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

yes see, that is Christmas music and it is awesome

like I play shit like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzGQU5VMPdI

CHRISTMAS MUSIC OWNS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm3fZDZxiko&feature=related

OWNS, I SAY

I've been doing the 'Christmas songs not on Christmas albums' thing a bit on Facebook this month -- I love what you can find out there.

And besides, as I linked yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETbXkTqUzpg

I can attest to 'Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer' being in high rotation on the Sacramento area soft-rock-turned-Christmas-music station.

I love love love Christmas music but that song is the worst.

I bought an awesome 4 cd box from Costco years ago that is a random collection of awesome Christmas music (Brenda Lee, Burl Ives, Donny Hathaway, The Chipmunks!!!)...and I try to buy myself a new Christmas cd each year.
This year: "Soul Christmas", a comp I found for cheap on ITunes.

Oh and Ned, I'd never heard that Prince song before you posted it on the Prince thread...if I wasn't already swearing undying love for the man, I'd do it all over again for that. Amazing.

gonna see my dad sing in a program next week, his church seems to switch every year between stately chorale and crappy contemporary guff, crossing fingers

transporting yourself to work really provokes ire beyond control, but i do agree with darragh, the more angry i get the more ashamed of myself i feel. i've been trying v hard recently to not get annoyed by people doing shit like this but i dunno, i guess my philosophy on the underground is walk as quickly as possible up and down all escalators and through all corridors and then you're out of the horrible place sooner. i also think if i walked really slowly i'd be aware of people being behind me or whatever. there are some serious lemmings out there who wouldn't notice someone walking behind them even if you said "excuse me".

there are some serious lemmings out there who wouldn't notice someone walking behind them even if you said "excuse me".

omg i HATE these people so much. what is wrong with people that they have to dawdle through tube stations? so fucking inconsiderate and they deserve all the barges they get.

I should have gone into big pharma; all of your future blood pressure medication would pay for my future yacht

you'd be so busy you'd literally rape a man out of the way on your way to work each day

i remember you could walk in the street, now you are literally destroyed in a seething vortex of incredibly important commuters.

Mind you put me behind the wheel of a car and i'll grind babies under the wheel to gain ten yards tbf

omg i HATE these people so much. what is wrong with people that they have to dawdle through tube stations? so fucking inconsiderate and they deserve all the barges they get.

This! I've missed two trains in the past week due to idiots dawdling on the escalator or stairs and not moving over to one side because their texting is far more important than getting up to the platform to make the train we can all hear rumbling to a stop. Even worse when practially shouting "EXCUSE ME" gets no reaction either.

There are people who are slow or walk funny or women who took on a little more heel than they can handle that morning and are clomping along at a rate of about one corridor per hour, or whatever, and they're annoying to me but that annoyance is my own problem. People who stop in mid-stride, however, while exiting the Grand Central Terminal subway escalators, deserve the trampling that results.

You just fought 100 other people to cross the tiny plaza from the turnstile to the stairway, didn't you notice they were ALSO all going your way? There are only two ways out of there, my leather jacket-clad, stylish glasses-wearing friend, and you are blocking one of them.

trains where there'll be another one in a minute, or another one in an hour?

One was five minutes, one was twenty-five minutes. The five-minute one was why this is in the "innocuous things" thread.

lol commuters i guess. Glad i dont have to deal, y'all seem not psycho in other threads

Thread derail, can anyone tell me if there is an underground passageway that leads from Grand Central straight to the foyer of the Chrysler building or is that a myth? Tried to find it once, ended up emerging from under the bridge on Vanderbilt instead.

Continuing on the public transport thing:

People who, when there are no seats, stand in the aisle of the bus but only up the front, refusing to move down the back to let more people on. So you end up with 12 people crammed in next to the ticket machine because two schoolkids playing with their mobile phones can't be bothered to walk a few extra metres.

Yes, and the people who stand next to the exit door all "Oh, I don't want to take up a seat" but as a result require everyone to navigate around them to exit.

And those who, at a stop, try to enter before the people waiting to exit can get out (applies to elevators too).

James Morrison: your complaint has a Vancouver ring to it (constantly happens on the buses here), and your fake name suggests you've been to Coombs. Y/N?

Sadly no--Adelaide, Australia is where my bus incompetents are travelling

thread of calm. peaceful reflection.

Well, I'm sure the gorgeous French/Italian/Spanish/German family with impeccable grooming and accents and beaming little children who look 300% cooler than American kids and are paying top dollar for breakfast in Midtown on their holiday, they probably hate me and all my kind. I don't care about them, though, is the thing. They just came here to shop and "see America", and will go home and do nothing but talk about how much worse New York is than European cities.

