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

financial press headlines that try to make something out of nothing, and/or ascribe forces or motives to phenomena that there is no actual evidence for

e.g. this morning's WSJ: "Jobs gains build momentum"

i.e. no evidence for the forces/motives, not no evidence for the phenomena

xxpost use the ejector seat!

I visited LA back in September and the drive in the airport shuttle was similar, wrt terrifyingness. my first indication was his exclamation of dismay/horror at the traffic jam as he pulled onto the 101. (I have only visited LA a few times but even I know that a 9am traffic jam on the 101 is about as shocking as a sunrise.) Both me and the other passenger had given him our hotel addresses before departing, but halfway there he asked BOTH of us to give him directions. We both looked at each other in mild terror, like 'uhmmmm dude we were hoping you knew how to get there, kind of why we paid for the shuttle?'
We get downtown and some of the streets are blocked off for a movie premiere, and the driver really starts to lose his shit, he's swearing and yelling. He drops off the other passenger and I'm left alone. I've quietly fired up google maps and am tracking where we're going in case he gets lost again, so I can at least get to my hotel in one piece, but he's flying around without a seatbelt on, swearing at everyone who even merges in front of him. and then as we're driving out to West Hollywood he reaches over and plugs in a GPS. Which he had all along. I wanted to strangle him.

Not sure if this exactly fits here. Funny that the same week that in one computer course I'm doing the lecturer goes on about the limitations of Powerpoint e.g. that if the presentation is naff the Powerpoint display isn't going to save it.(illustrating it with unintentionally cheesy Powerpoint effects). Then about 3 days later I get to watch one of the worst Health & Safety presentations I ever hope to see.
Not sure where the talker was from but her accentuation seemed to be totally wrong so I listened through a long percussive spiel where every word had a random plosive. several metaphors appeared with no explanation and the same random accentuation.
Not sure if this is what I should be expecting from a talk like this but apparently this person is travelling Ireland giving the same talk at FAS centres. there was no feedback sheet or I might have pointed out problems with the presentation. had me squirming throughout.

Also getting stuck on a course where I'm having to use a typing tutor that has a program with a different keyboard layout than the keyboard I'm using and no way to adjust it. would think it was a long term problem that somebody would have looked into by now. Maybe the course just gets Mavis Beacon layed on.

Oh and the deep weariness I've been feeling all week. having to get up at 6.30am to get in to college by 8.30. I keep waking up at odd hours during the night then not really getting back to sleep.
Plus finding out that I need to keep resetting my alarm thanks to profiles on my phone. Could be the incipient weariness not letting me realise I've still got the thing set up as silent for the class and not readjusted to normal after I've left at the end of the day. GOD.

That I can't find a thread for rational anger!

yes, i need somewhere to post 'audible.com commercials'

People that, in a hotel coin-laundry room, do multiple (and separate) loads of laundry AT THE SAME TIME...monopolizing all of the machines so that nobody else can use them.

Wtf, that's pretty rude.

The phrase "man cave".

also delivery drivers who don't have pens on them when they deliver your food. local place near me has forgotten three times and forced me to root through my house for one.

@Deric YES.

unless you have an ACTUAL cave, stfu.

je55e vs. autumn a. for the ia crown?

Are you keeping stats?

nope! it's curious because i have a sense of you as a p. laid back guy, but then you've a lot of posts here

I'm fire 'n' ice baby ;)

People that, in a hotel coin-laundry room, do multiple (and separate) loads of laundry AT THE SAME TIME...monopolizing all of the machines so that nobody else can use them.

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, March 11, 2012 9:54 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wtf, that's pretty rude.

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, March 11, 2012 10:04 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah, I finally got a chance to wash my clothes, then went over to the one dryer that wasn't cycling and realized one of the same douches still had his clothes in there, even though the cycle ended like 30 mins ago.

His clothes are now on the floor. fuck him

"man cave" is kind of okay with me bcz it makes me imagine "mangina"
if someone feels the need to spend a lot of time alone with their mangina, I understand

hahaha

There's posters all over my home town at the moment advertising a show called MANGINA

I will not be attending

Pretend it's called man cave? :)

IA that I am still being awake at half past midnight when I have to get up at 5:30

whyyyyyyy

The idiot woman on the elevator this morning who, while pulling out her ID to get into her office, make the fucking "We don't need any stinkin' badges!" joke at 7:30am on a day in 2012 in her raspy cryptkeeper voice, then laughed as if it were the funniest thing she'd ever heard, choking the rest of us with her foul, smoky breath.

Unfortunately, pretty much everything is making me IA this morning, as tends to happen when I'm operating on literally 15 minutes of sleep from last night and have an incredibly long day ahead of me at work.

All my anger is rational.

Yeah, a lack of sleep (or that awful, wonky feeling you get when you wake up in the middle of a REM cycle) is a definite annoyance amplifier.

mancave
manscaping
manbag
manstep
mananything

ia ia ia ia

irrationally mangry

guybrarian

That's not a thing.

Hey, man, it's the mancession. Bros gotta take whatever retarded shit they can get their mands on.

guybrarian is a thing within the library sector. i haven't talked about that before?
http://www.edgerton.k12.wi.us/webpages/kschmitz/photos/logo/new_guybrarian001.jpg

wtf

mainly offends me as a very ugly word

There isn't a single thing about "guy culture" that make any sense to me whatsover. Like, assuming it isn't a deeply ironic thing, "guybrarian" feels like something aliens might've invented.

i think it's mainly a jokey thing but one of those jokes where the implications make it not so funny once you stop to think about what you're actually saying when you say it

it's not like a "guy culture" thing really, it's just a joke about the rarity of male librarians, like they are something different/special. but it reinforces the stereotype by implying that librarians are a distinct thing from guybrarians who are all female. anyways. it's mainly just stupid and aesthetically unpleasant.

Irrationally angry at inarticulate overemphasis on "guyness". Although its innocuousness is highly arguable.

2/3 of the librarians I know are men. NO. 3/4.

I know one twatbrarian and she's a lawyer now.

I'm sorry, a twattorney.

and srsly, wtf at librarian needing to be somehow 'owned' by guys. I've known as many dude librarians as women, so they can take their guybrarian and file it under 819 (Literature) which according to wiki is currently unassigned and shall now be reinstated as "Satire & Humor (failed"

I'm a vagsalesperson!

I'm unmanployed!

There is a very immature part of me that loves Manjula's name almost as much as her recipes

(Seriously tho, best Youtube cook)

Information Manology.

Dickformation Cocknology

wtf at librarian needing to be somehow 'owned' by guys.

just want to reiterate that as far as i can tell, this is not what "guybrarian" is about - i've never met a male librarian who wants to be called a guybrarian and i've only ever heard women say it (jokingly)

Call those women "ovarianbrarians."