Goat Day #31: What irks you? [Prize Edition]
59Hi there. You know what irks me? A lot of stuff. Too much to list in fact, but a lot of it revolves around people. What do I do about it? Normally just brush it off and rant on forums about it.
Example: Today I was leaving a parking lot that had an intersection. I was at the light. My light turned green. 5 seconds later a car barrels through his red with no regard for the safety of anybody else. I see that all the time. Yellow/Amber is not a challenge for you to beat the red. I see it several times a week.
Anyways, what irks you?
Also, there’s prizes! Well, 3 of the same prize. In the spirit of being irked, you could win one of these:
It’s a poster of unknown size. Composed of thousands of meh click faces.
Winners will be chosen as follows:
1 winner chosen by random selection for starring this topic
1 winner chosen by random selection for submitting a comment
1 winner chosen by top star count of their (top level) comment
Entries will be accepted until 10:59PM CST on 09/02/2018
If one or more people have the same top star count, winner will be the user that posted first.
Only your first comment will go towards star count entry, so choose wisely.
Prize will be shipped ASAP, but no set date
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Amazon’s shitty excuse for a search engine still irks me.
Red light cameras irk me.
It irks me when other people cause an accident and blame anyone else but themselves.
For instance we once got rear ended by someone that was hauling a trailer. It wasn’t his fault that he didn’t give himself enough time to stop.
I live near a large expressway underpass and every single asshat on a motorcycle or in a car with loud pipes HAS TO REV THEIR ENGINE under there…
@therealjrn I apologize that my station wagon has a 3" downpipe and a straight through muffler.
(It’s set off car alarms in parking garages before.)
@narfcake you sonofabitch.
@therealjrn OTOH, I’ve never been to Oklahoma …
@narfcake Don’t worry, this is the land of monster trucks (balls optional) and motorcycles. Your brethren gotcher back.
Landlords and handymen not showing up or moving quickly to fix a broken AC in TX in the summer irks me.
PS instead of flipping people off when they cut you off or blow through a red light or whatever, just wag your finger at them – much more effective.
When people click their pens. Over and over. Mindlessly. I understand but STOP it. I’m fine with telling the goobers I’ve sat near for years and years to knock it off but in a meeting with others I don’t know as well & can’t really snap at, that sucks. Argh.
@moonhat You should give them a fidget spinner.
@moonhat @therealjrn Actually, they now make special pens that have the feel of clicking but don’t make the noise for this very reason. (similar function as a fidget spinner but much more satisfying)
@moonhat I can’t hear you over the sound of my pen clicker.
Sorry.
@lseeber @therealjrn that sounds like a wonderful invention.
@TheFLP don’t be a meanie, Mr. The Flip.
@moonhat I did say I was sorry.
This irks me:
@shahnm That hurts my OCD eyes.
@shahnm You had ONE job…
@shahnm A little grey paint will fix that right up.
@shahnm That’s maddening.
@shahnm the correct pieces are there even!
@heartny @shahnm I’ve developed a twitch in my right eye looking at this…
@shahnm I don’t see anything?
@shahnm Ha! Proof you don’t read all the threads. It’s in the brick pattern. This image was posted before on some thread where it was discussed in detail.
@shahnm finally got the picture to load. I remember this one from before…ouch LOL
@shahnm Oops meant to tag @llangley. And now I see @llangley meant didn’t see anything due to photo not loading… too late to delete. Sorry about that.
@shahnm FTFY:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/well-this-just-pisses-me-off
Tiny cars irk me. They are consistently ugly; the stubbed toe of car styling, in addition to sounding like a hair drier making wet farts. They’re accidents waiting to happen and are always in the way of folks with real cars.
@duodec And what do you consider to be a “real” car, may I ask?
@moonhat You most certainly may, but I prefer to point out examples of the stubbed toe genre: Smart cars. BMW Isettas. Messerschmitt KR200 (though it is at least blessed with a little character). Fiat 500s gain entry through their general ugliness though they’re at the large end of ‘tiny’.
@duodec oh man. Those Fiat 500s are so adorable though!!
