Trivial Things That Make You Surly

NWBuck · October 9

10 hours ago, nnm said:

*Quatro

Superhero · October 9

I was rushing so didn't look at the route options on Apple Maps to get from my house to LA. Just talked Siri and went on my way.

The fucking app took me on a tour of LA area freeways.

I could have taken my usual route and be there in about the same amount of time (maybe even quicker).

52-80 · October 11

Fucking merchants never identify themselves correctly on credit statements and there’s no other useful metadata to support it.

Once awhile I see what looks like random shit (like today something from “Voi DE”) and 99.8% after some investigation it turns out to be legit.

If merchants dont want people contesting their charge maybe they should identify themselves better.

ztejas · October 11

On 10/9/2024 at 4:05 AM, nnm said:

*Quatro

elfenix · October 11

On 9/29/2024 at 12:42 AM, Superhero said:

People changing lanes on the freeway at full speed.

I drive fast, but am a grandpa when changing lanes because I'm always worried someone will change into the same lane as me. Just to confirm my paranoia, I was merging from the slow lane to the middle lane, when a full size pickup truck came blazing out of the HOV lane, crossed 3 lanes of traffic and out the exit. I had to slam on my brakes and swerve back into the slow lane or else we would have collided.

Maybe 5 minutes later, I was ready to exit the freeway into downtown LA. Let's just say the highway design in DTLA makes I-35 look genius - the 2 right lanes are for cars trying to get onto and off the freeway. Everyone is trying to merge safely, but then this woman cuts into my lane at full speed, then slams on her brakes because there's nowhere for her to go. Again, I had to swerve to avoid another accident

People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her breath as her car drives up the onramp. “People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.” Though that sentence shouldn’t bother me, it stays in my mind for an uncomfortably long time. Nothing else seems to matter. Not the fact that I’m eighteen and it’s December and the ride on the plane had been rough and the couple from Santa Barbara, who were sitting across from me in first class, had gotten pretty drunk. . Not the mud that had splattered off the legs of my jeans, which felt kind of cold and loose, earlier that day at an airport in New Hampshire. Not the stain on the arm of the wrinkled, dam shirt I wear, a shirt which had looked fresh and clean this morning. Not the tear on the neck of my gray argyle vest, which seems vaguely more eastern than before, especially next to Blair's clean tight jeans and her pale blue T-shirt. All of this seems irrelevant next to that one sentence. It seems easier to hear that people are afraid to merge rather than "I'm pretty sure Muriel is anorexic" or the singer on the radio crying out about magnetic waves. Nothing else seems to matter to me but those ten words. Not the warm winds, which seem to propel the car down the empty asphalt freeway, or the faded smell of marijuana which still faintly permeates Blair’s car. All it comes down to is that I’m a boy coming home for a month and meeting someone whom I haven’t seen for four months and people are afraid to merge.

deter · October 11

These gd non stop political texts.

nnm · October 11

How it started:

20 hours ago, elfenix said:

People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her breath as her car drives up the onramp. “People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.” Though that sentence shouldn’t bother me, it stays in my mind for an uncomfortably long time. Nothing else seems to matter. Not the fact that I’m eighteen and it’s December and the ride on the plane had been rough and the couple from Santa Barbara, who were sitting across from me in first class, had gotten pretty drunk. . Not the mud that had splattered off the legs of my jeans, which felt kind of cold and loose, earlier that day at an airport in New Hampshire. Not the stain on the arm of the wrinkled, dam shirt I wear, a shirt which had looked fresh and clean this morning. Not the tear on the neck of my gray argyle vest, which seems vaguely more eastern than before, especially next to Blair's clean tight jeans and her pale blue T-shirt. All of this seems irrelevant next to that one sentence. It seems easier to hear that people are afraid to merge rather than "I'm pretty sure Muriel is anorexic" or the singer on the radio crying out about magnetic waves. Nothing else seems to matter to me but those ten words. Not the warm winds, which seem to propel the car down the empty asphalt freeway, or the faded smell of marijuana which still faintly permeates Blair’s car. All it comes down to is that I’m a boy coming home for a month and meeting someone whom I haven’t seen for four months and people are afraid to merge.

