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

*Puts burrito on plate*
*Enters in amount of time*
*Chuckles to self.*

I realized a big part of what bothers me about what I posted upstream about my cousin's heroin-addicted kid is that my family is the first to hurriedly repost all those DRUG TESTS FOR ALL WELFARE RECIPIENTS memes, but if I were to say "How do we know Tyler isn't just going to take our $600 and spend it on heroin?" they'd be mortified.

that's why they don't shell it all out themselves, spread the risk

just calmly explain to them why that is a much more rational question than why shouldn't we drug test welfare recipients

On the new microwave, I can just about do the same thing except instead of a fluid doot-doot, it's more like doot-(pause)-doot since once I hit the "1", the new microwave feels the need to display the letters[E X P R E S S]up in the window before allowing me to hit the "30 SECONDS" button.

> E X P R E S S

the irony

I have been testing our new website with the new Google reCaptcha on and what with deliberately failing the captcha several times Google no longer believes I'm not a robot and is showing me the image challenge, which is making me irrationally... something

"Select all images of rivers!" - uhh I don't know, there's some water, is that a river or a lake or the sea?
"Select all images with trees in!" - (squints at shot of distant possibly wooded headland which I'm probably not supposed to identify as "trees", but maybe I am?)
"Select all images of storefronts" - ok so "store" is the American for "shop" so I click on all the shops but then there is, like, a restaurant and idk a cat-worming clinic or something, not sure if "storefront" is "any commercial property" or "just shops" or "shops and restaurants and anything else open to the public with big windows and awning and bright colours"

Even "select all pictures of cakes" seems culturally dependent; from a discussion with my German teacher about fruitcake vs Stollen vs hot cross buns I got the impression that the German division between "bread" and "cake" is not where the English one (or my personal English one) is*, so idk how globally foolproof it is to present the user with a variety of foodstuffs on tables and ask them which are cakes

* although actually I do not have any opinion about whether a hot cross bun is cake or not, I mean currant buns are sort of bread but sort of just their own thing. Is a pastry a cake? See I have no idea about even these everyday UK-available cake-like products, never mind where, say, mochi or jalebi are on the cake spectrum, and here we are asking people of all nations to make assessments of cakedom before they can type a comment on a website**

** I know right, if only I had not been allowed to type a comment on a website

And, see, I linked to the Google help page for this thing and it has a picture asking the user to identify the oranges, and I know that every single programmer and data monkey I know is a wilful and pedantic creature (hi) who would have been p. tempted to fill the "not-orange" data set with tangerines and satsumas, so...

ahahaha that sounds awful! /amazing.

"select all pictures of cakes"
did it have a jaffa cake? You'd be there for days

"I'm sorry, the Killer Whale or 'Orca' is not technically a fish, you obviously fraudulent bot."

Is a crabcake a cake?

Is a hot dog a sandwich?

"Actually GWB only did Katrina, not 9/11"

All humans locked out of Google due to Skynet activating still-experimental Project Pie.

"Select only those who played outfield for the '56 Pirates."

I've been IA about those things since first grade, when I argued with a teacher about whether "cherry" rhymes with "strawberry". (It doesn't.)

I can sort of get back my rhythm by typing "TIME COOK", "1", "30 SECONDS" in a fluid doot-doot-doot motion, but it still ain't the same like the old microwave.

And this isn't accurate– what I have to do is press "TIME COOK", "9" and "0" to get the same result in a doot-doot-doot fashion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBXKOTEWHvE

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and the colored girls go

http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.15810662.4533/flat,800x800,075,f.jpg

Setting up titling on a tv channel that has a constant streamed headline at the bottom of the screen so that the bottom line of the text is actually behind the strip containing the headlines.
If the headlines are a constant on a channel like BBC News then surely it's an understood design component?

Does whatever show that duplicates what's on BBC news show without the strip on BBC2 or something. Would still think that it counted as not being thought through.

