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

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".

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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.

friggin formatting errors on yahoo's news websites. like yahoo all you're doing is c+ping AP stories anyway you wanna maybe read through it once or what. and then sometimes they leave in these wonky editor corrections that look inadvertent. shame on me for reading AP stories i guess. i actually boycotted google news when they changed their style layout a few months back, too lazy to get back in the habit even though they caved and changed it back.

Irritation number 552

Commuters with bicycles. Not the "solid ones", the foldaway ones that are SOO portable, they wheel them up to the door of the train, then fold them away immediately in front of the door, then wander down the aisle carrying it, depositing oil (prob) on people sitting, then they stow them in the overhead luggage rack and so on...

I have a completely irrational hatred of Brompton bikers. I guess it's similar to the sentiments expressed in that South Park episode about San Franciscans driving hybrid cars - collapsible cyclists must just sit around smelling their own farts all day.

When I'm walking in town I try to treat it like driving, so if someone's in a hurry I stay out of their way, pay attention for people coming up behind me if I'm changing direction, try not to drift across "lanes" etc. Lots of people seem to be set at "random fucking around" which is fine for them & therefore makes me irrationally angry (like it's not *that* hard for me to step around an old lady who's stopped abruptly in a doorway but it doesn't stop me from muttering a "fuck's sake" as I go past).

i got angry recently when i couldn't self assemble a chest of drawers from ikea. i took my top off and tied a tie around my head, at one point i felt like putting war paint on my face. it was very difficult and i wondered "how would a pensioner manage this?"

at the end i saw in the instructions that it said "assembly requires 2 people". my anger completely dissipated. however the chest of drawers still isn't quite right. i don't mind though

i kind of liked the angry feeling, sort of like going into battle. i don't generally get angry about small things. or even big things as long as everyone has their health is the main thing

"assembly requires 2 people". my anger completely dissipated

I'd have been even more angry. Why couldn't they have said that before purchase?

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.

tuomas...otm??

surprised this rings true in finland

Probably less true than in the US, but it's definitely a trend that's been getting stronger in the last 15 years or so.

When I'm walking in town I try to treat it like driving

Winner is u. If you wouldn't do it in a car, quit fukken doing it on the sidewalk because I WILL run into you and I have great insurance.

"assembly requires 2 people". my anger completely dissipated

I'd have been even more angry. Why couldn't they have said that before purchase?

i think it said it at the beginning of the document that came with it - i just didn't notice

oh man Ikea defines this thread. And for the record Mr Veg & I assembled our tv stand together and it was no less nightmarish. RARRR!

ikea shit drives me nuts. we bought a entertainment center when we bought our house and i tried to put it together alone. I threw more screwdrivers around that day.

dont wanna draw more hate but cmon ikea stuff is pretty easy to put together guys!

I once put a large Ikea bureau almost completely together before I realized I had the back part on backwards. I had to disassemble the entire thing and start over.

people who say shit like "c'mon it's easy!!!"

Between these last posts and the box store thread, I'm kinda glad I've never been to an IKEA or put their stuff together.

I like the Pavement song though.

well full disclosure yes i've put a bed together upside down, but i mean i pay a bit more attention since

The only IKEA thing that I couldn't assemble all by myself was the giant EXPEDIT shelf.

the hulk and bruce banner together would struggle with that one alright

Would love to see an Ikea ep of "I Love Lucy"