Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

hell it's not even irrationallly infuriating, it's just straightup infuriating

not irrational (not important, either) but the thing in internet headline writing where it goes basically "some weird person on the internet did some weird thing and you want to see it!" h8 h8 h8. i know these things have to be clickbaity and a lot of that genre of usually-fandom-related-arts-and-crafts shit is "person does thing because they are able to", but a good deal of the time there's quality or purpose or substance there, often the person behind it will come out and say "this is what i was trying to do w/this" and this might even be reflected in the tiny blurb preceding the link or embed, but those titles set up the discourse so everyone goes into it like "oh man, what wacky shit's the internet come up with today!" and someone inevitably has to chime in with "well actually, this is pretty [_____]"

most of it is just me being really sick of all the "someone knitted game of thrones characters into breaking bad leslie knope butthole dan chihuly pageclicks pageclicks pageclicks" shit that is 100% annoying and that mindset creeping into all aspects of everything i am also a snob i guess

otm. It's basically crowd-sourced advertising, exploiting fans for free labor/promotion/etc

ppl who speed down a merge lane like it's a new freebie lane that no-one's using & and then bail out at the last minute ASSHOLES I HATE THEM

You mean people who use a merge lane for all of its length and then merge when the lane ends?

yes

but that sounds less annoying

People who make apopleptic comments on top ten ______ lists like "how could you possibly include x and not y!"

thatlol.org which is a facebook spam site that lures you in to look at a photo to see what is wrong with it, then hits you with dialogue boxes when you go to look including one that allows it to post to your feed as though it is you. I don't know how to stop it sending things out now. It was stupid of me to ok a not fully read dialogue box obviously if that is what triggered this.
But can't see how to undo it since it is posting under my name. I complained to Facebook staff some weeks ago but its been ignored and now I'm getting messages about Justin Bieber etc spammed out on my feed as though they have my byline. Very annoying.

The 300 and rising number of people at work who are replying to a global mailing list telling everyone "stop replying to this email please"

and really, it doesn't matter how you word your email YOU ARE STILL ADDING TO THE PROBLEM!!

"By now it should have been clear. Multiple emails have been sent requesting the same thing "please don't reply to all". Hope it's simple enough english to understand."

This is my favourite so far though

"Merci de stopper ce massacre
Cela nous empeche de travailler correctement !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

(it was a world wide email btw)

one guy using font size 72 to emphasize his point

"For anyone else who is replying can you reply to the sender only and not to the entire mailing list?"

yes, he replied to all as well

(you get the idea)

Feel like I'm in the fucking twilight zone.

350 now

lol

My dad "resents" that I disagree that Split Enz're more musical than the Rolling Stones

Xpost create rule, file to trash

When I get into work in the morning, the cleaning people from the night before always push my trash can WAAAAAY back under my desk and I have to pull it out, every fucking morning. Costing me a valuable 2 seconds every single day.

I'm going to glue it to the fucking floor.

You should be thankful you don't have to work as a cleaning person

It's a hard job.

You could leave a note asking them not to move it

Overly effectively targeted advertising -- the thing where the stuff you just looked at keeps popping up for days in ads on sites -- "Hey what's up, I'm that jacket from Steven Alan you looked at a few minutes ago, remember me?" "Hey, it's me! Jacket again, how's it going?" "Hey, it's Jacket, haven't heard from you in a minute!" "Hey, Jacket here, can we still get dinner some time?"

What's really fun is when you're shopping for someone else and then your computer is plastered with those items you were looking for during the next month.

also when they recommend something based on what you've just bought when what you bought was an expensive item that you'd only ever need one of, like a tv.

"The hemorrhoid cream was for my aging father, damnit, and I already bought a six-month supply!"

I just find something even more invasive about that kind of advertising. It's bad enough to just have ads plastered everywhere, but it's easier to block out when it's for something you don't care about. This is more like constant nagging.

ebay keeps trying to get me to buy things I already own because I used ebay to gauge their value

I get a ton of hair loss ads on my Facebook for some reason. I'm guessing because FB knows I'm in my late 30s? FWIW I am not (yet) losing my hair.

The enduring popularity and ubiquity of Robert Indiana's "Love" -- it's ugly, vapid, pointless, unremarkable in every conceivable way. That "painter of light" guy's popularity is like 10x more conceivable to me than this.

Yeah, that one's always struck me as if someone made a statue of the Keep Calm poster and planted in a major metropolitan park somewhere.

re the targeted ads, Amazon's always trying to flog me 17 different editions of public domain books I already bought from them. Bought one Madame Bovary? You must want all the rest, too.

