Somebnody put some fire in my recycling waste bin and now its a great big mass of solidified molten plastic and packaging.
― Stevolende, Friday, 11 March 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link
the peeled oranges are apparently a godsend for people who have arthritis or other physical disabilities
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 11 March 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
Websites that let you tick a box to REMEMBER ME but which never remember you
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 10:41 (seven years ago) link
Agree. I just want all websites to remember me forever. Is that I much to ask?
― Jeff, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 13:31 (seven years ago) link
ugh yes i hate that
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
It's like those people who say "Is your name pronounced Jeeen or Jhawn" and then persist in the wrong pronunciation.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
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.
― What's Your Definition of a Dirty Baby? (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
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
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 01:35 (seven years ago) link
wonder what all dave ward did to that hat
it worked
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 01:41 (seven years ago) link
I figured counrty boy loaded was like cheerleader drunk
― mh, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 02:10 (seven years ago) link
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.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 02:50 (seven years ago) link
IA that no one took my bait about hearing a condensed version of how the tourist fell.
http://i.imgur.com/TjFJC3m.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
IA when people don't use the perfectly good new IA thread...
start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3
― nickn, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 04:29 (seven years ago) link
lol @ country boy loaded
― assawoman bay (harbl), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 11:12 (seven years ago) link
sorry for posting lol on the old IA thread
― assawoman bay (harbl), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 11:14 (seven years ago) link
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.)
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 13:33 (seven years ago) link
TV shows and movies where fake ice doesn't float.
― Je55e, Monday, 12 September 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 05:27 (seven years ago) link
ok, yeah, that one makes no sense to me
if it was some rich person, I could see that direction working
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
When people use threads that have been superseded by newer ones.
― nickn, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
we should lock this one maybe?
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
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
― pplains, Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
Two years pass? Good Lord, where am I.
― pplains, Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
Necro'ed a thread!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
I used this one because Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread) was locked!
― pplains, Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
everyone just says what they're irrationally angry about in every thread now
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
The "victory garden" IA thread is the latest one!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 30 November 2018 00:20 (five years ago) link
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
― forever and ever ramen (rip van wanko), Sunday, 1 September 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
when you bump the wrong thread
― forever and ever ramen (rip van wanko), Sunday, 1 September 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
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
― forever and ever ramen (rip van wanko), Sunday, 1 September 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
Yes!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 1 September 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
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.
― mick signals, Sunday, 1 September 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
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.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
Emails with "URGENT" in the subject line, just in case my morning wasn't already panicky enough.
― jmm, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
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
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
My boss writes messages with ???? or even !!!!!! in whatsapp groups, it's mainly because she is incredibly rude to everyone who works for her.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
xp 'oh yeah we decided not to go with that'
― kinder, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
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!
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
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?
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
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?
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 00:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 02:07 (four years ago) link
'it was all very confusing???' would have worked there
― cryborg (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
"timeline"
― 💠 (crüt), Monday, 9 December 2019 03:47 (four years ago) link
fuck yes
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 9 December 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
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
― 💠 (crüt), Friday, 10 January 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
Fellow commuter: exits train onto elevated platform, begins walking down stairs, almost immediately pulls phone out and slows to hobbled zombie paceMe: gently plucks phone from commuters hand, hurls it into the center of the sun
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 January 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Friday, 10 January 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
Also found trolley cases to be a pain since tehy screw up rhythm and hard to see.
h8 wheely suitcases
because you can't see them if you're looking around at eye level, and because people drag them around obliviously behind them
I have almost tripped over one many times after someone cuts across right in front of me with no attention to where the thing lurching around behind them is going (at least once someone literally rolled one right over my feet)
but tbh the thing I probably hate most, because I am a weird noise-hating weirdo, is the horrible rumbling noise they make on an uneven surface (ok that one's just me being weird)
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 10 January 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
because people drag them around obliviously behind them
I'm IA at people who tow rather than push grocery carts. Never tripped over or been hit by one, but people who do this don't seem to have the same level of control.
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Friday, 10 January 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link