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

I assume the people who post dozens et dozens of pics from the same event are doing it for immediate family and they don't know how to filter audiences. These are people who will die first in the zombie apocalypse.

pp otm

maniacally posting photos of your vacation in real time for e-validation is symptomatic of not being present and for sure speaks to a deeper dissatisfaction

One thing which shits me immensely is when the user interface on macOS or iOS "pops up" an alert or something a split second before I click or tap on that part of the screen. e.g. if I go to tap the Messages icon in my phone's top row, and some inane alert from an app I forgot to disable dives underneath my finger when it's too late to react. I feel like the UI should be coded such that if you are clicking on something you couldn't possibly have seen because it appeared 0.05 seconds ago, it should treat it as if you clicked on what was there before. Also applies to e.g. rolling banners on websites - I go to click on a story but another one dives in front at the last instant.

totally rational reax imo

When there is any kind of linguistics-related content needed on the BBC and they without fail call up Stephen Fry to do it.

Learning about Mandela effects.

Like, a bunch of non-South Africans mixing up Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko is not a supernatural phenomenon.

I hate button flies.

Thank goodness it's not 1987

Been shopping for jeans lately? They're as prominent as ever!

afaict

button flies vs. button duvet covers.

Admittedly, I buy all my jeans from Old Navy, which is hardly fashionable, but I manage to consistently find ones that look un-embarrassing.

xpost I fucking hate the latter, too, I usually just leave them unbuttoned. Buttoning duvet covers is like hanging a shower curtain, just an annoying waste of digital dexterity.

Old Navy jeans are OK, but I find getting nicer jeans force you to take better care of them, which makes them last longer. Sort of like spending money on a nice pair of sunglasses.

You know what else I hate? Throw pillows. They just get in the way.

sometimes I don't even put the duvet cover on, I just lay it on top of the duvet.

No no, then you get the duvet dirty. You have to turn the cover inside out and use it like a sleeping bag, with the duvet on top.

i love throw pillows. but they need very large and deep sofas to be useful.

currently have duvet cover as sheet, and naked duvet on top of that, as an optional extra. though not very optional with the weather we've been having lately in London :/

throw pillows are the herpes of decor

otm

so in what way is a throw pillow not a cushion

Not comfortable.

You guys need better throw pillows. I fall asleep on mine.

Maybe I also don't know what a throw pillow is.

Filling out website forms on your phone, and the field where you enter your email address helpfully hits shift for you because it assumes the first letter of your email address will be capitalized. Of course it doesn’t matter but I go back and change it to lower case anyway. Also drives me mad when it doesn’t initialize a keyboard with an ampersand and a .com button (or at least a period), so you have to keep switching keyboard screens just to type your email address. Not sure if this is an issue with the website/script or an issue with the phone (although I’m pretty sure a few websites do this correctly, so I’m not inclined to blame the phone).

Or it asks for your zip code but initializes the alphabetical keyboard in that field. Or it asks for your phone number but it doesn’t automatically format to (xxx) xxx-xxxx so you’re never sure if you should put in the - or not. Website forms in general make me angry I guess! Maybe it’s primarily mobile sites but I’m not sure.

Don’t even get me started about the “click every square with a traffic light” bs where you’re squinting at a tiny picture wondering “is that a tiny traffic light in the distance?” or “I think that square might have a pixel or two of the traffic light that is mostly in the adjacent square, but does this idiotic program know that?”

"There have been too many login failures from your network in a short time period. Please wait and try again later."

yeah, treat all 10+ million three customers as if they are the same person, why don't you.

that's steam. but wikipedia also does this.

feeling epistantophus' last two posts deep in my soul

about 10 minutes ago i followed a link to the ESPN website where it gave me another goddamn cookies warning, to which i delight in answering "deny" every time. this time it opened up some kind of cookie manager on another website that allowed me to deselect all the goddamn cross-selling cookies and "submit" those preferences. i already said no but okay. but.... the submit button was on a modal overlay which extended beyond the bottom of my screen. no matter how i pinched and pulled and rotated my screen it would not display the button. so i had a choice. accept the fucking cookies or not read the article. reader, i accepted the cookies. boiling rn

I am sick to death of those cookie questions. Why has legislation to protect my personal data become a punch to my face every time I visit a website?

