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

its rich to complain about that when the underlying issue is that you are a continent that pretends that a "cup" is a measurement

three continents tbf, though the US one is 10ml smaller than their northern neighbours and the other two continents

we've had weighing scales since 2000 BC ffs, "cups" for non-liquid ingredients is bollox - you can't order a pint of onions.

Taking sides: $6.5 sandwiches versus $3.169 gallons of gas.

Do some restaurants still have "the lady's menu" i.e. a menu with no prices listed? What a thing.

> "cups" for non-liquid ingredients is bollox

but a cup of sugar makes sense. a cup is only a bigger spoon so anything that is sensibly measured in tablespoons is fine as cups.

(maybe not honey, that would be messy)

you can't order a pint of onions.

THE HELL I CAN'T

I've been renting out/subletting my apartment (in a completely gut renovated building) to two very close friends for over a year and a half at ~60% market rate. It's a co-op building that has an on-site superintendent and porter and neighbors above, below and around. I am in another country and I get the most absurd texts.
The smoke alarm is chirping
a wire fell off the washer/dryer
the radiator pipe has been making a really loud clanking for 2 weeks
the stove is no longer igniting
the kitchen sink has a slow leak
the bathtub has a clog etc etc.

I don't understand how people can be in their 40s and not know how to deal with these very simple things.

Fuck ^^^

The one from last week is that they want to have a special birthday party in one of the shared common spaces that wasn't even open yet when I lived there, and they contacted me for the rules. The rules were sent out on their by management a few days later and my friends are surprised that they are so strict. It's like yeah, this is NY no one wants big parties in common spaces where stuff can go wrong or annoy neighbors or result in an insurance claim.

yeah you sound pretty reasonable to me, Yerac

When someone goes viral on Twitter and feels obliged to post an in thread follow up like

"While you're all here please check out my Thing* and maybe give me money"

Twitch/Bandcamp/Patreon/justgiving cause of the day

I can see why it would be annoying and have never done it myself, but when your labour of love is a constant struggle in terms of getting interest and getting paid for doing it and then some shit you've tossed off suddenly gets a massive amount of exposure, who can blame them for trying to redirect some of those eyeballs.

If any of my shit ever blows up like that, I'm gonna link everyone to this soundcloud: https://tinyurl.com/zvezgf7

It really annoys me when I schedule an appointment at say 6:45pm but then they tell me that I have to arrive 15 minutes before my appointment. Why not just tell me that the appointment is at 6:30? I expect to have to wait a bit once I'm there anyway.

there are two kinds of people in this world, those who turn up 15 minutes early for appointments and those who don't. that advice works for both.

The lack of any real transition from six months of wintery variations to swamp crotch weather is making me irate. Possibly irrationally so.

I used to work for this shady events company where it was mandatory that you arrive 15 minutes before your shift but you couldn't clock in until 5 minutes before your shift. I was like, I am sure this a labor violation somehow, but oh well.

that blows. Probably is, although the Supreme Court has ruled that showing up early to go through a security screening doesn't count as unpaid work time, so I wouldn't be surprised if they found some bullshit way to extend that.

Drives me nuts that my buddy tells me to shut up while we watch tv when he sees fits but 99% of the time he’s the one blabbing non stop and I want to watch tv in peace

when you're rationally angry at someone, then it turns out there was a good reason for them doing whatever it was that made you angry, but you're still angry and also angry that you can't be angry any more.

My friend asked for financial advice today. He's middle aged and has never had a savings account, has no savings. I couldn't even...

https://i.imgur.com/kJmOZ5Q.jpg

He buys $20 worth of lottery tickets a month. That is his plan A.

What has six balls and screws poor people?

Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, Ivanka Trump and Paul Ryan

it's for the children, YMP

when you're rationally angry at someone, then it turns out there was a good reason for them doing whatever it was that made you angry, but you're still angry and also angry that you can't be angry any more.

