I have SO MANY annoyances but I assure you all that every single one is rational and completely justified.
So there is something I can do, besides scream like a woman?
Wesley ,'Chosen'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JZ - Jan 17, 2018 12:21:50 pm PST #21113 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Jessica - Jan 17, 2018 12:30:40 pm PST #21114 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have SO MANY annoyances but I assure you all that every single one is rational and completely justified.
Same. Mixing up kitchen towels, cloth napkins, and washclothes is dangerously irresponsible and I'm right to harshly judge the people in my household who do this. (And what kind of monster would put a wooden spoon in the stainless steel / silicone things holder when CLEARLY there is another one right next to it with all wooden things and as any right thinking person can see THERE IS A SYSTEM HERE IT'S NOT JUST RANDOM THAT THEY ALL ENDED UP THAT WAY.)
amych - Jan 17, 2018 12:47:11 pm PST #21115 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jessica, I have those same awful people in my house!
-t - Jan 17, 2018 1:04:12 pm PST #21116 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Come on, now, there's a finite probability that they just ended up like that by chance.
lisah - Jan 17, 2018 1:45:07 pm PST #21117 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate
Argh I'm on my hour long train home and I forgot my ear buds at work. The horror!
Jesse - Jan 17, 2018 1:48:37 pm PST #21118 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That is a horror. You're just supposed to listen to the world?? At least you have the internet.
Steph L. - Jan 17, 2018 2:26:51 pm PST #21119 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Here's a work problem I haven't run into yet: I'm editing an article with 2 figures. When I opened the figure files, they are -- I'm not kidding -- photos of hand-drawn figures on spiral-bound notebook paper.
Pretty sure we can't use those, broheim. How the fuck did that even get accepted for publication???
I did have fun writing the query to the author for that, though. ("These files appear to be photos of hand-drawn figures on spiral-bound notebook paper. As such, they do not meet the minimum requirements for figure files for the AMA. Please resubmit files that have been created in a computer graphics program.")
Connie Neil - Jan 17, 2018 2:35:29 pm PST #21120 of 30002
brillig
Author probably expects you'll configure them.
Steph L. - Jan 17, 2018 2:44:38 pm PST #21121 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
They are total chicken scratch. I can't fathom how they would think we would reproduce them. But of course they didn't think about that.
(And I checked all the correspondence to be sure that the higher-ups didn't say "Oh yes, our Graphics Department can create your figures for you!" There is no such correspondence in any of the files.)
Jesse - Jan 17, 2018 3:30:29 pm PST #21122 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I kind of love that. I can just picture a mad scientist like, "And it's like this, see?"
We just had a thing where someone had to sign a formal document and instead of a scan back, we got a phone picture of their signature, not even obviously on our document.