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

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

reality is infuriating, maybe that makes me rationally angry *doffs fedora*

Another IA-maker are food recipe blogs that are all formatted the exact same way, with a couple of pages of cutesy, pored-over personal blather interrupted by aggressively staged photos of the recipe in progress, with all of the margins packed with what appears to be ugly, automatically generated ads and sponsors. Even when the recipe looks good it feels like a quick-buck vector for generating revenue, with the recipe almost an afterthought. (Helpfully, many of these sites have a "jump to the recipe" link, but that just implies they know all the preceding stuff is useless filler.)

I had never noticed the presence of a "jump to recipe" button. Went to check one of my go-to recipe blogs and she had one. So thanks!

I’m hoping glazed chicken wang is a typo.

There's a thing in many newer cars where one headlight turns off if that side's turn signal is engaged. It makes them look like very expensive padiddles, but then they disengage the turn signal and everything snaps back to normal.

I noticed one of those the other day! I am assuming that it only happens with the daylight headlights – you wouldn't become a very slow strobe light as you're making that turn at night into the abandoned quarry, right?

You wanna know how to ruin my day? Show me a drawstring backpack!

I was at a Fourth of July fundraiser and this teacher got up and made a production of this tune called "The President's Rap" which she said she used to teach her kids.

I was expecting some fun, corny Wakko from Animaniacs esque rap with clever rhymes and mnemonic devices to help them memorize the names.

Instead she just played a recording of some dorky dude over a Casio-preset beat just saying the names of the Presidents in his approximation of a "hiphop"voice over a Casio-preset beat.

The second verse...was just the names again.

I don't know if I was aggravated more by the sheer laziness of it, or the fact that the "rapper" didn't start making faux-vomit noises after he said "Trump"

(obv this happened a while ago)

Your annual reminder (male northern hemisphere readers) to dust off the sports shorts and body warmers now that winter is on its way. Socks no higher than the ankles.

Credit card chip-readers that aren’t anchored down to the counter in any way, so the whole unit just slides away from you when you try to push your card in. I mean come on, make the tiny effort to properly install it, people are going to use it constantly, and not all of them will have an extra free hand to hold it with! Hrrrrrghh it makes me so angry!!

yeah, and then because it slides away from you while attempting to insert, you have committed a card read error and you have to wait a few seconds for the thing to reset and the clerk to say "ok, try it again."

I have been getting very annoyed when people don't tie their hair back during reality shows during active or messy events.

certain updates to my work computer create desktop shortcuts that i cannot delete without administrative privileges

it would be absurd to track down an administrator just to delete them, so they hatefully sit there

how about an empty desktop?

right click desktop > view > uncheck show desktop icons

yeah but there are other desktop icons i use

a request for an additional monitor might be good cover for you. just put the icon on that one and leave it off to the side, turned around even.

At a Slayer meet and greet...

Security: can everyone hear me?

*Less than half respond as they can't hear her as she has a quiet voice and is standing near the end of the line*

Security: ok here are some important instructions for you that i am going to address only to a small subset of you. Everybody got that?

Us: No.

Security: Great, glad everyone knows what they're doing! Bye.

I already know the instructions from last time but y'know could it kill ya to wait for an affirmative response before plowing ahead

create desktop shortcuts that i cannot delete

will the icons let you sequester them into a desktop folder named "Useless Shortcuts"?

I have the same problem at work, and I’ve done that. The next morning there they were again, like something out of a horror movie.

People who spend all day spamming and lecturing their local friends to vote in municipal elections when many of us either have no election today or live in an unincorporated section of the county and can't participate.

ugh agree