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

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Australian bananas return to you if you throw them correctly

may all your memes be dank (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 6 March 2017 23:00 (seven years ago) link

That's funny, ha.

"i'm told this could affect me but it hasn't, why do they keep mentioning it?"

It's not this at all. First, they've been talking about it in dire terms for several years. Second, it's never been presented afaict as "this could affect you" (a la whooping cough et al.) so much as "this will affect you, RIP bananas, nice eating you." I totally get that they are on it, and I totally get that farms have been affected. I'm just saying that for all its apparent impact it's never once seemed to affect the supply or the price. Which indicates that either a) yeah, they're on it or b) there has been no impact. (Or c) they are in denial?) Both of which counter the dire predictions. Which, of course, as predictions could still always come to fruition - fruitition? - but again, we're talking nearly a decade straight of dire predictions with no discernible effect or impact (yeah, I know, on me, which is what makes this irrational) . Whereas in the past slight or severe fluctuations in the price of, as mentioned, limes, or flour, or pine nuts, have affected me and others that I know, personally and anecdotally. But I've as yet never known or heard of someone who could not find a cheap banana.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 March 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link

I'm getting really tired of the men in mid 30s coupled with women in mid 20s thing. And not necessarily as a "older men date younger women" trope but the extent to which it's just normal to juxtapose those ages. I'm rewatching Gone Girl on tv and Carrie Coon plays Ben Affleck's character's twin sister. They're nine years apart in age!

mh ๐Ÿ˜, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:00 (seven years ago) link

I'm blanking, wasn't there some movie high-profile movie a couple of years ago where the woman playing the mother was only seven years or so older than the person playing the son or daughter?

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:03 (seven years ago) link

All of them?

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:06 (seven years ago) link

Not recent, but Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft in The Graduate (6 yrs difference).

scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:06 (seven years ago) link

Loads and loads and loads of them.

emil.y, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:14 (seven years ago) link

when somebody asks "can you hold" and then puts you on hold before you can answer "yes"

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:27 (seven years ago) link

"please hold" would be preferable

Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:30 (seven years ago) link

my old doctor's office will do it and never return to the phone. always the same receptionist that did it. would just get used to calling back and being like "hey again!"

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:32 (seven years ago) link

*would do it

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:32 (seven years ago) link

also hate that my old apt had the address actually tied to the specific building you lived in, making food delivery/Uber people have an easy time finding it, but current one uses the same street address for all buildings so any time I order food I have to proactively send a description of a better way to get there cos GPS will always send them to the main office and it's kind of hard to find my building since the order of them is weird.

angry more at hte numbering convention than the drivers, cos how would htey know y'know

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link

But I've as yet never known or heard of someone who could not find a cheap banana.

Actually at times recently bananas have been thin on the ground and/or very expensive in Aus. More due to a few nasty cyclone/flood situations, but it could also be due to crop mitigation. Bananas are currently about $3.50 a kg or $8 or so for organic. I dunno if thats pricey or not, I hate bananas.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:53 (seven years ago) link

Australia (where I will be visiting family in two weeks) is just stupid expensive, period.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link

Bananas are currently about $3.50 a kg or $8 or so for organic. I dunno if thats pricey or not, I hate bananas.

โ€• Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:53 (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they can get under $2/kg, so $3.50 isn't terrible. they were $13/kg back during the big banana crisis of the howard era.

Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 01:48 (seven years ago) link

Australia (where I will be visiting family in two weeks) is just stupid expensive, period.

โ€• Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 12:04 (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 01:48 (seven years ago) link

They're about $1.50/kg here. (60ยข/lb)

pplains, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 02:41 (seven years ago) link

But ours are straight like the Europeans. One store's taken to calling them Citrus Sausages, but I'm not buying.

pplains, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 02:43 (seven years ago) link

My bloke tried telling people we called them "queensland fingers" but no one would fall for it.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 02:54 (seven years ago) link

hate to say it but

this threads gone bananas

Fโ™ฏ Aโ™ฏ (โˆž), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 03:16 (seven years ago) link

Orange you upset!

...getting coat.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 03:18 (seven years ago) link

Bananas at, say, Trader Joe's here are 19 cents a banana. So about a dollar and change a bunch? Or more like 50 cents a pound. At Whole Foods more like $.75 a pound.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 03:32 (seven years ago) link

I don't think I ever fully appreciated how expensive Australia was until I stopped living there. Coincidentally I think that's also when the prices started getting kinda nutso too so maybe it's all my fault

soz

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 03:44 (seven years ago) link

..getting coat.

โ€• Stoop Crone (Trayce)

Are you picking a window also?

btw, where are Australian bananas grown? On continent or also Central America?

nickn, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 03:51 (seven years ago) link

On continent of course! We have an entire state almost given over to bananas, sugar cane, tropical fruit and insane xenophobes.

https://s1.at.atcdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2005/11/Coffs-Harbour-Big-Banana.jpg

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:03 (seven years ago) link

oh I Canberrit any longer

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:06 (seven years ago) link

we even call them "banana benders"

Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:21 (seven years ago) link

Citrus Sausages

This is deeply unsettling.

Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:12 (seven years ago) link

The little silence on the line at the beginning of a telemarketing call

I realize they're just doing their jobs, and this makes me an enormous dick, but I always go "Hello? Hello???? Oh! Hello! There was a silence there! Are you OKAY?????"

