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

lol

my last name gets butchered constantly. BENTOOTIE?? Really....fuckwad.

yah but id say it like thara also so

Sometimes i think people do it just to annoy me. and get the bentootie wrath.

My sister in law is Renee (with the thing over the e that I can't reproduce on a keyboard but w/e) ... there are seriously people who call her "Renny" or pronounce the 'nay' part like "knee"...that would make me kill people

No joke, I've had ppl pronounce Erica by stressing the 2nd syllable and making it sound like eureka. Like, are you kidding me?

eh, i might do that out of habit, my dad's last partner was a dutch eereeka

Wow ENBB, that's insane! The stupidity of some people is truly mindboggling

these aren't dutch ppl dawraw

None of this is as bad as what our northern neighbor does to the name "Regina." I work-know a Reggie who lamented her trip to Saskatchewan.

oh you're right - it's so unfortunate

you should see when people try to pronounce my wifes name....its very norwegian....she gets SHINEY a lot. Nice one.

lolol I can just picture a giant FAP where we call mispronounce each other's names on purpose and see who gets in a brawl first

you'll have to try pretty hard to mispronounce any part of my name

Not quite the same thing but this drives me batty: My last name is Penny and I swear to you, the amount of times I get called "Penny" by people who have my first name sitting there right in front of them on my EMAIL SIGNATURE is mind boggling.

Yeah I had a woman email back and for with me for a good six months where my name was not only in my email address but also in my signature and she called me Emma the entire time.

via email is truly weird, no excuse whatsoever. have had that before.

The email thing doesn't faze anyone. Shoot, I've had people call me Trey on my facebook page.

I think i mentioned on some thread before that sometimes when I introduce myself, people go, "Case?" like "Case" is even a name. I know I talk fast, but I don't drop my t's or anything...

Yeah I've mentioned this before but I once gave my name to someone over the phone who then sent me a letter addressed to AQUA BACKRAT because it's perfectly plausible that someone would be called that.

I mean I can also talk quickly but I'm pretty sure I've never said my name in a way that sounded even remotely like "aqua".

Hahaha, I think I've got a new Amazon password.

Pray to the Aqua Backrat.

aqua backrat!!!!!

that would be an amazing name. for, like, a superhero vole.

acrobatic aqua backrat

yup, dats me

A telemarketer with an unsure command of the English language called for Katharine the other day, except kept referring to her as "Godfrey".

I was the only one in the house who thought this was hilarious.

you OTM

hahahaha

A clerical typo at the INS now addresses my husband Clayton as "Clayto".

Ding! Instant nickname.

That's not my Name!

(I was going to retype but realized I'd told this story at least once before)

Barvel!

Dying over here...lololol

"What'd that guy just call me?"

And it makes me think of those columns in womens trashy mags, like "Mere Male" that are all "lol! hubby put a shoe in the REFRIGERATOR, he is SUCH A DUMMY!"

&*^^&% uuughhh.

― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 30 September 2010 16:07 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Massive xpost but this this this x 3297623984729384734. What especially shits me about Mere Male is that it's seen as a subversive way to empower the sorts of women who are writing letters to women's magazines that publish write-in columns like Mere Male.

My surname is so unpronounceable, even for Irish people, that we decided just to give our Daughter her mother's surname instead, so she wouldn't spend her whole life spelling it, then pronouncing it, then spelling it again, and then wincing when even people who know you well get it wrong.

I don't know how Welsh people cope in the rest of the world. My dad has a Welsh middle name (Gwydir, pronounced goy-der), and it's never been written correctly on official forms. He gets 'goiter' a lot.

everything, tbh

n. I know we've done people who take up THE ENTIRE WIDTH of an escalator but those people who, when you give up asking politely and resort to pushing past them, get all uppity and entitled ('omg how rude' etc.)
n. People who in 2010 have clearly never used an ATM before and forego READING THE INSTRUCTIONS in favour of randomly poking shit at snail pace until their money comes out (possible actively reprehensible)
n. Peds who think they have right of way everywhere and crack the shits at you for driving a car on a car road full of cars that is built for cars
n. All combovers
n. People who, in naming their new child, eschew actual person names in favour of smashing their face on a keyboard ('this is our new son Phylayhgan')
n. Men who wear black jackets, black executive shoes, white shirts and jeans, and lean forward ever so slightly
n. Men who think rocking a goatee means they deserve respect
n. People who sit on the train in giant clumps reading the local free Murdoch rag like the braindead zombies they are
n. People who greet me loudly by name in office toilets
n. Baristas who serve soy lattes above the requisite 60° temperature
n. People who hold open the lift for their slow mates
n. When you turn up at a client site to run a five-person workshop and 10 turn up, including the CEO who uses his clout to derail the whiole bloody thing
n. Those tiny stickers on fruit
n. Just all moustaches

You guys sure get angry a lot.

RARR WHAT DO YOU MEAN :)

my sister's middle name is phylayhgan u dick

In that case I am deeply sorry Bhryhshayhlin Darraghmac, please accept my apologies.

bhryhyshaylin is how an irish traveller instructs a child they are to come in for the evenin

- flaky people who either don't keep plans or refuse to make them until the very last minute
- baggers at the grocery store who put each item in a separate bag

- People who indignantly spell hifalutin 'high-falutin'
- People who see you taking a self-portrait, STOP YOU and insistently offer to do it for you, srsly wtf do you think the point of a self-portrait is
- People who say 'infer' when they mean 'imply'

ENBB otm about flaky people

One of my best friends is this way. We arrange to go places to movies or out for dinner and she'll still say the night before, "Give me a call tomorrow" or somehow make it so that I still have to chase her and I'm like "No bc if I call you'll say you're not feeling well or blah blah and ffs can't we just agree to go somewhere and freaking GO?"

xp Oh and re that self-portrait one:

- When you ignore that person for three seconds so you can take the photo and they crack the shits because you didn't immediately abort your self-portrait and gushingly accept their unwelcome fucking offer

Also, on that:

- EVERY PERSON WITH A SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT

ENBB otm about flaky people

One of my best friends is this way. We arrange to go places to movies or out for dinner and she'll still say the night before, "Give me a call tomorrow" or somehow make it so that I still have to chase her and I'm like "No bc if I call you'll say you're not feeling well or blah blah and ffs can't we just agree to go somewhere and freaking GO?"

Yeah, this shit. Cause, like, I may plan my day around something that depends on ppl doing what they say they're gonna do, you know? My best friend is like this and it drives me nuts. I'm used to it now but ugh.

That is not an innocuous thing. That is hella annoying imo!