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

xp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfAPnfU16ZM

pisss

not irrational at all but idk where else to put this.

so for whatever stupid fucking reason, my apt complex has never had assigned parking. they just finally turned the carport parking into reserved parking but you have to pay $25 a month. so some nights I come home and cos everybody in the damn neighborhood has friends over, parking isn't as plentiful, so I have to park further down the street. ok, whatever...

tonight I get home from a almost 300 mile round trip to find zero parking in the entire complex. at least 15 cars were parked illegally because of the lack of spots. I saw people parked at the bank across the street from the complex.

finally found a space .1 miles away from my house - wtf did 17 people throw house parties?

and some asshole is blasting shitty music at 3 am downstairs.

yeaaaaaaaah, totally not renewing this lease in November.

though that's largely cos they were having roof repairs and decided to warn everybody not to park in a specific area by sending emails, addressing them to the "Residents of Building S", which I don't live in so I ceased reading. which makes no sense as most of the people that park in those spaces are from Buildings A and B. and the spaces weren't roped off or no signage placed the night before, so naturally I parked there and got towed out of my own community.

reported them to the county, who is investigating, and working on getting them to reimburse me. yeah, new digs in November. it will happen.

Anything "live" on social media (facebook, instagram etc.). Suddenly some acquaintance is performing, or ranting, or whatever RIGHT NOW, with no notice, and I'm just supposed to fucking drop everything

Sometimes they're making pottery, sometimes they're at a concert, sometimes they're eating lunch outside on a cloudy day near some seagulls or rocks.

this one seems fairly rational - was out for dinner last night w my childhood best friend and his female friend. I saw this beautiful woman and discreetly texted my buddy as to not say it aloud. My buddy looks at her, seems to think she's unattractive, and the female friend (who is 18 ffs) agrees. He then proceeds to show me a picture of the new girl he's into, as if to say this is WHAT attractive is. I feel like some people have insane standards, like my friend just wants to date barbies tbh

ugh, I understand that

It's weird to judge people on who they find attractive. you shouldn't have to qualify with "that person is attractive *to me*" so they don't think they're being asked to rate on a scale, but some people never get that

I was explaining to a friend that I had recently met someone who I really enjoyed talking to who was cute, and showed him a picture because he was curious if he'd seen her around and he was kind of critical. what the hell

Never talk about attractiveness with anyone.

^ seems easier

When you're walking at a normal pace down a public stairwell of any kind and can hear someone a couple of landings above you double-timing it down the stairs, and you know they're going to meet up with you so you try to make room for them to pass, and even if the stairwell is plenty wide enough they pass-agg stay two steps behind you all the rest of the way down the stairs. Then as soon as you reach the ground floor they swing around you and start double-timing it again.

I'm fed up of the people I always seem to end up behind on the stairwell who are looking at their phones and consequently moving down them v.e.r.y slowly. Just wait two minutes, it'll be faster and safer.

xp are you sure they're being intentionally pass-agg? I tend to walk/take stairs a little quickly but I'm not going to pass someone on stairs or a narrow walkway, and it's perfectly fine if someone in front of me is going slower

if they're making exasperated sighing noises behind you, that's another thing

^^ Not a "Missed Connections," I swear

if someone's on their phone on the stairs you can grunt at them, definitely

Walkers with wide swinging arms that go around in a big arc instead of back and forward.

is it just me or do people who walk like that also tend to walk in a kind of pseudo slow motion?

Asian food that you can't take a single fucking bite of without examining it carefully for bone fragments, inedible stems and sticks, fucking eggshells (!?!), etc. Just let me eat your food, that is supposedly what it's for

xp
yes, also prone to very slight changes in direction so you second guess yourself in overtaking

People that smoke in National Parks. Fuck you.

Do you mean cuz forest fires?

No. Well, yeah, but also because it's this pristine preserved beautiful wilderness being sullied and defiled by cigarette smoke. And then you see cigarette butts littered all over the place.

xpost I don't think that's "asian food" as much as "shitty restaurant/cook."

there's a type of grilled fish in korean cuisine that is just 70% bones or something and it's served that way and i've gone out with women who love it and i'm like i do not want this obstacle when eating food

likewise with japanese food

luckily it's only the couple of dishes that do it (though samgyetang comes to mind)

i would say it's no big deal/easy to avoid them

i'll eat the bones off that one grilled small fish that japanese make no problems, though

Broken egg shells aren't really a staple in any culture. I guess lemongrass and bay leaves are things people forget to take out. Stems like cilantro? The stems have a lot of flavor. Bone fragments, I can kind of empathize. It's annoying but some people like to chew on the bones and it's for flavor.

ya i'll put up with non-fish bones for flavour

fish bones i can't do

you're otm on egg shells for sure

I had some chicken in a Chinese restaurant once where the chef had cut the pieces up with a cleaver, leaving lots of small but sharp bone fragments throughout. And I'm talking leg bones, not tiny delicate bones.

