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

yeah, I had to consciously train myself into saying "given name" rather than "christian name" when I worked in a call-centre and had to take occasionally customer's personal details, I think most people who say it do so automatically. (I was raised Catholic but we weren't abnormally super-religious or anything)

Around here "first name" is more common than either of those.

I just askin people "what's ya muthafuckin' name?!"

people going on about Theresa May's husband being Britain's "first husband" despite the fact that UK prime ministers wives have never been called the "first lady" or had any particular official title as far as I know. (yes, yes, I know this is irrational, before anyone starts)

God, for a moment, I thought Brian May was going to be living at 10 Downing Street.

twitter seems divided as to whether Mr May looks most like Arthur Askey, Sid Little or Hank Marvin (pretty obviously Askey imo)

JUst been trying to reclaim a lot of material from a hard drive that died on me a number of years ago. It does seem to have brought a lotof stuff back but it's now gone again.
& now the folders are claiming to be empty folders again.

I thought i was getting a lot of it back but it kept freezing and the Windows Explorer would turn itself off.

& now i only have half my Gun Club Bootlegs back and a quarter of my live C.O.b. set.
Which is really frustrating.

Ha soref the irrational anger at the first husband stuff can only be compounded by use of the word "hubby" and the sustained crapness of metro.co.uk

People who use 'Christian name' when they mean first name and aren't actively Christian (even if they come from a Christian background). Maybe less irrationally angry but more irrationally confused? Obv I dunno if dowd is actively Christian or not, but that terminology always makes me do a double-take.

I am a Christian. But I just use it because it's what I'm used to - maybe it's because I grew up in the military? But I've been experiencing lots of bureaucracy recently, and I hear christian name a lot.

Is Dowd your surname? I am supposed to be an O'Dowd but my dad dropped the O in an attempt at Anglicising his name when moved to England in the 60's when some folk didn't want to employ Paddies.

I've just had 2 lengths of babycord that have long white text boxes down the side at regular intervals. Boxes say what design and designer are. Haven't completed a garment out of either yet, have cut jdans from both and am trying to work out how these white strips aren't going to show. Previously if things have said design on them it's been along the selvage. These are like an inch in.
So my perfect psych jeans will look weird. Bummer.

xp Nah, was watching Harvey while I re-registered.

Is anyone going to complain about people using 'maiden name' without spot-checking for virginity status?

people who try to avoid speed bumps in my condo complex by driving through the separation in the middle of the bumps. you aren't going to die by driving over one. you will, however, die if you barrel into my lane and hit me head-on.

(ok that's somewhat dramatic but these people don't always correct their positioning after going over the bump so I've almost sideswiped a few who didn't seem to notice there is traffic coming the opposite way).

also - people who ask "are you using this chair" and start taking it before you've even answered "yes" or "no"

Yeah, the worst. Almost as bad as people who move your bag and coat so they can take your seat while you're out for a cigarette. The perils of drinking alone.

god, that. I was doing a play yesterday and in the backstage area there's a little bench and I put my cell there. I come back and don't see it only to discover this woman is actually practically SITTING on it. she was one of two people sitting on a wide bench and chose to park her cheeks on my cell phone?

worse than moving the bag and coat is not moving it and still taking your seat anyway.

Yes, but if someone does that, you're legally allowed to kill them.

What might be at least as annoying is if a group of people reserve all the available seats in a place. Went to gigs in Whelan's where students would reserve teh few seats in the balcony for their friends and expect you to move when they appeared. Which means that only those people are able to see from the balcony.

Kind of sucks really.

probably true elsewhere too.

I kind of get annoyed when a single person shows up early to reserve like 20 seats. it's one thing if you're saving a seat for one person, or if half your party has arrived, or you all followed each other so everyone else is parking...but when you're one person, and you sit and tell people for 20 minutes that you are using two rows and to find another seat, only for the rest in your party to saunter in 2 minutes prior to showtime, is hella lame, especially since everybody else ostensibly showed up early to get a decent seat.

I went to a flick this year with my friend (forget which) and left to go get popcorn only to return and see my friend in an argument with some rando who was arguing passively that we stole his seat. my friend kept saying "you didn't leave any stuff here, the seat was empty", and the dude was persistent for like five minutes, saying we must have taken his poster too.

then he looked over our shoulder and saw his commemorative poster under the seat behind us and realized he was off by a row, and just walked away silently.

Went to cinema in Richmond with my friends and had just sat down when an imperious posh couple claimed we were in their seats in the worst 'I think you'll find...' manner. I asked to see their tickets. Yes, we were in their seats - but they'd turned up a day early.

haha

what i hate is when at an event, someone steals your seat, gets called on it, but they want to bargain with you - "well I know it's your seat but we didn't have seats together, my actual seat is over there *points to worse seat*, would you mind taking that one?"

maybe if you walk over and explain your situation politely when I arrive, I might consider it, annexing my seat and asking for retroactive permission afterwards = "no".

