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

Head held high, nose up in the air

What like, literally? Makes a change from noses buried in iPhones i suppose.

Sounds poorly defined and not all that angry, idk

poorly defined? it's the blankest of looks, a serious clinical expression. What more do i need to say?

So apparently today is "Force Friday" and I don't know what that means or why except that I have a whole bunch of emails from different companies trying to sell me Star Wars related shite, not quite 4 months since I had an inbox full of "LOL May the 4th GEDDIT now buy our Jedi bobblehead set in exclusive presentation box TODAY ONLY" nope nope go away

It's midnight and 82 degrees inside and outside and I am IA at everything but especially this weather.

otm

right now, it's "everything and anything anybody does and says, including me". aka summer in Florida. amazed I can be anywhere near sociable when I'm this grouchy lol

That idiotic 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' song.

The two people in the song are some of the most obliviously incoherent borefests in pop music history. Everything about the song is so indescribably stock "alternative rock" that I hate it unconditionally. Why am I still hearing it in the grocery store?

This ones probably perfectly rational: the weird trend in proper news articles in Papers of Record and news websites (ie: not buzzfeed or junkee or such) to be putting a load of fucking animated gifs into a news item

Cut it the fuck out! A page full of jabbering juddery gifs of taytay, the kid from stranger things, or what the fuck ever is not wanted!

There are browser extensions that stop those, but I'm not sure about mobile devices.

We have those in the weekly power point presentations at work now, projected behind people trying to tell us what they've been doing recently. It's like everyone has ADHD.

Best part is when you get to sift through PDFs of a ppt and all of the gifs are still.

Its especially annoying when the gifs are really short loops, so its one 2-second image of Dana Scully giving a look over and over, like she has parkinsons.

In a recent meeting we had one of a kid riding his trike into a tree every 3 seconds.

News items seem to have started coming with self starting videos recently. I thought it was something website designers were dissuaded from doing but maybe I'm just opening more news pages recently.
I'll have several pages open as I go through a thread opening things in new tab to get back to, then have to find where the voice is coming from to hit pause which may then only last a few minutes til it automatically restarts.
I did think people were being persuaded to give the reader the option of playing whatever media or not as personal choice. &bombarding the reader with autoplay was a faux pas.

let's face it, people suck

there are also options built into web browsers for this stuff (about:config), but they are multitudinous and obtuse.

in firefox changing the flag to stop videos autoplaying stops vimeo videos from playing even when you click the play button.

and, again, mobile platforms (where the data usage is actually more important) are more difficult to customise.

JUst been reminded. Somehow got stuck in a revolving door for a moment last week. I thought the door would rotate allowing several people in each of 2 sections to move through the door.
But somehow door closed at one end and didn't open at the other so people in each side were stuck.
There's a sensor somewhere to detect movement, but there were about 9 or 10 people involved. A wheelchair plus attendant on my side, plus me and maybe another person followed in by a couple who squeezed in just as the section was rotating past the doorway. & then the door stopped rotating when bothsections were closed off. People in the other section were trying to signal something to us. Not sure what.
I worked out there must be a sensor somewhere and walked towards the front of teh section.
But if that can happen then it can surely happen at other times. I'm not sure if there is another door at that part of the unit so not sure what would happen in the case of a fire.
I'd taken a free lift over to the hospital, popped into the hospital to use the toilet and went to exit that way.
So wondering if something like that happens with any frequency there and how long people get stuck. Though i guess if people start moving around to see what the problem is it would possibly sort itself . But too many people crammed into the same space might prevent movement.

Nods

it makes me angry that my closest grocery store rarely puts enough baskets by the door. there are usually 0 of them and the first thing i have to do when i go there is go hunting for a basket by the self checkout where there is always a pile of about 30 of them.

Our local Lidl got a load of new ones about a month back. Used to be none by the door & hopefully some by the checkout stands, though often not. Frequently would be several left on the other side of the tills where people exited and they rarely seemed to be gathered up and returned to where people could access them easily.

