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

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.

Totally innocuous but: I work in an office where pretty much everyone silences their personal cell phones, or at least switch them over to vibe. My cubicle neighbor, however does not. And at least once a day, her stupid phone goes off and plays some stupid wet-sounding country ballad and she just lets it go and go, or she's away from her desk and it goes on and on. I get if you forget to switch it over to silent; I get that maybe you leave it on if you're expecting a call...and I *know* that she's not in the Laura-Linney-in-Love-Actually-situation with the autistic brother who always calls her...the fact is it's just annoying and I want to throw her phone out the window.

impact is barely a verb. but impactful is DEFINITELY NOT a word.

Not ot be too picky, but lex, I suspect it's people using 'impact' as a transitive verb (e.g. 'this impacts that') is what makes you ia.

There's a whole thing in the corporate world with people using nouns as verbs. You are not 'lunching'.

Not ot be too picky, but lex, I suspect it's people using 'impact' as a transitive verb (e.g. 'this impacts that') is what makes you ia.

btw sentences as badly constructed as this make me very very angry.

this thread just went meta

that makes me irrationally angry

It was so innocuous before.

There's a whole thing in the corporate world with people using nouns as verbs. You are not 'lunching'.

I think "lunch" as a verb goes back like hundreds of years? If nothing else, Stephen Sondheim was using it 40 years ago. ("Ladies Who Lunch.")

All right, misuse of semicolons then.

"write me" is another one that... well no, doesnt make me angry, just baffled.

"write me!" . "ok" *writes 'me' on a piece of paper*

I would add "what they've done to K-9" but there is nothing innocuous about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjsZa9mbUm0&feature=player_embedded

ahahahaha

Loud conversations on cell phones in public places,generally, and, more specifically, ones that sound like the one I overheard today at lunch "and I was, like, so, like pissed off about, like, the whole thing, so, like, it was, like, riduclous, and I couldn't, like, believe that she would, like, talk to me that way". Worse for being it from a woman well into her 20s.

k-9 = scrappy doo

well he is NOW

"write me" is another one that... well no, doesnt make me angry, just baffled.

"write me!" . "ok" *writes 'me' on a piece of paper*

― Sookie G Stackedgarten (Trayce), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dative_case

lol I was going to go there and then I was diverted by a nu-K-9 rage

the term "broseph" and anyone who thinks it's OK to use

:(

that's a good one, broheems

sorry HM I can't stomach that one - or broheems, yeah

i haven't used that in a few years but it's good to have options

homeslice

aw homeslice reminds me of the fresh prince which is a-ok. I'm gonna bring that one back.

xp - It would maybe be OK if you were using it because I like you. I just feel like most ppl of heard/seen use it are total douches.

I think this acceptable. People I like can pretty much say anything they want, but if I don't know you then I'll probably stab you or at least complain about you on a messageboard

Go on and rock the homeslice, ENBB

• people who whistle loud as fuck using that two finger thing — it triggers a nerve in my brain that makes me want to destroy whatever is making the sound (parrots and kids screaming also trigger this same nerve)

Dative case appears to make sense if you say "write me A LETTER" but "write me" on its own makes as much sense as "give me".