Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

normally I stop being angry when I get past them, but when I miss a bus because I couldn't get past the children fast enough, that is angry time - even though, y'know, even when the pavement is empty in the school holidays, just missing a bus is a thing that happens, no big deal

i have the same thing, really annoying. as you say i don't expect a perfectly disciplined line of kids but there is definitely a thing where parents are incapable of thinking about anyone or anything besides their child.

141. kids in the pub. i know people want a beer and if someone wants to bring their kid into a non family pub then that's okay, to a point, but when a perfectly good pub becomes a family pub on a sunday it really kills me, the sense of a dreary sunday from this is so overpowering it makes me feel like i've got to go to mass then do my homework, not you know, enjoy my weekend, have a beer, be happy.

Acker Bilk - 'stranger on the shore'

152. Having a messy house. Like, some people manage to somehow work a full week and come home everyday to a miraculously neat and tidy home. I'm not one of those people. I do all the washing up, hoover, mop, clean bathroom, dust - it takes half a day between me and my girlfriend to return it to the norm of food-encrusted oven pans, dustball-covered floors and shelves, rings round the bath etc. God forbid we ever have kids or I'll go insane.

152b. We have no dishwasher (not much room for one either) and our sink is tiny with a GINORMOUS and hyper-sensitive tap that fills the empty sink in less than 20 seconds. If you put anything in the sink it splashes out and all over the work surfaces and the floor. I am not looking forward to tidying up right now.

153. People who use the word "cereal" in place of "serious".

Who the hell does that?

crly!

a lot of people around here do that to be 'funny' and 'cute'. it has also made its way into movies/television to some degree.

example "i'm super cereal, guys, we need more low-calorie beer at this party".

Ugh, that's terrible.

154. Internet misspellings cuet and grebt.

155. People telling you your personal preference is 'wrong'. IE, if I say "The Beach Boys are better than The Beatles", you can go RONG because I just discussed their relative quality. But if I say "I LIKE the Beach Boys better than the Beatles", saying "wrong" is INCORRECT because it is a mention of my preference only! Hate when my friends do that.

When you say "The Beach Boys are better than the Beatles", surely it's heavily implied that that's your opinion? And surely it's heavily implied that the 'wrong' is your friend's opinion?

156. anybody who says 'epic fail' out loud

xpost well of course it is implied that it is my opinion. But the opinions as stated have different aims. Making a statement that one group is better than another, while still a statement of opinion, is an objective observation on the relative quality of the two bands.

Me saying "I like Band A better than Band B" is a more passive, personal statement, and makes no attempt to be objective. Essentially, my friend replying "wrong" means that I am lying that I like Band A better than Band B!

157. being around groups of teenagers, particularly teenage boys.

recently i walked into a subway around 3:30pm to get a late lunch and there were about six teenage boys in there, all pumped up from getting out of school. i got my sandwich and BAILED.

158. I get mad every time I see a trailer for Disney's "Tangled" because so many reasons but especially its name. SO many totally innocuous (but also excessively sassy) animated films just make me mad these days.

are you annoyed that they renamed it from "rapunzel" to "tangled," because boys have to be tricked into seeing movies with female protagonists?

they had no problem w/ the naming of 'princess and the frog' which tanked, even though it was great.

are you annoyed that they renamed it from "rapunzel" to "tangled," because boys have to be tricked into seeing movies with female protagonists?

Is this really a policy at Disney? Because a quick look at the titles of Disney animated features doesn't support the theory:

Snow White and The Seven Dwarves
Cinderella
Alice in Wonderland
Lady and the Tramp
Sleeping Beauty
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Pocahontas
Mulan
Lilo & Stitch
The Princess and the Frog

So it looks like in almost every Disney movie with a female protagonist, the gender of the protagonists has been made clear in the title - even in the cases where there's no canonical name for the story, or the movie is based on an original script. And hardly any of these movies have tanked.

