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

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When people use threads that have been superseded by newer ones.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

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)

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.

I hate wheely case noise too. One time I was stuck with my husband's wheely case, which on his previous use had gotten a strap stuck in one wheel, causing the wheel to not rotate and be simply dragged along (no he didn't notice) so about a quarter of the wheel was completely worn down to flat. The bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp sound of one irregularly shaped wheel combined with the normal rumble nearly destroyed me.

Advertising gimmicks promising "savings" against a non-existent baseline, like "Until May 30, save 15% on your renovation supplies" where I have no idea what they "normally" cost. Something about this deeply aggravates me and stresses me out.

the whole idea of "saving" on something you wouldn't otherwise buy

But even when I would buy it, it's like *goes to get oil change at new place* "Great news, we're running a promotion right now, it's $10 off the oil change through Memorial Day" where I have no idea if the actual price used to be $10 higher or it was just under some other "promotion"

They have this "PRICE LOCK" promotion at Sainsbury's, it seems to be "we promise we won't increase the price of some of our products within a period of a few months" which (outside of periods of hyperinflation) is no promise at all, surely? Who on Earth would be attracted by this non-offer?

Finally had a decent chunk of evening free, kids went to bed on time, sat down to watch Blade Runner 2049 again on Netflix only to find they took it off 3 months ago after having it for just 6 months.

automated phone systems that force me to speak rather than press numbers

"You've stated that you'd like to X, is that correct?"

yknow if i could just press 3 for pharmacy and so on we wouldn't have to deal with adding an extra step at every point to confirm that what i said is what i said

this spelling: 'tweek'

Home interior design before/after pictures where the "before" looks basically fine even if slightly dated and the "after" is just like a slightly more up-to-date (but bound to look dated in 5 years) version of the same thing

Those old fashioned twist ties, like on loaves of bread, and how sometimes you can't tell if you need to go clockwise or counter-clockwise to untie them; I will always twist in one direction then decide that was wrong, only to finally discover I was right the first time

old-school screensavers in which text/a graphic endlessly 'bounces' off the 'edges' of the screen

late pass but whole avocado toast beatlemania thing, like was it not acceptable or possible for these people to put avocado on bread before eh 2015?

for lunch today i had half an avocado + bacon + homegrown tomatoes on homemade sourdough bread. the line between hipster and cliché dad has become paper thin.

that’s a B.A.T., my friend