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

fix bayonets

fuck
that
bullshit

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

Another transit one: people who bolt down the stairs to get onto a jammed rush hour subway that's about to depart and then stuff themselves halfway in with their shoudler sticking out the door, as though being considered "on" the train were the equivalent of getting only the ball across the end zone line.

What follows is either the doors repeatedly closing and opening on their arm as they try to contort their body (holding up the whole train) or that person forcibly shoving another person into a third person. Meanwhile there's usually another train a few minutes behind. It's not our fucking fault if you're late for work buddy!

― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

Ragh this happened twice in 2 days:

Zooming along in the carpool lane, and in the rearview someone is bearing down at supersonic speeds. I start looking for a spot in the traffic to switch lanes. Both times these cars have been doing at least 90+. I switch lanes. The car flies past. AND THEN MOMENTS LATER THE MOTHEFUCKER PULLS ACROSS FOUR LANES OF TRAFFIC TO GET OFF AT THE NEXT EXIT.

I will hunt you down you sonsabitches

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

Just posting in solidarity w/ a passing space cadet. I also select seats based on my ability to extend out into the aisle if need be (which means I get whapped in the head with bags a lot but HEY it beats having to inconvenience the other person in the seat and risk having that person post angry screeds on the internet about how horrible it is to share space w/ a fatso).

― carl agatha, Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

Back to the Tostitos-munching cabbie: I just sat and suffered the crunching. But I got my revenge I guess b/c I didn't realize I didn't have cash, so I had to pay with plastic.

WmC is sort of right - a cabbie's gotta munch, but OTOH, it's kind of rude and he could munch his breakfast (of TOSTITOS?) in between fares. It was worst b/c the cab didn't have a divider between front and back, so I got the full cronch cronch cronch.

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

You live in the third largest city in America and the sound of Tostitos crunching is what got to you?

― pplains, Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

Everything that can be bad about public transportation was encapsulated by a single scene on The Simpsons:

% Lisa gets onto the bus and looks for a seat.

Lisa: May I sit there?

Agnes: Of course not, honey! That seats for my coin purse. [She puts her
coin purse down. After Lisa leaves she picks it back up.]

% She tries somewhere else.
Lisa: May I have that seat?

Comic Book Guy: Yes! If you can answer me these questions three. Question the first!

Lisa: Never mind. [walks away]

― Flagpost Sitta (Phil D.), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

Lol

You live in the third largest city in America and the sound of Tostitos crunching is what got to you?

Achilles heel!

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

I feel bad because I realized my IA posts sounded shitty to fat people, when I was thinking about two issues that didn't get clearly expressed:

1) When I said that my neighbors' body parts shouldn't pass the dividing line of the seats if it went upward or outward, I was thinking of men who move their legs/knees outward until they have crossed into your space, and men who don't care where their broader shoulders are going to go so I end up hunched in the middle unable to move my arms.

2) The memory of living in a poor neighborhood with no good grocery stores is mostly sad. A lot of the people who made me IA on trains were unable to wear anything but old stained sweatpants and could barely climb the stairs of the subway. That is both sad for them personally and sad for our whole society, that we don't have hardly anything to offer people to make it easier to not be unhealthy/incapable of normal things.

― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, 1 March 2012 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

I got IA this morning when I revived the Andrew Breitbart thread to post that he'd died, and then for more than an hour (basically until I said "AHEM") people ignored it and posted their reactions on other threads.

― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

I was on the muni to the office, where we would be interviewing people for a job, and there was this one woman putting her small handbag on the seat next to her and holding it there, while people were standing. I was actually kind of hoping she'd turn out to be the candidate so I could DENY her the job based on bad public transit etiquette.

― kinder, Friday, 2 March 2012 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

people who see multiple signs indicating that they need to merge into the lane next to theirs, and instead of doing so immediately, continuing to drive in their lane even as it evaporated and then cutting you off last minute, as if they were oblivious to all of the signs/merge arrows in the street.

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 2 March 2012 04:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

tbf the correct way to handle lane merging is by "zippering" where traffic speed slows down slightly and enough space opens in both lanes for them to merge without incident.

