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

my IA begins when I have guests in my house tbh

I honestly kind of like when guests put dishes away because it makes me ponder the arbitrariness of some of the organizing principles my wife and I have organically developed over the years, like why these two coffee mugs go on the small shelf next to the sink while all of the other ones go in a cupboard, where the use once a day vs. once a month utensils go, etc.

People who grumble about other people taking elevators for fewer floors than they think is enough. Especially since so many stairwells have restricted access.

i thought this very thing on the way out this evening. specifically because someone ducked into the stairwell to use the secret freight lift rather than waiting for the (busier, slower) main lifts. for only two floors.

it drives me crazy. most of these places are new and it's like, okay great you have a copper basin and a fancy floor to ceiling mirror but your floor is covered in water and there's trash everywhere good job

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 May 2017 02:19 (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

those basins which are just a flat sheet of granite mounted on a discreet angle, and when you so much as nudge the tap water smashes out full-bore and goes absolutely fucking everywhere

i get it, it looks nice, really it does, really, but now i have to go back to the table looking as if i've just catastrophically soiled myself

Wear a rubberized apron?

to a swish restaurant

dare to be different!

I once was a secret diner at a well-known Chicago restaurant group. One of the things we were told to look for was not just the state of the bathroom but the last time someone initialed the cleaning chart (usually hung on the back of the door). It's kind of amazing how closely sloppy/soggy bathrooms correlate with, well, no one cleaning it on a regular basis. I hate overflowing trash bins even more than I hate lack of hand towels, since I feel like I'm part of the problem tossing my trash onto an overflowing pile.

Anyway. Something else that makes me IA are stores (like the craft chain Michael's) that are constantly offering generous coupons rather than just lowering the price of their fucking products. So rather than simply going to the store and buying what I want at a reasonable price, I have to waste my time navigating fluctuating sale prices and digging up coupons on their slow-ass site. Yesterday I wanted to buy a couple of poster frames and had to hang at the register for like 5 minutes tracking down the right 40% coupon on the Michael's website on my phone, until eventually the clerk asked one of her fellow clerks if she had any of the 40% off coupons she could borrow, and her fellow clerk passed her some crinkled coupon that had been printed at the base of a receipt. If I'm in Michael's, and the coupon is not some hard to come by get but a prominent, regular offer on the store site, and the employees know that, and everyone has to wait while the phone slowly loads up this not secret coupon, and then they give up because they have one handy in a drawer somewhere, because this clearly happens all the time ... then just lower the prices a little in the store and have an occasional sale like normal stores, you jerks.

Also annoyed that Old Navy sends me sale updates and promotions literally twice a day. Twice a day! That's at least 10 different sale offers a week. I need a chart just to figure out if it's the right time to buy a cheap shirt. (I'm also annoyed that Old Navy stores set their own sales and promotions, so that even if an item is on sale online for like 50% off, that item is at full price in my local store, forcing me to further complicate things by juggling what I want to buy in person vs. online from what is essentially the same place.

Whole Foods recently started offering more coupons, but you need their app to access them. That's annoying, too. I don't want all these stupid store apps on my phone.

YES about the coupons. There's one big store here that sends you paper coupons and has some different ones on their app then other ones on 'voucher codes' website and then you can also use cashback sites and cashback cards and collect bonus loyalty points.
Admittedly I am somewhat of a master at navigating these but they should just do what other sites do and put various codes on their website homepage or keep a stack of coupons by the till in store.

Saw an interesting article years ago about how more upscale brands can't lower prices because then they won't be seen as premium but they want people to afford to buy their stuff so there are always always vouchers/huge discounts. E.g. Body Shop, Pizza Express.

^^ Bed Bath & Beyond. "But if we lower our prices, people will think we're Sears!"

Non-OCRed PDFs.

Legal document productions without Bates numbers.

Although OCRed PDFs can be a bit of a crapshoot too, tbh

Just export the fucking document to PDF already, it's not 1996.

i hate the wasabi soy sauce slurries ppl make at sushi restaurants. all my coworkers do it and it grosses me out so much

^ cosign

also, putting a fucking lake of soy in your dish and soaking your norimaki in it, it's not a contest to soak up the most soy people.

otm

one guy made his slurry so thick it was like paste i nearly barfed

What are the origins of the soy wasabi paste? That's how I was taught when I first started eating sushi in the early 90s and I remember it was a few years before anyone pointed it out to me.

You guys are missing out. I do that and then drink the slurry when I'm done.