How it ended:

Edited October 12 by nnm

UpperWestside · October 12

Crossing the street when the light is green and having impatient cars trying to cut me off. Even the bus drivers pull this garbage on green lights for pedestrians. Today I got surly and smacked the vehicle with my hand. It was pretty loud. Guy got pissed, but I didn’t stop to look. Felt good to make one of these horrifically bad NYC drivers have to stop. I will not miss this about living here when I leave in January.

Underdog · October 12

“I’m walking here!”

mininghorn88 · October 12

6 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

Crossing the street when the light is green and having impatient cars trying to cut me off. Even the bus drivers pull this garbage on green lights for pedestrians. Today I got surly and smacked the vehicle with my hand. It was pretty loud. Guy got pissed, but I didn’t stop to look. Felt good to make one of these horrifically bad NYC drivers have to stop. I will not miss this about living here when I leave in January.

Had a roommate in college that insisted that walking was a right and driving is a privilege and that pedestrians had the right of way. This was all well and good until one day we were crossing 21st between Moore-Hill and Roberts and he blindly walked into the street to only be hit by a motorcycle.

UpperWestside · October 12

2 hours ago, mininghorn88 said:

Had a roommate in college that insisted that walking was a right and driving is a privilege and that pedestrians had the right of way. This was all well and good until one day we were crossing 21st between Moore-Hill and Roberts and he blindly walked into the street to only be hit by a motorcycle.

Well yeah that seems fairly reckless there to do that. I know here in NYC that if a motorist hits me they have to pay me. It doesn’t mean I am going to attempt to throw myself out into traffic though. Between the cars here and the scourge of e-bikes I have just had my fill of reckless drivers. These clowns on e-bikes will ride them on the sidewalk. It takes a lot to not just want to plow one of them over for doing that regularly.

nnm · October 13

Only we olds can relate to this.

Edited October 13 by nnm

closetohumping · October 13

11 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

Well yeah that seems fairly reckless there to do that. I know here in NYC that if a motorist hits me they have to pay me. It doesn’t mean I am going to attempt to throw myself out into traffic though. Between the cars here and the scourge of e-bikes I have just had my fill of reckless drivers. These clowns on e-bikes will ride them on the sidewalk. It takes a lot to not just want to plow one of them over for doing that regularly.

ebikers are assholes

Superhero · October 15

Top of the medical cabinet did not line up with the bottom of the wall cabinet,

Especially since they asked, and I told them the height I wanted. Idiots.

nnm · October 15

7 minutes ago, Superhero said:

Top of the medical cabinet did not line up with the bottom of the wall cabinet,

Especially since they asked, and I told them the height I wanted. Idiots.

I bet it was the Seattle team on the install (I know, it's a vendor).

Scraps · October 15

After long thought I have come to the conclusion -

Everything.

Everything makes me surly.

Scraps · October 15

On 10/11/2024 at 4:20 PM, deter said:

These gd non stop political texts.

I PLAYED FOOTBALL FOR BAYLOR I AM COLLIN ALLRED

Sorry...misread that as "ads" not "texts"

Edited October 15 by Scraps

Scraps · October 15

On 10/8/2024 at 6:19 PM, closetohumping said:

White dudes with cutesy ethnic names. Looking at you Tres, Quattro and Cinco.

What about El Scrapo? That is my secondary nickname

nnm · October 15

20 minutes ago, Scraps said:

What about El Scrapo? That is my secondary nickname

For the first ten years of my life, I thought my name was pinche. As in "pinche gringo," and "pinche guero."

52-80 · October 16

socks that slip and bunch up.

i got these muji "right angle socks" that are supposed to be the antidote to that, they're constructed with big heel cup woven at 90* to fit perfectly in theory, except theyre the slippiest socks ive worn. trash.

GoPokes83 · October 16

I PLAYED FOOTBALL FOR BAYLOR I AM COLLIN ALLRED
Sorry...misread that as "ads" not "texts"

It’ll all be over in 19 days. Of course that doesn't include the subsequent rioting.

Iceman · October 16

On 10/12/2024 at 4:01 AM, UpperWestside said:

Crossing the street when the light is green and having impatient cars trying to cut me off. Even the bus drivers pull this garbage on green lights for pedestrians. Today I got surly and smacked the vehicle with my hand. It was pretty loud. Guy got pissed, but I didn’t stop to look. Felt good to make one of these horrifically bad NYC drivers have to stop. I will not miss this about living here when I leave in January.

