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

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.

she's not wrong

I hate those stiff little animated fingers that demonstrate how to fuckin play Candy Crush or some shit on the app ads.

I agree, it's a suspect device.

indeed salsa is Spanish for sauce, but in my parts you get zinged for saying salsa instead of hot sauce

Not a fan of lawn plastic animals. Sometimes they look so real it’s tweaked out

My mom lives in a place where it's not unusual to see deer darting around, and someone who lives on the highway near her house had a life-size plastic deer in their front yard for years. I used to get IA every time we passed by, wondering how many people had swerved and nearly caused an accident upon seeing a deer standing right next to the road.

How often did it get shot?

Not often enough, clearly.

lol nickn
yr post did not get the appreciation it deserves

Not a fan of lawn plastic animals. Sometimes they look so real it’s tweaked out

Every freaking time.

xp
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when you open a door to leave a public toilet, and the door handle is wet, and you don't know whether the person before you washed their hands or pissed on them

i know shopping trolleys/carts are the cliche of IA

but motherfuckers who just leave a trolley in the middle of an empty parking space NEXT TO THE TROLLEY RETURN.

it’s right there.

assholes.

xpost or pissed on the handle

or washed the handle.

Pissed on their hands to wash them

Bingo.

Currently hating searching twitter on mobile

- I click the spyglass icon to search
- It shows me a list of trends and fucking "moments"
- I click the search box
- It shows me my recent searches but doesn't give me a keyboard to search or place the cursor in the search box
- I click in the search field again
- Three clicks and I finally get to search!
- It shows me some "top" results from six months ago

All above worse if it decides to include results for a similar search phrase like a shitty version of Google's shitty annoying search

Hand soap dispensers where you squeeze the soap out, it comes down and touches your skin, but when you pull your hand away the soap stays attached to the dispenser and then falls onto the sink, leaving your hands as filthy as they started

Hand soap dispensers whose nozzles aim a glob of whitish soap goo unerringly at the crotch of your jeans.

Why do you, random person, log in, look at customers' questions about products on Amazon, and answer them like this?

Question: What is the main differences between the breeze ii and the breeze iii? other than the price.
Answer: I'm sorry but I really do not know.
By Shirley H Crosa on April 22, 2018

I love that. That shit is golden.

It's rude to not answer an open question you stumble upon at random.

Wait, I thought people answered questions like that on amazon because you get an email with the question if you have also reviewed the product and usually oldsters think it's a specific email to them that they must answer.

In that case, awww oldsters. Do you have to be a certain age to get those emails perhaps? I've never gotten one.

I'm just saying I've gotten those emails and ignore them (I don't review products unless it's really really bad). Oldsters probably think it was specifically sent to them.

Do you have to be a certain age to get those emails perhaps?

i don't know how it works, sorry

i don't know how it works, sorry

You definitely sound like you're the right age.

i am definitely the right age

I've received a few emails recently asking me to review products on Amazon.
I thought it might tie in with leaving feedback etc.
Also received emails asking me to buy products to review and supposedly get the funds back which I've ignored since it sounds like an obvious scam.

They are trying to stop all the positive reviews that come from getting free products sent to you.

If you actively choose to use the toilet/urinal directly next to the only other person in a restroom with more than two toilets/urinals and there's nothing wrong with any of the other toilets/urinals and you're not personally acquainted with the person with whom you've chosen to brush elbows while you do your dirty business, you should have your bathroom privileges permanently revoked imo. Just learn to hold it, ya filthy animal.

i know shopping trolleys/carts are the cliche of IA

but motherfuckers who just leave a trolley in the middle of an empty parking space NEXT TO THE TROLLEY RETURN.

it’s right there.

assholes.

I'm convinced that the people who use the half-sized carts are dicks. They'll walk the cart halfway toward the trolley return then just give it a shove and turn back toward their car without looking or caring where the cart ends up.

People who complain about receiving too many push notifications when they could turn them off.

card readers at stores that tell you to swipe your card when it's too early so the cashier has to tell you it's not time yet and you feel like a rube

^^^

not irrational

When the same dudes who act like owning more than 2 pairs of shoes is a super-weird and suspect frippery make a big deal about how the shoes you're wearing don't 100% go with your outfit or the season or the activity of the day (which they may or may not have bothered to tell you was happening anyway)!

I guess it'd be fine if I only owned my 2 allocated pairs of magic shape-shifting shoes, but I'm such a weirdo I decided to go and spend £££ and hours of trying-on time to get a modest selection of these clunky things which never look right and are always uncomfortable and blister-inducing instead

Shopping, using the trolley provided as in the pull one not the wire mesh one. If I have a lotof heavier goods I would want them to be on the bottom of the trolley so they don't crush things. I would also want them to be at the bottom of what ever I'm using to carry them away but I'm relying on the cashier to give me the heavier items before i can pack the lighter ones taht go above them.
& I'm getting self conscious about the queue behind me. Plus it seemed like she slowed down so taht the heavier items were getting to me very slowly. Seemed like she took a break though what I'm supposed to do with the otehr items while I'm waiting for the bulkier ones I don't know.
Also not sure if there is actually any size of packing area where you can put a bag.
So badly designed cashier areas, and needing to work out how things can be in 2 places at the same time.

so some dickhead american gets to run the country somehow, he blunders into all sorts of comedy punchlines on the world stage, and the whole world’s news media spend FUCKING HOURS EVERY DAY trying to understand his motives, what his plan is, why he’s trying to manipulate people, what does all this meeeean. no. there is nothing to dissect. he’s a pointless back of dicks just yelling random shit and that’s literally all that is happening.