I'm assuming that revolver door thing came from slow pace of the first group into that section of the door system, the 2 or 3 people with the slow moving wheelchair. I and the other person next to me went in as the door revolved and probably stood pretty still expecting the door to just continue turning.
Then people came in behind us. & the door stopped for a minute or two. I had enough space to move down beside teh central wall which I wouldn't have done following the wheelchair group.
Just seems to be a design flaw to have a door taht can do something like taht as the main exit on a hospital. I don't think there are other doors immediately around it.
& if there is likelihood taht people are going to be stuck behind a slow moving group like that the chances of that repeating regularly seem high, but like something you'd want to avoid.
Just surprised that if there is a motiuon detector it wouldn't detect 9 or 10 people inside the revolving door.

ia at our toilet paper rolls & the way they glue down the top layer - you can clearly see the seam but there's no free edge to pull so you have to gouge like 4 layers down & it's a goddamn mess i tell ya

My son actually got stuck in a revolving door at Ikea the other day. He was just doing an extra rotation (because he's 9) after we left the revolving door and the door just stopped. I had to go back and have my hand in front of the door for it to start again. So yeah, the motion detectors on these things are maybe not that great.

Hate supermarkets that offer tiny shopping carts for little kids to push around. Not only do the kids leave them all over, not only does it encourage them to fill up with all sorts of shit you as a parent have to put back on the shelf, but they never look where they are going. You either have to constantly evade them or protect your toes and shins.

at an employment resources centre and the person across from me thinks it's a good time to watch movies and laugh loudly and comment constantly. fucking people

It would be interesting to read industry-insider publications regarding the purpose of those tiny grocery carts.

people who say "hello?" in an agitated voice if there is a .0222 nanosecond pause on your end when answering the phone.

had a humorous phone call w/ my mother once where we both kept saying "hello?" at each other and thinking the other couldn't hear us until one of us finally clarified "I can hear you, I was saying 'hello' in response"

Aargh ban child-trailers behind bikes

I just became even more late for work waiting for one to go very slowly across a footbridge which it took up 90% of the width of, while the child dawdled in front taking up the other 10% and poking the trailer flag through every single gap in the railings

I met the same bike last week when it decided to go past me at the same time as two normal bikes were going the other way and I had to step off the footpath avoiding the face-high nettles and wait

also today is super-annoying all round, a coworker has just asked me for some info which is going to be v hard to extract because she doesn't follow the instructions which I gave up telling her repeatedly to follow

"LOL I knew that was (author) before I clicked it"

OK so maybe explain why that's LOL-worthy, don't just assume that everyone on the fucking internet is subscribed to your reading list and knows exactly where you sit on the political compass and why you feel that way.

On my train this morning, I was put in the position of being the only person who was willing to help a very elderly (and presumably homeless) woman up after she fell out of her seat. This is the second time I've been in this situation with the same woman (to the extent that I was nervously keeping one eye on her for the entire trip). I'm rationally angry at two trains full of scrotes who were just like 'lol, sux to be you, Granny Falls-a-Lot' but more broadly IR at, like, people. It's been weeks since the last time I witnessed this, so I can't help but wonder how many times she's just been sprawled on the ground while people were all 'not it!' Oh, and she's a black woman, and I have a harder time believing that people would be so hands-off for an old white lady in distress, so also just generally fuck white people, imo?

Old Lunch, you sound like a nice person

fuck those rude bastards tho

Today a car quickly did a u-turn as I started to cross the cross-walk, absolutely insane behaviour

I sat behind the high priestess of IA in a drive-thru starbux today

a youngish woman, college-age or late high school. young enough to make this even more annoying for old lady me

The whole time she was in line she had her left foot sticking out the driver's side window, kinda propped on the side-mirror. This on its own was enough to make me wanna ram her tbh

every time the drive-thru line started moving, she would start fucking around on her phone and sit idle for a good car length..

