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

It’s honestly kind of amazing to me how the college student neighborhood drink refuse has gone from 100% red solo cups and beer cans to like 70% white claw cans in the last four years.

spotify finding a new way to be annoying. I looked up the Age Of Napoleon which had the most recent episode at the top so I scrolled down looking for the first episode. As i scrolled down it changed direction, so I scrolled back up and it changed again , did that several times. Blooming annoying, what is up with this app.

i feel you! i dont use spotify a ton but the app def has some very annoying quirks

Misinformation from call centre idiot.
Trying to work out why I can't access the details on my phone account , just get some overly cutesy Can't find what you're looking for message. & every attempt at topping up failing.
I tell the text box individual there was glitching at their end and get told that everything is ok and it must be something at my end.
Should be used to this kind of wank probably but thankfully have largely avoided it.
I went off and tried doing various things including wipingthe cache in my internet and tryingto make payment another couple of times and everything winding up with an error message.
Actually go back to the start, I tried topping up through bank account then went over to my phone to check it since I hadn't got a text saying top up successful. Can't access the account other than this can't find what you were looking for page with a cutesy image of an umbrella . Went to sleep , woke up checked phone and still no text. Checked website and did get to details but said taht there were no credit details to show or soemthing which is = to top up didn't work. I went back to bank account and it showed the transaction. I tried looking at phone website and got the cutesy page again.
wah, ate up time and I could have been lying in bed reading. So unfair.

I then got a different text box guy who said there were some major issues at the time. So try back later.
Wonder if these people are actually in one place right now or working from home. Anyway just seems totally ignorant not to know about there being an issue if it is widespread.
bah

EBay listings or other online shopping sales where the multiple different photos you can click through are all the same image and also all tiny.

Phone thing got worse this morning as the initial payment taht hadn't processed did this morning. I tried to get the money returned and tehy said they could give me anothe r months worth of coverage.
Partially because i was being mislead by th e first customer service guy I tried to put payment trhough a few times on a credit card and kept getting messages taht it looked like it hadn't been successful. Then me trying agin a while later. I assumed taht was the end of things. I rang the credit acrd line this morning and got told that several of them were approved. Hoping taht I'm not going to get several texts later saying thanks for topping up like i did with taht payment this morning.
bummer

I take approved to mean that a transaction is completed since it is what is said on card readers when it goes through.
I assumed it only showed when both sides had oked transaction .
Could be reading that wrong.
But after the 2nd version of that transaction succeeded this morning I am on edge about it.

Youtube commercials with people cursing. You've seen these? It seems to be a trend. The swear words are bleeped out - which somehow makes it even more obnoxious - but it's smug Nickelback-looking douchebags saying things like "Your deodorant? it's shit" and "That cardio you're doing sucks." Like, fuck you dude I'm just trying to watch Aretha Franklin videos here

lol otm,it's insane how unsophisticated the biggest ad company in the world is with this shit

Yeah, it's always "People come up to me all the time, asking, bro, how did you get so ripppppppped!?" And it takes all my strength to even try and resist hitting skip and miss out on the secrets of his success, but alas, I'm just not there yet. I may never know how he got so ripped, or what's wrong with my soap, or why he's drinking pond water.

Ha ha, I'm glad it's not just me being "targeted" by these ridiculous ads

"People come up to me all the time, asking, bro, how did you get so ripppppppped!?"

This play is the 'pick n' roll' of advertising. It's "I was a 98 lb. weakling, until Charles Atlas made a man of me" all over again.

Doing an image search on Google now being a stupid two-stage process where first you have to let Google Lens fail to identify what you're looking for.

On chrome desktop:

1.) Go to chrome://flags/

2. Find "Search your screen with Google Lens"

3. Select "Disabled".

Oh I was so bitter until I discovered this neat trick.

FANTASTIC THANK YOU MARRY ME!

Well, ok, but to do that, you're gonna have to go into chrome://preferences/...

i get like 3 emails a day from healthcare.gov the URGENT DEADLINE that does not apply to me

Lol pplains

Seriously, though, you have dramatically improv3d the life of someone who has to do a lot of image research.

Yeah, thanks for that as I was too lazy to google "how to fix google"

People. Who. Write. Their. Social. Media. Messages. Like. This.

