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

That's intentional so that customers won't be able to switch price stickers.

My sticker IA: Stores that put the sticker right on top of useful information on the packaging. Or stores that put the sticker on the "outside" of a thing that has some aesthetic component, meaning you have to through an extensive cleaning process to restore the appearance, when they could just as easily put it on the bottom. This last one mostly for thrift stores.

It's not just price stickers though, it's more often stickers that show off the features of the product that annoy the most.

lighter fluid and coconut oil are both supposed to be good at helping you peel off labels. were used in removing price tags from record sleeves, well at least lighter fluid. & I think that was listed among the hundred plus uses for coconut oil, does help to take other things off anyway.
But yeah is annoying

hi I tried that on my car and it blew up, thanks

I have a scraper thing with a razor blade at the end for getting rid of stickers, decals, etc

People keep thinking this is the solutions thread

i think i have posted this before

but workplace benefits / 401k meetings are hell on earth because they are always clogged full of ppl asking insanely simple questions

there should be a 15 minute meeting for longterm employees and/or ppl who understand the terminology & basics & just need to know whats new & what the action items are

everyone else who is new to employment/banefits/or just a habitual stupid question asker goes to the hour-long meeting and can ask “what is an IRA?” or “what does HMO mean” etc

Agreed. Though I think that's rational anger. The first one I went to was taken up more by individuals asking detailed, personally-relevant questions, letting the other 35 attendees twiddle their thumbs.

this might be rational anger too

but

when i am listening on earbuds using the earbud mic control toggle thing to pause a podcast/music

and then when i tap to start playing again & somehow the fkng iphone voice control app starts instead

RAGE

uncontrolled RAGE

THE ONLY TIME IT GETS “used” IS WHEN IT STARTS UP UNWANTED

FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFF

ugh

mouse is playing up. scrollwheel seems to alternate between scrolling one way and the other, makes getting anywhere in a document a bit of a crapshoot. and it's surprising how bad cursor key support is.

it's also 19:00 in the middle of summer, won't be properly dark for another 3 hours. and people are setting off fireworks.

xp - I was running recently on Saturday evening, and was trying to skip past a track by double tapping.. I hear the little voice control chime so I clicked it again hoping to toggle it off. I hear that stupid robot voice saying “calling <manager’s name>”. Hear the phone ring sound and silence - can’t tell if he’s picked up. At this point I am standing in the street, frantically ripping my armband off and hung up. A little later, I see he’d texted to see if everything was alright. I still wonder if he heard me panting when he picked up.

oh god horrifying

luckily mine isnt dialing people or i’d be fucked

I just got back from a modest fishing trip. We are all friends that have known each other for a long time, and yet, there is still much to learn. For example, one of the guys is a jam band fan, which I think I knew or suspected, but particularly a fan of the shittiest Colorado jam band music, like this band called the Magic Beans, who (from what he played us) truly suck. The thing is, he has such a weird conception of music, like saying he likes Hendrix but doesn't like distortion (this is the same guy that once told me he likes Neil Young, but not his electric stuff, which is wtf!?), or dismissing my turn for dinner music (Big Star's Radio City) as "too noisy." What the fuck? Big Star?! What is wrong with his ears!? And then, even during the first track, "O My Soul," he tried to zing me by saying they were trying too hard to be funky but weren't, which was what I said about his fave, the Magic Beans. But the Magic Beans *were* trying to be funky! They are one of those jam bands where the bassist has a five string bass because he needs an extra string just to try to sound *extra* funky.

Anyway, my friend is OK, even if he somehow didn't dig Big Star, but those Colorado jam bands, they really piss me off.

or dismissing my turn for dinner music (Big Star's Radio City) as "too noisy." What the fuck? Big Star?! What is wrong with his ears!?

Reminds me of a band I was in (very briefly) in high school. We were tossing around ideas for covers, and I suggested the Replacements’ “Kiss Me On The Bus.” I played the tape, and after no more than 15 seconds of the song, the guitarist freaked out and said, “Woah woah woah!! We can’t play this! We’re not gonna be a...a...HARDCORE PUNK band!” Said guitarist is currently the leader of the Midwest’s top Dave Matthews tribute band.

lmao

omg what's their name

let me guess

the Tripping Billies
SatelLive
the Proudest Monkeys
Crash into Us

The Ants Go Jamming

The Between Space

White Caps

Neanderthal’s first guess was the correct one.

loooooool

haha!

That's hilarious. I actually knew that, because I used to do the listings for a few places, and I'd always see Tripping Billies playing somewhere so had to look them up to learn their deal, since I didn't know the DMB reference. But I guess if I was going to be in a Dave Matthews tribute band, I'd definitely want to be in the midwest's top tribute band.

OK, here's a perfect example of an IR inducing act: when you're doing a sink-full of dishes, and someone comes by and puts another dirty dish on top of the pile in progress. Like, I get that it has to be washed, and I'm going to get to it. And yet, there's something about the blase "oh, while you are cleaning up, clean this up, too" attitude. Which is fair - dishes gotta be cleaned - but also, simultaneously, an insult/affront.

Perfectly irrational anger.

worse when they stick it straight in the bowl.

bowl? i don't wash up in a bowl. sink.

