Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

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.

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").

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)

that's VERY poor writing..!

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?"

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.

"decimate" is the new "penultimate."

stifling lols at the citrix thing here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng

Yeah the Citrix thing made me cack myself, Citrix is a POS.

Pseudo Operating System?

128. People who say "God Bless", how do you know I don't worship the sun. fuck you.

How do you know God doesn't?

I dunno, for God to create something, then immediately worship it right after, I guess that would mean God=Prince.

God could probably bless you even without your consent

I have Citrix, where's MY laser????

"decimate" is the new "penultimate."

― 808s and Hatebeak (get bent)

But wait, penultimate still means penultimate, right? Because the expanded meaning of decimate is becoming standard useage, but I would murder anyone who uses penultimate to mean anything other than second-to-last.

(Also, I think the above may be my favourite username ever.)

I have Citrix too, for GoToMeeting.

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 09:19 (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Yes this! Thank god someone agrees with me. I started a thread about this a few years back and most people leapt on me for being a D.S. and about it being good manners to say bless you.

"Bless you" is nice

I've known more than a few people who have used "penultimate" to mean "really really ultimate"

"Bless you" is annoying. I really don't need people commenting on and drawing attention to the fact that I've just tchacked a bunch of snot into my hand. Seriously, fuck off.

wow

A very religious woman i worked with complained to management about someone saying "bless you" after someone sneezed and "aww bless" to something nice or cute, saying it wasn't right to keep saying it?
Stupid woman!

I sneeze all the time, like it is my job, and I've trained my coworkers to hold off on all the blessing until the series is complete. I'd prefer if it didn't happen at all but what are you gonna do?

Co-worker just sneezed and I didn't say "bless you", thanks for alerting me to how angry that makes people.

waiting for someone to post, "i just sneezed and no one wished me blessings or health! how rude!"

xposts complaining about it for religious reasons is kind of ridic tbf, but it is a ridiculous and antiquated custom that people use and think is somehow polite. The simple truth is that we no longer have rat plagues killing people off one by one and it's therefore defunct. Is it polite to go "Phwoar! I hope you don't have bum cancer!" if you hear someone fart?

I hope so, as I do it all the time.

Phwoar! I hope you don't have bum cancer!" if you hear someone fart?

I might have to start saying this :)

I feel cheated if I sneeze and no-one says "Bless you". Bereft even.

Double bagging at the supermarket.

Phwoar!

129. Employees who comment at my purchase at the supermarket by saying things like "you don't cook, do you" when I buy 20 tv dinners, or "I guess you don't feel very perky" when I buy Pepto Bismol (both of which have happened). This is why I hesitate to buy condoms in stores!

citrix suck fyi btw ty

What's wrong with double bagging? Some of us walk several blocks to the grocery store and you definitely don't want bag failure on the trip back.

Spesh with them rubbish Tesco bags.

I put one sliced loaf in and it did split.

Tesco bags are SHIT aren't they? I guess they're made like that on purpose.

Thing about sneezing is I usually do it because of photosensitivity, which means like 4-5 big ass sneezes when I leave a building until my eyes adjust to the sun or whatever. I mean I already feel like a jerk sneezing so much but it makes it worse to get 5 'bless you's in succession.

I habitually say 'bless you'...sorry ILX. (Don't know why, not relig at all). However I draw the line at multiples. You'll get maybe 2 'bless you's maximum, and not if they immediately follow each other. Allergies/sneezing attacks, you're doomed, no amount of blessing can save you.

jeez it's pretty obvious when someone's on a run of sneezes just wait til it's done and bless em once ffs

makin me so irrationally angry up in this

do you have to indicate via a formal statement that it was an all-encompassing bless?

there's a particular hand movement, it's kinda pope-y

pope-y g stinkgarten in fact

Haha awesome, lemme just tweak dog latin's posts to cover co-workers who always ask "Are you OK?" after every ten-second coughing fit resulting from me choking on my coffee, which I do on a weekly basis.

people at bus stops that have been there for 5 + mins, that when the bus actually arrives and enter it, then start to look for money/change or ticket.

People who, when you ask them to please speak up, do so for the next three words, then drop back to their previous inaudible volume.

132. The fact that there is a show on the television named "Thintervention"