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:16 (seven years ago) link

I also refuse to answer when they ask if it's me, I just evade and ask who THEY are. For all I know they've got a phone number and an address and want to confirm my name so they can steal my Playstation Store account or some shit

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:18 (seven years ago) link

I mean, again, I realize this is just how life has been for at least 30 years, and I'm old_man_yelling_at_clouds here but the idea that someone calls my own phone, which rings in my own house, forcing my own actual body to get up and stop doing what I'm doing, and the person who's calling doesn't EVEN KNOW IF IT'S ME WHO'S TALKING is just like... sorry only my friends and loved ones get that privilege you fat-sucking shred of cock

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:21 (seven years ago) link

I was thinking that the way taht bananas grew would mean it would be very difficult for them to grow straight. Don't they curve upwards to face the light on the plant they grow on? So stem is actually lower than the body of the individual banana and there will always be at least a kink at that end?

Stevolende, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:22 (seven years ago) link

I used to be a telemarketer.. For a summer. We had yellow cards with the first five digits of a phone number written on it, and then 100 double digits, in columns, starting with 00 and going to 99. We'd manually call each number, crossing off the ones that didn't exist, or went to fax machines or whatever. It was to sell subscriptions to the local newspaper. We had no subscriber database. So our first question was always "Do you currently subscribe to the newspaper?" It was remarkable how few people asked why I didn't already know the answer to that question.

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:25 (seven years ago) link

I realize they're just doing their jobs, and this makes me an enormous dick, but I always go "Hello? Hello???? Oh! Hello! There was a silence there! Are you OKAY?????"

lol.

a few years ago i got one of those "we heard you've been in an accident" type calls, and i was mithered with them at the time, getting 3/4 a week etc. without thinking i just said "yes, yes i have" and they were like "can you tell us what happened" and i was like "yes, i was hit by a car driven by goblins on mars. in 1831." they were like "could you repeat that" so i did. then they said "when did this take place" and i said "1831. i was in another life in which i was a woman, a very rich beautiful woman..." and they finally hung up.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:39 (seven years ago) link

Tuesday mornings

The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:47 (seven years ago) link

Tuesday morries

The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:48 (seven years ago) link

rip

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link

My new thing with robocalls is to be silent on answer.

Also, die in a fire any person from any organisation who phones and won't tell me their business until I answer 'security questions'.

syzygy stardust (suzy), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 12:08 (seven years ago) link

i'm so often amazed and horrified by the chasm that must exist between myself/everyone i know and the businesses who phone you in response to an email enquiry or filling out a form or something. gyms are the worst culprits - i have no cause to talk on my phone in my working day and if i do answer it it's prob a family member telling me someone has died. i realise that might be extreme but i think most people just don't want to receive calls from businesses.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 12:17 (seven years ago) link

I won't get up to answer my house phone, but if I'm walking by while it's ringing I'll pick it up and sing them a tune.

how's life, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:03 (seven years ago) link

lol yeah when i had a house phone it was basically an audio den of thieves

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:34 (seven years ago) link

i'll be honest i don't bother answering the door plenty of the time - like if i'm working at home on a tuesday morning or whatever. maybe that's a sad indictment of modern life but i don't know that there's ever been a time where you get a useful caller on a tuesday morning. apart from a delivery which would always be expected.

one day recently i was coming back to my house with lunch and some hackney council survey people were outside and i said i didn't have time, entirely truthfully, it was a busy day, and the guy got really shirty, as if because i so happened to be coming in i had to do the survey. he was like "busy, oh yeah, sure..."

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:40 (seven years ago) link

sounding like a bad misanthrope here, i like people i just really really don't like forced intrusion. i don't even like people trying to make me take a leaflet.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link

there's nothing misanthropic about hating people trying to sell you stuff

barry snappleton (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:46 (seven years ago) link

I usually have to pass by 3 or 4 people with petitions on my way to or from work, and I can get really annoyed at the ones who act all aggrieved when I don't stop for them and call out something like "So I guess you don't care about LGBT rights."

duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link

it becomes a problem when just to walk somewhere you have to weave in and out of people trying to hand you things or get you to sign stuff. i'm sure chuggers have come up before here plenty too.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:54 (seven years ago) link

I love it when they get shirty like that. I've always got time to snarkily argue with strangers, it's listening earnestly to the cunts pitching to me that I can't fuckin take

The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link

I knew I was going to love the show The Good Place in the pilot when Kristen Bell responds to "Do you have time to talk about the environment?" with "Do you have time to eat my farts?" and throws a coffee cup.

Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link

Dad tells me he's receiving telemarketing calls from a company that uses the same script over and over. He says hello, and I guess to cover that silence at the beginning of the call, this young female will say something like "Ooops! I dropped my headset for a moment!" Every. Single. Time.

Also, I was kidding about the straight citrus sausages.

pplains, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:38 (seven years ago) link

I knew I was going to love the show The Good Place in the pilot when Kristen Bell responds to "Do you have time to talk about the environment?" with "Do you have time to eat my farts?" and throws a coffee cup.

lolz physically assaulting people who earn less than you lol lol roflmao

emil.y, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link


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