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

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:

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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...

san te seems so angry upthread

I feel a kinship towards San Te.

love when people get irrationally angry at people who apparently have not read every single ILX post ever made, it's so cute

I'm all for people wearing pyjamas anywhere they want, but the fact that it's just this swarm of teenage girls bothers me a lot for some reason.

Like, okay girls you already wear teeny short shorts and leggings and barely enough of any clothes...do you really want to do the 'widdle girl just got out of bed' thing too? Also I am old and crabby and do not care for nubile antics.

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ok, that's hella cute

HAHAHA! I think we've found this thread's mascot.

HA

aw

whiney weingarten

The sole reason we still have a home phone is for my mother to call us so we can ignore it. If we didn't have the landline she'd call us on the mobiles and we wouldn't be able to get away from her.

This wouldn't be a problem but she goes ON AND ON AND FUCKING ON about the same four extended family members that we haven't seen in several years and in all likelihood will never see again, and if you say ANYTHING AT ALL she gets all shitty and defensive and broods for weeks. Oh and she is a tory bigot.

(OT obv)

This thread has corrupted me. I just sneezed and immediately got a 'bless you' and now I am irrationally angry.

getting mail addressed to me that presumptively calls me mrs instead of ms really annoys me. the irrational part is that i should be used to it by now since it's still common practice here but i am infuriated every time i see it.