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

ps I don't know how long to cook a roast I am a vegetarian

lol Phil that's a pretty good interpretation, actually

I decided I would make a horrible mother when I realized just the sound of a whistling kettle makes me go "FFS SHUT!! UP!!", never mind a crying baby

the other morning I had one of those moments where wakefulness encroaches upon dreaming, and the sound of my alarm buzzer took the form of a snake screaming at me.

O_O

Feeling drained all the time, having to wake up too early.
& waking up in the middle of the night then having to try to get back to sleep to wake up at 6.30.

Then I get a day off yesterday, think I've taken the alarm off only to have it go off at 6.30 anyway. Damn phone.
Alarm tone is Blixa Bargeld screaming from Zeichnungen der O.T. or one of its tracks. Kind of eerie thing to wake up to at times.

Easter is making me irrationally angry because I don't celebrate it and I keep forgetting other people do until I need goods or services and find a place to be closed.

stupid store sold out of stupid milk & stupid potato chips, stupid jesus

this is kinda lame, I feel mean for even saying it but

I published a story online about 3 years ago, which is pretty much forgotten about. Every now and again I'll get a review notification and I'm like 'oh yeah, that'. and then, occasionally, I get a crazy obsessive person who publishes a review of every. single. chapter. as they read, so I get like 20 emails in two days. which is still nice. but they're also not so much reviews as commentary, at least the ones that are flooding in atm. like 'omg I can't believe he/she said that!!! but I think he has a point etc etc' and it just makes me kinda O_o, like 'you know it's not real, right?

anyway yay for email filters.

Usually i frown on PDA but this morning on the train in to work there was this couple that was kissing and being super cute and in-between smooches the guy was making jokes about tax rates. Ughhhhh.

So yeah anyone that uses taxes as pillow talk, in public.

gross

"I'd like to itemize HER deductions!"

"Oh, baby, depreciate my tangible assets."

69-9-9

again the stupid counterintuitive design of my phone's alarm clock, which meant that despite resetting it, as I thought I'd done when it woke me on Friday it was still set to go off this morning.

Not getting myself in the mood to spring-clean cos I'm feeling rundown with flu or cold or whatever. & having a new landlord who wanted to look around the place a couple of weeks back. I did at least mop the floor I guess.
But the long-weekend off is pretty much gone and I feel i didn't achieve what I might have done. Or gone up the country as the alternative possibility might have been.

That stupid book "The Art of Fielding." Hated it.

lol, Josh that's pretty beautiful in its simplicity

I think there's a strong overlap b/w people who pay full price for new cloth releases at their independent bookstore and distrust ereaders, and people who read that book.

I was hoping it was a critical treatise on Henry Fielding.

Ok maybe this is a temporary thing but the next time i hear a band play a song (or 3! or 4!) with the "Be My Baby" drum beat, it's going to take all my power to stop from bashing my head into a bloody pulp.

o - t.m.

we used to call that 'the forbidden drumbeat' when I was a teenager and playing in bands

- "keep me logged in" checkboxes being checked by default

drivers who don't slow down right before an intersection, so i have no idea whether they're actually going to stop for me before i try to cross the street. i mean they just stop at the last possible second, and i'm like "are you gonna run me over or...?"

or the corollary, people who slow all the way down and THEN put on a turn signal. at that point, why bother?

tHAT THERE'S NO cTRL-? STYLE SHORTCUT...

That there's no Ctrl-? style shortcut to transpose capital and lower-case letters, so that when you type a whole swathe of stuff with Caps Lock on without noticing you can fix it without having to retype.

I accept the TSA making me separate the few little liquids I need to take in my carry-on luggage by putting them in a little baggie etc. It's kinda dumb but whatever.

I'm really just annoyed at having to go out and buy QUART-sized ziplocks especially for my trip. I have gallons, I have sandwich-sized. I don't really WANT a box of quart-sized ziplocks.

also: posting IA complaint in totally wrong thread makes me IA
;_;

I think I put my little bottles in the wrong sized ziplock every time and nobody has ever noticed.

Well, immigrating made me more ocd about TSA rules/etc, so I'd rather buy the stupid things than worry myself into a ball of crazy thinking they're going to catch me for using the wrong bag

welcome to my brain

I've left my ziplocked bag inside my toilet kit (instead of separating it out for the conveyor belt) I don't know how many times, and it was never noticed/commented on.

i pretty much always fly with a lighter in my pocket or carry-on backpack

Oh man, I was coming home from Las Vegas and some lady in front of me had half full full-sized liquor bottles in her bag!

Well, immigrating made me more ocd about TSA rules/etc, so I'd rather buy the stupid things than worry myself into a ball of crazy thinking they're going to catch me for using the wrong bag

welcome to my brain

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, April 12, 2012 3:13 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hadn't thought of that, but I would be more cautious, too!

"You used the wrong bag! DEPORT HER."

oh dude you don't even know

but yeah pretty much that

This American Life did a story about immigrants married to 9/11 victims who were deported...totally not my sitch but I heard it right before my Citizenship interview. Mr Veg found me bawling in the fetal position, freaked me RIGHT out.

haha, that's like some of the undocumented immigrants here who are afraid to call the free bulk pickup service to take away their old mattresses cuz they're afraid the bureau of sanitation might report them to the INS (or whatever the INS is called now)

xpost

ICE

Oh I get you, VG. I'm married to an immigrant.

ss: "so what happens to me if something should happen to you?"
pp: "what do you mean something's going to happen to me?"

oh of course! doh @ me :)

i really hate soda commercials on the radio or TV where you hear the sound effects
of

*PSSSSSH* --guk guk guk guk-- *AHHHHHHHHH*

xpost yeah, it's just the mindset immigration puts you in from the moment you start the process

every step you have to justify your existence, you spent SO much money and effort proving your worth to them, making sure everything's addressed correctly and filled out in the right colored pen and that you're not wearing glasses in your photo or not using staples on your documents, because at every turn you just know they could easily say, 'eh, nope you used the wrong envelope for this form, buh bye'

I mean, I flew to Sydney for my final interview and they waited til THAT interview to say 'oh you didn't submit x form, sorry your visa's been declined'
Even if they lose your forms, it's your fault.

so yeah, the idea of drawing unnecessary attention to yourself in any way, it just gets in your head. Now that I've been a citizen for a while it's not so bad, but when I was on a green card, I was even more of a spaz.

Do immigrant citizens' passports indicate that they're immigrants? Or is it just your accent that gives you away?

tHAT THERE'S NO cTRL-? STYLE SHORTCUT...

That there's no Ctrl-? style shortcut to transpose capital and lower-case letters, so that when you type a whole swathe of stuff with Caps Lock on without noticing you can fix it without having to retype.

There is a way in MS Word. Shift+F3 toggles between all caps, all lowercase, and first letter caps (the latter never work's right though).

Works! Not work's!!

Usually you can tell someone is an immigrant to the United States by the fact their passport has been issued by another country.

I have two (2) passports. Dual citizen, so 1 US passport, and 1 Australian. It makes me feel like a spy :D

Do immigrant citizens' passports indicate that they're immigrants? Or is it just your accent that gives you away?

Yes, even if you immigrate at the age of 30 days, and are a (naturalized) US citizen. Also: you get pulled every damn time!

What! I thought once you're naturalized your passport is just like "US citizen, yup" and that's it. I didn't know it still flagged you!