164. "Special edition" CD digipacks that are so tightly glued that they tear the first time you get the CD out to play it
See also: price tags and ad stickers that are so tightly glued to the digipack cover you end up tearing it when you try to take them off.
― Tuomas, Friday, 15 October 2010 10:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
or that leave that evil sticky glue residue that's still there 10 years later...JB HiFi in Melbourne I'm talking to YOU.
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
166. Not angry, but irrationally shaking my head: The Johnny Depp gif, the Andy Rooney YouTubes, the freaking madlibs getting passed around... All of these things have been online for the past three or four years. Not trying to be "That's sooooo 2008, you guys," but ILX is above my 60-year-old co-worker who keeps forwarding us the meringue dancing dog video.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 October 2010 18:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Are you talking about the word-replacing gifs, or just people posting general gifs a lot? The word replacements really annoy me, but I don't think it's irrational - they are annoying, fact. I certainly don't mind textual things like the DUMPLINGS! substitution, but that doesn't repeatedly flash at me demanding my attention.
― emil.y, Friday, 15 October 2010 18:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Saturday, 16 October 2010 04:02 (5 hours ago) Bookmark
Yes! YES! They shall know my RAGE!
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Friday, 15 October 2010 22:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sections/tabs of websites that are headed "contact us" but instead of leading to an informative section with phone number, address, email location and opening hours, automatically opens a 'mailto' email in Internet explorer or some shit.
― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
168. Those wee knobbly bits at crossings in city centres (presumably to stop blind people walking in front of the buses). I should not have to endure mild discomfort through thin-soled shoes just to prevent blind people from dying!
(& you'd think they'd hurt the guide dogs)
― underrated football teams I have owned (onimo), Monday, 18 October 2010 09:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
still, more than ever, and this burning is an eternal flame: PEOPLE WHO DO NOT JAYWALK
the rage
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Monday, 18 October 2010 09:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's been a while, but:
The person who used to forward "inspirational" messages regarding some child that died but before he/she did, created some epiphany regarding the world/god/etc that was moving and touched the heart of the vicar/priest/mother/whoever.
― Mark G, Monday, 18 October 2010 10:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Has admitted to being Irish in order to have sex (darraghmac) wrote this on thread Current Facebook friends status updates on board 7Curtis's 7borad on Jul 23, 2010next person tries to teach me about JOY IN LIFE gets a tubgirl in return
next person tries to teach me about JOY IN LIFE gets a tubgirl in return
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Monday, 18 October 2010 10:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is probably the most innocuous thing on the whole thread, and I really don't know why it annoys me: when you're on a bus, and someone rings the bell for the next stop *milliseconds* after it pulls away from the current stop. Just let us believe, just for a moment, that we might move more than 500 yards without stopping AGAIN?
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 18 October 2010 19:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fuck yes. This is the only way anyone remembers they still have Outlook on their home computers, right?
― ailsa, Monday, 18 October 2010 19:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
As someone who has spent the past month trying to find the physical addresses of way-too-many college basketball arenas, I second this "innocuous thing".
― http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 18 October 2010 19:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
H8 OUTLOOK
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Monday, 18 October 2010 21:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
172. Vevo
― Kerm, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 03:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
JB Hifi drive me mad with their crappy excess shrinkwrap and stupid stickers grrr.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 08:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Do they still use that yellow tape? Argh!!!!
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 13:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
chipmunks...until i shoot them
― thebingo2010 (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 13:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm sure this will be another one that straddles the "innocuous" line for some of us, but after my last two morning commutes - I need to add commuters who sprawl out with their daily newspapers on a packed train.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 13:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
That's just plain rude. Non-folders are straight-up assholes & deserve our wrath
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 13:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah I'm with you on that one.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 13:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
I do this, I like to give the driver plenty of warning. And what annoys me is when someone pulls the cord after I have already signaled for a stop. Then they continue to tug on it because they think it's not working. I ALREADY DID IT BRO, RELAX.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 13:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
people who press the buttons at pedestrian crossings when there are 50 people already there waiting.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Haha, that one cracks me up actually, like we were all sitting there watching this latecomer thinking, "gee, why didn't WE think of THAT!".
