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

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only ads i will be interested in. ok, lets see...

adblock off.

cpu usage hits 100%, fan starts whirring. page shows the usual taboola crap:

"A hair surgeon explains what's going on with Trump's hair ..."
"A curvy Aerie model responded to body shamers in the best way possible ..."
"This model was dropped from her agency for her size—now she's the ..."
"What Jane From 'Melrose Place' Looks Like Now Will Make You Shiver"
"How To Dress Well Without Trying..Quiz"
"How this app teaches you a language in 21 days!"
"How Many Famous TV Theme Songs Do You Know? Take the Quiz!"
"5 Ways Tailor-Made Dog Food Can Help Your Dog Love Dinner"
"People Without Card Machines Must Read This..."
"These Unnerving Photos of Life in North Korea Will Make Your Jaw D"
"What Happened To Elisabeth Shue? We Can't Look Away."

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Business Insider UK believes that EVERYONE might be interested in those ads, because hey what is clickbait if not ads that appeal to the largest possible number of people, eh?

i do kind of wonder what happened to elizabeth shue but only because we share a birthday.

taboola really is the worst shit though. do they not realise that people can't help but judge the content by the sidebar crap? do they not even check?

my work VPN seems to be fine but the files I need to unzip and upload, no, my upload and download speeds are ridiculously slow, on a FRIDAY!

Tijuana Flats has electronic gift cards. you'd think being e-gift cards you could use them when you order online, but no. you have to show them on your mobile device in person. ooooooook.

outdated websites where you have to click through a bunch of links to find the most basic information
contact us link
leads to three more links
hours, email, location

AND even worse, outdated local city websites where you stop caring about halfway through trying to find whatever the fuck departement you are looking for that's buried under 9 million page links. oh and way to have an event calendar that was last updated in 2009, clap clap clap guys great job

Telephones.

Clicking a Facebook icon on a business site and getting a "Like this Website!" pop-up instead.

Clicking a Facebook icon from a bank's website and getting a pop-up saying YOU ARE NOW LEAVING FIRST COMMUNITY NATIONAL BANK OF BIRDVILLE'S WEBSITE. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CONTENT BEYOND THIS POINT.

any time I try and set up a dinner/etc with my folks, and for some reason, I have to ask the bump the time back an hour, my mom pulls this passive aggressive "well if today isn't a good day we can do it another time". guilt trips galore

pplains - block pop-ups in your browser or use an ad-blocker?

Happens even with — it's some legal thing they have to do. Sometimes, you get taken to a completely different page first instead of the popup.

Sounds annoying yeah

I'm sure they're annoyed at it too. My IA should be directed toward the internet user who was checking his bank statement and then read something about investing it all in Bitcoin, getting all confused in the process.

This on a taxi booking site filled me with confidence

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6b_M4uU4AAzsqu.jpg

Wait...what happened to Elizabeth Shue?

immediately ahead of me in the long queue for the till at M&S (or wherever), after plenty of minutes waiting gazing (as blankly as me) in all directions, how are you now startled and fumbling when it comes to laying hands on a means to pay for your purchases -- THIS CANNOT HAVE COME AS A SURPRISE

word

this guy had not helped my mood a bit earlier by establishing his claim on the belt via a couple of items and then wandering off to find whatever he suddenly remembered he needed (and this i recognise we all sometimes do) -- except when he returned (with nothing, tbf perhaps he had just not found it), he eyed my items beadily and said to me "trying to queue jump eh"

well yes i was thinking about it AS YOU WEREN'T HERE AND THE GIRL AT THE TILL WAS WAITING FOR AND LOOKING IN MY DIRECTION but in fact my items are still behind yours and i had made no move AT ALL to make this outrageous coup a reality so fuck you (for reading my mind accurately)

Really deserves a pass-ag 'sorry!' delivered with best of British contempt.