― lana del boy (ledge), Monday, May 28, 2018 12:27 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I watched this in real time the other day: I was waiting to pick up a prescription at the pharmacy and they called me up to check on some information and the woman at the head of the checkout line did not even take a beat to assess the situation before she got all 'UH EXCUSE ME SIR, THERE'S A LINE?!?' And the pharmacist ensured her that I wasn't cutting the line and that everything was going to be fine but she was still visibly stewing, presumably over the dousing of her righteous fury.

Dear chain-smoking disease vector who brings a new tubercular ailment into work every three weeks or so,

Thanks so much for generously sharing your mucosal aspiration with the whole team. Please never examine your lifestyle choices just to appease a bunch of ol' fuddy-duddies who concern themselves overly much with public health and the extent to which it is compromised by your presence.

You do you, friend.

You do you.

With the deepest regard and the best of wishes, always,
Old Lunch

"Don't worry, I'm not contagious."

When someone calls you and then keeps you waiting on the phone while they pause to do other shit.

There's tubercular and non-tubercular and I'm not sure smoking has anything to do with it

When someone e-mails you "Please call me." This was such a known annoyance about me that colleagues would email that to me for a laugh.

OH MY GOD I HATE THAT SO MUCH. It's right up there with 'we need to talk'.

office wide emails about something ONE person has done wrong that are so cryptic about wtf the problem is and make me paranoid that it was me

My main issue is that I am sitting at my desk, the phone does not ring, has not rung...I get an email like that. You didn't even try to call mf'er.

> It really annoys me when I schedule an appointment at say 6:45pm but then they tell me that I have to arrive 15 minutes before my appointment.

goddamn. i had an mri this morning at 11:30. "arrive 15 minutes before" it said. so 11:15. i put that in my google calendar as 11:15. when adding it to my work outlook i added another 15 minutes, making it 11:00. and it's that time i used when deciding what time to leave the house this morning.

and then i allowed 90 minutes for the journey and it takes nowhere near that (despite the 15 minutes walk this end, the 15 minutes walk that end, the 8 minutes on ravenscourt park platform, the 8 minutes on acton town platform).

so for an 11:30 appointment i got there at 10:40...

(and then, obv, they were late, and the scan took 45 minutes, and then i noticed my arm was bleeding from where the canula was and had to go back and get another plaster)

((i was fine, i had a book and tunes))

People that stand right next to, and subsequently totally block, the pick up counter in Starbucks. Especially when there are things on the counter that aren't theirs. What is the disconnect that tells that person it's okay to do that? Especially when they are facing the counter with their face in their. Get out of the way, you self-centered fuck.

*face in their phone

Got me so heated I'm nearly having a stroke. Fuck these oblivious assholes.

I often think these things in my head, but earlier today a woman nearly walked directly into me while looking at (and only at) her phone and I half consciously said, 'excuse me, Roomba.'

There was a woman on Uxbridge road in London the other day cycling and checking her phone. She won't do it again though, because she dropped it and the horizontal velocity meant it bounced along for 10 metres or so. I didn't see if it survived.

saw a guy doing that no-handed this morning, on a busy road. i gave him my best "you are a knob" stare.

the advert for new apartments that said "50% sold out!"

I'm moving out of London, quite a ways into the countryside, big change for everyone involved. I've been checking out houses on Rightmove which seems to be the best website but I'm so heartsick of seeing boring newbuild or new-ish houses when I just want to live in a decent property with a bit of character, the search filters are somehow a little bit too robust to correctly filter out new houses and bungalows so every day I impatiently wade through acres and acres of terrible, boxy looking shitholes searching for something decent.

that's rational anger with a lick of anomie MaresNest

I didn't realise how ugly everyone's houses were until I started The Hunt

I do get irrationally angry at the sight of a really long, thin sitting room, such bad design and a waste of living space, does that count? :)

Try Zoopla, you can filter out new builds and do keywords.

the advert for new apartments that said "50% sold out!"

― lana del boy (ledge), Friday, June 8, 2018 2:56 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Always a little creepy shopping at a mall with a 50% no vacancy rate.

at lunch today, the women standing at the salsa bar talking about how many "sauces" they were going to get.