What pissed you off today?

[Blade]

Drivers not paying attention

[Esme nha Maire]

I'm pissed off because, ironically, straight society seems to be seriously into Butch/femme!
Shopping for tops or jackets. The choices appear to be
- femme - we've got you covered! (well, given that an awful lot of what they have for sale is gauzy, maybe that's not quite the right word, but YKWIM! :-} )
- active - lumberjack shirts for you, m'dears, if you're not going to wear branded 'training gear'!
- older - you'll buy whatever we can be bothered to stock in weird colours , shades-of-sick trim/decoration, weird shapes and sizes, and completely unsuitable material, and like it, frump!

Gah. I want something that covers me, is reasonably robust, and has a tasteful splash of colour. I'm quite partial to a certain type of Japanese art that, with a few brushstrokes can capture bamboo against the moon, or a branch of cherry-blossom - or oriental dragons. So maybe a midnight blue soft jacket I can wear over my otherwise all-black clothing, or a black tanktop with a bit of colour on the front to go with black jacket and jeans.

But no - if it kinda looks like what I'm after in a top, it'll be gauzy and of a material that'll make me sweat like a wossname, absolutely require a bra be worn lest you show yourself off to the world, and , well, be just too durned girly for me nowadays, and it'll need to be treated carefully. I wasn't great at that even when I was femme. Couldn't find a colourful jacket anything like what I'm after, though I saw a woman wearing something close a few weeks ago. And don't get me started on inconsistent jeans sizing and how hard it is to find anything other than 'skinny' jeans...

Much as I love clothes, I hate clothes shopping these days. I wish I could afford to have stuff made for me.

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by Esme nha Maire

I'm pissed off because, ironically, straight society seems to be seriously into Butch/femme!
Shopping for tops or jackets. The choices appear to be
- femme - we've got you covered! (well, given that an awful lot of what they have for sale is gauzy, maybe that's not quite the right word, but YKWIM! :-} )
- active - lumberjack shirts for you, m'dears, if you're not going to wear branded 'training gear'!
- older - you'll buy whatever we can be bothered to stock in weird colours , shades-of-sick trim/decoration, weird shapes and sizes, and completely unsuitable material, and like it, frump!

Gah. I want something that covers me, is reasonably robust, and has a tasteful splash of colour. I'm quite partial to a certain type of Japanese art that, with a few brushstrokes can capture bamboo against the moon, or a branch of cherry-blossom - or oriental dragons. So maybe a midnight blue soft jacket I can wear over my otherwise all-black clothing, or a black tanktop with a bit of colour on the front to go with black jacket and jeans.

But no - if it kinda looks like what I'm after in a top, it'll be gauzy and of a material that'll make me sweat like a wossname, absolutely require a bra be worn lest you show yourself off to the world, and , well, be just too durned girly for me nowadays, and it'll need to be treated carefully. I wasn't great at that even when I was femme. Couldn't find a colourful jacket anything like what I'm after, though I saw a woman wearing something close a few weeks ago. And don't get me started on inconsistent jeans sizing and how hard it is to find anything other than 'skinny' jeans...

Much as I love clothes, I hate clothes shopping these days. I wish I could afford to have stuff made for me.

What you need is a sewing machine, provided you know how to sew..... or find yourself a local seamstress and hire her for sewing or tailoring services!

But I know what you mean about not finding clothes that will fit you right or those types of things, regardless of gender.

I couldn't find clothes to fit my son's, or shoes (!), when they were growing up. Sometimes it's hard to find clothes you like and especially at a good price or at a good bargain price.

but.... look into finding a local seamstress, is what I would suggest. Maybe you could find someone who would consider bartering in exchange for sevices, to lessen your financial expenses. For example, buy your material and sewing notions and then maybe this could help in reducing expenses. Then you could barter some of the cost by doing something for them that would be of equitable rate of exchange of services?

[Esme nha Maire]

Thanks, Katzchen, but I'm waaaaay ahead of you on this. Suffice to say I can't make my own clothes (have tried), and getting 'em made isn't a viable option bar once in a blue moon. (And my best friend is an excellent seamstress - and lives halfway across the country. Sigh...)

I'm particularly annoyed at how godawful the clothes aimed at older women are. It's like the manufacturers are trying to have a laugh at older womens expense (quite literally).

