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

I just don't like the stress of 'chasing' people who've somehow made it your responsibility to be Keeper of the Plans.

British special: Friends on PAYG phones who give you a 'missed' call and expect you to rinse your minutes phoning them back to hear about some saga. GET ONE FUCKING CONTRACT.

i'm often keeper of the plans anyway because i'm good at coming up with recommendations when other people are going "uhhhhhhh" for way too long. but i hate talking on the phone, so if the coordination can't be done by e-mail/text/etc, i'm not interested.

"Your password expires in five days, do you want to change it now?"

HOW ABOUT I JUST CHANGE IT IN FIVE DAYS EH

wish madd anju's cellular minutes was on yt/last.fm

people's stupid arms

when they sit down in a crowded train

but also just in general

Back in Riot Grrrl days we used to mock guys who did the legs-open thing on the tube: 'HIS PENIS! IT YEARNS TO BREATHE!'

- flaky people who either don't keep plans or refuse to make them until the very last minute
^^this. it's a thing now, right? it's not "cool" to rsvp; god forbid you might appear eager to hang out with someone.

― Hongrotronics (get bent), Thursday, December 9, 2010 6:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I am one of these people ;_;

you suck

it's much easier than telling somebody "actually I don't want to hang out with you please don't make eye contact with me ever again"

dont generally feel the need to organise my fun, dont appreciate when ppl try to do it on behalf of the group either.

i'm clearly a lot less busy than most of ye, tho

if you regularly get together w friends, drop by, whatever, then nobody really cares about your pathological inability to make plans but if you never initiate things, or always insist that people come to your place, or just never call someone full stop, then when you still refuse to actually commit to omg a TIME and PLACE people start wondering why the hell they are "friends" with you to begin with

26. People who have widescreen TVs/monitors, but don't adjust the aspect ration, so everything is squat and fat.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"It doesn't bother me, I don't even notice it!"

You haven't noticed that Tina Fey's head resembles a rugby ball and that everyone looks like an oompah-loompah? Idiot.

Toilet jokers using the same shitty old lines every time - either "got room for a little one?" as they approach the urinal or "so this is where all the big knobs hang out!"

either "got room for a little one?" as they approach the urinal or "so this is where all the big knobs hang out!"

i have never heard anybody say these things, thank fuck

yeah, nothing even remotely similar to relate there

omg no way

doin yer bit for scotch tourism there onimo

^^^Suspect this has to do with jovially exhibitionist strain of Scotsmen, also world's best tellers of knob jokes. BUT STILL.

My dad does this thing where he rings our phone ONE TIME and then hangs up, in case we're too busy to talk to him.

that's a great idea! h8 having to pick up and chat when i'm cooking or er watching shitty tv quiz shows...

Or, I could run over like mad to the phone to pick it up and get a dial tone!

OLDER MAN sits in green tweed recliner. Picks up phone, pushes seven buttons, hangs up.

OLDER MAN: There. I've done my part.

he's just letting you know that he's thinking about you.

start running on the 2nd ring? unless your house is huuuuge and the phone is > four rings away at full sprint.

My mum calls but wont leave an answering machine message. Doesnt want to be a bother. But will sort of pointedly wonder why you werent home, even if you were just taking out the garbage & missed the phone.
Grrrr.

Well, mine is. (xpost re rings)

Still, I have 2 kids who will get the phone and chat away, even though the caller is asking for me to sell me a new gas/electric/phone package.

Oh, yeah, that's all right, isn't it?

My mother calls until someone picks up and then she talks so much it makes my ears sweat.

It annoys me when you ring someone back or whatever and they are all "so where were you earlier?". None of yr business!

(Usually this is my parents, and usually the answer is something really quite mundane but bad form to admit to, like "I was taking a crap" or "I'd just sat down to a hot dinner and couldn't be bothered")

Oh I will gleefully tell ppl I was taking a crap so that they stop asking me invasive questions

my boss asked me once at my old job where i was for 20 minutes. She didn't get the answer she was looking for, "Im hungover and was taking a massive shit." I got written up.

Hey, chris. I just sent you an email:

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/2075/screenshot20101209at927.png

eh?

Just ringing your phone. Get back at me when you wish.

Students that wear pajamas and slippers when they come into class and/or the library. It's like dignity and self-respect are dead.

eh, one of the great things about being a student is that you have a socially accepted reason to be an outrageous slob

I am just tired of seeing crustiness. My eyes, they hurt.

i dont get it? my phone? does not compute.

Haha.

Yeah, I used to get annoyed with people that would come to class in pajamas in college. I mean, come on, a lecture isn't Wal-Mart. When I felt lazy it just meant that I would throw on a baseball cap instead of doing anything with my hair. But then I visited a friend at her school, which was like the complete opposite. For some reason people dressed up to go everywhere, even the library. It seemed a little oppressive.

It's really sad though, those people were hit on the head as children and therefore change into business suits when they go to bed.

Speaking of pyjamas, I really hate the 'trend' of teen girls wearing pyjama bottoms to the supermarket as though they're sweats. I dunno if it's just a Sacramento thing but UGH

no, I've seen that in Boston too

And Cleveland. All of NE Ohio, really.

Wow. How many times does ilx have to do this one?

well sorr-eeee :)

: ) Just that it's well-traversed ground.

I for one, am all for people wearing pajamas any damn where they please.

Although, I guess you put it in the "innocuous things" thread so...