On NPR today i got "accept these cookies or continue to our plain text site". It was like www circa '93! No ads! No images! No menu, no header, no sidebar! Not even any css! It was incredible, I've never been so happy.

Filling out website forms on your phone, and the field where you enter your email address helpfully hits shift for you because it assumes the first letter of your email address will be capitalized. Of course it doesn’t matter but I go back and change it to lower case anyway.

yes! and my keyboard app adds a space after punctuation or on the end of autocompleted words => I've had logins fail because my username had an extra space on the end, or because my password had a ! in and the phone added a space afterwards which I couldn't even see because it was *ed out

Don’t even get me started about the “click every square with a traffic light” bs where you’re squinting at a tiny picture wondering “is that a tiny traffic light in the distance?”

I also worry when it shows me some traffic lights which are clearly visible but not pointing directly at the camera: am I training the cars of the future to be confused by another lane's traffic lights? will people die of an unknown number of bored internet users second-guessing the results so they can press "OK"?

on a less potentially fatal note, recently the Captcha would not let me pass until I marked one image as a storefront which I am 99% sure was actually a public toilet behind an intersection sign (looked like a sign above the doorway due to perspective), and it's like, this isn't even right but I have to click it to get my free PDF or whatever, so I'm clicking it

emails from retailer websites i haven't bought anything from for like 2 years imploring me to PLEASE COME BACK WE MISS YOU. also emails from wayfair trying to sell me things i swear i have never shopped for. this is a real one: OMG these CHICKEN COOPS are PERFECT!

haha I was just laughing at a Wayfair one: "TOILET BRUSHES that fit ANY budget."

F you Wayfair, I have never and will never shop for toilet brushes w/you

especially not budget ones

well I mean why overspend

When you’re driving a route with a lot of turns and the sun keeps alternately getting in your eyes from the front and from the side, so you keep swinging the sun visor back and forth, and you have to dodge out of the way each time or else you will hit yourself in the face with it and/or knock off your sunglasses.

otm - plus all the stupid new low profile cars that seem to be designed to perfectly angle the sun RIGHT below the visor into my retinas

hm you sound like a shortarse

MODS

that the USAJOBS site and other search sites sort results by "relevance" by default, instead of open date or close date. so i have to change the sort every time i search because the first listed job is at the defense intelligence agency, which is *highly irrelevant* to me.

After I've finished a video call in gmail (I believe the kids call it a 'hangout'), it helpfully notifies me that I was on a call. So I have to click to see my notifications, which are normally hidden, click the notification, and click the video call box that pops up - the same one that I already closed when the call was finished.

Adverts for sports events, sports television channels, and bookmakers, showing gaping-jawed sportspeople (usually footballers) and fans looking half like morons devoid of higher brain function and half like they want to eat your children.

Common complaint, sure, but I was just telling sunny this, after she had paused an ad right on the moment a fan in a football jersey looked up at his off-screen tv screen, glazed chicken wang held up to his face by a meaty paw, ranch sauce dribbling down his bottom lip. His eyebrows were tightly squenched trying to focus, but the soul had already left his dull marble eyes

This has been going on for a while, but whenever I go to a politically charged event, like a school meeting or a protest, there is always a contingent of activists or righteous actors who instead of clapping choose to snap, like beatniks at a poetry reading. It kind of drives me nuts. I get it, but I hate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89M8wJRtccw

Adverts for sports events, sports television channels, and bookmakers, showing gaping-jawed sportspeople (usually footballers) and fans looking half like morons devoid of higher brain function and half like they want to eat your children.

so accurate reflections of objective reality make u irrationally angry huh