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

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.

waht

A crime!!!

'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'

Actually, I've known and seen people defend it as purely rhyming slang and not at all intended to be either an insult or a deliberate "yr full of shit" joke. ymmv, I dunno.

How does it break down as rhyming slang?

Yeah the DoD/vets associations/RSL get reaally reallt shitty about ANZAC/Remeberance day trads.

How does it break down as rhyming slang?

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 12:08 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yank -> septic tank -> septics -> seppos

(yes I've heard 'septics' used a number of times)

My mom is cookie obsessed and I think she will really appreciate this cookie law!

http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20101119/430_cookie_430241.jpg

damn i wish i had some cookies right now.

Oh, a food one:

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

Aw, see, I actually appreciate this. Like my sister has a lot of cookouts at her house and always tries to make sure she gets veggie burgers or dogs or what have you for my wife and me.

Oh, it's not the vegetarian food itself, it's that they provide things that look like meat, as if to say those poor vegetarians can't eat like us so let's make them feel included. It's bizarre, because meatless dishes are almost always fantastic without pretending to be anything like meat.

idk thats like the lesbian/dildo conundrum imo

i say conundrum

Vegetarians -- would you decline or be okay with vegetables/soy dogs/soy burgers cooked on the same grill as the meats?

'oh you poor lesbians, here's a dildo to go with your facon' xp

I keep mentally pronouncing "facon" like a French word.

needs a ç imo