A new one for me is: "Watch strangers kiss for the first time!" "Watch strangers hug for the first time!"

Yeah, watch me throw my computer out the window the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAnjUhQvGi0

Aaron Alexis and Edward Snowden had Federal security clearances. Yet because my new employer put in my name as "Julie" instead of "Julia," my clearance for a non-sensitive position has been held up for 3 weeks and counting. WAY TO LIVE DOWN THE STEREOTYPES ABOUT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES!

This is just sad. I was shopping around, comparing prices and then moved on to actual work and stuff....

http://i.imgur.com/L8rWZaI.png

... like three days ago.

listen buddy

here's how it works.
I send a proof.
you make changes.
i send back a revised version.
rinse-repeat for however many revisions you need til we get to the right place.
so
when you say LOOKS GREAT!
we're done. you have broken the cycle, we have now completed our dance and I get to change partners.

that's when I send you the final copy, which you know becuase it says FINAL

we DON'T then spend another hour updating more artwork with sporadic emails starting 'hey...'

STOP IT RIGHT NOW OR I WILL WALK UP TO YOUR DESK AND TASE YOU

Do it. Tase him. Do it.

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110317044305/beavisandbutthead/images/4/49/Beavis_uh-huh.jpg

I'm going up there right now

I will contribute to your legal defense fund.

Filled with foaming at the mouth rage on yr behalf, VegGrrl. I've had that scene play out a hundred times. I'm getting kind of reckless and IDGAF in my old age -- I told one advertiser recently "I thought 'ready to print' meant you'd looked at the ad."

the last one was, 'I have (x piece of artwork) if you want it'

I don't think you understand how this relationship works. I don't *want* any of this shit. You apparently *need* it, so are we doing this for your amusement or mine now

Dear UI designers,

If you have ever written a popup dialogue box where the question goes something like "Are you sure you want to cancel?" and the options are "Cancel" and "OK", then you should be shot. That is all.

Yeah, I don't care if OK/Cancel is built into whatever OS or platform, I don't even care (though someone else might) if the alternative is some stupid longwinded sentence like "If you want to x, press Cancel. If you want to y, press OK." But this way you might as well write "Would you like to lose the last hour's work? Guess which tumbler the ball is under!"

accidentally clicking on a wiki.answers link

e.g.

How do you block wiki.answers?

listen buddy

here's how it works.
I send a proof.
you make changes.
i send back a revised version.
rinse-repeat for however many revisions you need til we get to the right place.
so
when you say LOOKS GREAT!
we're done. you have broken the cycle, we have now completed our dance and I get to change partners.

that's when I send you the final copy, which you know becuase it says FINAL

we DON'T then spend another hour updating more artwork with sporadic emails starting 'hey...'

STOP IT RIGHT NOW OR I WILL WALK UP TO YOUR DESK AND TASE YOU

This is the story of my life. Also - if you forget to put essential contact info on your advert, refuse to listen to me when I tell you about paying on time, don't complain when your ad appears late without a contact number. That's your fault.

"excuse me, there's a queue"

well, yes. actually, there are 3 queues, one for the machines, one labelled 'lottery and tobacco' and another which i'm in. if you've queued in the 'lottery and tobacco' lane then i assume that you want either tickets or tabs. if you don't then you are in the wrong queue.

(made worse by the fact that there were 5 people in the wrong queue and 2 of those had joined it after i'd got there. plus only one person serving, at lunchtime.)

Man, a separate line for freaking lottery tickets. Now there's a concept I wouldn't mind seeing brought over here.

We've got that. Really helps when I really need to buy a powerball but there's like a 5 deep line of dorks with sodas.

"excuse me, there's a queue."

"yeah, behind me. just get back there and pray i don't fart."

(i just apologised and moved to the back of the (now longer) queue. but two more staff started serving as i waited so it took no time at all)

wondering why my phone asks me 10 minutes before the standard transition time into BST if I want to update time and date settings then sets them to non-BST. So I woke up this morning trying to work out if the time on my phone was right or wrong since it was the first thing I was going by. Can never remember at the time what the reset to time is supposed to be so wasn't sure fi it had reset or not.

Don't know what dictates when this phone seemingly randomly asks if I want to reset time and date settings or if it is just indeed random. Odd coincidence if it was random that it would ask right at the time (or 10 minutes before) BST normally asks you to reset clocks, which if I'm thinking right is 1am on the transition day.