@moonhat Adorable? I hear people call pugs and other dogs bred to have snub noses ‘adorable’ but that manipulation has caused the individual dogs considerable grief and health issues. Bulldogs too, with many requiring birthing by C-section. But they’re “adorable”. Hairless dogs that need sunscreen to go outside? “Adorable”.
Meh. Putting a bulbous exaggerated contour skin over a rollerskate is not adorable.
@duodec @moonhat It’s a Fiat 500 DD…how about charming? Fiat 500’s are charming.
Well it used to be fuko captchas, but I guess in the future I’ll be irked about IRK captchas.
can we enter more than once?
@Kidsandliz Sure, but only the first post counts according to the rules. Choose wis…
er…hope you choice wins!
@therealjrn But but but I can’t delete the one I posted first. I actually posted my one further down first, deleted it one, posted the first one, then rethought that but it was too late to edit it back.
This is what I get when I do things when over tired (eg last night). I don’t read carefully. @lichme your fault since you are goat.
I get irked when my neighbor’s landscaping service shows up at 6AM on Saturday and fires up the leaf blower.
I get irked when the dogs decide 6AM on Sunday is about the right time for me to take them outside.
I get irked when 6AM on Monday rolls around and I realize I will never know what it’s like to sleep until 7.
Bonus irk: when the forum chokes after I submit a post and I lose everything I just typed. It sure seems to happen with too much regularity.
@ruouttaurmind I get pissed off at the time 6AM just on principle.
People who leave their kids unbuckled in a car, then drive like idiots while talking on a cellphone. I saw this recently on a busy road but was stuck at an intersection and couldn’t catch up to phone in the license plate number. One of the little kids had his head and arm hanging out the window. Ugh. I’m still pissed off just thinking about it.
@mehcuda67 I grew up that way. 'Course seat belts and Ralph Nader weren’t invented yet. I spent half the way to Disneyland from Oklahoma up on the shelf behind the back window while mom & dad smoked up the car with their cigarettes.
nowadays we do know better.
@therealjrn we may know better, but road trips are a lot less fun
@nolrak @therealjrn The real fun was Burma-Shave signs. I have a book listing all of them.
@nolrak @OldCatLady @therealjrn The Marlboro man!
@lseeber @nolrak @OldCatLady @therealjrn
And Shoney’s Big Boy.
@lseeber @mike808 @nolrak @OldCatLady Stucky’s
People.
The older I get, the more everyone gets under my skin. Facebook has given morons a stage to be incredibly stupid and for other morons to recognize it. No one really cares about your opinions.
No one cares about my opinions.
@capguncowboy
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/i-prefer-dogs-or-cats
I Prefer Dogs or Cats
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
@capguncowboy I couldn’t have said it better myself. As much as I try to love human beings, they are just so unappealing in general with their words and their actions. Animals are so far and wide wayyy above humans in that way.
@capguncowboy I have a grumpy cat fridge magnet… “There are two kinds of people… and I don’t like them”.
Guys that genuinely use “bro” way, way way too much in their day to day vocabulary!
@sicc574 right on, bro
@sicc574 I hear ya brah.
@sicc574 @therealjrn
Preach, Brohim!
@sicc574
/image brougham
I won’t go into specifics about politicians, but maybe the irk me exactly how they intended.
Drivers who use the shoulder way past the entry to get in front of everyone and won’t friggin merge! Just people who merge wrong in general!
/giphy traffic merge
This. This irks me to no end. Why?! Just. Put. It. On. The. ROLL!!!
@bramby2
For a couple of seconds there I couldn’t see what the problem was. You have a toilet paper roll just floating right next to the old one. That’s kinda cool!
@jst1ofknd do I have a sideways picture on computers? It’s upright on my phone…ugh.
@narfcake …can you help me fix my pic?
@bramby2 anti-gravity TP, cool!
@bramby2 @narfcake
It’s sideways on my phone. I say leave as is. I like levitating toilet paper.
@bramby2 Question: over or under?
@bramby2 @ruouttaurmind
Over, but the point is moot. It always ends up as photographed.
@bramby2 @jst1ofknd @ruouttaurmind
It’s rotated now.
@bramby2 @jst1ofknd @narfcake @ruouttaurmind OMG, there’s a shadow of WALL-E above it, and the TP is floating. It’s a miracle!!
