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

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

quavery feeble indie vocalists

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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I am the worst possible type of douchebag and I cordially invite you to punch me until I die at http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG man when will it stop smh

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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.

hi smoek!!!!!!!

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?

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"

― patapon pataphysics (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:24 (Yesterday) Bookmark

How about being so allergic to cats in the first place you daren't even pet them for fear of sneezing and spluttering for the rest of the afternoon?

The whole serious/cereal thing is a South Park joke that was taking the mick out of Al Gore.

23. use of the word "random" outside of anything mathematical. i think it stems from ppl who use it to describe anything slapstick or absurd (a monkey in hockey skates omg so random!!!!) but i now have a Pavlovian response to it in any context.

Some (nice but boring) friends of my girlfriend described a recent Groove Armada concert they attended as "the randomest gig I've ever seen" - they didn't mean this in a good way.

i've heard so many people complaining about random that i think that should be added to this list. it strikes me as needless annoyance at an increasingly commonplace substitute for "weird".

what's wrong with it as a 'weird' substitute?

seems like a fairly random petty annoyance tbh

I'm not crazy about the collective term 'randoms' to describe other people.

x-post yeah i agree, i don't see anything wrong with it. it seems like something people criticise to try and distinguish themselves via their despair at the way their generation behaves.

just as you're saying that- it's a straight nabbed line form a dylan moran rant about his teenagers in his latest stand-up

trust a comedian

his whole steez is petty annoyances, but i do like him

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?

This was so awful, I only got 20 seconds in.

and when you try and say this to people they're like "it's JUST A JOKE". worst defence of anything ever. "what i said was JUST A CRITICISM OF A JOKE, don't take it so seriously, come on, lighten up!"

Haha, yeah if you're talking about the dickhead video, I got tagged as being a funhater when I moaned about it.

As for "random" and "weird" as a complaint - this is usually boring people who say this, and it's normally about something that is neither random nor weird, e.g. "OMG, I can't watch Big Brother anymore it's way too random".

How about being so allergic to cats in the first place you daren't even pet them for fear of sneezing and spluttering for the rest of the afternoon?

― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Yeah, I know.

I used to have a cat. It died, and I suddenly felt great.

dunno if it's irrational or not, but the lady sitting next to me on the bus using an emery board to shred her fingernails all over the floor made me nigh-on apoplectic

People who use the stalls rather than urinals (which is fine by itself) but then DON'T SHUT THE DOOR. I mean obviously visually there's nothing wrong with it as its the same as someone at a urinal, but half the time I enter the stall thinking it's free and well it's occupied and I couldn't tell cuz YOU LEFT THE DOOR OPEN.

also people in one-seater bathrooms and don't lock the door so I walk in and get to observe someone dropping a load.

just check for feet dude, in both cases there