However, no one understands this and there's a stigma against actually letting someone into your lane in front of you so we're stuck with very-early mergers that slow things down and last-second mergers that make things come to a sudden stop

― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 04:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah I'm fine with that. Not fine with the guy tonight who was driving in front of me on a road where we were the only two vehicles, and he had plenty of room to merge in front of me, didn't, then curiously jumped into the left turn lane while I stayed in the straight lane. He then for whatever reason didn't make a left, but proceeded to keep going straight despite being in the left turn lane, and as a result, almost drove straight into my driver's side door.

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 2 March 2012 04:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

- when Levar Burton ends his tweets with #bydhttmwfi even when that doesn't make sense, ie "We've gotta get de-iced before we take off for LA...#bydhttmwfi"

Of course I want to take your word for that. Why wouldn't I?

― carl agatha, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

I hated it when he said it on Reading Rainbow too

― tanuki, Friday, 2 March 2012 13:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh man, I had no idea what that stood for until you mentioned Reading Rainbow and it was instant recognition

― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 14:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

There are a handful of people who work on this floor, who I don't really know and haven't worked directly with, who irritate me. I don't know why because I haven't really interacted with them and most seem to be well-liked, but I walk by them talking to their coworkers and think to myself, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

Am I biased against their appearances? Did I overhear or see something I disliked that I've forgotten?

― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

Reporting live! Sitting at a table reading and eating in a stupid, healthy and chipper fast food place (more on that later) with two women on either side of me and all of them know each other! So they are talking to each other! Loudly! Across me, who is clearly trying to read and eat in peace! They did not accept my offer to trade places with me or get my hint.

So but I appreciate healthy fast lunch options and I like quinoa just fine but paying $8 for half a cup of quinoa and chili is straight bullshit. Especially since I'm still hungry and need to get some nabs or something so I don't start hallucinating my coworker as a giant talking hot dog.

Also why is this place playing Das Racist?

This is carl agatha reporting live. Back to you.

― carl agatha, Friday, 2 March 2012 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

Das Racist is there to remind you that you could have been eating at the Pizza Hut / Taco Bell instead of eating $8 quinoa and chili.

― joygoat, Friday, 2 March 2012 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

Did you go to protein bar? I had lunch there too. Mine was delicious.

― Jeff, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Just heard a co-workers cellphone ring. He picked it up and said, "Hey, Roger. Are you feeling better?"

Makes me IA all the way. When you call someone, you shouldn't have to immediately answer a question without even saying "hello" first.

― pplains, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

Did you go to protein bar? I had lunch there too. Mine was delicious.

Yesssss. I went to give it another shot since you like it. It tasted good; it's just expensive and inadequate.

― carl agatha, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

Also hearing the woman brag about all the things she omitted from her quinoa bowl was annoying. Congratulations, you are eating vegan air for lunch. Now shut up and let me read.

Also it's loud in there. And too enthusiastic.

― carl agatha, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

Surprise, Jeff! You are married to Grampa Simpson!

― carl agatha, Friday, 2 March 2012 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

Solidarity my dear. Mr Veg routinely complains about being married to Andy Rooney

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 23:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

I went on a loud bile-filled rant last night about American TV season schedules, and WTF with all these stupid hiatus is and if a show is on the air, it's ON THE AIR, and if it's off, then it's off, and none of this 3 weeeks on 2 weeks of rant rant crazy rant

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

hiatus is = hiatuses

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

hiaitii

― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Friday, 2 March 2012 23:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

hope for hiatii

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 23:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sitting at a table reading and eating in a stupid, healthy and chipper fast food place (more on that later)

Did we already get the "more" part?

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Saturday, 3 March 2012 00:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yes, when I complain heartily about the high prices, small portions, eating disordered clientele, hyper-cheerful staff, and noise level. LOL.

― carl agatha, Saturday, 3 March 2012 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hey people who stand at the tops or bottoms of subway stairs, why don't you move out of the way and let the bidirectional foot traffic flow unimpeded by your inexplicable need to block the ability of people to either exit or enter the damn subway station.