/image WALL-E
@bramby2 @ruouttaurmind over over over!!
@bramby2 @moonhat @ruouttaurmind I make an exception for owners of a certain kind of cat, though.
/giphy cat toilet paper roll
@TheFLP Does the cat really care if the paper rolls from the top or bottom?
@ruouttaurmind @TheFLP from the top…easier to unroll with little kitty paws
@bramby2 @ruouttaurmind Exactly. Though a really determined cat could find a way around it.
@bramby2 @TheFLP Well, I guess dogs are more assertive. They just rip the whole roll off, no discrimination about which way the paper is hanging.
@bramby2 @ruouttaurmind
I’m going to correct my post about it being a moot point. I should actually have said it was a MOO point.
@jst1ofknd Why do you have pointy cows in your bathroom, though?
It irks me when people don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom, especially my coworkers. I’ve seen some people walk straight from the bathroom to the copier, which is touchscreen I might add. Yuck!
When my neighbor puts their dog out to bark most nights, including last night.
Too late to edit.
Where it barked much of the night.
The people who own that dog claim its not their dog barking since they don’t hear it. Umm yes it is. I can see it from my window barking due to the security light in the parking lot (house is next to this apartment complex and my window looks into their backyard). Not to mention their dog is the only dog in the neighborhood that mostly lives outside.
@Kidsandliz if it’s not their dog, they certainly can’t be sad or upset if it decided to … um … “run away” one night. Right?
Rubberneckers. You’re stuck in an interstate traffic jam for an hour or more. Finally get to the flashing lights. The accident is ON THE OTHER SIDE YOU FUCKING MORONS so there is no reason to stop or slow down just so you can get a look???
Damn, you harshed my mellow
.
Guess that’s how you tell you got a good GOAT…
Thanks for this month, it’s been fun. (You will henceforth be known as Mr. Nads)
@llangley When I lived in Newport News there were rubberneckers as we approached the Hampton Roads bridge tunnel where you could see brake lights light up when tankers were in sight. You could just imagine the conversation in the cars responsible - “Kids! Look at the big boat we are going to drive under!!”.
Of course the other reason for slowdowns there just the wasn’t rubberneckers, it was people towing or driving their RV tanks and weren’t sure they’d fit in the tunnel unless they went slowly and in some cases blocking both lanes on your side because they were driving down the middle.
@Kidsandliz @llangley I was based at Norfolk, yes, yes yes.
@Kidsandliz @llangley But rubbernecking is just human nature, really. We can’t help it.
4 Words: My Mother-in-Law
@azwepe hope she’s not on here
@azwepe Is that really four words, or is it just two?
(in before someone posts that people who pick apart language and grammar really grinds their gears)
@azwepe
The behaviors of some smokers irk me to no end:
When they smoke up a car with kids inside it, and worse still with the windows rolled up. Ugh! It’s 2018 folks. We know way better.
When they flick a burning cigarette butt out of a moving vehicle. Not too long ago, a biker in front of me on the highway got hit in the face and almost had an accident.
When they smoke within inches of entryways. It’s so inconsiderate. Who wants to walk through a plume of stinking smoke?
@msmay Indeed. The vast majority of them seem to prioritize smoking over everything else. Yeah, yeah, so maybe you’re addicted to it, but that doesn’t excuse inconsiderate behavior. Don’t litter. Don’t smoke around your kids. Don’t smoke at the drive-through window. Don’t work only 6 out of 8 hours per day because you take a 15 minute smoke break every hour. If you’re staying over at my house, don’t set the alarm off and wake me up at 6am because you just had to go out and smoke.
@medz @msmay I am a smoker,and I smoke a lot! That being said, i completely agree with everything both of you just said. I have been addicted to plenty of things in my life(both past and present) and its really not that difficult to be a courteous addict.
Driving. I don’t know it seems like driving has gotten worse? Rubberneckers (it’s an accident we’ve all seen one, unless it’s a clown car full of fire breathing ninjas fighting dinosaurs) are my biggest issue. But just driving generally, because even if I drive well it doesn’t stop the fool that cuts 90 degrees because they miss their exit to get to their exit causing issues. I despise driving.
Note: (Just adding to the convo pass me over for prizes and such.)
