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

(many xps) I dread having to form the possessive of words/names ending in s because different people have been taught very different rules about this at school, which some people don't realise and assume that anyone not doing it their way is stupid and ignorant. The way I was taught at school seems to be out of favour now, but I have seen people get berated for doing it and for not doing it and there is no safe option.

(there is at least one ILX thread which thrashes the s' versus s's thing out in more detail so I will not bother here. plus I do realise the things I was taught at school were not always true, but it was def not just my school, either)

I feel like there is a difference between unintentionally getting a book tatty in the process of carrying it around so you can read it and just taking a new book and going crrrack, but that is probably just because I do the former and hate the latter. I mean I feel a bit sad when I take a book out of my rucksack and the corner has split, but then I just have to shrug and not feel obliged to treat it like a priceless artifact when it really isn't

just imagine if you had changed schools halfway through your english education, you might have been a failing spacecadet.

Schooling. When I was in yr 8 (ish) an ex-pat American science teacher changed my 'colour' to 'color' and actually lowered my mark because of it. When I asked him about it, he said that's the way he spells it back home, and what we do here is not correct as far as he was concerned. It all ended well because I stabbed him to death.

lool

prety sure that's 'stabed'?

His name was Mr M0ns0on. He had no chin and looked generally like a mole.

Oh look see that aforementioned rational anger is seeping out now, I should stop.

why the googleproof if you murdered him?

'er indoors has taken to chucking books in her handbag and wrecking them

...what are you suggesting, little socks for your novels? o_0 I mean, books are for carrying around to read. Theyre cheap paperbacks. Thats the idea.

and all these years I've been eating them

omg are you calling my paperbacks 'cheap', madam?

If theyre not cheap yr doin it rong.

You want fancytiems collectibles, buy hardbacks.

...what are you suggesting, little socks for your novels? o_0 I mean, books are for carrying around to read. Theyre cheap paperbacks. Thats the idea.

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Wait, it sounds like you are calling my anger irrational in the irrational anger thread.

fwiw I use plastic bags that's right plastic bags.

coworkers who say the phrase "the computer/system is smart enough to...". the computer is just as good as whoever the fuck programmed it, stop projecting Skynet on the damn world!

eh i think that's ok tbh. a system can be smart, if it's well designed.

otherwise, y'know, you'd just go round getting into arguments with smartcars and smartphones to prove a point

Adam do you make people take off their shoes before theyre allowed in your house?

(I hate that shit)

xpost yea but then it leads people to blame all kinds of shit on computers when they fuck it up themselves cuz they assume computers are living organisms.

hell my best friend in high school thought computer viruses were life-forming

It depends on the book as well though. Right now I'm reading one of the books I bought in Johannesburg and don't want it getting wrecked so

xxxxxxxxp I don't mind AI discussion as long as it's within reasonable bounds. 'Smart' is just a shortcut way of saying there are algorithms that handle that sort of thing. It's when my mother thinks the computer is watching her and taking notes that things go a bit wrong.

xxp Do we make people take off their shoes? Christ, no. I don't want someone's foot odour honking up the place.

yea yea yea AI whatever I'm talking about people I work with where the computers have no AI or simulated intelligence, it's just fuckin SOFTWARE!

I mean hell even I could write really shitty games in BASIC

Oh man. Years ago I had to go to the middle of nowhere for a wedding. The bride's house was all floor tiles and white and spotless, to the point where she had a little slipper rack set up at the entrance so she could supply people with alternate footwear.

After the wedding she got everyone back to her place for drinks, and actually asked me to make all 150 guests take off their shoes. I am not kidding.

Guess what I didn't do.

defecate on herspace

attend?

I attended but buggered if I was going to deshoe the entire function. The place was like a bomb site anyway, after 50 infants charged through it with their custardy faces and whatnot.

why did i read that as 'custardy faeces'

that came later

dirty bombsite

s' is associated press style yo

dirty yanks

- There's always been a problem with people saying 'brought' when they mean 'bought', but recently the local 60+ talkback radio set has taken to saying 'bought' instead of 'brought'. I don't know if they're overcompensating for the former problem but it drives me bonkers.

When I was in yr 8 (ish) an ex-pat American science teacher changed my 'colour' to 'color' and actually lowered my mark because of it. When I asked him about it, he said that's the way he spells it back home, and what we do here is not correct as far as he was concerned.

oh man this kind of shit should be criminalised (not criminalized)

yeah, that's just indicative of either incredible ignorance or arrogance or both

I used to have regular meltdowns in grade school when getting counted 'wrong' for a right answer; got to junior high and developed infuriating 'poor ignorant you' method when correcting teachers on Greek mythology or whatever.

I remember in kindergarten the teacher asked us to find words that rhymed with "saw", and I said "macaw" — she said, "you just made that up."

Having a fucking squirrel trapped in my wall trying to chew through it and not having a helpful building management company who already "threw poison in" and closed up the hole that it got in through.

to continue the education theme i once had an a-level english essay returned to me with the word 'solipsism' underlined heavily in red with a note next to it amounting to 'WTF'. it was quite good fun explaining things to teacher though, eg what a 'dictionary' is etc

circa year seven teacher thought 'history' meant 'his story', ie the story of man. tried to challenge her but unfortunately hadn't committed greek etymology to memory.

maybe he was a MJ fan

a little 'no, ledge' is a dangerous thing

was accused of inventing the word 'scarpered', was all 'wtf miss, you dont read the dandy'

Histology is the study of men's cells iirc

I teach would- be teachers. None of the above surprises me.

I once wrote a (quite transparent) hommage to Lewis Carrol's "Jabberwocky" in year 8, with all made up words. The teacher only seemed to notice half the words were made up half way down the text, where she WTF'd the word "arrish". So, did she just assume all the other words really existed?

Also in infant school I remember getting such a bollocking that I cried, because I "hadn't bothered" to colour in an aeroplane I'd drawn as part of a a picture of my summer holiday. Jet planes tend to be white, right? I ended up colouring it in green just to please her. So cross about that, because I thought it was actually a really good picture.

Well that's just mean.

srsly

"Next time why don't you take the time to color in your snowman."
Grade: F

My mom used to get arsey with teachers on my behalf (and in many cases, she'd had the teacher as a kid herself) because I'd come home vibrating with annoyance over this or that injustice. I used to get in sent-to-the-Principal's-office trouble in first grade for reading all the way to the end of our reading textbook rather than sticking to the day's lesson and going no further (teacher OCD? IDK). The school was also in its final year of a too-hippy discipline policy where they expected kids to work out their own differences. Therefore, if someone was getting the shit beaten out of them on the playground after lunch and went to the monitor saying 'Bobby punched me', nothing happened to Bobby and the kid who went to an adult got disciplined instead.

I used to get in sent-to-the-Principal's-office trouble in first grade for reading all the way to the end of our reading textbook rather than sticking to the day's lesson and going no further

Me, too, but my parents said, "Learning to play by the rules is part of the lesson. Btw, the teacher is always right." That makes me irrationally angry EVEN NOW.