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

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.

or when people pick up your print, look at it, CREASE IT and put it back

or when they pick it up, look at it, shit on it, and puti t back

yeah I get irrationally angry when people crap on my documents

leaving jobs on my print jobs, as it were

I hate slow people at the Mongolian BBQ restaurant. In order for the system to work correctly and smoothly, you have to be decisive in your ingredient choices and you have to MOVE DOWN THE FUCKING LINE as you make your choices.

Woman in front of me today worked my last nerve. And then, standing next to me watching the dudes fry up the noodles on the giant hotplate, she laughs and says "It's sort of like the car wash, haha"

?? HOW THE FUCK IS IT LIKE THE CAR WASH?

Watching someone perform a task? It's also like a concert, the laundromat, road work, construction, auto repair....
????

This thread sure does seem to get rolling each day, right around the start of business, AET.

my irrational anger is at threat level orange for today in general, fyi.

xp to grrl: The ONLY thing that makes me iaer than that in a Mongolian barbecue restaurant is the people who order pad thai off the menu. What the hell are you doing in a Mongolian barbecue restaurant?

This thread sure does seem to get rolling each day, right around the start of business, AET.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 23 December 2010 09:35 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ahahahaha yes. Odds on it'll peak on the 25th/26th then die for a week.

yair get the pad mongol instead xpost

I have a true story about Mongolian barbecue and I don't know where else to put it so I'm putting it here.

My father is yer classic meat & two veg. He won't eat anything that he considers exotic or foreign or 'spicy'. We took him to Mongolian barbecue because he could choose what he wanted and have complete control over his meal.

First bowl: beef, various veg (celery, onion &c.), a few recommended sauces.

Second bowl: beef, water.

Nothing else.

SERIOUSLY.

xp mong pad

I hate when people assume they were the only one in a public bathroom and flip the lights off when they leave. I remember being in a church bathroom taking a dump once and this asshole left and did that and very briefly I was pooing blindly

Turning off bathroom lights is a victimless crime, like pooping in the dark

ever tried WIPING in the dark?

dunno about you but neither my hands or TP require light to work