Is anyone going to complain about people using 'maiden name' without spot-checking for virginity status?

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison)

tbh I find this a bit weird too, but I grew up with a single mum who used her family surname, and don't think people should change their names when they get married (unless they both change it to something completely new). So I would probably go for 'original name' or 'family surname' rather than the antiquated 'maiden name'. As I said upthread, this isn't so much anger inducing in me, just something I find strange. It's sort of an uncanny anachronism, though why it bugs me when I often love finding echoes of the past within other words and phrases, I don't know.

I mean, obviously there's a dislike of christocentrism and patriarchy coming into play in my reaction to these words, but I regularly accept other terms that come from those backgrounds.

Fat children, or to be more precise, their parents who let them get fat

fyi parents cannot control everything that their children eat without some serious overparenting going on. modeling good habits is great, but opportunities for eating junk are everywhere.

major driving IA = people who get upset/belligerent when you leave enough space for other drivers to merge. when the lane adjacent to mine is blocked off up ahead due to construction, I'll typically keep back about 4 car lengths to let people in, and far too often some asshat behind me will honk their horn and proceed to pass me (without signalling, often nearly sideswiping me in the process) either in the breakdown lane or in the lane that's about to shut down because THEY MUST FILL THAT SPACE IMMEDIATELY. I've had this happen when the lane closure was less than 100 feet ahead. in my part of the country it's the default behavior for drivers in the mergee lane to ride bumper-to-bumper right up to the point of the lane closure so that merging vehicles have to practically force their way in, so my behavior is viewed as anomaly even though it's the right thing to do w/r/t maintaining traffic flow.

It seems like the last 10 times I've encountered some computer glitch, and thought I'd just Google the issue and would likely find the solution in the first 2-3 clicks, it turns out I still can't solve the problem after 20 clicks and an hour wasted.

For instance right now YouTube embeds show up on ilx as 'url not found :(' or something similar, also comments won't display at youtube.com, and it's crazy to me that after an hour or more trying to diagnose the problem I'm nowhere.

I suddenly found youtube music videos I was trying to post weren't showing up as the video in the way they had done up to that point sometime last week. Not sure fi there is a glitch or if I posted it wrong. Just seemed to be exactly the same way I had posted them up until that point.
I did get the URL turning up highlighted though.

as someone who works in a QA department where the term "bug" is used exclusively, the word "glitch" makes me IA

"glitched" is worse

"glitched out" is the murder times

I don't like "kludge/kludgey."

"kludge" is a tribal totem word which should never be spoken or written except by software engineers and system administrators speaking or writing among themselves. See also: foobar.

lol i use it all the time but i am the son of a software engineer and agree w aimless :(

fubar was military slang long before foobar came into being.

true but different senses. would never give up fubar (or snafu).

I get really annoyed when someone bakes a totally mediocre cake, and you feel compelled to complement them on it - "mmm, yummy cake!" - and then they pull the old false modesty in response, "oh, it's not me, it's just the recipe." Yeah, no shit, because that's why I could follow the same recipe and bake my own mediocre cake, because it *is* you, and you didn't recognize the recipe or its product as mediocre. You jerk.

Thanks for the cake, though. It was yummy.

compliment you son of a bitch

Ha! GOddamnit. I blame bourbon and this new screen-dimming app that ... dims my screen and makes me sleepy.

And by bourbon I mean Bernie Sanders.

And bourbon.

A weird but incredibly common thing: I'm walking on a nearly empty sidewalk, just me and some person ahead who is stopped and looking at their phone. Just as I'm passing the person they begin walking, at the exact same pace as me, so that I end up walking uncomfortably side by side with them until one of us turns off somewhere.

Had that exact thing happen to me while running yesterday. More embarrassment than anger for me though.

yeah, I guess I only get angry when the person is talking loudly into their phone right next to me, or when they start doing weird stuff like veering into my path and forcing me against a wall.

Oh, that would be fucked up.

I'd be tempted to shout OI FUCK OFF PHONIE but ymmv

Finally got a standing mirror but the person who dropped it off at the charity shop apparently didn't hand in the screws that attach the side of the mirror to the stand. & it looks like it's a non standard size.
Long handle to go through the stand.

But do have a lead on the location of one possible source for others. NIce to find a really helpful tool shop owner. He couldn't help with his shop and said the fitting may have been brought back from abroad. Did show me taht I onlty have to take the screw and the fitting with me if i go to the other place. I'd gone in with the mirror itself. Will be good if I can sort it out anyway. Been after one for a while.

I've got a few items on the go sewing wise and will be good to have a decent full length mirror to check them in .
Be a pain if i can't find the right size screw thogh since mirror rounded and needs the stand to stand.

stevo i gotta say you're IAs are one of a kind

Yeah they dont seem very IA :/