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

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.

Last UK politics thread was always at the bottom of my bookmarks and easy to find. New one is in the middle. Fucking Tories.

all coworkers who clear their throat more often than once every 5 minutes (coworker currently on <10s), whether due to temporary or permanent affliction, to be sent on a training course about how you probably don't actually need to keep clearing your throat if it's just a bit tickly and you're not about to say something and also how come you haven't noticed that clearing it is evidently not doing any good anyway, and then made to work from home

(why should they get nice things? yes, we should all get to work from home if we like, too)

I'm at a bar on a cruise ship. It's choppy and windy and the receipts are often blowing away and the bartenders are making no attempt to grab them, just keep walking by them as receipts eventually fly everywhere including the pool area.

Idk why it makes me mad other than it seems incredibly stupid. The gratuity is auto added but still.

Just looking at that sitch from my own perspective, whenever someone is all 'LOL, WGAF' in re: a casually-abdicated responsibility whose cleanup becomes someone else's problem, yeah, it make me pretty IA.

actually read this as *people* blowing away and briefly thought Neaderthal, put down your drink and do something!

Lol

"for all my powers..."

This started back when Gilmore Girls was on tv but I really hate how they don't fill coffee cups when shooting scenes. It's especially terrible when people are walking around with a tray of takeaway coffee. I noticed this again during The Irishman. SO LAZY.

https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/at-last-a-tv-show-that-gives-you

I WOULD WATCH THIS SHOW.

That is one of those things that, once it was pointed out to me, I can never un-see. Also: characters hanging up without saying good bye, traveling all the way over to an apartment/restaurant to say three things to someone then leave (often leaving most of a meal unfinished, and just laying some cash on the table instead of getting a bill/paying). Obviously, I completely understand why they don't film that, but...

It's changing slowly but (again, for understandable reasons) also, the degree characters talk on the phone rather than text, especially for brief conversations or comments.

Also when there's an over-the-shoulder shot and the person whose back is to you speaks, you can tell they're not saying anything (just enough jawline is visible to make it obvious, etc).

Probably the 100th time I've posted this but

- 'easy peelers' that aren't

team lunch:

"hey, let's just split this 14 ways" says person on more money than me and who ate way more. yeah, let the juniors subsidise your lunch.

"brb, bio"

*Get in car, leave*

why are there so fucking many almost but not entirely identical sizes of cheap takeway tupperware containers so when you're searching in your (unnecessarily large because you hate throwing plastic away) stash it's almost impossible to find a matching lid?

I was delighted when back home at the weekend to see that my sister shares exactly that problem with me.

lol i feel you. i tried to clear out most of mine and leave myself with 6 that i thought were identical and i still seem to have an odd lid

this entirely relatable anger is 100% rational imo

haha. I rebelled against the teachings of my mother, who stacks all the boxes together and lids together separately, and I stack them as lidded boxes. I consider having the cupboard space to do this one of those millennial luxury things like drinking avocado lattes for every meal or whatever.

why are there so fucking many almost but not entirely identical sizes of cheap takeway tupperware containers so when you're searching in your (unnecessarily large because you hate throwing plastic away) stash it's almost impossible to find a matching lid?

― Paperbag raita (ledge), Monday, February 3, 2020 2:07 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lately , I have been wanting to switch from cheapo Rubbermaid and store brand containers to some kind of permanent containers. Just don't know what to get. We mostly use sandwich-sized boxes for everything.

The rubbermaid boxes tend to crack (usually from being dropped while frozen) but the lids are more resilient, so I went through the cabinet and we had maybe 6 sandwich boxes and something like 30 lids.

lol i feel you. i tried to clear out most of mine and leave myself with 6 that i thought were identical and i still seem to have an odd lid

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Monday, February 3, 2020 2:12 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is a universal truth.