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

that looks like him haha

Yeah, it does look more like him than I remembered from my initial impression (and I'm more used to seeing latter-day baggy-eyed photos of Duke).

The show had talking vaginas and you are bothered by duke ellingtons ghost not being authentic. okaaay :P

Talking CHILDS vaginas more to the point (I loved this show, binge watched it, but felt mildly weirded out at the end at the kids + sexuality thing)

Ha, I only caught the first 2 episodes, and I must have missed that.

all the "hat-tips" that the internet has fostered (inc. irritating contraction h/t and -- as i just saw -- tools saying "chapeau")

SAY THANK YOU OR WELL DONE YOU AGGRAVATING SAVAGES, most of you don't even own hats and (probably) fuck you if you do, your hat is horrible

As with most contractions, the solution is to burn Twitter to the ground.

No we must nationalise twitter and make it better

as i just saw -- tools saying "chapeau"

Oh god please no.

I note that Zippy the Pinhead used to have little "tip o' the pin" bits, well before internet "h/t."

If, during any of my errands today, I hear pharrell's stupid fucking happy song playing, I am going to ask to speak to the manager and tell them to either turn it off or have me removed by security.

The promulgation of "gift cards" priced with 10-20% fees included over the value of the card itself is a complete perversion and the trade in them should be a felony.

Anybody who defends capitalism by suggesting that it rewards any human attributes other than venality and greed should have their literacy revoked and have to take grades 1-12 over again.

Heh, yeah, my relationship with my brother in law really started going downhill when I pointed out to him that there's no moral or ethical component to capitalism, only shareholder value. For some reason that hurt his fucking feelings.

tools saying "chapeau"

this shit is rife on cycling twitter

The phenomenon of apple picking. I now have a peck of not very tasty, mostly green apples that I got from a mostly picked-over orchard, and I paid $20 for it in spite of doing the labor myself.

People who pull out of a space in an alley and decide to back up while you're walking towards them, only to stop and text on their phone. Wtf

fuck screen protectors. not once in my entire life have i been able to successfully put one on a phone. ~lint~ can suck it.

(and then two minutes later i dropped my phone and chipped it, but that anger is probably not irrational tbh)

people that still haven't figured out how to determine whether an elevator is going up or down before getting on it

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There's something uniquely awful about when you're speaking to a customer service rep in another country and they use some kind of boilerplate customer service phrase in a slightly off/wrong way:

"Hi, I'd like to book a flight for tomorrow"
"Yes, great, thank you, well I do understand your concern."

It's like this extra layer of passive-aggressiveness where they've memorized an already annoying passive-aggressive phrase and are clearly just saying it on autopilot which also feels passive aggressive.

And of course that is irrational, they're probably on autopilot bc they're on 12 hour shifts and it's not their fault that american consumer capitalism requires these sorts of incantations of them.

if it makes you feel any better they're earning a pittance xp

yeah, again, IA

recently i bought some airpods, one was busted and they had to go back. this week i bought a lightning-to-3.5mm adapter, no sound in one channel, had to go back. today i bought some bluetooth headphones, something's rattling around in the fucking earcup, they have to go back. so utterly fucking over this.

A thing I have acknowledged but have yet to come to terms with is that technology in practice is just a loose and inconsistent approximation of what it's actually supposed to do. Unless what it's supposed to do is alternate between working properly and inducing rage strokes, in which case my bad.

wouldn’t be surprised tbh. nearly half of all the tech things i’ve ever bought have been faulty out of the box. at least i’m buying from reputable retailers who swap on the spot.

I mean, seriously it’s got to the point where i check the more expensive stuff in the shop (e.g. phones) just so i don’t have to go back.

can't stand my neighbours, which is probably rational

- co worker on one side of me constantly eats raw carrots and the crunching is driving me murderous. I think I have misphonia or something
- co worker behind me has some seriously effed up sinuses or allergies or something and sneezes NON STOP ALL THE TIME. I mean I feel for the poor guy buy jesus. I mean it is relentless, snotty sneezing and nose-blowing. Erry day.

...it occurs to me i may have ranted about the latter on here before oops.

