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

I should add, my comment doesn't belong on this thread as it didn't make me angry.
It's quite funny actually that he's spent nearly £400 on something that he just uses for "earth google" (his words) to look at where he used to live and wiki & dictionary.com for helping him with the crossword.

To be fair, I once boght a fairly pricey desktop pc purely so I could play Sims2...

I got an iphone apparently just so I could spend all day on Zing Touch so...

While we're being honest, i spent £1200 on my laptop because i knew it'd handle "the battle for middle earth" on full res'
It's still running and it's over 4 years old so i can't complain.

a sound investment imo

I bought an MBP because I got sick of Ubuntu doing weird and confusing things and I refuse to use Windows unless I have to. It did cost two grand but most of the time it does what I need it to and stays out of my way.

iPads make me ia, not due to the fact of iPads being iPads but because most of the people who buy them try to do everything they would normally do on a laptop. That's not what they're for. You can't even type properly on the things.

Also people who refer to Apple products as though they're people ('I has bought iPad! Now I am going to plug it into MacBook and play with iPhone')

does anyone seriously do that?

All the time. Now that I've drawn your attention to it you'll notice it everywhere now, odds on.

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OMG hahahahahhaa.

Completely innocuous but makes me see red: recently at Whole Foods express checkout, which is tiny, I put a basket of items on there and the cashier asks me to take the things out of the basket. 1) the countertop is *no way* big enough for a basket, the items AND a place to pack my bags and 2) it's already at chest height so reaching over the top of the basket is actually really annoying especially when you're carrying other shopping over your shoulder, a wet umbrella etc. Other supermarkets have a lowered area for baskets so it's at normal level and doesn't take up the whole counter, and usually an area to pack the stuff into a bag. And this is the *express* counter where ppl are more likely to have baskets than trolleys.

And very often the proper checkouts with conveyor belts are nearly all closed so these are the main ones. Grgrgr.

"the Google" lol

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?'

Can you all come up with some sort of safeword the rest of us can use so you know you're not dealing with an idiot?

IT OP: Okay, Mr. Baker, if I can just get you to find a paper clip and the small hole in the back of your –
ME: "Balustrade"
IT OP: Oh, I'm sorry. Let me check for any IP discrepancies in your area...

^^^fwiw whenever i've been on the phone with apple tech support i try to make it clear from the outset that i am a "superuser" (ugh) by using as many safewords as i can, and it usually works.

I used to work for an educational publishing company and a lot of our authors were high school teachers. Most of the stuff we got from them was hard copy but those that did try to send us electronic manuscipts...zomg. Timeframe: 1998-2001. Our office was entirely Mac based. Off the top of my head I can remember tearing my hair out trying to convert manuscripts created with: Claris Works, LotusWord Pro, WordPerfect, Word 6.0...or just a pile of unusable pc-formatted floppy discs. Ugh.

- Lyricists who rhyme 'table' with 'able'

xps
http://xkcd.com/806/

people who are atheists who feel the need to perpetually remind people that they're atheist, perhaps in some shitty attempt to feel intellectually superior

Oh man. Add to that list militant atheists who brazenly go hard at religious people just for being religious. I'm 104% atheist but ffs if people are minding their own business just leave them alone.

Lately, I've encountered an ungodly (see how i did that?) number of atheists who seem to absolutely relish the idea that they are being discriminated against in their daily lives by some kind of repressive theist hegemony. I'm not actively religious or atheist, but these people need to STFU.

Mmmm, pretty clear that religious people who lean on their religion to enforce nutbar segregational laws are doing so because they are bigots, not because they are religious. I know plenty of religious people (numerous religions) who don't fall in with that shit, and I know of at least one atheist who is an enormous bigot.

Ugh, this x 1000. My brother in law is like all rargh rargh fundamentalists rargh but is a total douche about anything remotely religious to the point where he harasses anyone who says they go to church or believe in fucking anything. Dude is like a freaking fundamentalist atheist! Leave people & their personal beliefs the fuck alone. Seriously pisses me off.

The main reason they piss me off is that they intensify (and justify imo) the greater attack on atheists like me who want everyone to just be nice and get along.

Agreed. I don't doubt that there are theists who hate the idea of atheism, but on the whole I have not found atheists to be more or less assholes on average than theists. If anything, I think I've found atheists much more vocal about bringing up their beliefs (yes, I think it's a fucking belief-- fuck that 'it's a non-belief' shit) than religious people. I'm just tired of hearing about it. Whatever your belief is, just shut up and keep it to yourself. No one cares!

Okay I'm pulling you up on the 'atheism is a belief' thing because it's not. Not a discussion for this thread though.

fundamentalist atheist!

I've been calling people out on this shit recently. I tell them, you sound exactly like some proselytizing Christian dude the way you're talking. It's the same shit-- blaming some out-group (theists) for all the world's problems, raving about how you're in the moral/intellectual superior position, how it's soooo obvious that you're right and everyone else is wrong, etc., etc. It's just fundamentalism in a different form.

Okay I'm pulling you up on the 'atheism is a belief' thing because it's not.

Agnosticism is a non-belief in my book, not atheism. But ok, I'm leaving it at that.

And I get all mad bc Im like its not individuals that are even half the problem, or anything like the problem. It just focuses this unnecessary laser beam of what is essentially hate on a person who is simply trying to make their life make sense. Gah!

I get people being irate at the pope because he's a bell-end, but going apeshit at some catholic on the street doesn't help anyone.

In the spirit of this whole thing:

- People who respond to the birth of a human being and associated joy with 'you are contributing to the overpopulation of this planet, you know that don't you'

As an aside, I love how wideranging this thread gets! its kinda cool.

Yes! Top 10, easily.

Can you all come up with some sort of safeword the rest of us can use so you know you're not dealing with an idiot?

I've found "well I used to work at your company, haha - what does [system they use to look stuff up] say?"

Obv I have that insider knowledge so I can use that shit but DAMN does it work. Disarms em man and boy, and I get awesome service.

If I still get DUHHH responses I hang up and try again.

Oh yes. I've done that without saying "I used to work here", and after getting way too close with my suggestions I got "um, did you used to do my job or something?"

Its a fabulous attack for telemarketers.
"hi we are offering this GREAT DEAL!"
"um, I get a staff discount of free internet and $X a month data, can you match that?"
"....*click*"

My bff would also throw in "I know your boss X, what's his angle?"
that'd throw ANYONE.

22. People who can't do simple math in their heads.

― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Thursday, 30 September 2010 00:57 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

SORRY.

math, and not maths.

(not correcting, just one of those minor annoyances)

^

(even though it probably makes more sense)

Math is American for 'maths'.

People who use 'gift' as a verb. ARGHHHHHHHH.

people who use "impact" as a verb are worse

People who use 'gift' as a verb.

I now have Kurt Schwitters' "Ur-sonata" in my head...

People who use 'gift' as a verb.

This is awesome if you are German, though.

people who use re-gift as a verb

People who can't estimate at all. This can be how much something will cost, how long something will take to do, or how long something will take to arrive.

You can ALWAYS estimate and sometimes even an answer of say between £100-£500, which is clearly imprecise, is nevertheless useful if you thought whatever it was might cost up to £1000.

^^^ :-( Sorry for making you angry.

Yeah, sorry Dr C. I suck.

Impact is a totally legit verb.