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

i have one friend who, if we're getting ready to meet up in person, calls me on the drive there, like always....not to talk logistics, just to...chat.

I'M GOING TO SEE YOU IN TWENTY MINUTES, why do we have to talk now? we're going to use up our conversation for later!

I usually don't answer unless i'm concerned that something's wrong, but....idgi!

that would drive me insane

I'M GOING TO SEE YOU IN TWENTY MINUTES, why do we have to talk now? we're going to use up our conversation for later!

Dear friend of mine cranking up my IA meter last Super Bowl Sunday.

https://i.imgur.com/gZRIlSx.jpg

And yeah, my name's Tre Baker. Text 501-433-1037 for an ass-kicking.

tbf, you did qualify it with "nearly."

Or is it the hand gesture emojis you're IA about?

Do they make sour cream Doritos?

make sour cream bread crisps, with either onion or spring onion. coolah boolah

No.

yes
https://babushkadeli.uk/en/bon-chance-bread-crisps-with-sour-cream-and-onion-120g

Who came up with that? "Hmmmm. Milk and onions."

"But what if instead, the milk has gone sour, eh?"

blooming tasty if you ask me. got a packet open right now

[Rutles' "Cheese and Onions" youtube link]

Yeah, I know, from a comedy record.

cheese and onion is the best crisp flavour

god I miss it so much

My kid has a memory game from ikea that has 17 pairs, for a total of 34 pieces.

Any time I've played any memory game the custom is to lay the tiles out in a grid. If there were 16 pairs you could do an 8x4 grid, and with 18 pairs it could be a 6x6 or 4x9. But this can only be laid out evenly in a 2x17 grid which is ridiculous.

Sweden is an odd country

X X X X X X X
X X X X X X X
X X X   X X X
X X X X X X X
X X X X X X X

yo i like that. then you stack the pairs face side up in the middle

i am in a fb group where ppl post pics of their coffee mugs, its v innocuous and was kind of nice at first

some people have a weird “visual storyteller” badge w their name for reasons i cannot fathom bc they super arent. or the bar is very low for them naming themselves as such

one such visual storyteller did a STOP ASIAN HATE tableau for their photo, which:
first, their heart is in the right place.
Love the sentiment. But the photo was of
1) a Willow-pattern porcelain mug
2) a Hawaiian inspired Chinese cookbook from the 80’s.

like. Seriously? lol

Another one was captioned “Puzzled?
1) jigsaw puzzle box
2) nondescript mug

i need to leave the group, it does my head in

they post every day like we are going applaud them for looking at things from such a “unique angle”

pix or get out

Stop Asian Hate
https://i.imgur.com/pJUdsgb.jpg

Puzzled?
https://i.imgur.com/yLCqX0A.jpg

Manic Monday.
https://i.imgur.com/ZaMkt0Y.jpg

its like the most depressing form of attention-seeking

Black background kind of looks like a magician’s set up. The changing coffee cup and house detritus

didn't know what to expect for Manic Monday but it wasn't that.

lol

i'm oddly intrigued by what's next

It's obviously post figurative work. Probably derived from influences such as cubism and primitivism. Including her kid's paint your own mug of a high speed car alongside her kid's favourite stuffed toy. Probably just had a major tantrum so the artist has placed things related to this child together nad given it this semi ironic title. I mea maybe she was frightened by a Bangle at an early age.
NOt to be totally pseud or anything.
like.
innit.

I don't get this.

But thanks for the pix.

Tinty Fresh.
https://i.imgur.com/DoaSzeS.jpg

Am I doing that right?

yes. you are now a Visual Storyteller™️

Is storytelling trending or something? noticing a number of webinars on various forms of the idea.
A buzzword/meme?
New ay of thinking for some, looking at the concept of narrative

Boomer morons who shamelessly cheat at Scrabble-like online word games.

lol, i understand your anger here; i played a casual game of scrabble with a boomer once who used the dictionary WHILE we were playing and acted like i was crazy for suggesting that was anything less than kosher

I remember years ago playing scrabble with a (non-boomer) friend and he just casually checking a word in the dictionary un the middle of the game. He was baffled when I said that that was cheating, in his family growing up they had always played with dictionaries allowed.

