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

ha yeah my brother tried to drive us to a friend's house on the other side of the city, about 25 mins away if that. Got hopelessly lost for most of the day. He'd printed off the step-by-step directions off Google maps but to be fair there was one section that made no sense. But he didn't have an actual map or anything in the car (and this was before everyone had internetty phones) so was just driving around hoping that the road in the instructions would suddenly appear.

I have to give ppl weird directions to our house because the actual address is "15/123 Fake st" but the street our front door faces is "15 otherstreet" for stupid reasons (block of townhouses, we're at the back). But I still give people the actual damn address as well!

Also: when u give ppl a handy reference & but they for whatever reason abhor written instructions & prefer to continually ask you how to do a thing

OMG this happens to me frequently at work. We sign on new resellers to sell the internet we wholesale. The initial training involves a comprehensive set of YouTubes and documents that show EVERYTHING in detail about using our system. But then its all "no no, we read it all, it seems straighforward" until a week later when theyre on the phone every 30 minutes asking for help on some stupid little thing that I'm like "this is what you do for a living how do you not know this ffs".

"I'm a visual learner"
'cool - these are visual instructions. read em'

I get annoyed by people who have lived in an area for years and are still unfamiliar with the major points of interest like parks, rivers, libraries-- but know every place you can buy fucking food

agreed

looool

It's probably RA not IA but the number of idiots shitting themselves about Bandcamp donating to the ACLU, like the ACLU is staffed entirely by black bloc anarcho-communists and not entirely reasonable people standing up for THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION said idiots claim to love.

lol oeld, but I know a bunch of black bloc anarcho-communists who are "fuck the ACLU" for their position that they'd defend Milo's speech if necessary, like dudes this is literally their thing, they're the ACLU.

they'd defend Milo's speech from government censorship or suppression if necessary

Mailing lists you sign up to that, every day, seem to come from a different randomly generated email address, so that EVERY FUCKING TIME you have to extract them from the Spam folder or constantly tell Outlook to show the images, so that even though you actually want to read them it all becomes too bloody hard

The one I'm wrestling with right now has a From: field that looks like this... Daily Review [no-reply=dailyrev✧✧✧.c✧✧.a✧@mail✧✧✧.atl✧✧✧.rs✧✧✧.n✧✧]; on behalf of; Daily Review [no-re✧✧✧@dailyrev✧✧✧.c✧✧.a✧]

email comment forms that don't work and are your only provided means of contacting a company about an issue

fuckin webex confrrences that make you sign in & then you verbally give your name on the call too& it still shows you as User 213 like wtf was the point of any of that signing in shit

Means you can run riot and they don't know who to blame.

User 213: why doncha all go fukk yerselves

I am a big fan of coleslaw, and have no idea why Jeff posted a picture of potato salad up there.

Shit I didn't wanna say but yeah

What???? This is what potato salad looks like:

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Invisible potato salad

http://www.itsyummi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mustard-potato-salad-feat.jpg

That looks like egg salad

Strong mustard component, as all potato salad should have.

Wasn't Strong Mustard Component an Elephant 6 band?

I'm sure most of my posts are about this but
FUCCCKKK YOU INFINITE SCROLL

Wasn't Strong Mustard Component an Elephant 6 band?

― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.)

Rejected Butthole Surfers album title, iirc.

Boomerang

hell yes

they'd defend Milo's speech from government censorship or suppression if necessary

A little more than that (though that alone is enough for bemusement from countries that actually have hate speech laws):

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/12/514785623/the-aclu-explains-why-theyre-supporting-the-rights-of-milo-yiannopoulos

More importantly, I'm pretty sure Jeff's second picture is cauliflower cheese.

I can't live like this here.

First thing this morning a dude sat down on the bus and I briefly looked at him, to which he replied: "What the FUCK are you looking at?". There's some people in the city that if you look at for a split second, they'll try to instigate a fight. It's not the first time.

sounds like he had a bad case of irrational anger to me :-(

i can't tolerate people who spell my first name wrong

harbI?

yeah, that is my legal name, mh

people keep writing harbyl

fwiw I did the capital i as L trick

at my place of work i go by my given name "jamie" because my glasgow accent saying "jim" is always interpreted as "gem" in canada - something that makes me IA

Have you tried Jamesie yet?

have you tried practicing it in a ridiculous canadian accent? I'm picturing when a british actor does a bad american accent.. "Hi there, my name is Jim" *face contorts*

people can't pronounce my last name. It is a bit of an unusual name, but it is short and pronounced exactly as it is spelled, and it gets mangled all the time.

I get that weird anxiety that maybe I have a speech impediment or can't pronounce my own name when people repeat it back incorrectly

people correct my pronunciation of my own last name. "oh, you mean x?" no i don't mean x. if i meant x i would say x.

saying "jim" is always interpreted as "gem"

Jim, Gem, Gym ... I guess it's good that we only talk here in letters.

i can't tolerate people who spell my first name wrong

I was given an odd name that I've legally regularized. No one could pronounce the old one correctly (including me, and evidently my parents as well). Long story, not worth it.

The IAness I wish to discuss instead is about strangers going to short forms without invitation and without asking. Not every Elizabeth wants to be called Liz. Not every Joseph is a Joe. Not every Patrick is a Pat. Not every Jennifer is a Jenny. People think they're being friendly and familiar but to my ear they're being rude.

If you switch around a few letters in my wife's name it contains a swear word-- I always wonder, when people made this mistake with it, if it ever crosses their minds that this can't be the correct spelling and maybe they should look at it again?

The IAness I wish to discuss instead is about strangers going to short forms without invitation and without asking.

Totally a legitimate complaint, but I've always wondered why.

I've got a friend named Matthew and GOD FORBID anyone slips up and calls him Matt. Then there are two other friends of mine, Clayton and Clay.

My name is Tre. Only way it could be shorter is if it was Re. I've always been secretly jealous of everyone with polysyllabic names who have dozens of variations. Even guys named Bob can be Bobby if they want. Wear a different name every day of the week.

hey tre tre

maybe with a hyphen, idk it's your name

your name is now.... T-Ray

YMP = Maurice Micklethwaite

YMP also = ragingly OTM about short forms of names

Yours, Not An Andy.

it drives me fucking nuts that americans don't know how to pronounce 'craig'