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

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.

Trust me if they ask me, they’ll arrive anywhere but their goal

arah inside i was chortling tom

You and me both, Darragh, you and me both.

The patronising chummy voice Evan Davies puts on when he's talking to young people. Guessing my anger is irrational because if these young people felt the way I do he'd get lamped every time.

he probably just doesn't interview the kind of people who'd rip the piss out of him in front of a camera

that's not fair on Evan Davies. he puts on that irritating chummy voice with everyone.

The baseline ED voice is bad enough, yes, but he was interviewing first time voters the other day and it got significantly worse

when i pay for something with apple pay on my watch, and at least 1/3 of the time the cashier says “oh my god oh my god it’s the future!! how amazing!!! THE FUTURE!!!!”, but (a) the four people in front of me just paid with their iphones which is exactly the same thing and (b) the excited cashier is wearing the same watch and could switch on apple pay in seriously 15 seconds

those fucking stuffed reindeer antlers that people put on their cars. extra anger if they have the red rudolph nose on the front grill

Lol my roommate has that

Fuckin hate it

And the elf legs coming out of the trunk, "Ooh, you're so edgy."

It’s kinda gross the way the antlers flop back and forth after sudden hard braking

i imagine the solidarity these people must feel when they see someone else driving down the road with the same stupid decorations.

Same for those fuckers who have eyelashes on their headlights.

Just been rechecking old addresses for street numbers on Google maps and finding I'm being dragged to the next street when I try to zoom in. Happened a few times on different shots/streets. It's been a few years since I was at the addresses so I needed a closer look to check I had them right.
Filling out a form, like.
Don't really get why it does that is it a gap in the file or something. Photo only taken from a certain angle so close up leads you to next geographical point in database? Otherwise just blooming frustrating.

when you go through the drive-thru and they are forced by corporate to say "welcome to this place would you like to try our blueberry broohaha today?" forcing me to say no thank you before i can order what i came here for.

that's just too much extra interaction first thing in the damn morning.