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I don't think that changing the name from "Rapunzel" to "Tangled" is a move to impact male theater attendance at all. The opposite, rather! The title "Tangled" sort of reminds me of "Twilight" or "Wicked" - which stick out for me as brief titles that are being marketed to women. These one-word titles could be cross-marketed well with some perfume, no?

Anyways, Rapunzel is way too ethnic of a name (despite being German!).

omg u said women can't understand long names omg

Tangled is, imo, an attempt to age-up the story & suggest some kind of moral compromise/plot complexity that may or may not actually exist. U kno, as in "tangled web" and "knotty problem" -- it just sounds vaguely transgressive & complex. My issue with this, besides it being kinda dumb, is "moral complexity/transgression" being suggested about things that vehemently have neither quality. If people want to slum it with us non-straight & narrows, they should actually get a little dirty -- they might learn something.

That makes me angry.

Trying to enjoy my morning cup of coffee when someone has to burn popcorn in the office microwave and completely ruin it for me.

xps: Okay, just read an article that stated that changing the name to Tangled is indeed an attempt to market to both boys and girls.

I don't see how it would make it appeal to boys, it just makes the whole thing sound like a snarky extended commercial for conditioner or something. She has a lot of HAIR, it gets TANGLED...what is the solution????

I plan on having a good day today so I probably shouldn't start thinking about this.

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right now, just about anything and anyone !!

The thing that annoys me the most about Tangled is the way the title is written in a font that looks like hair.

Disney restyles 'Rapunzel' to appeal to boys

basically since 'the princess and the frog' had lackluster attendance, disney decided to retool the marketing campaign to focus on the guy who finds rapunzel, rather than rapunzel herself. if you've seen the trailer for the movie, it's focused on the guy dashing around through the countryside and saying "o ho what is in this tower" and then WHAM BAM HAIR EVERYWHERE.

Princess and the Frog:

Budget $105 million
Gross revenue $267,039,315

I don't really see how this constitutes a flop but whatevs.

I mean IIRC Disney's last "boy appeal" snimated feature was Treasure Planet, which was an actual flop.

Budget $140 million
Gross revenue $109,578,115

153. People who use the word "cereal" in place of "serious".

― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Sunday, October 3, 2010 12:25 PM (Yesterday)

YES

Wha?

153. People who use the word "cereal" in place of "serious".

― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Sunday, 3 October 2010 13:25 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Who the hell does that?

― emil.y, Sunday, 3 October 2010 14:15 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

crly!

― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Sunday, 3 October 2010 14:18 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a lot of people around here do that to be 'funny' and 'cute'. it has also made its way into movies/television to some degree.

example "i'm super cereal, guys, we need more low-calorie beer at this party".

― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Sunday, 3 October 2010 14:20 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ugh, that's terrible.

― emil.y, Sunday, 3 October 2010 14:20 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i remember a south park episode where someone used it probably a dozen times. if it isn't funny the first time, repeating it won't help.

Okay, I'm totally asking my wife to pass me the serious tomorrow morning.

don't see how tangled = moral complexity or whatever. to me it suggests tangled hair, universal life issue, and also romantic complication. it's fine, but hardly the kind of name you'd choose for boy appeal.

158. people who always wanna make the thread an argument about a thing

Seeing anything written about Wavves or Yacht, or seeing their pictures, or hearing them talk. I think they're utter fools.

i don't even know who

159. Static electricity shocks. Hate hate hate. I mean, I like the balloon trick where you make your hair stand on end and stuff like that, but just random shocks, or when your clothes get all staticky and stick to you...RARRR.

I hate them too, especially from escalators because they make you jump back and possibly lose your balance.

I think it's part of why I hate going to Costco so much, i'm always getting zapped off the shopping carts.

I thought that was just me! Costco was painful the last time I was in one.

i thought it was 'serial' for all that it's worth

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160. People who complain about the smell/noises in a public bathroom. THAT'S WHAT IT IS MEANT FOR.

It is sad when a cat sleeping against a radiator looks so damn cute that you pat it and you both get a static shock and the cat looks at you like "what the hell did you ruin my nap for"