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

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

oh i remember that lol

oh jeez really?

We had a crusty old "plaza" page on our ISPs website for years that has in it a search box, news, weather etc.

When the website was updated and made more business-focussed, that page was basically hosed. And the amount of old whiners who called up and said I CANT GET TO MY NEWS/EMAIL/YAHOO was amazing. These people only know how to do things how they do them. I've worked with people like that in civil service jobs.

Veg: yeah for whatrver reason that blog's article made it appear as (first?) result on google for "facebook login" or something.

So.. yeah. Hilarity ensues.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php

still so awesome

These people only know how to do things how they do them

One day I'm gonna be like that with whatever new 3d straight-into-brain technology and kids will roll their eyes, of course.

Here's another coz why not. Back when you had to use a Win95 DOS window to log into your ISP, I did phone support with a woman who couldn't log in. I kept asking her to type her username and password but nothing was happening. We even went to the point of checking the case of every single letter she was typing. After about 20 minutes of this I said something about the enter key and she said 'what is an enter key?'

We bought my father-in-law an ipod shuffle a few years back - he scowled at first and thought it was silly, but once he figured out how to use it he'd sit upstairs playing around with his Itunes playlist and was happy as a clam.

My Mother in law liked it, so we gave her one too. Night and freaking day. Every single time we went to visit, my husband would be cornered into showing her how to take things off her playlist and put other things on; and every time we visited he would show her the exact same thing. She'd ask his brother, who lives next door to her, and he'd show her the exact same thing. The last conversation I remember was my husband and my brother in law standing in the kitchen and they were almost crying like, Mum! We don't know how else to tell you how to do this!
Meanwhile my father in law looks on with amusement and says he doesn't know what her problem is.

It's kinda lol & sad.

But she is the worst. She'll get lost on Amazon and have you show her how to get to where she was and she'll lean over your shoulder and point at the screen and say 'SEE? THAT THING. DOESN'T THAT MAKE YOU CRAZY?"

Computers are really really hard for people who aren't good at information hierarchy. Or who connect info from one piece to another by "themes" or some similarity that only they understand.

also: old ppl

every time i got crabby at my mom/dad for lol family holiday tech support i have to remember that i was using a mac when i was 8yo, and that my mom was living on a farm in rural ireland with no running water or electricity

Six of one, 5 + 1 of the other

Mum was kind of scared of computers when they first showed up, but she was an office manager and she had to learn it for her job. She ended up taking some night classes and things just for herself, not through work, and she's really comfortable with them now...fools around with desktop publishing, burns cds for me and scans pics for the covers, stuff like that.

My mother in law is about 30 years older, and I think even though she did have to use a laptop in the last years of her teaching career, she really only just learned to use what she had to, and she was far too intimidated by it to ever really relax. She has that approach where she thinks she's going to break something if she does something wrong, like it's the end of the world...and its really hard to break that mindset, unless you sit beside her and pep-talk her all day.

Speaking of PCs and parents and angry, I hate it when I'm visiting my folx and I'll be on FB or ILX and mum will wander into the study, sit by/behind me, and ...watch what I'm doing.

"who are you talking to? Whats this page all about?"

GAH GET AWAY FROM ME.

whe i was 8 i was wondering why my mac wouldn't work in my rural farm in ireland with no electricity

Grrrl: If it's frustrating for them because they really do try, it's fine; if they cbf trying and just rely on other people to do everything for them it's acceptable to get all ia at them. I don't know how many times I told my father his iPod doesn't need to be switched off by force. He did it so often that he actually broke something and complained to me when it didn't work.

Sort of on this topic but definitely an ia thing: If you're at my parents and you want to watch television, this is what you have to do:

1. Flick on the mains switch at the wall (behind the TV cabinet and not easy to reach)
2. Turn on the set at the switch
3. Retrieve the remote from a cupboard in the TV cabinet
4. Take the remote control out of the plastic bag it came in (which is covered in sellotape from years of wear and tear)

Every single time.

I had an ANZAC in Alaska! It was A DELIGHT!

Sorted my dad out with a computer, spent a few days explaining and showing him stuff and making short cuts to make it all easy. He phones me one day and asks how to get "earth google" on it. I nearly pissed myself laughing. He phoned me the other day and said i can't see all of the internet, i was baffled and went through a few scenarios over the phone, he eventually had to bring it round to me, don't know how he did it, but he'd minimised the window really small to the bottom right hand corner. I find it really hard not to laugh, but i forget he's sixty odd and it's his first ever computer.

I've had so many calls from him asking stuff it's unreal.

it makes me irrationally angry that my dad always asks how my 401k is looking

Mum was kind of scared of computers when they first showed up, but she was an office manager and she had to learn it for her job. She ended up taking some night classes and things just for herself, not through work, and she's really comfortable with them now

Mine has not touched a computer since before Win 3.1. I am not kidding. The last thing she used on a computer was a really crap text-interface (as opposed to GUI) word processor for DOS 2.x. She's not old or disabled, she's just stubborn and ridiculous. Even now she'll call me to find out the words to a poem or something, marvel at the 0.000012 seconds it takes me to find it on Google, then refuse to use a computer again.

xp ahahahaha 'i can't see all of the internet', meme material imo

I've had so many calls from him asking stuff it's unreal.

I used to have that problem, but then I convinced my dad to switch to a Mac, and now he never calls me. I'm no Mac evangelist, but Jesus Christ, I can't recommend this strategy enough to people who constantly get computer questions from their parents. xp