SHE HAD A FIDGET SPINNER IN HER OTHER HAND

i felt like I was in an SNL sketch

Lol

people who ask "is anybody sitting here" in a movie theatre with assigned seats.

these are assigned seats. either your ticket is for that seat or it isn't, and if you're asking that question that's probably not your seat.

sat behind another vehicle waiting to collect my elder daughter from drama class ... and the driver ran the engine on idle, reading his phone, for a solid 10-15 minutes. Let's run a 6 cylinder internal combustion engine on fossil fuels so that the interior temperature doesn't fall by a single degree while we browse our FUCKING PHONE FUCK.

these are assigned seats. either your ticket is for that seat or it isn't, and if you're asking that question that's probably not your seat.

that reminds me of an Irrationally Embarrassing incident for me, possibly an Irrationally Angry incident for the people behind me, when I arrived a little early for a film and saw my pre-booked tickets had assigned seating, so I went and sat where it said, right in front of the only other people there so far, but hey, no big deal, right? It'll fill up shortly

Then the film started, and we were still the only two groups of people in the cinema, and I was beginning to feel kind of weird and antisocial abt sitting right in front of this youngish couple, prob early 20s, maybe a date... but like it would be even worse to move

not sure if rational or irrational embarrassment, but when I whispered "should we move?" to my viewing companion I was told I was being super-weird to even still be thinking about it etc and tbh the answer to the question "am I currently being super-weird and/or overthinky about something" is usually yes, so prob irrational. (I can only imagine how super-weird it is that I still think abt this incident sometimes like 3 years later. I have no memory whatsoever of what the film was btw)

it would be super-weird NOT to think about moving imo

yeah when the theatre is empty I'd do the same thing. assignments not real important when 95% of the theatre is empty

similar IA - when general admission seats are 99% full and a late arriving person still wanders down to the front section asking if a seat is taken
of course it is
clearly wishful thinking on their part, like they just cant comprehend the possibility that they might have to sit in the back

lol I alawys used to punish myself with the worst seat for late arrival.

"this feel good, Neanderthal? you craning your neck? this is what happens when you watch an extra episode of Urkel before leaving your house"

went to a data entry job interview. They set me up with a typing test and their special keyboards. Both the program/keyboard seemed to delay after pressing/depressing the caps key which obviously will slow one down/fuck up their accuracy. Asked for another keyboard, appears it's the program. I've done other typing tests for government jobs etc. and there's no way it's this difficult. So I just told them I know I can do better and left. But it was pretty frustrating

knowing you can do something good and the conditions don't allow it is prime IA for me

justifiable rational anger!!

hahah suppose so :)

I had one job interview once where they set me up with a really blurry and flickery monitor on the other side of a massive wide conference table, way further away than you'd ever have a monitor you were actually trying to work on. Oh, and it was a different version of the software to the one I'd used before. I didn't even finish the task they'd set.

They still said I did better than anyone else on the practical test but actually they wanted someone to do sales calls and knowing how to use Crystal Reports was just incidental, despite being the only thing they asked for in the ad or tested me on. ???

I actually work a block away from there now and that company isn't there any more so I guess I was better off not being hired there anyway.

I was told when I interviewed as an entry-level customer service rep at my company, 13 years ago, that I had to pass a Windows 95 test. I thought for sure this was a typo (it was 2004, after all).

Lo and behold, I get to the Math/English/word processing tests, and there it is, a Windows 95 test. Which I hadn't used in, like, almost a decade.

None of the machines in the office used it either. Never figured out why we had to pass that, but it didn't factor heavily into our final score.

nowadays if you can say your name without drooling acid into a spitoon, you pretty much get hired

^ wish that was true. it's insane how much targeted resume/cover letters + fitting into the company culture you need

I only mean for my company, natch - getting in as entry level suddenly became easy. Well, if you're young (neither of my folks got even close to the final interview). kinda found it ridiculous how hard a time both my parents had finding any kind of employment after being continuously employed for decades.