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

while we're in the territory of what are basically pedantic sub-editor beefs:

1: ppl who use superscript for ordinals (mainly dates), but…
2: … don't RESIZE the superscript, so that it actively messes with the layout of the lines

My migraine headaches. A certain amount of anger is rational, of course, but sometimes I really just want to start drilling into my skull.

TAKE THAT, BRAIN.

Yeah, the trepanning fantasies can be weird. Or thinking if you could just find a way to squeeze your skull very hard. I sometimes think about washing my brain, with a kind of squeegee, as though it were covered in pain-goo.

Ha, when I have a bad headache I fantasize about pouring aspirin directly on my brain (as if that would help)

Plenty of cases of people with really bad toothaches shooting themselves in the teeth, etc. Extreme head pain can make you do some weird things.

Or thinking if you could just find a way to squeeze your skull very hard.

Oh god, yes. The vise in the garage looks really tempting sometimes.

Oddly I've been able to kind of beat headaches back (temporarily) by aggressively thinking about the headache as a physical thing I'm mentally crushing back into its hole. Probably purely psychosomatic but that hour or two can really help.

"Trepanning Fantasies" sounds like it should have been an obscure Cure record.

Had my gas meter changed in January and 3 readings later, this last one done by one of their employees, they still flag it up as an error every time. I even sent them photos.

(Have read or seen on TV something where they tortured somebody by putting their head on a vice. Was quite extreme)

This has probably become mainstream usage by now but: people who overcorrect to "you (or he) and I" when they should say "you and me".

These Stars lyrics always killed me:

In a cage where only one thing could be free
And it's not you and I

C'mon, it would even rhyme better!

Yes! This one bugs me a lot and there are lots of songs that get this wrong.

Memes like these make me want to punch a wall:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/bc/90/84/bc9084c64eb5f6055e461e1285bc9426.jpg
http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/im-glad-i-learned-about-parallelograms-instead-of-how-to-do-taxes-its-really-come-in-handy-this-parallelogram-season-06cac.png

Actually, I'm pretty sure I'm being rational in thinking these are idiotic, if maybe not in the depth of my rage.

i) If you weren't so precious and took non-university stream math and home ec/family studies classes, you would have probably been taught these things anyway.
ii) They don't teach them in academic-stream courses because the math and literacy skills involved with these tasks are relatively basic and they hope that you are intelligent enough to apply the concepts you learn to everyday situations.
iii) The tax code keeps changing so it's actually more practical to learn broader concepts that you can apply to different contexts.
iv) Taxes are boring as all fuck for me as an adult, let alone for children and teenagers. I find it more interesting to learn about parallelograms and right-angled triangles and doubt I'm alone.

yeah lol @ complaining about learning the pythagorean theorem, the basis of tons of other things. sorry you had to learn that.

Also contemporary tax software does all the math for you, and much of it is free. The skills involved in doing your taxes are more to do with reading than math.

You need to be able to read the instructions that tell you what numbers to put in which boxes; the program does the math.

"how to do taxes" = "how to cheat on taxes" i'm guessing

yeah doing taxes for me in my 4 years of having to do them - you don't do taxes in britain unless you're self-employed or whatever - has been entering some figures into some boxes and then hitting submit, and then receiving a cheque.

Yeah, the hardest thing is keeping track of receipts.

Ah, hey dude, thanks for shopping in the store I work in, but if you want to preview albums there's a turntable for that. You don't need to crank your phone to blast and listen to the entire thing on Spotify and, more importantly, I'm playing music in the store and don't really need to hear you blasting 80s 12" mixes right next to me. Headphones or GTFO.

a "friend" of mine would continually insinuate I'm "anti-social", because I either had the audacity to make plans that didn't include her, or having a conversation with someone else. ie, I went to her birthday gathering and she made many subtle digs at me like "oh, we finally got you out tonight" and "you're finally not being antisocial", simply cos I'd rejected prior invites as I had plans with OTHER PEOPLE. last week, I was at a party, catching up with a good friend of mine I hadn't seen in months, and I came back inside to get snacks and she yells "come on over here, SOCIALIZE!" (which...I was just doing, with someone else).

this being someone I've known a whopping two months and largely stopped talking to because she is irritating and dominates convo about banalities about herself.

xpost why do people ever feel the need to play their own music in public, least of all in a store where the owners/employees are already playing music? did you get in his face and start slapping him and saying "SAY YOU LOVE SATAN!"?

lol I have a couple friends who think I have an active, exciting social life because I've been busy a couple times they've invited me over, but a couple of those times I had a cold or was feeling antisocial.

sad this person you met just can't figure out that you're just not that into her

yeah, and sometimes I do have those moments where I don't feel like being out and about, but usually it was more "I have tickets to see Guns 'n Roses, and you want to go to some shitty bar".