― rayuela, Saturday, 3 March 2012 02:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

god, once I started posting in this thread it's like I can't stop...

― rayuela, Saturday, 3 March 2012 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

One of us one of us

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 March 2012 02:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Using the word "puritanical" to describe a Catholic.

― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 3 March 2012 03:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

Haha that is an awesome thing to be angry about. Seriously.

― carl agatha, Saturday, 3 March 2012 03:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

That's even better than when I heard an older Italian Catholic man say you shouldn't call Episcopalian ministers "Father" because they're "more secular."

― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Saturday, 3 March 2012 04:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

This girl I know makes me irrationally angry. I just really can't stand the sight of her or hear about her. We have mutual friends that want us both to connect so badly but we are complete opposites, I feel. They always invite her along to things I invite them too and they always look bewildered the few times actual invitations were issued and there wasn't one for her. Seems to me the feeling is mutual, she is just better at hiding it, BUT it has crossed my mind that maybe she is completely innocuous and it's all me.

― *tera, Saturday, 3 March 2012 07:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

Android just updated on my phone and it's changed the method of unlocking it and answering calls. Pissing me off no end.

― A BIG JOE JORDAN TYPE OF POSTER (onimo), Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

When, instead of saying "OK", people say "ooh-kay" with a high-low inflection.

― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

snoball - I hear that loud and clear. makes people sound like fucking cartoons, imo.

*tera - I totally had a case like that once. I'd be all like "why the hell is geoff here?" and "what do you mean we should call geoff?" The thing was, he wasn't doing anything that necessarily should have made me angry. He was innocuous, but I was irrationally angry just over a feeling I had about him. I didn't like him. He was the anti-me.

He turned out to be a complete douche-bag who really did some damage to a few of my friends. It took them a couple years longer than I did to figure it out and I had for the most part burned my bridges with them over the geoff issue.

Ultimately, geoff's entrance into our lives was a net negative to all involved. I lost my friends. They lost me. They got ripped off and pushed around and cheated. In hindsight though, I kinda wish that I had just stuck around and been a little more chill about it and invited him into my life like everyone else and then been there for them when the shit hit the fan.

So that's probably not exactly the same as your deal. But the basic point is geoff was an innocuous thing that made me irrationally angry and I was right.

― beachville, Saturday, 3 March 2012 12:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

Android just updated on my phone and it's changed the method of unlocking it and answering calls. Pissing me off no end.

― A BIG JOE JORDAN TYPE OF POSTER (onimo), Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:04 (3 hours ago)

both of these are an enormous pain (under the rubric of 'innocuous things', at least), every answer comes only after a couple of seconds of awkward fumbling, NOT TO MENTION the half-asleep trauma caused by struggling to turn the alarm off.

― shart practice (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 3 March 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

People who quote Princess Bride incessantly.

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 3 March 2012 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

incontheivable

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 March 2012 17:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

beachville, yep, that's it an anti-me!

I still feel given enough rope...eventually... but yeah I fear losing my friends before they lose her so I just shut-up. Sorry you lost yours. You ended up being right, that sux.

We both ended up pregnant at the same time and she found out she was having a girl and so my friends started emailing and calling me telling me wouldn't it be great if I were having a boy so they could fall in love and marry later. Um, that was a horrifying thought to have this girl as an in-law later in life. I told them I was having a girl and they swore up and down I was so wrong. When it was official they just said well, they could be lesbian lovers later. I was like for the love of God! I do NOT like this girl!

― *tera, Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

People who whistle tunelessly.

― omar 13337713 (Leee), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^^ leeee otfm

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

Fucking web sites that make passwords a huge pain in the ass by:

- requiring they be changed every couple of months
- prohibiting use of previously-used passwords
- prohibiting the use of a character twice in a row
- prohibiting the use of special characters

My school's web site does 3 of these and Blue Cross/Blue Shield does another 3, which means I forget my password and either have to reset it every time I log in or I send myself an email with the password so I can look it up later (thereby compromising security).

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

tbf they don't send you an email with the password, they send you an email with the one-time key to reset your password. At least they do if they're not morons.

― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink