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

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

yeah it was.
I tried to start 'cheers drive' on the bus when I moved to the US but I don't think anyone understood what I was saying :(

I left my phone in the bathroom of my local strbux, and didnt realize til I got home. I drive back & ask if anyone handed in a phone & they say no so I figure its still in the bathroom. Its in use, so I wait. When woman walks out I ask if she saw a phone in there. She says, "Yeah it's in there."

Gee, thanks. Wtf? How about you hand it in? If I see someone's belongings lying around, phone, keys, wallet, I hand it in! Fucking savages.

People leaving shit alone is not really savage. The inevitable taking of shit belonging to others is what's savage.

Yeah honestly if I saw a mobile phone in a cubicle I would probably leave it there too, (a) so the person who left it there would find it by retracing steps and (b) because I don't want to touch someone else's shit-covered phone tbh. I touch as little as possible in toilets.

I guess, but...okay, shrug, maybe I'm the only one with the inclination to turn something like that in.

I'm with VG. If you leave it there, you risk the next person coming along just stealing it. If it's in a coffee shop or something the person it belongs to will probably end up asking at the counter if some shit got left behind anyway.

lol "some shit" (vis a vis things being left in the bathroom, hee hee)

I would definitely bring a phone left in a stall up to the counter.

Okay, feeling better now. Was afraid I was captain nerd there for a moment :)

oh and happened again tonight - I bought maybe 15 things at the grocery store and the bagger swooped in before I could start doing it myself and I wound up with at least 10 plastic bags. Why do they insist on only putting 2-3 things in each bag! SO MAD!!

xp tbh it's never happened to me so my response was hypothetical. I would probably hand it in and then just wash my hands.

unless the person actually shit on their phone I don't think you have to be too worried

aahahahaha

oh and happened again tonight - I bought maybe 15 things at the grocery store and the bagger swooped in before I could start doing it myself and I wound up with at least 10 plastic bags. Why do they insist on only putting 2-3 things in each bag! SO MAD!!

― ENBB, Thursday, 23 December 2010 14:34 (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Recently we bought a few calico bags for the shopping, and the guy at the checkout ripped ALL of them trying to jam them on the metal bag holder thing AND THEN killed the bread by packing it beneath a load of cans. Obv we complained and got new stuff.

- supermarket staff crushing my bread

- people who say 'I don't read the broadsheets, they're too big' when the only alternative is a murdoch

It's a sad state of affairs when you look upon a good sensible grocery bagger like a magical unicorn. I think there's maybe 1 or 2 at my local chain supermarket. Out of how many, I don't know but those are some sucky sucky odds.

The worst is Costco. Ugh I swear no-one knows how to put anything in a fucking box. Yeah good lie everything flat and oh yeah why don't you put the big round thing on the bottom you moron. Every single trip we end up snagging a decent box on our way out and then repacking everything at the car. Mr Veg was a Price Club dude back in the day so he's extra snarky about them... but they really are the worst.

This thread has corrupted me. Every time I sneeze four people yell 'BLESS YOU' and I go bonkers.

whenever I see some christmas decorations and there are reindeer and polar bears and whatever, but also penguins. There are no penguins on the north pole.

and santa claus doesn't exist

HE DOES SO TOO EXIST

yeah, that's the thing, flying reindeer and a fat guy who gives out millions of presents made by elves I have no problem with, but have a penguin travel halfway across the world and suddenly they've gone too far

it's highly irrational anger

ppl who say "oh hey this thing looks wrong" and you fix but they keep talking "i just noticed it was wrong & thought oh thats weird & so i saw it was wrong & wanted to tell you bc it was just so weird that it was wrong." omg let it go its fixed now!!!

but I ought to realise that it's really annoying because my Dad is even worse abt this than I am, have had so many major shouting door-slamming arguments w/him which started just because he was taking about a week to tell me something I already knew (or he'd already said six times) and I was trying to get him to the end of the goddamn sentence

This lady in my complex is either walking a dog or taking a kid outside (I've never bothered to investigate).

