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

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.)

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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.

I'm pretty sure in 50 or 100 years Melbourne Central will be revealed to be some kind of social experiment conducted by architects. It's still a mystery to me.

My brain's still in "melb central has diamaru and not much else in it" mode, even after all these years, so the fancy new basement levels make me all baffled. But I have no sense of direction.

Daimaru is now a load of furniture shops, or something, and if you go high enough (that is if you can find the escalators (and if two people are not hogging the escalator grr)) there's a cinema and a gym, or something. There's a pub up there, too, which could be fun if you've had 2-3 beers and want to leave the complex.

For the longest time I thought of it like a museum, like something you visit once to see the Shot Tower but never have any actual reason to go there bc wtf is Daimaru anyway.

but later on I discovered that I loved their food court and then you couldn't get me out of there. And I couldn't get myself out there bc I was always fucking LOST

http://www.travelvictoria.com.au/images/regions/melbourne/city/22.jpg

complete with escalator hogs xp

The top floor also has that cool sushi train place.

..sorry we've gone way off topic here.

I think if I worked there i'd go postal listening to that giant watch play "waltzing matilda" every hour fwiw.

You can't go there on the hour because of the HORDES of tourists waiting for it to go off gaargh irrational anger.

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

― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Monday, December 13, 2010 5:48 PM Bookmark

It has to do with it not being unreasonable to think that the way the vast majority of first-language English speakers do something is the standard way of doing it. And BTW, if anything is "butthurt" it's being upset that Americans don't recognize the way things are done in other places. It reminds me of when people from Central and South America get upset about people from the States calling themselves "Americans" -- "you're not the only Americans," etc. (1) We don't have another convenient name given the difficulty of deriving one from "United States" and (2) I don't believe that South and Central Americans actually call themselves Americans except when they're trying to make this tedious point.

way to move on, dude...

xxposts arrrg I totally forgot the Waltzing Matilda clock.

It reminds me of when people from Central and South America get upset about people from the States calling themselves "Americans" -- "you're not the only Americans," etc.

Ah yeah I worked with one of those. They never volunteer an alternative demonym, although once a (non-the-Americas) friend proposed 'United Statians'.

Yanks.

(yes, we realise the term is misused in Aus, etc etc)

Americans who call northerners Yankees don't realize that the term means something else in the rest of the world.

lol

I have to admit, its amusing watching the splutrtered reaction to our phrase "Septics" when you explain it.

NOT A CHANCE, HOT PANTS. The so-called British spellings were transmitted to the rest of the English-speaking world FROM BRITAIN. We just decided, for better or worse, not to keep them. So step off.

Uh, I think you mean 'hot trousers' *hides*

I don't really care about US spellings despite otherwise being a spelling & grammar snob. I do hate 'jewelry' though.

to be fair, my french co-worker just told me about how a bank teller was asking him how they celebrate thanksgiving in France. "We don't have pilgrims! We don't have Indians! How can we have Thanksgiving?!"

omg I've been asked this multiple times here in the US. Part of me wants to say, look, Australians (well, Britishers at the time) didn't fuck around being friends with the natives on Van Diemen's Land. We pretty much got right down to the killing as soon as possible. They're far enough away from everyone they didn't have to put on a good show for the folks back home.

Ha. Thats a sadly otm way of putting it.

Yeah, we don't have Thanksgiving Day, we have Native Slaugher Day (26 January).

On a similar but probably reversed note, I get all IA on ANZAC Day when the Australian press exhaustively covers Australian events commemorating the Australians who fought and died. Two of the letters in the word 'ANZAC' refer to four million people, see if you can guess what they all have in common ffs.

(and, by extension, Australians who are surprised when they learn that New Zealand does ANZAC Day too)

Yeah that gets pretty WTF. "Argle bargle what would those sheep shovers know about battlers anyway who's for a game of twoup"