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

xxposts -- lol yeah underwater mortgage-wise (in Sacramento, not Australia)

With some exceptions, it annoys me tremendously when I get forwarded links to Onion or New York Times articles.

It's like, thanks. I know 20 million people read that article today, but you must have thought I didn't know how to turn on a computer.

This is a great thread, I wonder how I missed it?

For me just about all the things that make me irrationally angry are variations on the theme of doing/organising stuff with people

People who say 'I should be OK for that' when they mean 'I probably won't bother to turn up for that'. This really drives me crazy when it lets down a group of people who need them to be there e.g. a sports team. When I captained various sports teams, the mid-week ringing around to see who was available for the weekend used to leave me incandescent with rage week after week. The SAME PEOPLE week after bloody week would say 'yes, I should be OK for Saturday' then not turn up, or ring an hour before kick off with some lame, but pseudo-watertight excuse like 'one of the kids is ill (again)'. So you want to stop asking them, but of course you can't because there are never enough players and they DO turn up one time in four and if you try and do without all the commitment-phobics you'll NEVER EVER have enough for a game, thus ballsing it up for everyone, for ever.

My blood pressure has risen through the roof just typing that, even though for many years I have only played team sport on the basis that I am happy to turn up and play as long as I have nothing to do with organisation. I guess I just don't understand the basis on which they never commit. It's not that I think I'm being holier than thou by being straight-up about whether I can do something or not, it's not that at all. I just don't want to live in a fug of half-arsed non-committing and then having to continually wriggle out of stuff. And I can't for the life of me understand how anyone else would want to live like this either. Obviously people have lives to live and unforseen events crop up occasionally but you know, it's just so selfish to flap around aimlessly like this.

It's not as important when it's just a social thing, because it doesn't disadvantage a group, but it is dispiriting when the same friends always cry off (with a minor sniffle) at the last minute from not-very-important but would-be-fun stuff like just going for a drink, or a pub quiz or a meal. I always feel a bit let down, because if I say I'm going to do something I'll fucking well be there, barring major events. Rant over. Anyone else feel like this?
the sky falls in.

"the sky falls in?" where did that come from?

www.teamer.net saved my life re. organising football

Interesting, but mr shapeless would simply reply 'yes' and then blow out at the last minute. technology can't do nowt about that!

DrC, put it this way: Same story.

Various teams = 1 team
Various excuses = "oh, the previous guy was all SERIOUS SERIOUS, you won't be like that will you?" became "Oh, Thursdays are really difficult, if it was Wednesdays, loads more would come" became "Look, I'm sorry I couldn't get there, but you said you weren't going to be all SERIOUS, it puts people off" and so on...

true, still happens, but at least you've not spent all day organising

xpost Yes, I was that serious bloke that commitment-phobes hate. This was a rugby team, albeit at crappo-level, but representing a proper club in a proper match with a referee, a tea laid-on etc. i.e. lots of other people putting themselves out for no reward to get a game on. Compared with footy, not only do you need 15 (actually 17-18 as people will get knocks) but rugby has the extra complication of stuff like you need at least 3 front-rowers. You can't just stick 15 warm bodies out there to run around due to health and safety implications, quite rightly so.

yeah, mine was Softball, and to be fair, I'm no sportsman I more enjoyed it as a social occasion.

Truth is/was, it needed a nasty man to get them to all turn out.

we had a nasty man to do all that until our it guy threw him 6 headbutts following one too many haranguings

i wouldn't say that this makes me irrationally angry but i really hate when people say "you're good" in response to an apology or an excuse me or something

one innocuous thing that i'm *rationally* angry for myself over for being irrational about: having stuff i should get checked out at the doctor's, but procrastinating forever to make an appointment (and appointments are hard enough to get through my plan).

i've been saying "i need to get an eye exam" for months. i can even get one for pretty cheap at costco on the spot. why am i putting it off?

i'm also irrationally angry at myself for this new tick i have (probably a side effect of medication) where i'm stumbling over my words a lot. the anger comes in because i'm used to being very verbal and i like it that way; now i'm grasping for the right word in conversation, having trouble forming coherent sentences. it's not nearly as bad as it sounds but it *feels* that bad.

haha "tick" -- see?

tic, i mean.

super super innocuous, but: girls wearing flip flops in cold weather. ffs i dont care abt your pretty toenails, besides didnt your generation make Ugg boots a "thing"...ffs put some goddamn shoes on RARR

YES! Fucking thongs/flipflops

i wouldn't say that this makes me irrationally angry but i really hate when people say "you're good" in response to an apology or an excuse me or something

― J0rdan S., Saturday, December 11, 2010 2:38 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

heh i hate this too

i've been saying "i need to get an eye exam" for months.

Oh god me too. My scrip has changed completely, I can tell, my eyes are constantly wonky and weepy from it, but have I bothered? Have I feck. I'm so cross at my laziness.

I'm one of those people who pike on things all the time too - but in fairness I'd never do it to an event that relied on all attendees being there like a work thing or sport team thing (not that you'd ever in a BILLION flaming years of death find me anywhere near a sporting event).