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by Esme nha Maire

Thanks, Katzchen, but I'm waaaaay ahead of you on this. Suffice to say I can't make my own clothes (have tried), and getting 'em made isn't a viable option bar once in a blue moon. (And my best friend is an excellent seamstress - and lives halfway across the country. Sigh...)

I'm particularly annoyed at how godawful the clothes aimed at older women are. It's like the manufacturers are trying to have a laugh at older womens expense (quite literally).

I would say my concern would be for the ladies and young girls who are working in sweatshop conditions for pennies per hour.

My heart goes out to them first.

[JDeere]

Being pressured by my lesbian friends to go hang out with them. Im.tired of being a third wheel or whatever they call it these days. They just need to start dating and leave me out of it.

[girl_dee]

How totally fucked up our health care system is

[Esme nha Maire]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

I would say my concern would be for the ladies and young girls who are working in sweatshop conditions for pennies per hour.

My heart goes out to them first.

Well, aye, the whole 'fashion industry' is a prime example of the patriarchy exploiting women at every available opportunity, from start to finish. Whilst the suffering of the women in the seatshops is the greater though, it doesn't detract from the fact that customers of the end products are exploited too, as the money they earn from their underpaid jobs has to go to buy the overpriced produce that the shops owned by the grossly overpaid capitalists offer, whether that produce fits or suits them or not, if, like me, they're unable to make their own clothes.

This whole rotten economic system, designed to benefit the sociopathically greedy at the expense of everyone else, pisses me off. It shouldn't be beyond the wit of humankind to come up with something that rewards sociophilic behaviour but doesn't benefit sociopathic behaviour.

[Teddybear]

It was yesterday but I have a feeling I'm going to have to battle this today.

Went to the water department to have water turned on. Was told a little after 4 the water had been turned on. NO water!!!

I'm calling at 730 the moment they wake and have them come out and show me they turned the water on.

The need for water is real

[Blade]

Alabama in the top 4!

[Kenna]

How county websites for building codes are not user friendly and are loaded with way too many PDF files.

[Kenna]

Verizon!!

[Kenna]

Multiple, very annoying Robo Calls from a scam about school loans that switch phone numbers every time they call so I can't block them and makes it difficult to report them.
Dammit, I've paid off my school loans! And I never got calls like these until my loans were taken care of.

[Kenna]

State Farm auto claims office seriously has issues of getting things right and doing things right the first time. They also have issues with telling me three different things during three different calls. (Don't get me started on how many times the body shop has had to call them)
They've messed up the estimate, messed up the supplemental request, messed up the payment of supplemental request TWICE, messed up the letter that came attached to the second payment, said I owed another $500 deductible because they processed the supplemental as a different estimate, told me there's a third check in the mail but couldn't tell me why they split the payments or why they didn't pay the full supplemental request (no justification for the missing $388 or why they were telling me I owed another $500) but told me I may be responsible for paying the difference between the supplemental request and what they actually paid. But they totally screwed up the payment for the supplemental request (which was for a whole new door and extra parts).

OMG, then the pinstripe company they assigned me to and made the quote for has refused to go to the body shop...they insisted the body shop owner bring it to them. He can't do that. So they said they had to charge me WAY over the State Farm estimate (like off the street customer) if I bring the truck to them on my own. They REFUSED to do what State Farm said they are supposed to do, they are the only one in three or four counties that do this kind of hand painted stuff...yet they are quoting me over twice what State Farm estimated and sent money for. They expected the body shop to deliver it to them at 64 mile round trip, sit there waiting on it to be done, then bill the body shop...OMG :a ngry:

I'm ready to deal out a smack down!!!

The third time I called State Farm today, the lady literally told me (after looking at all the numbers on her screen) she was more confused than I was and she couldn't make sense of what had been processed and why the claim-vs-payment numbers weren't working out. She was clueless. Then she got pissy with me when she asked to transfer me to a different department and I said no, that since she admitted she was very confused and couldn't resolve my questions, she needed to escalate this whole claim to someone above her to resolve, to send me corrected letters, to remove the second $500 and have her supervisor call me.

When I go to the body shop, he was on the phone with his "state farm computer person" to figure out why their system assigned a $500 deductible to the supplemental request? It shouldn't do that and they couldn't get it fixed for him.

We both have gone rounds with them for over a week and they just keep fucking it up.

Plus he's still waiting to receive two parts for the door and State Farm told him the painting/"blocking in" of the bed to match the door is not included (but their initial estimate included it).

This is INSANE...