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

If someone is brakelighting you a lot maybe you're driving too close to him? I have done it once to stop a shithead crawling up my ass to try and get him to back off. Probably not the best action to take but in some situations you can't move over or speed up.

nah, some people are just dumbasses

some of my noted either/or drivers are really old people who think they're driving an old car with a manual transmission and are driving with feet on both pedals. you can tell because the brake lights are on 99% of the time

def not following too close. that is part of my anti-brake practice.

^^ exactly. And like harbl I try to touch the brakes as little as possible. Some people are just so nervous I guess. It's not that I am too close - you don't want to be too close to someone who brakelights a lot anyway. My blood pressure would soar.

Whatever method of locomotion they employ, people who travel like they're dogs straining against a leash make me IA. CHILL THE FUCK OUT ALREADY! LIKE ME! CAN'T YOU SEE HOW CHILL I AM? GOD!

I either already posted this or just thought about posting it but my body really needs to stop with the 'sneezing while I'm eating' thing. Like, it was a funny little practical joke the first time, ha ha, look at the food spraying everywhere, you really got me, yessiree, but now it's becoming a thing that needs to stop being a thing because it's gross and super annoying.

I get annoyed at what I think are either/or drivers: they have to be pushing on either the gas or brake pedal at all times.

our local bus companies have a few of these gas-to-the-floor-then-jam-on-brakes-then-repeat maniac drivers and it does not make for a comfortable bus ride. for their frantic two-pedal technique I call them Heavy Metal Drummer Bus Drivers

(to, like, nobody whatsoever except in my own head and probably somewhere on another IA thread too)

as a beginner driver, minimising pedal usage in regular driving feels satisfying, like I am in control and at one with all the things that need to happen – tho as a beginner driver and indeed a spacecadet I should know better than to think this ever – but if a line of traffic starts slowing I worry that maybe the person behind will only pay attention when the brake lights come on. prob mostly just paranoia but

people should choose a speed to drive at and then employ cruise control whenever possible

our local bus companies have a few of these gas-to-the-floor-then-jam-on-brakes-then-repeat maniac drivers and it does not make for a comfortable bus ride. for their frantic two-pedal technique I call them Heavy Metal Drummer Bus Drivers

I think it's in the training manual for bus drivers tbh
Extra points if the bus makes an excruciating SCREEEEEECHHHHHH PFFFT each time and throws every standing passenger forward/back, full combo achieved if sleeping babies on board

having a hybrid car w/a gauge that indicates to what extent you're using the gas engine really makes you learn to use the gas/brake more gradually, in my experience

I drove through an entire 25mph school zone yesterday on the electric motor and inertia alone, yeah

There should be gamification for safe driving.

cross post to my terrible idea

Fruit flies in my wine. Each one I off being replaced at lightning speed by another brave soldier. And no idea what the source is.

if you put a little bit of whiskey in the bottom of a glass and leave it in the offending area, the fruit flies will land in it and die

found that one out via serendipity

Actually, you should make a funnel out of a piece of paper that leads into a glass. At the base pretty much anything sweet, but apple cider vinegar seems to do the trick.

You sure? My method has always been a small glass with some balsamic vinegar + washing liquid, and cone shaped paper with a tiny hole cut into it placed on top. As fruit flies for some reason know how to get to the liquid through a small hole but don't know how to escape it?
It's in the kitchen as we speak but many seem totally down with ignoring that and landing in my Chateauneuf instead. Been especially cranky today and this feels like insult to injury tbh.

Xp ha! :)

imo just burn down your abode and move somewhere new

Yeah, when you get a fruit fly infestation, the best approach is the one Dennis Wilson took with Charlie Manson. It's cool, have fun with the house, I'll just find another place to crash.

Making a concoction based on loads of granular sugar in water with vinegar and washing up liquid seems to work wonders with fruit flies.
I think the washing up liquid makes it difficult for them to get away from the water or something. & vinegar helps attract them in.
I tend to boil a kettle and pour it on sugar in a jar and put it on top of something in the kitchen & it attracts whatever flies are around.

the dish soap breaks the surface tension and means that flies that touch the liquid sink instead of floating

http://m.imgur.com/on1ZctF.jpg

Five fruit flies still on the fence, not diving in my deathly balsamic and washing up fluid.

Uhm, this

That ostentatious waving-arms-in-the-air-at-God thing people do when singing in church

You need to find a nice, old-fashioned Presbyterian church, where people don't even sing, they just mouth the words.

When the same dude plays both characters in a Vine.

Yahoo yet again. Hasn't allowed a password number to be accepted, possibly because there wasa 1/2 hour delay between it being requested and me trying to use it. Now tried to get a 2nd code number but it hasn't arrived.
So is the same thing going to repeat. actuallly several times over since the code was requested several times but for some reason I lost signal. Which shouldn't be happening anyway since I'm on the outskirts of town not the middle of nowhere.