― Picker of Shelves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Grown women who speak with a fake little girl voice.
― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" has Bern stuck in my head for a couple of days now, and I love the song to death but the subtle wrongness of some of the lyrics is now driving me batshit. They're the only lines stuck in my head now. "You and I must make a *pack*" - pact! Pact! please say the t at the end, please! "...she better be good to you / Cause if she *doesn't*, I'll be there"Isn't! Isn't! GodDAMMIT, isn't! "look over your shoulders honey!"Agghhhh Michael you're killing me!
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
been, not Bern. Ty predictive text
xxxpost
I am guilty of this, but that's because quite often, no-one DID think of pressing the button, I guess assuming someone else did.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Littering. And as a smoker I do this myself, to the extent that I throw cigarette butts onto the sidewalk very occasionally, but with typical "mote in thine eye" nonchalance I'm infuriated by people who can hang out in a public place, crumple something up in their hands or suck the last drops of soda out of a take-out cup, and then just casually drop the remains. Onto a subway track, into the street, right next to you on the sidewalk...it's such a small thing and yet it makes me see red immediately.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe they only do it 'very occasionally' though? /just sayin
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ouch.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
:)
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― Picker of Shelves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:01 AM Bookmark
You wouldn't believe how many clueless tourists and sidewalk badasses don't do this. They cross with the stoplight and not the pedestrian box.
I push it so the box says WALK and if I get hit by a car, I can sue them for a million bucks.
― http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't know why the two acts seem so different: I do put out buts on the sidewalk if I smoke while walking, which is rare but happens. But if I finish some food or something, I'll carry the damn garbage in my purse all day instead of leaving it anywhere NOT a garbage can. Eh.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't believe that pedestrian boxes DO anything.
Also ppl who push the button a million times. It's timed, you idiot. Simmer down
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
should just mark it 'F5'
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
This too, yeah. I've never seen them actually change the timing of a light.
― Picker of Shelves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
There's one at a busy intersection on my route that won't change unless you press the button. And when it does, it goes back to flashing the Orange Hand after about two seconds.
― http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've seen it work for a lighted crosswalk that crossed a very busy street (ie not tied to an intersection, but a standalone pedestrian walkway)
But yeah for intersections it's just timed to go with the light, it never interrupts anything
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Having to wait for ages to be served at the corner shop, especially if behind someone buying lottery tickets or kids dithering over which sweets to get, and I'm buying sensible things like onions or beer.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
People that order more than one coffee at a time when I am in line behind them.
― Picker of Shelves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
people with 3 atm cards
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
My biggest (undiagnosed) panic attacks occur at places like the library or electric company where there are three windows open for business, and instead of having the customers go through one line or take a number, you have to pick an individual window. So you do this quick call on the clerk in the window, the mental facilities of the customers in front of you. And you still get stuck in the wrong line.
This happens a lot at the self-serve kiosks at the grocery store. Since this "pick a line" system works well with shopping carts, it's applied to the four check-out kiosks as well, even though a single line would serve better than four rangy lines wandering all over the cramped area. I hate it, and it's irrational, but it's the one thing that really chews my guts.
― http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
People who spend a good minute standing in front of the ATM painstakingly reassembling the contents of their wallet after withdrawing money.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
OMG chap, I am with you on that one. Or people who decided to do all their banking via the atm....multiple deposits, etc. etc.
Also old farts who still can't figure out how to use an ATM.
― thebingo2010 (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Along those lines are the people that have no clue how to use self-checkout registers. The flip side of that, of course, are those super sensitive self-checkouts that constantly freeze up with those "Unexpected item in baggage area" errors.
― Picker of Shelves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
For my heart, I still go through the full-service lanes. It's the same price, they bag the groceries and I can spend my time with an unoffending issue of People.
― http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
they bag your groceries?
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Or people who decided to do all their banking via the atm....multiple deposits, etc. etc.
wait, I do this. I mean this is what ATMs are designed for.
― peter in montreal, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:39 (2 years ago) Permalink