Love that slurry tbh

xp experimental unintended slob consequences of having a squeeze of wasabi at the side of one's little soya saucer? There are heathens who also introduce PICKLED GINGER into this mess, argh....

That's a step too far.

Fellow fitness center users: Please do not linger on the weight machines. I am trying to complete my workout and go home.

i read the synopsis of the Cate Blanchett movie "Manifesto" and it sounds like the worst thing ever created

Fucking people talking to me at work and EXHALING INTO MY FACE or HEAVING A GREAT SIGHING BREATH ON MY FUCKING LUNCH.

Use your nose, mate, it's why we've got the fucking things.

people who see news about murderers/rapists and reflexively yell "lock them all up" or "hang the bastards". is it a statement or a command? who are you talking to? who do you want doing this? your tabloid newspaper with monosyllabic headlines in 144 pt text, a telepathic politician, the air, what?

*waits expectantly*

<some time later> "why are they not all hanged? i put forth a decree last thursday"

I remember working at a Minnesota liquor store after Jeffrey Dahmer got sent to prison for life without parole. A woman I worked with was all, "He should DIE! He should die THE EXACT SAME WAY as his victims DIED!"

And I was all, well where in the hell are you going to find someone willing to do THAT job?

an eye for an eye, a nude corpse polaroid for a nude corpse polaroid

well where in the hell are you going to find someone willing to do THAT job?

ahem

http://cdn.bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/dexterbanner.jpg

Part of my uneasy relationship with televised entertainment is that I can't quite watch Hall in "Dexter" in complete isolation from my memory "Six Feet Under." Yes, I realize he is an actor, but on some level I'm a bit uneasy - never quite reconciling the idea that he might have to kill someone, investigate the murder, and also serve as mortician.

back when we MADE things in this country

The fucking pause button on youtube is located too close to the goddamn progress bar and about half the time I go to pause a video these days, I end up scrolling the progress bar back to the very beginning. I don't think I used to have this problem, but it's happened to me like 10 times in the last week. Absolutely infuriating.

and space is too close to period on iphone keyboard :o

harbl otm, even on the larger iphone plus screen i find myself tapping period instead of space like 25% of the time

I don't have an iphone, but for me it's space and 'b'.

thatbshitsbmebtobtears

iphones are also fucking stupid in that the control centre is forever firing when i don't want it to and forever ignoring me when i try to make it fire. and when i try to press-and-hold the keyboard button to select a keyboard, the control centre leaps into action and whole thing goes haywire. who the living fuck designed this.

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/jonathan_ive_opener2.jpg

'if you want a vision of the future, imagine a control centre leaping unbidden onto an iphone screen - forever'

my gas company has sent me three emails telling me about their new logo. I DON'T CARE. shut up and do my gas.

iphones are also fucking stupid in that the control centre is forever firing

The wut now?

the button panel that slides up from the bottom

some of those automatic sinks, you wave your hand in front of the sensor and put your hands under the faucet, and the water comes out for about 4 seconds before it shuts off again. it's the small scale version of hard left turn signals that last for two cars when ten cars are lined up.

stingy AirBNB hosts. this guy I almost didn't want to stay with because he had a list of house rules that looked like a manifesto, but for $16, I said what the hell. he sent pictures in advance warning everybody not to knock on other people's doors and ask around (which sounded like an absurd thing to do, so that was fine). he has a coded lock on the door and gives the instructions. easy!

so I get here and there's a dog in the fenced yard, which is weird as he made no mention of it. I wanted to be careful as I didn't want it to accidentally get out of the gate, and I wanted to double check the house. Looked at the pics, it's legit, so I go back and then get uncomfortable as two people in a parked car are staring at me - so I idled for a second with my shoulder bag, and then just decided to go in when the owner arrives on a moped. The guy in the car gets out and talks to the owner and so I just follow behind, and then the owner looks at me with a confused, concerned glare:

him: "Yes? can I help you?"
me: (already rattled - see Severe Anxiety thread)'is....is this AirBNB?"
him: "huh? what?"
other guy: Yes it is
him: YES this AirBNB! what did I send you? huh? I sent you pictures, right?! I told you don't go asking around about the place!
me: (confused) I didn't!

then he asked me my name and was cool after that but it was like....you literally glared at me like I wasn't supposed to be there and asked me if you could help me!

and then the next guy shows up equally confused and he is the friendliest dude in the world to him. maybe if I didn't walk around looking like a homeless devil worshipper i s'pose

his anger is irrational but yours is rational imo, that's bonkers