People in the NE honk way the hell too much. It's to the point that it's so common, the honking doesn't signify anything any more. It's just audible clutter.

Philly. NYC. BLT. DC all of em.

gofuckyourself · October 16

On 10/8/2024 at 6:19 PM, closetohumping said:

White dudes with cutesy ethnic names. Looking at you Tres, Quattro and Cinco.

Sure, but if the workers give you a cute ethnic nickname AND even spray paint it on the closet floor during the home construction, you own it with pride ... so to speak.

closetohumping · October 16

2 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

Sure, but if the workers give you a cute ethnic nickname AND even spray paint it on the closet floor during the home construction, you own it with pride ... so to speak.

Worked in construction and restaurants a lot of my life. Every Latino regardless of familiarity eventually calls me peachy merry cone. I like peach ice cream but come on

Iceman · October 16

Cool Arrow is the best!

nnm · October 16

16 minutes ago, Iceman said:

Cool Arrow is the best!

I thought it was Coolio.

Tex Long · October 16

1 hour ago, Iceman said:

Cool Arrow is the best!

I wanted Straight Arrow, but Cool Arrow is what I got.

nnm · October 16

Oversized adapters/plugs. It's always a pain when a stupid boxy adapter takes up 2-3 spaces on an outlet. This morning I ran into a related issue.

I bought a new Mocha Master coffee machine. It's a good one that mimics a pour-over method of coffee brewing, and has a thermal carafe instead of a glass carafe in which coffee burns as it sits on the heating plate.

The plug on it has a big plastic plug end that won't fit through the hole in the counter, to get to the plug. I had to open the electrical box on the coffee maker, take off the leads, take the cord through the hole in the counter in reverse, and then re-connect the electrical leads inside the coffee maker box. If/when we ever move, or re-do that counter, I'll have to do that in reverse.

Mocha Master is made in the Netherlands.

UpperWestside · October 16

5 hours ago, Iceman said:

People in the NE honk way the hell too much. It's to the point that it's so common, the honking doesn't signify anything any more. It's just audible clutter.

Philly. NYC. BLT. DC all of em.

The honking is, well, maybe the absolute hardest thing for me to deal with here since I have issues with really loud noises like that. Just honking for no reason. A large truck was honking at cars to move on a side street a few days ago. The reason the street was backed up was kids getting on their school bus. Sometimes I’d be okay with some dumb rednecks living here for awhile and getting honked at just to watch what happens to the driver that does it.

Mittens · October 17

What's the first thing that happens whey you reply "STOP" to a fundraising text?

That's right: ANOTHER MOTHERFUCKING TEXT!

Vic Mackey · October 18

What's the first thing that happens whey you reply "STOP" to a fundraising text?
That's right: ANOTHER MOTHERFUCKING TEXT!

Same thing when you unsubscribe from emails.

tbone_ · October 19

All of the stupid cgi Lucas added to the original Star Wars movies

closetohumping · October 19

On 10/16/2024 at 7:11 AM, gofuckyourself said:

Sure, but if the workers give you a cute ethnic nickname AND even spray paint it on the closet floor during the home construction, you own it with pride ... so to speak.

Geez. Some poor white family has that under their closet and will never know it

NeverMarryAStripper · October 19

It could be worse. They could do what the guys who built my first house did and take a shit in the attic.

gofuckyourself · October 19

3 hours ago, closetohumping said:

Geez. Some poor white family has that under their closet and will never know it

We're the poor white family. I laughed my ass off when I saw it.

Brisketexan · October 19

Oh FFS. The end cap at Randall’s tonight:

Underdog · October 19

How many boxes of Wednesday cereal did you buy? Also, tell me more about the spiced pumpkin pecan pie coffee. TIA.

InkaUtexas · October 21

On 10/18/2024 at 11:20 PM, Brisketexan said:

Oh FFS. The end cap at Randall’s tonight:

Receptionist made both carafes with pumpkin coffee. Did not read it poured a cup and almost gagged in front of the new planning director. She understood.

nnm · October 22

Almost put this in the Facebook thread, but it hits so close to home, I put it here. This is absolutely part of my life. At least half the music that I listen to on Spotify, I paid for and owned on one of those media in the past.