I feel for you. Cannot imagine how awful I would feel having to hear carrot munching or sneezing or nose-blowing all the bloody time. Capitalism has stuck us co-workers too close together imo. It's not right.

(yes, I blame capitalism)

We sit at long, open benches with piffly partitions front-facing, but no partitions at all for the people next to each other, it sucks.

That's fucking horrid, bordering on abusive.

So it's like sitting next to each other like you would at a lunch table? Damn.

today i bought some bluetooth headphones, something's rattling around in the fucking earcup, they have to go back. so utterly fucking over this.

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 November 2017 23:19 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on friday i went to take them back and they stopped rattling as i was going back to the shop. tonight, the day before a public holiday (when obv i can't go into the shop), they're rattling again. this anger is probably rational by now.

We sit at long, open benches with piffly partitions front-facing, but no partitions at all for the people next to each other, it sucks.

Agh that sucks, I would hate that.

The other related dept in this building also sit side by side with no partitions, and there's talk about moving both depts in together, which I'm p. sure means "cram all you lot in like the rest of them", and I'm dreading it tbh. Hate being shoulder-to-shoulder or back-to-back with people and expected to turn off some primordial part of my brain which feels like it has to constantly monitor any tiny noise or movement within 2 metres of me, so I can concentrate on spreadsheets or code instead. Not built for office life tbh but def not built for any other kind of job either so here we are.

The people in this office do love their crunchy food which drives me mad too (I try to take a 20-minute break when I see the guy next to me open his lunchbox as it always contains a giant stick of celery, a load of carrots and 2 apples) but the office food noise currently driving me most insane is the guy who eats pistachios all through the morning. Something about the tiny sound of a pistachio shell cracking every 10 seconds for a long stretch of each day is bizarrely enraging to me - but apparently not to anyone else in this office. Thanks, brain.

XP sounds irritating

TBF our office also has wall to wall windows 13 floors up with views of the city and suburbs and bay in all directions, and we have a pool table and 2 playstation cubbyholes and a giant espresso machine so like, I cant complain :)

i fucking hate it when chinese people call me “uncle”, doubly so when they massively overdo it in the space of a few minutes

Rounded corners on eg Facebook comment boxes.

ohhhh lord 2pac big please talk to this sucker cause they killing FB they taking the pain and struggle of social media the only thing we coulda express our minds and pain. and these suckers took it and made it look like garbage thats why we get judge so much cause these shit dont be making sence

Assholes smoking joints on the subway. Yeah, bro, now I get to go pick up my kid from school with a clothes that smells like weed. Sessions, get on this now!

OK!

<shuts down all public transport>

local sandwich shop’s menu display has reached nonsensical proportions

large menu board display
+
little printed pieces of paper taped on menu board with additional items
+
hanging signs attached to menu board with additional items
+
at least 3 plastic stands on the counter with more items
+
separate small table with laminated flyer listing more “new” items (these new items are at least 5 yrs old)

there is literally no complete menu, not even online.

and if you don’t know which of the 900 displays to look at, you miss out on some a+ sandwiches

it’s fkn STUPID & it drives me insaaaane

then when you finally choose one, they're out of a key component.

ia today: when you ctrl+c something in one document, go to another document to paste it in, highlight where you want it to go, then click ctrl+c instead of ctrl+v

otm

the software I use every day at work also likes to put things in your clipboard without asking, which is super annoying

xp, and if it's anything like the sandwich shops round here it's in a tiny cramped shop (obv that bit isn't their fault) where you can only see the display board if you're at the front of the queue, and if you spend more than 0.2 seconds contemplating the options once you're at the front then everyone behind you gets super restless bcz they're in a hurry and they want their lunch

(also not anyone's fault cz I am totally an impatient queuer too, but if you aren't already familiar with the menu you have to blurt out the first kind of nice thing you spot and then immediately stop looking to avoid regrets)

God yes it's an actual daily struggle that last one I feel like I spend most afternoons consumed by lunchers remorse

i refuse to patronise those kind of sandwich shops, literally cannot deal unless i can peruse the selection in peace for as long as i need