& why is it taht I keep needing to enter a code number to access my own email account, instead of it just being my password needed.
Is taht the same on most email servers or is taht a special fun thing with yahoo?

On top of that they've now locked my account for 12 hours.
Time to get away from yahoo probably.
Though that might have been a couple of years ago really.

To coin a phrase, Yahoo is "like a burning house with more flammable parts yet to come."

I was at a friend's house for a party over the weekend and they had some yellow and red peppers that were snack-sized set out with the food.

This lady walked by and was like "look at these peppers! are you just supposed to eat them like that! hah! *makes exaggerated nibbling motions*" as if the idea of eating a pepper was ridiculous to her

I was really tempted to walk over and just start eating one, so I could say, "Yes, peppers are food, you put them in your mouth and chew like this"

There were sauces, like ranch, on the table. Her demeanor was in that weird territory where you can't tell if someone thinks they're being funny or if they're attempting to passive-aggressively mock the host, because... peppers on a tray, who does such a thing?!?

I can't remember if it was my friend who was one of the hosts or another guest who looked at her, very confused, and said "they're not hot peppers, just regular ones..."

On top of that they've now locked my account for 12 hours.
Time to get away from yahoo probably.
Though that might have been a couple of years ago really
I'm caught in a cross fire
that I don't understand
But there's one thing I know for sure girl
I don't give a damn

xpost I don't know what disease of the mind that is, where certain people apparently lead a selectively cloistered existence and then express incredulous amusement towards things that are actually pretty normal.

bumper stickers that are deliberately crooked to make it look like someone just slapped it on there all casual like.

Dog owners who pick up their dog's shit in a bag only to leave the bag on the sidewalk. What the fuck?

Podcasts that re-upload all of their episodes every few weeks so that if you're subscribed your phone starts downloading 80 files you've already heard.

When you search for a file in Windows 7 and the location bar turns into a progress bar. That gets slower and slower as it moves to the right. And then, when you think it's done, it crosses the edge and moves into the (X) thing that stops the search.

When you search for a file in anything newer than Windows XP in general: all this shit where it refuses to search half your computer unless it has been indexed or whatever. FUCK OFF! At least XP just searched everything until it found your file.

Yes! And I don't even want to talk about how long it takes to INDEX a folder full of images. Every time I need to edit a bunch of stuff for work it takes like five minutes for the folder to update.

Windows follows its own version of Moore's law, it halves in speed every 18 months. My last win 10 update took 22 hours, was entirely rationally angry by the end of that.

Dog owners who pick up their dog's shit in a bag only to leave the bag on the sidewalk. What the fuck?

Can't believe we haven't sorted this out yet. Surely they understand that this is so much worse than leaving dog shit just anywhere right? Why does anyone ever do this? Why can't they see that they are not helping?!

On the bike trail in my neighborhood I saw a guy do that - leave the bag, and I said something like "excuse me, you uh left this here," and he said "Yes, I'll pick it up on my way back," as if that made it perfectly okay. Different from leaving it there forever I guess, and I understand it's not pleasant to carry. But in the meantime there's a bag of shit sitting there; how are people supposed to know that it's only going to be there for 10 minutes?

Concerning Windows search, use this instead: https://www.mythicsoft.com/filelocatorlite

Ta! I will install that asap

Thanks Sheesh, feels good to know I'm not alone in this stance.

parcels or even just envelopes done up tighter than a mummy in sellotape so that if you use scissors you always cut a bit off the things being sent and the only way in is a large sheet metal cutter plunged through the middle of the package, through the masking tape, through the cardboard, through the cushioning and (thud) right through the center of etc.

My nan used to do that with birthday present wrapping. Whole thing was bound up tighter than a geishas foot.

some of my noted either/or drivers are really old people who think they're driving an old car with a manual transmission and are driving with feet on both pedals. you can tell because the brake lights are on 99% of the time

this is not how manual cars work either

people should choose a speed to drive at and then employ cruise control whenever possible

thirty years since being bemused by cruise control jokes in American comic strip Bloom County and I have still never seen this feature in a motor vehicle

How come? I'm sure it works on the wrong side of the road just as good as the right side.

people should choose a speed to drive at and then employ cruise control whenever possible

Had an older relative who used to do this through town. Going around the curve by the laundromat at 40 MPH always a nail-biter.

I assumed cruise control was just standard in all cars these days, but maybe only in the US. I'm not joking about using it whenever possible. A lot of drivers have a real problem with constantly speeding up and slowing down. Traffic would be smoother and driving would be more fuel efficient if we just let our cars maintain a constant speed.

my car doesn't have cruise control. idk why. i used to use it in my old car and had it had a noticeable effect on fuel economy.