ABSR · October 22

1 hour ago, nnm said:

Almost put this in the Facebook thread, but it hits so close to home, I put it here. This is absolutely part of my life. At least half the music that I listen to on Spotify, I paid for and owned on ~~one~~ multiple of those media in the past.

Fixed it for accuracy.

General Specific · October 22

52-80 · October 23

people scheduling meetings through lunch time, late in the afternoon when im trying to get home, early in the morning when im reading emails, or in the between hours when im trying to do work

ztejas · October 23

On 10/18/2024 at 11:20 PM, Brisketexan said:

Randall’s

52-80 · October 23

21 hours ago, nnm said:

Almost put this in the Facebook thread, but it hits so close to home, I put it here. This is absolutely part of my life. At least half the music that I listen to on Spotify, I paid for and owned on one of those media in the past.

Napster fixes this.

WhatTheBuck · October 23

21 hours ago, nnm said:

Almost put this in the Facebook thread, but it hits so close to home, I put it here. This is absolutely part of my life. At least half the music that I listen to on Spotify, I paid for and owned on one of those media in the past.

Nobody had to replace their CD collection. If you replaced yours with an iPod just because everyone else was doing it then that’s on you.

InkaUtexas · October 23

1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

people scheduling meetings through lunch time, late in the afternoon when im trying to get home, early in the morning when im reading emails, or in the between hours when im trying to do work

so meetings? Yeah, fuck those things.

But I am with you. The classic 4:45 "this will take a minute" meeting. Yo dickhead, we are discussing a massive restructuring or response to a hurricane and you think that is quick?

nnm · October 23

5 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Nobody had to replace their CD collection. If you replaced yours with an iPod just because everyone else was doing it then that’s on you.

The portability of the iPod was the game changer. You didn’t have to cart around a stack of CDs. They all fit in your pocket.

WhatTheBuck · October 23

33 minutes ago, nnm said:

The portability of the iPod was the game changer. You didn’t have to cart around a stack of CDs. They all fit in your pocket.

I suppose if convenience matters more to you than audio quality. I’ve never felt the need to carry my entire music collection around with me and never had the time to rip a couple thousand CDs to lossy mp3s. Even if I did, I never would’ve tossed out my CD collection.

I’ve got a case that will hold about a couple dozen CDs and that’s more than enough for most of my needs. I can choose a good variety of selections for any trip. For longer trips I can put 40 or 100 discs in a Case Logic binder. I tried ripping an assortment of discs when I first got an iPhone but the listening experience was so frustrating, cupping my hands over the earbuds trying to get listenable sound, that I never listened for long and don’t have any music on my current phone. I listen to CDs on my home and car stereos, PC, and boom box. On my phone I listen to talk radio or podcasts. I’ve got decent speakers on my PC and can listen to streaming stuff that way but it’s not my first choice. The iPod was a solution to a problem I never had. I was amazed, though, by how quickly everyone discarded their CD collections.

nnm · October 23

34 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I suppose if convenience matters more to you than audio quality. I’ve never felt the need to carry my entire music collection around with me and never had the time to rip a couple thousand CDs to lossy mp3s. Even if I did, I never would’ve tossed out my CD collection.

I’ve got a case that will hold about a couple dozen CDs and that’s more than enough for most of my needs. I can choose a good variety of selections for any trip. For longer trips I can put 40 or 100 discs in a Case Logic binder. I tried ripping an assortment of discs when I first got an iPhone but the listening experience was so frustrating, cupping my hands over the earbuds trying to get listenable sound, that I never listened for long and don’t have any music on my current phone. I listen to CDs on my home and car stereos, PC, and boom box. On my phone I listen to talk radio or podcasts. I’ve got decent speakers on my PC and can listen to streaming stuff that way but it’s not my first choice. The iPod was a solution to a problem I never had. I was amazed, though, by how quickly everyone discarded their CD collections.

I understand your point on the music quality. Audiophiles swear by LPs and high quality equipment, and consider any digital music to be anathema.

But the world has moved on. I don’t even know where I would play a CD. I don’t have a CD player in any of our cars, or anywhere in the house. I switched to Sonos audio over 10 years ago for our home listening. I probably haven’t listened to an actual audio CD in at least 15 years.

Iceman · October 23

2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Nobody had to replace their CD collection. If you replaced yours with an iPod just because everyone else was doing it then that’s on you.

show me the new cars with CD players then...

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