I don't think the problem is with European cities, to be honest. In Helsinki, and every other big European city I've been to, the real city folk know the correct escalator code of conduct: stand on the right if you're not walking, and let the people who are in a hurry walk on the left side. When I'm visiting other cities as a tourist I still follow this code. The people who don't seem to know how to behave in escalators are, based on my observation, country folk who are just visiting the city or have recently moved to the city. Apparently this is because there are no escalators on the countryside? Still, what I don't get is that these people don't seem to learn the proper behaviour by watching the other people in the escalators. Unless this is the very first time in your life you're using an escalator, you should've already picked up how to do it. If you can't learn how to act in the big city, don't move here.

It's having a metro or not that's the issue. Whenever I go back to Dublin everyone at the airport just stands fucking everywhere. The concept of standing on the right doesn't exist without a tube.

you'd think that people would be capable of NOTICING WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING AAARGH

Other people are not terribly observant shocker.

this is why they have to be barged

after 6 years in london - and partly due to always wearing headphones - i've just abandoned any pretense of civility when dealing witht ese cunts and often just bark "move!" or "faster!" at them

I am trying, with a certain amount of success, to ignore the urge to behave that way.

Looking forward to lex's stepaerobics DVD

Ex bf (who I only broke up with in april) posting "2010 photo dump" archive onto his FB and not a single fucking pic of me/us in it.

He saved them all for his desktop collage? That sucks Trayce...

Beyond the country bumpkins and new to the city folks, there are tins of ppl who don't know the rules of the escalator. I encounter them every single day in my daily commute with people who have lived here for years. They are just oblivious to the world around them or feel entitled to stand where they want no matter the inconvenience to others.

am I the only one unsettled by Tuomas' uncharacteristic burst of misanthropy?? this is like one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse

one of us, one of us, gooble gobble

I know it's too late for this but T/S: Walking up the Escalator vs. Riding up the Escalator (like a bum)

i agree that tuom not repping for the free-standers on the escalator is a shock.

Y'all need to smoke some weed.

transporting yourself to work really provokes ire beyond control, but i do agree with darragh, the more angry i get the more ashamed of myself i feel. i've been trying v hard recently to not get annoyed by people doing shit like this but i dunno, i guess my philosophy on the underground is walk as quickly as possible up and down all escalators and through all corridors and then you're out of the horrible place sooner. i also think if i walked really slowly i'd be aware of people being behind me or whatever. there are some serious lemmings out there who wouldn't notice someone walking behind them even if you said "excuse me".

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, December 6, 2010 2:04 PM Bookmark

When I go to work in midtown I tend to walk fast, and I increasingly notice a certain walking style that really pisses me off, where someone sort of ambles along but doesn't walk in anything close to a straight line so that every attempt you make to pass them is thwarted. It's sort of the equivalent of going 50 in an empty left lane while the other lanes are too full to pass. I can't decide if this is a real thing though or if I'm indeed getting irrationally angry because I'm just trying to get somewhere fast and it's the city's fault for being crowded.

Ugh, people who can't walk in a straight line! Every time that happens I get "I try to walk in a straight line" from the Manic's "From Despair to Where" in my head, which is annoying enough in itself.

i'm not judgin, tbh, i dont commute in a busy city.

I've been trying to mellow out more, knowing that it's kind of nifty to see tourists taking in the sights of my hometown even though they're apparently clueless to how a four-way stop works. Hitting a red light because someone was going to slow is going to delay my journey by what, 90 seconds? I think my job will still be there in the morning and my kids will still be there in the afternoon.

Now I hit red lights and take pictures like these with my iPhone:

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Picture-4.jpg http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Picture-3.jpg

And yes, I get the phone put away before the light turns green.

That said, I will bang on your windows and try to dent your trunk if you try to run me over while I'm rightfully walking through a crosswalk.

if u delay me thru an orange light i will hunt u down, tbh. But other than that we're cool

Ps 4 way xroads are mind boggling

they're not that difficult.

not with my eyes closed and horn blaring to warn everyone else, sure

am I the only one unsettled by Tuomas' uncharacteristic burst of misanthropy?? this is like one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse

I was born and have always lived in this city, so ire towards those who "just moved from the countryside" people who can't/don't want to learn the ways of city living is one of the few irrational hatreds towards random people that I have. Like those people who move from a single house to an apartment building in the city, and then complain about every little noise their neighbours make. In the city you just have tolerate a certain amount of noise, if you can't handle that, move back to the country. Or those people who move to the city to study and are happy to live here before they have kids, but after that they just have to move to country house in one of the neighbouring boroughs because "urban life is so dangerous" or "city life isn't good for the kids", taking away their tax money from the city, but still commuting 3 hours a day and polluting the air because they still need to have a job in the city.

Country folk who have adapted to the city life are fine by me though, I've even dated a few of those.

what about when the city ppl starve all winter bcos they partied all summer, eh?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/79/Falling_down.jpg/220px-Falling_down.jpg
Tuomas' WDYLL Jan 2011 pic

Likewise, I still haven't met any city folk who can drive a party barge correctly.

yeah, this commuter stuff gets at me, too, but mostly when people are walking....sooo....slowly.....because they're on their fuckin cellular devices. put it away and start walking, or find a place to stand that's out of the way so that other people can walk.