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

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

Also, requiring the password be a small range of number of characters. E.g., password must be between 6 and 9 characters long.

xp - I never said they send me a password.

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

I just want to log into a website and stay logged in forever. Security be damned.

― Jeff, Monday, 5 March 2012 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

In fact, neither my school nor BCBS do resets by email. Both do it by verifying info on their website.

xp - yes

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Using the word "puritanical" to describe a Catholic.

― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 3 March 2012 03:28 (2 days ago) Permalink

Though not exactly on point, this reminded me of the first day of a college class on literature and spirituality in which the professor asked us to brainstorm examples of how religion seemed to be playing an increasing role in popular film. One kid raises his hand and says "I know this might not be the most obvious example, but Stigmata. I mean when you really think about it."

― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

i started using keyboard patterns for work to save me having to think of passwords. so now mine are things like uIomNb654 and i can write them down cryptically. everything else is stored encrypted in a keystore on a usb stick (and emailed, encrypted, to webmail account)

― koogs, Monday, 5 March 2012 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

- articles that include top 10/20/50 that insist on displaying the list as a goddamn slideshow.

just list the damn things.

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

I have two (2) sets of headphones - crappy apple buds I keep at home, and a pair of Sennheiser over-ears that I take with me to work and bring home on the weekends.

I left my sennheisers at home this morning so now I have zero (0) headphones at work.

I am now listening to music with my PHONE HEADSET plugged into my computer. It would be more pleasing to have the music transmitted through a tin can on a string.

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― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

I left my earbuds on my coffee table and I know that my cat loves them for chewing and wrestling with. Hmm.

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 5 March 2012 18:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

maybe the cat put a parasite in your brain that made you leave them on the coffee table

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2012 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

you need cat handcuffs innit?

― Stevolende, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

I have headphones that I prefer to use, a set of crappy ear buds that I keep in my desk at work for emergencies, and a pair of (actually very nice) headphones that I keep in a case in my purse just in case. I don't use the nice ones daily because they don't have the little clicker mic on them, and that thing is handy.

― carl agatha, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

I need to get spare-spares to keep at work.

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2012 19:58 (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, March 2, 2012 4:50 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This from the guy who neither proffers nor acknowledges parting niceties at the completion of any telephone exchange.

― Uncle Terry's Tampon Tea (sunny successor), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

He does say 'Sir' when addressing elders though so I guess that makes it even Steven.

― Uncle Terry's Tampon Tea (sunny successor), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

By the time the phone call is concluding, you should know by now whether or not Roger is feeling any better. What else is there left to say?

And listen. It's not I just abruptly hang-up without warning or anything. It's not like you said "I am finished." in your last post.

― pplains, Monday, 5 March 2012 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

M'amm.

― pplains, Monday, 5 March 2012 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

I don't think the chili is $8, is it? $7 at the most. Unless they jack up the prices in the Loop.

In any event, I do feel you. Fwiw, the wraps are more filling than the bowls, I've found.

― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

I agree, although I found the wraps to be dense and dry quinoa bombs. The work of chewing them wasn't worth the nutritional or taste enjoying I derived from them.

I stand by Freshii as the best new healthy lunch option in the Loop. Although Wao Bow now offers quinoa as an option with their rice bowls, so there's that, too, if you really fucking need to eat some quinoa like STAT.

― carl agatha, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

I was just talking to coworkers about people who don't say the usual OK bye/Talk to you later/Thanks, bye. There is a lawyer I regularly talk to on the phone who is nice enough, but when the call is over, he just hangs up.

My dad used to do that and it terrified high school friends or people from work who called me. They were constantly asking why he was pissed at them or insisting that he hated them. (E.g. "Hi, is Jesse there?" "No." "OK, could you let him know that we're slow today and he can take the day off?" "Yah, OK." *CLICK*)

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

sorry Je55e, I misread it when you mentioned you email yourself the password

― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

Ridiculous password requirements just encourage people to write down their passwords on post-it notes. That's the biggest security risk going imo.

― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 March 2012 22:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

But I keep that Post-It in a drawer! Off to the side!

― nickn, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha, i kept sunny's ss# on a post-it for awhile, but it was written in this inscrutable way.

1 7 4
5 2 8
9 6 3

(if her ss was 123-45-6789)

― pplains, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

sorry Je55e, I misread it when you mentioned you email yourself the password

NP. I don't remember if I was salty in my reply. If so, sorry.

Ridiculous password requirements just encourage people to write down their passwords on post-it notes. That's the biggest security risk going imo.

Yep. I have a document at work that contains a lot of top secret passwords.

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 5 March 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

I use KeePass.

― Jeff, Monday, 5 March 2012 23:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

I use that at home but not at work. And you have to subscribe to use it on iPhone which I am absolutely not going to do. I'll pay once, no problem, but not a subscription.

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 5 March 2012 23:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

Keepass is free. Are you talking about one password?

― Jeff, Monday, 5 March 2012 23:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

No. I might be talking about LastPass though. Pretty sure I am.

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh yeh. KeePass was the one I was using but I forgot the main - irretrievable - password. Loljfjfjenfksk

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Should have written it down on a post it.

― carl agatha, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

tee hee

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

I love KeePass, and keep it in my Dropbox so I can forget passwords at home and at work.

― joygoat, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 02:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

I like LastPass b/c it lives in my browser.

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 03:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

The problem today was that I wanted to log on to BCBS at work, whose password is on LastPass, but I uninstalled LastPass at work in a fit of paranoia during some inter/intra-office tensions and intrigue last summer, so I had to reset it.

― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 04:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

usb key!

― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

People that send 300+ page documents to our printer without warning anyone else.

― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

People who send 300 page documents and don't refill the printer tray.

― rayuela, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 14:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yes, that too.

― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 14:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

So many website I don't even bother to try and remember my password, I just click on the "forgotten password" link every time I want to log in.

― ledge, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink