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

> Can you come and yell at the people on my housing estate...

and also mine to yell at the people who fill their recycling bags with polystyrene. thanks.

(the council included notes in with the last batch of bags pointing out that it cost 7 times more to handle non-recycling in the recycling bags than just throwing it away, 'if in doubt, leave it out' was the tagline.

they also included labels to add to your recycling which, as long as the recycling bag contained 'good' recyclables, would go into a prize draw for like £500. was tempted to fill 20 bags with one newspaper each...)

Somebnody put some fire in my recycling waste bin and now its a great big mass of solidified molten plastic and packaging.

the peeled oranges are apparently a godsend for people who have arthritis or other physical disabilities

Websites that let you tick a box to REMEMBER ME but which never remember you

Agree. I just want all websites to remember me forever. Is that I much to ask?

ugh yes i hate that

It's like those people who say "Is your name pronounced Jeeen or Jhawn" and then persist in the wrong pronunciation.

YES. Also more specifically, subverting the convenience of having payment info on file by having users confirm (read: re-enter) payment info when they make a purchase.

I was all set to post here how much I hate the phrase "Country Boy Loaded".

But while I was looking around for some screen art, I realized two things:

1.) The phrase isn't some national ad slogan. It's just a guy up the interstate who's using it.

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

and 2.) Seeing all those Dodge Ram pickup trucks with COUNTRY BOY on the back followed by these COUNTRYMAN mini Coopers kinda balances everything out.

http://i.imgur.com/LXCiWgW.jpg

wonder what all dave ward did to that hat

it worked

I figured counrty boy loaded was like cheerleader drunk

h/t to pp, btw, for reminding me today of another thing that makes me IA: moralizing articles about "selfies." Specifically, the tourist who fell off a cliff at Macchu Picchu referred to as a "death by selfie" even though someone else was taking the photo. But even had that not been the case, that tut-tut tone that comes up every time "selfies" are criticized, as though it's any worse than asking someone else to take a photo of you.

IA that no one took my bait about hearing a condensed version of how the tourist fell.

http://i.imgur.com/TjFJC3m.jpg

IA when people don't use the perfectly good new IA thread...

start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

lol @ country boy loaded

sorry for posting lol on the old IA thread

I don't think of these threads as being sequential. More like Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II

(That said, if any mods wanna lock 'er up, feel free.)

TV shows and movies where fake ice doesn't float.

Not irrationally angry but irrationally annoyed - mixing up the order of 'much less' statements. The more extreme/outsider option goes second, damn it.

http://adage.com/article/campaign-trail/hillary-clinton-wrong/306676/

I've had random political conversations with blue-collar workers (including, just last week, a non-union steelworker in town to help erect a luxury hotel) who would never step into a Blue Bottle artisanal coffee shop, let alone a Starbucks.

ok, yeah, that one makes no sense to me

if it was some rich person, I could see that direction working

When people use threads that have been superseded by newer ones.

start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

we should lock this one maybe?

I've mentioned this before, but RED is not the color to be used for the affirmative message "OK, your fuel card has been recognized by the computer."

https://i.imgur.com/xcg4NQM.gif

Two years pass? Good Lord, where am I.

Necro'ed a thread!

I used this one because Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread) was locked!

everyone just says what they're irrationally angry about in every thread now

The "victory garden" IA thread is the latest one!

when you're wearing wired earbuds and the cord catches on something, the action of the earbud(s) ripping out of your ear feels so jolting and violent that it activates your fight or flight response and you feel like you've been assaulted

when you bump the wrong thread

when you're on google maps and you can't find the name of a street no matter how close you zoom in and/or how far you trace its path

Yes!

Pretty sure that that, combined with Maps' refusal to tell you the actual address of a business, is part of a deliberate plan to stamp out traditional human-brain-based ways of finding places.

Any e-mail with a terse request for information followed with multiple punctuation. Just e-mailed by the main group offender: "Latest status???" was the first e-mail's text, followed by a second "And more…..updated charts??"

So many sarcastic answers ("were two question marks insufficient and not driving your request home?") come to mind. It's definitely an irrational irritation, or an irrational expectation of minimum courtesy when asking for information, particularly from a peer.

Emails with "URGENT" in the subject line, just in case my morning wasn't already panicky enough.

It's funny how after you reply to an URGENT email, having busted yr ass to get whatever tasks done or information collated and put a little note at the end saying "let me know if anything looks amiss or you need any more information" and while you remain on high alert in case you have to scramble to get something else together or undo everything you did, there is never any reply for ages and it's like it actually wasn't urgent at all

My boss writes messages with ???? or even !!!!!! in whatsapp groups, it's mainly because she is incredibly rude to everyone who works for her.

xp 'oh yeah we decided not to go with that'

Bezos does that -- forwarding a customer complaint to somebody and simply adding "?" to the top.

It's probably something I've done on my part, but I'm lately hating clicking on a Twitter link and the whole site's all SOMETHING'S WRONG? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? IT'S NOT WORKING? before I just click on the bird, which leads me to the log-in screen. Coulda shown me that in the first place!

Oh boy -- I do chat-based customer service and can't count the number of ????'s I see. Especially irritating when I make a statement ("you'll just want to login with your username and password") and get just a ???? in reply. Am I supposed to know what part of that statement you are questioning?

self-declared urgency from users def not an irrational anger

three question marks is likewise imo rude

idk why but three exclamation marks doesnt strike me as rude tho?

blatherskite- "you'll just want" is a confusing way to ask someone something, non?

unless youll just be scottish right now?

I had a coworker who ended every sentence in his emails with multiple question marks no matter that he was saying. I guess he just didn't know punctuation was for, but it was all very confusing.

'it was all very confusing???' would have worked there

"timeline"

fuck yes

those screenshots of tumblr (i think?) that people share on social media, where you have the meme/joke at the top but beneath that there's someone saying OMG I'M SCREAMING or whatever

Fellow commuter: exits train onto elevated platform, begins walking down stairs, almost immediately pulls phone out and slows to hobbled zombie pace
Me: gently plucks phone from commuters hand, hurls it into the center of the sun

As i walked around the centre of London on my last trip I noticed taht people were walking in waves dictated by the people in front of them.
& the front of the wave tended to be somebody walking aloing paying more attention to their phone than waht was in front of them.

I tend to walk through crowds by trying to see where i can get through spaces and angling my way through them. Always tend to find people with more attention on their phones tahn tehir environment to be a pain and also families spreading out and dawdling so you get them walking in a group that can be 4 across plus and then a few deep. & its difficult to get in between members of whatever group.
Also found trolley cases to be a pain since tehy screw up rhythm and hard to see. & prams/pushchairs in busy spaces since they also tend to be going at different speeds to those surrounding them.

Could see why the centre of town at a buisy time would be a pickpocket's dream in the age of the personal communications device.
& did wonder if people might think I was one as i darted around crowds.