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

Whereas in the viaage I live in, I get on at the depot and the driver sings "Who's going to drive you home, tonight?" and we all reply "You are, in yer big shorts..."

i don't ride buses until I've downloaded the full dossier of every driver, so that I can call them by name when I get off the bus.

'thanks, Dexter Mapplewhite'

if I'm ever a manager I will insist on being called Mr Manager.

― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, December 22, 2010 1:47 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

Please tell me that's an Arrested Development ref.

Same thing goes for tha' ladies. "Oh, Miss Joanna? Will you be seeing Corporal Billy tonight?"

See around here, I've understood this to be a form of respect when referring to older black women.

I used to get called "Miss Lady" by kids pretty regularly, when I lived in a neighborhood that had some kids.

Sunny and I discovered that we share a mutual favorite scene in the Blues Brothers, where Jake and Elwood are walking back to their car after not finding one of their bandmates, and a woman comes out of the house with a business card going "Mr. Man! Oh, Mr. Man!"

Again, the bus driver scenario is a good place to be using Sir or Ma'am. Since the English language doesn't really have a formal usage like "usted" in Spanish, we make the best with what we've got.

Would any UK speakers use the expression "ma'am"?

UK speakers saying "ma'am" sound to me like they're addressing everyone as "Mom." Noticed this again on a recent Dr Who ep. Used to confuse the heck outta me in old movies til I caught on?

Yes!! I find it really annoying tbh.

film discussions

UK speakers saying "ma'am"

Stop now.

It reminds me of Ben Elton addressing the Queen at some Royal Variety thing.

one that really really drives me mental, is when people going through airport security don't move their basket away from the conveyorbelt while they sort their shit out at the other end. it's just so selfish and ignorant.

if i've ever used 'madam' i'd never have omitted the 'd'

Use the term of respect that most comfortably fits your speech, whatever.

no one besides me thinks "fucko" is a term of respect, though

unless you're round my way and mess up 'me foine bucko'

Ben Elton

Is this irrational/innocuous? He makes me angry all the same.

not at all irrational. Add sayle in there too

Sayle is alright by me. Ben Elton though, rrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.

I've only ever heard 'ma'am' used by Britons addressing their queen, and north Americans in shops on the telly. 'Mam' (i.e. compressed 'ma'am') rings a bell for some reason.

Actually, thinking about it, I don't recall 'er indoors ever being called madam. Hmm.

anyone defending rafael benitez to any extent, no matter whether justified or not.

"Ma'am" kind of has two syllables here. I like it that way.

people moaning in the "Tell the Beatles to Fuck Off" thread about telling the Beatles to Fuck Off when there are loads of threads where you can tell the Beatles not to Fuck Off

THIA

THIA THIS

pfft thread exists more for that reaction than for any real need to tell the beatles to fuck off

quite the contrary. it's a little corner of the world where people who want to tell the Beatles to fuck off can do so, no questions asked.

people don't get it - it's a mantra, it's a manifesto, it's a koan. no aesthetics involved.

i'm askin

I haven't been in there for a while but the last time it flared up it was because Lex was actively wishing death on the surviving Beatles; what happened this time?

no flare up, just a report about Abbey Road receiving listed status, plus some "fuck off"s, plus some people being a bit pissy but in a non-aggro way about the "fuck off"s

my irritation is purely one of thread aesthetics - don't normally mind threads wandering wherever they like but kind of wanted that one to stay pure and on task

It got a bit off-purpose when people (inc. me) started replacing words in Beatles songs with 'fuck off' without really pointing their disdain in any particular direction..

Magical Mystery Fuck Off, e.g.

hey I'm all for mutation, it still works unless it's overly affectionate

people who don't scrape the snow or ice off the tops of their cars, then go driving 70 mph down the highway with chunks of snow and ice winging off onto other cars

christmas songs in supermarkets ugh please make it stop

cmon guys tis the season

people who don't scrape the snow or ice off the tops of their cars, then go driving 70 mph down the highway with chunks of snow and ice winging off onto other cars

people are getting stopped and ticketed for this in the UK

both my father and my sister have had their windshield smashed by a huge chunk of ice blowing off a truck on the highway. It's not innocuous and it's not irrational anger.

christmas songs in supermarkets ugh please make it stop

― the tune is space, Thursday, 23 December 2010 08:50 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

your anger is rational </thread troll>

Try not to shop between Halloween and New Year's then.

Yeah, n/a has totally deserved and rightful anger at that issue. My cousin ended up with a smashed in whindshield that led to a pretty serious accident last winter.

I used to drive a pick-up truck that would fill up with leaves overnight. On my morning commute, I just mentally offered to the driver behind me that he was cruising on rose petals.

Try not to shop between Halloween and New Year's then.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 23 December 2010 08:57 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's not about shopping. This shit is everywhere. For weeks I've been aurally bashed by gay-hating sally army trolls with tubas on every corner every day.

> christmas songs in supermarkets ugh please make it stop

they were playing auld lang syne in the co-op earlier today...

but yeah off-topic so xp

Tubas! And I thought the little bell was annoying.

I hate when people pick up shit from the printer without looking, often containing something I printed out, and then I have to go back to my desk and print it again.

or when people sit at the copy machine and have no fucking clue what they're doing, but instead of giving up or askign for help, they keep hogging the damn thing.