I mean, Lexulous, the game I play, and most other such games will tell you if a word is allowed before you play it, and I think that deviation from the official Scrabble rules (where iirc you can’t be sure if a word is legit unless it is challenged, and you lose your next turn if it’s not) makes the game more enjoyable. (I also like how Lexulous has 8 tiles per hand instead of 7 but still counts a 7 letter word as a bingo—it makes the game more dynamic and exciting)

What I object to is the use of word generators to automatically show you all the words that are possible given the tiles in your hand. I’ve played cheaters who only ever played bingos or swapped tiles on every single turn. Where is the fun in that? What are they getting out of it?

what's the best iOS 1-player Scrabble game? i tried the official app and the loot boxes and 'gamification' and constant interruptions were absolutely ludicrous.

I dunno. Lexulous is the only one I can tolerate because of all the ads in the others as you say

It has them but they’re less intrusive

I've recently discovered a crossword forum which seems full of similar people. They're either boasting about how quickly they've finished or looking for help with the easier clues. And they start multiple threads for the same puzzle. I can't stop reading it and it's ruining my enjoyment of crosswords.

mahb, sometimes I poke my head into the Reddit r/crossword sub and it's similar.

49% "wow, that was too easy and I also hated it - plus they got 52A wrong, the ENOA is not technically a musk-ox, but rather a wild ungulate from a totally different genus."

47% "WAAAH HELP I DON'T GET IT, WHAT'S AN 'OLEO'? and hOw dO i pUt MoRe tHan 1 lEtter in a SqUare?"

4% Nuanced and potentially interesting discussion of the pleasures and frustrations of the Grid Life in all its myriad forms.

30 minutes on the phone with my mobile provider who cannot possibly change my 1-month rolling contract into another, more expensive 1-month rolling contract. just can't do it. the 'system' doesn't allow it.

the app has a button that lets you do it. or claims to. what happens is that an hour later you get an sms saying it's worked and 3 days later you get one saying it didn't, please call 333 for the hard sell.

(2 days of work used 60% of my monthly allowance. it's touch and go whether i run out of internet before the weekend)

The ATMs at my bank force me to be polite to them. When I’m done getting my cash or making my deposit or whatever, it asks me if I want to make any other transactions. The two buttons it gives me to choose from are:

- “Yes”
- “No, thank you”

I don’t want to say “No, thank you” to this machine, but I have no choice! The machine is holding my card hostage until I say the nice polite words!

lol
Another way to look at it would be to view the programmer as the entity you’re replying to

Digital gasoline pumps fuel my IA in that they never seem to follow their own rules.

"ENTER PIN AND PRESS ENTER..." A good chunk of the time, as soon as I press the fourth digit, the pump begins processing my card even before I press Enter.

"ENTER PIN FOR DEBIT, HIT 'CANCEL' FOR CREDIT..." Hit cancel for credit? But there's a "Credit" button right there? What if I decide to walk away from this stupid pump right now? How do I cancel this whole experience without using my credit card.

And I still don't know why I'm still having to scan my Kroger Rewards card under a laser beam while the same card works in the card reader at Shell. Or the fact that the OK light flashes RED when approved.

so UberEats went through some kind of update to where, if it's raining where you live, it constantly works that into the messaging.

I get to the tip screen - "it's raining, so give your driver a little extra love"

my driver goes to pick it up - "<Driver> is out dodging raindrops"

he's on his way to deliver - "<Driver> is bringing your food so you can stay dry".

JESUS, you MADE YOUR FUCKIN' POINT!!!

If $driverinput = “fuck this shit” then

so UberEats went through some kind of update to where, if it's raining where you live, it constantly works that into the messaging.

I get to the tip screen - "it's raining, so give your driver a little extra love"

my driver goes to pick it up - "<Driver> is out dodging raindrops"

he's on his way to deliver - "<Driver> is bringing your food so you can stay dry".

JESUS, you MADE YOUR FUCKIN' POINT!!!

― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Sunday, April 18, 2021 7:02 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao. offloading care onto consumers, you love to see it.