Actually I've improved a bit of late - I've turned up to all the recent things I said I would, and I'm being more ok with just saying "no sorry cant go" in the first place, to make it easier on all.

With some exceptions, it annoys me tremendously when I get forwarded links to Onion or New York Times articles.

I get incredibly riled when people send me links to Murdoch news articles; doubly so when it's wrapped in a bit.ly link.

There's one person who knows I won't give Murdoch clicks, and he knows why I won't give Murdoch clicks, but for ages he'd send me links to News Ltd articles, wait for me to not click the link, then get the shits with me for not clicking the link. Here's a tip sunshine, don't send me the links.

leo tldrstoy

nice one.

signed,

ivan tldrgenev

marcetl;droust says hi btw

antldrony challope

Not a writer, but...

I hate that "thanking you" thing everyone does on here.

taking my water bottle home to wash it and then GRR forgetting to bring it to work.

loud phone conversation going on in an adjacent cubicle first thing on a Monday morning. >:(

hearing the muffled bass from my downstairs neighbor's TV

Lock the doors, turn off the lights, head upstairs, brush teeth, get into bed, wait five minutes…

"Mrow? Mrow? Mrow? -- Mrow? Mrow? Mrow?"

more like irrationally cuet

NO. HULK WARM, HULK NO WANT GET UP.

You know what's also cute? A screendoor repeatedly banging shut during a midnight rain storm.

not as cute as the pet rooster my neighbors dabbled with for a week... but yeah, banging screen door IS super cute

Why would you adopt a pet rooster. It's not like it's going to lay eggs or anything.

it'll do better than that, it'll lay chickens

Well now you've got to find some chickens.

Or I guess that's up to the rooster.

I know!! No idea what the point of the rooster was at all. Our guess was cockfighting, just based on what we knew of the neighbors already. Either that or they planned to eat it. Who the fuck knows. But someone called Animal Control and shut that shit down within a week which was awesome because I had got online that day to make the same phone call.

Context: these people are crazy. The kind of neighbors that have screaming fights on the front lawn; cops have been at their house at least 3 times that we've been living here...and they have like 3 dogs and at least 5 cats. Plus a teenage daughter who's not quite right and sits on the front lawn and STARES at everyone...the Mum is a nutbar, and I'm pretty sure she makes the whole family stay outside, so they're always out on their lawn no matter the weather climbing trees or hosing down their driving or whatever. I've seen the Dad most days sitting on the front porch with the baby in a stroller, spoon feeding the kid breakfast/lunch. Very strange arrangement.

"hosing down their driving"?? hosing down their DRIVEWAY.

People who are cranky in the mornings. You just claim "I'm not a morning person" as a socially acceptable way to be the asshole for part of the day that you'd like to be all of the day!

challop or truth bomb?

http://rlv.zcache.com/im_a_bitch_before_coffee_magnet-p147776812797164994q6ju_400.jpg

May be true for some people but for me, challop in the x-treem.

I don't handle mornings at all well. I dunno. I sort of think that I sleep so deeply that it takes me a couple of hours to truly wake up, but that's probably bullshit. Coffee dependency adds another level to that...and I have become aware that I can control how I behave in the mornings and not be a complete asshole, and I am trying. If I eat a full breakfast and fruit and things, I find I handle the morning *a little * better.

Think about how "not a morning person" people feel in the morning as being comparable to how people feel at night when they are very very tired and something keeps waking them up. It's not a perfect analogy but the upshot is that your body rhythm is out of sync with your environmental stimuli and the body demands what it demands.

I don't mean to be an asshole in the morning, it's just that if I have to get out of bed and move around before my brain wakes up, grunting is the max extent of my involvement with the world.

exactly.

I've never had any tolerance for grumpy morning people. Nobody likes being forced out of bed; it's no excuse to be unpleasant to people. I can handle it when people are groggy in the morning, but they best not be cross about it, or I'll give them something real to be unhappy about.

Just for myself, if I can stay in bed until my brain wakes up, I will have my day 7/8ths planned and jump up and do the biggest projects first, b/c morning is when I have the most energy. I just have to get some floating time in, time when I'm technically awake but kinda un-anchored. Also use this time to think things over & process potential outcomes before I start taking actions.

People who refer to 'the floor' when they mean 'the ground'.

Kind of makes it seem like they've never been "outside," doesn't it? Either that, or they've only recently mastered the concept of "down."

Unless you're an ESL student learning the bizarre subtleties of the morass that is the English language, or are experiencing some kind of senility, or have a momentary brain fart (but quickly correct yourself) then there's no reason for that. Who the hell even does that?

They do that a bit in HK, call everything the floor. Word's the same in Cantonese, I think.

- Tech journalists who say they've 'reached out' to a company for comment
- Tech journalists who, when doing radio/podcast interviews, say 'I tweeted this!' before EVERY point they make, as though their tweet stream is the bible and we should all have been reading it