People who assume anyone over 40 is tech-challenged. Gray hair and a cane mask an evil mind, and I will make your home network do strange things if you patronize me. OTOH, I don’t get a lot of ‘could you look at my printer and tell me what’s wrong’ requests.
Never saw this so much until I moved to the south… people driving slow in the passing lane right along side the guy in the right lane. People putting on their turn signal because the guy in front of them is turning. I’ve been run off the rd a few times over this one. Thinking they’re turning and going around them and all of a sudden they go and you have nowhere to go.
On a busy rd or the interstate, there’s barely room between me and the guy in front of me but the fellow in the right lane puts his signal on at the same time he jumps into your lane in front of you and YOU have to slam on your brakes. Just because you put your signal on doesn’t mean you CAN!
(These irk me so much I just realized I was screaming it in my head while typing)
My biggest irk is people who record at concerts. I DIDN’T PAY TO WATCH GODSMACK ON YOUR EFFING CELL PHONE SCREEN!!! I can handle a couple pictures but not the recording.
Jack White didn’t allow cell phones and everyone survived.
@jksquared I was the guy that did this at my first two concerts. Then I realized I didn’t actually get to watch the concert, and never go back and watch the videos I took.
Sorry
“Must buy 4” supermarket deals. Charge the “regular” price (which is double what you usually pay) for one, but charge slightly less than usually (per item) if you buy 4 times as many items as you actually want. Must buy 4? Wrong. I can buy none.
@walarney As a friend of mine said once “you didn’t save $4.00 you spent X amount that you weren’t going to spend to buy it.”
@Targaryen It’s not so much the having to buy 4 to get the “deal”, it’s that they jack up the price of 1 for the duration of the promotion.
@Targaryen @walarney
Isn’t that the same here? Buy 2 at certain price, but buy a dozen at a much cheaper per-item price.
@narfcake @Targaryen
No. Here’s it’s buy 2 at a lower than usual price or 12 at a much lower than usual price. Grocery store is buy 1 at higher than usual price or 4 at slightly lower than usual price.
@walarney At Kroger it’s buy 10!!
@walarney Coupons are doing the same thing nowadays. Get 20 cents off if you buy 237 of them.
Pay-to-win games. Micro-transactions. Games that have mandatory DLC you have to buy to continue playing the same activities. (matchmaking or otherwise)
@medz Not sure if you’re into it but Dragon Age was a fantastic first game that was complete with different ways to run through. So it had playability AND it had DLC that added more to the game which was nice but you can play just fine without it. Definitely my most favorite console RPG of recent years.
@Targaryen I think I started it. Seemed very slow to get going…basically running around some castle/village. I did some gladiator battle… haven’t figured out how to leave yet. Lost interest.
@medz I’d say give it another shot, but that is just me. You could do with some wiki assistance if need be to get you started, but it’s not everyones cup of dark spawn blood.
@medz @Targaryen Divinity Original Sin 2 is a very similar, but vastly superior game to the original Dragon Age. Just got a major update today as well. And I think it may even be on consoles now.
@FeralRants @medz I’ll give that a shot when I see it on sale.
@FeralRants @medz @Targaryen
FYI: Dragon Age Origins (PC) is currently $20 @ GOG.com. Divinity Original Sin 2 is $40.
I played DA:O about 60% thru (xBox 360) before moving on to more productive endeavors
Other drivers definitely irk me the most and the most frequently.
I will not elaborate (much) because I don’t feel like getting angry just thinking about it, but the two biggest problems, which others above have also mentioned, are drivers who either don’t understand or don’t care that PASSING LANES ARE FOR PASSING YOU ASSHOLE! IF YOU’RE NOT PASSING ANYONE, (and, in fact being passed on the right by a steady stream of extremely irked people) GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE PASSING LANE! And also drivers who pay more attention to their FUCKING CELLPHONES than to piloting their car at 60-75 mph, slowing down, speeding up, weaving in & out of their lane, WHICH IS FOR PASSING, NOT TO GIVE YOU MORE ROOM TO WEAVE WHILE YOU LOOK AT YOUR PHONE, YOU ASSHOLE, and PUTTING EVERYONE ELSE’S LIVES IN DANGER BECAUSE YOU THINK WHATEVER INANE BULLSHIT ON YOUR PHONE SCREEN IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVERYONE ELSE’S SAFTEY!!!
