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

that is the worst

even weirder is when you like the second one even better than the first, order two more, and both of them are identical, and they're both worse the #1 and the beloved #2

App notifications that don't actually notify you of anything.

I swear, Facebook must've figured out that seeing the number "4" inside a tiny red circle will trigger just about anyone to click and see what surprises they've got waiting. Most of the time, it's non-news like "So-and-so is still waiting on his friend request!" or "This post you have nothing to do with has a new comment."

Instagram has followed the lead now too. I'll click the notifications bug and see, yep, those same three people are still waiting for me to accept or decline their invitation.

Not sure if it's bad bus stop set up or dumb people but the idea that there is no need for people to step away from the doors of a full bus that is about to empty. Or coming the other way the idea that you need to dodge around a bunch of people to get off a bus and will probably come very close at least to colliding with some eejit as you try to walk away from the bus.

Not sure if this is just down to pretty much nothing having been done about changing the layout of the pavement where the buses stop when they redid the square several years ago. I don't think there were any bus stops down taht side where my terminus stop is when the road was also open on the now pedestrianised side of the square.
I can't be the only person who finds that a major pain.

Also possibly even worse si the bus stop where the coaches out of town stop outside GMIT the campus that's most of the way out of town.
IT has a narrow pavement with a bus shelter on one side and the perimeter wall for GMIT on the other side of teh pavement. & it's where you need to stand with suitcases etc if you're waiting for a bus to the airport or to Dublin or wherever.
Just hoping that they will rethink that entire junction when they open the Garda station HQ that's being built opposite. Can't see how that junction is going to work if the main police station is on it as it currently exists.

facebook messenger started sending messages a while back that just say "it's x birthday send him/her a message"

like are u worried i'm not using yr app enough, leave me the hell alone with these non-message messages

I think this one's rational anger but as a help desk agent there's nothing more counter-productive than a client's thoughts about why something is not working and their rampant chatter. I mean, I wouldn't go into a hospital and try to correct a doctor's technique during a surgery. Just let me do my job.

Or just their rampant chatter full stop! Oh god, no I dont need your life story as to what 300 things you did with your phone before you rang us, just tell me what you want fixed and STFU so I can fix it.

haha i almost always have to stop myself from doing that tbh.......

in tv cookery competitions when the judges incessantly remind us that a pannacotta shd wobble and a fondant shd be liquid inside

also not calling pannacotta by its correct name = blancmange

dude in line in front of me at chipotle is explaining the rules of poker to his friend & it's making me IA bcz it's so fuckkng boring

The poker revival makes me IA generally, who gives a fuuuck

is this a revival of the texas hold em thing or still just ongoing interest

in tv cookery competitions when the judges incessantly remind us that a pannacotta shd wobble and a fondant shd be liquid inside

also not calling pannacotta by its correct name = blancmange

― mark s, Thursday, December 8, 2016 12:31 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's panna cotta two words and unlike blancmange it's not cooked

xp ongoing interest, I guess, for the kinda guys who vape

IMPORTANT CORRECTIONS TO MY IRRATIONAL PANNACOTTA BEEF INCOMING, BOTH WIDELY CONTESTED

They do pannacotta beef now?

milk pudding with a twist

^ Jarvis cocker voiceover

guys, it's all just fancy custard

in a sense there is nothing that is not fancy custard

im a fancy custard

*wobbles*

i hate when people use burglary and robbery interchangeably

Parents who let their kids run wild in restaurants

oh yeah, shopping carts that are made to look like cars so you can put your kid in it and he can "drive" it and it's fucking huge and your kid is a shit

the declaration that "such-and-such needs to happen" when what is meant is "i want such-and-such to happen and am angry it hasn't"

I'm at the end of a bunch of traffic with about three car lengths between me and the next vehicle and EMPTY SPACE behind me as far as the eye can see. People turning out of side street see me and decide "yeah, this dude'll stop for me even though he's doing 45 mph, I'm in too much of a hurry to wait three seconds for him to pass and get *ugh* behind him, where no cars are coming and I wouldn't be risking my idiot life and his, HERE I GO." This has happened to me approximately a dozen times in the past week.

The IA part comes in when I want to follow them to wherever they're going and kick them in the shins, I guess.