Yeah, I am not a fan of eating meat on the bone in general. Some people are way into it.

What about ribs?

Nope. Everything better off the bone. Even corn. I hate to do the work.

Oh, no doubt, I've found gross shit in food from all parts of the world. I just happened to have two recent experiences with an indian place (many, many bone fragments, and sticks) and a thai place (egg shells, and sticks again!). The bone fragments (I'm talking little shards, all smaller than a pinky finger nail and some quite sharp) in the indian are intentional, but still make it nigh impossible to eat and make the dining experience fraught and unpleasant

the indian place does just as nickn describes; chop everything up, bones and all, and let the customer figure it out. Why do I eat there you ask? Because it's a corporate cafeteria and they're one of the only external vendors and the alternative is flavorless institutional slop!

I really gotta start packing a lunch

I don't think this has anything to do with the ethnicity of the food or its preparers. A local bbq place I like walks the line between impressing me with good meats and really irritating the shit out of me because they slice/carve the meat on-demand and the dude who works there on the weekend keeps getting bone fragments in my pulled chicken sandwich

very true. the ethnicity of the restaurants I had bad experiences at was a coincidence. The more general principle for ALL restaurants: keep the inedible tooth-breaking shit out of my meal please!

Yeah, there has been kind of a recent push to look at these feelings and descriptions of certain cultures' food (especially asian) as being dirty or gross or cheap and where that comes from.

Goat and chicken bone fragments in every delicious Caribbean curry ever: annoying as hell but no less delicious.

Nope. Everything better off the bone. Even corn.

gonna have nightmares about corncob skeletons tonight, thx for that

The New Yorker published this story a few years ago about the Chinese immigrants who work in Chinese restaurants across the country and have to learn how to cook American "Chinese" food. This paragraph near the end always struck me:

When I arrived, the door was wide open, and Rain was sitting at a glass-topped table with his cousin and two friends. They wore plastic gloves to protect their hands as they munched on cured duck heads. Rain poured tea and told me, “Don’t feel like you have to eat the duck head.” A soup-filled wok bubbled on the stove, and his cousin, having retrieved a half bottle of wine he had stashed away, cooked rice noodles in the broth, tossing in oysters and cabbage and a handful of tiny, curled squids. “There’s no name for it,” Rain said. “It’s just a simple soup, with noodles. Call it seafood noodle soup.” He opened kitchen cabinets to show me the ingredients his cousin kept. “You see?” he said. “Chinese people use all of these sauces and ingredients for just one dish.” His cousin, gesturing toward the duck heads, said, “Do you know why Americans don’t like eating meat with bones in it? They’re too lazy!”

With the suddenly popularity of true crime im finding myself more and more infuriated with podcasts (im looking at you sword and scale) as well as all the mass shooting coverage refering to killers as 'Monsters' or 'Evil'. Guess what guys, killers are just like you and me and thats why you should really be terrified.

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xpost Ha, exactly. Eating meat on the bone is way too much work for me. My mom will sit at the table for hours chewing on the bones. I can't do it.

gonna always think of "corn off the bone" when I see it now, hopefully

Seriously, f eating corn that way. It's not fun and you need floss immediately after.

this is well-trodden ground but jfc I hate ppl who leave their shopping carts in empty parking spaces. Like they don't even attempt to put it somewhere out of the way, it's just sitting in the middle of an empty spot bc they don't give a fuck

I mean, I kind of hate ppl who don't return carts period, but if you really can't be bothered, at least make it so that someone could pull into the space ffs

shopping carts just floating around the parking lot seems so foreign to me, partly because most places near me where you'd conceivably take the cart to your car have the cart corrals throughout the parking lot, and it's incredibly rare that people don't return them

it's some weird regional cultural thing, though, because when I was visiting a friend in another state there were carts all over the place in the grocery store parking lot!

thames water:

"Please would you rate our service on a scale of 1-5 (where 5 is great)?"

your service? it was an online form - *I* did all the work.

I answer my grocery store's surveys to get the bonus gas points.

The questions are always Did you interact with anyone in the meat department? Did you interact with anyone in the bakery? Did you interact with anyone in the dairy department? Was your cashier courteous and friendly?

Did I interact with anyone in the dairy department? What, the shadowy figures that lurk behind the gallons of milk and the containers of cream? Are they supposed to greet me? Am I supposed to offer them a confession of my sins? Those guys?

I also didn't interact with anyone in the canned goods. Maybe I'll come back at 4:30 tomorrow morning while they're stocking the shelves.

Unless, of course, it was the web server that was asking me how it was doing...

Supermarkets sometimes have cheese counters where you can buy posh cheese. Would that count as dairy dept?