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

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

whether their friends can participate or not, tbh

the firefox logo now has purple in it.

I think the purple's a great touch, tbh, but they should have kept the fox.

purple doesn't exist, it's a hoax, ama

That here in the New World, when scheduling something, nine times out of ten, I have to type '2' and then 'tab' and then 'tab' again and then 'PM' instead of just '14' and 'return'.

All of our modern appliances, from dishwasher to dryer to the car, have these hyper sensitive fail-safe alerts that are far more intrusive than actual failures. I waste so much time figuring out why a light is on, or a warning has activated, or something has automatically shut off, and it's never for the reason those alerts exist.

OK, I don't know if this is irrational, but it does make me annoyed. We have two places for guests to stay: the second floor, where they get a bedroom across from my kids bathroom, and the (finished) basement, where they get a bedroom across from a full bath all to themselves. When my mom visits she prefers the basement, where she's right by her own bathroom. But my in-laws, they insist on staying upstairs with everyone else and clomping down two floors to the basement to use that bathroom/shower. Fine, it's their knees. Except my wife's stepdad insists on using the powder room by the kitchen on the 1st floor, right by where the family is often hanging/cooking/reading, and he's as loud as a particularly flatulent elephant. Just go down one more floor to the basement and shit in peace and privacy, dude! No need to constantly share the news with us.

xp house fires are pretty inconvenient fyi

it's irrational, like the thread says

always a fair comeback

There is this couple I often see with a huge American Pitbull Terrier called Bud. He's an adorable dog but they are a set of arseholes. She pissed me off the other night complaining that my led head-lamp was blinding her, and this was out in the middle of nowhere without any public lighting. I was thinking: much better when people creep about in the dark and you can't even see them fucking coming or you trip up in the dark and break your ankle (again). My dog is a creature of routine and always stops at the same point to go back on the lead and he gets a biscuit as a reward. One day he didn't do it cos Bud was there and he was eager to see him. All I said to her husband was: " ah so that was why he went bounding forwards, to play with Bud, he usually waits for me". And he replied showing his horrible yellow teeth and with a smug look " you mean as opposed to him bounding backwards". I've never felt such violent urges in my life. I wanted to beat his stupid head to a fucking pulp and I keep rewinding that moment and coming out with a withering putdown/witty repartee rather than just him the murder stare. But they obviously hate me as well and I suppose most human interactions that go wrong are very irrational!

when a witch is riding a broom, the brush bit shd be the HEAD not the TAIL

i entirely agree that this is a battle long lost hence a v silly thing to still be annoyed abt -- and if this were possible i'd say it makes me look worse than ilxors on the "words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you" thread, but this is NEVER possible and the fool is me here, battling for the correctness of beliefs about witches (but nevertheless right not wrong)

Shouldn't the brush be in back, both to cut down on wind resistance and to help steer?

the broom should be vertical so you don't fall off.

https://i.redd.it/hcqyevb9gpi31.jpg

How about the brush pointing up and the stick pointing down?

https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/broomwitches01-720x975.jpg

First known depiction, 1451, what did they know in those days though.

correct (also scientific, look at the engraving of the waves)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/59/9d/dc/599ddc8f1ddf709ff52f78e81e458a90.jpg

in addition: accurate depiction of cat's mood

The broom head would rather seem to obscure the view in the direction of travel.

the key entry in this discussion comes (as you'd expect) from contributor "rowrrbazzle", invoking james blish's "the day after judgment" (which is almost certainly where i inherited my opinion from, tho i'd forgotten this passage was in it) (the witch in this case being the warlock THERON WARE, who has unleashed hundreds of high echelon demons into the material world, more or less just to see what happens) (what happens is bad, don't do this ilx)

(i also found quite a funny write-up in THE SUN of the irl male witch who hates harry potter but i'm not going to link that bcz fuck murdoch)

(all the ppl invoking aerodynamics need their heads slapping a bit)

Yeah we are discussing the aerodynamics of a mAgicK FlyInG sTiK

I kinda like the idea of having the bristles in front; it's like a front bumper in case you run into anything. And you could have aerial combat with two brooms slamming into each other, like bumper cars. If it were the other way round, you'd just have sticks sliding past one another (which sounds, um, racy and not in a Quidditchy way)

I kinda like the idea of having the bristles in front; it's like a front bumper in case you run into anything.

Like a cow catcher!

There should be a brush on both ends and then you just ride it horizontally, like a ski lift.

the witch in this case being the warlock THERON WARE, who has unleashed hundreds of high echelon demons into the material world, more or less just to see what happens

nods, ponders, unleashes hundreds of high echelon demons into the material world just to see what happens

what happens is bad, don't do this ilx

fuck

wheres that button thread

When you're working on a plan to meet someone and you provide the name of a location or an address, but that person insists on you explaining in detail where it is and how to get there rather than considering the possibility that directions can be found instantaneously on Google Maps or Waze.

pressing "bookmark" then "site new answers" and seeing your bookmarked thread still listed as you didn't wait the split second for it to take

Haha, too true

I had to ask a bunch of grown adults to kindly take their shit out of the washing machine/dryer when it's done.

These three roommates moved in when I was out of the country. They do laundry seemingly every day, and they leave their shit in either machine for hours, sometimes even overnight. I have had only one laundry day where I didn't physically move their stuff from the machine.

Is it really that hard? If you don't wanna fold the shit, well...move it to your room and do it when you can. Clearly ya don't give a shit about wrinkles!

They're in their forties!

This exact same thing comes up in my apt building and leaves me flabbergasted every time. How do you leave your wet clothes in the washer OVERNIGHT to the point that they exude the odor of MILDEW?? I mean, you're going to have to wash them again now, right? When do you finally realize you're just not doing laundry right?

Also I'll find the dryer ridiculously overstuffed with partially dry clothes - such a quantity that any fool should see would take hours and hours to fully dry... or you know, you could just dry a regular sized load in a regular amount of time.

innocuous things that bother you irrationally: my coworker keeps picking up his phone and replying to some kind of chat, which to be clear I absolutely do not care about the non-work aspect of (hey, it's 50 minutes into my work day and so far I have looked at ILX and twitter), but the low winter sun is reflecting right off the screen and a bright light jiggles all over the ceiling in the corner of my vision with every little movement of the phone

People who laugh all the time. No-one is that happy. I just assume anyone who does this is psychotic or evil or secretly miserable.

Cleaner that comes in a spray bottle but will not spray if tilted at even a slight downward angle

Guys in the gym locker room who ostentatiously shake up their protein milkshake in a big-boy sippy cup bottle.

i laugh all the time, its good imo

also, one night in a washer is not going to make a wash smell of anything but washed clothes.

You weren't laughing when you met all those ILXors... er....

When you're working on a plan to meet someone and you provide the name of a location or an address, but that person insists on you explaining in detail where it is and how to get there rather than considering the possibility that directions can be found instantaneously on Google Maps or Waze.

one night in a washer is not going to make a wash smell of anything but washed clothes

then apparently my neighbor is leaving her wet clothes in there longer than one day, which makes her even crazier

front load machines smell/get mildew really fast if there is moisture left in them for hours. I also have had past roommates get into an endless cycle of rewashing the same load because they kept forgetting.

Re: Google Maps/Waze - there are some pretty bad directions given in those apps. But that said, you could still look at the map and figure it out yourself.

Über and Lyft always try to take sunny home on the interstate, even though another block north and you're in our neighborhood.