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

Loads of standard western orchestral instruments missing, it's an absolute scandal; I needed a bassoon one the other day and I'm not sure there's even a flute??

Time to prepare a proposal for the Unicode consortium on the matter

I misread that as a missing trampoline emoji, and I thought, how would you depict a trampoline as an emoji?

There’s no trombone emoji!!

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a bit of imagination please.

a peach and an aubergine, innit

ken c! I thought you'd left us!

had to Google aubergine!

Guess who's back???????

(the answer is Eminem, as always)

Hahaha, hi Ken!

Oh, and as far as the thread topic is concerned, I get IA at the Californians in the "Mexicans mad at food" group I joined on FB who think their cuisine is superior in every way to the cuisine in Texas when Cal-Mex is just as inauthentic and potentially shitty as Tex-Mex, and their rabid support of a problematic fast food chain (In-n-Out) doesn't do them any favors, especially when the Texan equivalent (Whataburger) is a much better corporate citizen. I know it means nothing in the grand scope of thing, meaning it's irrational, but it still irks the shit out of me, so it fits within this thread's parameters.

took me until something like 4 years ago to find out why an aubergine was called an eggplant. The purple version doesn't really show it, plus its a long bulbous veg taht doesn't really appear egg shaped. BUt the Asian variety is white and round.

LIDL have just started selling a version that is that old aubergine shape but has white and purple streaks. can't recall the name.

Grafitti is the name

Borrowed from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان‎ (al-bāḏinjān, “the eggplant”), from Persian بادنجان‎ (bâdenjân), from باتنجان‎ (bâtenjân), from Sanskrit वातिगगम (vātiga-gama, “eggplant”, literally “the plant that cures the wind”). Doublet of brinjal.

I was sending an email with "Cuisinart" in the subject. Just as it does here as I type this, "Cuisinart" gets a little squiggly red line under it indicating it is wrong or misspelled or somehow worthy of extra grammatical attention. But in the body of the email I was writing it for some reason *didn't* call attention to Cuisinart, gave it a pass. And yet, in the same email, I accidentally typed "slizing" instead of slicing, but it didn't underline "slizing." What the fuck is a slizing?

you're not supposed to know

It's when you shoot daggers with your eyes

xpost Hmm, I never considered it was a secret, good point!

Slizing up eyeballs?

just went to a website to read an interview with rza and there was NO DATE ANYWHERE ON IT, i understand we are in hell and it seems like time does not exist anymore here but it does, when you do something it often helps to know when you did it

this is indeed very annoying

otm i hate that

that's entirely rational

Agreed.

every single person who's shared that story of that pebble-sized asteroid that might come near Earth or burn up in the atmosphere the day after election day and going "LOL MORE 2020" as this isn't a thing that regularly happens.

Any song that samples In The Court of the Crimson King

i was watching this one dude's video of him singing a harmonized song, all 4 parts by himself, so I could learn the parts easier. He writes proudly in his description "All done in one take - NO STUDIO MAGIC".

........YOU SINGING HARMONY WITH YOURSELF IS INHERENTLY STUDIO MAGIC YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKER!

this was Youtube

haha that would annoy me very much
ditto anything "uncut"

studio magic means cocaine

Here's the latest

Nick Timothy's beard

i realized constant loud opening and shutting of doors over and over drives me insane. not slamming of doors, but my roommate this morning has opened and shut a door audibly about 10 times in the last 5 minutes.

like why the hell don't you just leave the door open if you are going to keep going in and out of it rather than opening and shutting it each time? (it's not the bathroom!)

this is though also the roommate who has left unflushed turds sitting in the toilet 4 separate times....and this dude's my age!

btw I am moving in January and probably getting a place of my own again maybe a house.

people who ask me for help with shit (like my mother), then the moment I ask any follow-up questions, they're nowhere to be found for 30 minutes, so I can't move on until they reply, and my time winds up being monopolized.

going on 40 minutes trying to help my mother find her Federal EIN for her company that she somehow knew 3 months ago but doesn't know now, and it could have been done 35 minutes ago if she'd answered any of the questions I asked.

"legitimate interest"

yet another way to make protecting yourself from tracking almost impossible

fuck yes, where did that suddenly spring from?

if we're talking about irrational though how about 'strictly necessary cookies', no they aren't.

how about i’ve already “confirmed my choices” about a million times on your garbage tracker shit, and your “strictly necessary” cookies that i can’t opt out of might be ABLE TO REMEMBER THAT FACT

what they don't tell you is that if you don't let them save the cookie that remembers your choices then it won't remember your choices.

Pillow cases, duvet covers and anything else that has decorative buttons to fasten closed. What a pain.

seriously I don't have time for this bullshit that's what zippers are for

yeah agree
i have none of that nonsense in my house

Tire pressure monitoring systems. Is there anything more useless in a vehicle? In theory, of course it would be great to be notified when the air in your tire gets low. In practice, in both cars we've owned with this feature, the light comes on whenever the temperature swings more than 20-30 degrees in 24 hours, particularly when it drops in the fall.

OMG, I have steered clear of these threads during my entire ILX lifetime but mine basically doesn't really work at all at this point, but definitely has that problem.

Is there anything more useless in a vehicle?

Yes. My friend has a car with an altimeter. Also, my car came with a low outdoor temperature alert, which I had to deactivate.

they have to be fitted by law in europe and the uk

"Since November 2014, all new passenger vehicles sold in the EU must be equipped with a tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS)."

"In the UK on 1 January 2015, legislation came into force stating that for these vehicles, an inoperative or faulty TPMS sensor would result in an MOT failure."

Mine has been fixed many times but never gets well.

It makes tires way more expensive to replace. If the sensor is bad, they can just put a normal tire on and advise you to ignore it.

Fortunately, there is an extremely easy fix for the TPMS light being on: place a half-inch strip of electrical tape directly over the TPMS warning light. Voila! You won't see it ever again.

Note: this also works for the "check engine" light, but it is not recommended.

lol

My frustration is that, given the ever fluctuating temps over the course of a Midwestern fall and winter, mine is just constantly on no matter how diligent I am about keeping the tires inflated.

they aren't reliable for that cold air reason, but i'd never cover it up or ignore it because i've been saved twice by it from being on the side of a highway with a flat. then i get paranoid if it goes on from cold thinking that i'll be wrong in my assumption about the cause. can't live with em can't live without em i guess

When it gets cold, tire pressure will go down.

Generally when tire pressure is low enough to be a problem, one can detect that with these things called "eyes." Or by using a normal tire guage.

Time was a man could kick his tires in the street.