on and was there only for dire emergencies? cos if not then no-one's going to know when the dire emergency happen

if people keep using something for the wrong purpose then maybe the thing is wrong.

You don't have to actively watch it, there's an app. There's a lot of ways to use Slack, and some people (myself included) don't do so well with unwarranted interruption (as er opposed to refreshing ILX repeatedly) so I have to say I can totally see a use case for "If the notification flashes then it must be worth paying attention to".

When people describe food as "revelatory"

Unless they mean the toast with jesus's face

gnostic breakfast experiences excepted, obv

the crying laughing facebook emoji

"don't change your avatar, change your SENATOR"

wow gee thanks i never thought about voting for a democrat before

Revelatory.

increasingly, long-winded sermonic facebook posts, although I have been guilty of them myself on occasion.

people who run IN THE STREET when there is a sidewalk, please get hit by a car

there is runner folk wisdom (don't know if it's true) that road is better for your joints than sidewalk.

I only run in the street when assholes are blocking the sidewalk. And it's only for like 15 feet. But yeah, not my preferred path.

I prefer running on the streets to running on the sidewalk but only when the streets are p much empty.

If I run in the street it's b/c the asphalt is softer than concrete, but I run on the left side (against oncoming traffic) and try to never be in any car's way

If i run in the street it is because i am naked and want to share it with the world

Revelatory

my lifelong IA and secondhand embarrassment still has to be public q&a sessions and ppl's inability to ask short succinct questions
esp the ones with the long rambly lifestory intro like they decided right before "fuckit i'm getting my 15 min of fame while I'm at it"

Birch Barlow: Mayor Quimby, you are well known for your lenient stance on crime, but suppose for a second that your house was ransacked by thugs, your family was tied up in the basement with socks in their mouths, you try to open the door but there's too much blood on the knob....

Mayor Quimby: What is your, ah, question?

Birch Barlow: My question is about the budget, sir.

Lol <3

exactly

The car in front of me at the Dunkin Donuts drive through paid for my coffee this morning. I can't STAND when people do that!

And just think of the smug self-satisfaction they're feeling RIGHT NOW

It weirds me out because I'm all set to pay for my own drink, then I have to re-evaluate the situation. Am I expected to participate in this too? Is the person in front of me a stalker or something? Is there someone behind me now? Did they order a coffee or a dozen donuts? Am I on candid camera?

There was no one behind me to pay it forward to, thank god, so I tipped the counter dudes and got the hell out of there.

So cynical!

I don't think it's cynicism as much as anxiety.

is it ok to be cynical about restaurants that commodity this behavior?

http://i.imgur.com/eOq7JbR.jpg

it's nice that some of the money is going to charity, but it's impossible not to see this as a calculated marketing strategy to turn a profit under the guise of "random" acts of kindness, barf.

i think generally pay it forward is kinda nice, but it can for sure throw you off kilter

i am suspicious of people who do it habitually though. one of the managers in our office is a habitual pay-it-forward-er & loves to faux-humbly drop it into conversation etc & basically thinks he's got a box seat in heaven bcz of his Good Deeds. i take a very dim view of his charity in general because i know that he wants the world to know about it AND hopes that we're keeping score

that apple crisp looks pretty good, I can't just buy it for myself and support the cause??

I kind of hate the phrase pay it forward.

or maybe just donate $5 to Autism Speaks and make your own apple crisp? those mini desserts are basically a dollar per spoonful - I'd be almost insulted if a stranger passed one on to me as a heroic act of goodwill or whatever

xp: good thing to hate, imo.

A mini dessert is all you really need though, if you're being honest with yourself. They're actually doing YOU a favor. ;)

that apple crisp looks pretty good, I can't just buy it for myself and support the cause??

I guess it's like sake where someone else is supposed to pour it for you.

It's like that thing in Australia that McDonalds does--don't know if it's universal--where they get celebrities in to flog burgers for a day, and give $1 from each of a certain kind of burger sold to a charity. Nothing is ever said about all the extra $$ they must make from people wanting to buy shitburgers from faded singers etc

Do you get like John Farnham or something?

probably

Richard Jefferson's attached earlobes.

or maybe just donate $5 to Autism Speaks and make your own apple crisp?

or just don't donate to autism speaks at all

huh, I wasn't aware of all that (although it appears that they've since reversed their position on vaccination)