1) (And maybe I've mentioned this before), 98% of laundry instructions say either "tumble dry low" or "lay flat to dry" or "line dry only." The other 2% that says "tumble dry medium"? Fuck you!

2) People who mindlessly forward videos of purported animal cruelty on Facebook, churning your stomach and making you upset ... until you look for more details and realize that vital information has been left out. Like, the other week there was a video pushed my way that showed animals let out of a barn, frolicking in the grass, and the tag was that they had supposedly been cooped up for months and months with no air and grass and sky and this was their first taste of freedom, when in fact it was old footage of happy, healthy cows that had been housed and cared for inside for the winter, for their safety, and this was just their annual seasonal release back into the pasture to graze. Then this morning I get one (and it's a sad video) of a cow in full view of its dead calf, the mother suspended in a strange harness and then dragged across the ground by a tractor. Horrible, right? And it is. Except apparently those cow harnesses are used when a cow collapses and refuses to or can't stand. This cow had just given birth - no idea how or why the calf was dead - and its back legs gave out, so it had to be moved or it would have either died or been put down. Yeah it looked bad, but how else are you going to move a 1000 pound immobile cow? There's no context provided at all, no news of the cow's fate or why what was done was done, just the shocking video of this cow being dragged. And yeah, maybe it was abuse, but maybe (or likely) it wasn't, so don't shove it in my face and accept what you see is the whole story. It would be like not knowing anything about humans or medicine then forwarding video of a sleeping pregnant woman whose screaming baby was being surgically cut out of her stomach. Shocking!!!

I still refuse to believe Koko gave a shit about Robin Williams dying.

dunno where else to vent this, but as tech makes people so connected and info so readily available, I now find myself having to do little troubleshoots ALL THE TIME, e.g. this morning I had bluetooth problems, just now I ahd to figure out why my phone wasn't notifying me of new texts, it just something all the time

Bugs me, too, it's as if updates are being pushed before problems are solved, so that nothing is solved, just constantly "updated."

Firefox on android asks me if i want to subscribe to their newsletter every time i start it, which is every time i look at anything on the web.

worse, often it doesn't display the message until i either cancel the keyboard or until i click on one of the tiles on my home page, when it displays the message for a split second before heading off to the selected page.

on android lollipop there is this app/feature "my magazine" which is completely worthless, but it has its own clickable icon on the start screen which is easy to accidentally push... anyway I figure out how to kind of hide it, even though you can't actually delete it. BUT, it came back again a couple of weeks ago, and I forgot how I hid it the first time, so I have to regoogle the whole issue.

since when can we not modify, to our exact liking, products we've paid for in full?

sorry this really isn't the tread for grumbling BACK TO TEH FUN

xpost You have to root it, then you can do whatever to it. But wasn't this the whole basis of that Windows/Navigator lawsuit?

I do NOT like the "like a photo by touching it" feature on the Android version of Instagram.

that stupid fucking message that comes up when you're doing software updates in Itunes 'you have changed your settings on your phone' and it gives you the option to apply/don't apply and either way it undoes the update and you have to start again and I always forget to just x out of the notification RAGE

Watching cylindrical objects roll on supermarket conveyor belts cos people don't realise they stay still if you put them lengthwise.
So wine will be shaken up as will beer.

That is watching drinks bottles and cans rock back and forth on a conveyor belt since they're moving in time with the motion of the belt. I don't drink much wine but did thik that you weren't supposed to shake the bottle up and cans may just froth massivel if opened post shaking.
Lay them lengthwise and they stay on the one spot since they're not rolling back and forth with the rhythm.

tbh the wine you buy that gets paid for via conyevor belt is not much affected by a bit of rolling, it's not like yr disturbing the crust in 100-yr-old port

wow rude

when people treat the name of a restaurant as if it's a proper possessive noun, no matter what

walmart's

people reversing into parking spaces

when people treat the name of a restaurant as if it's a proper possessive noun, no matter what

― goole, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 8:59 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why is this a thing??? my boss does it and it just baffles me. i never encountered in the uk afaicr

goole otm

VG otm

Nope

getting super IA at the gated communities around my office, fuckin mollycoddled assholes. a HUGE automated traffic sign, the kind they use for highway closures / construction etc, set up outside one at the moment to remind them to bag their fucking leaves for collection

they've had their street repaved *twice* in the past 2 years!

i hate them & everything they stand for

going to proudly just let my leaves settle on my yard in celebration of not living in a gated community

Leaves decay and feed the dirt, people act like if they're not picked up they'll choke out all life on earth