With the clap emoji in between each word. Barf.

https://i.imgur.com/nD7k3sY.jpeg

https://c.tenor.com/7baGupVFfFIAAAAM/jenn-jenn-robbins.gif

Those memes that start with "Nobody:" or "Literally No One:"

First of all, the blank space after the colon makes no fucking sense. Nobody said nothing? Second, it's become a meme where you can post literally anything you want in the second box. The meme has basically just come to mean "here is a crazy/funny/weird/fucked up thing" and the first box is just a way of memeifying "here is a crazy thing" without adding anything.

It means

Nobody:

Is to infer that life was continuing on as normal, nothing had been said to draw out the bullshit/strange opinion or whatever is being mocked

I know what it's supposed to mean. But it's an implied double negative, and also, that's what always happens? Life is continuing on as normal and then something happens. Nobody: COVID 19: pandemic! Nobody: My Plate: fall down and break!

I get annoyed when people attribute human error to the quality of a product.

for instance, we're playing this dumb game on Twitch right now called Make It Meme, which is a silly 3 round game where you...make memes and vote on them, usually these games take 5-10 mins. figured I'd play one or two before bedtime.

this host turned off the timer for voting and made it so only she could advance to the next meme, and keeps falling asleep at the wheel and not advancing, so every vote is like 1.5 minutes, so this game has taken like 45 minutes, and everybody is complaining "this game sucks, it takes too long to vote".

no, the host just fiddled with the settings and for whatever reason decided to stretch out a 10 minute game to almost an hour!

Pretty sure your host was in my last fantasy football draft.

Lol

I have the same conversation with my mother every week.

"Rob, did you get a code for the Amazon hub?"

"No."

"That doesn't make sense, Amazon says my package was delivered"

"Mom, did Amazon themselves deliver it, or did they use USPS?"

"I don't know"

"Only Amazon delivery drivers use the hub. A package doesn't go there just because you ordered it from Amazon"

"Oh"

People who end every email that includes a question with, "Please advise", when did this become a thing?

I can't say, but I do know that a lot of people (not you) read their emails inattentively so that "please advise" is like the writer jabbing their elbow in the recipient's ribs, saying "hey wake up! I asked a question!"

Maybe makes sense. I think there are some cases where it is entirely warranted, there are just a few people that seem to use it so often that it sometimes ends up non-sensical. The specific email that prompted my post earlier was, essentially, "hi, could you send me floor plans for that building? Please advise." It was just weird.

Some people have a way with words. Others not have way.

lol

I take "please advise" to mean "I am unable to make decisions or take any initiative on my own, so in your response, please tell me exactly what I am to do, down to the unnecessary minute detail, because if you don't, I'll send a follow-up email".

I tend to only use it in the most jabbing, passive-aggressive way possible. "Hey, are you going to do that thing I asked you to do three days ago, or what? Please advise."

"My advice for you is this: Yes."

Imo it's a way of saying "I need you to answer this email" when they might have otherwise opted to pretend it wasn't their concern.

It’s up there with signing off with ‘Regards’ to show the sender is annoyed.

I'm tempted to send someone who repeatedly ignores my emails or annoys me with an email that simply reads, "As per my previous email, please advise," with no added context.

I actually use Regards genuinely :/

I always use it to mean 'you fucked this thing up, you tell me how you think you can fix it'

HERE IS THE TRANSLATOR FOR WORK EMAILS:

"As per my previous email" = "stop sleeping, asshole, and give me what I asked for!"

"As I previously stated" = "I fucking told you this already, can you read?"

"As a reminder" = "You done fucked up, and I'm CCing your boss on this email"

"While I'm open to <idea>" = "I'm not actually open to it, I just need to say that first so I can drop the hammer and tell you what we're going to do instead"

"Can you help me understand why..." = "You did something stupid, my mind is made up, I just want to know why you did the stupid thing"

When someone's been ignoring you, what's a good way of nudging them? It's fraught!

I tend to say something like "Just following up on this. Let me know when you've had a look at (x)"

There are only so many ways to politely remind someone of something!

i'm pretty gentle if I sent an email to someone that I know gets thousands of them a day, and I didn't send them a ping on MS Teams or anything. I only get annoyed if someone acknowledges the email and doesn't do the thing they said they were gonna do.

when I moved to project management, first thing I noticed is that those pleasantries went away. people just attacked each other.

in a way it was at least nice to avoid the faux niceness, but on the other hand, it was pretty toxic

Ahaha as someone whose plans often fail under the pressure of reality, it does suck to have set something up perfectly and then have the players not play their parts. I'm trying to love people more than I love my little solutions but it's not easy.