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

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

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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

- Voice mail that is just 'hoooooi, call me back, booooooi' without indicating the purpose of the call (I don't return these calls btw)

iow you know who it is but refuse on purpose? ;P

I know who it is but I'm not going to call back if I don't know what it's about. I hate telephones grumble grumble.

No I'm with you on that one. One of my friends leaves messages like "it's me shorty, call back". Fuck 'im.

^^^ Hell yes. "Call me back" is not a message, it's an order. If it was important enough for you to call me, JUST TELL ME WHAT IT WAS ABOUT.

otm. clearly state the purpose of your call. Immediate family is my only exception to this rule.

2. Polite and formal delivery notes from UPS or the like indicating that the driver was doing his job and not delivering the package because a signature was needed and all. (I do not care. LEAVE THE GODDAMN PACKAGE AT THE DOOR, IT WILL NOT SPROUT WINGS AND FLY AWAY.)

heh ok now I had an issue with FedEx over this, only the thing was, signature was not required by the sender.

I ordered The Wire Season 3 on dvd from Amazon and had it sent 2nd Day Air, and they knocked at a point where I wasn't fully dressed, but I wasn't really in a hurry cuz I figured they'd leave it, so by the time I get to the window I notice driver is carrying my box back to his car, and there's a sticky note on the door saying "we missed you", and saying they couldn't leave the package for "security reasons".

This of course made little sense as FedEx frequently left Amazon packages at my doorstep for months, and I live in a condo which has 4 to a building enclosed by a door, meaning it isn't visible from the street, unlike living in a house in the suburbs.

The next day, they arrive even earlier while I'm at work, and again refuse to leave it, but this time the reason given was "Dangerous materials". I complained to FedEx to find out why this was the case since I might be using them during the holidays and needed to start using different addresses if this was going to be the policy, due to my work schedule, but they just said "eh teh driver has the right to do that", and told me if I gave signed authorization on the sticky note they left on the door, they'd leave it.

So I signed it, and next to it wrote a big note saying "IT'S A FUCKING DVD, HOW DANGEROUS COULD IT BE" next to it, pasted it to the door, and they finally left it.

What, did they think it was "a" wire instead of "The Wire"? grr

xp to Grrl: Yeah if it's sbf obv I will call back but not if it's my insane mother who only wants to spew a spontaneous 45-min monologue about one of her nephews.

Immediate family is my only exception to this rule.

Haha, they're the ones I give the LEAST leeway to. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M LIKE, WHY PROVOKE ME LIKE THIS?!?!

San Te is the true spirit of this thread (male version).

Kevin Arnold on The Wonder Years. I dunno why but he grinded my gears

- A shop down the road has a stack of coffee loyalty cards on the counter with 'BUY FIVE GET ONE FREE' printed across the top, but the people at the shop have crossed out the word 'FIVE' and written '9' underneath it (so basically saying 'we want you to come back but we are massive scrooges')

You should buy 9 coffees all at once just to piss them off

When stores fill shelf space with products that don't match the sticker in order to not have any "empty" space. I know this is Marketing 101 ("never have empty shelves, your customers will think you're not on top of things"), but it's annoying to see the shelf sticker for the thing you want, with product above it, only to find the specific product is out of stock.

Landscaping that is obviously maintained by hired gardners, but has palm tree (or elm, oak, or any tree that can volunteer) seedlings in the ground that will eventually get so big they'll crack the sidewalk or require significant effort to remove.

OMG that would annoy me so much when I was working retail this summer. Obviously, for the very reason you mentioned, we were encouraged to do just that when "facing" the shelves. But then another manager would walk down the aisle and throw a mini shit-fit because the prices weren't the same. Oh, I'm sorry, you expect me to "face" 25 aisles in two hours while still stocking shelves and dealing with customers, but you're pissed because I didn't have the time to track down an $8.99 item to fill that space?

There's a local chain of vitamin shops that routinely has empty shelves all over the place. It's clearly a strategy decision made at corporate level because they're all the same. We don't get it. Nobody's ever in the shops either, so we're just waiting for the whole chain to collapse.

that sounds like a quote from a vitamin shops watchdog group newsletter.

vitamin shop corporate-imposed feng shui

corporate-imposed top-level strategic strategy decision heads-up going forward

#1299847: Books/films set in "unnamed" ie made-up African, South American or Eastern European countries -- because, you know, they're all the same anyway, so why bother researching a real place

And on the subject of food, it seems you can't get any apple-based breakfast product without also getting cinnamon. I don't hate cinnamon but it's such a one-note flavor that I get tired of it if I have it more than a few times year.

#1299847: Books/films set in "unnamed" ie made-up African, South American or Eastern European countries -- because, you know, they're all the same anyway, so why bother researching a real place

― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Monday, 20 December 2010 14:12 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

asgh I HATE that. The stage production of The Lion King was set in some generic African location because clearly they were too lazy to pick a country and spend 12 minutes reading a Lonely Planet book.

'Where are you going, Adam?'
'South Africa'
'Where's that?'
'...'

Gas station at a 4-way intersection but theres only 2 ways to get to the gas station, else you have to go round the block bc of rarrgh stupid median strips everywhere. I always forget & approach from the wrong direction

seeing "whoa" spelled as "woah" -- WRONG, WRONG, WRONG

And on the subject of food, it seems you can't get any apple-based breakfast product without also getting cinnamon.

.... what about an apple?

apple-based breakfast products

(trayce otm)