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

My OP IA

not exactly IA but more gobsmacked incredulity and mild annoyance

Power steering in the car got out of whack, horrible clunking grinding noises when you turned the wheel, high pitched whine, very disconcerting. Anyway, took it into the mechanic for repairs and quickly diagnosed the pump as the issue.

The cost to refill the pump?

$5.61

Like, almost every other repair ever done on the car runs easily $100 or more. And yet this one problem was the cheapest repair ever? It sounded so bad it gave me PTSD from the time when the rubber boot on my universal joint literally tore off and fell out on the road while I was driving. I thought it was that level of nightmarish repair.

Weird.

Good, obviously. But just so randomly ridiculously inexpensive I'm still kind of amazed 2 days later

I just got a bill for £600 for replacing a water pump on my car after misdiagnosing so I am a bit miffed. most will be paid by insurance co but still.

people who do GoFundMes and ask for an arbitrary amount without explaining what it is going for.

(I donate to GoFundMes for friends all the time, but usually they are clear about why they need it and what it's for)

Hotel mode on TVs so you can't adjust the brightness and it resets the volume when you switch it off & on, because what kind of fool would try and watch tv with a sleeping baby in the room? Figured out how to disable it. Nothing on anyway.

JUst not getting the Xmas thing in Galway this year.
Is there a reason that the students had an XMas all day do on the 16th of BOIvember where everybody was wearing Xmas jumpers and getting vomiting drunk around town in the late afternoon.
Then teh Xmas market in the town's main square starts on the next day 17th of November, and this year runs to the 8th December. Odd up til now I think it's gone 22nd Nov to 22nd Dec which to me makes more sense. People wanting to get Xmassy at Xmas time.
NOw there's like 17 days between the end of teh market an dXmas day. &I don't know what they have planned afterwards.

I thought the black Friday week was closer to the traditional Xmas day usually too. That's on this week.

I mean LIDL starts in with teh Xmas stuff before Halloween and I think the other Supermarkets are similar. BUt this seems to be an entire town wanting a calendar to be rewritten. Is it happening elsewhere too?

it’s that special time of year when 9,000 people in china wish me “happy thanksgiving!!!!!” because they think the whole world is exactly like north america

this is infinitely dumber and far less hilarious than christmas day, when they send me stock photos of an apple. not any special sort of apple, just a plain apple. because it’s christmas.

<3

Better than photos of apple stock tbf

You mean they think the rest of the world is like the U.S.

Canadians already had their Thanksgiving weeks ago.

oh yes of course

this is infinitely dumber and far less hilarious than christmas day, when they send me stock photos of an apple

OK what. Why?

there’s a pun that doesn’t work in english (and tbh barely works in chinese) where part of the word for christmas eve (平安夜) is sort-of-but-not-really like the word for apple (苹果), and at some point a billion people missed the pun and got the idea we give out apples at christmas

i found this out the hard way, after a not-insignificant number of chinese people sent me photos of apples all at the same time

even weirder is when you go to a major chinese shopping mall in december and there’s a giant purple xmas tree out the front

yes

purple

Every time I see an SUV or a “crossover” with matte black paint I want to hulk out just enough to flip it over into the middle of the nearest golf course, preferably the 11th hole or so.

IA at myself:

whenever i plan a dinner party ie Thanksgiving or Christmas w family, the menu seems fine right up until the day & then I spin into a full mental panic of self doubt & self loathing
THERES NOT ENOUGH
THIS SUCKS GROSS UGH NO
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

etc

it’s the worst & it drives me insane. stupid brain

it means you're a good host

or a nutter

bmw logos
mercedes logos
lexus logos

.. the list grows

VG i do the same anytime i make something someone else will eat. i'm a good cook, but i'm also a complete nutcase.

i ran out & bought salad fixings 2 hours before guests arrived bcz of my total blind panic

but whole Thanksgiving “dinner party” lasted 2 hrs tops & was perfectly enjoyable in every way, ppl ate the salad but i dont think it made much difference lol

dude posted his Gofundme again. he wants to raise $1,500 due to his car accident, because he states his car was left undrivable and without it, he can't work his second job.

Except he still hasn't stated what the money is for. Presumably his car insurance would pay for the car repairs, and I can't imagine he has a $1,500 deductible (many lienholders won't even let you have a deductible that high). Usually insurance provides a rental car, though maybe he did not elect that on his policy. Is it the deductible? A rental car? Lost wages?

I don't know the guy really or I'd ask him (he's more a friend of a friend) but just irks me when people aren't specific.

After 2 years Firefox on my phone has decided to change around the order of the tabs on my home page.

I was just in a public bathroom--

opened the door and it hit into a dude standing there looking and his phone

another guy standing blocking the sink looking at his phone

another guy standing blocking the paper towel dispenser looking at his phone

like unless there's another 9/11 going on right now you dudes can (mumble mumble)

those people who corner you at work social events and begin their small-talk torture with "so what's the adam story?"

the adam story is fuck off

once upon a time there was a oh is that the time the end

VG, Life Coach.

imo anyone who refers to you in the third person while they’re talking to you is a fuckduster

once upon a time there was a oh is that the time the end

oh wait the adam story is in the car, i’ll just pop out and get it *runs forever*

you know, it’s really the story of someone who is done talking

Is there a temperature at which blu tak fails or something. Just hsd a couple of posters taht i've had up for years drop off the wall unexpectedly.
Or maybe a difference in temperature between 2 sides of a wall.
Seems to happen when the temperature drops.

the people upstairs who are selling their flat turn up every night at 10.30 pm and pace in heels constantly for 2+ hours. this has been going on for two weeks. today they've decided to start at lunch time and are just walking up and down, up and down, up and down.

"Use ctrl + scroll to zoom the map"

also mac shortcuts that are like "⌘⇧⌥⌃G". i've been using a mac for seven years and i still can't remember what every one of these dumb symbols mean.

command shift option control

G means G, G

i mean i remember seeing “G” but it doesn’t come up all that often

for superusers

The touchpad on my laptop has a really sensitive zoom function, so everything constantly re-sizes randomly. It's very obnoxious and angry-making.

also mac shortcuts that are like "⌘⇧⌥⌃G". i've been using a mac for seven years and i still can't remember what every one of these dumb symbols mean

⌥ and ⌃ are not though

https://i.stack.imgur.com/3jP4k.jpg

just looking now, maybe it's just on imacs or something. none of our macbooks have the symbols on the keys, apart from ⌘

people who leave dishes in the sink

either clean them or don't, no need to block the sink with that shit

otm

Yeah a dirty dish is just as dirty in the sink as it was on the table

people do this in offices, like some big magical dish-washing sky god will come along and clean it all up

otm x 10000