The shipping date is not the same as the date when you slapped a label on a package which you then let sit in your home/warehouse for another week. Fuckers!</hank_kingsley>

when people get mad at you for sending a message on Messenger at an "inappropriate time". i.e. "come the fuck on, I can't answer this right now!"

Just because someone sent you a message doesn't mean they EXPECT YOU TO READ IT AND REPLY RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE. I mean sure there ARE people like that, but fuck them, they're the exception, not the rule.

i remember being at a dinner with friends after we'd seen Endgame and one friend who couldn't join us but had seen the movie with us messaged in our group chat, discussing Endgame and asking people what they thought about certain things. And some of the friends at dinner started audibly bitching about it, like "JESUS CHRIST does this girl think I'm going to have a discussion about Endgame while I'm AT DINNER" and after about three people had whined about it, I said "You know you can mute the convo on Messenger, wait until later to read and reply to it, and that your loud bitching is way more annoying to me right now than the message our mutual friend sent, right?"

I get IA when I think about how there exists all this technology to warn tech users of likely spam and scam calls (see iOS/iPhone incoming call tags, email filtering, etc.) but when it comes to cutting this stuff off closer to the source, before it inundates the end user, it's all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(yes I realize it's not quite that simple, but I have to imagine that putting even 1/8th of the energy/tech spent on labeling and sorting on the user end into chasing it off at the source, things might be slightly less obnoxious)

Something like 95% of the phone calls I receive are from my good friend Spam Likely.

Sorry, Scam Likely. Spam is his wife.

good news: here in Canada, Bell wants to use proprietary "artificial intelligence" ML tech to block spam/scam calls at the source. How they will do that and how you would know they were fucking it up is, naturally, a secret

tbc: these calls are an extreme nuisance (I was getting lots of fake CRA [our IRS] calls for a while), which is why it's so galling that one of the country's worst companies is leveraging perfectly rational anger to undermine the regulatory control

one thing I find hilarious, and it's not even spam. back in 2010, Fandango had these little tasks you could do in order to earn free movie tickets. some of the stuff involved purchasing shit so of course I wasn't about that, but some cases it was just signing up for a trial or something. so me being relatively tight financially, I signed up for a consultation on health insurance plans. of course I got flooded with texts and calls about it for a few weeks.

every so often I still get these messages because I'm still on their list and have no idea how to opt out.

I'll go you one better:

One summer when I was 11 or 12, I got bored and called every toll-free number I could find in the house, asking for catalogs, stickers, promo products, etc. Our mailbox filled with up so much crap. Hammock catalogs, Coca-Cola schwag, free records for the blind (I mean, how were they going to know over the phone?) The rural letter-carrier, driving her sedan with the wheel on the wrong side, started driving straight up to the house to drop off bags of this junk mail.

It eventually died down, but that hammock catalogue kept coming well into this century. Hell, it might still be going to the new owners up there.

Any email or article that starts with "As you may already know..."

Know what? I didn't know. No one tells me shit. Thank you for reminding me of that.

Of all the irrational things to set me off:

"As some of you know, we are no longer using the calendar on the intranet to request a room reservation."

Idk why it bothers me so much, but I get really annoyed when people say "asymptotic" when they mean "asymptomatic"

me too but I suspect it's autocorrect in a lot of cases

I don't know that it's anger as such, but it does verge on it at times, and it's certainly irrational... My worst hours of the day are between 5-7pm - generally when I'm at home. I feel restless, unsettled, emotionally troubled and often close to snapping. I have no explanation for it and can't tie it to any particular experiences or ongoing issues.

I say this because I'm currently sat in a bleak Starbucks (it's cavernous, like an airport at the end of the world), waiting for my 13yr old daughter and her mates to finish filling their foodholes in Nando's, and I feel utterly at peace, thoroughly glad I'm not at home where I'd be pacing, wondering what to do with myself. (I have a loose theory that it's to do with thresholds. I find the dawn oddly hard to navigate too. Shrug.)

Does anyone else experience this or anything like it?

i have hours of irritability between the transition from work to outside life, mostly because I'm already anticipating what I have to do after work before I've finished work and it annoys me because then the 'freedom' i was going to get becomes ....not freedom.

also those are the hours that if I plan to do something that night, I figure out what I plan to do, and if I have no idea after 7 pm, I get annoyed and restless.

that's the closest I get to it.

When I'm at home I think about all the "home projects" I should be doing but am not, and this, I think, contributes to the restless anger. When I'm out there is nothing I could be doing to those ends even if I wanted to, so it doesn't bother me.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alzheimers-disease/expert-answers/sundowning/faq-20058511

Ah, so it's just incipient dementia. Nothing to worry about then :)

I totally have the 'projects' thing too. My house has the best people, music, film collection and books but it's the one place I don't really seem to be able to relax and enjoy those things. Weird (but probably not that weird). I totally recognise the threshold between home and work thing neanderthal. The promise of freedom vs the reality.

on a serious note part of the reason for sundowning w dementia (as i understand it) is a lot to do with the long shadows & low light

dementia affects their eyesight/ability to process light & shadow so as the shadows get longer it causes anxiety because they perceive the shadows as gaping holes in the floor/walls etc - its v scary for them

I would move to Quito.