Mean American response: 'if you're not in the queue, nobody's jumping you' or 'snooze, you lose.'

i was too taken aback by the accuracy of his perception of my thought-crime to respond! esp.given the sleepiness of the rest of his behaviour

(all of this belongs in the irrational reax thread bcz total time involved, inc. girl-at-till working with admirable dispatch = maybe three mins? only HyperKapital's super-ego could possibly consider me inconvenienced)

Somebody tossing an apparently sound children's bicycle in the communal rubbish dumpster. I think it was my next door neighbour.
I took it out and have donated it elsewhere but does get me that a thing like that would just go to landfill.
Seems to be a reasonably robust largely metal bike that appears to have one stabiliser missing, & that's not even part of the main structure.
Maybe it's just the fact that it's going to landfill, would just think a thing like that would be passed on to the next child or donated to a charity shop or something.
I found it in the dumpster and fished it out which might not be the first thing most people would do. But seemed like a major waste.

nicely done

when people do weird stuff to qualify for the express line at the supermarket.

I was behind this old couple who broke up their huge haul of groceries into two carts, each above the 15 item limit but not enough that they'd be called on it. One gets rung up then waits for the other. Then they block the bagging area while I'm being rung up trying to fit all their stuff into one cart.

Had to have taken them longer to do all that than to go through a regular checkout just once.

somewhere on youtube they're commenting "it worked!" on a "shopping line hacks" video

when cold callers -- in this case from 3 network -- preface their shilling by asking you how you are today

dumb small-talky comments about hair or clothing. i have a coworker that is an idiot and is vapid and she asked me at lunch "are you growing your hair out?" and i did not look up from my phone and said "no." i'm an asshole and i don't care, hi.

people who hand me a bag when i say "for here". it's almost totally random what you get, even if in the end I can still eat the food just fine.

also people who ask me to repeat the reason for my call after I already told them once.

harbl otm
imo

What does a line like that even imply, anyway? "I can see your roots!" or "your hair is a straggly long mess" is how I hear it lol.

i didn't think it really implied anything other than she always tries to talk about things i think are boring. her response was, "oh, it looks longer." of course, it is longer, but who cares.

If I work really hard and get my project number low, I'm given way more work. If I don't do any work, my projects go up anyway. So either way, you're fucked.

lol yeah that sort of pointlessness irks me as well.

LIFT TALK. Especially of the "whatd you do on the weekend?: blarbs on monday mornings. STFUUUUUU

we used to have icebreakers in meetings and my mentee and I have grown sick of them because they're always questions like "where would you go on vacation if money wasn't an issue" and everybody would giggle over the predictable answers.

they got to me last time and I said "Barge to Hell" and dead silence, just the way I wanted it.

^ LOL

I was once asked what I'd want to be if I could be anything. I said "a good person". Lots of "uh" looks.

she has this way of saying in an extra-fake feminine voice "heyyyy! how was your weekend?" and it kills me. i wanna be like "i slept too much, went to the gym three times, decided not to do laundry, looked at the internet, didn't talk to anyone, how about you"

one of my coworker friends is a manager & is super small talk chatty first thing in the morning, stopping by everyone's desk, asking about their weekends or whatever ... but she knows to keep walking past my desk bc I am not HAVING it that fucking early

i love her but srsly there is something wrong with ppl like that, so loud & chirpy at 8am good god woman

you people are my people

Opposite

I like talking about weekends and stuff now

my coworkers are good at remembering funny dumb stuff though. the old ones who were like "my kid went to soccer and i mowed the yard" are gone and i get "my two year old disappeared at 7am today and i caught him in the driveway drinking his milk wearing only a diaper and staring at the neighbor's house"

I nod, thinking that is my morning only with coffee instead of milk and no one came out to find me

lol

nice

quality thread this

I work in an office with mostly childless women who constantly ask me about my toddler and demand new photos all the time

My mind completely goes blank when someone asks me about my weekend. It was... fine. As best as I can recall.

Holy shit this chatty woman at the coffee shop constantly interrupting the barista who is politely trying to converse with her SHADDAP