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

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 I don't want to kill one fly and find it has been replaced by 30 more Twilight Zone-style.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.

(anger feels less irrational the longer I think about it)

I mean it's only hair loss, loads of men have it, I don't have a protruding forehead or two dicks or anything.

having two dicks would be awesome, like having a starter and a backup

I'd use 'em both.

I hate wrapping presents too. I've embraced the whole "colored bag with frilly tissue" fad with open arms.

Wonder if on some other planet, someone's going "having two balls would be awesome!"

Last weekend I made my friend a gift bag and went all out on the packaging and was stressing about if it looked nice until I remembered that this is the same friend who literally gives me my present in a plastic bag each year and then noticed that she didn't even look at the bag before opening it ;_;. That said I still love wrapping presents. I bought special wrapping paper yesterday and got all excited about making my own gift tags and stuff. I know it sounds so dorky but I'm really into packaging and I like making things so I guess that's why.

tbh I am the friend who gives presents in plastic bags. I can't wrap presents for shit.

The plastic bag idea is getting more and more tempting. Also I just realised he already has one of the books I just wrapped for him. Gnn.

(In case anyone thinks I'm being organised, it's his birthday on Monday and we're supposed to fly out to his old hometown tomorrow morning, except all today's flights were cancelled due to snow, so a combination of wrapping rage, packing rage and not knowing what's happening is fraying my nerves a little)

If I'm organized I'll wrap most of my gifts but honestly there's nothing wrong with a gift bag & tissue paper.

when i was a kid, i had to wrap both the presents i was giving and those my dad was giving (which was fair because he paid for them all). so i'm pretty good at it.

I wrap in alternate colours of tissue paper and make the ends beyond the tied ribbon into POOFY FLOWERS. Takes 60 seconds and looks great.

My best friend was a gift wrapper at the Myers "Santas Workshop" and she gave me a bit of a crash course in wrapping, which helped as far as straight edges/corners etc. I don't go nuts though because honestly, it's just gonna get torn off anyway.

xpost POOFY FLOWERS sounds pretty cool! I like that idea.

doesn't make me srsly angry but always notice how news articles describe twitter as 'the microblogging site'
just seems unlikely that ppl who have never heard of twitter at this point are gonna know what a microblogging site is

am sure i've already whined about this on ilx, but the use of 'why [the internet is making us stupider, e.g.]' in magazine/newspaper article titles when the content of the article answers the question 'how [the internet is making us stupider, e.g.]' makes me disproportionately angry.

i still wrap xmas presents for my dad 9x out of 10!

- Bought cos lettuce in a bag that says 'PERFECT FOR CHRISTMAS' on the front and 'BEST BEFORE 22 DEC' on the back

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

― estela, Friday, 17 December 2010 05:47 (2 days ago) Bookmark

HELLO JOHN GOTTA NEW MOTOR!
HELLO JOHN GOTTA NEW MOTOR!

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― keep amanda leared (corey), Monday, 20 December 2010 05:41 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Innocuousness is debatable, anger is rational. Those people want smacking.

- we didnt go to Raiders Broncos game bc pouring rain & howling wind. Sun's out now arrrgh fuckit

- hours later my browser got hijacked while searching for a live stream of the game, my own stupid fault but arrggh fuckit

- dropped macaroni & cheese on
my shirt

so now I'm sulking & dipping potato chips into my mac & cheese & say raaaarrrgh eff you Sunday