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

Tesco is the worst. I'm so glad I am not forced by location to shop there (or ASDA).

Waitrose do monthly and weekly offers: weeklies always start on a Wednesday and I'm pretty sure monthlies start on the first Wednesday of the month. I shop there and at Sainsbury's (with an occasional foray into M&S).

If I need something in bulk (and that something is usually bigger boxes of Yorkshire Tea) I visit an offers aggregator like mysupermarket and strike when it's on offer at shops close to home. Also useful for the other two things I only buy on offer: really posh vanilla extract or Sainsbury's own chorizo.

people that I'm casual friends with who post open invites on FB like "I'm going to <location> at <time>, everyone feel free to join me if you like!", cos if it's a tempting offer then I have to think to myself "do I know this person well enough to just drop in on them or will they be like 'oh, right, YOU'". usually I won't bother if it's someone I haven't hugged in the last 3 months

though humorously enough, I did that one time, and one of my best friends from 7th grade, who I added on FB a few months prior and I hadn't seen in like TWENTY YEARS, showed up.

that was one of the most amazingly random things ever.

FB friend keeps posting photos of new lipstick colors in *extreme closeup* & it makes me IA bcz she doesnt wear lipliner & it's all ragged looking & i cant aaaargh

If it wasnt a closeup i wouldnt care

Does anything happen between the hours of 5am and 6am that isn't "twisting around in bed reliving all terrible moments in one's life and ascribing all blame for those moments on oneself"

I mean, I saw somebody jogging that one time but I thought generally that was a 6am-7am activity

There's a longtime furniture store in our little downtown over here that is apparently selling off inventory and possibly closing up shop at some point in the future. I say possibly because the sandwich board on the sidewalk reads: "GOING OUT FOR BUSINESS." This makes me irrationally angry. And then I thought, what if they're not going out OF business, that this fucking sign is some sort of bait to get you in and to ask about the wording and they have some clever explanation prepared? That thought made me even angrier!

They're going all out for business!

People who refract all their political ideas/views through Harry Potter metaphors are not grown up enough to be discussing politics

Ppl who say "so long story short" but do not summarize anything that follows so it's just a two-part long story

People who whisper on the bus. It's fucking creepy.

"Hey...wait'll you see my diiiiiiiiiiick"

Whenever a site (or an ilxor) links to some tweet all "!!!" and I end up clicking on it and waiting for the Twitter app to load and then find out it's just some more worthless snark.

The people who, the second that a thing goes out of print, sell their used copies of the thing at a 10,000% markup are parasites, and I hope all of their belongings melt into an amorphous lump of slag.

they might list it at 10,000% markup, but many of em don't sell the thing

Right? They just inflate the price across the board and create a holding pattern for the now-unsaleable high-demand item in question.

and what is this thing anyway, I mean I don't really think I need it

Banana Splits on 45

guy brings up three records that total $18 and says "can you do any better..."

i wanted to say: yes, actually, let's make it $20 and that way i do better.

but i just told him no. we can't do better. and it made me irrationally angry.

When people tell you they're dropping by in 10 minutes. A little more notice for fuck sake?

hah yeah i hate that, esp cos they often time it when you're in the shower so you're toweling off and hearing knocking and wondering why (if they texted yo uthat is)

LOL yeah. It's just bad etiquette

i say no. fuck it. i object to anyone who thinks it's acceptable to invade my personal space with fuck-all notice. if they made the decision without even bothering to check first, and my refusal puts them out, they can suck it up.

Yeah, that's pretty much my perspective. Thankfully, the people in my life respect my need for a heads up.

"Great, but you might need to wait on the porch for a while because I'll be masturbating."

i solve this particular dilemma by never having people over.

but what if they called to say they're 10 minutes away and you missed the call 11 minutes ago

just do what I do every time someone knocks on the front door if they're not selling Girl Scout cookies: turn off all the lights and pretend I'm not home

I have a fake conversation with two characters

"Look man, the moon is full, I should be changing - what's wrong?"
'Be patient - your transformation will be complete soon. All will be revealed.'

what if they say they will be over in 10 minutes and then show up 3 hours later without contacting you. that's worse, right?

Let's be real you're not busy, folks. And you could use the company.

Love yis an all but

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Last time we hosted Thanksgiving we told everyone to come over around 2pm. Sister-in-law said she'd probably arrive a little early in hopes of avoiding traffic. Sure, fine. Thanksgiving I jump out of bed in a panic when our doorbell is ringing at 7am. There's SIL, all smiles, reports the roads were clear. Wife later sees a text on her phone that had come through at 6am, "On my way!"

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*slam door closed*

Kushner, a onetime New York Democrat, and Bannon, a hard-right nationalist, have clashed as Kushner has told people that Bannon’s desire to deconstruct the government, is hurting the president.

That last comma is fucking infuriating.

You could almost make it right by adding a comma after "desire".

I wouldn't go for it, but it'd be better.

people who say "Happy Rex Manning Day"

when the person in front of you in the shop queue decides to sign up for the loyalty card and serving them takes not 10.34 seconds but a trillion centuries

"do you have a loyalty card?"
"no"
"would you like one?"
"no"
"are you sure?"
"yes"
"why?"
"because fuck off that's why"

"Did you know that by purchasing the $24.95 loyalty card, you'll save 10 percent off of today's purchase?"

"Which would be $1.60."

"But it's TEN PERCENT OFF!"

wtf who charges for a loyalty card???

NAME AND SHAME

I guess there are loyalty cards and membership cards. I was paraphrasing the spiel I have to hear whenever I try to buy something from BOOKS A' MILLION for some reason.

I always bat back with "I know you have to ask us, no thanks."

I find reacting this way works best

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Maybe one for the innocent drinks thread but my bank just sent me an email with the subject "tap tap tap" and the body "Tap tap tap" and nothing else.

(My webmail doesn't like HTML and there was no link that would get me a plain version of the text)

It's worse when it's a "confirm your address" email and contains no visible links. I had to forward one to my work email in order to read it last week. It had one line in it but was html so I couldn't see it.

As a sometime retail drone myself, I admire the empathy inherent in "I know you have to ask," but I don't always go that route.

Sometimes it's just "Yeah, no thanks, I already have way too many of that sort of thing," (wave wallet overstuffed with ostensible loyalty and understuffed with actual money).