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

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)

cinnamon is so good!

When people think Captain Beefheart CDs will be worth more right after he dies because mass produced CDs clearly follow the same rules as priceless art. (I work at a record store)

They coat them with cinnamon around here! (x-post)

Signs that put phrases that are not quotes in quotes:

http://shechive.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/a-unnecessary-quotes-19.jpg

Betrays confidence and just generally gives me the shits.

When people think Captain Beefheart CDs will be worth more right after he dies because mass produced CDs clearly follow the same rules as priceless art. (I work at a record store)

Reminds me of a woman who came into Streetside Records shortly after Conway Twitty died and bought one of each of his CDs because "they're going to be worth something some day."

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, April 10, 2009 12:09 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Haha! People must think the musicians hand make each disc on a pottery wheel

Also that musicians make any money from CD sales. LOL

the 2010 memes thread

(the trailer for) Just Go With It

When people think Captain Beefheart CDs will be worth more right after he dies because mass produced CDs clearly follow the same rules as priceless art. (I work at a record store)

Hee, hee

After Jacko died, a woman who manages a local charity shop came up to me excitedly saying she had be donated an 'original copy' of Thriller and, 'you know about records, what's it worth?' - when I said 'not much, given that there was about 50m copies in circulation', she got huffy....

Also that musicians make any money from CD sales. LOL

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 20 December 2010 13:03 (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the 2010 memes thread

― idgi fridays (blueski), Monday, 20 December 2010 13:10 (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^are these two posts supposed to be related or

every time my dad emails and mentions all the snow they've been having (which is a lot) he includes the phrase 'global warming I expect.............' which makes me both angry and confused because I'm not entirely sure he's not referencing an Armstrong & Miller sketch (who he likes) about ppl not understanding the difference between weather and climate, or whether (much more likely) he's doing a Daily Mail 'AND THEY SAY THE EARTH IS WARMING'. I don't want to even ask because if it's the latter it'll open a big argument that he won't understand.

- Signwriters who don't understand typography (so why are you a fucking signwriter) and do the letters backwards & upside-down e.g. this tragedy I saw last weekend:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5128/5275939599_8b9f40661d.jpg

The lovely little old ladies working at the local ye olde antique mall. I love them to death.

It's not their fault that they made me irrationally angry today but I realized as I approached the counter to pay for a handful of postcards that I should have given myself a 30 minute buffer zone to leave.

Not 1 but 2 ladies attending the customer ahead of me, who was buying assorted geegaws. A third lady wandering off to look up prices for other items, so technically 3 attending 1 customer.
Customer saying, "Well you know I thought that one was 20% off. But I'm not sure." etc etc for about 15 minutes.

And then when the customer paid, one of the old ladies began to complement her on her sweater which started a whole story about a sister in Santa Fe who wanted to give it to GoodWill which just about gave all the ladies a heartattack "GASP! NO! But it's so lovely!"

20 postcards. 5 for a dollar. I had $4 in exact change.

I think I may have had a silent aneurysm just standing in line.
It's my own fault for going there on my lunch hour...and god knows I would hate for it to be a rushy-rush place. The pace is part of the charm. BUT OH DEAR GOD IT WAS LIKE TIME WAS GOING BACKWARDS.

xp I don't know anything about typography but those A's are driving me crazy. The eye just...KNOWS? You know?@?

Exactly! AND the S is upside down.

and the C and S. And one of the Es. Aghaghagrggrghrghhhh

maybe not the C. I've gone cross-eyed anyway

You'll even see it in upper-middle-class clothing shops. The signwriter has cocked it up and everyone else has just left it.

Oh yeah! I didn't catch the S. The E's aren't the SAME as each other, which is a different problem. But I only noticed that on closer examination, it's really only the A's that set off my alarms.

ugh that sign is like sandpaper on my eyes, I can't TAKE IT raaaarrrrrr

A new thing that's annoying me: that sign is half a sentence. 'LADIES WEAR' what, exactly?

Uh. "Ladieswear"/"Ladies Wear" is not in the least bit a "new" thing. What?

(Now, saying "womens's pant" on the other hand....)

New as in I just noticed it.

- My boss wants me to use 'shall' incorrectly in formal documents and I am all raargghh atm

^^^^^ on that note, one of my former managers once told me that a client of ours (who I can't name, but their name ends in an S, so for purposes of illustration, I will call them FLOOGLES) blew a gasket at her when she wrote their name as a possessive adjective.

Because she wrote it Floogles's, they got mad that "our name doesn't have two Ss". IT'S THE ENGLISH FUCKING LANGUAGE, IDIOT!

i would blow a gasket at that as well. i do not consider s's proper use of the english language, no matter what any cunt says

Can't STAND that. The pos s is just as valid as the s pos, according to the OED that I've been using forever.

xp well I would be any cunt wouldn't i

having a name that ends in an s probably helps to stoke the rage

See now my brain is veering into rational anger territory. I am reigning myself in atm.

Thing that made me twitch visibly and hope nobody noticed: idly staring past a guy reading a paperback yesterday when he folds the front cover right back in such a way as to crease it down the middle

this should not bug me given that I let (some of) my books kick around in my rucksack until the covers are tatty and then go "eh, it was only a massmarket paperback"

also I have been irked lately by people using "tangible" to qualify abstract concepts, but now I see from the OED that it is actually A-OK to use it figuratively; guess it is just the two offenders I've noticed doing it with such a flourish of "look at this fancy word I'm going to use instead of any of several more obviously suitable words"

s's imo

we do not need another thread about 'cunt' in US vs other places, also imo

See now my brain is veering into rational anger territory. I am reigning myself in atm.

oh right so it's ok for you to post to this thread 100000000 times but my single post is igniting "rational anger" in you?!

See now the options available to me are (a) explode into a fiery rage about all the language transgressions that piss me off and the people who refuse to get them right despite knowing that what they're doing is factually incorrect (b) go all Whiney-style thread troll about the anger in the above half-dozen-or-so points not being irrational and therefore off-topic (c) remove bookmark and cry for a few hours.

xp esoj it's not your post that made me angry, it's the thoughts that came into my head at around that point, soz for confusion.