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

'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

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

No, I politely refuse. Or (if the grill's clean), ask if we can go first.

depends on the veg in question, ime. some veggie friends of mine aren't against the consumption of meat per se, just the way it's produced (ie - they'll eat hunted meat, or road kill). some ppl don't want animal product of any kind to cross their lips. w/e works, i say.

After nearly two decades of being a vegetarian I've gotten pretty lax about certain things. I mean, I know that most restaurants grill meat and non-meat on teh same surfaces so I don't make an issue of it.

seems reasonable to me
xp to JM

Yeh when I do bbqs I'll keep a seperate grill or cook veg things first. Should be easier this year with a much bigger bbq.

IF WE EVER GET ANY SUMMER WEATHER :|

I just don't eat things cooked outdoors.

mmmm, floorpie.

- When you buy something simple in a shop and the person serving says 'how would you like to pay for that today?'
- So really all words that have no place in sentences

"I have a handful of beads that I will exchange for your goods and services."

Getting increasingly annoyed by people in shared offices who phone IT/a utility company and then put their phone on speaker so they can fucking multitask while everyone else in the office listens to the hold music and a robot voice repeatedly saying "lol ur on hold".

"I have a handful of beads that I will exchange for your goods and services."

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 09:08 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalin

Sorry, I mean the 'today' bit. It doesn't belong or even make sense in the sentence yet loads of people here do it. Usually it's people in coffee shops and sandwich bars, so it's not like there's a six-month repayment option.

People who say "cut and paste" when they mean "copy and paste."

People who use the pull-down menu to cut, copy, OR paste.

'how would you like to pay for that today?'

the next time someone asks me this I'm totally going to try to barter, preferably with a dance performed right there at the counter

"Today I'd like to pay for it in your child's blood.

Tomorrow credit'll be fine"

Laurel otm, that drives me up the spacking wall.

Last century I worked with someone who, rather than type a letter, found it on the page, copied it and pasted it. I mean.

xp & xxp gold

Today I will pay for it with THIS shiny coin.

And in 2 weeks I shall return with the balance paid in jewels

What you mean they looked for an "X" or whatever... c&ped it, and pasted it elsewhere INSTEAD OF HITTING THE KBD!?

sorry yep

O_O

holy lol

WOW

Sounds like they were trying to make you irrationally angry.

I have to admit I have done that for characters that aren't easy to get on a regular keyboard.

Did I mention the woman in that same company who tried to go to netscape.com by

- opening netscape
- typing 'yahoo.com' in the address bar
- typing 'netscape.com' in the yahoo search box

because that happened too.

ahahahahaha

i have done this, too, but yeah, only for characters that i don't know how to make with the keyboard

Oh no no that one's very common among older non-IT literate ppl to be honest.

Its why there was that hilar situation where a blog that did an article on facebook had people posting HEY WHY DID FACEBOOK CHANGE I CANT LOG IN on their comments page... sigh.

omg that thing was amazing