But when he/it is done with whatever they are doing, she shouts "C'mon Jake". And says it again. and again. and again. and again. and I hear it over and over again loudly through my window and I JUST WANNA SLAP THE SHIT OUT OF HER.

I mean it's amazing to me that something this random happens multiple times, maybe that's why its so annoying.

People posting YouTube vids that are oh look at this cute child themed. Don't mind these if they're funny but I mean ones you can tell are awful based on the description.

Also people saying "fricking", seems to have gotten hugely more popular in recent years but especially among specific types of people.

Austin Powers fans?

the woman in line today at barnes and noble who while paying for her books was still shopping for stocking stuffers while the cashier was waiting. hey leather, nice leather trenchcoat.

Michael Buble. Though I'm not convinced that he's innocuous.

Tomorrow I expect my mother-in-law to subject us all to his Christmas warblings for extended periods

stuff your ears with peas and carrots. seriously. you may not survive through the New Year.

xp his?

Buble's

unless his mother in law is a man who sings then that's a whole different kettle of fish

Haha, rather disgustingly a FB friend of mine posted the status "is it just me or is M1chael Bub1e pretty spesh?" I thought it was a joke until someone else weighed in and they started comparing what rows they were in at his concerts and contained the classic comment "I think we are latecomers to the buble party!"

Sorry, Buble's, not ma-in-law's

aint no party like a buble party u_u

I apologize for this automatic reply to your email.

To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I have approved beforehand

nevermind, I don't need to email you, ever.

you should let them approve you and then compose email messages with spam subject lines like 'gr0w yr p3nis for HER!'

Kerm, it's time to hit them back with: I apologize for this automatic reply to your email. To control spam, I now filter messages from narcissistic, self-important twats like YOU

they won't receive the email

aint no party like a buble party u_u

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, December 23, 2010 9:21 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

Service industry/steward/flight attendant types who have forgotten 'please' and 'thank you' and instead frame every request in the language of needs, eg., "I'm going to need you to sit here' - I AM YOUR CUSTOMER, YOUR 'NEEDS' ARE NOT AS IMPORTANT AS MINE.

I am going to need you...

"And when do you see this need arising?"

I think this has less to do with what the person actually means and more to do with what the person unthinkingly repeats what he/she has heard other people say without considering the semantics.

ugh, that sentence

I am so out of it I don't know who Michael Buble is.

That you may know his face and see him for the beast that he truly is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-cxnPRwbNg

He is made of cheese and assholes.

"I am going to need you to" is about as passively horrid as the new checkout signs at our supermarket that dont say "register closed"... they say "let us serve you at another register". Way to confuse.

^^^That's like the tills at Boots which say 'staff nearby will be happy to serve you' and you look around and NO STAFF NEARBY. Anywhere.

More air travel: I have a clear one-litre Kiehl's makeup bag specifically designed for carrying liquidy cosmetic things through airport security - they're good like that. Idiot security woman at Heathrow handed me a fucking plastic baggie and made me transfer my cosmetics to it. Me: 'I'm sorry, but my bag's designed to comply with TSA rules, why are you insisting I move my stuff into it?' Idiot woman: '...' Me: 'Seriously, why? You should be able to tell me why a rule is there, right?' Idiot woman: '...' Me: (big cheesy I HATE YOU grin) 'I'll take your silly bag but maybe try working on being a bit more informative, OKAY?' (exits). Felt like saying 'I'm going to need you to stuff that baggie up your cooter...'

Not as innocuous, but still: flight attendants that bend over backwards to give men A-1 service and then either ignore or are downright hostile to (other) women. I get the feeling they'd elbow a woman in the face to have the privilege of pouring a drink for any guy in a suit. I'm pretty sure they positively screen for female misogynist applicants.

Employment: calling a job a 'role'. Like you're playing a part in your school play, not going to work. HR-speak, killing the English language one word at a time.

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