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

Yeah, 1 is above G. G, 1, 2.

fwiw I've been in a load of countries (BRAGGIN 2010) and have only ever seen buildings with a G floor (unless I've just not been paying attention).

Canada seemed to have this down. No #13, but that's another issue.

American elevators have the G button too, but the next button is '2'.

Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK from the Sixth Floor, not the fifth.

I would add computer applications which provide a choice between 'English' and 'UK English' but, again, rational anger.

xp I live on the first floor of a two-storey building (there is no second floor). I know.

Peter is right, the reason you're asked to do a load of things when troubleshooting IT issues is because the majority of people are lying fuckheads who never do these things, and lie to your face that they have, and that nothing changed.

"Oh i didnt change anything" = "well there was a lightning storm and I also havent paid my phone bill but whats that got to do with anything?"

Fuckin idiots.

- Americans who notice something done differently in another country and assume that country is a special case, when in fact the entire world does it that way and it's America that's the odd one out

― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Monday, December 13, 2010 4:46 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

A good example is when loads of Americans assume the spelling of colour with the U is 'the British spelling' when in fact it's got a U in pretty much the whole English-speaking world. Somehow they come out of it going 'oh that country is just weird, we "color" spellers are all normal'.

― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Monday, December 13, 2010 4:49 PM Bookmark

But Americans make up like 2/3 to 3/4 of the people who speak English as a first language. Also, it's really pretty understandable to think this way while you are IN THE UNITED STATES.

Which floor was built first?

(Okay, I've hammered my point.)

But Americans make up like 2/3 to 3/4 of the people who speak English as a first language. Also, it's really pretty understandable to think this way while you are IN THE UNITED STATES.

― mandatorily joined parties (Hurting 2), Monday, December 13, 2010 5:35 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark

owned

Also, it's really pretty understandable to think this way while you are IN THE UNITED STATES.

― mandatorily joined parties (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 09:35 (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

On the whole Americans are far worse at it than any English-speaking nationality I've come across. Also spelling was just an example; see my Barry Bumpants post.

On the whole Americans are far worse at it than any English-speaking nationality I've come across.

oh well that settles it, then

I've never seen "English" or "UK English", just "English" or "International English", which makes me feel like maybe it is the special option to get a voice track of someone shouting very slowly "OK - YOU NO SPEAKEE ENGLISH SO GOOD - CLICKEE HERE, CAPISCE" at me.

We get it, you hate us awful Americans, point made. Can we move on now?

Then I suppose part two of that point is

- Americans who get irrationally defensive

― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 09:15 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

But Americans make up like 2/3 to 3/4 of the people who speak English as a first language. Also, it's really pretty understandable to think this way while you are IN THE UNITED STATES.

Seriously? Theres more Americans than Ukers + Australians + South Africans + Indians?

Adam cut it out with the American ragging, its actually a bit annoying.

ahahahaha @ indians, yes, because ALL OF THEM SPEAK ENGLISH

I consciously refer to it as British spelling to help raise awareness about imperialism.

gbx: I know they dont, but a fuck of a lot do.

plz remember that America has the 5th largest population in the world

oops, THIRD

I thought most of that was holograms and cartoon characters.

Adam cut it out with the American ragging, its actually a bit annoying.

― Sookie G Stackedgarten (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 09:41 (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE. I made a perfectly fucking sensible point in a thread for precisely that sort of thing, you people do not need to go off-tap.

if you think that 10% of indians speak english as their first language, then yes, i guess you'd be right

According to Wiki its about 220,000 (Indians with EFL). 4 million in Nigeria, fwiw.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/English_dialects1997_modified.svg/500px-English_dialects1997_modified.svg.png

usa, usa usa

lol @ me for forgetting canada. Fuck I'm hung over.

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE. I made a perfectly fucking sensible point in a thread for precisely that sort of thing, you people do not need to go off-tap.

I could agree with you if you wouldn't have been so intent on banging the point home over and over and over again. People tried to present examples of other countries that did this, but you kept coming back to "yes but Americans are WORSE" like an impudent child. And hiding behind the conceit of the thread when get called out is NAGL.

My point was about Americans who notice something that happens outside America and assume it's just a thing that one country does, this is a thing that actually happens, I was NOT 'American-ragging', stop being so bloody butthurt.

Also I don't see how 'omg america = bigger than yu0' has anything to do with any of this.

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austericans u r all savages

hey have you guys ever noticed how it's only Australians who make generalizations about Americans on internet message boards? such an Australian thing to do.

i can't speak for anyone else, and i'm obv coming from a different background than most, but the whole "british english" v. "american english" thing was always clearly "british english" = "the english spoken everywhere else that speaks english and isn't america."

india's actually an interesting exception, imo, because i don't think it's taken for granted anymore that "being educated" means "going to england." i've encountered at least a handful of moneyed indians, educated abroad, who spoke (and presumably spelled) like californian teenagers.

also I think Indian English is kind of its own thing at this point.

also v true

inane color/colour arguments = nocuous things that make u rationally angry

friend emailed me today asking if he could come along to a book club i joined. innocuous but did annoy me in that for me the entire point of it is to get to know new people and to challenge myself. also i feel like it took effort to find it and go along and break the ice with everyone there, and i like it being a part of my life where it's all new/strangers.

also was out with the same friend, a few weeks ago, and we went to get some food at 2 or 3am after being out drinking. we were sitting in the takeaway and he was eating a burger, and i had got chicken. and he asked me for some of my chicken.

it was the weirdest thing, like, sitting in a still open shop while eating your meal...

was it rly ~that~ weird? i mean i guess he didnae want a whole portion of chicken

i dunno, as i typed it out i thought, maybe it wasn't weird. but like it wasn't in that "oh give us a bit of that chicken" way that would seem normal. it was like a sincere request and we weren't even particularly drunk. plus you know, just buy some chicken. it felt a bit like being 11 or something.

also i feel like it took effort to find it and go along and break the ice with everyone there, and i like it being a part of my life where it's all new/strangers.

Well, you've still got us at least. Now gimme some chicken.

My boss is making me irrationally angry atm.

He is such a flake. He asked me y'day if I could attend a work xmas party a partner telco of ours is throwing. With 2 days notice. A week before I go on leave/interstate.

I hate having to say no, but dude, wth. If he cant go what makes him think my time's less valuable?

he also told me off this morning for telling a customer to contact our support team for help with something.

...uuhhh.

x-post you misunderstand, he won't be coming! i emailed him back and said, in a nicer way than this, that i didn't run the book group but i'd rather if he found another one.

Which floor was built first?

(Okay, I've hammered my point.)

― http://tinyurl.com/ccccccccccccccccc (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 09:35 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

What does drive me nuts is when you're in a building that's built on an incline, because the 'ground' level isn't, depending on which side you go in. The way they sometimes get around that is by allocating a G floor and a LG floor, but if you're in the lift and you only use one building entrance you don't always know which is which.

The main hospital in Oxford is really confusing because of the hill it's on - the floor at "ground level" to the back car park is 2 above the floor at "ground level" to the front.

We have a shopping centre + office tower in Melbourne (Melb Central) that's built on a hill and a 45° angle. I worked there for a year and I still don't know how to get to anything.

I always get so lost in the lower floors of MC.

on board now? good

Zuh?

I also think that adding letters to building floors gives people licence to go ott with it (LB, B, LG, G, UG, M, 1, 2 etc). Just number the farken floors.

Oh and while I'm here

- Office buildings that name their meeting rooms after things (Earth, Oxygen, Trees, Soil) causing you to miss a meeting because you can't find the bloody thing.