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

xp What kind of bizarre aspie television-character co-worker DOES that??? You people's offices are WEIRD.

I agree with d.l. and would even go further that I can't stand hearing ANYTHING read aloud, especially in the office. I should keep track of all the times my blood pressure has gone up, listening to one of our senior editors read fucking Onion stories out loud to the entire office. Ugh.

Listen, I know I sound crazy, but this even includes things on television: Newscasts, Oval Office speeches, Daily Show correspondents, when SNL performers read cue cards, etc. I know it's mental. Perhaps even irrational. But for me, it's the aural equivalent of having scotch tape to my fingernails. (I hate that too.)

I was in a band once with this guy who wrote out this huge bio for our MySpace page. After practice, I sat on his bench to smoke a cigarette and he comes out with his paper. I say, oh cool, let me read that, and he says no, I'll read it for you.

He got halfway through it before I finally put my smoke out and abruptly announced like an asshole, Look, I can't sit here and listen to this.

Wow, that kinda rules out a lot of things on tv when you think about it.

I snapped at my friend a couple weeks ago because he started reading the wikipedia article on beauty apropos of nothing. I hate the "reading voice".

Canadian TV ads with acoustic indie songs as background.

It's not natural. It's not what people sound like.

I worked at a radio station for 11 years and all that time, we had temporary producers who'd go "Why do you have to sound like that? Why can't commercials have regular dudes just talking?" And I'd pooh-pooh them for their ignorance.

But now, I guess it's wore me down. Sunny gave me a ride back to work the other day and one of her books-on-tape was playing on the iPod. I can't tell you why it bothers me (it doesn't anger me, so I guess this is off-topic.)

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I really don't like people that fail to use turn signals when they drive. Multiply this dislike by 2 for when they are on a highway or busy road and changing lanes.

That's not innocuous, that's plain dangerous.

re: verbs - "guitaring"

no, it's guitar playing

re: adjectives - "depressive"

no, it's depressing

very

word itch.

iTunes. iTunes, iTunes, iTunes.

- When I click 'check for app updates' and you show them to me, don't IMMEDIATELY say 'oh, the list that I loaded ONE SECOND AGO is already out of date, you has to do it again'
- When I DO download updates, don't give me 'accessing iTunes store...' in the main window and AGAIN in a whole new separate window in the middle of the screen

- just all of iTunes really

Genius playlists are okay

Hate how iTunes automatically goes to the first thing in your library. I mean, I love ABBA, but I'd like to see something else.

... you'd rather it just jump to random locations in your library?

rather the last thing I played

itunes sucks

Adding DEAD FLIES THAT SPILL MAGGOTS EVERYWHERE to this list.

not so much innocuous as AGGGH THAT IS SO GROSS

Fair point.

This is why I can never bring myself to flyspray a blowie.

The only thing I have against maggots is that they're all new flies. I don't want to kill one fly and find it has been replaced by 30 more Twilight Zone-style.

The only thing I have against maggots is that they are gross. So, everything.

When I was a kid we had a dead mouse in our ceiling right over the exhaust fan for the bathroom, and the only way we found out was bc of walking into the bathroom one morning and the floor was covered in maggots. GAAHHHHHHHHH. So gross.

But without the maggots you wouldn't have known about the dead mouse so

itunes sucks

(don't think for a second that I am defending maggots btw)

MAGGOTS! MAGGOTS!

xposts Maggots really not the ideal way to find out about anything imo, and LOL U ARE A MAGGOT LOVER

If they were called something nice like 'beige babies' we wouldn't be quite so squirmish imo.

not true.

sbf loves those 'butcher boy' things but I bet if they were called 'shit-eating skin poisoners' she would be terrified of them.

Adding DEAD FLIES THAT SPILL MAGGOTS EVERYWHERE to this list.

Going along with all the iTunes hate, I read this as "FILES" at first going huh?

That'll be on the next Itunes update

- Increased support for i5 MacBooks with nVidia 4800GX graphics
- Fixed a bug that occurs when displaying genius results when the Ping sidebar is visible
- MAGGOTS
- Moved the zoom button to the bottom left corner just to annoy mactards
- Minor bug fixes

haha

I'd say maggots are a major bug fix but what would i know ;P

rofl

- People commenting on my shaved head: 'Oh! <pause> I... I like it! I really like it! That's a really nice style!' UM I AM GOING BALD I DON'T HAVE A FREAKING CHOICE UNLESS YOU CONSIDER A COMBOVER (see upthread) TO BE A CHOICE

all this baldness and shouting is giving me horrible reminders of alexei sayle.

i like Alexei Sayle!

well i like you but i don't like him.

I'd rather you like me anyway, tbh :)

estela not liking Alexei Sayle does not compute.

He is one of my neighbours and is a very nice man - and I would have said so before this spring, when he gave me this surplus-to-requirements Chinese bicycle which, impeccably, came from a friend of his with a flat in Tianamen Square. It looks a bit like a Pashley, but w/Mandarin logos etc.

ere didn't you kill, ere didn't you kill, ere didn't you kill this thread

Thing which is apparently not a big deal to anyone else on the planet but reduces me to frustrated rage every time: wrapping presents. Apparently it's completely beyond me how anyone can get their presents to have nice sharp right-angled corners, all edges and folds parallel, sellotape on straight (with no fingerprints), and not get those little bulges around the sellotape where the folded-over paper ends up with more slack than the folded-under paper it's stuck to. My presents look more like discarded wrapping paper sitting in a bin than anything anyone would actually be excited about receiving.

(little December meltdown for you)

Autumn Almanac, I feel you on the "shaved-head-as-fashion-choice" misconception. One of the executives in my organization will compliment me enthusiastically if I show up to a meeting with the like, 1/4 inch of hair that sprouts around the sides of my head if I've been too busy to shave for a week. "Doug, you've grown more hair! Looking good!" It doesn't make me irrationally angry as much as it's heartbreaking. I've been going bald since I was 17, but it went past the point of no return about 3 years ago.

agh yeah, all that crap just rubs it in and draws attention to it.

I'm relaxed about it (some guys (not me) with pattern baldness and a shaved head are dead sexy) but that doesn't mean I'm happy to put up with other people's pity. (a) say it looks good, (b) say it works well with my limitations, (c) provide feedback I can use or (d) just fuck off.