"let me tell you about Naturebox"

in fact, pretty much every instance of podcast hosts pretending to be enthusiastic about whatever niche shit they're having to plug to pay the bills

can i tell u about mattresses

SQUARESPAAAACE!

mbmbam is good at this because they keep doing jokes at least

Armando Iannucci has a good bit about this where he talks about listening to the 538 podcast and in the middle of all of this dry political analysis they'll suddenly & without pausing for breath go "we'll come back to that in a minute, but I just want to talk about underpants for a second". And everyone else on the panel enthusiastically joins in talking about how comfortable these underpants are as if this is normal. I find it more embarrassing than anything else.

wait this one is genuinely irrational: the word "comptroller"

USE THE WORD CONTROLLER IT MEANS THE SAME

(why do i care? I DO NOT KNOW BUT I DO)

that word is up there with that one they use in the us its a political word wtf is it you know the one?

gubernatory!

look you cunts if you didnt know how to spell it there'd have been someone along in a fucking minute dont just guess and have it in all your fucking documents for posterity ffs

SQUARESPAAAACE!

― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, December 12, 2016 1:13 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

squarespace is something i've been hearing about for a long time but i couldn't tell you anything about it really, i ahve no idea what it is apart from some web technology or app?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPKe9ksENk

xp it's a webhosting service. I think.

how is it different from foursquare

Squarespace is web hosting where you have a bunch of templates and can easily modify them to make a decent looking business page or whatever without putting in work coding or designing w/ Wordpress.

This is one that happens to me all the time now:

I'm driving along a major road and turn off into a residential area--the car in front of me also turns, but not because they're actually going anywhere. They've just pulled off the busy road to text someone. But instead of pulling to the side of the road, they let their car roll slowly forward, often weaving into the center of the street so they can't be passed. Until they finally cease moving at a stop sign and then just sit there.

lately here everybody's been aggro-driving lately.

last week this odd lady in a parking garage kept repeatedly honking at me for reasons I can't discern last week.

had someone aggressively tailgating me back from Miami last night on a two lane road, weaving side to side in the lane. and couldn't get over immediately cos there were cars clogging the right lane, tho finally was able to.

had some landscaping idiot aggressively (and illegally) pass me in the oncoming lane outside my neighborhood this morning...

lately the scary thing though is people backing out without looking, almost had my driver's side door caved in at least three times in the last two weeks by people who did that as I was going by.

in conclusion fuck cars, viva feet.

sounds pretty rational to me. just before xmas the number of crazy drivers soars. be careful.

lately the scary thing though is people backing out without looking, almost had my driver's side door caved in at least three times in the last two weeks by people who did that as I was going by.

in conclusion fuck cars, viva feet.

― Neanderthal

This'd be worse if you were on foot, I suspect.

Man, I hate everything involving VR. I hate articles about it, I hate what they look like, I hate commercials that make it seem like something someone wants, I hate the name Occulus Rift. I hate it all. But mostly I hate that it's something that keeps coming back every few years like it's a thing and not like, say, the Nintendo Virtual Boy or the defective glasses Steve Martin makes in "The Jerk."

word, i wish games people would stop trying to make VR happen, it'll always be a gimmick

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I dunno, I thought the same thing 11 years ago about 3D in films, and they finally got that to work. I tried some VR recently and it's fucking amazing, but clunky and awkward in ways which will probably disappear in another decade at most.

Counterpoint: who cares?

Weren't there some big pieces a year or so ago about how 3D is no longer the money-maker it initially seemed to be (this time around), and has already faded in financial efficacy?

no, 3d in films is still clunky and bad, or at least a gimmick

I like vr though

tbh neither is in the end state, but barring VR-style goggles or some great new screen innovation, 3D movies have a bit of a plateau. it's better than red/blue separation but movies are limited in that they are fixed perspective and on a fixed screen so we'll just get larger aspect ratio, better frame rate, and possibly better separation

vr has always been without an end point and having individualized views at a reasonable framerate is good. the video game starting point for consumer use is nice because virtual worlds now have a walking dimension. watching movies, where the director or dp no longer frame action and you can do a full range of movement, would be weird

the narrative vr video clips are fun but weird because you can draw attention, and you should, but I can still look at a blank wall while a character talks behind me