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

the use of "boomer" in the colloquial sense. i don't _mind_ being called a boomer, i'm not a prescriptivist, but i had this conversation today:

"yeah my mom's a boomer"
"really? you look about 20"
"i'm 22"

A LITTLE CLARITY WOULD BE NICE.

OK,

rushomancy.

Electricity and Gas bills. always annoying that they are both due on the exact same day rather than being different salary months but...

Electricity: £92.10 in credit, because of all the recent government payments
Gas: £92.03 in debit...

can i put the credit towards the debit? no. the two accounts are unconnected despite the name and address for each being identical, and the same card being used to pay both bills.

rushomancy.

― pplains

seriously though, "actually i'm not a boomer" is the most boomer response ever. the gen x response is to shrug, mutter "whatever" under my breath, and move on with my life.

i had this conversation today:

"yeah my mom's a boomer"
"really? you look about 20"
"i'm 22"

Born in 2000 or 2001, so the mother would have only needed to have been 36 or 37 at the time of the birth to qualify as a boomer. This doesn't seem unlikely?

always super annoyed when a writer’s bio says “published/bylines in” and then proceeds to list literally every publication that’s published them. bylines in nyt, vogue, pitchfork, teen vogue, cool blog, defunct mag

That’s irrational obvs because thread, but we do that because commissioning editors read Insta and Twitter.

irrational! i’m a writer too! i just think it should be narrowed down to five or so “, among others,” instead of like, thirty

*something mildly annoying happens to someone*

"OH GODDAMMIT, I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN, IT'S A FULL MOON TONIGHT"

Guilty. Also big on "why does this have to happen to me?" and "Of course! Today!"

I think I got it from my father. I'll try to stop.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2657.To_Kill_a_Mockingbird

annoyed by the rounding of two of the corners of these books. what books have every looked like this outside those moleskin notebooks?

I think it may be a bit more widespread design choice. Think I noticed it on a recentish book I picked up last year. Can't think which one right now.
Think I prefer straight corners though.

Maybe they're better for reading in bed.

It's an affectation instead of a useful feature, and it fits the theme of this thread beautifully.

Things provided as m4b files not mp3s. FUCK OFF.

things provided as avif files not jpgs

(webp also)

could do a poll for most annoying file format, right now as far as daily annoyances go it's .pages but .ram might be my all-time choice.

RealAudio metadata file?

yeah, lots of memories of thinking I'd found an mp3 I was looking for and instead it was a broken realaudio stream.

annoyed at Calexpo, where they hold state fairs, rv shows & bridal expos & whatnot

Huge permanent electronic signs at both major entrances now mostly used for local advertising

but that *should* theoretically (surely) at least promote a current major event when it’s happening right?

but no

a couple of poorly placed tiny plastic sandwich boards by the roadside are your only notice of the day’s event

meanwhile the giant electronic signs continue to tell you about vape stores & bad mexican food 2 miles away

not irrationally "angry" but any time I see a tv show where someone opens the door for someone, and that person enters the house, and they laeve the door wide the fuck open, I cant' focus on the scene cos i'm so bugged about the door being left wide open

Perfectly able-bodied people who, instead of simply using the handle to pull or push a door open, push the handicapped button to make the door open agonizingly slowly.

xpost - as a corollary to that one Neando, it always takes me out when a show or movie is set somewhere and during some time of year when the outdoors is absolutely bug-drenched but the characters seemingly live 24-7 with huge open patio doors and windows with no screens

absolutely no sane person in the Midwest would leave that many windows and doors wide open without screens in June, no matter how pleasing the temperature!

Perfectly able-bodied people who, instead of simply using the handle to pull or push a door open, push the handicapped button to make the door open agonizingly slowly.

― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, April 18, 2023 10:16 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

My local pharmacist has a door which will only open from the inside by pressing this button, which is a whole six feet away from the door. They don't have a decent sized sign to tell you this is the case either. Every fucking time I forget and try to pull it open.

Perfectly able-bodied people who, instead of simply using the handle to pull or push a door open, push the handicapped button to make the door open agonizingly slowly.

It's ridiculous how seemingly everybody except me does this

i totally did that just yesterday. Resume anger.

I know there's a dedicated thread about the whole thing, but I really hate this time of year when I see a tweet or something announcing a cool looking new release, only to click on it to find out it's another damn RSD exclusive thing that will be pressed in vanishingly tiny quantities and will only be found three months from now on Discogs for 3x the already inflated retail price.