Amazon buyers who have more than four lines in their address. Name, house & street, town, postcode, don't make me write any more than that. Skelmanthorpe Huddersfield West Yorkshire fuck off.

writing out really mysteriously long addresses, esp foreign, is on of the things that makes me irrationally happy!

doesn't the postcode negate the need for town and county anyway?

that said, i did used to get mail for gloucestershire (GL20) going via glasgow... (G12...)

there is a street with the same name as my street in another suburb of the same town, but the address finder that most companies use doesn't include the suburb name, so I always put it back in due to paranoia. a slightly annoying faff to go through every time

it shouldn't be needed with the postcode but I don't trust non-Royal Mail couriers to get it right; I'm not even 100% sure I trust Royal Mail to work their own postcode system for that matter

(have def had takeaways and taxis go to the other street despite spelling out which part of town we were in)

I'm regularly dealing with addresses submitted by outside parties as part of my job, and I'm routinely shocked (often to the point of IA) by the number of adults that seem never to have grasped the essential elements of US address conventions. Four-digit zip codes (or none at all), excluded states, apartment numbers without attendant street addresses...

not being from the northeast, I only learned in my mid 20s that some zip codes begin with zero. it may have been after I made some database updates after editing data in excel and not realizing that fact, and that excel doesn't understand that either and likes to interpret zip codes as integers

at first, I read this as a complaint that people don't use the +4 zip code, which would truly be irrational

xp

The amount of post I used to not-get that was addressed to 'Flat 10, Example road' when 99% of flats in this town (and most?) are flats in a building which has a number, one of many on a road.
There are also two 'Example Road's in my city and the taxi company sent every single taxi to the wrong one, without fail, even when we spelt out that this normally happened and that it needed to go to the one in our very well-known district. Eventually someone took pity on us and changed the default one to our one.

Automatic address completer things give the 'county' for Bristol as Avon (doesn't exist), Gloucestershire, Somerset... probably many more I've forgotten...

used to live at a house that was the only one with its postcode and managed to get things delivered with just the postcode, no name or address

Example just received (names and numbers changed to protect the ignorant):

Suite 202
Fun Rd.

Street listed but no actual street address specified. WTF.

ya that's what I meant

Old Lunch, the first time I found that out, it caused an actually quite expensive mailing error and much embarrassment.

Yes, folks, when you put a Boston-area zip like 02134 into Excel, it will drop the zero and neatly sort itself right between 212xx (Baltimore) and 214xx (Annapolis).

Oh yeah, my ex used to live at a Flat 1, Whatever Drive which also had a House 1 much closer to the main road

House 1 was very grumpy about the number of mistaken callers and never redirected them up the hill

a big sign reading "HOUSE 1 NOT FLAT 1" did not improve anything

also don't talk to me about Excel losing leading zeroes (you can talk to me about this but I will bore you for hours about every Excel CSV mishap I've ever had, and I usually get sent a couple of spreadsheets which used to be CSV files and weren't imported sensibly every week)

people that post things with solely the word "This." as their commentary

^^

otm

so much this

lol

musicians who can't decide where they post new music. sometimes it's on bandcamp, sometimes on soundcloud, sometimes their own site, sometimes somewhere else, and they can't be fucked to have some central place where they let you know they've got a new thing out.

fuuuuck I hate excel dropping leading zeroes! I work in telecoms. muchly mobile phones. all Aus mobiles start with 04. fuckin run a report for phone port outs and have to add the fuckin 0 back in fuckin

Is it not just a matter of adding them as '00123456789 - they're not really numbers, you're not going to be adding them or multiplying them?

would that I could but they come down from supplier databases that way.

and it shouldn't matter! I should then be able to search a number sans the leading 0 but noooo, fuck yer fuzzy search

People who have to get out of their cars to put money in the fare machines at parking lots.

I would say Excel and, more broadly, most Microsoft products make me IA on the reg. Or it might be more that I'm Angry about their Irrationality.

There was this thing I used to have to do all the time for work which involved cutting stuff from Word and pasting it into Excel, but because one of the Microsoft products always wanted to reformat stuff I was pasting from another Microsoft product, I had to employ Notepad as an intermediary. Pointless.

People using more than one question mark after a question, esp in work-related communication.

'Did you get my e-mail??????'

Yes, I did, but your aggressive use of question marks means I probably won't answer it ever.

Excel is p great tbh folks

People who have to get out of their cars to put money in the fare machines at parking lots.

I would be IA if they attempted this from inside their cars?

(We may be talking about two different things.)

http://i.imgur.com/HdTggZ8.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/ASA0qyF.jpg

would you believe they have machines that combine the two now? you put the ticket and your credit card in it when you exit and it does the transaction in one place

xp around me there are gated lots that have a farebox you're supposed to pull up to, put your money in (they're set rate rather than hourly), the gate goes up, you pull in. So many people I see have to open the door and get out of the car rather than just unbuckle their seatbelts and lean out the window.