Phew, ok, taking a few deep breaths… Now that I’ve managed not to prevent myself from getting worked up - I’ll elaborate more.
There were enough ignorant, clueless, unsafe drivers on the road before the proliferation of smartphones.
Things have gotten so much ridiculously and dangerously worse in the last 10 years, now that the majority of the population are addicted to the things.
It has changed the way people use multi-lane highways;
The right lane is no longer for slower drivers, it is now the passing lane for people who are actually paying attention to driving and are more concerned with maintaining the flow of traffic and getting where they’re going in a timely manner than they are concerned with what people are doing on social media.
Unfortunately, that lane is also for people merging on to the highway, but that usually only creates a moment of conflict because most merging drivers will move immediately to the left, regardless of whether they’re going faster than anyone in front or to the right of them.
The center lanes are now, clearly, the distracted driving lanes. These are the lanes to drive in when you want to pay more attention to your phone than driving. It is the safest place to do so, because you have much more room to weave side to side before leaving the road surface or hitting a jersey barrier, and when your speed is erratic and slower than all other traffic, other drivers are free to pass you on either side (assuming the lanes on either side are free of similar assholes, which is increasingly unlikely).
The left lane is no longer for the faster drivers to pass the slower ones, it is for people who want to drive at a consistent, steady speed, without being bothered by having to use a turn signal, change lanes and pass slower drivers, but also without being worried about the people behind you who still want to go faster than the rest of traffic - after all, if they want to go faster than you (which they shouldn’t because you are clearly going as fast as anyone else should be permitted to go), there is plenty of road to the right for them to do so.
Ugh, so much for not elaborating or getting myself worked up.
@DennisG2014 Yeah you understand. I feel like it’s time to require a run through driver’s ed every 5-10 years or something for everyone. Sure, it’s a pain in the ass but man I’m trying to get somewhere in one piece. I don’t want to die because someone else wants to text and so on.
When I go out grocery shopping early to avoid all the peoples and then I get home and remember I forgot something that I am going to have to go back out after this afternoon.
How about this shit that I saw this morning:
@lichme Story time: So I bought a 100% brand new 2014 Toyota Corolla. I’ve had it about 2 weeks. So I park it to go in to a Starbucks to get coffee for the wife and I. I come out and this SUV is next to my car and I hear a bang as this young kid (I’m sure kicked the door open) and slides out. It left a small gash in the door. I see it I’m shocked, the mom of the kid sees it, her she looks frightened and basically literally and figuratively her kid back in the SUV and takes off in the car. I’m holding two coffees, so in that time I put one down and unfortunately my phone is slow, and nerves it takes time to get the camera up. The SUV has ghosted. No proof for my insurance.
Story 2: So I was looking for new jobs after working at the Post Office. I go in to apply for an interview at this place. I park with one space next to mine at a median type divider in the lot. I walk in dressed nice, confident and thinking “this place sounds alright” (turns out it was an MLM). I did the interview anyway just to practice. I come out let down and I see 3 little scrape marks on my car on the bumper and it’s crushed in a bit. My wait time and interview was maybe 10-15 minutes max. In that time some asshole tried to get into the space, hit the bumper trying to get in and then took off. No help again for the insurance.
In short I despise owning a car.
@lichme @Targaryen ooh, I’ve got one!
Come out of lunch the other day and notice this:
Looks like a cigarette burn in my top. I don’t believe it was there before. I’m going to patch it from the inside but that’s never permanent, and a replacement will be thousands of dollars.
Those scuffs suck. Most of that will buff out but some of it looks pretty rough and maybe down to the plastic.
I did watch a kid getting out of an SUV that was parked close to another SUV in a tight spot, because my friend said “that kid is about to murder that Jeep”. We watched in amazement as the child put his hand on the outer edge of the door and opened carefully so his hand would hit the Jeep instead of the door if it went too far. He didn’t hit anything and got out of the car. We gave him a thumbs up. Someone raised their kid right.
@lichme @Targaryen Aw man, every ding & scratch on my car (ok, maybe a tiny exaggeration but, literally, at least 90% of them) happened in the parking lot of one particular produce market I go to quite often.
