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

honey, mick's coming over for the sleepover, could you hide the soldering irons?

Umbrellas just add a simple vertical dimension to sidewalk navigation problems. Mind you, shorter people who don't have access to the highest umbrella lanes may indeed have to have their umbrellas taken away.

Wife keeps getting mad at me because I unplug the Comcast box. It makes more noise than a Playstation, even when the TV's turned off.

I also know it's almost time to get up when her phone starts displaying notifications again, lighting up the ceiling.

i turn mine face down at night

er, not that I'm your wife arguing with you

I just don’t understand people who walk on the left side of sidewalk or carelessly umbrella walk or sit on busy public transit staircases or etc who think they are not worse than trump

Those people aspire to be as good as Trump.

there’s a particular language that tech blogs use which is consistently grating and childish, like their brains are off and they’re just banging out whatever their peers are doing

savages who spell it "warrantee", this literally sets my teeth on edge

https://i.imgur.com/iMx64SY.jpg?1

Know what? Just pretend like I never posted that.

Taste's very strange / make a grown man cry

cherree pie

Drives me nuts that we have a couple of streaming services, never mind that the internet is one big streaming service, but my family only listens to the same shit that's on the radio. Or shit like Africa or Don't Stop Believing or Billie Jean that I hear all the fucking time everywhere anyway.

Similar annoyance is that my kids listen to all sorts of songs sung by the cast of Glee, but show no interest at all in listening to the original versions by the original artists.

STUFF DANGLING FROM REAR VIEW MIRRORS IN CARS. I mean, you’re in your 1.5 tonne potentially lethal wheeled machine driving near pedestrians, but let’s hang an air freshener or a lucky charm in the MIDDLE OF YOUR FIELD OF VIEW because it’s “protective” or “nice”.

do you drive

well yes, and I don't have shit dangling from my rearview mirror, nor do I wear a blindfold

My gaze is generally to the left of the rearview mirror unless I'm looking in the mirror.

I get IR whenever we're driving around and my wife inevitably immediately starts digging through her purse at her feet for her phone or a tissue or something, which blocks the passenger side mirror and window with her head and hair, and this is always right when I'm about to turn or get on the highway or something and I can't use that mirror or see out that window and even if I don't necessarily need to I WANT TO.

yeah im much more bothered about wing mirrors and unobstructed rear view than....the middle of the windscreen

It's the general principle of obscuring part of the driver's view, coupled with the fact that moving (dangling) things involuntarily draw attention. If a pedestrian or a cyclist happened to be in line with the rearview mirror, hanging something inside the car which could distract or delay the driver noticing the person is dangerously negligent. I don't see why that's hard to understand.

seems reachy imma give it a 3

It's on a spectrum with people who furnish their car interiors like a sweet little palace of cute, so that they forget they're in control of a tonne-plus of high speed machinery which can easily kill someone. Driving is serious, no exceptions.

hate these official visits from the committee for anger rationality

b-but my anger is DISPROPORTIONATE

very fair of course very fair

I just started watching How to Get Away with Murder for the first time ever and Dean Thomas's head tilt acting method is driving me crazy.

Matthew K OTM.

You might keep your gaze to the left, but there's still shit comin' at you from the right.

Just hang a fucking dreamcatcher over your computer monitor. I mean, you'll still be able to see 75% of your screen, right?

yr being ridiculous now

You're supposed to hang the balls on the trailer hitch, deems.

i do but then its a bitch not to fall of when we hit a pothole

Matthew K OTM.

You might keep your gaze to the left, but there's still shit comin' at you from the right.

FP'd you for racism, trying to get Matthew Killed on the road

nice point there sic - I was recently a passenger on a long drive in the States and I would def have had a major wreck if I had been driving

when you tear down at the dotted lines on the plastic wrapping around the top of the pill bottle or the new bottle of poppers and it doesn't tear all the way down so you start tearing laterally thinking your tear will surely spiral around to the bottom of the wrapper, finally freeing your bottle of said wrapper, but the tear stops spiraling downward at the point where there is the most tension in the wrapper, leaving half a band of plastic just under the lid which then requires extremely advanced nanosurgical knife skills to remove, and ten minutes later after much nitpicking your bottle is finally free of the goddamn plastic wrapper that was supposed to be so easy to remove.

I just twist the lid as though there's no plastic wrapper, and it all rips off with a satisfying feeling that this is how Hulk opens pill bottles.

the blue plastic things they put in pill bottles, which are the first thing to fall out every single time you try to shake out a pill, are disgusting savages

I keep opening cardboard pill boxes at the end with the drug info leaflet getting in the way.
I never remove the leaflet to prevent this happening again and I annoy the fuck out of myself with it every time.

that the previous IA threads werent locked

xp this is my superpower, every fucking time.

Picture of me updating a two-year thread that should've been locked:

https://i.imgur.com/xcg4NQM.gif

Feeling irr. ang. today that I have to vacuum AGAIN, I seriously just did and it's already all dusty again.

fuck dust, fuck all dust

Like, hey dust, what does it tell you that I vacuum you up EVERY WEEK? Does it tell you that I want you to come right on back and congregate in your nice little corner again by the bookshelf? No, I want you to STAY VACUUMED UP how can I make that any clearer?

It's you. The dust is you.

People wearing shorts in the winter

Especially if also wearing gloves

I had this argument with a guy who said, "You'd wear a t-shirt while wearing pants, right?"

You can't argue with these lunatics.

Last year when it snowed in England I saw grandparents wearing huge coats taking their grandchildren to school, and the poor kids were wearing shorts. In the snow!

sandals guy sounds like every town in a climate with actual winter has to have one or two shorts guys who wear those shorts even when there's 3 foot icicles hanging off every building

― iMacaroon dragoons (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, September 4, 2013 9:35 AM

At Missouri, we called those guys "Iowans."

― pplains, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 9:37 AM

I did my undergrad at a school with lots of engineers and CS majors and a 3-1 male-to-female ratio that was in a place that got ridiculous amounts of snow. There were always at least a few super nerdy guys who walked around campus in shorts and t-shirts all winter. I always wondered if they were somehow immune to such worldly needs like warm clothing (and nourishing food and personal hygiene) or if they had calculated the effort involved in dressing appropriately for short walks from their dorms to the classroom and realized it wasn't worth it.

There was also always one guy who would wear a wizard cloak and carry a staff of some sort around - it was a different guy every year, but it was a role that was always filled.