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

Oh the poor thing has ALS, I see.

people who would gladly participate in charades or a scavenger hunt

i really hate people who turn their hands into a heart

also i think those people ^^^ shouldn't have a child

I don't understand the ice thing.

His testicles ache from makin babies so hard.

Ice ice baby.

It really bugs me when things that don't need instructions come with instructions. Like toothpaste. Also, at the store down the street they sell lighters billed as "multi-use." It's a fucking lighter. Just because there is space for copy does not mean you need more copy.

Scavenger hunts are awesome, though. A former classmate of mine who became a hunky actor on TV runs a pretty giant one: https://www.gishwhes.com/

If toothpaste didn't come with instructions then I wouldn't see the word "erwt-grootte" nestling among the Dutch instructions twice daily and this would make my life poorer

This is rational but fuck it: people who are unable to express anything verbally in a concise, precise manner. It's almost always older men. They can't just tell you what they want, they have to give you the whole backstory with ample digressions. Also file with people who call you on the phone and then are like "uh.... well I'm looking for uh... well I don't know how to explain it but..." Basically people who don't think about what they want to say before they say it and just say that one thing.

This is rational but fuck it: people who are unable to express anything verbally in a concise, precise manner.

yes. also, people who don't have their wallets/fare cards/etc. ready at the point of transaction and spend minutes digging for them.

People who walk two-by-two on a staircase.

I'm trying to board an ark here

i really hate when companies discontinue actually-useful products

I really hate when they drop useful features of continued items and replace them with superficial ones. Can think of things like the ability to forward phn numbers in the text on a mobile phone changng to sending a 'business card' which older phones can't read.
Or several features on a midi hifi being replaced by karaoke and flashing lights.

I just want to shake the decision maker and yell IT AIN'T BROKE STOP 'FIXING' IT.

Lately gone: the green peppercorns in brine from Waitrose, the £15-20 basic black leather ballet flat, otherstories Fig Fiction spray.

Reach Access Flosser refills (and I guess the flosser itself) is my lastest culprit. I can't use regular dental floss and this is the only thing that has kept me able to floss my teeth every day and uggggggh it's so annoying

i only ever have this issue with food products

rip morningstar farms steak strips ;_;

Dorset Cereals Heavenly High Fibre
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re-setting password on an online account
one of the security Qs is 'birthday of X person'
but no prompt for format
so I try DDMMYY; DDMMYYYY; DD/MM/YY; DD-MM-YY
then get locked out ;_;

if I can't remember my password how tf do you think I'm going to remember how you want me to format a date

This (the brands in stores thing) happens a lot here thanks to a weird supermarket duopoly, all the known brands are slowly disappearing off shelves and being replaced by own brands. So annoying.

xp: not an IA, but have definitely had trouble with the formatting of security questions before. Question being "What is the name of your first school" and because my wife went to catholic school, always having to try "Saint ______'s, St. _______'s, Saint ______s, and St. _______s" and usually getting locked out in the process.

I remember several years ago when Tesco dropped all the fair trade coffee apart from Nestlé's not that Tesco is the most ethical of shops in the first place. But that just seemed to be taking the p rather heavily.

THERE IS A MACHINE BELOW MY APPARTMENT, AND IT'S HUMMING 24/7. CAN'T SLEEP CAN'T FOCUS CAN'T READ CAN'T WATCH MOVIES. I don't know if it's making me angry, but it's definitely making me grumpy. Also, it's probably a quite rational response. Anyhow. The machine is pumping water out of the basement, or humidity, or something. It is fixing the basement after the downpour a few nights back. Which funnily enough also kept me awake.

Have to remember to put shoes on when running things down to the rubbish now. Just trod on something sharp when wearing slippers. Ow my ow.
Never happened with the old system

After all the hype about how much better this bin system was going to be, it is already failing rapidly. The bin men don't appear to have a key for the bin enclosure. They had to get one from the corner flat last week and had to knock on doors to get one today.
Don't know if anybody else is aware of that I only know cos i seem to have been out watering plants at the same time for the last couple of weeks. Wasn't the week before but assume that they must have had to ask somebody then too.
Can assume that either there isn't a steady bin crew or they haven't been given a key, or lost it. But if they needed to carry keys for every locked bin enclosure across town I bet there'd be a great deal of confusion anyway.