Never seen a single one as it occurred, and I have long since started parking as far away from other vehicles as possible.
One, in particular, just amazes me - a deep crease in the door in line with the handle. Could have been a shopping cart, but more likely another car’s door, but either way, it had to hit HARD to make that crease. Could’ve been someone’s kid who didn’t know any better, as in your story #1, but more likely one of the ignorant and inconsiderate entitled people who for some reason, unfortunately, frequent this store.
This place has the nicest employees, which is really a necessity because the majority of the patrons are such a-holes.
Aside from the dings in my car, I’ve also frequently gotten dinged in my Achille’s tendon by the cart of the person behind me - maybe 1/3 of the time it happens does the perpetrator even acknowledge it, let alone apologize.
It is a small but always very busy shop and they have a 6-item express lane during lunch hours (when I most typically go) that I way too frequently see people with far more than 6 items knowingly queue up into and then break out the affronted entitlement when the cashier or another patron points out their ‘error’.
Seen it devolve into shouting matches more than once, too.
Not sure what it is about the place that draws these people, it’s pretty remarkable, really.
Damn, I think I need to stay away from threads that encourage complaining… It’s way too comfortable of a groove for me to slip into. lol
@DennisG2014 @lichme In grocery stores my biggest peeve is people that don’t know how to use the self check out. If it’s not busy cool there is an open space for me. But when it’s busy for some reason they decide to give it a try only then. What should have been a quick trip turned into am aisle of people looking completely frustrated and lost.
@DennisG2014 @lichme @Targaryen I had a nicely dressed lady smooth cut me off with her cart one time in front of the Sam’s self-checkout. She was clearly in over her head and couldn’t figure it out. She looks back at me with a pleading smile (as if I’m going to help her)
I just smiled back and moved over to another register that had opened…after my quick 3 item checkout I brightly told her to have a nice day. She was still looking like a lost little lamb…
Ordinarily I’m a pretty helpful guy, but the bitch nearly ran over my feet rushing in from the side like she did.
@Targaryen @therealjrn
@lichme Your first mistake was going in to Starbucks.
@DennisG2014 @lichme @Targaryen @therealjrn Oh man… at Sam’s… use the Scan & Go app. Zap the stuff as you load your cart and bypass the checkout completely! I love it.
@lichme @Targaryen @therealjrn I would’ve given her my coldest stink-eye.
I usually reserve that for other drivers from the safety of my car, and try to be patient, polite and kind when I’m actually sharing space with other people, especially crabby people (kill 'em w/ kindness), but if someone goes out of their way to be intentionally and unapologetically selfish, rude and inconsiderate? Yeah, I’ll be smdh and shooting daggers.
I lost my meh face streak two nights ago.
That irks me to hell.
Twenty-something year old country music fans. Fuckers.
When someone uses my email address to sign up for a newsletter. I don’t get it. Why sign up for a newsletter with a wrong address? Why not just don’t sign up? Ok, maybe it’s required for something and they don’t want spam. But how in the world are they randomly typing my address? I guess the internet is a pretty close approximation to an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters…
@walarney Or somebody got your email from a list and is sending unsolicited advertisements with the intention of getting you to buy stuff.
@lichme @walarney Shh… gonna figure out it’s us.
@lichme Could be. Meh uses a third party service to guess your name from your email address (or their CRS provider does). Spammers could be using a similar service and (also) getting it wrong. But some of these seem rather specific and/or not especially spammy. “Matthew” is thinking about becoming a Lyft driver and shopping for car insurance in Tennessee. And somebody else – I forget her name – has signed me up for the East Carolina University alumni newsletter multiple times.
Littering.
People that don’t recycle. Often at work, I will see a garbage receptacle with a coke can or an empty plastic bottle or cardboard or something in it and think, what the hell? The recycle container is RIGHT THERE next to it. OR… the idiots who put food garbage in the regular garbage and not the compost garbage in the office lunchroom. What gives, earth-haters!!! Put your fricking banana peel in the compost container. Grrrr
I am irked by every single other human being inhabiting this planet. (besides my kids - they can stay)
All the staff threads
/define irk
VERB
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There is this terrible intersection I have to drive through regularly. The intersection itself is bad for a number of reasons but the worst is that people driving into it can’t read the fucking signs posted everywhere and have no idea how to drive.
