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

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"

We don't know what it STANDS for, we just like the way it sounds. "ANZAC" -- see, it's got a nice ring.

It's about biscuits innit?

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/9397086/2/istockphoto_9397086-australian-anzac-biscuits.jpg

ANZAC = Australian Nom Znom Anzac Cookies

hahahah

Fuck I hate those biscuits /being on topic

;_;

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.

eh, this isn't true. the americas are called "america" and things and people from the americas are often referred to as "american" in the spanish language.

I love Anzac bikkies. Though honestly I love them more since I've been away. Finding a tin of Golden Syrup is srsly like uncovering the holy grail. Suggestions of subbing maple syrup: GIT TAE FUCK

I think I like the idea of anzac biscuits more than the actual biscuits. Nice history behind them, too.

xp Is there a unique demonym for US people in Spanish?

Waste of good maple syrup, iirc.

Definitely. And it tastes all wrong.

the demonym for US people, although "americano" is used for that too, is "estadounidense".

i.e. united statian.

ah, ta

Couldnt you use molasses, Veg?

Hah. Hah. Hahaha.

xpost Molasses is way too strong. I tried it once, used about half of what you would golden syrup and it was not good.

Actually that is one thing that makes me irrationally angry: fricking Epicurious reviews of recipes where the person only gives 1 star to a beef stroganoff and says, "well I didn't have any beef so I used tofurkey, and instead of cream I substituted a jar of sundried tomatoes and honestly the flavor was far too strong and we threw it away. I would not make it again." You can sub away on your own in your kitchen til the cows come home, you can even tell other people about it but don't give a recipe a bad review if you didn't actually cook it somewhat close to the intended way at least once. RARR.

Yes thiiiiiiiiiiis. I read taste.com.au religiously and every fucking vegetarian recipe says "well hubby wont eat meat so I added a little bacon to this" FUCK K^%^$%$#%$

Oh, a food one:

- Meat-eaters who offer vegetarians soy sausages/facon out of pity ('so you can pretend to be normal like us!')

idiot/clueless/picky commenters at food sites are more lol than IA-making

Similar to iOS game reviews which rate an app 1/5 and say 'I couldn't get past level 1, please help'

Been looking through recipes on the good old BBC site for tasty Christmassy desserts and this seems to be the one area where a good 50% of the recipes I want use something that you can't easily get where I am (golden syrup is the main one).

yeah but sometimes you find out that the measurements were wrong, or that you should use less water or WHOA too salty...stuff like that is helpful. "I'm lactose intolerant so I made a marinara sauce in place of the alfredo sauce" just slows shit down and is more of a passive agressive 'why don't you have recipes for lactose intolerants like meeeeee' and so they just ruin everything for everyone else out of spite. That's what I think is really going on.

- 'I'm a vegetarian but I eat chicken'

xpost.

Village they're selling Golden Syrup on Amazon now if you're really desperate.

people who mindlessly repeat stupid memes and think it's soooo funny

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

― Sookie G Stackedgarten (Trayce), Monday, December 13, 2010 6:01 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark

i've always wondered about the 'septic' thing

Similarly, I get ridiculously IA when people sub stupid things for ingredients. Like my housemate who made a thai curry and then told me as I took the first mouthful "Oh I didn't have any coconut milk so I used evaporated milk". BLARGH. Well how about you make fucking stir fry then and let's just do away with the curry altogether, HMM?

Rhyming slang -- septic tank -> Yank

'seppo' is always, always a derogatory term, so while the name comes from rhyming slang it's clearly implied that 'hur, those Americans, they're a bit shit aren't they'

ah of course. i suspected as much

xp initially, but i also suspected that, too

love rhyming slang

The whole US English thing--I used to get annoyed at "aluminum" as opposed to "aluminium", until I discovered that the guy who discovered it called at aluminum, to fit with platinum, and it was people in the UK/Australia who fucked it up by making it into aluminium

Re ANZAC biscuits--bizarrely, it's a crime in Australia to publish a recipe for these things that deviates from the normal, 'official' ingredients. The Defence Dept here owns the rights to them and gets all shitty about it. My wife used to write a cooking column for a newspaper and when she tried to include wattle seeds in a recipe for the biscuits, Defence went apeshit.