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

156. anybody who says 'epic fail' out loud

xpost well of course it is implied that it is my opinion. But the opinions as stated have different aims. Making a statement that one group is better than another, while still a statement of opinion, is an objective observation on the relative quality of the two bands.

Me saying "I like Band A better than Band B" is a more passive, personal statement, and makes no attempt to be objective. Essentially, my friend replying "wrong" means that I am lying that I like Band A better than Band B!

157. being around groups of teenagers, particularly teenage boys.

recently i walked into a subway around 3:30pm to get a late lunch and there were about six teenage boys in there, all pumped up from getting out of school. i got my sandwich and BAILED.

158. I get mad every time I see a trailer for Disney's "Tangled" because so many reasons but especially its name. SO many totally innocuous (but also excessively sassy) animated films just make me mad these days.

are you annoyed that they renamed it from "rapunzel" to "tangled," because boys have to be tricked into seeing movies with female protagonists?

they had no problem w/ the naming of 'princess and the frog' which tanked, even though it was great.

are you annoyed that they renamed it from "rapunzel" to "tangled," because boys have to be tricked into seeing movies with female protagonists?

Is this really a policy at Disney? Because a quick look at the titles of Disney animated features doesn't support the theory:

Snow White and The Seven Dwarves
Cinderella
Alice in Wonderland
Lady and the Tramp
Sleeping Beauty
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Pocahontas
Mulan
Lilo & Stitch
The Princess and the Frog

So it looks like in almost every Disney movie with a female protagonist, the gender of the protagonists has been made clear in the title - even in the cases where there's no canonical name for the story, or the movie is based on an original script. And hardly any of these movies have tanked.

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I don't think that changing the name from "Rapunzel" to "Tangled" is a move to impact male theater attendance at all. The opposite, rather! The title "Tangled" sort of reminds me of "Twilight" or "Wicked" - which stick out for me as brief titles that are being marketed to women. These one-word titles could be cross-marketed well with some perfume, no?

Anyways, Rapunzel is way too ethnic of a name (despite being German!).

omg u said women can't understand long names omg

Tangled is, imo, an attempt to age-up the story & suggest some kind of moral compromise/plot complexity that may or may not actually exist. U kno, as in "tangled web" and "knotty problem" -- it just sounds vaguely transgressive & complex. My issue with this, besides it being kinda dumb, is "moral complexity/transgression" being suggested about things that vehemently have neither quality. If people want to slum it with us non-straight & narrows, they should actually get a little dirty -- they might learn something.

That makes me angry.

Trying to enjoy my morning cup of coffee when someone has to burn popcorn in the office microwave and completely ruin it for me.

xps: Okay, just read an article that stated that changing the name to Tangled is indeed an attempt to market to both boys and girls.

I don't see how it would make it appeal to boys, it just makes the whole thing sound like a snarky extended commercial for conditioner or something. She has a lot of HAIR, it gets TANGLED...what is the solution????

I plan on having a good day today so I probably shouldn't start thinking about this.

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The thing that annoys me the most about Tangled is the way the title is written in a font that looks like hair.

Disney restyles 'Rapunzel' to appeal to boys

basically since 'the princess and the frog' had lackluster attendance, disney decided to retool the marketing campaign to focus on the guy who finds rapunzel, rather than rapunzel herself. if you've seen the trailer for the movie, it's focused on the guy dashing around through the countryside and saying "o ho what is in this tower" and then WHAM BAM HAIR EVERYWHERE.

Princess and the Frog:

Budget $105 million
Gross revenue $267,039,315

I don't really see how this constitutes a flop but whatevs.

I mean IIRC Disney's last "boy appeal" snimated feature was Treasure Planet, which was an actual flop.

Budget $140 million
Gross revenue $109,578,115

153. People who use the word "cereal" in place of "serious".

― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Sunday, October 3, 2010 12:25 PM (Yesterday)

YES

Wha?

153. People who use the word "cereal" in place of "serious".

― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Sunday, 3 October 2010 13:25 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Who the hell does that?

― emil.y, Sunday, 3 October 2010 14:15 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

crly!

― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Sunday, 3 October 2010 14:18 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a lot of people around here do that to be 'funny' and 'cute'. it has also made its way into movies/television to some degree.

example "i'm super cereal, guys, we need more low-calorie beer at this party".

― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Sunday, 3 October 2010 14:20 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ugh, that's terrible.

― emil.y, Sunday, 3 October 2010 14:20 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i remember a south park episode where someone used it probably a dozen times. if it isn't funny the first time, repeating it won't help.

Okay, I'm totally asking my wife to pass me the serious tomorrow morning.

don't see how tangled = moral complexity or whatever. to me it suggests tangled hair, universal life issue, and also romantic complication. it's fine, but hardly the kind of name you'd choose for boy appeal.

158. people who always wanna make the thread an argument about a thing

Seeing anything written about Wavves or Yacht, or seeing their pictures, or hearing them talk. I think they're utter fools.

i don't even know who

159. Static electricity shocks. Hate hate hate. I mean, I like the balloon trick where you make your hair stand on end and stuff like that, but just random shocks, or when your clothes get all staticky and stick to you...RARRR.

I hate them too, especially from escalators because they make you jump back and possibly lose your balance.

I think it's part of why I hate going to Costco so much, i'm always getting zapped off the shopping carts.

I thought that was just me! Costco was painful the last time I was in one.

i thought it was 'serial' for all that it's worth

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160. People who complain about the smell/noises in a public bathroom. THAT'S WHAT IT IS MEANT FOR.

It is sad when a cat sleeping against a radiator looks so damn cute that you pat it and you both get a static shock and the cat looks at you like "what the hell did you ruin my nap for"

flatmates endlessly stacking dishes beside the sink.......PUT THEM AWAY FFS

161. People who see bicyclists in their designated bike lane and still do the overdramatic swerve halfway out of their lane to avoid the nonexistent collision that isn't about to occur. FFS THEY HAVE THEIR OWN LANE YOU IDIOTS, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HIT THEM IF YOU STAY IN YOURS.

plus ya know now you might actually hit the car in the lane next to you!

162. people asking nosy/judgemental questions about innocuous things. eg "oh you've been shopping at that expensive supermarket? very grand" or something. it's my business where i shop, not yours! i realise this can be done in a way that's not annoying but irish people have a knack of mixing the nosy with the judgemental.

163. There's a woman in our office who sends out monthly staff e-mails, reminding us when to pay our state taxes, our property taxes, our federal income taxes. It's like, Thanks Mom, except of all the things my mother ever harassed me about, it wasn't ever about my taxes.

Same woman threatened to call the DMV when she noticed a car in the parking garage with a Vermont plate that had been there for more than 30 days.

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164. The word "veggies." For some reason just hearing it, especially out of the mouths of adults, makes me want to scream. What the hell is wrong with the perfectly good word "vegetables?"

And when I read that word, I hear it being said sarcastically, like by George Carlin or somebody, and I get even more irrationally angry.

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That "Being A Dickhead's Cool" video. I know we've discussed the hipster backlash to death now, but over the last few weeks this has been posted to my FB wall and sent to my email no less than 10-15 times, and it's really not THAT funny in this post-Barley world. Plus, I mean, who's got the time to make a zingy music video taking the piss out of the Shoreditch media crowd, other than said Shoreditchers themselves?