There are 2 north bound lanes, both of those lanes can continue north, the left one has the option to turn left and head west, but must yield to south bond traffic, the right lane has an option to turn right into a parking lot on the east.
There is one south bound lane that does not continue and must turn right and head west.
There is one east bound lane that has the option to turn left and head north or to go straight and enter a parking lot to the east.
Cars leaving the parking lot have the option to go straight and head west or to turn right and go north.
All of these things are very clearly posted on multiple signs, on ground markings and on the traffic signals.
It is not possible to go south from this intersection. From every direction there are clear “Wrong Way” and “Do Not Enter” signs.
Half the time I go through the intersection when there are other cars around(not very often since most of the time I drive through this intersection is very late at night) some one attempts to go south.
@metaphore There’s an intersection like that in Bremerton, WA…
@daveinwarsh yup.
Restaurants that say pickup in 20 mins and your food is done in an hour.
@lichme Inversely, restaurants that tell you your food will be ready for pick up in 40 mins but it’s done in 20 so by the time you get there it’s already cold.
This fucker.
@cinoclav You win
@cinoclav Rhetoric and temperament.
@DennisG2014 I’d add intelligence, but that would simply be insulting to 5 year old children.
/wootstalker shirt
F Off
Price: $15.00
Condition: New
@narfcake subtle
Slowpoke Idiots who never get over from the left lane no matter how long the train of cars behind them. Two miles of empty lane in front of them, two miles of backed up traffic behind them. I want someone to invent a Jetsons-type scoop that lets me scoop them up and over my car out of my way !!!
@tngrannyd I want a street legal tank.
@tngrannyd I’m not especially proud to say that a couple of times, in extreme cases, I’ve gotten in front of drivers like that and just removed my foot from the accelerator until they moved to the right, then I speeded away.
Even when it meant making the situation worse and causing innocent drivers to pass me on the right, giving me the stink-eye, honking and/or giving me the finger.
I’ve been tempted to do that many, many more times, but I know it makes me the asshole, so now I just give them my best stink-eye as I pass on the right.
@DennisG2014 I have considered doing that SO many times. I always give them the stink eye and have been known to cut them really short when I pass on the right. Especially if they have a cell phone to their ear and a cigarette hanging out of their mouth with smoke clouding their vision.
@lseeber I would be dangerous with a tank. Im too old to go to jail.
@lseeber @tngrannyd As kids we’d draw gun sites on the van windows with crayons and shoot the cars and trucks…apparently our guns weren’t loaded despite the noises we made when we’d shoot since it never made any difference.
@tngrannyd Awww… Never too old!
@lseeber @tngrannyd If you end up in the pokey, we’d put plenty of money on your books so you could buy some protection with the ramen noodles…
@DennisG2014 @tngrannyd When I was younger, I did the same thing. I learned it from my dad.
@Kidsandliz @tngrannyd Kinda like those broom horses. They actually got you nowhere.
@lseeber @tngrannyd Yeah finger guns, broom horses, dollar tree fairy wands… they seriously need to redesign those things to work as children intend them to work.
@Kidsandliz @tngrannyd Yep. When my eldest daughter was 4, there was a commercial on tv for a pen. Don’t recall brand but probably bic. They showed the pen writing stuff but no hand hold it. The ad line was that it wrote so smooth it almost wrote by itself. It was coming up on Christmas and she told me that she wanted one of those pens that wrote by itself. I told her that wasn’t real. She had a major conniption and said it was because she saw it on tv and she wanted one. I tried every which way I could think of to explain that to her but to no avail. Finally I just decided, she’s 4… she’ll forget about it and move on to something else soon enough. (she’s 41 now)
I was about to put this in the product page, but they’re all talking about actual knifey things and I realized it definitely belongs here…
(re: this write-up )
You know how Amazon & some other sites have “Questions & Answers”, both provided by customers, for each item?
Why, why WHY do some people feel compelled to answer even when the don’t know the answer?!?
I mean literally, I’ve often seen people answer with some variation of, “sorry, I don’t know”.