Sorry stevolende, but I'm loving your bin woes - so perfect for this thread. Such justifiable anger at the rest of the world for not getting it/giving a shit about the impact of what, on the surface, appears to be an innocuous change.

when someone says 'Hey, you're pretty creative, can you come up with x' -- and then they repeat to you pretty much exactly what they want which means 'do that exactly as I said'

just that handwavey 'you can come up with something, you're creative' ie "MY head is full of important business things I'm too busy to deal with stupid shit like any additional details for this stupid thing that I've just thought of"

today i got a parking ticket because the ticketing officer put the wrong space number into his doohickey they use for phone payments (this is outside my apartment, it's a service where you can pay the meters with your phone, i've used it probably 200 hundred times without error)

now i have to schedule a court date to argue it and i might not even win cause i can't prove definitively that i parked in space 2290001 and not 2090001

probably it'll work out but i still need to fucking go to court

not irrational but who cares about the rational thread not me

i got one where they put the wrong block on the ticket and i was so excited to win but then i misremembered the court date and had to pay it anyway. i think you will win though. i'm a lawyer.

thanks!

one time i got a ticket for running stop signs and the cop literally told me "if you contest this you'll most likely win" but he was using a ticket pad from the previous year, which had the previous year's rules for requesting a court date on it (wait 15 days and you'll get one vs. write back letting us know you want one) and i missed my chance at a court date and had to pay the ticket. yay!

i hate people w/ cars

esp ones that go faster than mine

^ parking enforcement officer

*counts stacks*

of TICKETS

*people who say "namecalling is a sign of a lack of intelligence" when you call them an idiot when they say something willfully ignorant. No, it's a sign that I think you're an idiot. Quit drinking your paint thinner milkshake and catch up.

i reread my post and it sounds like i am a horrible person but i was not actually running stop signs (he saw me not-fully-stop at two) and i (legit) had gotten a call from a friend who needed to go to the hospital and i was panicking which is why he said he'd side with me in court

again totally rational i win again

also i'm white

Where I live (South Australia) senior citizens get to travel on the bus free after 9am. I recently started getting a later bus to work, and every stop from 8.45am is full of a cavalcade of geezers chancing their arms and doing the over-70s version of batting their eyelids to try to get the driver to let them on, despite his monotonous cries of, 'It's not 9 o'clock yet, it's not 9 o'clock yet!', and it sloooooowwws the bus right down and makes me late for work.

that is simply amazing.

1) People who stop to chat at the top of stairs/escalators, preventing you from passing.
2) Drivers that impatiently honk or motion at you, thinking they are doing you a favor by letting you turn even though they don't realize you're not turning because there is a pedestrian in the way.
3) Kindly letting a driver cut in front of you only to have them do something obnoxiously stupid, like making a u-turn in the middle of bumper-to-bumper traffic or cutting straight across four lanes.
4) People who don't answer direct questions because they think you know the answer already.

"What are we having for dinner?"
"I already told you!"
"Well, I'm asking again because I forgot!"
"You should have been listening!"
"I was listening, but I forgot, so just tell me again!"
"You really can't remember?"
"No! That's why I'm asking! Argh!"

Leaves room, slams door, hops in car and cuts across four lanes of traffic.

reminds me: my friend, who I despair of ever getting relevant information out of because she only responds to about 25% of questions. I thought it was just me and then the other day she was like 'ugh! my mum just texted me like 5 questions. If she wants to know, she can phone me'.
ARGHHHH

1) People who stop to chat at the top of stairs/escalators, preventing you from passing.

I see this and raise you...

People who park themselves in the middle of a lane in a parking lot, either waiting for somebody, or having a conversation with someone outside the car, preventing people from passing them on either side. jesus fuck if you need to idle PULL INTO ONE OF THE GODDAMN HUNDREDS OF SPACES AVAILABLE.

Yes, that one happens a lot around here.

People who rush to get in line in front of me at thrift shops and then pay for $8 worth of merchandise with a $100 bill, which a manager inevitably has to be summoned to examine. So I'm waiting for five minutes, usually to buy a book or two, wishing I could just throw the money on the counter and leave.

People who are myopically chivalrous. Example: when a train stops and the people on the platform form two lines (to the right and left of the door) and take turns getting onto the train. Somehow there's always a gentleman who, when it his turn, stops and lets everyone from the opposing line go in ahead of him, even though there's a pregnant woman standing right behind him.

Right now, it's people who never have any credit on their phone or don't have an email app on their phone, or never pick up their phone because it's always on silent and then make out that it's your problem to deal with because "it's not my fault I didn't get back to you when we agreed, my phone doesn't send text messages" or whatever dumb excuse....

I am currently trying to organise an event with two other people, one of whom only uses Facebook messenger because for whatever stupid reason he can't check his emails on his phone, is this even possible or true?

People who are myopically chivalrous. Example: when a train stops and the people on the platform form two lines (to the right and left of the door) and take turns getting onto the train. Somehow there's always a gentleman who, when it his turn, stops and lets everyone from the opposing line go in ahead of him, even though there's a pregnant woman standing right behind him.

Yesssssss or people who insist that passengers exit the elevator based on gender rather than efficiency.

One of the local grocery stores now has those karts where you have to insert a dollar coin in order to get a kart. I of course had no idea and had no spare change at all on me. I was so angry that I just walked right back to my car and drove to the next grocery store.