old Band-Aid(TM) brand bandages
― THE CHOMPING DUCK GETS HIS FATTY OUT FOR VADAR (HI DERE), Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
120. other people
― crude interloper of a once august profession (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
referring to the My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult song "(A Girl Doesn't Get Killed By A Make-Believe Lover) 'Cuz It's Hot" as "'Cuz It's Hot"
― THE CHOMPING DUCK GETS HIS FATTY OUT FOR VADAR (HI DERE), Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh I see Laurel already went there
xp
― crude interloper of a once august profession (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
121. Use of the word "awesome." I realize this battle was lost long ago, but I thought the word was supposed to mean something, well, awe-inspiring. I first heard it used in Star Wars (Luke seeing the Death Star: "It's AWESOME!"). A music professor of mine in college still used it in its pre-80s heaviness, and one day caught himself: "Jimmy Lyons' playing was AWESOME...and when I say 'awesome,' I mean in the way that word was used before people started to use it to refer to pizza."
(I think I told this story somewhere else on ILX...apologies for the repetition)
― Sterling-Kinney (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
awesome story!
― THE CHOMPING DUCK GETS HIS FATTY OUT FOR VADAR (HI DERE), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
(choking on my own rage)
― Sterling-Kinney (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
122. People who use the word "amazing" interchangably with "very good". NOT EVERY GODDAMN THING IS FUCKING AMAZING.
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
123. People who quote lyrics out of context to be funny. OH YOU FEEL STUPID AND CONTAGIOUS HUH? HERE, HERE'S A SHOTGUN
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
louis c.k. has a great bit about standing in line at the post office where the entire line is this seething mass of hatred toward whoever is at the window getting served. and then your time comes. and you're that guy. it happens so fast.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
sorry I am one of the hated ones who overuses "awesome" and "amazing". (winces)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Couples at the grocery store who volubly plan their dinner while they're shopping.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
125. Hidden broccoli in things that look like they do not have broccoli in them. I hate broccoli enough as it is, but hidden broccoli? SHIT JUST GOT REAL
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
126. People who fan themselves with a book or a magazine. IT DOESN'T FUCKING PROVIDE YOU ANY BENEFIT AND IT ANNOYS ME.
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
San Te you are on a roll! (Hi five)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Unles hi fives annoy the shit out of you, then I will happily retract
Hi-fives are always acceptable
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
*hi five*
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
As accidentally posted on the Strokes thread:
Some of you must spend 98% of your day walking around in an uncontrollable rage and I feel very sorry for you.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
I just assume that people who get angry about pretty much any inconsequential thing just like being angry
― peter in montreal, Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
made-up statistics
― THE CHOMPING DUCK GETS HIS FATTY OUT FOR VADAR (HI DERE), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
wtf fanning with a magazine totally works can't you fan properly or something no wonder u madd doggie
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol at people who take this list too serious!
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's just fun to vent about ridiculous things. Also typing in all caps IS REALLY FUN YOU GUYS
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
key words here are "innocuous" and "irrational". Note to onlookers: this is not the "Post your hate manifestos here" thread
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
would definitely waft myself with ur hate manifestos u disgusting savages
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 September 2010 22:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol: OH YEAH WELL THAT'S JUST GREAT BC YOU'RE IN MINE, YOU WAFTING WAFTER
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 22:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
ppl with short fuses
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 September 2010 22:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
wafter
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 22:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
People who say 'bless you' when you sneeze. I might be sneezing three times in a row, you gonna do this every time? You want me to say thankyou every time? LET ME SNEEZE IN PEACE.
― ledge, Friday, 1 October 2010 08:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
I rode the train yesterday with a couple, of which the man kept pressing his sweaty back against the upright pole I was holding onto
this is my all-time number one subway pet peeve. like it makes my blood boil when ppl lean against poles on crowded trains, preventing anyone else from hanging onto them
― william buttinski's 'the disintegration snoops' (donna rouge), Friday, 1 October 2010 08:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
small, wheeled suitcases in busy areas
― joe, Friday, 1 October 2010 09:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
99. Opening goods in the supermarket & eating/drinking them before you've paid for them (and then handing the opened package to the cashier at the checkout). The only exception I will allow is maybe, *maybe* if you have small children/toddlers with you. But if you're a grown person, surely you can wait til you've paid for the damn thing. It's called impulse control.
^^^this. also i wonder whether the people who do this actually have the money to pay for the items they're consuming. what if they get up to the register and realize they have no cash, and their cards are maxed out, and the store doesn't take checks?
― 808s and Hatebeak (get bent), Friday, 1 October 2010 09:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wanna say "extroverts" are innocuous things that make me irrationally angry but honestly some extroverts really are disgusting savages.
― 808s and Hatebeak (get bent), Friday, 1 October 2010 09:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
I was momentarily irrationally angry this morning at
127. Too much foam in my latte
Then, thanks to this thread, I caught myself being angry at something innocuous and decided not to sweat it.
ILX: Self improvement - one thread at a time.
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Friday, 1 October 2010 09:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
when people say "zero" (as in: "this energy drink has zero sugar") instead of "no." zero is a number; you wouldn't say "this energy drink has two sugar").
― 808s and Hatebeak (get bent), Friday, 1 October 2010 09:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Small factual errors tend to attract my attention.
E.g. : not angry, more like "tss, typical clueless media people acting all informative but not having a clue what they're talking about" :
National Geographic, series called Megafactories, during the episode on the construction of the Winnebago (yeah, I watch all kinds of shit) :"(name) is a heat duct specialist. To guide her work, she uses an advanced computer coding and stamping system called Citrix."
Nerd LOLz - documentary makers saw "Citrix" on her screen, so that must be how she controls that tube cutting laser robot thingy, right?(FYI, Citrix is a desktop virtualisation tool - it only means that what she's doing is running on a server and not on her local computer)
― StanM, Friday, 1 October 2010 10:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
that's VERY poor writing..!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 October 2010 10:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
i.e. scriptwriting i.e. research. eek
Petty details, sometimes. (inca/peru documentary on Discovery or something, talking about the flu and other diseases the Spanish brought over in the 16th century) "The chachapoya were decimated by 90%"
Guaranteed to make me go "Wait a minute! Doesn't decimation mean that 10% died?"
― StanM, Friday, 1 October 2010 10:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
BTW: It used to, and technically, that's where it comes from, historically, but it's now used for all kinds of "the death of a large part of a population" so that's not actually wrong, just me being anal.
― StanM, Friday, 1 October 2010 10:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
"decimate" is the new "penultimate."
― 808s and Hatebeak (get bent), Friday, 1 October 2010 10:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
stifling lols at the citrix thing here.
― kkvgz, Friday, 1 October 2010 10:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ledge, Friday, 1 October 2010 11:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah the Citrix thing made me cack myself, Citrix is a POS.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Friday, 1 October 2010 11:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pseudo Operating System?
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Friday, 1 October 2010 12:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
128. People who say "God Bless", how do you know I don't worship the sun. fuck you.
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Friday, 1 October 2010 12:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
How do you know God doesn't?
― Mark G, Friday, 1 October 2010 12:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
I dunno, for God to create something, then immediately worship it right after, I guess that would mean God=Prince.
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Friday, 1 October 2010 12:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
God could probably bless you even without your consent
― peter in montreal, Friday, 1 October 2010 12:56 (2 years ago) Permalink