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

My UK supermarket gripe is that the cashiers in Aldi scan things much more quickly than anyone can pack them.

this is legit stressful

jesus folks some grips get them

aisle two for grips, sir.

This pissed up idiot that used to live around the corner from me, went into the Savile Town Asda with a friend after they had a skinful one night, got into an argument with him and slashed his throat - leaving him with a 6 inch laceration. That's what you really call giving in to anger in a supermarket setting!

jesus folks some grips get them

let’s see how long YOU last at the arse end of an aldi tornado

it’s like being drowned in a hail of bullets, except the bullets are near-perfect renditions of well-known pasta sauces and wafer biscuits

if you aint up for the challenge of racing the deadeyed checkpoint checkout guard then the posher shops for gran is usually only a bus away soldier

jesus folks some grips get them

Subtle protests of divide and conquer.
Customers should rise and overthrow these stupid processes innit?
Form a co-op like.

xp signs cost money!

Subtle protests of divide and conquer.
Customers should rise and overthrow these stupid processes innit?
Form a co-op like.

i regret to inform you that your haiku needs work

threads called things like 'new spiritualized album'

ha ha

we are all in a permanent state of not really remembering the last Spiritualized album though

All sound the same :P

People whistling or beeping at you - drives me nuts. My boss does this

Facebook inserting 7 second ads into the middle of 30 second videos

The warning on my phone's lockscreen saying i'm 'dangerously low on space' like it might spontaneously combust if i don't delete something.

"@threadreaderapp please unroll thread"

People who start a sentence with the phrase "the reality is..."

ending a phrase/headline with "AF"

IAAF

The United States Air Force is frequently abbreviated as US...

AS FUCK DOT MIL

http://afthunderbirds.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/110403-F-KA253-155.jpg

My grandfather served in the Air Force.

I live within ten minutes of an AFB.

I even wore my freebie Air Force t-shirt today.

All that to say, I don't think the United States Air Force is AF about anything.

OTMAF

"here's something i wrote abt xxx in yyy: url"
"here's a thing* i wrote abt xxx in yyy: url" *(or piece or article or essay or feature or whatever)
^^^all more or less fine

"here's me on xxx in yyy: url"
getting annoying

"me on xxx in yyy: url"
teeth-gnashingly bad

Roommates.com has "af" on every other page

https://i.imgur.com/W4LoPKt.png

"here's something i wrote abt xxx in yyy: url"
"here's a thing* i wrote abt xxx in yyy: url" *(or piece or article or essay or feature or whatever)
^^^all more or less fine

"here's me on xxx in yyy: url"
getting annoying

"me on xxx in yyy: url"
teeth-gnashingly bad

"I wrote a thing. [shortened url with no context]"

"My bit on Topic. [url]"

when a biopic is made and people focus heavily on whether the actor has been made to look sufficiently identical to the real person, as though it were a lookalike contest rather than a film

That "dun-dun-dun-DUUN" Insta-story superzoom noise can fuck off.

People who take selfies or videos in cars.

extra anger for people who use the selfie in a car as their profile pic.

“in international news, america america america america america”

every single time

America is to the world as Trump is to America

everyone is sick of trump/america.

i'm giving them a few more weeks

People who forward emails/meeting invites to people who were already on the initial email/meeting invite.

People who get really into CrossFit and/or weightlifting and then suddenly start *exclusively* posting workout vids and pics to instagram (taken by their trainer or new workout bud I guess??) like I’m not going to unfollow.

(ok I’m not going to unfollow because friendz, and also I kinda did/do this re: kid pics so I am also terrible and ok with being unfollowed because of that, but still gaaahhh!)

yes! or just endless stats or maps of their run route & time etc
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I need a stat counter posted on fb of all the pasta I eat. Maybe that will hold me accountable.

haha I’d look forward to seeing a daily pasta counter instastory tbh

omg route tracker pics on social media = technology for technology’s sake + pride

people who bring up a subject, then curtly tell you they "don'tw ant to discuss it anymore" when you actually take them up on talking about it

my family does that all the time. "hey isn't <insert neo-nazi here> fantastic?" (one probing question later) "hurr durr i don't want to talk about politics"

I must have mentioned this before. It's almost a given.

But the dependence people put on their GPS systems drives me up a fucking wall. My kid's karate studio moved to a bigger location. Before the first class on Saturday, a few of the parents harangued the instructor because their GPS told them to turn 100 yards too late. "And then it tried to get me to go all the way through Boyle Park!" One parent was slightly upset because they arrived 20 minutes late, thanks to the GPS. I remember her proclaiming at her first class at the old place, "It told me to get on the interstate!"

I'm just an old country boy from the sticks who learned to drive on a manual transmission and instinctively learned to know where I was going before I left the fucking house. The new address of the dojo has been emailed and plastered on flyers and drilled into our heads. How did no one think, Huh, wonder where this place might be? I'll look it up on Google Maps/Apple Maps/Bing Maps/OpenStreetMap/Mapquest/Delorme USA.

How do you just hop into the driver's seat and just go, "OK, Computer. Tell us where we'll go today!" Wheee.

i hate that too!

worst road trip of my life was my friend offering to drive to a resort for a work function - she said she knew where it was etc. and then learning halfway there that she had no CLUE where it was but that she’d “figure it out” and there was no cell service for google maps or anything while we’re flying down the i-5 ... all the while I’m like you’re the DRIVER surely it’s your job to work this out before you get in the cockadoodie car you guileless twit ... or at least ask a passenger to navigate & help figure out the route ahead of time. Stressful AF! thumbs down to all of that nonsense

Sunny's got a good story about being on a work trip in New Jersey for a week. She and this older co-worker had taken the wrong turn in the rental and decided to head back the other way via the George Washington Bridge.

They're driving around upper Manhattan, and her co-worker peers over the steering way up to the sky and wonders aloud, "OK, so where are we now?"

^^ That's probably an argument for GPS, but then she wouldn't have that story.

hahaha omg

I was embarrassed that I had to use a sort-of GPS when we went back to my hometown (Canberra) on a road trip a couple years back. I thought I still knew how to get around everywhere but it'd been 20 years so I figured I'd navigate to help B drive, using GMaps's road GPS guide thing.

"turn left ahead? WTF? ITS A ROUNDABOUT WITH 6 EXITS WHICH ONE IS 'LEFT' FFS ARGH". My memory of where to go just ABANDONED ME in the face of the crazy map blue line.

...tbf though if you have ever seen Canberras roads anyone would fail.