And some people will even go on to then answer something no one asked, e.g., “sorry, I don’t know if this works on widgets. But my dog loves it so much I had to buy a second one just for him!”
WHY YOU DO THAT?!?!
Do they think it’s a mandatory questionnaire? A quiz where it’s better to take your best guess than leave it blank?
It irks me, probably more than it should, and it’s lucky that they don’t give you the option to comment on people’s answers or I’d say lots of mean things that I’d later regret.
This phenomenon is only slightly less irksome than people who give a product a 1 star rating because they purchased the wrong item.
@DennisG2014 These people are ignorant, but it’s really a user experience problem that is ultimately Amazon’s fault.
When someone asks a question on an Amazon product, Amazon emails people who have reviewed the product with something like “As a reviewer of product xyz, can you answer this question about the product?”
When you click on that link, you are taken directly to a form to just input the answer. You have to work a little bit to see whether there are other answers already out there. So some of the people that get this email probably think it’s a question being asked directly of them and that it would be impolite not to answer. Others may be acting silly. And another subset may be just plain dumb. But if you don’t know what’s going on, Amazon almost encourages that kind of low-quality answer.
@djslack Ok, see now that makes some sense.
I did not know that.
@DennisG2014 @djslack I get those emails from Amazon and feel like writing back “isn’t that your damn job”? And I have never reviewed an item from Amazon so I don’t know why they think I will start answering questions now.
@DennisG2014
5 stars:
@DennisG2014 @djslack That’s exactly what happened with me the first time. It looked like it was only to me and asked me what I thought about something. I saw no other responsed or anything but the question to me, until I answered and clicked okay… THEN all the others showed up. Now I know better, but then I didn’t.
@DennisG2014 @djslack @sammydog01 They don’t… but their robo 'puter is ever hopeful.
New entries are no longer being accepted for this giveaway.
@lichme that certainly IRKs me!
@lichme
I so hate penalties for procrastinating.
@f00l Cool story
Edit: My post is less funny unless you saw the original comment.
@lichme
My swipe kb barfed on me to create the original post.
So I edited. Then I saw your response.
The original post was:. (ta-da!)
That’s it.
/giphy that’s all folks looney toons
I am irked by Maryland drivers, I do not know how many of you have driven in Maryland, but here is the thing, merging. Most people see a yield sign and slow down, not these dummies in MD, they stop it doesn’t matter if its a round about or a on ramp, they stop and cause accidents. I am also irked by undergrads who think they are great at writing essays.
More importantly can you upload the file for the poster and I will just print a copy on my work plotter. Then my size can be predetermined as Arch D size paper and I can hang Irk over my desk and piss off my coworkers.
@bleedmichigan Sent via PM, but only because the intent is to piss people off.
@lichme
/define fuckery
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@lichme image printed. Pictures forthcoming tomorrow.
@lichme here is one at my part time job, I have a few printed to place on my college campus. Should be fun.
@bleedmichigan Haha, that’s both creepy and awesome.
Congrats to @shahnm @ELUNO and @lseeber, you have been selected as the winners.
@shahnm Most starred
@ELUNO random for starring
@lseeber random for commenting
Please whisper/PM me your shipping addresses.
Thanks for playing everybody.
@lichme Thank YOU Lisa! That was fun. I think we ALL were winners and enriched by this thread. Thanks too, for being SUCH an awesomely awesome GoaT!
@lichme oh, haha… forgot it was a ‘prize’ thread! Nice surprise! Thanks!
@lichme What irks me? Just seeing this contest for the first time…
/giphy too late baby
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@lichme HOORAY!
/giphy hooray
Congratulations to the winners!
@lichme I presume you are sending @shahnm batteries packed in ice?
/giphy smirk
I got my poster! It’s amazing! I’ll look for a frame and then post a picture!
@ELUNO
I’m happy for you!
Sad for me that I didn’t get one too, but mostly happy for you.
/giphy happy for you
Look who knocked on my front door yesterday!
Thanks!
Loud chewers. Thrilled if you are enjoying your food, but I don’t want to hear it. Makes my blood boil for some reason.
i think i missed the deadline for entries, which, if we were in canada would have been my birthday. feb.9