(this post inspired by seeing news that the new Albert Ayler archival live thing from 1966 is a Record Store Day exclusive)

(this post inspired by seeing news that the new Albert Ayler archival live thing from 1966 is a Record Store Day exclusive)

It's been available as a 2CD set for some time. Get it here (Squidco is a small indie store/distro I like dealing with).

Oh shit, thanks! I didn't realize that was the same thing and that it was just a repackaging.

Ordered, thanks for easing my IA today.

That's some of my favorite Ayler material, too.

Perfectly able-bodied people who, instead of simply using the handle to pull or push a door open, push the handicapped button to make the door open agonizingly slowly.

IME, doors with such a button often feel like they "resist" a bit when I try to pull or push them manually, which gives a vague impression that doing so is wearing on the mechanism or something, so I (possibly irrationally) feel like I should use the button when it exists.

^^^^^^

every single t-shirt here

https://twitter.com/miahtao

they keep serving them up to me as ads and I keep clicking on them out of grim curiosity, all the comments are "got to get this t-shirt!" aaaaaaaaaaa

today it's sending me this one

That's What I Do And I Know Things.https://t.co/pe2KTp8lX5 pic.twitter.com/av4XTnapdL

— Miahtao (@miahtao) March 11, 2023

god those are terrible

ugly awful screen-printed t-shirts with unfunny jokey sayings have always outnumbered good t-shirts by approximately a 100:1 ratio

"Your Mom is on my Top 8 on MySpace"

My cd player slowly dying. It's been 18 years but it should remain with me forever and things should be built to last and so on. LIke maybe the thing lasting so loing if it was bought iu 2005 is the opposite of planned obsolescence or going against what one would assume that meant.
& not sure if this would be salvageable if I could take it apart and swap out the laser unit. & put it back together and so on. I'm not confident I would get it back to working and reconstructed perfectly. Maybe I need to take an electronics course and learn to repair this and the sewing machine properly.

THought it improved a lot yesterday. Actually got back to reading discs right away instead of flashing reading for ages.
But was back fuzzing out a disc later on.

I've grown accustomed to this thing as my main cd player. Don't want to let it slip away.
But getting discs making weird beating , tapping , electronic distortion noises and fuzzing out when they are attempted to be played is a pain. Washing the discs doesn't seem to sort things either.

First step is to get the service manual for the specific model - there will be adjustment trimpots for the laser diode. You might be able to pump it up a little and get more life out of the existing one.
Actually step zero is to get a CD laser cleaner disc - they are a standard CD with fine hairs sticking out in the middle of a track. Obviously not something to do often, but they can get rid of accumulated dust which may be an issue too.

cd lens cleaner is something that is used regularly. Even daily. The one i use has a lens cleaning solution that is dropped on the lines of hairs.

I used to be able to only take the machine lid off and clean the lens once in a blue moon, has been more frequent recently.

I got the manual online yesterday and found out that the way the machine was built I need to take the front off before I get to take the section including the guard for the cd laser off. That was the bit that had me wondering if it would reconstruct easily.
I did get at the laser unit lens with isopropyl alcohol a couple of times.

Also never know which cd is going to get a negative play. Fuzz out, start making that weird rhythmic noise or whatever.
So bit of a pain.

every single t-shirt here

https://twitter.com/miahtao

they keep serving them up to me as ads and I keep clicking on them out of grim curiosity, all the comments are "got to get this t-shirt!" aaaaaaaaaaa

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, April 25, 2023 3:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I used to get those ones with text that covered the whole back like ' Im a proud Arkansan Taurean MAMA BEAR and proud American and this is my address and social and debit card pin"

the more I click on them the more they appear, it's becoming a problem

https://i.postimg.cc/brL946Zt/Screenshot-20230426-231909.jpg

imagine you were working in a cafe and you had to serve someone wearing that

Man those shirts are getting darker, wordier, and more violent.

"BACK OFF I am a functionally illiterate ASSHOLE I bought this shirt because COOL SKULL and I WILL KILL YOU"

https://vangogh.teespring.com/v3/image/-expMvIbE3-ojB0UUZMdNMRA-Bc/800/800.jpg

When you're walking towards someone on a narrow pavement alongside a busy road and because they can see the all the dangerous cars coming they move away from the road to let you pass, when really it's much more dangerous for you to be next to the road because you can't see them coming.